Main hamlet

Main hamlet Freisen municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.24 km²
Residents :	598  (Jul 19, 2013)
Population density :	114 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66629
Area code :	06855
Location of Hauptersweiler in Saarland
Hauptersweiler photographed from Gosenborn

The Weiselberg photographed from the Haupersweiler side

The museum train of the Ostertalbahn on the viaduct near Hauptersweiler

Hauptersweiler is a district and a district of the municipality of Freisen in the St. Wendel district in Saarland . Hauptersweiler was an independent municipality until the end of 1973.

geography

It lies between Oberkirchen and Osterbrücken in the upper valley of the Oster , which flows into the Blies in Wiebelskirchen .

history

Hauptersweiler is mentioned for the first time in 1331 together with the districts of Herchweiler and Seitzweiler .

In 1947 Hauptersweiler was incorporated into the nominally independent Saarland , which was in fact under French administration, along with a few other localities .

As part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland , the previously independent municipality of Haupersweiler was assigned to the municipality of Freisen on January 1, 1974.

In 2003, the part that had previously belonged to Haupersweiler, the Gass of neighboring Herchweiler, was also handed over to the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality for administrative purposes.

Economy and Infrastructure

State road 122 runs through the village, and the village is also connected to the Ostertalbahn . The federal motorway 62 can be reached via the Freisen and Konken junctions 6 km away . Local businesses include a bakery, hair salon, plastering company, tire dealer, bus company, scaffolding and heating engineer.

politics

Mayor

• Franz-Josef Danneck (since 1993)

Local council

• 9 seats (7 SPD, 2 CDU)

Others

There are numerous clubs in Hauptersweiler. The largest are the support association of the volunteer fire brigade , the gymnastics and sports association, the music association, the village and culture association Haupersweiler and the Hubertus Youth. Other associations are the fruit and horticultural association, the fishing club Flotte Rute and the Kapellenbauverein Haupersweiler / Seitzweiler eV There are also the idiot and the Maltese auxiliary service. The sights of the place include the viaduct of the Ostertalbahn and the Friedenskapelle as well as the renatured stream meadows of the Wilmesbach and Oster.

Web links

• Private website with information about Hauptersweiler and Seitzweiler
• Literature on Hauptersweiler in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The municipality of Freisen in numbers at www.freisen.de
2. ↑ Restructuring Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, § 45, published in the Saarland Official Gazette 1973, No. 48, p. 857 (PDF page 29; 499 kB)
3. ^ 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 .
4. ^ The divided village of Freisen. (No longer available online.) In: SR-online. Saarländischer Rundfunk, May 8, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 17, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ^ Associations in Hauptersweiler. Municipality of Freisen, accessed on December 17, 2009 .