Gusenburg

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Coat of arms of the local community of Gusenburg
Gusenburg
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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality : Hermeskeil
Height : 500 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.36 km 2
Residents: 1108 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 151 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 54413
Area code : 06503
License plate : TR, SAB
Community key : 07 2 35 036
Association administration address: Langer Markt 17
54411 Hermeskeil
Website : www.gusenburg.de
Local Mayor : Josef Barthen
Location of the local community Gusenburg in the district of Trier-Saarburg
Luxemburg Saarland Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Landkreis Birkenfeld Trier Bescheid (Hunsrück) Beuren (Hochwald) Damflos Geisfeld Grimburg Gusenburg Hermeskeil Hinzert-Pölert Naurath (Wald) Neuhütten (Hochwald) Rascheid Reinsfeld Züsch Baldringen Greimerath (bei Trier) Heddert Hentern Kell am See Lampaden Mandern Paschel Schillingen Schömerich Vierherrenborn Waldweiler Zerf Kanzem Konz Nittel Oberbillig Onsdorf Pellingen Tawern Temmels Wasserliesch Wawern (Saar) Wellen (Mosel) Wiltingen Bonerath Farschweiler Gusterath Gutweiler Herl Hinzenburg Holzerath Kasel (bei Trier) Korlingen Lorscheid Mertesdorf Morscheid Ollmuth Osburg Pluwig Riveris (Gemeinde) Schöndorf (an der Ruwer) Sommerau (an der Ruwer) Thomm Waldrach Ayl Fisch (Saargau) Freudenburg Irsch (bei Saarburg) Kastel-Staadt Kirf Mannebach (bei Saarburg) Merzkirchen Ockfen Palzem Saarburg Schoden Serrig Taben-Rodt Trassem Wincheringen Bekond Detzem Ensch Fell (Mosel) Föhren Kenn Klüsserath Köwerich Leiwen Longen Longuich Mehring (Mosel) Naurath (Eifel) Pölich Riol Schleich Schweich Thörnich Trittenheim Aach (bei Trier) Franzenheim Hockweiler Igel (Mosel) Kordel (Eifel) Langsur Newel Ralingen Trierweiler Welschbillig Zemmermap
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Gusenburg is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hermeskeil community .

history

Gusenburg was first mentioned in 1455 as Goishenberg . As a municipality that only became independent in the French era , Gusenburg came to the Mairie and the canton of Hermeskeil in the Saar department .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 248
1835 359
1871 413
1905 496
1939 735
1950 770
year Residents
1961 869
1970 966
1987 1,121
1997 1,175
2005 1,164
2019 1.108

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Gusenburg consists of 16 council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

choice CDU WGR total
2019 by majority vote 16 seats
2014 6th 10 16 seats
2009 5 11 16 seats
2004 by majority vote 16 seats

mayor

List of mayors (since 1887):

  • 1887–1910: Nikolaus Becker
  • 1910–1914: Nikolaus Klauck
  • 1914–1918: Johannes Knippel
  • 1918–1922: Nikolaus Jakobs
  • 1922–1930: Nikolaus Backes
  • 1930–1933: Adam Anton
  • 1933–1945: Karl Backes
  • 1945–1946: Michael Becker
  • 1946–1948: Franz Klauck
  • 1948–1964: Peter Koch
  • 1964–1979: Jakob Becker
  • 1979-1989: Alois Barthen
  • 1989–1994: Alfons Becker
  • 1994-1997: Alois Barthen
  • 1998–2009: Heinz Schuh
  • since 2009: Josef Barthen

coat of arms

The red bar cross in silver in the head of the shield indicates that it has belonged to the Electorate of Trier for centuries .

The red shield color refers to the Gusenburger districts "Gertenbüsch" (also called "Roter Hof"), "Rotenborn", "Roter Berg" and "Rote Flur", which got their name because of their ferrous, reddish soil. The silver Roman jug in the coat of arms refers to the discovery of bricks and clay pots from Roman times during excavations of the Roman temple complex in 1881. The two silver mountain shoe nails are intended to remind of the last nail smithy in Gusenburg and at the same time in the Hunsrück, which ceased operations in 1950.

The municipal council decided on September 1st, 1968 to introduce this coat of arms. On January 5, 1972, the coat of arms was approved by the Koblenz State Archives .

Educational institutions

There is a primary school and a kindergarten in Gusenburg.

kindergarten

The kindergarten in Gusenburg has existed since 1975. A special feature of the kindergarten is an approx. 2800 m 2 natural playground.

primary school

The Gusenburg elementary school emerged in 1973 from the Gusenburg Catholic elementary school . It is a single-course elementary school with grades from 1 to 4. 6

Culture and monuments

Monument in the village square

Nail smiths monument

On April 30, 2009, the nail smith monument was inaugurated on the newly designed village square on the main street, which is intended to commemorate the nail smithing trade, which was widespread in Gusenburg until 1950. The memorial was created by the artist Werner Bitzigeio from Winterspelt . Among other things, you can see a running wheel in which a dog drives a bellows, the different types of nails and the typical nail anvil.

Roman temple complex

After the first finds of several terracotta heads in 1885, excavations were carried out in the period from September 11th to October 3rd, 1891 in the district "Gertenbüsch". The site is surrounded by a Temenos wall, which encloses an area 57.15 m wide and 65.34 m long. In the middle was a Gallo-Roman temple , 34.30 m in front of the western wall , the cella of which was 8.20 m long and 7.55 m wide.

Catholic parish church

Catholic parish church

Today's parish church with the patronage " Apparition of the Lord " was built in 1927/28. It was built on the same site as the church built in 1777. The old church with the internal dimensions 10 × 16 m had become too small due to the population growth that began in the middle of the 19th century. Plans to expand the old church were not implemented because the masonry was damaged and could only be maintained at high cost. The old church faced northeast.

The church, built in 1927/1928 according to plans by the Mainz architect Anton Falkowski, is a basilica reduced to two naves . With its long side and the rectory at right angles, it delimits a square open to the street on which a war memorial stands. The cemetery is on the back.

The main nave and choir have barrel vaults . The side aisle, which opens in a pillar colonnade , is optically drawn into the choir and leads over to the column colonnade at the head of the choir. The cross altar is set in it, which is supplemented above by a relief depicting the Trinity . On the marble altar are baroque figures of the three kings from the high altar of the previous church, which was built in 1777 in the same place. The side altars are kept simple:

organ

The two-manual organ with 15 sounding stops dates from 1951 and 1955. The church has four bells:

Stroke height patron Dimensions year
e 1 St. Cornelius 345 kg 1928
g 1 Mary Queen of Heaven 506 kg 1948
a 1 St. Michael 700 kg 1957
c 2 Christ the King 1200 kg 1957

The original harmonic peal (es 1 g 1 b 1 c 2 , Salve Regina theme) was destroyed by the delivery of the three big bells in World War II.

Chapels

There are two chapels in and around Gusenburg, the Großmann and Grenderich Chapel.

Grossmann Chapel

Großmannkapelle

The Großmannkapelle stands at a crossroads southeast of Gusenburg.

The old wine route, which led from the Moselle via the Lascheider Hof to the deserted town of Grenderich and on to Wadrill, crosses the path to Bierfeld / Sitzerath southeast of Gusenburg. 80 years ago there were two wooden crosses and a signpost at this crossroads. It must have been around 1910 when a horse and cart from the Großmann family drove past children playing in the lower village of Gusenburg. Frightened by their noise, the horses shied and ran with the people sitting on the wagon in the direction of the above-mentioned crossroads. In his distress, the farmer promised to build a chapel where the team would stop. Out of gratitude for the good outcome, the family then built the house of saints for Our Lady of Sorrows. A procession went to this place for the inauguration, and the girl Angela Grossmann carried the statue into the chapel. Years ago the owners had a new door installed and they also take care of the maintenance of the Frenzes chapel.

