Dittlingen
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Dittlingen
Local church Merzkirchen
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| Height : | 355 (340-380) m above sea level NHN | |
| Incorporation : | March 16, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 54439 | |
| Area code : | 06583 | |
Location of Dittlingen in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 Saargau near Merzkirchen, in front Südlingen , in the background Dittlingen
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Dittlingen is a district of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Merzkirchen in the district of Trier-Saarburg .
geography
Dittlingen, laid out as a street village , is located on a hill that slopes slightly to the southwest, about one kilometer southwest of Merzkirchen. The village is located on the eastern slope of the Saargau on the border with Saarland . The L 132 runs through the locality, coming from Merzkirchen and leading to the neighboring town of Südlingen . At the south-western end of the village, the K 117 branches off to Beuren (district of Kirf ), from which, after about 300 m, the K 118 branches off to Kirf. The village has no significant open rivers. The surrounding hilly landscape is used for agriculture and is characterized by pastureland, arable land and orchards, forest covers only a small part of the district area.
The closest places are Merzkirchen in the northeast, Kelsen (district of Merzkirchen) in the east, Meurich (district of Kirf) in the southeast, Kirf in the south, Beuren in the southwest, Südlingen (district of Merzkirchen) in the west and Rommelfangen (district of Merzkirchen) in the North.
history
Few Roman building remains suggest a settlement in Roman times. This is also obvious because the Roman road Trier - Metz passed by less than two kilometers away .
The place was first mentioned in a document as Tuttlingen in 1569. In a map from 1817 by the French geographer Jean Joseph Tranchot , the place is given its current name. The name Dittlingen was also used in the 19th century .
In the Thirty Years' War the place was almost depopulated. The manor in Dittlingen originally belonged to various nobles until it was donated to the St. Matthias Abbey in Trier in 1666 . The Teutonic Order in Trier also owned land in Dittlingen, which can be seen from the field name Deutschherrenacht (eight = field).
Around 1750 there were six families in six houses in the village, whose possessions were fiefs of the abbey mentioned: One tenth of the harvests and cattle had to be taken to the monastery. A barn was specially built for this purpose, which gave its name to the name Hinter der Zehscheuer , which is still used today . After 1750 there was the possibility that the property with the fields could be purchased. The oldest preserved houses in the village date from the years 1830 to 1834.
The place belonged to the duchy of Luxembourg until the end of the 18th century and was part of the Remich district . After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and in 1795 incorporated it into French territory . Dittlingen belonged to the canton Remich of the department of forests . As a result of the so-called Wars of Liberation , the region was initially placed under an Austrian - Bavarian administration and temporarily assigned to the Canton of Konz in the Saar department. Unlike the rest of the left bank of the Rhine, this was initially assigned to Austria at the Congress of Vienna (1815) . In the Second Peace of Paris , Austria ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Prussia with effect from July 1, 1816 . The community Dittlingen was included in the Prussian administration mayoralty Nennig in county Saarburg the administrative district of Trier in the Rhine province assigned.
At the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, the place was evacuated for the first time because it was in the " Red Zone ". The evacuation lasted until August 8, 1940. The seven dead who were buried in the Chapel of Dittlingen in autumn 1944 were exhumed again in 1948, identified on the basis of their identification tags and buried in the Kastel cemetery of honor . On the evening of November 24, 1944, the residents had to leave the place again.
On July 18, 1946, the then community of Dittlingen, together with 80 other communities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg , was annexed to the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which at that time was no longer under the Allied Control Council. On June 6, 1947, this territorial separation was withdrawn to 21 municipalities, so Dittlingen came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
On March 16, 1974, the previously independent community of Dittlingen was combined with five other communities to form the local community of Merzkirchen in the form of a new formation. The mayor of Dittlingen is Franz-Josef Altenhofen (CDU).
Before the new formation of the community, Dittlingen had 111 inhabitants.
coat of arms
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Blazon : “In the divided shield above in a fourfold blue and white field, the upper body of a red lion with a golden crown looking to the right. Below, in blue, a golden balance scale with an open golden book on the right bowl and a golden sword on the left bowl. " |
| Justification for the coat of arms: The upper part of the shield shows half of the Luxembourg coat of arms, as the place used to belong to the Duchy of Luxembourg . Scales with book and sword indicate that the bishops of Trier and the dukes of Lorraine held their days of judgment on common matters on the border in front of the church in Merzkirchen. |
The coat of arms was introduced in 1950, it comes from Ernst Steffny.
economy
The place is predominantly agricultural. There are five fine fruit distilleries and two craft businesses.
