Nalbach

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Nalbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Saarland
County : Saarlouis
Height : 210 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.43 km 2
Residents: 9111 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 406 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66809
Area code : 06838
License plate : SLS
Community key : 10 0 44 113
LOCODE : DE NBC
Community structure: 4 districts : Nalbach, Piesbach , Bilsdorf , Körprich
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausplatz 1
66809 Nalbach
Website : www.nalbach.de
Mayor : Peter Lehnert
Location of the municipality of Nalbach in the Saarlouis district
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Nalbach ( in the local, Moselle-Franconian dialect Nòòlbach ) is a municipality with four districts in the Saarlouis district in Saarland . It lies on the lower Prims , a tributary of the Saar .

geography

View from the Hoxberg over the Nalbach valley with the historic valley communities Diefflen (since 1969 in Dillingen / Saar ), Nalbach, Piesbach , Bilsdorf and Körprich as well as the Nalbach local mountain, the 414 m high Litermont ; The band of fog on the horizon marks the course of the Saar
Nalbach, Hubertusstraße with the Church of St. Peter and Paul

Nalbach lies in the valley of the Prims , a right-hand tributary of the Saar . The highest point is the 414 m high Litermont . The elevation is one of the numerous testimonies of Permian volcanism in the area of ​​today's Saar-Nahe mountains . The Litermont consists mainly of rhyolite , a Felsic and therefore granite- like volcanic rock in its chemical and mineralogical composition . The rock consists mainly of quartz , mica and feldspar . The rhyolite of the Litermont originated from a relatively SiO 2 -rich magma or a corresponding lava . Such an enrichment, also called magmatic differentiation , took place when magmas rose within a relatively thick crust. The rhyolite penetrated between older rock layers around 275 million years ago during the saal phase of mountain formation .

The geological underground of Nalbach is the red sandstone . To a lesser extent it is superficial; It is covered to a far greater extent by the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits of the Saar and Prims . These deposits belong to a large sedimentation body , which is triangular in plan, whereby the corner points can be described by the location of Saarlouis , Beckingen and Bilsdorf .

Both the sedimentation body and the subsurface underneath were changed in the course of the Quaternary by the forces of weathering and erosion. This ultimately led to the room being characterized by horizontal surfaces on the one hand and slopes on the other. The areas appear as the banks of the river terraces dating from the Prämindel to the Würm and as the leveling of the Prims floodplain. The slopes include the flanks of larger and smaller valleys and the walls of young erosion gorges ("Gräthen"). The areas are proportionally the dominant room element. The Prims flows through the Nalbach Valley from east to west. Without artificial regulation (dam construction, lowering of the water table), the Prims would be a meandering river with several floodplains per year.

Use of space

The community area of ​​22.43 km² is divided as follows:

  • Buildings and open space: 2.77 km²
  • Living area: 1.35 km²
  • Commercial and industrial areas: 0.14 km²
  • Recreational areas: 0.08 km²
  • Agricultural areas: 11.72 km²
  • Forest areas: 5.33 km²
  • Water surface: 1.09 km²

District areas

Districts of the Nalbacher Valley: The hatched area denotes the district of Diefflens, which was removed to Dillingen on August 1, 1969. The dotted area (Bahnhofsviertel) was ceded by the Saarwellingen community to the Nalbach community on January 1, 1974.

The following areas are allocated to the individual districts:

  • Nalbach: 9.99 km²
  • Piesbach: 5.35 km²
  • Körprich: 3.72 km²
  • Bilsdorf: 3.37 km²

The district of Nalbach as a single location comprises 13 corridors. The center of the village is in hall 10. The district of Piesbach comprises 11 hallways. The center of Piesbach is in corridor 4, the center of Bettstadt in corridor 6. The district of Bilsdorf comprises 7 corridors. The town center is located in hallway 4. The district of Körprich comprises 8 hallways. The center of the village is in hall 2. The district of Diefflen, which was part of the Nalbach valley until 1969, comprises 10 hallways. The center of the village is in corridor 6. In total, the municipality of Nalbach has 39 corridors (49 before 1969). The general markings border clockwise to the following neighboring markings: Düppenweiler, Hüttersdorf, Knorscheid, Saarwellingen as well as Dillingen with Diefflen and leases.

Population of the individual districts

The population of approx. 9700 people is divided as follows:

  • Nalbach: 4.257
  • Piesbach: 2,160
  • Korprich: 2.038
  • Bilsdorf: 1,264

(accessed on June 6, 2019)

Historical abandoned settlements

In addition to the currently existing districts of the Nalbacher Valley, there were historically four other settlements, which later became deserted .

  • Heuchlingen (between Nalbach and Diefflen)
  • Theter (between Piesbach and Bettstadt)
  • Heisterbach (between Diefflen and Düppenweiler)
  • Heynschiet (between Diefflen and Düppenweiler)

Neighboring municipalities

The municipality has five neighboring municipalities. Clockwise these are Beckingen , Schmelz (Saar) , Lebach , Saarwellingen and Dillingen / Saar .

history

Prehistory and early history, antiquity

As numerous archaeological finds prove, the Saar and Primstal were already inhabited by people from the Paleolithic to this day. The Nalbacher Tal was probably already crossed by an important traffic route that led from the Moselle to the Rhine in the Bronze Age (around 2200 to 800 BC) . The path connected most of the Celtic settlement centers of today's Saarland with their fortifications and their princely graves. Within today's Saarland, it led from Merten via Wallerfangen through the Nalbach Valley. From the confluence of the Theel into the Prims , he followed the right bank of the Theel to Theley . Here the path forked to the so-called Hunnenring from Otzenhausen , to Rheinheim , as well as to Freisen and Schwarzerden . Today's main axis of Diefflens, Nalbach and Piesbach is based entirely on this route that has been in place since the Bronze Age.

In 1976 in the Nalbach district of Bilsdorf (corridor 5, district Bilsdorf), building remains from Roman times were found when a pond was being dredged in Brückenstraße at a depth of 2.50 m. These are Roman pedestal stones that formed the foundation of a Roman half-timbered building. In addition, a Roman cult stone (height: 90, shaft: 35 × 35 cm, base and top: 50 × 50 cm) was discovered in the same area.

middle Ages

Location Nalbach (Nagalbach) in the Duchy of Lorraine around the year 1000

Nalbach (dialect: Nôlbach) was first mentioned in documents around the year 950 under the name "Nagelbach" in the Mettlach pilgrimage certificate of Archbishop Ruotbert von Trier .

The place name may have originated in pre-Carolingian times. However, the name could also come from the time before the Franconian conquest , which took place in a period from the 5th to the 8th century. The eponymous Nalbach is one of three streams (Nalbach, Fußbach, Etzelbach) that used to flow through the town, coming from the Litermont. Today all these streams are piped and flow into the Prims. The Nalbach (confluence of Zimmerbach, Breimschbach and Rondelbach), which gives the place its name, flows into the Prims in the imaginary extension of Primsstraße.

