Fish (Saargau)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	350 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.87 km 2
Residents:	406 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54439
Area code :	06581
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 025
Association administration address:	Schloßberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	gemeinde-fisch.de
Local Mayor :	Otmar Wacht
Location of the local community Fisch in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Fish community

Fisch is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Saarburg-Kell association.

Geographical location

The place is in the Saargau between the Saar and the Upper Moselle, not far from the border with Luxembourg in the west. Surrounding communities are Mannebach , Saarburg , Merzkirchen and Wincheringen . The closest major city is Trier , about 18 km to the northeast. Fish is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic pilgrimage route Cologne - Prüm -Trier- Metz (France) and today's route Trier- Perl .

To the west of Fisch ran the Roman road Metz – Trier , today partly as district road 111.

The residential areas of the settlement Alleestraße, Alterhof, Maklich and Im Viezgarten also belong to the community.

history

The place name fish comes from the Latin aedificium (farmstead) and indicates an earlier Roman estate. The place was first mentioned in a document around 1150 as the vischus .

During the Thirty Years War , the manors of the Lords of Warsberg located here were destroyed. Until the conquest by French troops in 1794, Fisch belonged to the Luxembourg rule of Wincheringen .

On July 18, 1946, the community of Fisch, together with 80 other communities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg , was incorporated into the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which was no longer under the Allied Control Council at the time . On June 6, 1947, this territorial separation was withdrawn to 21 municipalities, so that the place came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

The development of the population of the municipality of Fisch, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 161 1835 210 1871 226 1905 269 1939 305 1950 302

year Residents 1961 309 1970 292 1987 246 2005 312 2011 360 2017 415

politics

Municipal council

The local council in fish consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Otmar Wacht has been the local mayor since June 16, 2014.

Attractions

Rehlinger Church of St. Jakobus

The Grade II listed , the Way of St. James Trier - Santiago de Compostela lying church of St. James with its Romanesque tower of the 12th century nave of the 18th century is the last remnant of the defunct village Rehlingen-Litt village ( ⊙ ).

See also

• List of cultural monuments in fish
• List of natural monuments in fish

Web links

Commons : Fish  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Fisch
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Fisch in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on fish at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 124 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections