Freisen

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Freisen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Freisen highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 15'  E

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
Website : www.freisen.de
Mayor : Karl-Josef Scheer ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Freisen in the St. Wendel district
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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

Districts of Freisen

The districts of the municipality of Freisen (residents as of January 14, 2015):

district Residents Area km²
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

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 78.8%%
(2014: 67.8%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
36.4%
48.3%
n. k.
15.3%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-0.7  % p
-1.6  % p
-2.4  % p
+ 4.8  % p.p.

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% 04 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

Freisen 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.

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

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

Commons : Freisen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
  2. ↑ The municipality of Freisen in numbers at www.freisen.de
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ↑ 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).
  6. ↑ Regional Returning Officer, Saarland Statistical Office: 2019 municipal council elections in Freisen, official final result , accessed on June 13, 2020
  7. ↑ a b Municipality of Freisen: Mineral museums Retrieved June 30, 2012.
  8. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fahrweg.dbnetze.com