Brenschelbach

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Brenschelbach
City of Blieskastel
Brenschelbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 266 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 518  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66440
Area code : 06844
Brenschelbach (Saarland)
Brenschelbach

Location of Brenschelbach in Saarland
View of Brenschelbach
View of Brenschelbach
The Protestant Church of Brenschelbach

Brenschelbach-Riesweiler ( listen ? / I ) refers to a district of Blieskastel in the Saar- Palatinate district . It consists of three settlements with very different characters, namely Brenschelbach, Riesweiler and Brenschelbach-Bahnhof with the Blumenauer mill. Until the end of 1973 Brenschelbach was an independent municipality in the Homburg district . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Brenschelbach-Riesweiler is located in the Bliesgau about 15 km southeast of Blieskastel in the southeastern corner of the Saar -Palatinate district on a border with Rhineland-Palatinate and France . Riesweiler lies at an altitude of 315  m above sea level. NHN , Brenschelbach at 266  m above sea level. NHN .

history

With the onset of written tradition, "Brenstelbach" is mentioned in an undated boundary description of the Bitsch rule from the middle of the 12th century. A precarious contract between the Hornbach monastery and a diuring dated February 2, 960 calls a "Riswillri marcha" (district of Riswillr), which is identified with the smaller district of Riesweiler. When the county of Zweibrücken was divided around 1297, the two places fell to the younger branch of Zweibrücken. In 1314 Riesweiler belonged to the parish Brenschelbach. Riesweiler fell desolate as early as the 14th century. The Blumenauer Mühle came to the Hornbach Monastery in 1403 as a bequest from Agnes Kesseler.

Brenschelbach was completely extinct in the Thirty Years War and was repopulated by Reformed Swiss immigrants in the 1660s, while Riesweiler was settled by Catholic families from neighboring Peppenkum and Medelsheim at the end of the 17th century . Although the two places continued to form a community, the denominational barrier remained. Riesweiler oriented itself towards Parr , Brenschelbach towards Hornbach . In the 18th century, both places were under the Althornbach mayor's office . In 1920 Brenschelbach came to the Homburg district with the separation of the Saar area . In 1937 it became part of the Altheim mayor's office , and in 1950 it became an independent mayor's office again.

As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Brenschelbach was assigned to the city of Blieskastel on January 1, 1974. Brenschelbach (-Riesweiler) has been a district and a municipality since then.

Worth seeing

The tower of the Protestant church in Brenschelbach comes from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century. It belongs to the group of so-called "Hornbacher Towers". The original gable roof was converted into a roof with a spire in 1904 . On the ground floor of the tower, which is made of ashlar masonry, the ribbed vault can still be seen. The tower door had formerly a pointed arch , but which in 1722 to a segmental arch has been changed. The nave of the church was built by the community in 1928/29. The simple hall with choir was built according to plans by the district building councilor Müller from Homburg . During the Second World War , the church building suffered severe damage that was repaired by 1950. The last major renovation of the church took place in 1976 .

The so-called "Schwedenstein" stands on Ormersweiler Weg, outside the town in the direction of the German-French state border . It is an old boundary stone with the year 1597 on both sides. On the French and formerly ducal Lorraine side the Lorraine double cross is carved, on the German and formerly princely Palatinate-Zweibrücken side a heraldic shield with a diamond pattern and the letters PZ for Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The old border sign was given the name "Schwedenstein" because of a legend according to which the Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War should have advanced to this point.

natural reserve

The Schwalbaue nature reserve is located along the Schwalbbach on the German-French border .

politics

Result of the federal election on September 24, 2017.

The turnout was 72.9%

On February 23, 2012, Yvonne Malter (SPD) was elected as the successor to Alexander Guth by the Brenschelbach local council as the new mayor.

traffic

From 1916 to 1945 Brenschelbach was the end point of the Hornbachbahn, which began in Zweibrücken .

literature

  • Kurt Schöndorf: Brenschelbach-Riesweiler , Blieskastel 1992.

Web links

Commons : Brenschelbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blieskasteler Nachrichten, January 17, 2020 - Population statistics
  2. ↑ Geoportal.Saarland.de
  3. ↑ Schöndorf 1992, p. 33
  4. ↑ Schöndorf 1992, p. 26 ff
  5. ↑ Schöndorf 1992, p. 60
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. ↑ a b c City of Blieskastel: On the history of Brenschelbach. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Blieskastel: Elections | Blieskastel. Accessed June 20, 2018 (German).