Historical typefaces of Nalbach
year 1036 1048 1154 circa 1195 1229 1280 1287 1324 1527 1631
changed name
over the years 		Nagalbac Nagelbach Nalbach Nagilbach Nallenbach Nalbach Nailbach and Nalbach Naelbach Nolbach Nahlbach; then to this day Nalbach

In 1048 the Archbishop of Trier, Eberhard von Schwaben , donated the Nagelbach farm to the Trier Simeonstift . The Nalbach church was first mentioned in a document in 1154 and 1179. In the Middle Ages, Nalbach belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Mauritius Tholey and to the Dean's Office or Landkapitel Merzig in the then Archdiocese of Trier . The Petrus Patronage (fisherman patron) could point to the emergence of Nalbach as a fishing settlement on the then fish-rich Prims . A reference to the Petrus patronage of the Trier cathedral is also conceivable. The Petrus or Petrus and Paulus patronage counts to the typical Franconian patronage of the Saarland.

The area of ​​the Nalbach Valley was originally an imperial territory before it became the Electorate of Trier . Around the year 1195, Adalbert von Nalbach and an associated Hofmeier were named as Nalbacher Vogt. In the protocol of the year of 1324 the Nalbach valley communities Diefflen, Piesbach and Bettstadt as well as the Nalbacher mill are mentioned. Shortly afterwards, in 1327, the valley communities of Körprich, Theter, Heisterbach, Heynschiet and the Bettstadter Mühle are mentioned. The Nalbach Valley consisted of two bailiwicks under the direction of Rudolf von Nalbach and Nikolaus von Kastel. The Körprich chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1332.

In 1358, the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier transferred patronage over the Nalbach Valley to Count Heinrich von Veldenz . In 1393 the Nalbach Vogt Nikolaus von Kastel and his wife Margarete transferred the village of Theter in the Nalbach Valley to St. Simeon's monastery. The aforementioned Margarete is probably the model of the legendary Margarete vom Litermont from the local Maldix saga.

After an attack by Johann von Hagen and Johann von Hunolstein in 1411 on the Nalbach Valley, the St. Simeon monastery transferred patronage over the valley communities to the Duke of Lorraine . Around the year 1441 the farmers of Nalbach and Piesbach started an uprising against Vogtin Else von Hunolstein. The first enfeoffment of a bailiff by the Count Palatinate near Rhine (Electoral Palatinate) is documented for the year 1478: Count Palatine Ludwig the Black enfeoffed the knight Heinrich von Rathsamshausen , whose rule lay at the foot of the Odilienberg in Lower Saxony , with the highest and lowest Bailiwick in the Nalbach Valley. The feudal sovereignty of the Count Palatine near Rhine is likely to be derived from that of the Count of Veldenz hereditary (since 1444).

A first census in the Nalbacher Tal in 1499 showed around 56 fireplaces.

The Nalbach rulership is divided into two bailiwicks. The Electoral Trier or middle bailiwick enclosed the upper villages of Nalbach, Bilsdorf, Piesbach and half of Bettstadt. The Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick consisted of two half bailiwicks, which were regionally separated by the middle bailiwick. The highest bailiwick consisted of Körprich and half of Bettstadt. The lowest bailiwick consisted of Diefflen and the Nalbacher Unterdorf up to the Fußbach. This bailiwick formed a legal unit and was given as a fief to under-bailiffs from the lower landed gentry.

The bailiffs exercised the high judiciary and therefore called themselves high judges.

The middle or Electorate of Trier bailiwick (Oberdorf Nalbach, Bilsdorf, Piesbach and half of Bettstadt) was subordinate to the following bailiffs over the centuries:

Years Bailiff
Late 12th century Adalbert von Nalbach
Late 13th century Boemund, Knights of Nalbach and Sirsperch
before 1327 - 1331 Rudolf von Nalbach
1331 - after 1350 St. Simeon's Abbey
before 1357 - 1364 Johann von Eiweiler (son-in-law of Rudolf and Boemund von Nalbach)
1364 - before 1378 Johann von Eiweiler
before 1378 - 1450 St. Simeon's Abbey
1450-1478 Johann von Criechingen
1478 - before 1514 Heinrich von Hunolstein
before 1514 - before 1536 St. Simeon's Abbey
before 1536 - 1798 Kurtrier has withdrawn the fief and has it administered by the respective bailiff von der Grimburg as governor
Early 16th century Johann von Metzenhausen (bailiff of the Grimburg)
End of the 16th century Johann Zand von Merl (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Early 17th century von der Leyen (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Mid 17th century Wolf Heinrich von Steinkallenfels (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Late 17th century Karl Kaspar von Britzky (bailiff of the Grimburg)
Early 18th century von Schmidtburg (bailiff von der Grimburg)
Mid 18th century Franz Georg Freiherr Zand von Merl (bailiff of the Grimburg)

The uppermost and lowest or electoral Palatinate bailiwick (Körprich, half of Bettstadt, Diefflen, Nalbacher Unterdorf to Fußbach) was subject to the following bailiffs over the centuries:

Years Bailiff
before 1327-1336 Nicholas of Kastel I.
before 1344 -? Rupprecht of Saarbrücken
before 1388 - before 1405 Nicholas of Kastel II.
before 1405 - before 1425 Johann von Lewenstein I.
before 1425-1439 Johann von Lewenstein II.
after 1439 - before 1478 Madder from Saarburg
1478 - after 1509 Heinrich von Ratsamshausen
before 1514 - after 1522 Heinrich von Harancourt
before 1522-1527 Jacob of Harancourt
1527 - before 1545 Johann Ludwig Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (co-bailiff Johann von Braubach)
1548 - after 1560 Alexander von Braubach
after 1560-1633 Wilhelm Marzloff of Braubach
1633 - circa 1664 Electoral Palatinate manages the fief itself
after 1664–1681 Charles Henri Gaspard de Lénoncourt-Blainville
1681-1697 Under the administration of the Réunionskammer in Metz
after 1697-1711 Electoral Palatinate manages the fief itself
1711-1750 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen on the moth
after 1750–1791 Karl Emmerich von Hagen and his brother Johann Hugo von Hagen

Early modern age

Location of the Nalbach valley on a section of the Lorraine map (northern part) by Gerhard Mercator from 1564 to 1585 (Saarbrücken State Archives, Hellwig Collection)

The interest register for the years 1514–1522 names the existence of seven villages with a total of 66 houses for the Nalbach Valley. The Upper Villages of Nalbach, Piesbach, half of Bettstadt and Bilsdorf belong to the electoral bailiwick. The Lower Village of Nalbach, Diefflen, half of Bettstadt and Körprich belong to the bailiwick of the Electoral Palatinate. The Nalbach valley settlement Heuchlingen as well as the Bilsdorfer Hof and a Lohmühle near Nalbach are mentioned for the first time.

In 1527 Johann Ludwig, Count of Saarbrücken , acquired the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick. His fellow bailiff was Johann von Braubach. Already before 1536, Kurtrier took over his bailiwick and had it administered by the bailiff von der Grimburg until the end of the princely rule . In 1536 the first Nalbacher Schöffenbuch was created. Alexander von Braubach, Lord of Dillingen, acquired the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick of the Nalbach Valley for 1,100 guilders in 1548. His successor was his son Wilhelm Marzloff von Braubach.

Witch hunts

With the beginning of the early modern era, the Witch Mania also spread in the Nalbach Valley , which particularly raged between 1570 and 1634. Especially the ducal Lorraine chief judge Nikolaus Remigius achieved notoriety for the extermination of the supposed witches and devil worshipers. The witch trials of the Nalbach valley were carried out in Dillingen, but the executions were then carried out in Nalbach (several people from the Nalbach valley in 1575 and 1591/1592 / unknown outcome of the proceedings, a man from Diefflen in 1595, a woman from Piesbach in 1595, a man from 1602 Körprich, around 1605 each a man from Piesbach and Körprich, 1609 a man from Diefflen, who allegedly had sexual relations with his horse and was therefore also executed together with his horse, 1611 a man and a woman from Körprich / unknown outcome of the Trial and several allegations in 1602 and 1611). After a public reading of the judgment, the delinquent was taken to the Nalbacher Galgenberg and killed there. The Nalbacher Straße "Am Gälgesberg" is a reminder of the execution site to this day. Execution of the executions (burning alive or after previous killing) was carried out by an executioner (messenger) from Roden .

Thirty Years War and Reunion Policy

Nalbach on a map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu: Lotharingia Ducatus, vulgo Lorraine, 1645, (map excerpt)

In 1618, the year the Thirty Years' War broke out , a first schoolmaster was installed in Nalbach by ordinance of the mayor. The visitation protocols of the Nalbach valley from the years 1623/1631 showed 130 households for the heads of households in Nalbach, Diefflen, Piesbach and Bilsdorf.

In 1635 the first large troop movements of Swedish, French and imperial troops through the Nalbacher Tal towards the (then city) Wallerfangen and Metz . Especially in the last phase of the war from 1635 there was severe devastation. In addition, there were famines and epidemics. The surviving remnants of the population barely had a livelihood. According to the report of the Nalbacher Maier to the Trier Elector from 1664/65, only 47 households were counted for the Nalbach Valley (loss of 65% of the pre-war population).

Around 1664, Charles Henri Gaspard de Lenoncourt, Marquis de Blainville, Lord of Dillingen, († 1713), a high Lorraine nobleman and founder of the Dillinger Hütte , became a governor in the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick of the Nalbacher Valley. In 1681 he organized the so-called reunification of the Nalbach Valley with the Kingdom of France under King Louis XIV. The aim of this reunification policy was that areas of the Holy Roman Empire , which, according to the French view , were legally connected to certain territories under French sovereignty , with France " again should be united." In this way, large parts of today's Saarland and its neighboring areas were incorporated into the French state by 1688 , since the Holy Roman Empire was unable to offer military resistance (not least because of the simultaneous Turkish war ). In 1697, however, the Holy Roman Empire got the French reunions in Saarland back through the Peace of Rijswijk .

In 1688, the Nalbach pastor Johannes Coenen (the elder) created the first Nalbach church registers.

The Nalbach Valley in the 18th century

Nalbach on a historical map of the Saar from 1705, Nicolas de Fer (ed. And publisher), P. Starck (engraver): Le Cours de la Sare aux Environs de la quelle se Trouve Diverse Provinces qui Composent la Provine de la Sare ou Lorraine Allemande (sic!), Approx. 1: 380,000, 23.8 cm × 33.7 cm, Saarlouis City Archives

The collapsed village of Theter with its accessories was transferred to the Nalbach Church in 1701 by the Trier Simeonsstift. In 1711 the Electoral Palatinate enfeoffed the baron Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen zur Motten with the highest and lowest bailiwick of the Nalbach Valley, first as a man fief, then from 1714 as an inheritance and from 1718 as an imperial fiefdom.

The auxiliary bishop of Trier Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach visited the parish of Nalbach in 1739.

Emigrations

Due to the poor living conditions in the Nalbach Valley, around 1750 there was a wave of emigration to Hungary, which had been depopulated by the Turkish wars . The emperor's government in Vienna tried to recruit new settlers for the devastated areas in the Hungarian lowlands. With the promise of free arable and building land, building material, seeds and planting material for grain and wine, tax exemption in the first years of settlement, free transport with food and medical care from the collection points to Hungary, people who want to emigrate should be found. The Saar region made up a not inconsiderable part with 5000 emigrants. At that time, the Nalbacher Tal released 96 residents from toddlers to old people. 36 emigrants came from Nalbach, 34 from Piesbach, 20 from Körprich and 6 from Bilsdorf. It is not yet known whether Diefflen provided emigrants. The emigration began around 1750 and continued until after 1780. Main thrusts were in 1751 and 1766.

In the years 1765–1767, the old Nalbach church was torn down and a new baroque building was built. The alleged bones of the legendary Margareta von Litermont were found.

The Nalbach Valley in the 19th century

In the wake of the French Revolution , the centuries-old aristocratic rule in the Nalbach Valley ended in 1798. Two years later, in 1800, the French founded the Mairie (mayor's office) Nalbach. After Napoleon Bonaparte had been forced to abdicate, was with the Bourbon Louis XVIII. the first Treaty of Paris concluded on May 31, 1814, according to which France was restricted to the state borders of 1792. The German-speaking Dillingen and leases as neighboring communities of the Nalbach valley should therefore remain with France. The Nalbach Valley was no longer part of France after the first Peace of Paris. It was subordinate to an Austrian-Bavarian regional administration commission, which was installed on January 16, 1814 with its seat in Kreuznach . This was intended as a temporary measure, as it had not yet been conclusively clarified to which power the Nalbach Valley was to fall as part of the reclaimed German areas on the left bank of the Rhine. This meant that the eastern ban border of Dillingen and Lenten and the western ban border of Diefflen were also the state border for more than a year. After Napoleon's return and his final defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815, as well as his exile on the island of St. Helena , Dillingen and leases were also separated from France in the Second Peace of Paris and handed over to the Kingdom of Prussia ( Rhine Province ) with the entire Nalbach Valley .

The entire Nalbach Valley was initially allocated to the Ottweiler district under Prussian administration . On July 1, 1816, it came from the district of Ottweiler to the district of Saarlouis . According to the 1821 census, the Nalbach Valley had 335 houses, 375 households and 1950 inhabitants.

From 1821 to 1829, the Nalbacher Tal was administered by the mayor's office in Fraulautern , as the Nalbacher Tal community, consisting of six villages (founded as a legal form in 1815), could not afford the administrative costs for the mayor's office. In addition to Nalbach, 5 villages belonged to the integrated community: Bilsdorf , Piesbach , Bettstadt , Diefflen and Körprich . From 1830, the administration of the mayor of the Nalbach Valley passed from Fraulautern to Saarwellingen (personal union) and lasted until December 31, 1899. Nalbach and Saarwellingen formed a dual mayor under the direction of the Mayor of Saarwellingen.

Litermont Cross

The cross on the Litermont was erected by the municipality of Nalbach in 1852 in memory of Margarete vom Litermont. The Jewish community of Nalbach-Diefflen built a synagogue in Nalbach in 1854 .

On April 25, 1854, the three Dieffler members of the Samtgemeinderat of the Samtgemeinde Nalbacher Tal applied for the dissolution of the Samtgemeinde and the separation of their lands. This was also justified by a request to the district president in Trier : “The poverty of the localities has become the mockery and proverb of the area. Because everything is still communal, there is no ennobling of the land and the profit is therefore very small, and there is no blessing on it (...) Because wealth is the highest blessing in life, it would drive poverty out of the country and thus morality and morality ennobled and the place Diefeln (sic!) put in the situation to rise from the dust "

The community separation was then decided on September 1, 1854 with 7 against 2 votes of the Nalbacher joint council members and approved on June 16, 1858 by the King of Prussia , Friedrich Wilhelm IV., At Babelsberg Castle . The mayoral administration remained in Nalbach and until 1899 in Saarwellingen . It was not until 1969 that Diefflen was officially separated from Nalbach and incorporated into the city of Dillingen / Saar.

In the years 1868–1869 a Primsbrücke was built in Nalbach for the first time. In the years 1899–1901, the Nalbach Valley was connected to the railway network with the construction of the Dillingen-Primsweiler railway line (cessation of passenger traffic on June 1, 1980). In 1903 the Primsbrücke was built in Körprich. In 1912 the Dillingen-Diefflen-Nalbach tram line was opened (1955 shutdown in favor of buses).

After the population of Diefflen and the surrounding villages had grown rapidly in the course of industrialization in the 19th century, the Nalbach church was rebuilt and enlarged several times (1828 and 1890). A further enlargement of the Nalbach parish church was no longer possible without further ado, as there was a cemetery around the church and the surrounding residential and commercial buildings would have been affected by a possible expansion.

In 1895 the Wendalinus Chapel in Dieffler was thoroughly renovated again and received a new bell. It was only demolished in 1904 after its own Neo-Gothic parish church in Dieffler had been completed in the years 1899–1900.

The Nalbach Valley in the 20th century

Nalbach on the panorama map "The German Saar" for the Saar vote in 1935, approx. 1934, ed. from the Rheinisches Verkehrsverein e. V. Bad Godesberg and the Palatinate Tourist Association e. V. Ludwigshafen, approx. 1: 100,000, 72 cm × 46 cm, Saarlouis City Archives
League of Nations

As a result of the Peace Treaty of Versailles , the Nalbach Valley as part of the Saar area was placed under the League of Nations from 1920 and only returned to the German Reich in 1935 after the referendum on January 13th.

For the entire municipality of Nalbach with Diefflen, Piesbach, Bildsorf and Körprich, the voting results of January 13, 1935 were as follows:

  • Eligible voters: 6,191
  • Votes cast: 6,140
  • Valid votes: 6,105
  • White ballot: 23
  • Invalid ballot papers: 12
  • Voted for affiliation with the French Republic: 13 (= 0.2%)
  • Voted for the status quo: 705 (= 11.6%)
  • Votes for the return to the German Reich: 5,387 (= 88.2%)

In the referendum on January 13, 1935, 90.5% in the Saar area and 91.19% in the Saarlouis district voted in favor of reintegration into the German Empire.

In the years from 1920 to 1923 all Nalbach valley communities were connected to the electrical power grid and from 1925 to 1926 to a central water supply. The valley community of Piesbach built its own church in 1922–1924, the valley community of Körprich in 1926.

National Socialism and World War II

In 1937 , the construction of the Dillingen-Körprich relief road began, also from a military point of view in the course of preparations for World War II , so that express traffic from the German Reich bypassing the narrow village streets of Körprich, Piesbach, Nalbach and Diefflen can reach the French border more quickly could. Also in the course of war preparations, numerous Westwall structures (bunkers, anti-tank barriers, etc.) were erected in the Nalbach Valley in 1938/1939 .

"Litermont Bunker" (built 1938), Siegfried Line fortification

When France declared war on the German Reich on September 3, 1939, Diefflen was the only community in the Nalbach Valley to be completely evacuated as part of the clearing of the Red Zone . The residents had to leave their homes within a few hours. For Diefflen, salvage areas were different places in Thuringia and Saxony . The other valley communities of Nalbach, Piesbach, Körprich and Bilsdorf were only evacuated on December 1, 1944 with the positioning of the western front near Saarlouis , as the villages were exposed to heavy artillery fire from the US forces from Limberg. There was also an increased use of low-flying planes. In March 1945 all Primsbrücken were blown up by German troops in a war-technically pointless operation, before all Nalbach valley communities were conquered by US troops on March 18 and 19, 1945.

post war period

In 1947 Nalbach became part of the semi-autonomous Saar state. On July 1, 1951, the valley communities of Körprich and Bilsdorf, which were forcibly united under Nazi rule, were separated again. Bilsdorf built its own church in the years 1949–1951 on the site of the chapel built in 1891.

Referendum on the Saar Statute 1955

On October 23, 1954, the agreement between the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Saar Statute was negotiated between the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France . Until the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany, the agreement provided for the Saarland to be subordinate to a commissioner from the Western European Union . This should represent the country externally. However, the Saarland government should continue to be responsible for internal affairs and the economic connection to France should be maintained. However, closer economic networking with the Federal Republic was also planned.

In the referendum on the agreement on October 23, 1955 on the European Statute of the Saarland , the Nalbach valley communities voted as follows:

  • Nalbach: 569 eligible voters voted yes; 1322 eligible voters voted no.
  • Diefflen: 1151 eligible voters voted yes; 1447 eligible voters voted no.
  • Piesbach: 392 eligible voters voted yes; 649 eligible voters voted no.
  • Bilsdorf: 247 eligible voters voted yes; 293 eligible voters voted no.
  • Körprich: 229 eligible voters voted yes; 689 eligible voters voted no.

(The Saarland national average of the no-sayers was 67.7%.) As a result of the negotiations that followed and the Luxembourg Treaty of October 27, 1956, in which France agreed to the reintegration of the Saarland under West German sovereignty , the municipality of Nalbach became the first Politically affiliated to the Federal Republic of Germany on January 6, 1957 and economically on July 6, 1959 (“Day X”) .

Mountain slide on the Hoxberg

In the winter of 1965/66, after heavy rainfall, the Hoxberg, which is adjacent to the Körprich district, began to slide. 18 houses in Waldstrasse were destroyed.

Separation of Diefflens

The plan to incorporate the Nalbacher Talgemeinde Diefflen into Dillingen went back to the early 1920s. Even then it became clear that Diefflen would develop from a farming village into a purely workers' community whose tax strength would not be sufficient to cope with larger tasks. Only in the period after the Second World War were these plans taken up again in 1951 and 1959, but were then not pursued any further. Negotiations between a commission of the Dieffler municipal council and a commission of the Dillingen city council also led to no result in 1963/64. After further negotiations in the years 1967–1968 the Dieffler commissioner Josef Jost-Reiter presented a "draft for the area change agreement between the city of Dillingen / Saar and the community of Diefflen". The municipal councils of Diefflens and Dillingens voted in 1968 for the implementation of the treaty, which was confirmed by the Saarland state government on July 19, 1969. After the assurance of financial compensation, the local council of Nalbach voted in a secret ballot with 16 to 4 votes for the spin-off of Diefflen from the mayor's office in Nalbach. This made Diefflen with 4298 inhabitants and an area of ​​5.04 km 2 the third district of Dillingen.

Territorial reform

With the communal territorial reform on New Year's Day 1974, the new unified municipality Nalbach with the municipal districts Nalbach, Piesbach, Körprich and Bilsdorf was founded. The municipal coat of arms was awarded on April 24, 1978 by the Saarland government. In connection with the Saarland municipal reform, the Saarland Ministry of the Interior under Minister Ludwig Schnur proposed that the Bierbach and brickworks in Nalbach should be added to the Diefflens district (since 1969 to the city of Dillingen / Saar), as their development is directly connected to the Diefflens. In a public survey, however, the residents of the two settlements decided with 65 votes to stay with Nalbach, 7 people were in favor of Diefflen, and two votes were invalid.

The community of Nalbach built large multi-purpose halls in all districts between 1978 and 1980.

The Nalbach Valley in the 21st century

In the years from 2006 onwards, hard coal mining should take place in the area of ​​the Hoxberg . Residents fear serious damage . Since a strong earthquake on February 23, 2008 (see mining in Saarland ), mining has been stopped.

religion

Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul

Christianity

Catholic Church

As part of the 2020 structural reform in the Diocese of Trier, the parish community of Nalbach was established on September 1, 2011 with the independent parishes of St. Peter and Paul in Nalbach, St. John the Baptist in Piesbach , Herz Jesu in Bilsdorf and St. Michael in Körprich . The common pastor of these parishes is Manfred Plunien. The parish of Nalbach was first mentioned in the 11th century.

Protestant church

The community of Nalbach is part of the Evangelical Church Community of Dillingen ( Evangelical Church (Dillingen / Saar) ).

Judaism

Synagogue in Nalbach before it was destroyed (Nalbach municipal archive)
Judenfriedhof Diefflen , cemetery of the surrounding Jewish communities, entrance hall

A small Jewish community existed in Nalbach until 1937/40. Its origin goes back to the 16th / 18th centuries. Century back when the first Jewish families lived in the Nalbacher Tal (that is, especially in Diefflen). Already in 1591 a "Jud Meyer" was mentioned in Nalbach.

In 1723 a Jew from Diefflen is named, who at that time had to move out of a Christian's house because of a violation of the Kurtrierian Jewish regulations. Ten years later, in 1733, a total of twelve Jewish families lived in the Nalbach Valley. At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1808, there were 16 Jewish residents in Nalbach and 32 in Diefflen. By 1858 their number increased to 68 in Nalbach, only to decrease again afterwards through emigration and emigration. After the synagogue in Nalbach was built in 1854, the Jewish residents of Diefflen came to Nalbach to pray and worship. The Jewish families who moved to Dillingen in the course of the 19th century were also part of the Jewish community in Nalbach. In a newspaper report from 1891 on the fire in the Nalbach synagogue, the members of the congregation spoke of “15 less well-off families from the villages of Nalbach, Diefflen and Dillingen”. At the end of the 19th century Daniel Lazar, Daniel Levy I and Moses Bonnem formed the board.

In 1895 there were 33 Jewish residents in Nalbach and 20 in Diefflen. Around 1925 Moses Bonn was the head of the Diefflen-Nalbach community. In the 1930s this office was held by Moses Weiler, who lived in Diefflen.

In June 1933, 24 Jewish people were still living in Nalbach (out of a total of 2,735 inhabitants) and ten in Diefflen. Of these, a larger part was able to leave the place in the following years, partly to other places in Germany, partly abroad. During the November pogrom of 1938 , the remaining Jewish families were attacked and mistreated. An eyewitness reports: “People from our neighborhood looted the houses of the Jews that were standing in the main street […]. On the way there I saw how they rounded up the Jews on the street and beat them […]. They beat the Jews with belt locks; they hit the Jews like crazy ”. The last Jewish residents were deported to the internment camp in Gurs in October 1940 .

Of the Jewish people born in Nalbach and Diefflen and / or who lived there for a longer period of time, the following died during the Nazi era: Fanni Baum (1857), Rosa Bonn (1887), Charlotte Hanau, b. Wolff (1877), Simon Hanau (1878), Meta Hirsch (1906), Hermann Kahn (1864), Karoline Kahn b. um (1864), Therese Metzler b. Levy (1908), Max (Marcus) Rakhovsky (1893), Adolf Salomon (1890), Louis Salomon (1900), Josephine Weiler (1889), Julia Weiler (1887), Martha Weiler (1899), Samuel Weiler (1855), Theresia Weiler b. Levy (1857), Eugen Wolff (1897), Ferdinand Wolff (1882 or 1886?), Friedrich (Fréderique) Wolff (1873), Hedwig (e) Wolff (1880), Wilhelmine Wolfskehl geb. Wolff (1879).

The synagogue

The Jewish families living in Nalbach and Diefflen used common facilities at times, especially after the synagogue in Nalbach was built. Around the year 1850 a prayer room was set up in a Jewish private house in Diefflen. In Nalbach, a dilapidated building served as a synagogue. Since the less well-off Jewish families Diefflens and Nalbach could not have built a synagogue on their own, they received financial support from Jewish families from Saarwellingen. These gave the Nalbach community the money they still needed for the construction, interest-free for five years. So the synagogue could probably be built in the period 1853/54 in Mittelstrasse 17 and on 20./21. Inaugurated October 1854 (Shabbat Bereschit).

The synagogue burned down on November 27, 1891. The synagogue was extensively renovated between 1891 and 1892 thanks to its own funds, including the amount of the fire insurance, and probably due to a loan and donations received from other communities. The synagogue was a longitudinal hall with a gable roof . The building had the relatively small dimensions of about 6.30 m wide and about 10.70 m deep. Due to the narrow buildings and the lack of light on both long sides, it was necessary to provide the entrance gable and probably also the gable in the area of ​​the Torah shrine with large windows. The entrance facade was designed according to motifs of the Low German Renaissance architecture. In 1922 the church was renovated.

Due to the decline in the number of Jewish community members during the Nazi era, the synagogue was sold in 1937. The most important ritual items have been removed. During the November pogrom in 1938, the remaining furnishings in the synagogue were demolished. The building was preserved as a whole, was damaged by artillery fire in World War II in 1944/45 , but could still be used as a storage room for agricultural supplies until it was demolished in 1950/51.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the previously independent communities of Bilsdorf , Körprich and Piesbach , which belonged to the Nalbach office , were incorporated.

politics

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Allocation of seats in 2019 in the Nalbach municipal council
   
A total of 27 seats

Municipal council

The council with 27 seats is made after the local elections on May 26, 2019 as follows:

SPD :   55.9%  (+ 1.8)   15 seats  (± 0)
CDU :   36.7%  (+ 11.1)   10 seats  (+ 3)
Left :   7.4%  (New)   2 seats  (+ 2)

mayor

  • 1985-2003: Kurt Adam, SPD
  • 2003–2012: Patrik Lauer, SPD
  • since August 1, 2012: Peter Lehnert, independent

Coat of arms and municipal colors

The municipality of Nalbach has the following municipal coat of arms:

In red on a silver mountain covered with a blue wavy bar, a silver trefoil cross, angled by four six-pointed silver stars.

The symbolism of the coat of arms makes the historical circumstances as well as the situation of the community area newly formed in 1974 visible. It shows a clover-leaf cross in the Electorate of Trier colors, red and silver , which grows out of a mountain covered with a blue wavy strip and is angular with four stars. The cross is a heraldic replica of the Litermont cross .

The Litermont is shown in the Nalbach coat of arms as a silver mountain. The blue wavy bar symbolizes the prims that connect all the valley communities of the Nalbacher Valley. The stars stand for the four current municipal districts of the unitary municipality Nalbach formed on New Year's Day 1974: Nalbach, Piesbach, Bilsdorf, Körprich. The valley community of Diefflen was no longer considered heraldically because it left the mayor's office in Nalbach in 1969 and was incorporated into Dillingen. The stars are derived from the historic seal of the Simeonsstift in Trier's Porta Nigra. The monastery, which had sovereign rights over the Nalbach Valley since the 11th century, had stars in its seal. The Nalbach coat of arms was designed by Alois M. Peter.

Simultaneously with the award of the coat of arms, the municipality of Nalbach was granted the right to use the old Kurtrierischen colors "red-white" ("red-silver") as municipality colors. The red and silver colors of the Trier coat of arms, which are used in the Nalbach coat of arms, go back to the Damiette crusade , in which Low German crusaders took part in the years 1217 to 1221. The color combination "white-blue" ("silver-blue") in the municipal coat of arms (blue wavy ribbon of the prims in front of the silver-white mountain) can also be interpreted as a historical reminiscence of the Electoral Palatinate - Wittelsbach bailiwick of the Nalbach valley.

education

Kindergartens

There are three kindergartens in the municipality of Nalbach.

  • St. Peter and Paul, Nalbach
  • St. Michael, Körprich
  • St. Johannes, Piesbach

School development

Nalbach, elementary school
Nalbach, Litermonthalle and school on the Galgenberg

In 1618 Wilhelm Marzloff von Braubach ordered the establishment of a school with a schoolmaster in the Nalbach Valley.

"Item it should generally be considered by the gentlemen on a qualified Scholmeister who should be used in all and relevant cases before a common clerk, who should get order before his salarium (wages) pro qualitate from the officials."

The schoolmaster was supposed to teach the children of the entire Nalbach valley as well as to act as community and court clerks and to be remunerated according to performance. A list from 1623 mentions a Cornelius Noper as a "Ludimagister" (elementary school teacher). Noper was also a host in Nalbach. School operation was limited to the winter, as the children had to help their parents on the farm during the rest of the time. During the Thirty Years War this school facility went under. Only for the year 1708 is there a Ludimagister named Friedrich Meyer in the death registers of the Nalbach parish of St. Peter and Paul . His successor in office Johann Martin Reichard calls himself "Schoolmaster of the Nalbach Valley". Like his predecessor in office, Reichard was also a community clerk. Obviously, for some parents and students in the Nalbach Valley, regular school attendance does not seem to have been on the top of their urgency list. In the police ordinance for the localities of the Nalbach Valley of June 6, 1726, it is therefore stated:

“The subjects should diligently send their children to school, but if they do not, they should not only pay school fees to the teacher from the usual time of the day, but instead should be viewed with another punishment of a gold guild. "

For the year 1739 two classrooms are recorded for Nalbach. However, the parents seem to have handled their children's schooling very negligently, so that police ordinances had to threaten defaulting parents with fines. In an ordinance of the Bishop of Trier from the year 1737 it is criticized that in the parishes of the Landkapitels Merzig, for extremely understood reasons of economy, less qualified teachers, even vagrants, were employed as teachers, since they demand less wages than the really competent teachers. In this regard, the Trier ordinance admonishes pastors to put an end to such abuses. For the year 1759 the Nalbacher church books record a Petrus Spanda and for the year 1784 a Petrus Willmuth as Ludimagister. In the year 1787 a Paulus is called lamps. All these Nalbach teachers did not come from the Nalbach valley, but had moved from outside the country.

In the wake of the reorganization of the French Revolution , schools were set up in all sub-communities in the Nalbach Valley, but these were of a makeshift character compared to today's conditions. Until the second half of the 19th century there were entries in the Nalbach registry office registers about people, especially women, who were not able to enter their names on their own when signing. With the transition of the Nalbach Valley to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816, compulsory schooling was officially introduced. In 1818 the first teachers' seminar was set up in Trier and parish school inspectors were appointed. For the mayor's offices on the right bank of the Saar, this was Pastor Matthias Kimmer from Nalbach. Paulus Lamps, who was now called Paulus Lamp, took over the Nalbach parish school. The director of the Dieffler school was Paul Kiefer in 1819. In Körprich, Nikolaus Puhl, who was trained in the Trier seminar, taught in a small house below the Michaelskapelle. In Bilsdorf Peter Scholer led the lessons and in Piesbach-Bettstadt Johannes Spurk. All community schools were single class and had only one teaching post. In view of the precarious financial situation in the first half of the 19th century, the villages of the Nalbach Valley were unable to build new school buildings. Compulsory schooling began at the age of seven or eight and ended at the age of ten or eleven. It was not until 1867 that it was ordered that children under the age of 14 were required to attend school. The winter schools have also been canceled.

Until 1845, the old sexton house in Nalbach was used as a school building on the lower Etzelbachstrasse. Since 1819 teacher Paulus Lamp has been supported in school and sexton service by his son Nikolaus. In 1827 Nikolaus Lamp became head of the Nalbach School. In 1845 the community of Nalbach was able to build its own schoolhouse on Rathausplatz an der Prims, which soon had to be enlarged by additions and superstructures due to a lack of space. There was also a teacher's apartment here. In the years 1927/1928 a large new school building was built in a castle-like, neo-baroque style on Fußbachstrasse on the Kirchberg and in 1937 it was expanded from six to nine classrooms. This building, visible from afar on a sandstone cliff above Nalbach's Hubertusstrasse, was completely stripped of its historical neo-baroque character in 2013 by the Dillingen architects Lisa Groß and Sabine Waschbüsch Dillingen and now serves as the town hall of the Nalbach community in soberly purified forms. The school building from 1845 on the Prims served as a domestic vocational school after the Fußbachschule was built until 1973. During the Nazi era, the Nalbach NSDAP branch had its party office here. The building was demolished in 1984 and the fire station was erected in its place, which was inaugurated on June 20, 1987.

