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Local church Merzkirchen
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Körrig
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 49 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 331  (300-390)  m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 54439
Area code : 06581
Körrig village chapel
Körrig village chapel

Körrig is the northernmost part of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Merzkirchen in the Trier-Saarburg district .

geography

The Körrig, laid out as a street perch village, is located in a valley sloping to the north about three kilometers north of Merzkirchen. The village is located on the eastern slope of the Saargau on the border with Saarland . The route of the old Roman road from Trier via Tawern to Remich or Perl and on to Metz forms the border between the municipality of Merzkirchen and the municipality of Wincheringen, to the north and northwest of Körrig .

The highest elevations in the immediate vicinity are

  • the lowest Bisch ( 326  m above sea level ) in the north
  • the Hosteberg with the holiday complex of the same name near Kahren ( 430  m above sea level ) in the northeast
  • the Kirchberg ( 390  m above sea level ) in the south
  • the Birkenknöpfchen ( 400  m above sea level ) with the Alte Schanze in the west.

Apart from the Mannebach, the village has no significant open rivers. This rises in the west of the place and makes an arc to the north in the direction of the place of the same name. Shortly before Mannebach it joins the Fischer brook , which flows into it from the left , is called Albach from here on and flows into the Moselle at Wasserliesch .

District road 112 runs through the village, coming from Rommelfangen and heading northeast to Mannebach . The K 123 joins the village center and connects the town with the L 132 Merzkirchen - Kahren .

The surrounding landscape is used for agriculture and is characterized by pastureland, arable land and orchards, forest covers only a small part of the district area.

In addition to Portz , Körrig is the only district of Merzkirchen that lies in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park .

The closest places are

  • Fish in the north
  • Kahren in the east
  • Merzkirchen in the south
  • Rommelfangen in the southwest and
  • Bilzingen in the west.

history

A few remains of Roman rubble suggest a settlement in Roman times. This is also due to the fact that the Roman road Trier - Metz passed by two kilometers away . 20 Franconian graves were found on the southern slope of the Drillberg .

The first written mention of the place as Corriche took place in the year 816. Around 1200 the Simeonstift in Trier had goods in Körrig that belonged to the Wincheringen manor. The changing power interests in this area over centuries led to the fact that Körrig was in the focus of the powers Kurtrier , Grafschaft Luxemburg and Wincheringer Vögte. In 1491 the Duke of Luxembourg claimed the Wincheringer ban . The old Roman road running there became the border between the Electorate of Trier and Luxembourg, which was represented at the time by the Barons von Warsberg until they sold it at the beginning of the 19th century. During the Thirty Years' War , the place, like the neighboring towns, was almost depopulated. The border between the Duchy of Luxembourg and the Electorate of Trier was formed by the road that ran through the village and ran from Rehlinger Hof through the village to Merzkirchen. As a result, not only the ban on Körrig, but also the place itself was shared between these two rulers with all the consequences. The Lords of Warsberg were in the service of the Luxembourgers and the Kurtrier Lords and for a long time were the bailiffs of the Wincheringen lordship. At the beginning of the 19th century they sold their large estates and their farm, some of which still exists today as the Rehlinger Hof. The border between Kurtrier and Luxembourg was the road that leads to Körrig at the height of the Rehlinger Hof, today K 112. In Körrig the road ran, and with it the border, passed the chapel by almost 180 degrees to the left, then a short distance over today's K 123 and then again in an arc to the right to Merzkirchen. This path from the village to Merzkirchen is still called the Old Church Path today.

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

On March 16, 1974, the previously independent municipality of Körrig was combined with five other municipalities to form the local municipality of Merzkirchen in the form of a new formation. The mayor of Körrig is Leo Weinacht.

Before the new formation of the municipality, the place had 214 inhabitants.

coat of arms

Körrig coat of arms
Blazon : "In the split shield on the right a red cross in silver, on the left nine horizontal bars set in blue-silver."
Justification of the coat of arms: The split in the shield indicates the dual rule of the village, the local road was the border. The sovereigns are symbolized by the Electorate of Trier red cross and the basic colors of the Luxembourg coat of arms.

The coat of arms comes from Ernst Steffny.

economy

The place is predominantly agricultural. There are five fine fruit distilleries and two craft businesses.

Sights and culture

Catholic Chapel of St. Luke and St. Arnold

The east-facing chapel is surrounded by a churchyard, the wall of which also encloses the cemetery to the south. Whether there was a chapel in the place before 1200 has not yet been proven, although the place was already mentioned as a corniche in 633.

