Merzkirchen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	395 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.46 km 2
Residents:	827 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54439
Primaries :	06581 06582 OT Kelsen 06583 OT Dittlingen 06583 OT Rommelfangen 06583 OT Südlingen
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 154
Community structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Schloßberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	www.merzkirchen.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Hemmerling ( CDU )
Location of the local community Merzkirchen in the district of Trier-Saarburg

St. Martin village church

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

Geographical location

Merzkirchen is located in the Saargau , about seven kilometers east of the state border with Luxembourg and six kilometers southwest of Saarburg at the meeting point of Landesstrasse 132 (to Saarburg) and Landesstrasse 134 (to Wincheringen / Bundesstrasse 419 ).

The highest elevation in the vicinity of the place is 410  m above sea level. NHN the Zöllenter Berg .

Districts

The districts of Merzkirchen are:

• Merzkirchen
• Körrig , 2,160 m north
• Südlingen , 2,460 m southwest
• Dittlingen , 940 m southwest
• Rommelfangen , 1,830 m west-northwest
• Kelsen , 1,390 m southeast
• Portz , 1,180 m east

history

On July 18, 1946, the French military government assigned a total of 81 municipalities in the Trier and Saarburg districts to Saarland , which at the time was no longer under the Allied Control Council. This also included the six independent municipalities at the time in what is now the municipality of Merzkirchen. On June 8, 1947, this territorial outsourcing was withdrawn again except for 20 municipalities, so the entire current municipal area came to the newly formed in 1946 Rhineland-Palatinate .

Today's local community was formed on March 16, 1974 from the previously independent and dissolved communities Dittlingen, Kelsen, Körrig, Portz, Rommelfangen and Südlingen under the name Merzkirchen.

Population development

The development of the population of Merzkirchen in relation to today's municipality, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 768 1835 869 1871 815 1905 935 1939 912 1950 916 1961 776 1970 713

year Residents 1987 624 2005 669 2010 697 2011 708 2012 719 2014 766 2016 803 2018 824

Population development of Merzkirchen from 1815 to 2018 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the local council:

choice	SPD	CDU	Flat share 1	Flat share 2	total
2019	-	7th	5	-	12 seats
2014	3	6th	3	-	12 seats
2009	2	5	1	4th	12 seats
2004	3	8th	1	-	12 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the blue shield a silver church, in the right upper corner in silver the red Electoral Trier cross, in the left upper corner divided nine times by silver and blue."

Founding of the coat of arms: Merzkirchen was re-established as a municipality by state law on March 17, 1974 from the previously independent municipalities of Dittlingen, Kelsen, Körrig, Portz, Rommelfangen and Südlingen. Martinskirchen, Merteskirchen, Merzkirchen have been the center of the current municipal area for centuries. The old church structure is now also communal. In 1803 all the places mentioned belonged to the parish of Merzkirchen, with the exception of Kelsen, which belonged to Kirf; it came from Kirf to Merzkirchen in 1859. The place name is a reference to the Martinus Church and is formed from this name. In the form of the talking coat of arms , the Martinus Church stands for the community name Merzkirchen in the coat of arms. The former communities of Kelsen, Portz, Rommelfangen, Südlingen and a part of Körrig belonged to Kurtrier until around 1800 . For them there is the Electoral Trier cross in the upper right corner of the coat of arms . Dittlingen and the other part of Körrig were under the Luxembourg sovereignty. For them there is the Luxembourg shield in the upper left corner .

Culture and sights

Sign for Viezstraße

The newly established Viezstraße touches all districts of the local community of Merzkirchen.

St. Martin village church

The Martinskirche gave the village its name. Other historical names of the place were Martinskirchen and Merteskirchen. The church was built in 1848/49 in an east-west direction, the tower stands in front of the western gable wall of the church, the choir with the ribbed vault forms the eastern end, the church is "easted". It was built in place of a previous Romanesque building. The nave with the dimensions 31.8 × 16.6 m is entered through a portal on the south side under the first window. Overall, the interior of the ship is illuminated by four double-lane windows on the north and south sides. On both sides of the ogival passage from the nave to the choir, there are side altars in ogival niches. The retracted, three-sided closing choir has three ogival, two-lane windows. The glass design dates from 1958/59. The subdivision of the choir and nave is made by graded buttresses. On top of the tower is an octagonal bell-shaped storey, which shows arched acoustic arcades in all four directions, which are closed by wooden blinds. Above it, a tall pointed helmet with eight sides can be seen from afar.

The Martinskirche is also on the Way of St. James , section Trier – Perl. This is indicated by a stone with the symbol of the scallop shell .

More Attractions

• Old trees in the cemetery
• The old Roman road, section Tawern - Palzem , runs through the northern and western parts of the municipality of Merzkirchen , which is now partially overbuilt by the K 111, but serves as a hiking, cycling or field path on other sections. Part of the course of the Roman road, but outside the Merzkirchen community, forms the “Palzem-Wincheringen” cultural and historical educational trail .

Companies

The following companies are based in Merzkirchen:

• Hoffmann joinery
• Mary's distillery (fine spirits)

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Merzkirchen
• List of natural monuments in Merzkirchen

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 from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), pp. 136-137.

Web links

Commons : Merzkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Merzkirchen community
• Brief profile of the local community of Merzkirchen near the Saarburg-Kell association
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Merzkirchen in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on Merzkirchen 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 126 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 171 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 15, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections