Easter bridges

Easter bridges St. Wendel parish
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	313 m above sea level NN
Area :	4.67 km²
Residents :	576  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density :	123 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66606
Area code :	06856
Location of Osterbrücken in Saarland

Osterbrücken is a district and a district of the city of St. Wendel in the St. Wendel district in Saarland .

geography

Osterbrücken lies between Oberkirchen and Niederkirchen in the upper valley of the Oster , which flows into the Blies in Wiebelskirchen .

history

Osterbrücken was first mentioned in 1152 as "Brucca".

The village got its name from a bridge over the Oster. Remember the road connection from the Krottelbacher Loch intersection via Scharmeshöhe and Grügelborn to Rennstraße. This path, which perhaps already existed in pre-Germanic times, crossed the Oster in or near Osterbrücken by means of a ford and later a bridge. References to this connection could be the field names mentioned in 1606 “On the wall next to the old way” and “In der Langenfurt”, both of which can be located immediately north of the town on the Oster. To distinguish it from settlements of the same name (bridges on the Ohmbach, bridges near Birkenfeld, Bliesbrücken / Lothringen), the brook name "Oster" has been put in front since the 17th century.

Since 1816 the place was part of the Bavarian Rhine District . In 1947, Osterbrücken and the other Ostertal communities of Hoof , Marth , Saal , Niederkirchen and Bubach (today districts of the district town of St. Wendel ) left the Bavarian-Palatinate district of Kusel after a referendum and moved to the district of St. Wendel in the then autonomous Saarland . The main concern of the Ostertal population was job security for most of the people who work in Saarland. The fears seemed justified, since in 1929 people from the Palatinate were the first to be affected by layoffs in the Saar area, which was then administered by French.

The town came to the city of St. Wendel through the regional reform of 1974 .

Economy and Infrastructure

State road 122 runs through the village, and the village is also connected to the Ostertalbahn . The federal motorway 62 can be reached via the Freisen and Konken junctions 6 km away . The local companies include two hairdressers, a tire dealer, an IT service provider, a florist, a beekeeper, two car service providers, a textile dealer, a tailoring shop, an organic farm and an equestrian center.

politics

Local advisory board

The local council of the Osterbrücken district has nine members, the mayor is Thomas Krampe, SPD.

The distribution of seats after the last elections:

choice	CDU	SPD	total
2019	3	6th	9 seats

Others

There are numerous clubs in Osterbrücken. The largest are the association of the volunteer fire brigade .

The sights of the place include the bird nature trail and the Ostertalbahn, the renatured stream meadows of the Oster.

Web links

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

• Official website with information about Osterbrücken
• Literature on Osterbrücken 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. ^ History of Osterbrücken. Osterbrücken community, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
3. ↑ St. Wendel, Elections, Local Council
4. ↑ Osterbrücken associations. Osterbrücken community, accessed on May 14, 2015 .