Eppelborn
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ' N , 6 ° 58' E |
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| State : | Saarland | |
| County : | Neunkirchen | |
| Height : | 240 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 47.05 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,615 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 353 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 66571 | |
| Primaries : | 06881, 06827, 06806 | |
| License plate : | NK | |
| Community key : | 10 0 43 111 | |
| LOCODE : | DE EPB | |
| Community structure: | 8 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Rathausstrasse 27 66571 Eppelborn |
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| Mayor : | Andreas Feld ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the community Eppelborn in the district of Neunkirchen | ||
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Eppelborn (in the dialect Ebbelborn or Ebbelborre ) is a municipality in the Neunkirchen district in Saarland with almost 17,000 inhabitants.
geography
location
The municipality of Eppelborn is located in the center of the Saarland and houses its geometric center. The State Office for Cadastre, Surveying and Mapping (LKVK) calculated the geometric center of the Saarland, also known as the center of gravity of the Saarland polygon. A center of gravity was determined by averaging around 9428 outer points, the geometrically irregular polygon Saarland, and this resulted in the geometric center of the Saarland with the coordinates 49 ° 23.0582 'north latitude and 6 ° 57.2200' east longitude Habach district.
Districts
The municipality has been divided into eight municipal districts since the territorial and administrative reform of 1974 . All of today's districts were previously independent communities. The population figures refer to the registration data of the municipality of Eppelborn as of February 1, 2018.
| District | Residents | including secondary residences | Mayor |
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 Bubach-Calmesweiler
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2,691 | 2,801 | Werner Michel (CDU) |
 Dirmingen
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2,836 | 2,969 | Frank Klein (SPD) |
 Eppelborn |
4,788 | 5,036 | Berthold Schmitt (CDU) |
 Habach |
680 | 715 | Peter Dörr (CDU) |
 Hierscheid |
641 | 665 | Marco König (SPD) |
 Humes
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1,720 | 1,783 | Karl Barrois (CDU) |
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Macherbach |
184 | 196 | Jürgen Nürnberger (CDU) |
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3.710 | 3,861 | Stefan Löw (SPD) |
| All in all | 17,250 | 18,026 |
history
The Eppelborn area was already settled in Roman times, as evidence from excavations suggests. Eppelborn (formerly Ippelbrunn ) was first mentioned in a document in 1235 and was the capital of the lordship of the same name, which belonged to the noble family von Ippelbrunn . Via the heir's daughter Irmgard von Ippelbrunn († 1425), the local rule fell to her husband Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads († 1419) and his family, later by inheritance to various noble houses. Her son, the Eppelborn local lord Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads (1401–1462), was widowed as a Franciscan and is the grandfather of the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads (1467–1531), as well as the famous Worms Bishop and Elector Palatinate Chancellor Johann XX. von Dalberg (1455–1503).
The current districts of Hierscheid (1200), Wiesbach (1201) and Dirmingen (1281) were also mentioned for the first time in the 13th century. For centuries, the individual districts of today's municipality belonged to the various lords of Lorraine , Nassau-Saarbrücken , Pfalz-Zweibrücken , France and Kurtrier . After the French Revolution , Eppelborn formed a mayor's office with the neighboring communities of Bubach, Calmesweiler, Macherbach and Habach, while a second mayor's office was formed in Dirmingen with Berschweiler, Hierscheid, Humes and Wiesbach. Until 1814 Eppelborn was assigned to the canton of Tholey in the Moselle department. As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of Prussia in 1815 and belonged to the Ottweiler district in the administrative district of Trier from 1816 and to the Rhine province from 1822 onwards .
In the course of the territorial and administrative reform, the municipality received its present size on January 1, 1974.
Imperial oak
The landmark of Eppelborn, the old imperial oak of 15.60 m high, stood right next to the town hall. A wooden scaffold was built on this oak in 1870 for climbing the tree.
