Baldring

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 6 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	430 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.76 km 2
Residents:	270 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	153 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54314
Area code :	06587
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 003
Association administration address:	Schlossberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	www.saarburg-kell.de
Local Mayor :	Willi Emser
Location of the local community Baldringen in the Trier-Saarburg district

View from NW, a crossroads in the foreground

Memorial house for the Baldringers who died in the First World War

Baldringen is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Saarburg-Kell association.

Geographical location

Baldringen is located in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park about nine kilometers west of Kell am See, not far from the meeting point of federal highways 268 (Trier – Saarbrücken) and 407 ( Hunsrückhöhenstraße ) near Zerf .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1036 when Provost Albero zu St. Paulin donated goods in Baldringen to the Abbey of St. Matthias zu Trier .

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Saarburg office in the Electorate of Trier .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine and after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) it was incorporated into French territory . In 1798 the then new French administrative structure was introduced, Baldringen belonged to the Saarburg canton of the Saar Department . Unlike the rest of the area on the left bank of the Rhine, the canton of Saarburg was initially allocated to Austria at the Congress of Vienna (1815) . In the Second Peace of Paris , Austria ceded the canton to the Kingdom of Prussia with effect from July 1, 1816, along with other areas .

Under the Prussian administration of the place was mayor Zerf in county Saarburg the governmental district Trier allocated to that of 1822 for the Rhine province belonged.

On July 18, 1946, Baldringen was annexed together with 80 other municipalities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg to the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which was no longer subject to the Allied Control Council at the time . On June 6, 1947 this territorial outsourcing was withdrawn to 21 municipalities, so Baldringen came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

The development of the population of Baldringen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 98 1835 149 1871 155 1905 183 1939 184 1950 162

year Residents 1961 163 1970 177 1987 169 2005 263 2011 273 2017 256

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Baldringen consists of six council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a red cross covered with silver shells 1: 3: 1."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The red cross reminds of the former rule of Kurtrier , the mussels of the knight family von Baldringen, which died out in the 15th century. The municipal coat of arms has existed since 1951.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Baldringen

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint of the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), 36–37.
• Literature about Baldringen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Baldringen  - Collection of Images

• Local community Baldringen on the website of the Saarburg-Kell association
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Baldringen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on the subject of bald rings at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 13, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections