Ludweiler

Ludweiler Middle town Völklingen
	Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 19 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 28 ″ E
Height :	250 m above sea level NN
Area :	20.2 km²
Residents :	5847 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	289 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	66333
Area code :	06898
Location of Ludweiler in Saarland
	The Huguenot Church in Ludweiler

Ludweiler is the second largest district of Völklingen after the city center and has around 6,000 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017).

geography

location

The place is in the extreme southwest of the Saarland near the border with France / Lorraine . Ludweiler is located in a wooded area known as the Warndt .

climate

Precipitation diagram

The annual precipitation is 871 mm and is thus in the upper third of the values recorded by the measuring points of the German Weather Service . 75 percent indicate lower values. The driest month is April; it rains most in December. In the wettest month there is around 1.3 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the lower third. In only 4% of all locations, the monthly precipitation fluctuates less.

history

Numerous archaeological finds prove a settlement in prehistoric times, including the oldest evidence of the presence of prehistoric people in Saarland: the well-known "Ludweiler hand ax", an approximately 125,000 year old stone tool.

On June 8, 1604, Count Ludwig II of Nassau-Saarbrücken signed the founding deed of the village of Ludwigsweiler. In it, he allows twelve Huguenots , who had to flee from the French king because of their Calvinist beliefs , to found a village on the "Rixfurth im Warneth". The process is remarkable insofar as the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken introduced the Reformation according to the Lutheran Confession in 1575 and the Calvinists were not tolerated according to the provisions of the Augsburg Religious Peace (1555) . Nevertheless, the Huguenots in Ludweiler received the right to establish their own parish. Initially, the language of worship was French, but German did not establish itself as a language until the 18th century. The Reformed community of Ludweiler and the later established Reformed court community in Saarbrücken formed a separate class in the Lutheran regional church. This situation only ended in 1817 with the so-called Saarbrücker Union . The Huguenot immigrants brought the glassblowing trade with them and introduced the glass industry to the Saar. After a few decades, the name Ludwigsweiler was shortened to Ludweiler. The town's landmark is the Huguenot church on the market square , built in 1785 . The old municipal coat of arms of Ludweiler shows a golden Huguenot cross and in the heart shield the lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken.

The first Catholic church with the patronage of the Sacred Heart was built in 1929 and 1930 as a basilica in the forms of abstraction historicism with individual expressionist forms according to plans by the Mainz architects Ludwig Becker & Anton Falkowski and replaced an older Wendalinus chapel of Trier from Ludweiler Master builder Reinhold Wirtz from the years 1896/1897. The chapel was planned in such a way that it should have formed the choir of a later Catholic parish church. However, this plan did not materialize. Instead, the new Catholic parish church was built on a different site.

The new basilica had three aisles and a five-bay nave. The choir closed on three sides, next to it a large choir flank tower from the time after the Second World War. The outside facade of the church and the windows showed typical design elements of crystalline expressionism. The church was demolished in 1999 because of pit subsidence and in 2000 the new building of a modern parish church was inaugurated.

The municipality of Ludweiler was renamed Ludweiler-Warndt in 1936. On April 1, 1964, the municipality of Dorf im Warndt was re-established by hiving off the municipalities of Großrosseln , Karlsbrunn and Ludweiler-Warndt.

On the occasion of the regional and administrative reform , the municipality of Ludweiler-Warndt was incorporated into the medium- sized town of Völklingen on January 1, 1974 .

Mining

Ludweiler is an old mining community. Due to the booming mining industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, many people immigrated to find work and bread here. Some miners' settlements emerged. Many local businesses have benefited from nearby mining.

Due to the coal mining, parts of the village (as well as in other areas of the Warndt) subsided. The main reason for this earth movement is the non-existent or inadequate backfilling of the disused mining tunnels. As a result of these sporadic subsidence, entire rows of houses got into a lopsided position and became uninhabitable over time. The responsible mining company is DSK ( Deutsche Steinkohle AG ). On April 25, 2005, production in the Warndt mine was stopped.

politics

Mayor: Andreas Willems ( SPD )

Deputy Mayor: Sylvia Kuhn ( SPD )

The distribution of votes in the local council after the last local election on May 26, 2019:

SPD : 7 seats
CDU : 4 seats
We citizens of Völklingen: 2 seats

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the district

Uwe Hartmann (* 1959 in Ludweiler), long-distance runner, German marathon champion

People who worked on site

Reinhold Wirtz (1842–1898) was a German architect , local district and diocesan master builder for the Diocese of Trier according to whose plans the St. Wendalinus Catholic Chapel at 150 Lauterbacher Strasse was built between 1898 and 1899 .
Boris Obergföll (* 1973 in Völklingen as Boris Henry ), track and field athlete and Olympic participant, lives in Ludweiler.

Web links

Commons : Ludweiler - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature on Ludweiler-Warndt in the Saarland Bibliography
Ludweiler.com - The Ludweiler Wiki
Ludweiler.net
Völklingen in transition - information website about Völklingen & districts

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics , City of Völklingen
^ Ludweiler hand ax. In: Museums in Saarland. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, p. 276 and p. 512.
↑ http://www.voelklingen-im-wandel.de/stadtteile-ludweiler-herz-jesu.php , accessed on October 1, 2014.
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Saarbrücken district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Saarland Official Gazette 1964, p. 598.
^ 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 .

[1] Population statistics , City of Völklingen

[2] Ludweiler hand ax. In: Museums in Saarland. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .

[3] Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, p. 276 and p. 512.

[4] ttp://www.voelklingen-im-wandel.de/stadtteile-ludweiler-herz-jesu.php , accessed on October 1, 2014.

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Saarbrücken district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] Saarland Official Gazette 1964, p. 598.

[7] 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 .