Irsch (near Saarburg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 6 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.22 km 2
Residents:	1520 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54451
Area code :	06581
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 052
Association administration address:	Schloßberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	www.irsch-saar.de
Local Mayor :	Jürgen Haag
Location of the local community Irsch in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Irsch is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Saarburg-Kell association.

geography

The community is located east of the Saar on the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park .

history

Archaeological finds indicate that the district of Irsch was inhabited as early as the Iron Age and Roman Age. It was first mentioned in a document in 975.

On July 18, 1946, Irsch, together with 80 other municipalities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg , was annexed to the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which at that time was no longer under the Allied Control Council. On June 6, 1947 this territorial outsourcing was withdrawn to 21 municipalities, so Irsch came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Irsch consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	6th	7th	16 seats
2014	2	5	9	16 seats
2009	2	5	9	16 seats
2004	2	7th	7th	16 seats

mayor

Jürgen Haag has been the local mayor of Irsch since 2004.

coat of arms

At the request of the local council chaired by Mayor Jäckels on December 9, 1951, Irsch was awarded a coat of arms and a local flag.

Blazon : "In red over silver diagonally left split shields above a vine tendril with golden grapes . And two golden leaves down a five-petal red rose with golden slugs and green sepals" Certificate of approval from the Ministry of the Interior Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz dated February 7, 1952.

Reasons for the coat of arms: Irsch is an ancient community that is engaged in viticulture , hence the branch with grapes. The place name is after Max Müller: "The place names in the administrative district of Trier" of Latin origin and goes back to "ibiscus" Eibisch , a mallow species, which is also called hollyhock, hence the red rose in the coat of arms. When the name Irsch was traced back to the Latin "ibiscus", a mistake was probably made. This assumed root word of "Hibiscus" = marshmallow was probably confused with the Gallic, Treverian tribes "Ivisco", "Ivasco" = yew , as yew and marshmallow sound similar in German.

Attractions

Irsch in summer

Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park near Irsch, May 2015

• Parish church of St. Gervasius and St. Protasius with tower chapel from 1052
• The so-called Murder Cross on the Scharfenberg, a reminder of the alleged murder of a girl by three French soldiers in 1813
• Speiner Bildchen, wayside shrine built in 1734 with a chapel from 1838 and an adjoining refuge from 1928.
  

  Chapel with Speiner pictures near Irsch

See also: List of cultural monuments in Irsch

economy

Irsch is shaped by its craft businesses. There are no industrial companies. The once dominant viticulture on the Saar increasingly lost its importance in the 1990s, which also led to the closure of the Irsch-Ockfen winegrowers' association founded in 1897 in 2002. Numerous residents commute to Trier or neighboring Luxembourg every day .

Deer belongs to the wine field Saar in the Mosel region . Seven wine-growing companies are active in the village, the area under vines is 19 hectares. About 90% of the wine grown is white wine grape varieties (as of 2007).

Vineyards

• Irscher Sonnenberg

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint of the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), pp. 95–98.

Web links

Commons : Irsch (near Saarburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality of Irsch
• Chronicle of the community of Irsch (PDF; 5.6 MB)
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Irsch in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on the subject of Irsch at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .