Aßweiler

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Aßweiler
City of Blieskastel
Former municipality coat of arms of Aßweiler
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 355 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 898  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66440
Area code : 06803
Aßweiler (Saarland)
Aßweiler

Location of Aßweiler in Saarland
View from Hölschberg over Aßweiler with the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary.
View from Hölschberg over Aßweiler with the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary.

Aßweiler is a district of the city of Blieskastel in the Saarpfalz district ( Saarland ). The place belongs to the Bliesgau Biosphere Reserve , a natural region on the lower reaches of the Blies . Until the end of 1973, Aßweiler was an independent municipality in the Sankt Ingbert district .

geography

Aßweiler lies at an altitude of 355  m above sea level. NHN on the B 423 between the neighboring towns of Biesingen in the east, Erfweiler-Ehlingen in the southwest, Ommersheim in the west and Seelbach in the north at the foot of 395  m above sea level. NHN high Hölschberg, one of the highest elevations in the Bliesgau . In the district of the place of springs almond Bach , who at Habkirchen in the Assemblies flows and the neighboring village Mandelbachtal gave its name.

The partner location has been Asswiller in Lower Alsace since November 19, 1988 . Asswiller was first mentioned in a document in 1212, which is exactly 50 years earlier than Aßweiler.

history

Aßweiler is first mentioned in a document in 1262. In a document from the Werschweiler monastery , a Dieterich, a knight of Bießen, is confirmed that he has received grain and money from his income in various villages, including Aßweiler.

On July 28, 1421, the “ free court of Aßweiler ” is mentioned in the “ Weisthum des Hochgericht Ormesheim ” zu Erfweiler . At the end of the Middle Ages the area belonged to the community of Seelbach , in the 16th and 17th centuries it was first owned by the Lords of Bitsch, called Gentersberger, and then by the Lords of Eltz . From these, the barons and later Counts von der Leyen acquired the ban in 1660 , under whose administration the small town remained until the French Revolution . In 1783, Aßweiler had just 88 inhabitants, including 10 who were required to pay a fee.

Originally the place was dominated by agriculture, later - in the middle of the 20th century - almost 85 percent of the inhabitants worked in the nearby coal mines and smelting works.

As part of the Saarland territorial and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Aßweiler was assigned to the city of Blieskastel on January 1, 1974 .

politics

Result of the federal election on September 24, 2017.

The turnout was 81.2%.

Local council

Result of the local council elections on May 25, 2014:

  • CDU: 52.6%, 5 seats
  • SPD: 47.4%, 4 seats

(As of May 2014)

Mayor

Mayor is Roland Engel.

Coat of arms

Divided, above in gold a red St. Andrew's cross, below in blue a silver pole.

The St. Andrew's cross symbolizes the through streets that cross in the center of Aßweiler, the golden background stands for grain fields and thus for the former agricultural character of the place. The silver pole on a blue background refers to the family coat of arms of the Counts von der Leyen , to whose domain Aßweiler belonged for a long time.

Worth seeing

Functional buildings, new buildings and the “Rondell”, the roundabout where the connecting roads from Niederwürzbach and Ommersheim meet the B 423 , dominate the townscape. On Saar-Pfalz-Straße, the section of the B 423 in the village, there are some farmhouses from the 18th century as well as a wayside cross from 1814. The Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin is an impressive post-war building from 1952/53 (architect: Wilhelm Schulte II. ). The local Catholics belong to the parish of Biesingen, the Protestants of the Blieskastel parish.

literature

  • Heib, Erich: Aßweiler - first documented mention in 1262 , Arbeitskreis Heimatgeschichte Aßweiler eV (publisher), 2012.
  • Helle, Horst: Aßweiler houses and their residents , Arbeitskreis Heimatgeschichte Aßweiler eV (ed.), 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blieskasteler Nachrichten, January 17, 2020 - Population statistics
  2. ↑ geoportal.saarland.de
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 809 .
  4. ↑ Blieskastel: Elections | Blieskastel. Accessed June 20, 2018 (German).
  5. ^ Result of local council election Aßweiler 2014 On: www.blieskastel.de, accessed on May 27, 2014
  6. ↑ Brief information on the Aßweiler district ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Aßweiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files