In 1965, planning began to build the Litermont School as a secondary school. The new building on the former Nalbacher Galgenberg, the historic place of execution in the Nalbacher Valley, was inaugurated on May 29, 1970.

primary school

With the decline in the number of children due to the general demographic change, the municipality of Nalbach closed all primary schools in the suburbs and built a central primary school in Nalbach, which was inaugurated on August 10, 2008 after 15 months of construction.

Secondary school

The advanced secondary school Nalbach "Schule am Litermont" leads to the secondary school leaving certificate and the intermediate educational qualification. By offering A-courses, students can be prepared for a change to grammar school and upper-level grammar schools. The first foreign language at ERS Nalbach is English.

Arts and Culture

Replica of a telegraph tower on the Litermont above Nalbach
Willow Dome

Sculpture path

The sculpture path with wood carvings by the Berlin-based artist Örnie Poschmann, who works in Lower Bavaria, is located on the Litermont. The works of art were made from poplar trees that had to be felled for safety reasons.

Litermont Museum and Historical Park

The Litermontmuseum at the foot of the Litermont is a former Siegfried Line bunker, in which aspects of the history of the Second World War are illustrated and the Litermont and its legends are presented. The adjacent historical park deals with agricultural implements from the last century.

Optical telegraph station

After the lost campaign in Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the construction of a telegraph line from Metz to Mainz in 1813 , including a station on the Litermont. The stations served Napoleon to always be informed about the events on the eastern border of his empire. The original facility stood on the summit until 1813. With the Prussian conquests of 1814, the facility on the Litermont fell into disrepair. In 2000 the association “Optical Telegraph Station Litermont e. V. “, who recreated the current station. The current system is based on historical construction plans and is ready for operation, so that the functionality of the telegraph can be demonstrated during a tour.

Willow Dome

The willow dome on the summit of the Litermont is related to the circular hiking trail, on which the sculptures by Örnie Poschmann can also be seen. The living structure consists of 400 willows and 300 birch trunks. The diameter of the natural dome structure is 10 meters. The dome is the largest living structure in Saarland. Nine main columns are arranged in such a way that the dome structure offers nine entrance portals. The close proximity to the summit cross, to which hundreds of believers make pilgrimages every year, should create a space for peace and reflection.

Michaelskapelle in Körprich

The Körprich Chapel of St. Michael, first mentioned in a document in 1332, was redesigned in the 1930s by the Saar Schoenstatt Movement . The movement had the mosaic of the miraculous image of the Mater Ter Admirabilis installed above the altar, the original of which (Refugium Peccatorum Madonna) had been made by the Italian painter Luigi Crosio (1835–1915) in 1898. Since its last renovation (1985–1987), the chapel is today both a place of worship for the Korprich believers and a memorial for those who fell in the two world wars.

Old forge Piesbach

The Piesbach blacksmith Jakob Becker (* around 1800) is said to have built the forge according to tradition. His son Johannes Becker (* 1826), also a blacksmith, made the Litermont Cross in this forge in 1852. This was ceremoniously brought to the Litermont in a horse-drawn carriage and set up. Johann Becker (* 1863), son of Johannes, renovated the Litermont Cross in 1902 after it was damaged by a hurricane, also in this forge. The forge operated until 1965 when it was finally closed. In the course of the competition “Our village has a future” (2006-2007), the idea was taken up to renovate this forge and convert it into a museum. In April 2006 the keys were handed over to the community. The forge was restored and returned to its original state under the supervision and cooperation of the State Monument Preservation and through the personal contribution of the members of the “Building Development and Design” working group. It serves as a museum in which the blacksmithing trade is taught through demonstrations.

traffic

Nalbach is connected to the national road network to Germany , Luxembourg and Austria via the federal motorway 8 ( Perl - Bad Reichenhall ) .

There is a regular bus connection from Saarlouis main station in public transport .

graveyards

Nalbach, cemetery with (from left to right) the church tower, the cemetery chapel and the town hall
Nalbach, cemetery hall

Since the Nalbach parish was founded in the Middle Ages, all the dead in the Nalbach valley have been buried in the Nalbach churchyard . Burials at the Körprich Michaelskapelle took place for the first time in the years 1695 to 1705, when Körprich, which of all Nalbach valley communities was the furthest away from the Nalbacher St. Peter and Paul , was striving for greater church independence from Nalbach. When the Gothic Nalbach church was demolished in 1762 in favor of a new baroque building and the Nalbach churchyard was therefore not verifiable, all the dead in the Nalbach valley were buried in the churchyard of the Körprich chapel for four weeks. Subsequently, however, the Nalbacher Kirchhof was used again until 1867, when the own chapel cemetery was used again in Körprich and the current cemetery was established in Nalbach between Fußbachstraße and Galgenberg in 1868. This cemetery was designed as a cemetery for Nalbach, Piesbach, Bettstadt, Bilsdorf and Diefflen. He lost this function with the establishment of his own cemeteries in the individual villages of the Nalbach valley in connection with the church's separation from the Nalbach mother parish. The centuries-old churchyard at the Nalbacher church was leveled in the following period. In the years 1953/1954 the cemetery chapel was built on the Nalbach cemetery. According to a resolution of the Nalbach municipal council on February 5, 1957, a memorial was set up here for those killed in the two world wars of the 20th century.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Jakob Anton Ziegler (1893–1944), Catholic pastor, died in Dachau concentration camp
  • Alois Lauer (1901–1984), factory owner, co-founder and first chairman of the Dillingen branch of the NSDAP (since June 30, 1932), since November 23, 1933 leader of the “ German Front ” in the Dillingen municipal council. Alois Lauer is the founder of the Alois Lauer Foundation. Lauer had been an honorary citizen of the city of Dillingen / Saar since 1976 .
  • Gerhard Nalbach (1929–2008), priest in Brazil, winner of the Civic Prize of the Nalbach Community (2008)
  • Leo Montada (* 1938), psychologist and university professor, son of the Körprich headmaster Alois Montada
  • Edmund Hein (* 1940), politician (CDU), Saarland finance minister
  • Roland Henz (1949–2017), Lord Mayor of Saarlouis
  • Anne Klein (1950–2011), lawyer, senator in Berlin 1989–90; born in the district of Bilsdorf and died in Berlin
  • Peter Bilsdorfer (* 1951), lawyer
  • Patrik Lauer (* 1964), lawyer, district administrator of the Saarlouis district
  • Sabine Weyand (* 1964), German civil servant in the European Union

