Erbach (Homburg)
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Erbach
City of Homburg
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 5 ″ E
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| Residents : | 12,595 (Jun 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 66424 | |
| Area code : | 06841 | |
Location of Erbach in Saarland |
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 View from the Schlossberg in a north-westerly direction towards the center of Erbach
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Erbach is the largest district of the district town of Homburg in Saarland . It is located north of Homburg's main train station and is essentially separated from the Homburg urban area by the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line . The A 6 runs directly north of the village . The name Errbach is pronounced in the local dialect .
geography
location
The oldest part of the place lies on a ridge northeast of the Erbach at 255 m above sea level. NHN , the development along Dürerstraße to the station bridge to Homburg also existed early on. The areas that have been newly developed since the 1950s, on the other hand, are predominantly southwest of the Erbach. According to the natural structure , the place belongs to the Homburg basin .
Local division
In addition to the main town of Erbach, the districts of Lappentascher Hof and Johannishof belong to Erbach. Erbach has 12,393 inhabitants (as of June 1, 2020)
Lappentascher Hof
The Lappentascher Hof is located between Erbach and the old town and has 202 inhabitants (as of June 1, 2020). The district has its own sports club. An industrial and commercial area with several specialist markets is located on the access road. The main entrance of Boschwerke 1 and 2 is also located there.
The place was founded as a supply yard for the Hohenburg by Count La Bretesche, who was governor of Homburg and commander of the French troops in the Saar province from 1680 to 1697. The name La Bretesche (s) Hof has changed over time to Lappentascher Hof .
Johannishof
Johannishof - also known colloquially as Hinkelsbix - is located between Homburg and Bruchhof on the Closenbruch moorland . It is the only district of Erbach south of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line . It can only be reached from Erbach via a cycle path, by car you have to go either via Homburg or via Bruchhof . Here was a pheasantry built in 1760 by Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken with a 700 hectare pheasant park in the English style . Duke Karl II August added the pheasantry later with the Amalienlust Palace , a refuge of his own for his wife, Duchess Maria Amalie . The entire complex, like the neighboring Karlsberg Palace, was destroyed by French revolutionary troops in 1793 and completely demolished over time. This is where Homburg's KOI combination pool is located .
history
The place ("Urrebach") was first mentioned in 1131 as a gift from Count Friedrich von Saar Werden to the Wörschweiler Monastery .
Origin of name
The place is named after the stream of the same name, the Erbach . The name Erbach occurs more frequently in Germany. The origin of the name is not the same, however, but is derived from the boar or from the alder or from a stream with stronger earth entrainment. The first derivation has been proven for the local Erbach; So it is a brook where “the boar was noticed”. Already the Ebersbach , a left tributary of the Erbach, offers an indication of this name interpretation. In a document from 1346 the places " Vogelbach ", "Eberbach" and "Homburg" are named together, so that the origin "Eberbach" for "Erbach" is historically documented.
Incorporation
On April 1, 1936, the previously independent municipality of Erbach-Reiskirchen was incorporated into the district town of Homburg .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1895 | 2,333 | |
| 2008 | 13,024 | |
| 2017 | 12,554 |
The figures from 2008 include the residents of the Lappentascher Hof district.
Culture and sights
Buildings
In the Erbach-Reiskirchen district there are buildings that are listed as individual monuments in the Saarland monuments list. These include a residential building in Dürerstraße from 1902, a locomotive shed from 1865 with conversions from the 1st quarter of the 20th century and the Catholic parish church of St. Andreas in Steinbachstraße, which was built between 1903 and 1904 according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Schulte.
The Catholic Church Maria vom Frieden , located on the Westring in the southern part of Erbach, houses a figure of the Virgin Mary from the 1st quarter of the 18th century, listed as a single monument .
Sports facilities
An important part of the place are its many sports facilities. There are five sports halls, seven soccer fields, a tennis facility, an athletics facility, a rifle house and a dog sports field, and the town of KOI's combined pool is located at Johannishof.
Sports center Erbach
The sports center Erbach was built by TV Erbach (later TSV Homburg-Erbach) and is known nationwide. The main building is 70 m × 40 m in size. In this there is a large handball hall with stands for approx. 3,000 visitors, a school gym for the Luitpold School, a judo hall and a gym in which a gymnastics center of the Saarland Gymnastics Association is housed. Next part of the plant a lawn with athletics track and floodlit , a tennis complex with three playgrounds and a small field handball court with tartan lining . The facility was inaugurated at the 1982 World Handball Championship with two group games. The old event hall was demolished in December 2012 and, according to a city council resolution, is to be replaced by a new hall.
Between 1987 and 1999 the handball club TV Niederwürzbach played its home games here and from 2008/2009 to 2011/2012 the basketball team of the Saar-Palatinate Braves . The third division team of TG Saar holds their competitions in the gym .
economy
Numerous important industrial companies such as Bosch Dieseltechnik with three plants, the Michelin Group, INA-Schaeffler KG and Dr. Theiss natural goods represented. Thus Erbach has the highest job density of all Homburg districts. This is remarkable in that the city of Homburg with around 45,000 inhabitants already has 30,000 jobs.
Infrastructure
Campaigns to expand the infrastructure and maintain communal identities such as the central squares or St. Andrew's Church in the historic center of the congregation are currently being implemented. In the course of a forced social policy, there have been significant improvements in recent years. The House of Encounter , which was opened to the public in 2006, also enables a more intensive dialogue and is now a permanent feature of the district.
Ria Nickel Shelter
The Ria Nickel animal shelter of the Homburg Animal Welfare Association , named after the former chairwoman, is located in the remote Erbacher Bahnhaus on the abandoned Glantalbahn , on the western edge of the Natura 2000 nature reserve Jägersburger Wald / Königsbruch .
Peter Schulzen Hut
The shelter of the Palatinate Forest Association Erbach local group , built in 1984, is located near the animal shelter on the old railway line . This was badly damaged by an arson attack from June 15 to 16, 2008 and then rebuilt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Homburg: Data and facts, residents by district , accessed on July 6, 2020
- ^ TuS Lappentascher Hof: Website of the association , accessed on July 25, 2011
- ↑ Willy Sachs: The "Zero Hour" in Homburg in: Homburger Hefte , year 1990, page 17, available online at the archive of the city of Homburg: Text version ( 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. (currently not available, as of August 23, 2012)
- ^ History and architectural history Article on the Esebeck Palace in Homburg on schloss-carlsberg.de with a mention of the Amalienlust Palace
- ^ Andreas Neubauer, Regesten des Klosters Wörschweiler, p. 86, No. 1
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^ Karl Fischer: Interpretation of the city name and the individual city districts. In: Blätter zur Geschichte der Stadt Homburg , Born 1958, page 6
Available online at the Archives of the City of Homburg: Text version ( 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. and facsimile ( 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. (currently not available, as of August 23, 2012) - ↑ a b List of monuments of the Saarland: Partial list of monuments in the district town of Homburg (PDF file; 18.98 MB)