The wooden scaffolding was expanded in 1884 according to the drafts of the mayor at the time, Eugen Schwan. A massive wooden staircase that led up to the crown surrounded the trunk. Seven platform floors with railings were attached to it. The largest was a 10 square meter platform, with a three meter high floor space as a taproom. There was a table, a coffee cupboard, a mirror and a bench in it, and four different drinks could be tapped from one barrel. A miniature cannon, a replica of a fortress and cages with birds were built into the oak as decoration.
An illustration and description of the imperial oak were published in the journal Die Gartenlaube in 1886. There it is also described that an aeolian harmonica is attached at the highest altitude , and this "sends its melodic sounds into the valley, especially surprising for nocturnal hikers".
Around 1900 the entire facility was renovated under Mayor Ballcke. The decayed imperial oak was finally felled on February 9, 1930 "for security reasons".
In 1921 the mayor of Eppelborn-Dirmingen had its own emergency money printed, with images of the imperial oak on the back of the 10, 25 and 50 pfenning vouchers. In 1981, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Post Office, the Friends' Association for Local Lore and Monument Protection chose the imperial oak as the motif for the memorial sheets and reminder letters.
politics
Municipal council
After the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution of seats results in the local council:
| Parties | Share of votes | difference | Seats | difference |
| CDU | 51.3% | + 7.1% | 18th | +3 |
| SPD | 29.3% | −8.7% | 10 | −3 |
| GREEN | 8.6% | + 4.8% | 2 | +1 |
| AfD | 7.0% | −1.9% | 2 | −1 |
| FDP | 3.7% | + 2.0% | 1 | +1 |
| total | 100% | 33 |
mayor
- 1974–1984: Karl Eckert (CDU)
- 1984–2012: Fritz-Hermann Lutz (CDU)
- 2012–2019: Birgit Müller-Closset (SPD)
- since October 1, 2019: Andreas Feld (CDU)
Andreas Feld, former head of department in the Saarland State Chancellery, prevailed against all competitors in the 2019 mayoral election with 64% of the votes in the first ballot. The previous incumbent Birgit Müller-Closset received only 27% of the votes.
Political parties and their youth organizations
The CDU is dominant in local politics and has almost 600 members in Eppelborn. It has an absolute majority in the local council in four of the eight districts and also holds an absolute majority in the local council. There are community and local associations of the SPD, FPD, Greens and Left.
In addition to the Junge Union in Eppelborn and Dirmingen, there is the youth community council in Eppelborn as a neutral youth organization. At the end of 2017, a JUSO working group was founded at the municipal association level .
Coat of arms of the municipality
The coat of arms was approved on January 16, 1978 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior.
Blazon : “Divided by red and blue by a slanting silver bar; above a mutilated silver eagle, below a left-turning silver double hook with a crossbar and blunt ends. "
The colors of the church are red and white.
Filed coat of arms of the municipality
The coat of arms was approved on May 5, 1954 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior.
Blazon : "On a black background a silver diagonal right-hand bar accompanied by a silver hexagonal star in the upper corner."
The colors of the church are black - silver.
Partnerships
The municipality of Eppelborn maintains partnership relationships with the cities:
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Outreau ( France ): The partnership document between the municipality of Eppelborn and Outreau was signed on July 15, 1989 in Outreau and on October 27, 1989 in Eppelborn. -
Kfar Tabor ( Israel ): The community of Eppelborn and the district of Neunkirchen have been in contact with Kfar Tabor in Israel since 1987 . The partnership document was signed by the two mayors and the district administrator of the Neunkirchen district on March 20, 1988 in Kfar Tabor and on April 18, 1990 in Neunkirchen . -
Finsterwalde (Germany / Brandenburg ): The first contacts between the town of Finsterwalde, which was once part of the Cottbus district in the GDR and is now part of the state of Brandenburg, and the municipality of Eppelborn were established in 1987. The partnership agreement was signed on July 17, 1988 in Eppelborn and on September 22, 1988 signed in Finsterwalde. After the reunification of Germany, the new partnership certificate was signed on December 14, 1991 in Eppelborn and on June 13, 1992 in Finsterwalde. -
Realmonte ( Italy / Sicily ): On September 15, 2013, Mayor Birgit Müller-Closset and her Italian counterpart Sindaco Piero Puccio signed the partnership certificate in Eppelborn
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Eppelborn is connected to the national road network by the federal autobahn 1 ( Heiligenhafen - Saarbrücken ) and the federal road 10 ( Lebach - Karlsruhe ). Rail stations are located on the Primstalbahn .
