Portz (Merzkirchen)
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Portz
Local church Merzkirchen
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| Height : | 332 (280-380) m above sea level NHN |
| Incorporation : | March 16, 1974 |
| Postal code : | 54439 |
| Area code : | 06581 |
Together with Kelsen, Portz is the easternmost district of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Merzkirchen in the Trier-Saarburg district .
geography
Portz, laid out as a roadside village, is located in an eastward sloping valley of a nameless trickle 1.08 km (as the crow flies from church to church) east of Merzkirchen. The village is located on the eastern slope of the Saargau on the border with Saarland . The border to the neighboring municipality of Trassem to the east is 1,300 m away.
The highest elevations in the immediate vicinity are
- the Langenberg ( 302 m above sea level ) in the northeast
- the Zöllenter Berg ( 410 m above sea level ) in the north
- On the head ( 410 m above sea level ) in the west (near Merzkirchen)
The nameless trickle mentioned rises in the north-west of the town near the K 121 in a small cave in the terrain, flows east and flows into the Sprenkelbach from the right shortly before Trassem, which flows into the Leukbach after 1 km , a tributary of the Saar. The village also has no significant open watercourses.
The surrounding landscape is used for agriculture and is characterized by pastureland, arable land and orchards, forest covers only a small part of the district area.
Besides Körrig , Portz is the only district of Merzkirchen that is located in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park .
The closest places are
history
The discovery of a Roman manor and the associated aqueduct at the western, higher-lying exit point to the settlement of the area in Roman times. Borcius or Porcius could have been the Latinized form of a Celtic settler. Under the name of Burtz , the place came to St. Servatiusstift in Maastricht in 928 through a precariousness agreement under the Arch Chancellor of Western France and Archbishop of Trier , Ruotger von Trier . Contract partner was probably Duke Giselbert of Lorraine , because under Friedrich III. The place came from Lorraine in 1296 as a gift to the Teutonic Order in Trier. The property consisted of three farms: Deutschherrenhof , Mäsch-Hof and Hansen-Hof . In 1632 Portz was the largest town in the parish of the same name with eleven campfire sites; after the Thirty Years War, Körrig became the largest branch.
On July 18, 1946, the former municipality of Portz, together with 80 other municipalities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg , was annexed to the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which at that time was no longer under the Allied Control Council. On June 6, 1947 this territorial outsourcing was withdrawn to 21 municipalities again, so Portz came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
On March 16, 1974, the previously independent community of Portz was combined with five other communities to form the local community of Merzkirchen in the form of a new formation.
In 1914 Portz had 1914 inhabitants (according to the content of the document in the war memorial), before the new formation of the community 135 inhabitants.
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In the shield head in silver a red bar cross, underneath a golden Roman helmet in red, laid on two intersecting, silver arrows." |
| Justification for the coat of arms: The red cross symbolizes Kurtrier , to which the place belonged for centuries. Roman helmet and arrows are attributes of St. Sebastian , who was to be killed by archers as a disgraced soldier of the imperial bodyguard. The red in the shield stands for his martyrdom. |
The coat of arms comes from Ernst Steffny.
economy
The main sources of income for the residents are agriculture and employment in businesses in the larger surrounding areas.
Attractions
Chapel of St. Sebastian
The chapel ( ⊙ ) was built between 1736 and 1739 as a small hall under the pastor and dean Hilarius Hofman.
Exterior
It stands on the northern outskirts at the point where the village development line running in west-east direction meets the one running in north-south direction. The much lower extension (preserved from the controversial previous building) forms the sacristy on the northern gable wall. Between the portal in the south gable wall and an oval window ( ox eye ) from 1739 is a well-formed shell niche with a small statue. The niche is attached to a heavily profiled, somewhat wider cornice plinth. On the north side of the portal on the gable wall there is a life-size neo-baroque crucifixion group from 1922 made of red sandstone, which represents a memorial to the fallen, as conveyed by a relief in the base. The monument is a listed building and contains a glass tube with historical documents, similar to a tower ball . On the northern end of the slated gable roof there is a slate, octagonal roof turret with a pointed end. The interior gets its light through two 2.20 m high arched windows in each of the two side walls of the building.
Interior
The actual church building (11 × 7.90 m) is divided into two parts: nave and choir, the internal dimensions being 6.30 × 5.60 m for the nave and 6.30 × 4.20 m for the choir. The two parts of the room are separated by an arched portal. The building, which is vaulted with groin vaults in both parts, contains, in addition to rich furnishings, a baroque wooden high altar with carved antependium and two side altars. Between these stands a carved, coffered, baroque communion bench to separate the choir from the ship. Parts of the stalls are also baroque. At the front of the main altar there is a walled up sepulcrum with unknown fragments of relics. The altar has room width and height. There are confessionals to the right and left. Between these and the central part of the altar are doors to the sacristy. A piscina is set in the floor behind the altar . The two chapel windows in the nave represent the Crucifixion and the Annunciation and date from 1900, the two choir windows are from 1982.
theft
On 13./14. December 1975 and on 13./14. On January 1st, 1976 nine statues were stolen from the chapel, none of which have been found to date (as of 2012). They are all wooden statues from the 17th century. The representations are as follows: Saints Bernhard, Sebastian, Willibrord, Hubertus, Peter of Milan, Donatus and a Madonna and two angel figures.
The two cartridges were Bernhard and Sebastian . In 1833 the church received one bell, in 1923 two new bells, which had to be given in during the war, and in 1947 two new bells. All came from the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg.
More Attractions
- Crosses of the way: The crosses are numbered because the ones with the numbers 2, 3 and 4 were erected by the citizen Johann Hill in redeeming a pledge after his return from the war in 1945 undamaged, inspired by the presence of the first cross.
- The first cross : Presumably border cross, location ( ⊙ ) on the southwestern edge of the K 121 at the junction of the path to the Merzkirchen parish church. The cross, carved from red sandstone, is 67 cm high (above ground) and carries a metal cross forged in 1945. Date of origin around 1860, erected again after restoration in 2010 after it was knocked over in April 2004. The front faces west.
- The second cross: Location ( ⊙ ) on Kahrener Weg southeast of Zöllenter Berg. The cross consists of a stone block with a (above-ground) height of 70 cm and an attached 83 cm high crucifix. The front faces north.
- The third cross: Location ( ⊙ ) on the K 121 after the junction of the K 122 to Kelsen. The cross is from around 1900. It consists of a sandstone block about 125 cm high with a 90 cm high sandstone cross on top. The base block bears a labeled black glass plate attached in 1945.
- The fourth cross: Location on the dirt road to Trassem, it has disappeared since 2004.
- Natural monument: Lindenallee at the northern exit of the village ( ⊙ )
- Houses numbers 29-32, 34, 35, 40, 41, 43; Monument zone : It characterizes the townscape of Portz. It includes the half of the village to the west of the main street as well as the church and the stately, transversely developed Streckhöfe from the 18th century. Some of them were replaced by lateral houses in the 19th century . Here the houses no. 29 and 41 are typical for the time of construction, while the others belong to the later general development of the transverse houses, as in other districts, e.g. B. in Körrig . The two wells in the area of the monument zone give an impression of the local organism of the past. The wells at house no.29 and the well that runs down in two stone troughs at house no.35 are remnants of historical times, which, along with the other wells in the village, provide information and information about the water supply at that time, which was and is favored by the geological location .
literature
- Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprinted by the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), pp. 172–173.
- Ernst Steffny and Clemens Lehnert: Merzkirchen - a chronicle. Merzkirchen 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037531-6 .
Web links
- To search for cultural assets in the Portz district of the Merzkirchen municipality in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
