Waders

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 6 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Saarland
County :	Merzig-Wadern
Height :	278 m above sea level NHN
Area :	110.96 km 2
Residents:	15,673 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	141 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66687
Primaries :	06871, 06874
License plate :	MZG
Community key :	10 0 42 116
City structure:	13 districts
City administration address :	Marktplatz 13 66687 Wadern
Website :	www.wadern.de
Mayor :	Jochen Kuttler (ProHochwald)
Location of the city of Wadern in the Merzig-Wadern district

Wadern is a Saarland city in the Merzig-Wadern district between Saarbrücken and Trier . With an area of ​​111 square kilometers, it is the third largest city in Saarland after Saarbrücken and St. Wendel . The city of Wadern is divided into 13 districts. A total of 24 villages belong to the municipality. The city is located in the Moselle-Franconian language area.

geography

location

The city of Wadern is located in the northernmost landscape of the Saarland, the so-called "Hunsrück Foreland". This landscape forms the transition between the Saar-Nahe-Bergland and the Hunsrück . The northern border of the Hunsrück foreland runs over the ridge of the Black Forest high forest and is also the border with Rhineland-Palatinate . The Wadern districts of Steinberg and Wadrilltal are located on the steeper slopes of the Hochwald ridge, while the other districts are located on the edge of an elongated lowland (Losheimer-Wadern Basin), which is surrounded by hills. The city's main river is the Prims with the confluences of Wadrill , Lösterbach and Losheimer Bach. The highest point in the city is the Springkopf (529 meters) in the Wadrilltal district. The city of Wadern has an area of ​​111 km². It is - in terms of area - the third largest municipality in Saarland. 43.7 percent of the urban area is used for agriculture, 42.9 percent is forest. The soils consist mainly of sand and red soil .

Expansion of the urban area

The longest extension of the urban area is 18.6 km between the villages of Wadrill and Nunkirchen. The north-south axis is 14.6 km away, the east-west axis 11.5 km.

Neighboring communities

In the north, the town of Wadern borders on the Verbandsgemeinde Hermeskeil (Rhineland-Palatinate), in the north-east on the community Nonnweiler ( district of Sankt Wendel ), in the south-east on the community of Tholey (district of Sankt Wendel), in the south on the community of Schmelz ( Saarlouis district ) and in the west to the community of Losheim am See and the community of Weiskirchen (Merzig-Wadern district).

City structure

The city of Wadern is divided into 13 municipal districts or districts (as of December 31, 2019):

district associated places Residents surface Bardenbach Bardenbach, Biel 862 453 ha Büschfeld Büschfeld, Überlosheim, Vogelsbüsch 1256 966 ha Dagstuhl Buttnich, Dagstuhl 339 345 ha Krettnich   517 559 ha Lockweiler Altland, Lockweiler, Nuhweiler 1436 1336 ha Löstertal Buweiler, Kostenbach, Oberlöstern, Rathen 1310 1626 ha Morscholz   908 636 ha Helix Batschweiler, Noswendel, Noswendelroth 1206 730 ha Nunkirchen Münchweiler, Nunkirchen 2510 1344 ha Steinberg   1002 463 ha Waders Lowered, Wadern 2308 567 ha Wadrilltal Gehweiler, Reidelbach, Wadrill 1974 1635 ha Wedern 258 458 ha City of Wadern   15,886 11,117 ha

The city administration is based in the district of Wadern.

Urban structure

The city of Wadern is a large city, the 13 districts of which are partly spatially clearly separated from each other, partly also quite densely spread over the entire urban area. Closely connected settlement and usable areas can be found between Bardenbach and Büschfeld, between Wadern, Dagstuhl and Wedern, between Gehweiler and Wadrill, between Krettnich and Lockweiler and between Morscholz and Steinberg. The integration of most of the villages into the hills and valleys of the Saar-Nahe mountains is characteristic of the entire settlement area . The location at the foot of the Black Forest high forest can be clearly seen from Nunkirchen, the southernmost district. While the industrial structure characterizes the townscape in the districts of Lockweiler and Büschfeld, the service sector dominates in the districts of Nunkirchen and Wadern - with shops, medium-sized handicraft businesses and smaller-scale commercial establishments. Medium-sized businesses and service providers can also be found in the other parts of the city, although the residential character predominates here more than in the Wadern, Nunkirchen and Lockweiler districts. Structural data : The city of Wadern covers an area of ​​111 km², including buildings and open spaces with 6.8%, traffic areas with 4.1%, agricultural areas with 43.7% and forest areas with 42.9%. A total of 15,983 residents lived in Wadern on the reporting date. That means 144 inhabitants per km². 7,841 residents are male, 8,142 female. The proportion of foreigners is 3.9%. In 2012 there were 110 births for the city as a whole compared to 175 deaths. 563 people moved to Wadern, 643 left the city.

climate

Precipitation diagram

The annual precipitation is 1114 mm. This puts it in the top third of the nationwide measuring points of the German Weather Service . Over 90% have lower values. The driest month is April; it rains most often in December. In the wettest month, about 1.9 times more rain falls than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the upper tenth.

history

Prehistory and early history

Although a few individual finds, such as individual stone axes and a Bronze Age burial mound in Nunkirchen, already indicate prehistoric settlement in the region, it was not until the period from around 1,000 BC. Meaningful finds and findings. There are numerous elaborate burials under burial mounds on the heights of the high forest, especially from the early Celtic Iron Age , which indicate the presence of a rich Celtic upper class with trade contacts as far as the Mediterranean. In the urban area of ​​Wadern here are the 5th / 4th century BC, nine burial mounds with several richly decorated burials near Gehweiler, laid out along an ancient route.

The burials near Lockweiler (1st century BC), on the other hand, date from the late Celtic period, from which the changed ritual of the dead can be read, since the deceased were burned here and buried in graves without hilltop. In addition to the archaeological sources, the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar also provided a more precise written description of the people living here and their customs . In his description of the Roman conquest of the region 58-51 / 50 BC. BC (" Commentarii de Bello Gallico ") he describes the locals as " Treverer ", who put up bitter resistance to the Roman invaders for a long time before the conquerors succeeded in crushing the last rebels. These events, handed down from a Roman perspective, are reflected in the discovery of a Roman military camp that was built at Hermeskeil at the time of the Gallic War in the immediate vicinity of the Celtic hilltop settlement known as the “ Hunnenring ” on the Dollberg near Otzenhausen .

The incorporation of Gaul into the Roman Empire and the expansion of the road network not only transported a large number of commercial goods to the new province , but also introduced foreign customs, usages and techniques. In the 2nd century AD, a complete ensemble of a Gallo-Roman temple , two - today reconstructed - monumental burial mounds and a Roman villa rustica with a representative main building and several farm buildings was created in Oberlöstern . In addition, several mining sites in the area as well as fragments of the blank from a hand-held rotary mill and a grating stone demonstrate the economic importance of the local stone for local grinding stone production.

Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

In the course of the 5th century there were repeated incursions by Germanic tribes and finally the removal of Roman rule in the region and the incorporation into the Frankish Empire . While the new structures and the influx of Franconian new settlers can only be partially understood from an archaeological point of view, the place names of the villages in the Wadern city area still allow us to conclude that they were founded. The frequent endings of -bach, -feld or -rod refer to the great medieval clearing phase of the 10th century when the forests of the high forest were cut down to gain new areas for settlement construction and agriculture.

The period of the Middle Ages and the early modern period was characterized by the fact that today's city of Wadern belonged to different domains: Up until the French Revolution, in addition to the two large power blocs of the Archbishopric of Trier and the Duchy of Lorraine , smaller rulers such as the empire-free rule Dagstuhl and were also divided the von Hagen family and later Zandt von Merl, today's urban area. The political border situation not only influenced people's everyday life, but also led to interdependence with supra-regional political developments and conflicts.

Medieval architectural monuments are for example the Romanesque church towers in Wadrill, Lockweiler, the oldest part of today's church tower in Wadern and the castle ruins. While Büschfeld Castle has now completely disappeared, the remains of Schwarzenburg and Dagstuhl Castle are still visible. Thanks to excavations in the 1980s and an extensive excavation and valuation program between 2003 and 2011, the latter has become a cultural tourist attraction in the region.

The Archbishop of Trier and Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern played a special role in the early modern development of the Dagstuhl rule . From 1616 to 1625 he united the domains of Dagstuhl, which had been split into four inheritance parts since the 14th century, and carried out major renovations on the castle. In 1635 he stipulated the indivisibility of family property in the legal form of the “Söternschen Fideikommiss ”, which he furnished with further lendings, property shares and legal titles as well as extensive cash and valuables from his private property.

The count's tenants were called stick farmers in Wadern . Their rights and obligations were regulated in writing.

Through the marriage of Maria Sidonia von Sötern with Count Notger Wilhelm von Baldern, Katzenstein and Aufhausen in 1680, the Dagstuhl dominion came into the possession of the Counts of Oettingen-Baldern in the Nördlinger Ries and came under their grandson, Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen in the 18th century -Baldern and Sötern, to special bloom. He intensified the contacts with his remote rule in the Hochwald and finally moved his court to Dagstuhl in 1763. Here he resided in his castle , which was built in 1760, and tried to improve the economic situation in his rule through numerous ordinances. The most important innovation for the further development of Wadern was the granting of market rights in 1765. The possibility of holding regular cattle and junk markets helped the “ market town ” of Wadern to achieve an enormous economic boom. As a visible sign of this market right, Count Joseph Anton had a market square and a market fountain built in the heart of Wadern.

Another palace complex was built in Münchweiler from 1750–1752 under Baron Franz Georg Zandt von Merl. This castle , which was expanded into a baroque residence in several construction phases, was fundamentally renovated from 1997 to 2007 with the support of the federal government, the state and the German Foundation for Monument Protection and is still family-owned today.

With the arrival of the French revolutionary troops in 1794, the prince's time ended. The princely estates became French state property. While Münchweiler Castle was bought back by its previous owners in 1801, Baron Wilhelm Albert de Lasalle von Louisenthal and his family settled in Dagstuhl Castle in 1807.

19th century

The current area of ​​the city of Wadern was merged into French national territory by the Peace of Lunéville in 1801 and as a result in new administrative structures. The various communities (called “Mairies”) Wadern, Weierweiler and Neunkirchen (Nahe) together formed the canton of Wadern, in the Birkenfeld arrondissement, which in turn belonged to the Saar department with its seat in Trier.

As part of the territorial reorganization of Europe by the Congress of Vienna , the area of ​​the current city of Wadern came under Prussian administration in 1815. It was part of the Merzig district newly created by Prussia , which was formed by nine mayor's offices. The Merzig district belonged to the Trier administrative district, which in turn was part of the Prussian Rhine province . This structure existed until the end of the First World War . The mayor's office in Wadern was established at the beginning of the 19th century. This form of local government was introduced by the French in Prussia between 1806 and 1813.

The 19th century brought not only a change in the political situation, but also new technologies and profound changes in economic and social terms.

The initial situation was extremely bad: in the high forest area, which was bled economically during the French occupation at the end of the 18th century / beginning of the 19th century due to compulsory levies and deforestation, bitter hardship prevailed in many places. In addition, bad harvests had a catastrophic effect in this agricultural area, so that numerous people emigrated. In addition to the efforts of the Prussian administration to improve the economic situation in the district, there were also private initiatives: To support the needy, Baroness Octavie de Lasalle von Louisenthal, revered as the “painter countess”, founded an Elisabeth Society in 1843 at Dagstuhl Castle. In addition, the de Lasalle von Louisenthal family donated a small house in 1856 to accommodate the needy, sick and orphans, which was later continued by the Franciscan Sisters of Waldbreitbach and from which the Elisabeth Hospital of the city of Wadern, which existed until 2017, emerged.

With the establishment of the German Customs Association in 1834, coal in the Saarland opened up new sales markets. This fact, in connection with an increasing demand for energy and the use of new technologies in the production process, led from the middle of the 19th century to an enormous increase in the number of high forests employed in mining. Agriculture, which was often pursued as a sideline on the local farms, was in the hands of the women, while the men stayed in dormitories during the week near their workplaces, which were far from home. The connection of the high forest region to the railway network brought the long-distance commuters, ridiculed as "Hartfüßler", an enormous improvement in living conditions. The situation of the small craft businesses in the area of ​​today's city of Wadern also improved in the course of the 19th century. In 1858 Nikolaus Lauer founded the Wadern cloth factory, which existed until 1963.

Especially from the second half of the 19th century, the club system flourished in today's urban area, as more and more people came together to realize their artistic, economic and political interests.

The First World War

At the beginning of the 20th century, the population in the Merzig district had grown rapidly and the economic situation had improved. The increasing patriotism in the Hochwald area , especially after the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, and the popularity of Kaiser Wilhelm II meant that military service was now seen more as a "matter of honor" than a duty, and national celebrations that included political and ecclesiastical ones Dignitaries as well as schools and churches were major social events.

Nevertheless, the rural population reacted rather cautiously to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, as existential worries and fear of the horrors of war were more evident here than storms of patriotic enthusiasm. The called-up soldiers were bid farewell at the local train station in Wadern with great sympathy from the population. In August 1914, the region belonged to the deployment area on the Western Front , so that the "war important" station was used exclusively for military purposes and was even guarded during this time. Women provided the soldiers with food and drink as they passed through. In the same month the first wounded arrived in the regional hospitals in Merzig, Mettlach and Beckingen. The people kept in contact with their relatives in the field via field post and provided the soldiers with donations, so-called “ gifts of love ”.

Although the high forest was not a combat zone, the civilian population on the “ home front ” was hit not only by the increasing shortage of food and raw materials and the shortage of labor, but also by the effects of industrialized warfare: contemporary chronicles tell of enemy fighters on the way to Trier and the cannon thunder of the nearby western front, which can still be heard here.

