Bethingen
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Bethingen
municipality Mettlach
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| Height : | 243 (220-311) m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 1.77 km² |
| Residents : | 226 (Jul 1, 2019) |
| Population density : | 128 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 66693 |
| Area code : | 06868 |
 View of Bethingen from the west
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Bethingen is a district of the municipality of Mettlach in the Merzig-Wadern district ( Saarland ). From 1957 to the end of 1973, Bethingen was an independent community.
location
The place is in the southwest of the municipality in the valley of the Salzbach , which flows into the Saar near the Saarschleife near Dreisbach .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1030 in a donation from Margravine Jutha of Lorraine. The Odilienkirche and the Odilienbrunnen were first mentioned in 1630. Bethingen was a place of pilgrimage from 1330 to 1920 . The pilgrims asked for help with eye problems at the Chapel of St. Odilia . The Odilienkapelle had to be demolished in the course of the road construction in 1953. The new St. Odile Chapel was built between 1955 and 1960, about 250 m from the old location, and consecrated on Whit Monday 1961 . Its slender bell tower is open at the front and gives a view of the two-part interior. The bell storey located in the upper part of the tower contains a small bell. The shaft-like hall below serves as the entrance hall of the chapel and contains the community's war memorial for the victims of the two world wars of the 20th century from Bethingen. The from Nennig coming artist Nikolaus Schmitt Nennig made in this regard in 1960 for the rear wall of the bell tower hall a large-scale sgraffito that the Archangel Michael is fighting the dragon Satan. The artist had already made a similar composition in 1955 for the facade of the Bildungshaus Sonnental in Wallerfangen . The dedication scratched into the plaster in Bethingen reads "ST. MICHAEL KÄMPFER GOD'S GUIDE YOU INTO THE HOLY LIGHT". A metal plate with the names of the fallen is attached below. There is a Pietà sculpture on the stairs to the Odile Chapel.
Bethingen originally formed the municipality of Wehingen-Bethingen with neighboring Wehingen . This was split up on January 1, 1957 into the two communities Bethingen and Wehingen. On January 1, 1974, Bethingen was incorporated into the Mettlach community.
Bethingen, whose place name is derived from the Germanic name Batho , is now a pure place of residence .
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 from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), p. 47.
- Catholic youth St. Martin Tünsdorf: Our parish. Dominicus-Rohde-Verlag, Mettlach-Tünsdorf 1995.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Saarland 1956, p. 1647
- ^ 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. 804 .
