Hochgericht Nalbacher Tal

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Nalbach Valley on the Lorraine map, Gerhard Mercator , 16th century
Alternative names Lordship of the Nalbach Valley
Arose from Archbishopric Trier
Form of rule Bailiwick
Ruler / government Vogt
Today's region / s DE-SL


Reichskreis Territories and estates not circled in the Holy Roman Empire
Capitals / residences Nalbach
Denomination / Religions Roman Catholic Church
surface 27.47 km²



The high court Nalbacher Tal or the "Herrschaft Nalbacher Tal" consisted of the villages Nalbach , Piesbach , Bettstadt, Diefflen , Bilsdorf and Körprich . The rulership lay on the lower Prims , a tributary of the Saar in today's Saarlouis district in Saarland . The area of ​​the Nalbach Valley was originally an imperial territory before it became the Electorate of Trier . In 1048 the Archbishop of Trier, Eberhard von Schwaben , donated the Nagelbach farm to the Trier Simeonstift . The high court Nalbacher Tal was a community that was subordinate to several bailiffs. It belonged to the Holy Roman Empire Not Circled Territories and Estates . In the wake of the French Revolution , the centuries-old aristocratic rule in the Nalbach Valley ended in 1798. In the same year, the former high court became part of the newly created French Département de la Sarre (German Saardepartement ). Two years later, in 1800, the French founded the Mairie (mayor's office) Nalbach. In terms of international law, it was incorporated into France through the Treaty of Lunéville on February 9, 1801 . As a result of the provisions of the Congress of Vienna , the former high court of Nalbacher Tal as part of the province of Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine became the property of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III on December 2, 1815 during a celebration in the Saarlouis Church of St. Ludwig by the Oberappellationsrat Mathias Simon . taken and thus part of the State of Prussia .

Neighboring territories

On the eve of the French Revolution , the rulership of Hochgericht Nalbacher Tal was surrounded by the following territories:

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history

View from the Hoxberg over the Nalbacher Tal with the historic valley communities Diefflen (since 1969 to Dillingen / Saar ), Nalbach , Piesbach , Bilsdorf and Körprich as well as the 414 m high Litermont ; The band of fog on the horizon marks the course of the Saar
Districts of the Nalbacher Valley: The hatched area denotes the district of Diefflens, which was removed to Dillingen on August 1, 1969. The dotted area (Bahnhofsviertel) was ceded by the Saarwellingen community to the Nalbach community on January 1, 1974.
St. Simeon Abbey in Trier , landlord through the gift of Trier Archbishop Eberhard von Schwaben , Caspar Merian 1670; In front of the outside staircase visible in the foreground, the candidates for the office of Hofmeiers of the Nalbacher Valley had to introduce themselves to the canons of St. Simeon.
Sketch of the Nalbach Valley from 1735; in the middle the course of the prims with two mills; the villages of Körprich and Bilsdorf on the left bank of the Prims; Bettstadt, Piesbach, Theter, Nalbach and Diefflen on the right bank of the Prims; Above is southeast. The sketch was probably drawn from the point of view of today's Nalbach cemetery; The capital letters mean: A = The Körpricher Brühlwiese owned by the Trier Elector, B = The Nalbacher Athwiese owned by the Trier Elector, The Nalbacher Brühlwiese owned by the Electoral Palatinate or Baron von Hagen, D and E = two meadows owned by the Lordship of Hagen (Landesarchiv Saarbrücken, Münchweiler inventory, No. 367, p. 257)
Map of the upper office of Schaumburg (Baillage du Schaumbourg) depicting the Nalbach valley (Vallée de Nalbach) and the surrounding areas (Pais limitrophes), made by geometer J. Coster around 1779; The red line delimits the Lorraine area, the yellow line marks the area of ​​the Archdiocese and Electorate of Trier, the Nalbach Valley with the valley towns of Diefflen (Tiffendhal), Nalbach, Piesbach (Pisbach), Bettstadt (Bettscheid), Bilsdorf (Büllersdorff) is marked in blue. and Körprich (Kirburg) as well as the areas dependent on Lebach. The county of Nassau-Saarbrücken is bordered in green, the imperial lords are marked in black (Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, inventory 702, map 7301).
Location of the High Court of the Nalbacher Tal in the border situation between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1789

The place name Nalbach is likely to have originated in pre-Carolingian times. However, the name could also come from the time before the Franconian conquest , which took place in a period from the 5th to the 8th century. The eponymous Nalbach is one of three brooks (Nalbach, Fußbach, Etzelbach) that used to flow through the town, coming from the Litermont, and flow into the Prims.

middle Ages

Settlement picture of the Nalbacher valley around the year 1522, the houses of the Trier monastery St. Simeon (so-called Mittelste Vogtei) are marked as points. The bailiff's houses (so-called Unterste and Oberste Vogtei) are shown as rectangles. Drawing: Georg Colesie, Saarlouis district archive

In 1048 the Archbishop of Trier, Eberhard von Schwaben , transferred the Nagelbach farm to the Simeonstift founded by his episcopal predecessor in Trier . The term “courtyard” as an administrative unit and judicial district means the village of Nalbach and the villages assigned to it. The transfer of the Nalbach court was also carried out in 1098 by Emperor Heinrich IV , in 1154 by Pope Hadrian IV and in 1179 by Pope Alexander III. approved.

The Nalbach church of St. Peter and Paul was first mentioned in a document in 1154 and 1179. In the Middle Ages, Nalbach belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Mauritius Tholey and to the Dean's Office or Landkapitel Merzig in the then Archdiocese of Trier . The Petrus Patronage (fisherman patron) could point to the emergence of Nalbach as a fishing settlement on the then fish-rich Prims . A reference to the Petrus patronage of the Trier cathedral is also conceivable. The Petrus or Petrus and Paulus patronage counts to the typical Franconian patronage of the Saarland.

The area of ​​the Nalbach Valley was originally an imperial territory before it became the Electorate of Trier . Around the year 1195, Adalbert von Nalbach and an associated Hofmeier were named as Nalbacher Vogt. In the protocol of the year of 1324 the Nalbach valley communities Diefflen, Piesbach and Bettstadt as well as the Nalbacher mill are mentioned. Shortly afterwards, in 1327, the valley communities of Körprich, Theter, Heisterbach, Heynschiet and the Bettstadter Mühle are mentioned. The Nalbach Valley consisted of two bailiwicks under the direction of Rudolf von Nalbach and Nikolaus von Kastel. The Körprich chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1332.

In 1358, the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier transferred patronage over the Nalbach Valley to Count Heinrich von Veldenz . In 1393 the Nalbach Vogt Nikolaus von Kastel and his wife Margarete transferred the village of Theter in the Nalbach Valley to St. Simeon's monastery. The aforementioned Margarete is probably the model of the legendary Margarete vom Litermont from the local Maldix saga.

After an attack by Johann von Hagen and Johann von Hunolstein in 1411 on the Nalbach Valley, the St. Simeon monastery transferred patronage over the valley communities to the Duke of Lorraine . Around the year 1441 the farmers of Nalbach and Piesbach started an uprising against Vogtin Else von Hunolstein. The first enfeoffment of a bailiff by the Count Palatinate near Rhine (Electoral Palatinate) is documented for the year 1478: Count Palatine Ludwig the Black enfeoffed the knight Heinrich von Rathsamshausen , whose rule lay at the foot of the Odilienberg in Lower Saxony , with the highest and lowest Bailiwick in the Nalbach Valley. The feudal sovereignty of the Count Palatine near Rhine is likely to be derived from that of the Count of Veldenz hereditary (since 1444).

A first census in the Nalbacher Tal in 1499 showed around 56 fireplaces.