According to the Compiègne ceasefire agreement , the German soldiers had to evacuate the occupied territories as quickly as possible after the end of the war, so that as early as November 1918 numerous regiments crossed the urban area when they withdrew from France. The soldiers returning home from the region were hailed as "undefeated heroes".

With the Versailles Treaty , which came into force in 1920, the political and territorial realities were also reorganized in the area of ​​the Merzig district. The greater part of this district, known as the “Stammkreis Merzig”, was separated from the German Empire and assigned to the Saar area , which was under the administration of the League of Nations . Merzig remained the administrative seat. A smaller part of the Merzig district, which existed until 1919, remained with the German Reich and formed the so-called " Restkreis Merzig-Wadern ", later also often called "Restkreis Wadern", with the administrative seat of the district administrator in Wadern. The remainder of the district continued to belong to the Trier administrative district in the Prussian Rhine province. It consisted of the mayor's offices and later the municipalities of Losheim , Wadern and Weiskirchen , to which a total of 43 municipalities were assigned. Friedrich Stephan Hubertus Graf von Spee held the office of district administrator in Wadern from 1920 to 1945, Jost Haas from 1945 to 1946. From 1928 onwards, the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province were referred to as so-called "offices", including Wadern. These “offices” fulfilled the administrative duties of the lower administration and were led by officials or mayors , for whose appointment the respective governments were responsible.

Although the rapid inflation of the Reichsmark was ended by the introduction of the Rentenmark by 1923 , the worsening economic situation in the 1920s led to numerous layoffs of industrial and ironworkers who were working as "Saarfarers" from the high forest area. In order to alleviate the bitter need, the Reich government declared the Saar border belt an emergency area and ordered emergency work in the form of clearing or road construction to provide economic support.

National Socialism, Resistance and World War II

In the remainder of the Wadern district, around 25,000 people lived between 1920 and 1939. Over 95 percent of them were Catholics. This was also reflected in the election results for the individual parties. The Center Party was clearly superior to the other parties, which was particularly evident in the Reichstag elections on March 5, 1933. These were the first elections under the rule of the National Socialists . The Center Party received 57.5 percent of the vote. The NSDAP only got 19.5 percent, the KPD 13.9 percent and the SPD 6 percent. The National Socialists took the result as an opportunity to take massive action against the other parties. The Enabling Act and conformity with the law did the rest to eliminate the political participation of these parties and the freedom of expression.

In contrast to the Saarlanders under the League of Nations administration, the people in the area of ​​today's city of Wadern quickly felt the consequences of the Hitler dictatorship after the Nazis came to power on January 30, 1933. However, there was also resistance to the arbitrariness . Nikolaus Demmer, Heinrich Graach, Peter Kasper, Peter Thomes, Josef Wagner and Hanns Wecker paid for their resistance with persecution, professional bans, prison, concentration camps and death.

On January 13, 1935, the Saarlanders decided by a large majority to reintegrate into the German Empire . The administration of the League of Nations ended with this, and the " Saar area " created in the Versailles Treaty was placed under a Reich Commissioner on March 1, 1935 under the name " Saarland ". However, there was no change in the territorial conditions, so that the Merzig parent district and the remainder of Wadern continued to form separate units with different affiliations: the Merzig parent district remained part of the Saarland and the remainder of Wadern remained part of the Trier administrative district. The municipality of Wadern was still not part of the Saarland.

With the beginning of the Second World War , the men fit for military service were drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to war. Many were killed in the war. The civilian population in the vicinity of Wadern experienced the horror of the war especially at the end of 1944 / beginning of 1945, when the Allied air raids also flew on the villages of today's city of Wadern. Railway systems in particular were under fire. On 16./17. March 1945 American troops occupied the area of ​​today's city of Wadern. The war was effectively over for the local people. After Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, the Allies decided at the Potsdam Conference to divide post-war Germany into zones of occupation. The French occupation zone comprised the southwest of Germany and thus also affected the remainder of Wadern with the municipality of the same name. As a result of this allied agreement, the Americans withdrew their troops and handed the remaining district with the Wadern district under the jurisdiction of the French, who, as one of the first administrative decisions, decided to merge the Merzig-Wadern district and the Merzig-Wadern district in Saarland . The municipality of Wadern, which - historically speaking - did not originally belong to the Saarland, has since been an integral part of this state. The Saarland itself was spun off from its zone of occupation by the French occupying power in 1946 in order to better assert the French reparation claims.

Post war history

• 1946–1974: Wadern had the status of an official municipality from 1946 to 1974, which performed administrative duties for the following 13 independent municipalities: Bardenbach, Büschfeld, Dagstuhl, Gehweiler, Krettnich, Lockweiler, Niederlöstern, Noswendel, Oberlöstern, Morscholz, Wadern, Wadrill and Wedern . In contrast to the Saar area period, Wadern belonged to the Saarland until it was reintegrated into the Federal Republic of Germany. With the territorial and administrative reform of 1974, Wadern received the status of a medium-sized center in northern Saarland.

• 1974 to today: In connection with the central function, the municipality of Wadern was granted city rights in 1978. The creation of numerous public infrastructures up to the mid-1980s (including an indoor swimming pool, town hall, urban redevelopment, Noswendel leisure center) supplemented the equipment of the medium-sized center. Sports and multi-purpose halls, town houses and sports facilities have been created in all parts of the city to this day, and these shape the quality of life on site. Particularly noteworthy in the recent history of the city is the establishment of today's Leibniz Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl (1990), which brings together basic researchers in computer science from all over the world in the city of Wadern.

"Large community" / becoming a town

Official logo of the city of Wadern

The "unified" or "large community" of Wadern was created in the course of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland in 1974 . On January 1, 1974 to date to have Office Wadern belonging and previously independent municipalities Bardenbach, Büschfeld, Dagstuhl, Gehweiler, Krettnich, Lockweiler, Morscholz, Loss esters, Noswendel, Oberlöstern, Wadern, Wadrill and Wedern dissolved. The municipalities of Münchweiler, Nunkirchen and Steinberg, which belonged to the Weiskirchen office up to this point, also lost their independence, as did the Buweiler-Rathen and Kostenbach municipalities from the Nonnweiler office. These communities then formed the "unit" or "large community" Wadern since January 1st, 1974. On July 1, 1978, the municipality of Wadern was granted city rights. When it became a town, Buweiler, Kostenbach, Oberlöstern and Rathen were combined to form the Löstertal district. Münchweiler was annexed to the Nunkirchen district in 1974. After a survey in May 2017, Gehweiler, Reidelbach (spun off from the Wedern district) and Wadrill were merged into the Wadrilltal district in July 2019.

politics

The city ​​council of Wadern is elected for five years. It currently consists of four parliamentary groups . The so-called “local constitution” applies in the districts. Each district has a local council , which in turn elects a local mayor from among its members. The mayor is responsible for the interests of the citizens in his district and represents the interests of his district vis-à-vis the city as a whole.