Grenderich Chapel

On the north-western slope of the Grendericher Höhe, 500 meters above sea level, there is a chapel which the Gusenburg and Grimburgers consider to be a common heritage. Here was the old town of Grenderich, over which the cathedral custodian of Trier cathedral owned the manor and jurisdiction in the Middle Ages . It may have been a few decades after the year 1000 when settlers cleared the forest in two places in the 1750 hectare area, creating the villages of Sauscheid (from 1932 Grimburg) and Gusenburg. For 600 years these three places were connected with each other for better or for worse, when in the Thirty Years War mercenaries marching over the wine route made the village of Grenderich a desolation. Only the old church remained lonely in the field and was used as a place of worship until 1770. Ten years later, loneliness-loving Anton Becker from Gusenburg set up his hermitage in the dilapidated church. Until August 24, 1778, the three villages brought their dead to the Grenderich churchyard for many centuries. Only one of the many nameless people achieved local fame, the Dorhöllemann. Since he had committed perjury, after his burial in Grenderich he had to teach fear to adults and children as a ghost for a long time in the forest area to Bierfeld and Sitzerath. Until the First World War , people from the two neighboring villages brought palm branches to the still visible graves, which faced east. Even today, the 200-year-old chapel of the hermit Becker is the destination of processions and pilgrims who go to the protective cloak Madonna created by Josef Waschbüsch and also keep alive the memory of the former village of Grenderich.

Wayside crosses

There are two wayside crosses in Gusenburg. On the one hand, a sandstone shaft cross dated 1906 at the north-eastern exit of the village on Rothenborn, for which the wayside cross in Schulstrasse may have served as a model. A niche is worked into the angular pillar; the body at the end cross is made of metal.

On the other hand, a simple sandstone shaft cross dated 1849 in Schulstrasse, in whose angular pillar a niche has been worked. The body is three-quarters sculpted from the simple cross.

nature

Cattails and dead trees
Fishing pond

To the west of the village is the Eidenbruch nature reserve. A typical wetland on the Hunsrück plateau. On the edge of the area, but outside the nature reserve, there are several bodies of water, including a fishing pond.

Known residents

societies

  • The church choir Cäcilia was founded in 1923 and is therefore the oldest still existing association in Gusenburg.
  • The Lyra Gusenburg music association was founded in 1924 and re-established in 1956 after the Second World War. Today it has around 55 active members. (As of July 2009)
  • The Gusenburg volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1929 and currently has 34 active firefighters, including 4 women. The volunteer fire department Gusenburg has a portable pump vehicle TSF-W (MB Vario 612D) and a crew transport vehicle (MTF) (MB 100D). The Gusenburg youth fire brigade was founded in 1985 and is currently made up of 13 young people (9 boys, 4 girls). (As of April 2017)
  • The choir community "Friede" was founded in 1929.
  • The Blau-Weiß Gusenburg sports club was founded in 1946. He became known nationwide through his women's soccer team, which belonged to the Regionalliga Südwest from 1996 to 1998 and in the 2001/02 season. In the 2001/02 season she got 102 goals, which meant league record. The 1st men's team of the Gusenburg / Grimburg syndicate plays in the C-class. (As of June 2013)
  • The VdK Gusenburg / Grimburg was founded in 1949.
  • The reservist comradeship was founded in 1972.
  • The Kolping youth club was founded in 1974.
  • The women's community was founded in 1974.
  • The nature and fishing enthusiasts Gusenburg were founded 1983rd
  • The carnival club Die Schlauhausener was founded in 1983.
  • The Tennisfreunde Gusenburg were founded in 1986.
  • The chess club Gambit Gusenburg e. V. was founded in 1986 and has around 50 members, 30 of which are active. The greatest success of the first team was promotion to the Rhineland League in the 2009/10 season. The class could not be held and you had to go straight down to the Trier district league. In the 2014/15 season they became champions of the district league and thus rose again to the Rhineland league. Three teams are currently playing in the Trier chess district. (As of April 2015)
  • The Lanz Club Gusenburg was founded in 1988. It has about 45 members. (As of July 2009)
  • The Black Forest High Forest hiking club was founded in 1989.
  • The 1. FC Kaiserslautern Fan Club Wild Boar was founded in 1991.

See also

Web links

Commons : Gusenburg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections