Erfweiler-Ehlingen

Erfweiler-Ehlingen community Mandelbachtal
	Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 44 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ E
Height :	289 (280-397) m
Area :	6.92 km²
Residents :	1260 (Feb 2016)
Population density :	182 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66399
Area code :	06803
Location of Erfweiler-Ehlingen in Saarland
	View from the south of Erfweiler-Ehlingen

Erfweiler-Ehlingen is a part of the community Mandelbachtal in the Saarpfalz district ( Saarland ).

geography

location

Erfweiler-Ehlingen situated in a hilly, rural embossed landscape of the front Bliesgau embedded in a spur of the Pfälzisch-Saarländischen shell area . The place is traversed by the Mandelbach . Four brooks flow into the Mandelbach in the Erfweiler-Ehlingen district : the Magersbrunnenbach, the Rittwiesbach, the Brühlbach and the Winkelbach. The municipal area is 692 hectares, of which 125 hectares are forest and 482 hectares are used for agriculture. The remaining area is allocated to the location. The highest point is the Hölschberg at 397 m, the lowest point (280 m) is on the Mandelbach, on the border with the neighboring village of Wittersheim .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Erfweiler-Ehlingen are Wittersheim south, Rubenheim south-east , Aßweiler north, Ballweiler north-east and Ormesheim west .

history

On January 1, 1974, Erfweiler-Ehlingen was incorporated into the new municipality of Mandelbachtal .

religion

Erfweiler-Ehlingen is mostly Catholic . The Catholics belong to the parish of St. Mauritius , which is assigned to the parish association Blieskastel in the dean's office in Saarpfalz, which in turn is part of the diocese of Speyer . The evangelical Christians belong to Protestant parish Ensheim , which also has a church in Ormesheim has, in at least once a month worship take place.

politics

Local council

Distribution of seats in the local council :

SPD 7 seats
CDU 2 seats

(As of August 2019)

Mayor

Michael Abel ( SPD ) has been the mayor since 2014 . He was unanimously re-elected on August 13, 2019 by the members of the local council. His deputy is Olaf John (SPD).

From 1994 to 2014 Benno Bubel (CDU) was mayor.

coat of arms

former municipal coat of arms

Blazon of the former municipal coat of arms:

"Under a silver shield head, inside a continuous red cross, in blue a silver pole, accompanied on the right by a golden round tower with a conical roof, black door and black window, on the left by a golden millstone."

Culture and sights

Erfweiler-Ehlingen won the silver medal in 2003 and 2012 and the gold medal in 2005 and 2015 in the competition Our Village Future . In 2007 and 2016 the location was a federal decision. On January 25, 2008 and January 27, 2017, the place in Berlin was awarded the silver medal for participation in the national competition "Our village has a future" as part of the Green Week .

Particularly noteworthy: Church of St. Mauritius with round tower (12th century), Joseph Chapel with seven pain stations, day laborer's house, award-winning Welsch farmhouse.

Other points of interest: the Cultural Landscape Center " House perforated field " (in the district Wittersheim ), the natural stage Gräfinthal (on the district Bliesmengen-Bolchen ), the optical telegraph (on the district Biesingen ) and the house of village history in Bliesmengen-Bolchen.

Monuments

Memorials

Honorary Fallen First World War	Fallen honorary World War II
stands near the Mandelbachhalle	stands next to the cemetery hall

Architectural monuments

Wegekreuz , Auf dem Hüwel 15, year 1778
Farmhouse , enclosure wall with vaulted cellar and chicken coop, Ballweilerstraße 6, year 1850
So-called shoemaker's house, residential building, Ballweilerstraße 11, year 1729
Farmhouse , Rubenheimerstraße 49, around 1870
Farm , Rubenheimerstraße 52, year 1816
Day laborer's house, Straße am Römerturm 19, 19th century

cath. Parish church "St. Mauritius" with attached Roman tower (round tower), street at the Roman tower
Old School, Straße am Römerturm 7 (1878–79)

Protected landscape components

designation	description	Coord.
Feuchtbrache Am Mühlenberg	Wetland GLB Feuchtbrache Am Mühlenberg (PDF, 344 kB), accessed on November 23, 2017	49 ° 11 ′ 47.4 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 40" E49.1965 7.1611
Jägerspfuhl on the Hölschberg	Jägerspfuhl wetland on the Hölschberg (PDF, 393 kB), accessed on November 23, 2017	49 ° 12 ′ 37.5 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 58.5" E49.21043 7.19957
Quarry on the Sommerberg	Lime semi-dry grassland, meadow, woods GLB Steinbruch am Sommerberg (PDF, 221 kB), accessed on November 23, 2017	49 ° 11 '24.7 " N , 7 ° 11' 13.9" E49.1902 7.1872

Wittelsbacher monument

Is above the Schornwaldhütte on the road towards Rubenheim

In 1880 the 700th anniversary of the Wittelsbach family was celebrated. About 100 m above the Schornwaldhütte on the road to Rubenheim , a plaque commemorates this celebration. The memorial plaque is a reconstruction .

