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City of Merzig
Former municipal coat of arms of Hilhaben
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 28 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 178 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 2569  (June 30, 2011)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66663
Area code : 06861
Hilringen (Saarland)
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Location of Hilhaben in the Saarland
View from Kreuzberg in a westerly direction towards Hilhaben
View from Kreuzberg in a westerly direction towards Hilhaben
Hilringen Castle

Hilringen is one of 17 districts of the city of Merzig in the Merzig-Wadern district ( Saarland ) and is located opposite the city center on the left bank of the Saar . With around 2500 inhabitants, Hilringen is the third largest district after Brotdorf and Besseringen .

history

The center of Hilringen is the Schlossberg , on which a "permanent house" probably stood as early as the 13th century, which served as the ancestral seat of the Knights of Hilhaben , whose family died out with Reinhard von Hilringen in 1611. A document drawn up in 902/903 and subsequently dated to 816 is considered the oldest written evidence of the place named "Helibere". As early as the 12th century there was a parish belonging to the Perl deanery. The priest Godefrid zu Hildebringen , named in 1233, is the first pastor in Hilhaben to be passed down by name.

After the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), in 1663, only 16 people lived in the seven towns of the Saargau Obermeierei, to which Hilhaben also belonged. In 1680 the Hilbringen pastor Calmes founded a St. Sebastian brotherhood and set up a Sebastian altar in the church, which is an indication that the plague was raging in the region at that time . Jews settled for the first time in 1693 and formed their own community in the early 19th century. The synagogue , built in 1864, was taken over by the municipal administration in 1936 after the last Jewish residents had emigrated. In 1945 the synagogue was converted into a residential building that is still in use today.

After the end of French rule, Hilhaben fell to the Prussian Rhine Province in 1815 . Together with Ballern, Rech, Ripplingen and Fitten, the place had 1,308 inhabitants that year, in 1833 there were 628 people in Hilringen alone. In 1835, the industrial boom began for Hilringen in the vicinity, 14 brick factories were built in quick succession , 8 of them in Hilhaben itself. Forty years later, these companies employed around 300 workers . In 1885 a new road was built, still called “nau Strooß” today, up the slope of the Nackberg to Mondorf, Silwingen and Biringen, which opened up the villages that had been remote until then. In 1900 a water pipe was built from Mechern to Hilringen and a kerosene street lighting was built. The St. Elisabeth nunnery on Fitter Strasse, founded in 1921, was closed in 2005. As part of the straightening of the Saar, a new Saar bridge was built to Merzig, which was blown up in 1944 by Wehrmacht pioneers.

In 1959, the first SOS Children's Village in Germany was established here, which Béatrice von Boch-Galhau financed as a patron from her assets. As part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland , the municipality of Hilringen was incorporated into the district town of Merzig with effect from January 1, 1974.

Residents

The following information is based on the information in the Hilbringer Heimatbuch from 1980.

Development of the population of Hilhaben
year Residents, households and fireplaces receipt
1566 21 households Turkish tax
1615 25 households Land tax
1624 32 households Türkensteiner
1656 18 households Ban directory
1663 16 residents (in Hilringen, Ballern, Rech, Ripplingen, Fitten, Mondorf and Silwingen)
1668 18 fireplaces List of fireplaces
1750 40 fireplaces
1779 60 households Loyalty vow
1803 157 fireplaces
1815 1308 inhabitants (in Hilringen, Ballern, Rech, Ripplingen and Fitten)
1833 628 inhabitants census
1836 628 inhabitants census
1861 640 inhabitants census
1864 640 inhabitants census
1871 638 inhabitants census
1875 667 inhabitants census
1895 745 inhabitants census

politics

Local council

The distribution of seats in the local council after the local elections on May 25, 2014 is as follows:

(As of May 2014)

Mayor

Ortsvorsteher is Stefan Dorbach (CDU).

Culture and sights

On Hilbringer Bann there are some leisure facilities such as the tent palace , the DAS BAD swimming pool , a marina and the Merziger Brauhaus .

Buildings

There are several buildings in Hilringen that are listed as individual monuments in the Saarland's list of monuments : The Catholic parish church of St. Petrus in Ketten , built according to plans by Wilhelm Hector between 1890 and 1891, the so-called castle , one of Christian Kretzschmar's in the Baroque building erected between 1745 and 1755 , and two historic farmhouses , built around 1800 and 1902 respectively.

traffic

The Merzig motorway junction of federal motorway 8 is on the eastern outskirts of Hilhaben . The state roads L 173 from Merzig to Waldwisse and L 170 from Wellingen (City of Merzig) to Saarlouis run through Hilringen .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hilzüge  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hilringen ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: www.merzig.de, accessed on April 30, 2014
  2. ↑ Leo and Rudolf Griebler: Hilringen and his story . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch 1980 , pp. 11–71, here p. 13
  3. ↑ Leo and Rudolf Griebler: Hilringen and his story . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch 1980 , pp. 11–71, here p. 13
  4. ↑ Leo and Rudolf Griebler: Hilringen and his story . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch 1980 , pp. 11–71, here p. 31f.
  5. ↑ Leo and Rudolf Griebler: Hilringen and his story . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch 1980 , pp. 11–71
  6. ↑ a b Local council Hilbringen on: www.merzig.de, accessed on April 30, 2014
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern (PDF file; 2.22 MB)