Bailiwick

The Nalbach rulership is divided into two bailiwicks. The Electoral Trier or middle bailiwick enclosed the upper villages of Nalbach, Bilsdorf, Piesbach and half of Bettstadt. The Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick consisted of two half bailiwicks, which were regionally separated by the middle bailiwick. The highest bailiwick consisted of Körprich and half of Bettstadt. The lowest bailiwick consisted of Diefflen and the Nalbacher Unterdorf up to the Fußbach. This bailiwick formed a legal unit and was given as a fief to under-bailiffs from the lower landed gentry.

The bailiffs exercised the high judiciary and therefore called themselves high judges.

The middle or Electorate of Trier bailiwick (Oberdorf Nalbach, Bilsdorf, Piesbach and half of Bettstadt) was subordinate to the following bailiffs over the centuries:

Years Bailiff
Late 12th century Adalbert von Nalbach
Late 13th century Boemund, Knights of Nalbach and Sirsperch
before 1327 - 1331 Rudolf von Nalbach
1331 - after 1350 St. Simeon's Abbey
before 1357 - 1364 Johann von Eiweiler (son-in-law of Rudolf and Boemund von Nalbach)
1364 - before 1378 Johann von Eiweiler
before 1378 - 1450 St. Simeon's Abbey
1450-1478 Johann von Criechingen
1478 - before 1514 Heinrich von Hunolstein
before 1514 - before 1536 St. Simeon's Abbey
before 1536 - 1798 Kurtrier has withdrawn the fief and has it administered by the respective bailiff von der Grimburg as governor
Early 16th century Johann von Metzenhausen (bailiff of the Grimburg)
End of the 16th century Johann Zand von Merl (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Early 17th century von der Leyen (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Mid 17th century Wolf Heinrich von Steinkallenfels (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Late 17th century Karl Kaspar von Britzky (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Early 18th century von Schmidtburg (bailiff von der Grimburg)
Mid 18th century Franz Georg Freiherr Zand von Merl (bailiff of the Grimburg)

The uppermost and lowest or electoral Palatinate bailiwick (Diefflen, Körprich, half of Bettstadt, Nalbacher Unterdorf to Fußbach) was subject to the following bailiffs over the centuries:

Years Bailiff
before 1327-1336 Nicholas of Kastel I.
before 1344 -? Rupprecht of Saarbrücken
before 1388 - before 1405 Nicholas of Kastel II.
before 1405 - before 1425 Johann von Lewenstein I.
before 1425-1439 Johann von Lewenstein II.
after 1439 - before 1478 Madder from Saarburg
1478 - after 1509 Heinrich von Ratsamshausen
before 1514 - after 1522 Heinrich von Harancourt
before 1522-1527 Jacob of Harancourt
1527 - before 1545 Johann Ludwig Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (co-bailiff Johann von Braubach)
1548 - after 1560 Alexander von Braubach
after 1560-1633 Wilhelm Marzloff of Braubach
1633 - circa 1664 Electoral Palatinate manages the fief itself
after 1664–1681 Charles Henri Gaspard de Lénoncourt-Blainville
1681-1697 Under the administration of the Réunionskammer in Metz
after 1697-1711 Electoral Palatinate manages the fief itself
1711-1750 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen on the moth
after 1750–1791 Karl Emmerich von Hagen and his brother Johann Hugo von Hagen

Early modern age

The interest register for the years 1514–1522 names the existence of seven villages with a total of 66 houses for the Nalbach Valley. The Upper Villages of Nalbach, Piesbach, half of Bettstadt and Bilsdorf belong to the electoral bailiwick. The Lower Village of Nalbach, Diefflen, half of Bettstadt and Körprich belong to the bailiwick of the Electoral Palatinate. The Nalbach valley settlement Heuchlingen as well as the Bilsdorfer Hof and a Lohmühle near Nalbach are mentioned for the first time.

In 1527 Johann Ludwig, Count of Saarbrücken , acquired the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick. His fellow bailiff was Johann von Braubach. Already before 1536, Kurtrier took over his bailiwick and had it administered by the bailiff von der Grimburg until the end of the princely rule . In 1536 the first Nalbacher Schöffenbuch was created. Alexander von Braubach, Lord of Dillingen, acquired the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick of the Nalbach Valley for 1,100 guilders in 1548. His successor was his son Wilhelm Marzloff von Braubach.