Local businesses
- The Siebert group of companies, a manufacturer of digital display and information systems, has its headquarters in the Wiesbach district .
- The Juchem Group, a food and feed manufacturing company, is based in Eppelborn.
- The IT system house Krämer IT Solutions has had its headquarters in the building of the old Koßmannschule in Eppelborn since the beginning of 2008 .
- The company Hassmann IT-Service has its headquarters in the district of Dirmingen , an expert office in the field of IT forensics.
Educational institutions
Primary schools are located in the districts of Bubach-Calmesweiler, Eppelborn, Dirmingen and Wiesbach .
In the districts of Bubach-Calmesweiler, Dirmingen, Eppelborn and Wiesbach there is also a voluntary all-day school, in Eppelborn the extended secondary school / community school in Eppelborn, in Dirmingen a special school for intellectual development, the private Rothenberg school with school kindergarten run by Lebenshilfe Neunkirchen. There is a private all-day Montessori primary school in Humes. Kindergartens: Eppelborn, Bubach-Calmesweiler, Hierscheid with day care center, Dirmingen (2), Humes, Wiesbach.
Volunteer firefighter
The Eppelborn Volunteer Fire Brigade is made up of the seven extinguishing districts of Eppelborn, Bubach-Calmesweiler, Dirmingen, Habach, Humes-Hierscheid (merged September 2019), Wiesbach and Macherbach. With around 330 active fire brigade members, it has to look after around 18,000 citizens. The fire brigade has a total of 19 fire engines and special vehicles available. The fire brigade of the municipality of Eppelborn is also responsible for a section of the federal motorway 1.
Cultural and club life
Buildings
Museums
The Jean Lurçat museum is housed in the former girls' vocational school. It possesses the almost complete oeuvre of the French artist from all of his creative periods. Its oversized tapestries are remarkable. The same building houses the local history museum with exhibits from the region from the 19th and 20th centuries.
In the district of Habach, a farmhouse was converted into a museum. It documents how the rural population lived in the 19th century.
The Museum for Saarland Brewery Culture in Wiesbach was the first of its kind in Saarland to show more than 2,626 contemporary witnesses of the 13 breweries that existed in Saarland around 1940 on 138 m². It is now permanently closed.
societies
In Eppelborn itself there are several sports clubs, some of which are active in upscale leagues. KSV 1910 Siegfried Eppelborn is active in the sport of wrestling and has merged with SCE Humes and KSV Wiesbach in 2013 to form RKG Illtal. The FV Eppelborn was 2007 Cup winner in Futsal Cup the DFB . In 2010, the old men (Ü32) of FV Eppelborn at the unofficial German championship for AH teams (Ü32) could only be stopped in the final by FC Bayern Munich and became German runner-up.
The Völkerball youth team became German champions for the third time in a row in 2010 after 2006 and 2008.
Humes
In February 2011, the First Responder Humes-Hierscheid e. V. founded. This association organizes a first aid system with paramedics from the DRK and the fire brigade, whereby the paramedics move out at the same time after an emergency call as the rescue service, which has also been alerted. In life-threatening emergencies they provide medical help and bridge the time until the emergency doctor arrives. The corresponding concept was developed and implemented together with the Ministry of the Interior, Culture and Europe and the Association for Rescue Service and Fire Brigade Alarming Saar (ZRF). The model project, unique in Saarland, went into operation on March 1, 2012. In the 2011 “ startsocial - Help for Helpers” competition, the friends' association received one of 100 advisory grants and was subsequently recognized as one of the 25 best projects by Chancellor Angela Merkel. A total of 440 voluntary initiatives took part in this competition.
