Erzweiler
Erzweiler is a desert on the southern edge of the Baumholder military training area . The desert lies directly on the L 169, which is the only public road that crosses the military training area and connects Niederalben with Baumholder.
Erzweiler lay along the Totenalb , which divided the place belonging to the Duchy of Zweibrücken: the houses on the left (west) of the Totenalb belonged to the Baumholder office and parish; the houses on the right (east) of the Totenalb to the office and parish of Ulmet . From 1737 to 1817 the entire place was assigned to the church of Ulmet, then to the parish Niederalben. Politically, the municipality of Erzweiler has belonged to Baumholder since the French period.
In 1933 the place still had 618 inhabitants, the number of inhabitants fell to 353 by 1939. Erzweiler was only integrated into the Baumholder military training area in 1942, but it remained inhabited. The remaining population gave up the place in 1974 and was relocated. The buildings were demolished and leveled. The church built in 1957 and the cemetery with the morgue have been preserved. At the former exit in the direction of Niederalben is the "Warrior Honor Grove", which was laid out in 1957 and where the war memorials of the communities that were disbanded because of the military training area were collected. The site is open to the public, there is a parking lot directly in front of it.
Presumably from the 14th century comes a fragment of a relief in red sandstone walled up on the pulpit of the church, which was probably part of the sacrament house of the church of Wieselbach . In the church there is still a tombstone from 1819, which probably comes from the first burial in the neighboring cemetery. Several tombstones and a neo-Gothic crucifix made of yellow sandstone (18th century) have been preserved in the cemetery.
Mercury mining has been detectable in Erzweiler since 1571, but the productivity was low and mining was stopped again in the late 18th century.
literature
- Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): District of Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 32.4 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 29.1" E