Witch hunts

With the beginning of the early modern era, the Witch Mania also spread in the Nalbach Valley , which particularly raged between 1570 and 1634. Especially the ducal Lorraine chief judge Nikolaus Remigius achieved notoriety for the extermination of the supposed witches and devil worshipers. The witch trials of the Nalbach valley were carried out in Dillingen, but the executions were then carried out in Nalbach (several people from the Nalbach valley in 1575 and 1591/1592 / unknown outcome of the proceedings, a man from Diefflen in 1595, a woman from Piesbach in 1595, a man from 1602 Körprich, around 1605 each a man from Piesbach and Körprich, 1609 a man from Diefflen, who allegedly had sexual relations with his horse and was therefore also executed together with his horse, 1611 a man and a woman from Körprich / unknown outcome of the Trial and several allegations in 1602 and 1611). After a public reading of the judgment, the delinquent was taken to the Nalbacher Galgenberg and killed there. The Nalbacher Straße "Am Gälgesberg" is a reminder of the execution site to this day. Execution of the executions (burning alive or after previous killing) was carried out by an executioner (messenger) from Roden .

Thirty Years War and Reunion Policy

In 1618, the year the Thirty Years' War broke out , a first schoolmaster was installed in Nalbach by ordinance of the mayor. The visitation protocols of the Nalbach valley from the years 1623/1631 showed 130 households for the heads of households in Nalbach, Diefflen, Piesbach and Bilsdorf.

In 1635 the first large troop movements of Swedish, French and imperial troops through the Nalbacher Tal towards the (then city) Wallerfangen and Metz . Especially in the last phase of the war from 1635 there was severe devastation. In addition, there were famines and epidemics. The surviving remnants of the population barely had a livelihood. According to the report of the Nalbacher Maier to the Trier Elector from 1664/65, only 47 households were counted for the Nalbach Valley (loss of 65% of the pre-war population).

Around 1664, Charles Henri Gaspard de Lenoncourt, Marquis de Blainville, Lord of Dillingen, († 1713), a high Lorraine nobleman and founder of the Dillinger Hütte , became a governor in the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick of the Nalbacher Valley. In 1681 he organized the so-called reunification of the Nalbach Valley with the Kingdom of France under King Louis XIV. The aim of this reunification policy was that areas of the Holy Roman Empire , which, according to the French view , were legally connected to certain territories under French sovereignty , with France " again should be united." In this way, large parts of today's Saarland and its neighboring areas were incorporated into the French state by 1688 , since the Holy Roman Empire was unable to offer military resistance (not least because of the simultaneous Turkish war ). In 1697, however, the Holy Roman Empire got the French reunions in Saarland back through the Peace of Rijswijk .

In 1688, the Nalbach pastor Johannes Coenen (the elder) created the first Nalbach church registers.

The Nalbach Valley in the 18th century

The collapsed village of Theter with its accessories was transferred to the Nalbach Church in 1701 by the Trier Simeonsstift. In 1711 the Electoral Palatinate enfeoffed the baron Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen zur Motten with the highest and lowest bailiwick of the Nalbach Valley, first as a man fief, then from 1714 as an inheritance and from 1718 as an imperial fiefdom. The auxiliary bishop of Trier Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach visited the parish of Nalbach in 1739.

Due to the poor living conditions in the Nalbach Valley, around 1750 there was a wave of emigration to Hungary, which had been depopulated by the Turkish wars . The emperor's government in Vienna tried to recruit new settlers for the devastated areas in the Hungarian lowlands. With the promise of free arable and building land, building material, seeds and planting material for grain and wine, tax exemption in the first years of settlement, free transport with food and medical care from the collection points to Hungary, people who want to emigrate should be found. The Saar region made up a not inconsiderable part with 5000 emigrants. At that time, the Nalbacher Tal released 96 residents from toddlers to old people. 36 emigrants came from Nalbach, 34 from Piesbach, 20 from Körprich and 6 from Bilsdorf. It is not yet known whether Diefflen provided emigrants. The emigration began around 1750 and continued until after 1780. Main thrusts were in 1751 and 1766.