City council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 70.5%

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36.1%
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25.8%
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23.4%
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7.1%
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3.1%
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CDU

SPD

PH

Green

FWW

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2019



The local elections on May 26, 2019 brought the following result. This resulted in the following distribution of seats in the city council:

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8th

2

1

13 9 8th 2 1 

A total of 33 seats

• CDU : 13
• SPD : 9
• Pro Hochwald : 8
• Greens : 2
• FWW : 1

mayor

• 1957–1984: Herbert Klein, CDU
• 1984–1998: Berthold Müller, CDU
• 1998–2014: Fredi Dewald, SPD
• since 2014: Jochen Kuttler, ProHochwald

coat of arms

Coat of arms from Wadern until 1974

The coat of arms was first awarded to the Wadern Office on May 24, 1962 and existed until the territorial and administrative reform in 1974. On October 11, 1974, it was awarded - unchanged - to the municipality of Wadern by the Minister of the Interior. It is still the coat of arms of the city of Wadern, which has been called the "city" since 1978. The coats of arms relate to the territorial conditions of the official area in the 18th century. Four villages belonged to the Electorate of Trier ; they are symbolized by the red Trierian bar cross in the silver field, here in the shield head. Twelve villages belonged to the imperial rule Dagstuhl; they are represented by twelve golden iron hats in the shape of a feud in three stripes (5: 4: 3).

Town twinning

Official city partnerships exist with the French cities of Montmorillon and Jeumont , with the Czech city of Sobotka , with the city of Toma in Burkina Faso and with Wahrenbrück in Brandenburg.

Culture and sights

City Museum Wadern in the Oettinger Schlösschen

As early as 1978, the first local museum in the district was set up in the baroque “Oettinger Schlösschen”, which was reopened in autumn 2013 as the “Stadtmuseum Wadern” after extensive spatial renovation and redesigned content.

Oettinger Schlösschen Wadern.

The tour through the exhibition, which has been redesigned in terms of content and didactics, offers insights into around 2,500 years of regional development against the cultural and historical background of the time. A special feature is the wide range of exhibits that illustrate the history of the city of Wadern from the Celtic-Roman era to the 20th century. The focus is on developments that have had a lasting impact on the city to this day. These include, for example, the granting of market rights, important cultural assets in the urban area and extraordinary personalities such as the so-called “painter countess” Octavie de Lasalle von Louisenthal and the citizens of Wadern who rebelled against the National Socialist regime. The original objects are complemented by the use of modern media - graphic and three-dimensional reconstructions, audio stations and various media presentations. In changing special exhibitions, different topics of the city and regional history are highlighted. The city museum offers target group-specific guided tours as well as museum educational programs.

Octavie room in the Wadern City Museum

music

In the city of Wadern, music is traditionally cultivated and performed in a variety of ways. Under the umbrella organization “Stadtverband Waderner Musikvereine e. V. “(SWM) there are currently eight active music associations in the city. Most of the clubs operate their own youth orchestras to promote youth. These are generally rated positively by the participating children and adolescents because, in contrast to the music schools in Wadern, they not only enable musical training, but also include a more significant social component. In addition, the SWM has set up the “First Class Orchestra”, a joint youth orchestra of all eight music associations. Further musical education is also promoted at school. The Hochwaldgymnasium Waderns offers a musical group as well as an iPad band in which students in grades five to nine can make music using tablets without having to master an instrument. In the field of choral music, the city of Wadern has many active mixed choirs, church choirs and men's choirs, which are based on different styles from classical music to pop. In addition, the “Hunting Horn Blower Corps Hochwald” and the “Spielmannszug Büschfeld” as well as the classical concert series of the association “Concerts in the small residence” enliven the cultural offerings in the region. Furthermore, there are several acts in Wadern, including the music groups "Paul and Testarossa" and "Way To Paradise" and DJ Niklas Koch, the founder of OME Optimus Music Entertainment who performs under the stage name "Optimus Tekk".

Film, cinema

From the 1920s, the Dubois family, based in Wadern, ran a movie theater with a restaurant. After the cinema had to close in August 2011 for economic reasons, the "Verein der Filmfreunde der Lichtspiele Wadern" was founded, which took over the cinema and began regular operations in November 2012 under the name "Lichtspiele Wadern".

literature

• Elmar Engel, Hampitt Holbach's Odyssee - Canada 1896, Edition Meyster, 1985 (the work is partly set in the Nunkirchen district)

Buildings

Dagstuhl castle ruins

Dagstuhl castle ruins : According to documents available, the castle was built before 1290 by Knight Boemund of Saarbrücken as an outpost of the rule of the Bishop of Trier. The complex is a hilltop castle and, with the outer bastions and bastions, is over 300 m long. After the lords of Dagstuhl died out in the 14th century, the Dagstuhl lordship split up into the heirs of Fleckenstein, Brucken, Rollingen and Kriechingen, who alternately administered the castle as commonlords. The complex was subsequentlylargely demolishedby Wolfgang Anton von Langemantel, the administrator of the provost and later Archbishop and Elector of Trier, Franz Georg von Schönborn. From the mid-1980s, large parts of the remains of the castle were exposed and secured. From 2002 to 2006, further renovation measures followed, which ended in the development of the historical access route through the construction of two bridges and the didactic preparation through information boards, castle guides and internet presentation.

Dagstuhl Castle and Chapel : Dagstuhl Castle was the former residence of Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen-Sötern. The count had this castle built between 1760 and 1762. The mansion was expanded in 1775. After the French Revolution and the flight of the count family, the de Lasalle von Louisenthal family took over the building in 1806. The neo-Gothic style extensions were built around 1906 to create a spatial connection between the residential wing and the chapel. The walls and ceilings of the castle chapel were designed by Octavie de Lasalle with pictures from the life of Mary in the style of biblical history painting. In the extension of the chapel there is a way of the cross painted by her, which comes from the parish church in Lockweiler. The castle remained in family ownership until 1957. After that, it served as a retirement home for many years. Today it houses the renowned Leibniz Center for Computer Science. The palace has a palace garden that was created as part of the “Gardens without Borders” project. Many design features of the garden go back to the suggestions of the "painter countess" Octavio de Lasalle, who documented her ideas in various garden paintings.

Münchweiler Castle : Based on the ideas of Baron Franz Georg Zandt von Merl, the castle was built in Münchweiler between 1749 and 1785 according to plans by a still unknown architect from the circle of the master builder Christian Kretschmar. An avenue of chestnut trees leads to a large courtyard portal, through which one reaches the castle courtyard, which is framed by the residential and farm buildings. Extensions to the wings were built in the 19th century. The castle also has a baroque garden. The palace complex is unique in this form in the Saarland and today houses a hotel and a palace café.

Grafenschloss Wadern: Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen-Sötern built the Grafenschloss in 1758 on Waderner Oberstrasse as the first of his three castles. A previous building at the same location was first mentioned in a document in 1720. The castle served primarily as the chief office of the count's administration. From 1827 to 1959 it was the seat of the peace and district court with interruptions. From 1959 to 1961 the building was made available to the newly founded Hochwald-Gymnasium until a new school building was completed. The last remaining part of the castle is integrated into today's town hall. The castle is a simple five-axis building of the late baroque with a steep hipped roof and five protruding dormers. Inside the present town hall there is still the original staircase of the castle with a wooden railing in a chain pattern.

