Niederlinxweiler

Niederlinxweiler District town of Sankt Wendel
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	282 m
Residents :	1976  (2020)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66606
Area code :	06851
Location of Niederlinxweiler in Saarland

Niederlinxweiler is a district and municipality of the city of St. Wendel in the district of the same name in Saarland . Until the end of 1973 Niederlinxweiler was an independent municipality.

geography

Niederlinxweiler is surrounded by three mountains, the Spiemont (402 m), the Steinberg (314 m) and the Gänsberg (339 m). These three mountains are also symbolically represented in the village fountain. The oldest part of the village is on the southern slope of the Spiemont. From here you can start a walk that leads over the ridge of the Spiemont. From up here you have a wonderful view of the St. Wendeler Land .

Niederlinxweiler can be reached via federal highway 41 or via the Saarbrücken – Bingen railway line .

history

According to archaeological finds, the area was already inhabited in prehistoric times. Remains of buildings and coins also document Roman settlement.

Niederlinxweiler was first mentioned in a document in 871 in the endowment document of the Neumünster monastery, which was dissolved in 1573; this monastery itself is the nucleus of today's city of Ottweiler , which is one of the oldest foundations in the Saarland. The document exists in three copies from the 16th and 17th centuries, in which the place appears under different names -  Linchisivillare , Lainchisivillare , Lainchisvillare  . Other documents mention Linxweiler , later divided into Niederlinxweiler and Oberlinxweiler .

The history of both places shares that of Ottweiler; they were devastated in the Thirty Years War . In the 18th century they belonged to the territory of the Nassau-Usingen line . The Reformation was introduced. At the latest when the Protestant church was built in 1775 by Johann Friedrich Stengel - son of the Saarbrücken court architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel  - it can be assumed that Niederlinxweiler will be resettled.

After the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1794, Niederlinxweiler became part of the French department of the Saar . Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an additional treaty with the Kingdom of Prussia , the place came to the "Herrschaft Baumholder" in 1816, which belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld and was renamed the Principality of Lichtenberg in 1819 . In 1834 this principality was sold to Prussia , and Niederlinxweiler became part of the Prussian Rhine Province .

From 1834 until the district reform in Saarland in 1974, the formerly independent municipality belonged to the district of Ottweiler . In the course of this regional reform, it became a district of St. Wendel on January 1, 1974 .

politics

The local council of the Niederlinxweiler district has eleven members, the mayor is Klaus Riotte, SPD. The CDU parliamentary group in the local council is represented by Rene König, Bernhard Schmidt, Bernd Dilk, Dirk Walter and Michael Recktenwald. The SPD is represented by Martina Riotte, Annerose Gerner, Sanja Zimmer, Christian Volz and Markus Klein.

The distribution of seats after the last elections:

choice	CDU	SPD	total
2019	5	6th	11 seats
2014	5	6th	11 seats
2009	4th	7th	11 seats
2004	4th	7th	11 seats

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church (tower around 1830–32)

• The wide hall of the Protestant church (Johann Friedrich Stengel, 1775) with corner pilasters and large rectangular windows was supplemented by a classicist tower ( Johann Martin Fladt ) around 1830 . Above the main entrance of the church, which replaces an older building, the inscription can be read: "The church was built under the government of Ludwig, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken . Anno 1775". The top floor of the tower has four corner pilasters and four triangular gables. The most important piece of equipment in the interior is the organ by the brothers Friedrich and Karl Stumm (1886).
• There is a small local history museum in the primary school with a focus on local agriculture and historical postcards.

Personalities

• Jakob Diehl, teacher in Niederlinxweiler from 1893 to 1935, author of the Niederlinxweiler homeland book
• Johann L'Hoste (born March 14, 1890 in Niederlinxweiler; † January 1, 1956 in Oberlinxweiler), Saarland politician ( KPD )
• Willi Scheidhauer (born September 27, 1924 in Niederlinxweiler; † July 25, 2012 in Saarbrücken), motorcycle racer and entrepreneur (* 1924 )
• Hans Georg Wagner (born November 26, 1938 in Niederlinxweiler), politician ( SPD )

literature

• Niederlinxweiler. The families 1537 - 1973 ; Edited and edited on behalf of the employees by Werner Habicht, Blieskastel 1974

Web links

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

• Literature about Niederlinxweiler in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} St. Wendel, Stadtteile ( memento of the original from July 25, 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. 
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 810 .
3. ↑ St. Wendel, Elections, Local Council