Beckingen

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Coat of arms of the community of Beckingen
Beckingen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Beckingen highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '  N , 6 ° 42'  E

Basic data
State : Saarland
County : Merzig-Wadern
Height : 300 m above sea level NHN
Area : 51.68 km 2
Residents: 14,889 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 288 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66701
Primaries : 06832, 06835
License plate : MZG
Community key : 10 0 42 111
LOCODE : DE EKG
Community structure: 9 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bergstrasse 48
66701 Beckingen
Website : www.beckingen.de
Mayor : Thomas Collmann ( SPD )
Location of the community of Beckingen in the Merzig-Wadern district
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Beckingen seen from Limberg
Parish Church of St. John and Paul
Beckingen on a lithograph from 1863 (Source: Documentary history of the Merzig district by Constantin von Briesen )

Beckingen is a Saarland municipality in the Merzig-Wadern district - about 30 km northwest of Saarbrücken . It was created on January 1, 1974 as part of the regional and administrative reform from the villages of Beckingen, Düppenweiler , Erbaren , Hargarten, Haustadt , Honzrath , Oppen , Reimsbach and Saarfels.

geography

Parishes

The community is structured as follows:

Neighboring communities

The entire municipality of Beckingen borders on the following municipal areas:

Clockwise:

The municipal area of ​​the main town Beckingen borders on the following places:

Clockwise:

  • Bietzen (district of the city of Merzig)
  • Home town
  • Düppenweiler
  • Nalbach
  • Diefflen (district of the city of Dillingen / Saar)
  • Leases (part of the city of Dillingen / Saar)
  • Rehlingen (part of the municipality of Rehlingen-Siersburg)
  • Saarfels
  • Menningen (district of the city of Merzig)

history

Beckingen at the end of the 19th century with the Karcher factory on the grounds of the Kommendenmühle as well as the Beckingen train station building and the church of St. Johannes and Paulus, detail from a tile picture by Peter Winkel in the Fellenberg Castle Museum in Merzig

Antiquity

The area of ​​today's community was already around 1800 to 1200 BC. Christi settled what was determined on the basis of excavations. The Romans opened up the area for traffic around the birth of Christ .

middle Ages

Beckingen was first mentioned in a document from Archbishop Eberhard von Trier in 1048 . At the end of the 13th century, Teutonic Knights settled in Beckingen. The foundation of the Beckingen Commandery was a donation from the two brothers Gerhard and Jakob von Beckingen, who came from the von Siersberg family, on January 28, 1293 to the Deutschherrenhaus in Trier. Jakob von Beckingen was canon of the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier in the Porta Nigra , Gerhard was a feudal man of the Duke of Lorraine . The donation to the order comprised property within the district of Beckingen and was intended to repay the penalties of both brothers. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Trier friars established their own commandery in the conveniently located Beckingen an der Saar. The first documentary mention of a German house in Beckingen took place in 1320. The Beckingen Commandery belonged to the Ballei Lothringen with its seat in Trier, which comprised today's Saarland , parts of the southern and eastern Palatinate and, above all, large parts of Lorraine . The Ballei Lothringen, on the left bank of the Rhine, was bounded in the north by the Kammerballei Koblenz and in the south by the Kammerballei Alsace-Burgundy .

Early modern age

After today's municipal area was previously under the Teutonic Order , most of them (with the exception of the Electorate of Trier villages) came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678/1679 . As early as 1697, Louis XIV lost the areas that belonged to Lorraine again. After the death of the Lorraine Duke Stanislaus I. Leszczyński , Lorraine (and thus Beckingen) came back to France in 1766, which in 1794 also occupied the Electorate of Düppenweiler and Oppen .

19th century

After the defeat of the Napoleonic Empire, the entire area was assigned to the Rhine Province and thus belonged to Prussia .

Saar area

After the First World War, the Versailles Treaty assigned today's municipal property (except for Oppen, which remained with the German Empire ) to the Saar area, which was placed under the administration of the League of Nations . After the referendum in 1935, the entire Saar area came back to the German Reich .