In the years 1765–1767, the old Nalbach church was torn down and a new baroque building was built. The alleged bones of the legendary Margareta von Litermont were found.

Revolutionary Wars

Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen (1721–1811), canon of the St. Maria- and St. Clemens-Stift zu Schwarzrheindorf , painting from 1751 (private collection)
Johann Hugo II. Von Hagen , Reichsfreiherr , Herr zur Motten , Büschfeld , Düppenweiler , Nalbach, Hüttersdorf etc. Imperial-Royal Chamberlain , Real Privy Councilor , Knight of the Golden Fleece , Reich Conference Minister and President of the Imperial Court Council ; (born July 10, 1707 in Koblenz , died November 24, 1791 in Vienna ), painting in private ownership

With the outbreak of the coalition wars in 1792 and the declaration of war by revolutionary France on Austria and Prussia , the Nalbach Valley High Court temporarily became a theater of war. Prussia and Austria, who had already decided on joint action against revolutionary France with the Pillnitz Declaration in 1791 , advanced, but had to retreat across the imperial borders after the cannonade of Valmy . Austrian troops under Blasius Columban von Bender besieged the French positions in Düppenweiler and Lebach and the Saarlouis fortress in the Nalbach Valley . Individual advances were also made against Dillingen / Saar .

When Dillingen was occupied by the Austrians, the Dillinger Hütte , which was demolished as a French armaments factory, and the paper mill were destroyed. Hagensche Castle near Lebach was looted by French troops during the fighting. In the following year, 1794, France achieved the breakthrough through the Austrian positions at Merzig and Weiskirchen and the electoral residence city of Trier was conquered. Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony was able to flee beforehand.

On October 17, 1797, the Nalbach Valley, like all the territories on the left bank of the Rhine , was added to France in a secret amendment to the peace treaty of Campo Formio , which was signed between France, represented by Napoléon Bonaparte , and the Holy Roman Emperor Franz II .

The peace ended the First Coalition War begun by France on April 20, 1792 . An official regulation of this border shift was made at the Rastatt Congress (December 9, 1797 to April 23, 1799), which, however, was not regularly ended due to the outbreak of the Second Coalition War .

After the conquest of the German territories on the left bank of the Rhine by the French revolutionary armies in 1794, the Nalbacher Tal became part of the newly created Département de la Sarre (German Saardepartement ) from 1798 onwards . Under international law, the assignment took place through the Peace of Lunéville on February 9, 1801 . The Saar department stretched from the northern Eifel near Blankenheim to what is now Saarland . Most of the 4935 square kilometers area was previously part of the Electorate of Trier . Within the Saar department, the Nalbach Valley belonged to the Saarbrücken arrondissement and the Lebach canton . The prefecture of the Département de la Sarre was in Trier .

The administration was subsequently rebuilt according to the French model, and French legislation was introduced. That meant the end of the high court Nalbacher Tal and the elimination of the manor and the bailiwicks, including the bailiwick borders. Local government and judiciary were henceforth separate. The Nalbacher Meier and Hochgerichtsmeier lost their offices. Serfdom, feudal taxes and compulsory labor were abolished. In 1802, the St. Simeon Abbey in the Porta Nigra , which had owned the Nalbach Valley since the donation of the Archbishop of Trier, Eberhard von Schwaben , in 1048, was dissolved. The last Hofmeier of the St. Simeon Abbey in the Nalbach Valley was Jakob Spur (c) k.