More Attractions

Altar in the Fochs Chapel
  • Wayside shrine of the Henn-Scheuer family with Pietà in the street Zum Albach ( ): The Pietá was once donated by the ancestors of the family to the church and came back into family ownership in the course of the renovation of the church in the early 1960s. On August 20, 2004 the wayside shrine was inaugurated by Pastor Puhl. The Terracotta Pietá created a workshop from Trier.
  • War memorial next to the chapel
  • House No. 2: transverse house from 1870
  • House No. 6: Groos-Kreuz - It was built in 1752 by Johannes Groos in honor of his deceased parents. Today it stands in the wall of the house and is a little over two meters high. It used to stand free in front of the house wall on a square base stone. The relatively narrow hexagonal shaft is labeled on the front, but has disappeared into the masonry. He carries a capital-like stone with a 70 cm high crucifixion group. Below is the donor's inscription in a cartouche (art) .
  • House No. 9: Old school building, around 1848
  • House No. 12: House portal from 1812
  • House no.16: House portal from 1805
  • House number 41: courtyard from 1847
  • House number 47: transverse house from 1912
  • Haus Nr. 48: Winkelhof conditioning ( ), southern end of the village residential area and the monument zone
  • The houses No. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 have been declared a monument protection zone. The Folklore and Open Air Museum Roscheider Hof e. V. reports on this: “Uniform village extension, begun around 1860, along the gently sloping road parallel to Kreisstraße 123 . The courtyards are loosely lined up in a single row, only the Winkelhof No. 48 on the other side of the line completes the time and structure around 1890. The large courtyards of the same type belong to the late development stage of the lateral house, in which urban influences flow into the residential part. The identical division corresponds to a fixed apparatus of forms that has remained unchanged for several decades and only varies between rectangular and flat-arched window formats, which are the same for a building. The courtyard group thus proves the local and building development in a uniform quarter, which forms a monument zone as a characteristic street scene. "()
  • Helenenkreuz: wayside cross as a boundary stone ( ), was mentioned as early as 1564.
Wayside shrine from the Henn-Scheuer family
  • Fochs Chapel with Cross ( ): Small pointed gable chapel with a round arched entrance and a metal cross above the entrance. Inside, the visitor discovers a stone altar with a coat of arms-shaped inscription plaque that identifies Kath. Foch's wife of Hilarius Schilz as the founder in 1857 . Above the inscription a lamb of God with a flag, the altar is closed at the top by a metal cross. It can be seen as a memorial cross for the dead, with which Mrs. Fochs remembered her husband, who had died two years earlier. The last restorations took place in 1997, 2001 (covering the inscription plaque with a marble slab) and 2008.
  • Host chapel with Johanneskreuz ( ): The chapel from 1920 is a quarry stone building that is entered through a round arched portal. On the opposite gable, there is a weathered wayside shrine from the 18th century. It stands on a roughly hewn base stone measuring 40 × 62 × 43 cm (H × W × D). The rising and tapering square shaft bears the inscription under the depiction of a saint (presumably John the Baptist): JOHANES BABTISTA P E. The top of the statue forms a capital with scrollwork with a relief depiction of Christ on the cross. In the corridor chapel there is a neo-Gothic stele donated by Nikolaus Weistroffer from Körrig in gratitude for returning home from the battles near Dresden and Leipzig in 1813. The chapel was later built and renewed; therein Pietà and St. John figure. Built in 1869, renovated in 1920, renovations in 1992 and 2000.
  • Chapel of the Three Marys ( ): The folklore and open-air museum Roscheider Hof reports: “The chapel in the south of Körrig on a dirt road near the K 123 is a simple quarry stone building with a tiled gable roof and a latticed pointed arch entrance. The interior has a beautiful slab floor with floor tiles from Villeroy & Boch . Built in the 1890s. On the south wall there is a pietà and a crucifix in a niche , then a 1 m high Banneux Madonna. A bench next to the wayside chapel invites you to linger. Straight-closed plastered building opening in a simple pointed arch, in it a Pietà and the three Marys in a niche. "()
  • Old ski jump on the Birkenknöpfchen ( ): built in 1794 by the residents to ward off the approaching French.

See also

Association

  • The music association Lyra Club Körrig celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2010. In 2011, the new club house built in-house near the village square was inaugurated. It is available for events for the entire village community.

literature

Web links

Commons : Körrig  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  2. ^ Ernst Steffny and Clemens Lehnert: Merzkirchen - Eine Chronik , Ed .: Ortsgemeinde Merzkirchen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037531-6 .
  3. ^ Entry on the monument zone (Körrig, Merzkirchen municipality no. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Entry on Fochs Chapel in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 8, 2016.
  5. entry to host chapel in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 8, 2016.
  6. ^ Entry on Chapel of the Three Marys (Körrig, Merzkirchen municipality) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 8, 2016.