Oettinger Schlösschen Wadern: Count Joseph Anton built the Oettinger Schlösschen with a park in 1759 as his first residence in Wadern. After the end of the count's time, the castle was initially a restaurant, then for a long time a pharmacy. On the outer wall, visitors can still find the "Waderner Elle", a special measure that the fabric and leather dealers at the markets had to adhere to. Shortly before the planned demolition, the building was rescued by committed local historians. Today it houses the Wadern City Museum and the city council chamber.

The fountain on the market square in the Wadern district dates from the 18th century

Market fountain Wadern : The market fountain is the external symbol for the granting of market rights on April 13, 1765 by Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen-Sötern to the handicraft and trading center of Wadern. The fountain itself was built in 1770 and had to accept some relocation. After the redesign of the market square, it is now close to its original location.

Parish church Herz Jesu Nunkirchen : The neo-Gothic three-nave hall church Herz Jesu was built according to the plans of the cathedral builder Reinhold Wirtz from Trier. After its construction between 1893 and 1896, the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Carl Ernst Schrod on April 26, 1896. The church has preserved its original furnishings and is an impressive example of church architecture from the late 19th century.

Parish Church of All Saints Wadern : Opposite the small market, the tower of the parish church of All Saints rises into the sky. In the lower part the tower is Romanesque - the previous church is mentioned in a document in 1289 - and in the upper part it is classical. The spire is from 1844. The post-baroque hall church was built in 1817 by Johannes Wassermann. The figures in the Apostelgalerie come from the St. Peter's Church of the Mettlach Monastery, which was demolished in 1819. As his base reveals, the apostle Philip was created in 1684. Whether the same date of origin applies to the other apostles has not been conclusively proven. The alabaster relief in the choir with Christ on the cross was created by the Trier sculptor Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann (around 1600).

Parish Church of St. Martin Wadrill: The current nave of the parish church of St. Martin was built in 1888 according to plans by Wilhelm Hector. The still preserved choir of the previous church of Antonius Neurohr dates from 1768. The Romanesque tower of the first church, which was built before 981, is even older. On the outer wall of the choir is the large mission cross, which was erected on the occasion of the people's mission in 1870.

Old church tower Lockweiler

Old bell tower Lockweiler: A parish in Lockweiler is first mentioned in a document in 973. The parish church's Romanesque bell tower was probably built in the 12th century together with a small stone church dedicated to the Holy Savior. After the reconstruction of the parish church of St. Michael in 1844, the tower reminds of the early days of the parish.

Haus München am Markt: The so-called "Haus München" in the district of Wadern was owned by the cathedral provost Nikolaus München (1794–1881) before 1881 , who, as the son of Wadern, made a steep career in church administration and played an important role in the diocese of Cologne. The wealthy cathedral provost left his family some houses around the market square, including the so-called "House of Munich". The house got its current appearance around 1870. From 1881 to 1963 the bakery and the Munich café were located here, of which the bakery in the basement of today's bistro has been preserved. The building was completely renovated in 1995/96.

Gallo-Roman monumental grave mounds of Oberlöstern : The reconstruction of two rare Roman monumental mounds with square stone surrounds from the 2nd century AD can be found in Wadern-Oberlöstern. The size and equipment of the facility indicate that important people were buried here at the time. The neighboring mounds, each 20 m in diameter, were excavated and examined in the 1990s. Each of the two wascrownedwith a stone pine cone. A mighty grave pillar rose between the two hills. After the excavations, the burial mounds were restored in their original form. The associated settlement area is 400 meters away.

Sports

The sporting activities in the city of Wadern are characterized by a lively club life and by a large voluntary commitment of the citizens in the various sports clubs. In addition to popular sports such as football and tennis , a wide range of other sports opens up in Wadern. Not least because of this, the Wadern athlete ceremony with around 160 registered athletes from the Wadern clubs is an important event in the city. More than half of the city districts have their own sports fields and halls for training. However, the demographic change in sports clubs is also noticeable in Wadern. More and more have to unite or form sports communities due to a lack of young talent.

Events

Regular events

The most important events in the city of Wadern in chronological order:

First Sunday of Lent: Running the pea wheel in Wadrill: According to an old custom, winter is said goodbye to a burning fire wheel.

On Palm Sunday: Art Route Wadern : More than 30 artists exhibit their works in the shops in the city center during Sunday shopping. A unique event in this form in Saarland.

Second weekend in June: Waderner Maad town festival (dialect for "market"): Embedded in the historical framework around the work of Count Joseph Anton von Oettingern-Sötern, the town festival is the largest festival in the Hochwald area.

In June, the “Family fun in the city park” takes place in the Wadern district . On this day, big and small children are the focus of the action in the idyllic city park.

On many weekends from June to August there is “Wadern Market Summer” : The market summer offers a diverse music program in the open air on the Wadern market square free of charge.

The first weekend in August is dominated by the “legendary spectacle at Dagstuhl Castle” : at the Dagstuhl castle ruins, concerts, camp life, medieval handicrafts and a large children's knight tournament combine to form one of the most beautiful medieval festivals in Saarland.

In September: Wadern Book Week : The program ranges from reading nights and culinary crime evenings to the writing competition that takes place every two years and the large book flea market.

In autumn , the Hochwälder Potato Days and the Hochwälder Game Week shape the culinary calendar of events. The highlight is the Wadern wild market on the first Saturday in November .

Wadern is a stronghold for carnivalists in Saarland. Parades take place in Nunkirchen (night parade), Morscholz, Büschfeld and alternately in Wadern, Wadrill or Lockweiler (day parades). Numerous cap meetings target urban life and offer a high-quality dance and music program.

In the individual districts, the fair combines local customs with fun and entertainment. The largest fair events can be found in Wadern and Nunkirchen.

Club and voluntary Christmas markets take place in Wadern, Wadrill, Bardenbach, Löstertal, Vogelsbüsch and Nunkirchen.

The association "Concerts in the Small Residence" offers a varied concert program between classical and jazz every year . The “Kultur am Tor” association in Nunkirchen has specialized in music, cabaret and readings with its annual program .

language

The city of Wadern is located in the Moselle-Franconian language area. The individual localities differ considerably in their dialect coloring, but clearly distinguish themselves from the Rhine-Franconian- speaking area in Saarland. Due to high fluctuation and the penetration of audiovisual media, the various dialect colors are converging towards one another in the direction of a regional language .

Economy and Infrastructure

The town Wadern is a regional center not only administrative, social and cultural center in northern Saarland, but also the economic center of Hochwald region. The city of Wadern lies at the intersection between the greater Saar-Lor-Lux region and the high forest region in northern Saarland.

Markets

Wadern, cattle market at the beginning of the 20th century

Today the big Krammarkt takes place on the last Wednesday of each month in the district of Wadern. In addition, every Friday morning fresh market traders offer goods for daily needs on the market square . The “Waderner Maad” city festival, which takes place every year at the beginning of June, is also a reminder of this market tradition.

The importance of the markets and, in this context, the development of the market square in the core town of Wadern is closely linked to the work of Count Joseph Anton von Oettingen-Sötern. After relocating his rule from the Swabian Baldern on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries to the Black Forest high forest , he attached particular importance to the economic development of his residence and administrative center, Wadern. On April 13, 1765, the Count granted the town of Wadern the right to host markets that continue to take place on the market square specially designed for this purpose. The Wadern cattle markets (cattle and pigs) were particularly well-known and were among the largest in the Prussian administrative district of Trier , especially in the second half of the 19th century . The market fountain built in 1770 is an external sign of the granting of market rights .

Monthly market on the Wadern market square

tourism

Those interested in history and culture should visit the Grafenschlösser, Münchweiler Castle, Dagstuhl Castle or the Oettinger Schlösschen with the city museum. Those looking for relaxation and active vacationers can take a detour to Lake Noswendeler, the Hochwaldalm in Wadrill or the Weiherhof Golf Park in Nunkirchen. The calendar of events includes a number of outdoor events in the summer months, such as the “Waderner Maad” city festival, the “legendary spectacle” at Dagstuhl Castle or the market summer. The culinary events in autumn are particularly popular with guests when the "Hochwälder Potato Days" and the "Hochwälder Wildwoche" invite visitors to Wadern.

Walking and cycling

The city of Wadern offers an abundance of possibilities to develop the very own charm of the high forest. The premium hiking trails “Wadrilltal Tafeltour”, “Almglück”, “Weg deswassers”, “Himmels Gääs Paad” and the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig offer extraordinary experiences in nature. Cycle tourism also plays a major role in the city of Wadern. The Saarland cycle path and the Saar-Bostalsee cycle path cross the city. These supraregional cycle paths are supplemented by the regional district routes Noswendeler-See-Runde, Drei-Seen-Runde and Hochwälder-Runde.

Noswendeler See leisure center

The Noswendeler See leisure center now covers 20 hectares, the lake itself has a size of 6.6 hectares. Due to the strong commitment of the local associations, which are organized in the local history and tourist association, not only the catering at the lake, but also an extensive program of events in the summer season is guaranteed. For example, you can explore the lake by pedal boat. Two playgrounds with a basketball field and a beach volleyball facility on the bank invite you to play. While walking around the lake, you can take a look at the “Noswendeler Bruch” nature reserve, the largest wetland biotope in the Saarland. The designated network of hiking trails around the lake offers many opportunities to explore nature. Three routes with a length of 2.5 km, 6 km or 8 km invite you to take a walk or a hike including a stop around the lake. So z. B. the "nature trail" into the middle of the "Noswendeler Bruch". There is a Kneipp facility on Lake Noswendler, which is fed with fresh spring water. Anglers can pursue their hobby here. There are 5 motorhome parking spaces available by the lake. The lantern festival, the autumn and slaughter festival, the deco fun run and the Sautrogrennen are outstanding events of the year.

Companies

Representing the many companies that have their headquarters in the city of Wadern, only the companies with the most jobs are listed here. A total of 5,618 employees subject to social insurance are registered in the city of Wadern.

Established businesses

• The SaarGummi Group is a supplier of sealing systems for the automotive industry. The holding company is based in Remich, Luxembourg. The largest production and development location is the Büschfeld district of the city of Wadern . This is where the company's history began in 1947. Today the SaarGummi Group produces at a total of 13 locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia. The most important customers include Daimler, BMW, General Motors , Volkswagen / Porsche and Ford.
• ThyssenKrupp System Engineering is part of ThyssenKrupp AG . It offers comprehensive engineering services in the areas of bodywork and assembly, on the one hand as individual solutions and on the other hand as modular standards. The factory in Lockweiler is one of the company's 20 locations worldwide.
• HACO shopping center: The HACO shopping center is a family-run company with 260 employees and 11,000 m² of retail space. Founded in 1936 by Franz Haas as a shop for groceries, wine and spirits on the market square in Wadern on a sales area of ​​38 m² with three employees at the time.
• Unimed billing service for clinics and chief physicians: The company, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Wadern-Noswendel, prepares private accounts for clinics, chief physicians and medical centers nationwide.
• Lockweiler Plastic Werke GmbH is a manufacturer of high quality plastic products. The plant processes all common thermoplastics by injection molding into plastic products for various areas of application, such as storage facilities, product presentations and occupational safety.
• Workers 'welfare workshops: The Association for Inclusion and Education of Workers' Welfare (AWO) Saarland operates workshops for people with disabilities in Nunkirchen.
• Brabant & Lehnert Werkzeug- und Vorrichtungsbau GmbH: The company deals with the planning, design and manufacture of complex tools and devices for the automotive and new energies sectors. In addition to welding and assembly devices, measuring and testing devices are among the company's specialties.
• The St. Sebastian retirement and nursing home in Nunkirchen is a church institution sponsored by Cusanus Trier (ctt), in which up to 78 old people and people in need of care live and are cared for.

traffic

Rail transport

The city of Wadern was connected to the railway network via the train stations Wadern (in today's Dagstuhl district), Büschfeld and Nunkirchen as well as the railway stations Krettnich and Münchweiler. The starting shot for the development of today's urban area was given on December 10, 1897 with the inauguration of the Wadern train station. Rail traffic ceased on May 30, 1980 with the departure of the last scheduled train.

Road traffic

Main traffic axes in the city of Wadern

The city of Wadern does not have a direct motorway connection. However, the Nonnweiler / Braunshausen motorway junction with the A1 is only five kilometers from the Wadern district. A section of the federal highway 268 runs through the urban area in the district of Nunkirchen. Together with the system of 3rd order streets, it forms a dense road network that concentrically develops the urban area from the core town of Wadern.

Transportation

The central bus station (ZOB) in Wadern is the interface for local public transport in the city of Wadern. Due to its prominent position, this traffic junction was integrated into the Saarland passenger information system so that the timetable information at the central bus station is transmitted in real time. The central bus station forms the junction for three regional bus lines, which ensure a connection to the rail network and the national public transport. These are line R1 to Merzig, line R2 to St. Wendel and line R3 to Lebach. From the central bus station, the city area is accessed by further bus routes.

The “MaadBus” market bus system in the city of Wadern was introduced in November 2008 on the initiative of the Round Table of Economic Development and City Marketing. Due to the subsidization of the ticket prices by the city administration and sponsors from the private sector, there is a uniform ticket price of € 1 per trip. The reduction in the fare only applies on Wednesdays and Fridays on specified connections, most of which have already existed. No new lines were set up for the “MaadBus”, but the buses move within the framework of the existing timetable and on existing lines. New connections were only set up for the Altland district on Fridays and for the Löstertal district in the mornings and during the school holidays. The neighboring town of Thailen in the community of Weiskirchen was included in the concept. The aim of the subsidy is to make the journey to the core location more attractive, especially for groups of people who are only partially mobile. In this way, the purchasing power in Wadern is to be tied and the market function of the core location strengthened. The name “MaadBus” is derived from the Wadern dialect word “Maad” for market. The central bus station in Wadern is integrated into the night bus system in Saarland via the N7 line to St. Wendel. The night bus routes bring night owls safely home on the nights from Friday to Saturday, from Saturday to Sunday and before public holidays in the early morning hours.

Public facilities

Central facilities

• Wadern police station
• Saarlouis employment office - Wadern branch
• District court Wadern: today branch of the district court Merzig
• State Office for Mapping and Surveying: Wadern branch
• Notary location
• Office of the social welfare office of the Merzig-Wadern district
• Branch of the health department of the Merzig-Wadern district
• Central bus station in Wadern: Interface of three regional bus routes
• City Hall Wadern (Herbert-Klein-Halle)
• Indoor swimming pool (Dora-Rau-Bad)
• outdoor pool
• Haco shopping center (catchment area approx. 30,000 customers)
• Leibniz Center for Computer Science Schloss Dagstuhl, which has been on the "Blue List" of top research institutes in Germany since 2005
• Secondary schools: Hochwald-Gymnasium Wadern, community school Wadern, vocational training center Hochwald with FOS Economy / Tourism, district special school
• Family Center Hochwald (social area Wadern / Weiskirchen)

Healthcare

The Mittelzentrum Wadern offers comprehensive equipment in the areas of health and social affairs. In addition to the ambulance station in Wadern, there are numerous general practitioners' practices and most specialist doctors in the villages of Wadern, Nunkirchen and Wadrill. All common health services complement the medical offer on site.

Social facilities

In the social area, counseling services are available from the district social welfare office, the district youth welfare office, the Hochwald family center, Caritas and the employment agency. The Waderner Tafel and the social department store offer additional supply options for low-income citizens. The Alliance for Family ensures the networking of family-related and voluntary services.

Schools / education / training

The city of Wadern is an educational and school location that is of great importance for the region. Around 3000 students attend the schools in the city area. The school offers three primary schools , a special school , a community school , a vocational training center and a grammar school . There are also nine day-care centers for children and adult education options . All schools offer full-day care as part of the “voluntary all-day school” and, in close cooperation with one another, pursue the educational goal of promoting the interests and talents of the students in a variety of projects beyond the curriculum . In addition, the Hochwald-Gymnasium Wadern has a bound all-day class.

Childcare facilities

There is a wide range of childcare facilities in the city of Wadern. This includes a total of nine day-care centers, in which various forms of care are offered. The day care centers “St. Michael "Lockweiler," Herz Jesu "Nunkirchen," Die Arche "Wadern and" Theresia "Wadrill are church sponsors. Four other facilities - "Pfiffikus" Büschfeld, "House of the Little Rascals" Löstertal, "Rappelkiste" Morscholz and "Villa Wackelzahn" Noswendel - are owned by the city. The child and youth welfare organization St. Maria Weiskirchen is responsible for the day care center "Jim-Knopf-Weltentdecker" in Dagstuhl. With the exception of the Dagstuhl location, all facilities offer childcare for children aged three and over. At the Büschfeld, Dagstuhl, Lockweiler, Löstertal, Nunkirchen, Wadern and Wadrill locations, childcare for children from eight weeks to three years is provided in the form of day nurseries. In addition, voluntary all-day elementary schools are set up in the primary schools in Lockweiler, Nunkirchen and Wadrill (sponsor “idee.on gGmbH” Nonnweiler).

Elementary schools

The offer that the educational location Wadern has in store includes three primary schools with five locations:

• Primary school St. Martin Wadrill-Steinberg with the locations Wadrill and Steinberg
• Primary school Nunkirchen with the locations Nunkirchen and Bardenbach
• Lockweiler Elementary School

Further training

The educational location Wadern offers four secondary schools of different types:

Hochwald-Gymnasium Wadern

The Hochwald-Gymnasium has set itself the goal of changing the teaching and learning culture and offering the students a gymnasium that meets the requirements of a modern, contemporary educational mandate. To implement this project, the school has participated in a number of school and educational policy initiatives, including the “Independent School” project and the pilot project by the Federal State Commission on the subject of “The inclusion of the new media in teaching and learning processes”. The results of this model test carried out at the Hochwald-Gymnasium met with a nationwide response. The school administration of the Hochwald-Gymnasium is incumbent on the Merzig-Wadern district.

Graf Anton School

The Graf-Anton-Schule is supported by the Merzig-Wadern district. She has set “independent learning” as a central focus for her subject-related and pedagogical work. With the help of this pedagogical approach, the students are supposed to develop their educational skills. In addition, the school supports the learners in setting an individually tailored course for their further professional career after completing the comprehensive school.

Special school learning

The special school for learning is run by the Merzig-Wadern district. It offers students with special needs with regard to their learning ability the possibility of individual support. In addition to the diagnosis, the focus here is particularly on promoting the individual student.

Hochwald vocational training center

The Hochwald vocational training center has a technical-industrial, a commercial and a social care department, as well as a technical college in the fields of business and tourism . It has both a full-time and a part-time area within the framework of dual vocational training. A special feature of the school is the cooperative dovetailing between school and company training, which ensures that the young people in Wadern and in the high forest region receive sound professional training.

Cooperation between the various types of schools

To strengthen the location, a school and educational alliance was founded in 2004 under the leadership of the city of Wadern, with the aim of networking the existing educational institutions, including vocational training centers, in such a way that synergy effects arise. In addition, the school and education alliance organizes lecture events and workshops in which school, education and training are discussed. One result of the school and education alliance is the institutionalized cooperation between the three secondary schools in Wadern. The Hochwald vocational training center, the Graf-Anton-Schule and the Hochwald-Gymnasium agreed on cross-school cooperation in 2014 with the express support of the Saarland Ministry of Education. After that, pupils of the Graf-Anton-Schule (community school) can acquire the general higher education entrance qualification with the help of personnel and spatial support from the Hochwald-Gymnasium. The cooperation is supplemented by the addition of the subjects economics and technology at the Hochwald-Gymnasium. These subjects are then taught by teachers from the vocational training center.

Adult education

The adult education center (VHS) in the Merzig-Wadern district has been officially recognized as an educational institution for general continuing education since 1971. Founded in 1957 for the city of Merzig, it was expanded in 1967 and 1968 to the entire Merzig-Wadern district with the establishment of local adult education centers, including in the Wadern district. The Wadern site has since been dismantled. General and political adult education with lectures, courses, seminars and study trips is the origin of the activity of Christian Adult Education e. V. / CEB Fortbildungswerk non-profit company mbH (CEB Academy). Other constant fields of activity of the CEB in Wadern are special offers for young people and senior citizens as well as art and cultural events.

Other educational and research institutions

The Leibniz Center for Computer Science (LZI) was founded in 1989. Until April 2008 the name of the center was: International Meeting and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI). The LZI is a member of the Leibniz Association and is mainly funded by the federal and state governments. The LZI is located in Dagstuhl Castle and in modern extensions located in the Dagstuhl district.

Dagstuhl Castle with Castle Park

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Sister Adelsindis (1902-1993) was granted honorary citizenship on October 25, 1987. As a sister in the order of the Franciscan Sisters, she made a special contribution to the St. Elisabeth Hospital. The award was presented to Katharina Leonhards, the real name of Sister Adelsindis, on behalf of all nuns who worked at the Wadern hospital.
• Franz Haas (1914–2007) was granted honorary citizenship on May 1, 1996. The importance of the company created by Franz Haas and his commitment to the city were decisive for the award.

In June 2009 two streets in the city of Wadern were renamed after their honorary citizens: the Esperantoweg in Sister-Adelsindis-Weg and the Nordring in Franz-Haas-Strasse.

Born in the city of Wadern

• Nikolaus Munich (1794–1881), Provost of Cologne Cathedral
• Peter Imandt (1823–1897), representative of the German labor movement in the 19th century
• Hermann Ludwig (1858–1931), Mayor of Neunkirchen (Saar)
• Nikolaus Demmer (1892–1954), pastor and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Josef Wagner (1897–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Heinrich Graach (1900–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Helmut Heinz (1921–2000), Lieutenant General in the Bundeswehr
• Eric Klemm (* 1939), photo artist
• Hans-Werner Müller (* 1942), politician (CDU)
• Wilfried Loth (* 1948), historian and political scientist
• Walter Wolter (* 1950 in Nunkirchen), writer
• Klaus Borger (* 1958 in Wadrill), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• Laura Méritt (* 1960), communication scientist
• Anke Rehlinger (* 1976), politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Saarland (SPD)
• Tom Becker (* 1979), radio presenter
• Dino Toppmöller (* 1980), soccer player
• Philipp Wollscheid (* 1989), soccer player

Connected to the city of Wadern

• Octavie de Lasalle (1811–1890) more precisely: Octavie Elisabeth Maria de Lasalle von Louisenthal, founder of the Elisabeth Association, which, following the example of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, cares for people in need and still exists today, died in Dagstuhl. From 1863, Octavie created a series of crossroads.
• Hans Kasper (* 1939), former President of the State Parliament and Minister of Finance of the Saarland, has lived in the Büschfeld district of Wadern since 1947. Kasper was also active in local politics in Wadern for several years
• Josef Schmitt (1921–1996), politician, co-founder of the CDU district association Wadern, died in Wadern
• Hermann Wedekind (1910–1998), hero tenor, actor, director and theater manager, died in Wadern
• Otto Klinkhammer (* 1928), former editor-in-chief and program director of Saarland broadcasting company
• Heinz G. Schwärtzel (* 1936), mathematician and computer scientist: On his initiative, the Leibniz Center for Computer Science (LZI) was established at the time under the name of the International Meeting and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI) in Dagstuhl Castle
• Peter Kuttler (* 1964), radio and television presenter (WDR 4, Deutsche Welle, WDR television)

literature

• Literature on Wadern in the Saarland Bibliography

Web links

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

• City of Wadern
• Wadern City Museum
• Stadtwerke Wadern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
2. ↑ City of Wadern: Figures, data, facts (as of July 31, 2019)
3. ↑ Data from 2012, based on the 2011 census , accessed on April 25, 2015
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pp. 23–29 (accessed March 17, 2015). 
5. ^ Reinhard, Walter: Wadern - Gehweiler, MZG (SL): Grave mound group. In: J. Biel, S. Rieckhoff (ed.): Die Kelten in Deutschland 2001, pp. 480–481.
6. ↑ Hornung, Sabine; Kronz, Andreas, The region around Oberlöstern in the Iron and Roman Ages - New evidence of Celtic handicraft from the area around the "Schlittchen". In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Heimatkunde 16 (2010), pp. 5–30.
7. ↑ Herrmann, Hans-Walter, Das Kurfürstentum Trier, In: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes , Vol. 2: From the Franconian conquest to the outbreak of the French Revolution, ed. v. Kurt Hoppstädter and Hans-Walter Herrmann, Saarbrücken 1977 (communications from the historical association for the Saar region 4), pp. 123–164, 170–226, 376–388, 423.
8. ↑ http://www.burgdagstuhl.de./ (accessed on March 17, 2015).
9. ↑ Lauer, Dittmar , born 430 years ago. Philipp Christoph von Sötern. Founder of the Free Imperial Rule Dagstuhl - Stations of his Life, In: Hochwälder Geschichtsblätter 9 (1997), pp. 40–46.
10. ^ Hartmann, Hans-Peter, Count Joseph Anton. Life picture of an enlightened sovereign, In: Dagstuhler Geschichtsbilder. 700 years of Dagstuhl, 225 years of market rights in Wadern, 100 years of Countess Octavie (1811–1890) , ed. v. Association for local history Wadern e. V., Wadern 1990, pp. 228-249; Ebert, Friedrich, 225 years of the market in Wadern - an inventory, In: ibid., Pp. 267–296.
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2015). 
12. ↑ Glutting, Fritz, The Development of Nunkirchen. Chapter II-IV, In: Heimatbuch Nunkirchen , ed. v. Commercial and Tourist Association Nunkirchen e. V., pp. 63-80; Müller, Berthold, The Chronicle of the Lockweiler Community, In: 1000 years Lockweiler-Krettnich. Heimatbuch, ed. v. the communities Lockweiler and Krettnich, Merzig 1973, pp. 73–123.
13. ↑ Brenner, Traudl, On the cultural development of the Merzig-Wadern district in these 175 years, In: 175 years Merzig-Wadern district 1816–1991. Heimatbuch , ed. v. District of Merzig-Wadern in connection with the association for local history in the district of Merzig-Wadern, Merzig 1991, pp. 406-429.
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19. ↑ Even if the Saarland municipal code (KSVG) does not explicitly speak of a unitary municipality, almost all municipalities in Saarland actually correspond to this construct. The term “large community” is used here colloquially synonymously to this day, cf. “Die Kommunalreform im Saarland”, issue 2 of the series of publications on political education, Saarbrücken, 1974 or “Saarland municipal law, commentary”, § 70 “Municipal districts”, Rainer Weirich, St. Ingbert, 2014
20. ↑ Restructuring Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, Section 34, published in the Saarland Official Gazette, 1973, No. 48, p. 855 (PDF page 27; 487 kB)
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22. ↑ ^{a b} Result of the elections for the city council of the city of Wadern. City of Wadern, accessed June 25, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Herbert Klein was the official director of the Wadern office from 1958.
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27. ^ Hanns Peter Ebert: 100 years of railway history. In: Messages of the Association for Local Lore Wadern. No. 14, 2008, pp. 5-19.
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30. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2015 
31. ↑ General information on the adult education center in the Merzig-Wadern district . Website of the Merzig-Wadern Adult Education Center. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
32. ↑ Your word is still valid today ... In: Saarbrücker Zeitung No. 251, of October 28, 1987.
33. ^ Franz Haas set the tone in Wadern In: Saarbrücker Zeitung No. 108, from May 9, 1996.