Ballot for the Saar vote in 1935

In the referendum on January 13, 1935, 90.5% of the Saar area voted for annexation to the German Reich. In the local mayor's office, the results of the vote on January 13, 1935 were as follows:

  • Votes cast: 6,374
  • Voted for joining the French Republic: 18 (= 0.3%)
  • Voted for the status quo: 260 (= 4.1%)
  • Votes for the return to the German Reich: 6,096 (= 95.6%)
Ballot for the referendum on the European Statute for the Saarland on October 23, 1955

Saar state

When the Saarland constitution came into force on December 15, 1947, Beckingen became part of the Saar state . On October 23, 1954, the agreement between the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Saar Statute was negotiated between the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France . Until the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany, the agreement provided for the Saarland to be subordinate to a commissioner from the Western European Union . This should represent the country externally. However, the Saarland government should continue to be responsible for internal affairs and the economic connection to France should be maintained. However, closer economic networking with the Federal Republic was also planned.

In the referendum on the agreement on October 23, 1955 on the European Statute of the Saarland , Beckingen voted against the agreement. The Saarland national average of yes-people was 32.3%, that of no-people was 67.7%. Through the negotiations that followed and the Luxembourg Treaty of October 27, 1956, in which France agreed to the reintegration of the Saarland under West German sovereignty , Beckingen became politically and economically the Federal Republic on January 1, 1957 and on July 6, 1959 ("Day X") Germany attached.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the previously independent municipalities of Düppenweiler, Erhaben, Hargarten, Haustadt, Honzrath, Oppen, Reimsbach and Saarfels were incorporated on the occasion of the Saarland district and municipal area reform.

politics

Municipal council

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 67.1%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
37.2%
36.3%
8.3%
8.3%
6.6%
3.2%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-13.0  % p
+ 0.6  % p
+ 4.7  % p.p.
-2.1  % p
+ 6.6  % p.p.
+ 3.2  % p

In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution resulted for the 33 seats in the local council :Template: future / in 3 years

Political party Share of votes difference Seats difference
CDU 37.2% −13.0% 13 −4
SPD 36.3% + 0.6% 13 +1
Green 8.3% + 4.7% 2 +1
left 8.3% −2.1% 2 −1
AfD 6.6% +6.6% 2 +2
FDP 3.2% + 3.2% 1 +1
Voter turnout: 67.1% + 8.4%

mayor

  • December 1, 1993 to November 30, 2003: Manfred Peter (SPD)
  • December 1, 2003 to May 31, 2017: Erhard Seger (CDU)
  • since June 1, 2017: Thomas Collmann (SPD)

Mayor Thomas Collman was elected to office in a runoff election on September 26, 2016 with 55.9% of the vote. His predecessor went into retirement.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on January 8, 1975.

Blazon from the point of view of the wearer of the shield: "Square shield, top right and bottom left in silver a continuous black bar cross, top left and bottom right in black a five-pointed golden star, overlaid by two golden roses."

The coat of arms was designed by Kurt Hoppstädter and approved on August 20, 1951 by the Saarland state government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann .

The coat of arms combines the black bar cross of the Teutonic Knight Order with the coat of arms of the local order commander Philipp Arnold von Ahr (1623–1634). The Commander's coat of arms can be found on the Marzellus Chapel in Beckingen. The coat of arms of the Teutonic Knight Order was used for the local coat of arms, as the place was under the administration of the order for almost 500 years (from the 13th century until the forced dissolution of the Beckinger Kommende during the French Revolution in 1792/1793) and was the seat of a commandery was. Commander Philipp Arnold von Ahr had the Marzellus Chapel built.

