New Saar
Neu- Saar Werden ( French Ville Neuve de Sarrewerden ) was the administrative seat of the Nassau territories on the upper Saar in the 18th century . In 1794, the city on the left bank of the Saar united with the city of Bockenheim on the right bank of the Saar to form the city of Sarre-Union (hence in the name of Union).
history
After the seizure of the County of Saarwerden of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1527 and the introduction of the Reformation in 1556 under Count Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken were the two places Bockenheim and Saarwerden with their surroundings to a permanent bone of contention between the Catholic house Lorraine and the Protestant House of Nassau . Nassau had inherited the territories, Lorraine had been enfeoffed with the two places by the Bishop of Metz . In 1669, Lorraine and Nassau-Saarbrücken reached the following compromise at the Reichstag in Regensburg: Bockenheim and Saar Werden came to Lorraine, the surrounding area to Nassau-Saarbrücken. The Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 confirmed the House of Lorraine in possession of the places Saar Werden and Bockenheim, the surrounding area was confirmed in Nassau-Saarbrücken, which in 1701 created a new administrative center for its possessions on the left bank of the Saar, directly opposite Bockenheim, and became the city he lifted. The now insignificant Saar becoming half an hour up the Saar has been differentiated as Old Saar become since the foundation of New Saar. In 1745 the house of Nassau decided to divide the remaining parts of the former county of Saar Werden and the bailiwick of Herbitzheim . A third, including the city of Neu-Saar Werden, came to Nassau-Weilburg , two thirds came to Nassau-Saarbrücken, which again had no administrative headquarters for its area. So the neighboring town of Harskirchen was raised to the status of a town in 1746 and from then on served as the administrative seat of the Nassau-Saarbrück Oberamt Harskirchen.
The French Revolution brought in 1794 the new political order and eventually merging the right of the Saar lying Catholic city Bockenheim to the left of the Saar lying Protestant city of New Saarwerden (French. Ville Neuve de Sarrewerden) under a new joint name Sarre-Union . It became the seat of the canton of Sarre-Union of the same name in the Arrondissement Saverne of the Bas-Rhin department of the Alsace region and remained the capital of the Crooked Alsace ( Alsace Bossue ).
literature
- Timotheus Wilhelm Röhrich: Mittheilungen from the history of the Evangelical Church of Alsace , Vol. 1, Paris and Strasbourg 1855, p. 146. Online