Attractions
Chapel of St. Ignatius and St. Celsus
history
A chapel in the village ( ⊙ ) was already mentioned in a report on a visit on August 4, 1569, which was made by Archbishop Jakob III. was arranged by Eltz . However, this chapel had a different location than the current one. The pastor of Merzkirchen and dean of Perl , Hilarius Hoffmann (1704–1745) had this built in 1735. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, a new construction of the chapel was considered after it had probably become dilapidated. In 1820 the church book was closed. In 1830 it was described as too small, very damp and neglected, with a damaged staircase. The present chapel was built in 1834. In 1864 a stone altar was mentioned that came from the church of Merzkirchen. In a visit report from 1945 the chapel was described as defective. After the war, the chapel was almost completely emptied, only two terracotta figures of the patrons Ignatius and Celsus of Trier and the altar could be saved. After extensive renovation, the first service could be held again in 1963.
style
The church is built in a classical style. Their external dimensions are 7 × 12.75 m with a 6.50 m eaves height and 9 m height to the ridge. The three round arched windows on the two long sides and the round window in the straight choir wall illuminate the interior. A circumferential, profiled stone eaves cornice forms triangles on the gable ends towards the roof ridge. An in fighter height mounted cornice connects the three windows on each longitudinal side. The round arch portal on the western gable side is circumscribed by a blind arcade and flanked by continuous pilasters . Above the portal gable you can see a 2.50 m high, free-standing roof turret in the form of an archway in which a small bell hangs. The building was built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a flat wooden ceiling on the inside. The chapel underwent its last renovation in 1984/85. In the summer of 2010 the chapel association founded in 2002 reported that the first part of a renovation had been completed: the forecourt was redesigned and the stairs and retaining wall renewed. In the second step, the roof and the exterior paint should be renewed, the third section should be the interior renovation.
Bell jar
The church book contains several entries about the bell of the chapel, the oldest is from 1773: A bell rope was purchased. The bell was cast in 1847 and again in 1872. A new 48 pound bell was cast from the 41 pound bell. In 1889 the bell had obviously cracked, because for "blacksmithing work and transport of the cracked bell" the pastor of the chapel treasury of Südlingen charged the amount of 3.05 marks for which he had presented. A new bell weighing 60 kg must have been purchased by 1917, because the church book states that this bell rang for the last time on February 25th due to damage. It was also melted down as part of metal collections for war purposes. In the same year, the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg cast a new bell weighing 58 kg and 45 cm in diameter. Since the church book shows again a payment to Mabilon for a new bell for the year 1929, it can be assumed that this was used to pay for a new bell, possibly just the new casting of the old, perhaps damaged bell; because in 1945 “the bell weighing 58 kg was still preserved”.
Other sights
- House No. 8: transverse house ; sandstone-integrated plastered building, from 1833
- Wegekreuz Akerkreuz ( ⊙ ): The cross, located on the northern edge of the L 132 between Merzkirchen and Dittlingen, was erected according to the inscription in 1873. The founder Johanetta Scheuer lived from 1820 to 1890. The reason for the erection of the cross in 1873 is not known.
- Wegekreuz Zeihenkreuz by Peter Mohr ( ⊙ ): The cross is on the K 112 from Dittlingen to Südlingen on a meadow slope on the southern side of the road opposite a field path confluence. It was erected in 1894 in honor of Peter Mohr (born January 15, 1832; † September 15, 1893), who had died a year earlier. Peter Mohr and his siblings Matthias, Nikolaus and Elisabeth came from the Zeihenhaus from 1833 in Dittlingen (house no. 8). After an extensive restoration, the cross was re-erected on February 16, 2005 about 30 m from where it was found.
- There is also a wayside cross from brother Matthias Mohr from 1896, which is currently in the workshop of a restorer. Matthias lived from February 18, 1829 to February 22, 1896, two years after the death of his wife Margarete Bollig. The cross was probably commissioned and erected by Matthias' close relatives - after all, his brother Nikolaus (* August 10, 1835 - April 13, 1860) was a bricklayer and wayside cross stonemason, which suggests that other family members were also involved in the stonemasonry trade knew.
See also
literature
- Ernst Steffny and Clemens Lehnert: Merzkirchen - a chronicle. Merzkirchen 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037531-6 .
Web links
- To search for cultural assets in the Dittlingen district of the Merzkirchen municipality in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 92 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Petrus Becker: The Benedictine Abbey of St. Eucharius-St. Matthias vor Trier , Berlin: De Gruyter, 1996, p. 514 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Collection of the ordinances published under the Governorate of the Middle Rhine in Kreuznach , Speyer, Oswald's Buchhandlung, 1819, p. 193 ff ( Google Books )
- ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, p. 227 ( online at Google Books ).
- ↑ a b Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
- ^ Saarburger Kreisblatt of August 18, 2010 and Trierischer Volksfreund of August 28/29. August 2010
- ^ Entry on Quereinhaus in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Ernst Steffny and Clemens Lehnert: Merzkirchen - Eine Chronik , Ed .: Ortsgemeinde Merzkirchen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037531-6