Regular events

March 19: " Joseph's Day " in honor of St. Joseph
March: "Our village bowling" tournament
April 30th / May 1st: erection of the maypole at the fire station with the May festival of the volunteer fire brigade
Spring festival with boules tournament of the football club on Ascension Day
Trofeo Karlsberg (The municipality of Mandelbachtal is a partner of this Junior World Cup cycle race, which takes place every year on the weekend after Corpus Christi .)
August: Beach tournament of the youth club
last weekend in August: village festival "Around the Roman Tower"
Martin's celebration
1st Advent weekend: Advent in the distillery with Christmas market
shortly before Christmas: X-Mas-Warm-Up of the youth club

Economy and Infrastructure

Erfweiler-Ehlingen is a distinct residential and commuter community . Most of the employed people work in the Saarbrücken , St. Ingbert and Homburg region .

Public facilities

Erfweiler-Ehlingen has the following public facilities: voluntary all-day elementary school, children's playgrounds, Mandelbachhalle, cemetery , consecration hall, Catholic Church St. Mauritius , youth club , fire station , sports center, tennis courts, football pitch, Nordic walking park, distillery , Hölschberg rubble dump, beach Volleyball court.

traffic

Erfweiler-Ehlingen is connected to the federal highway 423 , which leads past the place to the west. There is a connection to Rubenheim (municipality of Gersheim ) via Landstraße 231 .

Personalities

Hans-Günter Grund , a former German soccer player

literature

Budzinski, Rainer (ed.): Inhabitants of Erfweiler-Ehlingen 1500–1800 - an attempt at reconstruction . Self-published, Hanover 1998.
Editorial team of the parish of Erfweiler-Ehlingen (Hrsg.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Mauritius Erfweiler-Ehlingen . West Palatinate Publishing Printing House, St. Ingbert 2006.
Tourist office Mandelbachtal e. V. (Ed.): The Catholic parish church Erfweiler-Ehlingen . Self-published, Mandelbachtal 2009.
Tourist office Mandelbachtal e. V. (Ed.): Healthy on the move - The NatureFitnessParks in Mandelbachtal . Self-published, Mandelbachtal 2013.
Tourist office Mandelbachtal e. V. (Ed.): Around the Römerturm - Kneipp trail, Erfweiler-Ehlingen . Self-published, Mandelbachtal 2013.
Tourist office Mandelbachtal e. V. (Ed.): Mandelbachtaler Legenden 4: The Jägerpfuhl on the Hölschberg . Self-published, Mandelbachtal 2013.
Tourist office Mandelbachtal e. V. (Hrsg.): The coats of arms of the community Mandelbachtal and its eight districts . Self-published, Mandelbachtal 2009.

Web links

Commons : Erfweiler-Ehlingen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Description of the topography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2009 ; Retrieved June 28, 2012 .
^ 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 .
↑ St. Mauritius, Erfweiler-Ehlingen ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: cms.bistum-speyer.de , accessed on June 25, 2012.
↑ Local councils Mandelbachtal (PDF; 1.38 MB), on: www.mandelbachtal.de , accessed on July 26, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.11 MB), accessed on June 25, 2012.
↑ "Our village bowling" in the Mandelbachhalle. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . March 12, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .

[lage-1] Description of the topography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2009 ; Retrieved June 28, 2012 .

[2] 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 .

[3] St. Mauritius, Erfweiler-Ehlingen ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: cms.bistum-speyer.de , accessed on June 25, 2012.

[4] Local councils Mandelbachtal (PDF; 1.38 MB), on: www.mandelbachtal.de , accessed on July 26, 2019.

[baudenkmal-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.11 MB), accessed on June 25, 2012.

[6] "Our village bowling" in the Mandelbachhalle. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . March 12, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 .