Furpach

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Furpach
City of Neunkirchen
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 278 m
Residents : 3819  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 1922
Postal code : 66539
Area code : 06821
Furpach (Saarland)
Furpach

Location of Furpach in Saarland
Furpach from a bird's eye view
Furpach from a bird's eye view

Furpach ( listen ? / I ), until 1975 Haus Furpach ( listen ? / I ), is a district of Neunkirchen (Saar) southeast of the city center, which today is used for residential purposes, similar to the neighboring districts of Kohlhof and Ludwigsthal . Audio file / audio sample Audio file / audio sample

location

Furpach is ten minutes by car from the city center of Neunkirchen. There is also a direct traffic connection to the federal motorway 8 , which runs northeast of the district. Furpach is surrounded by forests on all sides. The district is both "known as a local recreation area" and interesting for commuters.

history

Traces of settlement can be traced back to the time of the Celts and later Roman settlement. A stone image of Epona , Roman coins, graves, wells and references to old streets were found, among other things . Presumably it was a horse changing station on the route between Trier and Strasbourg in Roman times .

The written tradition begins in the 13th century. The first documentary mention was made in 1234 as " Furtbach ", but the village came into being earlier, around 1000, when farmers cleared the forest and built the village. The name is a composition of ford and brook. In 1351 the village had its own church and parish. In the tax lists it was listed like Bexbach . From 1420 the village declined, in 1330 there were 16 farmers, in 1500 there were still four of them in the village. This took place without external influences and was due to the gradual impoverishment due to the tired soil.

After several changes of ownership, in 1527 the last remaining Forbacherhof came under the rule of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken . The farm, which was devastated in the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt in 1665, came into the possession of the Karcher family of merchants and manufacturers from Saarbrücken after 1806. Plagued by incorrect deliveries to the Lorraine town of Forbach , the last private owner named Rittmeister a. D. Paul Karcher changed his estate “Forbacher Hof” to “Haus Furpach” in 1899; the spelling “Furpach” took up the historical orthography of the 16th century. In 1904 the Neunkirchen community acquired the estate for 250,000 marks. In 1922 the communities Neunkirchen, Kohlhof merged with the Annexe Haus Furpach, Niederneunkirchen and Wellesweiler to form the new town of Neunkirchen.

From 1936 a housing estate under the name Haus Furpach was built in several construction phases on the property belonging to the Hofgut, which was intended in particular for workers from the Neunkircher Hütte . Originally, three construction phases with around 600 apartments were to be realized, but only two could be realized before the outbreak of the Second World War . The developer was Saarpfälzische Heimstätte GmbH. In 1936, 80 people's dwellings, 88 settler sites and 60 private homes were built. The second phase of construction was completed in 1937 and comprised 42 apartments, 66 jobs and 20 private homes. After the school on the Kohlhof was first used and a school barrack was built, a school building was built in 1950. In 1952 a Catholic Church of St. Joseph was built. In 1957 the Martin Luther House was inaugurated as the center of the Protestant religious community.

From 1952 to 1956, 93 semi-detached houses and 25 single-family houses were built. Then the third construction phase began. From 1962 to 1964 another construction phase was built and a fifth construction phase was added by 1965. In 1962 the population was 3803 people.

The estate, which was used for agriculture until 1963 and then slowly fell into disrepair, was modernized in 1975 and today houses a hotel, a community hall, a restaurant and condominiums. The name of the district was changed by a city council resolution on May 21, 1975 to "Furpach".

Attractions

Farm in Furpach

In particular, the Furpacher Weiher, dammed up by the Erlenbrunnenbach, with the surrounding park and the historic manor are known as excursion destinations in the city. Since 1971 there has been an educational forest trail, which explains fauna and flora with display boards, but is no longer maintained.

In Furpach there is also the Robinson village for recreation on the outskirts for children and young people. South of the village is the central cemetery of the city of Neunkirchen and at the transition between Furpach and Kohlhof (the two settlements share a common area) the Biehlersweiher, which was rebuilt in 1968 as a fish pond. The Kasbruch nature reserve was established in 1998 in the forest area between Furpach, Ludwigsthal, Wellesweiler and Neunkirchen . On the road from Furpach to Neunkirchen there is the historic “Forsthaus Landerthal” and not far from it, since 2009, the combined bath “Die Lakai” on the site of the former lackey sheep farm .

Population development

Number of inhabitants
year 1951 1977 1988 2000 2015
Residents 2,091 5,328 4,804 4,551 3,979

literature

  • Bernhard Krajewski: Chronicle of Kohlhof. Neunkirchen 1934.
  • Werner Honczek (editor): 50 years of the Furpach district 1936–1986 . Ed .: Clubs and associations of the Furpach district. Neunkirchen August 1986.
  • Richard Hilgers: The districts of Neunkirchen. In: Neunkircher Stadtbuch. Published on behalf of the district town of Neunkirchen by Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch, Neunkirchen 2005, pp. 709–726, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neunkirchen: Population status 2018 , accessed on March 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Furpach. City of Neunkirchen, accessed on July 26, 2011 .
  3. ^ A b Bernhard Krajewski: History and development of Neunkirchen . In: Organizing committee for the city festival (Hrsg.): 700 years Neunkirchen . Neunkirchen, S. 5, 11 (ca.1981).
  4. ^ A b c Bernhard Krajewski: A village becomes a farm and a village again . In: Heimatverein Neunkirchen-Furpach (ed.): 25 years of the Furpach house . S. 11-13 (n.d. (1962)).
  5. ↑ a b Lord Mayor of the district town of Neunkirchen (ed.): Neunkircher city guide . Neunkirchen 1985, p. 69 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Werner Honczek: Chronicle of a district . In: Clubs and associations of the Furpach district (ed.): 50 years of Furpach district 1936–1986 . Neunkirchen August 1986, p. 25-39 .
  7. ↑ indoor swimming pool. City of Neunkirchen, accessed on July 26, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Katrin Carl, Christian Reuther, Dennis Schuld: Kleine chroNiK. A journey through time through the history of Neunkirchen. District town Neunkirchen 2019. pp. 23–25