Culture and sights

please refer:

  • Sculptures Saargarten Beckingen
  • Beckingen Stein.jpg
  • BeckingenDraehte.jpg
  • BeckingenStahlmenschen.jpg
  • Beckingen Roehren.jpg
  • BeckingenEvolution.jpg
  • BeckingenDrahtkugel.jpg
  • BeckingenSteinMitGlas.jpg

Personalities

People who work in a special way for cohesion across all locations in the Beckingen community are awarded the community's plaque of honor by resolution of the community council.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Hellmuth Heye (1895–1970), military (vice admiral) and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, defense commissioner of the German Bundestag
  • Ossi Michel (1927–2016), table tennis player
  • Johannes Mischo (1930-2001), parapsychologist
  • Bernd Schulz (1941–2017), journalist, curator, cultural mediator and university professor
  • Johannes Reiter (* 1944), Roman Catholic theologian and retired university professor for moral theology
  • Dagmar Ensch-Engel (* 1955), politician of the Left Party

Personalities associated with the community

  • Nikolaus Schreiner (1914–2007), former member of the Saarland Landtag and the German Bundestag; Mayor in Honzrath

traffic

The Beckingen (Saar) station is located on the Saar Railway .

education

Day care centers

  • Catholic day care center St. Marzellus Beckingen
  • Catholic day care center St. Pius Beckingen
  • Catholic day care center St. Theresia Beckingen
  • Catholic day care center St. Leodegar Düppenweiler
  • Kath. Kita St. Luzia Provide
  • Kath. Kita St. Mauritius house town
  • AWO - Honzrath day care center
  • AWO - Oppen day care center
  • Kath. Kita St. Andreas Reimsbach

Elementary schools

  • Elementary School Düppenweiler
  • Elementary school Beckingen
  • Reimsbach primary school

Community school

  • Friedrich Bernhard Karcher School Beckingen

literature

  • Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A review of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch about the building history of the Catholic parish church of Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued up to the year 2007, ed. by the Catholic parish Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008.
  • Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991.
  • 100 years of the parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus Beckingen, 1963, Merzig 1963.
  • Wolfgang Jakobs: The history of the community and parish and the Deutschherren-Komturei Beckingen, Trier 1969.
  • Hermann Niederkorn: The story of Beckingen, published on the occasion of the local festival of the Beckingen culture and homeland association from October 6th - 8th, 1951, Beckingen 1951.
  • Rüdiger Schmidt: Die Deutschordenskommenden Trier and Beckingen 1242 - 1794, (Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order, Vol. 9), Marburg 1979.
  • Volkmar Schommer: Moving Years, The Haustadter Valley during the Nazi era, Volume I: The pre-war years, Volume II: The Second World War in the Haustadter Valley and the adjacent areas on the central Saar, Merzig 1994 (Vol. I) and 1997 ( Vol. II).

Web links

Commons : Beckingen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter: The coat of arms of the Saarland, part 1, ed. v. Historical Association for Saarland e. V. in cooperation with the archive of the Saarland government, Saarbrücken, 1953/1954, p. 99 (Appendix Administrative map of the Saarland, Saarland government, Ministry of Finance and Forests, Cadastral and Surveying Department, 1954 edition).
  3. ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter: The coat of arms of the Saarland, part 1, ed. v. Historical Association for Saarland e. V. in cooperation with the archive of the Saarland government, Saarbrücken, 1953/1954, p. 99 (Appendix Administrative map of the Saarland, Saarland government, Ministry of Finance and Forests, Cadastral and Surveying Department, 1954 edition).
  4. ↑ Martin Uhrhan: The history of the German order commander Beckingen, in: Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its community districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991, pp. 98-101.
  5. ↑ Merziger Volkszeitung from January 16, 1935.
  6. ↑ Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its community districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991, p. 428.
  7. ^ 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. 804 .
  8. ↑ Municipal elections 2019 - 42111 - Beckingen. State Returning Officer Saarland, May 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  9. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung of September 25, 2016: Thomas Collmann wins the runoff election. https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/merzig-wadern/merzig/thomas-collmann-gewinnt-stichwahl_aid-84137
  10. ↑ http://www.kuhv-beckingen.de/ort-und-geschichte/der-deutsche-orden-in-beckingen , accessed on May 27, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter: The coat of arms of the Saarland, part 1, ed. v. Historical Association for Saarland e. V. in cooperation with the archive of the Saarland government, Saarbrücken, 1953/1954, p. 42.
  12. ↑ Day care facilities - Beckingen community. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on June 19, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beckingen.de
  13. ↑ a b Schools - Beckingen community. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on June 19, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beckingen.de