Oberlinxweiler

Oberlinxweiler District town of Sankt Wendel
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '12 "  N , 7 ° 8' 55"  E
Height :	282 m
Area :	10.2 km²
Residents :	1992  (2020)
Population density :	195 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66606
Area code :	06851
Location of Oberlinxweiler in Saarland

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

geography

Oberlinxweiler lies on the Blies at the foot or north of the Spiemont (400.05 above sea level) and the Steinberg (375 above sea level) at an altitude of 260 m above sea level. NN. (former train station). The Blies formed a deep cut between Spiemont and Steinberg, which is known as the “Linxweiler Gate”. With the construction of the Nahe Valley Railway in the middle of the 19th century and the new construction of the B 41 in the early 1970s, this bottleneck was widened. Since 2007, Oberlinxweiler, like the entire area of ​​the city of St. Wendel, has been part of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park .

history

According to archaeological finds, the area was already inhabited in prehistoric times. For example, there was a Celtic fortification on Spiemont that was still used in Roman times. Around 1840, the St. Wendel Historical Society, founded in 1836, carried out the first excavation on Spiemont. On the northeastern mountain slope in the corridor "Auf Hendschhof" "Roman-era walls were excavated 150 feet in length, there were also pieces of columns, a stone relief with a naked boy and bird, a water pipe and coins from Claudius (41-54) to Licinius (308 The excavation revealed that the building was probably destroyed by a fire. In 1891 another excavation of Roman settlement remains took place at the eastern end of the Spiedmont in the corridor "Kalkofen". The most important find was a well-preserved bathing pool from which a lead pipe with a bronze cap and a snap lock peeped out. In addition to “pots and bricks”, a statue made of sandstone was also excavated.

Around 1850, an early medieval church desert was discovered in the center of Oberlinxweiler during earthworks for the construction of a barn, which is now used as a cultural center. According to the Oberlinxweiler school chronicle, which the teacher Johann Georg Schneider wrote at the end of the 19th century, the following finds were made:

1. A large lump of molten bells mixed with slate and earth, plus two iron clappers (found near the east end).
2. A large number of skeletons, the skull of which was mostly well preserved and fully covered with teeth, while the thinner limb bones were very rotten and disintegrated. One clearly noticed two, in some places even three bodies on top of each other. Wood and coffin parts were not discovered - as they say, no trace of it was noticed. Almost all the skeletons seemed to have belonged to the strongest of manhood (the place of discovery is the background of the threshing floor).
3. A little further to the west, a strong hollow key was found whose shape corresponds to the ?? Belongs to the (illegible) century, and is depicted in natural size. (here reduced).

The earth masses removed were used to fill the embankment of the Nahe Valley Railway. In the chronicle of teacher Schneider it says:

“Without a doubt, in addition to these typical finds, a lot of smaller ones could have been made that would have given us valuable information, but insight and interest in local history will have been rare in those money-rich times of railway construction. The entire overburden was driven onto the embankment, for which the owner was paid a fee. There the uninjured skulls were reverently covered with earth, and so the express trains roar over the old Franconian heads and simulate the clamor of battle that was once so familiar to the men of swords. "

The former state curator , Alfons Kolling , saw this deserted church as evidence that there had been continuity of settlement in Oberlinxweiler since pre-Roman times.

Oberlinxweiler was first mentioned in a document in 871 as "Lainchesivilliare" in a certificate from Emperor Ludwig II , called "the German". This concerns the endowment 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 Niederlinxwiler and Oberlenxwiler .

The history of both places shares that of Ottweiler; they were devastated in the Thirty Years War . For centuries Ober- and Niederlinxweiler belonged to the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken . To the north, Oberlinxweiler bordered the city of St. Wendel, which belonged to the Electorate of Trier . That is why the rear part of Jakob-Stoll-Straße is still popularly called “the border” today.

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794, Oberlinxweiler became part of the French Saardepartement . 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 Oberlinxweiler became part of the Prussian Rhine Province .

As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Oberlinxweiler was assigned to the district town of Sankt Wendel on January 1, 1974. In addition to the old town center, new districts and residential areas have emerged in the last 100 years, such as Am Dilling, Am Spiemont, Im Eckenthal and most recently Am Hirschberg and Auf der Ha.

politics

The local political body is the local council and consists of eleven members. The mayor is Jörg Birkenbach (SPD). The deputy mayor is Monika Moritz (SPD).

Mayors of Oberlinxweiler until the regional reform on January 1, 1974 were:

• Johann L`Hoste (KPD), September 15, 1946 - March 31, 1949
• Jakob Stoll (SPD), April 1, 1949 - May 18, 1973
• Hans Schmelzer (SPD), May 19, 1973 - December 31, 1973

Mayor of Oberlinxweiler since the regional and administrative reform in 1974

• Wolf Schwingel (SPD), June 5, 1974 - January 24, 1990
• Karl-Heinz Schweig (SPD), March 23, 1990 - July 28, 1999
• Jürgen Zimmer (SPD), July 29, 1999 - June 22, 2015
• Jörg Birkenbach (SPD), since July 29, 2015

The distribution of seats after the last elections on May 26, 2019:

choice	SPD	CDU	Green	Seats
2019	6th	4th	1	11
2014	8th	3	-	11
2009	6th	5	-	11
2004	6th	5	-	11
1999	7th	4th	-	11

literature

• Kolling, Alfons : Zur Aräologie des Spiemonts, in: Reinhard Schlindler on his seventieth birthday on April 7, 1982, published in the Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring regions, 1982, vol. 45, pp. 45-63
• Schwingel, Wolf: Heimatbuch Oberlinxweiler, a reading and source book on local history, ed. from the district town of St. Wendel, St. Wendel 1986
• On August 12, 2004 the Association for Local and Family History e. V. founded. The focus is on the history of Oberlinxweiler and the publication of books, illustrated books and the annual village calendar "Sellemols bei uns im Dorf"

Web links

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

• Homepage of Oberlinxweiler
• Literature about Oberlinxweiler in the Saarland Bibliography

• Photos from Oberlinxweiler
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  View of Oberlinxweiler

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  Winter view of the Hochmühle and the historical school ensemble

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  Oberlinxweiler culture barn

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  Residential area on Hirschberg with Marien Hospital

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 .
2. ↑ ^{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.