Berschweiler (Heusweiler)
Berschweiler is a district of Heusweiler .
history
The part of the name Weiler, which is derived from the Roman Villare, suggests a first settlement between 800 and 1200 AD. In the so-called Turkish appraisal that took place in 1542 , the "Bersweyller Meigerey" is listed with four households. An inventory from 1757 shows that seven families, a widow and two rear passengers lived in Berschweiler at that time. All residents were serfs of the Saarbrücken princely house and lived from agriculture. In addition to the ten houses in the village, there was already a mill, which later became the Berschweiler oil mill . In 1793, Prince Ludwig revoked serfdom and thus ended the four-hundred-year rule of the Saarbrücken Princely House. In 1798 the French established the " Département de la Sarre ", with which all places became separate communities. The "Commune de Berschweiler" was now independent and was listed in 1809 in the "Classement Parcellaire et Évaluation" with 15 houses and two mills.
In 1815, after the Second Peace of Paris, all territories of the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken became the property of the Kingdom of Prussia . From now on, Berschweiler belonged to the mayor's office of Heusweiler, but remained independent and formed its own local council with a community leader. Triggered by the two new mines in Dilsburg and Göttelborn, Berschweiler experienced population growth. So it came about that Berschweiler built its own school in 1864.
In 1918 the community of Berschweiler had 237 inhabitants. After Berschweiler joined the Weiherzentrale association in 1921, it received electricity in 1923. In March 1924 Johann Weyland and Konrad Groß founded their own local SPD association. In 1936, Berschweiler was merged with the communities Heusweiler, Bietscheid, Dilsburg, Hirtel and Rittershof to form the entire community of Heusweiler.
With its incorporation into the "German Reich" as a result of the referendum of January 13, 1935, Berschweiler was not spared from the National Socialist "Gleichschaltung". Since Berschweiler was in the middle of the West Wall during World War II , some bunkers were built from 1938. With the construction of these, many people came to the village. Fortunately, there was no fighting in Berschweiler. In 1937, a Reich labor camp was built in Berschweiler on the site of today's building yard .
In the post-war period, agriculture and mining were of particular importance. As a result, the mining crisis had devastating consequences for Berschweiler. The number of miners in Berschweiler fell to zero. Since then the infrastructure has deteriorated more and more. Since the beginning of the twentieth century there has been neither a bakery nor a restaurant in Berschweiler, let alone any other shop.
Attractions
The Berschweiler oil mill , built between 1767 and 1779, is worth seeing . Although it has not been in operation since 1939, it is still almost completely intact. It has been a listed building since 1979. Their renovation was honored in 2006 with the Saarland Monument Preservation Prize.
In 1938 the west wall fortification WH333 was built. This bunker is equipped with a fighting stand and was primarily used as a team shelter. The Heimatkundliche Verein Köllertal eV organizes regular visits.
Economy and Infrastructure
The country road L265 runs through Berschweiler. Berschweiler is also connected to the L141. The municipal building yard Berschweiler is one of the largest in the Saarland.
The Berschweiler fire brigade was founded in 1924. During the Second World War, they often had to move out to extinguish fires in, in the village, Reichsarbeitsdienstlager or fires caused by incendiary bombs. Today's fire station was built in 1968 and inaugurated on August 4th of the same year. In 2016 it was renovated and expanded.
Regular events
The Berschweiler fire brigade organizes annually u. a. a well-attended, not only locally known, Saint Martin's festival including a parade and Martin’s fire.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pitz, Martina .: settlement names on -villare (-weiler, -villers) between the Moselle, Hunsrück and Vosges: Investigations into a Germanic-Romanic mixed type of the younger Merovingian and Carolingian times. SDV, Saarbrücker Dr. and Verl, Saarbrücken 1997, ISBN 978-3-930843-29-9 .
- ^ Carl Hermann Christmann, Lothar Goss, Waldemar Jacobs, Karl Heinz Janson, Günter Meyer, Rosie Meyer, Helmut Schorr, Alfred Wettmann: Berschweiler and his mills . Ed .: Helmut Schorr. Heusweiler-Berschweiler September 2006, p. 11 .
- ↑ Saarbrücken City Archives, NR. IV 1639
- ^ Carl Hermann Christmann, Lothar Goss, Waldemar Jacobs, Karl Heinz Janson, Günter Meyer, Rosie Meyer, Helmut Schore, Alfred Wettmann: Berschweiler and his mills . Ed .: Helmut Schor. S. 15th f .
- ^ A b Carl Hermann Christmann, Lothar Goss, Waldemar Jacobs, Karl Heinz Janson, Günter Meyer, Rosie Meyer, Helmut Schore, Alfred Wettmann: Berschweiler and his mills . Ed .: Helmut Schorr. S. 17th f .
- ^ A b Carl Hermann Christmann, Lothar Goss, Waldemar Jacobs, Karl Heinz Janson, Günter Meyer, Rosie Meyer, Helmut Schore, Alfred Wettmann: Berschweiler and his mills . Ed .: Helmut Schorr. S. 20th ff .
- ↑ Berschweiler oil mill. Retrieved July 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Detail of the Heusweiler community. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on July 31, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Detail current community Heusweiler. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on July 31, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chronicle | Heusweiler fire department. Retrieved July 31, 2017 .
