Landsweiler

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Landsweiler
City of Lebach
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '22 "  N , 6 ° 55' 27"  E
Height : 251 m
Residents : 1586  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66822
Area code : 06881
Landsweiler (Saarland)
Landsweiler

Location of Landsweiler in Saarland

Landsweiler is a district of Lebach in the Saarlouis district in Saarland . Until the end of 1973 "Landsweiler bei Lebach" was an independent municipality.

history

According to a document from 1614, Landsweiler belonged together with Lebach and Niedersaubach to a so-called four - rule . Kurtrier , the Duchy of Lorraine (from 1787 then the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken ) and the Lords of Hagen zur Motten held two-seventh shares each of the rights to market operations and taxes ; the abbess von Fraulautern held a seventh .

On January 20, 1969 took place in the location ammunition defeat  461/1 in Landsweiler the so-called soldiers murder of Lebach , in which four soldiers of the Paratrooper Battalion 261 who were guarding the facility, were murdered.

As part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland , the previously independent municipality "Landsweiler bei Lebach" was assigned to the municipality of Lebach on January 1, 1974.

Facilities

At local facilities, Landsweiler has the Landsweiler volunteer fire brigade , a multi-purpose hall, a kindergarten, a Catholic Church of St. Donatus and a primary school. The parish festival and a Christmas market are held annually.

Worth seeing

  • The mine tunnel at the parish church is evidence of the former main trade of the Landsweiler citizens.
  • Landsweiler is also surrounded by forest above average. So the Mühlenwald, Stangenwald and Grispelt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population status_31.12.2019 on lebach.de
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 807 .