Personalities who are closely related to Nalbach

  • Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach , (born May 24, 1691 in Trier; † May 11, 1748 in Trier), professor at the law faculty of the University of Trier, auxiliary bishop of Trier (1691–1748), titular bishop of Emmaus 1730, dean of the St Simeon zu Trier, diplomat at the French royal court
  • Johann Hugo II von Hagen (born July 10, 1707 in Koblenz , † November 24, 1791 in Vienna ), Imperial Court Council President (1778–1791) and Austrian Reich Conference Minister , Lord of the High Court of Nalbacher Tal
  • Leo Montada, (born January 29, 1891 in Kochern / Kreis Forbach, ✝ February 28, 1927 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; buried in Körprich), builder of the Körprich Church of St. Michael by the architectural associations Prior & Casel and Becker & Falkowski in 1926 , Brother of Alois Montada
  • Alois Montada, (born July 21, 1899 in Metz, ✝ April 8, 1990 in Körprich), mayor of the municipality of Nalbach (1945–1949) and later rector of the Körprich Catholic elementary school (1949–1965), father of the psychologist Leo Montada
  • Johann Jakob Woll, (born March 31, 1899 in Wemmetsweiler, † September 18, 1985 in Dillingen / Saar), pastor and honorary citizen in Körprich
  • Albert André , (born January 19, 1930 in Schwalbach - Hülzweiler , † April 16, 2014 in Piesbach ), Monsignor , former regional dean of the Saar-Hochwald region in the diocese of Trier , long-term pastor of the parish of St. John the Baptist in the Piesbach-Bettstadt district
  • Helmut Feld , (* 1936 in Dillingen / Saar ), theologian and church historian, grew up in Nalbach
  • Eva-Maria Labouvie , (born June 29, 1957 in Saarlouis), historian, professor of modern history (17th – 19th centuries) with a focus on gender research at the Institute for History (IGES) at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg , grew up in Nalbach
  • Frank-Lorenz Engel , (born May 8, 1961), actor and voice actor , grew up in Piesbach.
  • Adrian Becker , (born May 14, 1970 in Saarlouis), grew up in Piesbach.
  • Michael Müller-Kasztelan (* 1981 in Dillingen / Saar), opera singer , tenor , grew up in Bettstadt and Piesbach.

Local sagas and stories

The pioneer and essential collector of Saarland legends in the first half of the 20th century was the Saarbrücken art historian and folklorist Karl Lohmeyer , who published his first thematic work on Saarland legends in 1924. In 1935 a first overview followed, based on Lohmeyer's own field research . In 1954/55 his extensive two-volume overall presentation of the Saarland saga treasure was published, which to this day represents the most extensive collection of sources and thus the standard work on the subject. In addition, the local researcher Aloys Lehnert from Dieffler has dealt intensively with the narrative material of the Nalbach Valley.

Knight Maldix vom Litermont

The former castle on the Litermont was inhabited by Maldix vom Litermont (probably a derisive name invented early on , Latin: maledictus = "bad", someone about whom one speaks badly - the opposite would be benedictus) and his mother Margareta. Knight Maldix was a fierce hunter and savage reveler. All of his mother's admonitions were in vain. Maldix, so the legend goes, also had a just as well as pious brother who was more concerned with his mother and who is said to have lived in the nearby Siersburg . If Maldix once again raged and swore particularly badly at Litermont Castle, Margareta is said to have fled through an underground passage from Litermont to her pious son in Siersburg , only known to her .

On Holy Good Friday in the early morning hours before sunrise, when Margareta went to the Nalbacher church for prayer , Maldix wanted to organize a wild drive hunt in the Nalbacher Herrenwald with his vicious cronies against the heartfelt wish and despite the bad premonition of his pious and benevolent mother. He discovered a large stag and drove it through the forest to the Litermont. In a blasphemous manner he exclaimed: "Today the Lord dies for you, mother, and the stag for me." When Maldix fell from his horse, shying in front of a steep rocky cliff, in a deluded hunting frenzy, he plunged into the deep devil's gorge with a hideous scream died cruelly. The hunting party found him in his blood with broken limbs. But the mysterious stag had disappeared.

In the nocturnal storm wind, especially in the rough nights , according to legend, one hears the unredeemed spirit of Maldix, accompanied by blowing dog barks, cracking whips, horns, the hunters' hello and eerie sparks, still today on a glowing car, bringing misfortune, through the Primstal and roar through the Dillinger Forest . Margarete vom Litermont, his mother, grieved because of the unfortunate death of her son, donated the tithing of the bell in Nalbach, which is why she was buried in the choir of the church in Nalbach after her death.

In the middle of the 19th century, a large, widely visible cross was erected in her honor on the summit of the Litermont. It bears the inscription: “Memory of Margaretha von Lidermont. Hanc crucem anno 1852 erexit et anno 1902 renovavit parochia Nalbach ”(This cross was erected by the parish of Nalbach in 1852 and renewed in 1902.)

More Litermont legends
The Liddermenner wolf at the feet of St. Joseph, mural above the rosary altar in the parish church of St. Josef and St. Wendelin in Diefflen

Karl Lohmeyer passed on other legends in connection with the Litermont, such as B.

  • The strange princess
  • The ore grave saga
  • The underground lake in the Litermont
  • The devil's hole in the Litermont
  • The Patriach of the Druid Stone
  • The wild hunter
  • The devil dog and the burning gold
  • The white rider
The story of the Liddermenner wolf

Aloys Lehnert tells the story of the Liddermenner wolf. The story tells of a greedy wolf who roamed the area around the Litermont in search of prey. One after the other, however, he is cheated of his food by a mare and her colt, two rams, a group of goats and a sow with her piglets that he wants to eat. Finally, in the Rodener Wald (today's Ford site), when he lies down tiredly under a gnarled oak, he is hunted down with a cleaver by a Dieffler lumberjack, who has sought protection from the wolf in the branches of the oak, and thus cannot Do more damage.

The "Lidermenner Wolf" is shown above the right side altar (rosary altar) of the Dieffler parish church of St. Joseph and St. Wendelin in a mural tamed at the feet of St. Joseph of Nazareth with the baby Jesus.

literature

  • Katharina Best: The history of the former synagogue communities Dillingen and Nalbach, in: Our homeland, bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape, 13th year, double issue No. 3/4, Saarlouis 1988, pp. 95–114.
  • Georg Colesie: witch trials at the high court of Nalbach, in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 17/18, 1969/1970.
  • Georg Colesie: Vogteien und Vögte im Nalbacher Tal, in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 20, 1972, p. 36.
  • Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley, A Saarland Homeland History, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990.
  • Anton Edel: The inhabitants of the Nalbach valley 1800–1902 - Bettstadt, Bilsdorf, Diefflen, Körprich, Nalbach, Piesbach, ed. by Gernot Karge on behalf of the Association for Local Studies in the Saarlouis district, sources on genealogy in the Saarlouis district and neighboring areas, vol. 30, 2 volumes, Saarlouis 2004.
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  • Friedrich Toepfer: Document book for the history of the count and baronial house of the bailiffs of Hunolstein, 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1866–1872.
  • Literature about Nalbach in the Saarland Bibliography

Web links

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