Since the Middle Ages there had been a manor house in Bilsdorf , which was owned as a feudal estate by the respective bailiff, the Bilsdorfer Hof. The respective bailiffs leased this farm. The farm is mentioned in a document in the interest register of the Nalbach Valley from 1514 to 1522. This courtyard can be seen on a sketch from 1735. There is a clear distinction between the village and the Bilsdorf farm. The village is on the Electorate of Trier, the farm on the Electorate of the Palatinate. The Bilsdorfer Hofstrasse still indicated the historic courtyard. With the death of Johann Hugo II von Hagen , who had served as President of the Imperial Court Council at the imperial court in Vienna, in 1791, the property of the main line fell to his three sisters. Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen received the Bilsdorfer Hof. On July 10, 1806, Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen had the Bilsdorfer Hofgut auctioned off with its residential buildings, barns, stables, outbuildings, fields, meadows and gardens. This brought numerous lands in the Nalbach Valley under the hammer, which were auctioned off to local residents.

Historical abandoned settlements

In addition to the currently existing districts of the Nalbacher Valley, there were historically four other settlements, which later became deserted .

  • Heuchlingen (between Nalbach and Diefflen)
  • Heisterbach (between Diefflen and Düppenweiler)
  • Heynschiet (between Diefflen and Düppenweiler)
  • Theter (between Piesbach and Bettstadt)

The village of Theter was first mentioned in a document in 1327. In 1393 the Vogt Nikolaus von Kastel and his wife Margarete donated the village to the Trier monastery St. Simeon in the Porta Nigra in order to take care of their souls:

Deed of donation from Bailiff Nikolaus von Kastel and his wife Margarete from 1393 to the Trier St. Simeon Abbey in the Porta Nigra regarding the village of Theter (Koblenz State Archives, Department 215, No. 561)

“Also Teter, the village, with people, aldermen, goods, interest and with all its accessories should be hereditary and everlasting to the aforementioned lords of St. Simeon, which we hand over completely for ourselves and our heirs and descendants. And have given and assigned this to the aforementioned gentlemen with all rights that we have or would like to have in it, for God's sake and for the salvation of our souls. "

Nikolaus' wife Margarete also declares in the certificate:

“And I, Margarete, declare that I have neither Wittum nor Wittum rights in any of these goods, people, Gülten and Vogteien . And I also publicly swore to the saints never to challenge Wittum. "

The name of today's Piesbacher Kirchberg "Auf dem Schank" (district Piesbach, hall 4) still reminds of this donation to the Trier Simeonsstift. The donation from Nikolaus and Margarete von Kastel was handed over to the parish of Nalbach in 1701. The village of Theter or "Theter auf dem Schank" (since 1522), located between Piesbach and Bettstadt, experienced a visible decline between 1522 and 1701 and fell into disrepair. The settlement area of ​​the village Theter opened in the 19th century in the expanding settlement area of ​​Piesbach. In the wake of the transfer of Theter to the parish of Nalbach, the tradition of "Margarete von Litermont" and her wild son Maldix spread in the Nalbach valley. Margarete von Kastel is probably the historical role model of the legendary figure Margarete von Litermont, who is portrayed as the pious widow of the lord of the castle on the Litermont and as the benevolent benefactress of the Nalbach church. In contrast, popular tradition constructs their legendary son Maldix as godless, oblivious and raw.

  • View of the Nalbach valley from the Litermont summit

  • View of the upper Nalbach valley with Körprich and Bilsdorf

  • View of the middle Nalbach valley with Piesbach and Nalbach

  • View of the lower Nalbach valley with Nalbach and Diefflen

Personalities

literature

  • Georg Bärsch: Die Herrschaft Nalbach, in: Description of the government district of Trier, edited from official sources and published on behalf of the Royal Prussian Government, Volume 1, Trier 1849, pp. 100-101.
  • Georg Colesie: witch trials at the high court of Nalbach, in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 17/18, 1969/1970.
  • Georg Colesie: Vogteien und Vögte im Nalbacher Tal, in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 20, 1972, p. 36.
  • Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley, A Saarland Homeland History, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990.
  • Anton Edel: The inhabitants of the Nalbach valley 1800–1902 - Bettstadt, Bilsdorf, Diefflen, Körprich, Nalbach, Piesbach, ed. by Gernot Karge on behalf of the Association for Local Studies in the Saarlouis district, sources on genealogy in the Saarlouis district and neighboring areas, vol. 30, 2 volumes, Saarlouis 2004.
  • Jacob Grimm (Ed.): Weisthümer , 6 vols., Register volume by Richard Schröder, Göttingen 1840–1878, Darmstadt 1957 (reprint), Nalbacher Weistum 1532.
  • Kurt Hoppstädter , Hans-Walter Herrmann (Hrsg.): Historical regional studies of the Saarland. Edited by the historical association for the Saar region . Volume 1: From the hand ax to the winding tower, Saarbrücken 1960. Volume 2: From the Frankish conquest to the outbreak of the French Revolution, Saarbrücken 1977. Volume 3/2: The economic and social development of Saarland (1792-1918), Saarbrücken 1994, here Volume 2, pp. 424-429.
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  • August Krohn: Die Herrschaft Nalbach or the Nalbacherthal, in: Contributions to the territorial history of the Saar region, Saarbrücken 1885, p. 36.
  • Rudolf Loeser: Rund um den Litermont, in: Zeitschrift für Rheinische Heimatpflege, 7th year, 1935, issue 1, pp. 21-30.
  • Hermann Maisant: The Saarlouis district in prehistoric times, Saarlouis 1971.
  • Johannes Naumann: The Barons of Hagen to Motten - their life and work in the Saar-Mosel region, Blieskastel 2000.
  • H. Niessen: History of the Saarlouis District, Volume II, Saarlouis 1897, 436 f.
  • Nomina matrimonialiter copulatorum, marriage register of the parish Nalbach from 1688 to 1791 at the registry office in Nalbach.
  • Gerhard Riehm: 250 years of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul Nalbach, 1767–2017, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul Nalbach, Nalbach 2017.
  • Albert Ruppersberg: History of the Saar area, Saarbrücken 1923, p. 523.
  • Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (Ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976.
  • Franz Schaefer: Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach, His work for the Electoral State of Trier as auxiliary bishop (1691–1748), Würzburg 1936.
  • O. Schäfer: From the history of the Nalbach valley, in: Our Saar, 1927/1928, p. 92ff.
  • Alois Scherer: Dieffler Stories, Diefflen, as it used to be in documents, reports, stories, pictures, Dillingen / Saar 2009.
  • Karl Schwingel: Contributions to the history of Saarland dishes, I. Das Nalbacher TalZeitschrift for the history of the Saar region, XIV, 1964, p. 56–123, here p. 56ff.
  • Johann Spurk: "Diefflen - The Development of a Small Village Settlement into a Large Workers' Community", A. Krüger, Dillingen-Saar, 1964.
  • Johann Spurk: 75 years of the parish of St. Josef Diefflen, Saarlouis 1975.
  • Friedrich Toepfer: Document book for the history of the count and baronial house of the bailiffs of Hunolstein, 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1866–1872.
  • Literature about Nalbach in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettstadt was called Betscheid in the Middle Ages. The name, which is pronounced "Bettschd" in dialect today, indicates a medieval forest clearing.
  2. ↑ Saar calendar vol. 5, 1827, p.106.
  3. ^ Intelligence Gazette Saarbrücken No. 1, 1815.
  4. ^ Alois Prediger: Geschichte des Landkreis Saarlouis, Vol. 1, French heritage and Prussian formation (1815–1848), Saarbrücken 1997, pp. 55–72.
  5. ↑ Georg Colesie: Geschichte des Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 28.
  6. ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter, Hans-Walter Herrmann (ed.): Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, ed. from the historical association for the Saar region, Volume 1: From hand ax to winding tower, Saarbrücken 1960, pp. 62–63.
  7. ↑ George Colesie: History of Nalbacher Tales, a Saarland local history, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990 S. 22nd
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