Freisen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 15' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saarland | |
County : | St. Wendel | |
Height : | 516 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 48.08 km 2 | |
Residents: | 7863 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 164 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 66629 | |
Area code : | 06855 | |
License plate : | WND | |
Community key : | 10 0 46 111 | |
LOCODE : | DE ZFN | |
Community structure: | 8 districts | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Schulstr. 60 66629 Freisen |
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Mayor : | Karl-Josef Scheer ( SPD ) | |
Location of the municipality of Freisen in the St. Wendel district | ||
Freisen is a municipality in the St. Wendel district in the northeastern part of Saarland on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate .
geography
Geographical location
Freisen is in the Palatinate Uplands . The cities of Saarbrücken and Trier as well as the city of Kaiserslautern are within a 50 km radius . The Füsselberg and the Weiselberg rise between the districts of Oberkirchen and Reitscheid .
Community structure
The districts of the municipality of Freisen (residents as of January 14, 2015):
district | Residents | Area km² |
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Asweiler | 354 | 4.73 |
Eitzweiler | 231 | 4.47 |
Freisen | 2,817 | 13.50 |
Grügelborn | 842 | 4.17 |
Main hamlet | 578 | 5.24 |
Oberkirchen | 2,421 | 9.54 |
Reitscheid | 427 | 3.49 |
Black earths | 428 | 2.94 |
Freisen municipality | 8,098 | 48.08 |
history
Freisen was first mentioned in a document in 1235 under the name Fresenacum .
Reorganization
The municipality received its current layout largely on January 1, 1974 as part of the Saarland territorial and administrative reform , when the new municipality of Freisen was formed from the previously independent municipalities Asweiler , Eitzweiler , Freisen, Grügelborn , Haupersweiler , Oberkirchen , Reitscheid and Schwarzerden .
On January 1, 2004, a part of the municipality with 53 inhabitants at that time was reclassified to the municipality of Herchweiler , Kusel district , Rhineland-Palatinate.
politics
(2014: 67.8%)
Municipal council
The council with 27 seats is made after the local elections on May 26, 2019 as follows:
Party / list | Share of votes | Seats | +/- |
CDU | 36.4% | 10 seats | ± 0 |
SPD | 48.3% | 13 seats | - 1 |
FWG | 15.3% | 4 seats | + 1 |
mayor
- from August 28, 2012: Karl-Josef Scheer, SPD
- August 28, 1994 - August 27, 2012: Wolfgang Alles, CDU
- August 28, 1984 - August 27, 1994: Vinzenz Becker, CDU
- August 28, 1974 - August 27, 1984: Reinhold Weisgerber, CDU
coat of arms
Blazon : “Quartered; upper right in black a strongly stylized golden horse turned to the left and crumpled above the hooves; upper left in gold an eight-spoked red wheel with eight silver tips and broken out between the spokes in the upper left; lower right a red sloping bar in gold, covered with three mutilated silver eagles; lower left in black a red crowned, red armored and red tongued golden lion. "
The coat of arms was approved on May 16, 1984 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior. |
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The community colors are black and yellow.
Community partnerships
There is a community partnership with Mutzig ( France / Alsace ).
Culture and sights
monument
The Catholic Church of St. Remigius was built in 1753 as a baroque hall church.
see also: List of architectural monuments in Freisen
Museums
- Museum railway Ostertalbahn from Schwarzerden station to Ottweiler
- Mineral Museum Freisen
- Mineralogical Museum in the Oberkirchen district
- Southwest German Farmer Museum Reitscheid
wildlife Park
traffic
The station Freisen was on the railway line Türkismühle-Kusel . Passenger traffic from Türkismühle to Freisen was discontinued on June 1, 1969.
Web links
- Literature on Freisen in the Saarland Bibliography
- Link catalog on the subject of Freisen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
- ↑ The municipality of Freisen in numbers at www.freisen.de
- ↑ Restructuring Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, Section 44, published in the Saarland Official Gazette 1973, No. 48, p. 857 (PDF page 29; 499 kB)
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 184 (PDF; 2.8 MB; footnote 23).
- ↑ Regional Returning Officer, Saarland Statistical Office: 2019 municipal council elections in Freisen, official final result , accessed on June 13, 2020
- ↑ a b Municipality of Freisen: Mineral museums Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ↑ DB Netz - Transfer of Railway Infrastructure | Route no. 3201 from Türkismühle to Wolfersweiler ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 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. , accessed on March 21, 2017