Dörrenbach (St. Wendel)

Dörrenbach District town of Sankt Wendel
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	284 m
Residents :	540  (2010)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66606
Area code :	06858
Location of Dörrenbach in Saarland
Evangelical parish church St. Wendel-Dörrenbach

Dörrenbach is a suburb and municipality of the city of St. Wendel in the district of the same name in Saarland . Until the end of 1973 Dörrenbach was an independent municipality.

geography

The rural Dörrenbach is located in the Oster valley about seven kilometers southeast of St. Wendel. The state forest of St. Wendel lies between the district town and this district.

history

According to archaeological finds, the Ostertal was already inhabited in prehistoric and Roman times. In the center of Dörrenbach, a late antique stone of the four gods was found on March 11, 1999 during construction work ; it probably belonged to a giant Jupiter column of a villa rustica .

In the 14th century, according to church documents, there was a chapel - possibly centuries older - with a massive Romanesque church tower, which together with that of Werschweiler belonged to the parish of St. Wendel. In the 15th century there was a larger church with a nave, which constituted its own parish. The building history shows parallels to the former church of Fürth in the Ostertal , of which only the fortified tower has been preserved.

In the 15th century Dörrenbach, Fürth and Lautenbach belonged to the imperial fief of Burg Kirkel .

During this time, the territorial affiliation of the Ostertal estates was controversial and changed frequently. Since 1542 at the latest, Dörrenbach, like Fürth, belonged to Nassau-Saarbrücken . In 1575 the Reformation was introduced in Dörrenbach as everywhere in the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken. During the Thirty Years War , the entire Ostertal was badly devastated and depopulated. There was an economic recovery in the 18th century.

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794, Dörrenbach - like the entire middle Ostertal - became part of the Saar department . Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna and an additional contract with the Kingdom of Prussia , the place came in 1816 to the "Herrschaft Baumholder", which belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld and was renamed in 1819 to the Principality of Lichtenberg . In 1834 the principality and with it Dörrenbach came to the Prussian Rhine province and belonged to the Saar area from 1920 to 1935 . After the Second World War , Dörrenbach came to Saarland in 1947.

As part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland , the previously independent municipality of Dörrenbach was assigned to the district town of St. Wendel on January 1, 1974.

politics

The local council of the Dörrenbach district has nine members, the mayor is Dieter Bleimehl, SPD.

The distribution of seats after the last elections:

choice	CDU	SPD	total
2019	4th	5	9 seats
2009	4th	5	9 seats
2004	4th	5	9 seats
1999	4th	5	9 seats
1994	3	6th	9 seats

Infrastructure

Until 1980, the Ostertalbahn , built between 1934 and 1938, carried passenger and goods traffic between Ottweiler and Schwarzerden via Dörrenbach. This railway still exists today and will u. a. operated as a museum railway.

The federal highway 420 runs in a north-south direction parallel to the river and to the railway line.

Culture and sights

The only art-historically relevant building in the village is the Protestant parish church with a Romanesque defense tower , the upper floor and saddle roof of which were raised in the 15th century , and a rectangular late-Gothic hall structure, which was expanded in 1719 and changed by adding arched windows. The red sandstone pulpit , which was made around 1600, has tracery on its entire basket and stands on a corrugated column; Parallels to St. Martin in Köllerbach have been described.

In the village community center, the former school building, the Dörrenbacher Heimatbund maintains a small local history museum with agricultural tools and documentation on local history; It reports on mining and agriculture, also on the time of the local Nazi Reich Labor Camp. At the old station building, which is now the home of the Heimatbund, the association maintains the Reihersrech nature and leisure facility. There is a tennis court, an archery range, a small herb garden and a barbecue area with a hut.

From 1818 hard coal was mined in the Auguste mine and from 1834 in the Haus Sachsen mine near Dörrenbach. Both mines were founded by the brothers Johann Carl Cetto and Johann Phillip Cetto and passed into the possession of Carl Philipp Cetto in 1851 . After his death, the mines changed hands several times until coal production was stopped in 1903.

A hiking trail leads to the Labach coal mine , which was closed in 1953 and the mouth of which has been preserved.

Local clubs

Dörrenbach maintains a club life in various social activities:

• Dörrenbacher Heimatbund, since 1973
• Country women's association, since 1976
• Sports fans Dörrenbach
• Mixed choir Dörrenbach
• Fishing club Dörrenbach
• Nahwärme Dörrenbach eV, since 2008
• Association for the promotion of the voluntary fire brigade fire fighting district Dörrenbach eV, since 2004
• Classic car friends Ostertal

literature

• Fred Oberhauser: The Saarland ; DuMont art travel guide, Cologne 1995 ⁴ ; P. 271
• Knaur's cultural guide Saarland ; Munich 1994; P. 162

Web links

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

• Literature about Dörrenbach in the Saarland Bibliography
• Relationship with Fürth in the Ostertal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} St. Wendel, Stadtteile ( memento of the original from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} The old tower in Fürth
3. ^ Regesta Imperii Online, RI XI, 2 n.8285 and RI XIII H. 5 n.84 .
4. ^ 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. 810 .
5. ↑ St. Wendel, Elections, Local Council
6. ↑ R. Benoist: The Saxony-Coburg mine works in Dörrenbach. In: Heimatbuch des Landkreis St. Wendel. XXV. Edition, 1993/94, pp. 147-159.