Dirmingen
In the Dirmingen district, the Dirmingen sports club is mainly active in the football division. In addition to the active men (District League Neunkirchen), the women's team is the sporting flagship (champion and promoted of the Regionalliga Südwest 06/07, then 2nd Bundesliga South until 2009, then relegation to the Regionalliga Südwest) of the club.
In the area of handball, which is part of the Tv 04 Dirmingen division, the HF Illtal men's team, which plays in the Rhein-Pfalz-Saar-Liga, deserves a special mention.
The Catholic Church of St. Wendalinus was built in 1954.
Habach
The lively club life in Habach includes not only the sports club SV Habach, the Habach tennis friends and the Habach carnival club “Dat's nur ämo”, but also a large FC Bayern fan club as well as the Habach cone friends, the Habach DRK local club and the volunteer fire brigade in the Habach fire-fighting district and the fruit and horticultural association. After the championship and promotion to the regional league (2007/2008 season), the active members of SV Habach were able to celebrate the championship and the associated direct promotion to the regional league again in the following season (2008/2009 season). SV Habach has been playing in the association league since 2012, making it the second highest league in Saarland. The second team won the early championship in the district league Ill-Theel in 2015 and thus promotion to the district league. In addition, SV Habach organizes the Saarland Center Run every year, a fun run over a distance of 5 km around the geometric center of the Saarland.
At sports facilities in Habach there is a natural grass field and a tennis facility with two courts.
Personalities
Sons of the community
- Amand von Buseck (1685–1756), first prince-bishop of Fulda
- Hans Groß (1925–2000), politician, born in the Bubach district
- Bartholomäus Koßmann (1883–1952), politician (Center, Christian People's Party of the Saarland), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the State Parliament (1924–1935)
- Hans-Joachim Müller (* 1947), emeritus for Romance studies
- Josef Rech (1856–1919), high school teacher and mayor of Lorraine
- Alwin Theobald (* 1968), politician ( CDU ), MdL
Others
- Peter Müller (* 1955), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Saarland 1999–2011; lives in Eppelborn
- Gaby Schäfer (* 1957), politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament , State Secretary ; Local councilor in Eppelborn
- Hans-Georg Wagner (* 1938), politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag , Member of the Bundestag ; Local council in Eppelborn
literature
- Johannes Naumann : Baroque Eppelborn, seat of the Barons von Buseck , Stiftung Kulturgut Gemeinde Eppelborn (Ed.), 1st edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-941095-01-4 .
- Ernst Morbe: The Imperial Oak . Eppelborner Heimathefte 1, 1983, pp. 24-32.
Web links
- Literature about Eppelborn in the Saarland Bibliography
- Link catalog on the subject of Eppelborn at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
- ^ Geometric center of the Saarland - Eppelborn municipality. In: eppelborn.de. March 8, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Population figures for the municipality of Eppelborn , accessed on February 12, 2018
- ^ Johann-Anton-Joseph Hansen: Treviris or Trierisches Archiv für Vaterlandskunde, initially within the boundaries of the former Archdiocese and the current Diocese of Trier , Volume 1, p. 230, Trier, 1840; (Digital scan)
- ^ Genealogical website on Friedrich von Greiffenclau
- ^ 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. 805 .
- ^ The imperial oak at Eppelborn . In: The Gazebo . Issue 8, 1886, pp. 148 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ↑ Local council elections 2019 - 43111 - Eppelborn. State Returning Officer Saarland, May 26, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Patrick Wiermer: Red becomes black in Eppelborn. Saarländischer Rundfunk, May 27, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Realmonte in Sicily is now officially the new twin town of the municipality of Eppelborn - municipality of Eppelborn. In: eppelborn.de. September 15, 2013, accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.eppelborn.de/leben-und-wohnen/bus-und-bahn
- ↑ Homepage of KSV Eppelborn
- ^ Division of the Landesliga Saar 2013 in wrestling
- ↑ Carole Ross: Annual report of TK for 2012. In: de.slideshare.net. June 28, 2013, accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ^ Homepage of the First Responder Humes-Hierscheid e. V.
