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Coat of arms of the municipality of Quiigart
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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Saarland
County : Regional association Saarbrücken
Height : 210 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.22 km 2
Residents: 12,965 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 641 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66287
Area code : 06897
License plate : SB
Community key : 10 0 41 516
Community structure: 3 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausplatz 1
66287 Qui Various
Website : www.quianders.de
Mayor : Lutz Maurer (independent)
Location of the community Quiigart in the Saarbrücken regional association
Regionalverband Saarbrücken Saarland Frankreich Landkreis Saarlouis Landkreis Neunkirchen Saarpfalz-Kreis Großrosseln Völklingen Püttlingen Riegelsberg Heusweiler Quierschied Friedrichsthal Sulzbach Kleinblittersdorf Saarbrückenmap
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Quiersche ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Saarbrücken regional association ( Saarland ). It is located about 13 km north of the state capital Saarbrücken . Audio file / audio sample

The community Quiersche consists of the districts Quiigart, Fischbach-Camphausen and Göttelborn .

geography

climate

The annual precipitation is 964 mm. The precipitation is high, it is in the upper fifth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 82% of the measuring stations. The driest month is September, with most precipitation falling in November. In November there is 1.6 times more rainfall than in September. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 60% of the measuring stations.

history

Qui Schwier was first mentioned in 999 in a certificate from Otto III. mentioned. This deed of donation proves that Emperor Otto III. Bishop Adalbert II of Metz donated Saarbrücken Castle with the Völklingen, Qui Various (Quirnesceit!) And Warndwald farms.

Coal was probably mined as early as the 15th century . During the Thirty Years War the village was completely destroyed and depopulated. After the war, resettlement began hesitantly.

Origins of the name Quiigart

There is much speculation about the etymology of the name Quiigart . A final clarification of the origin is still pending. Here are a few attempts to explain:

  • What is certain is that the place name ending schied goes back to 'Scheid' as a name for border areas, ridges and watersheds. But could also indicate the property of a settler with the name Quirin (us) or the like that resulted from clearing of the community forest.
  • Saint Quirinus is also often mentioned as a possible namesake. An important indication of this is the first mention of Quiigarts under the name Quirineiscet . The family name Quirin is still very common in Quiigart today. In addition, the so-called Quirinsborn flows through Quiigart , which also speaks in favor of this argument.
  • Quiersche could also come from the Old High German word quierna (mill). Related names in other languages: quern ( Old Saxon ), qairnus ( Gothic ), quern ( English = 'hand mill'), kvarn ( Swedish ), guern ( Indo-European = 'heavy', 'millstone') and would then be a place in a forest clearing (or in a border position, ridge, watershed) with a (water) mill.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the previously independent communities Fischbach and Göttelborn were incorporated. In addition, the Camphausen district of the city of Dudweiler, which had more than 200 inhabitants at the time, was incorporated.

Population development

date Residents
June 6, 1961 10,555
May 27, 1970 10,294
1st January 1974 approx. 17,000
December 31, 2005 14,417
December 31, 2011 13,386
December 31, 2012 13,278
September 30th, 2013 13,179
December 31, 2015 13,039
December 31, 2018 13,030

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 64.9% (2014: 56.9%)
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Remarks:
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Allocation of seats in the Quierschieder municipal council 2019
      
A total of 33 seats

Municipal council

For decades, the community of Quiigart was considered a “CDU stronghold” in Saarland, with mostly clear majorities for the CDU in local and municipal councils. Since Karin Lawall (SPD) surprisingly prevailed against incumbent Otwin Zimmer (CDU) in the mayoral election on June 24, 2007 with 51.06% and the CDU only received 25.8% of the votes in the 2009 local election and thus nine seats in the Municipal council and lost its absolute majority, the label appears increasingly dubious. For the first time since the Second World War, the SPD was the strongest parliamentary group in the local council. Likewise, for the first time representatives of the left and the free voters belonged to the municipal council and the FDP was also represented again after several years of abstinence.

After the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution of votes and seats in the 33-member local council resulted:Template: future / in 3 years

Political party Share of votes difference Seats difference
CDU 38.3% +1.6% 13 −1
SPD 30.9% −10.5% 11 −4
Free voters 11.9% + 5.1% 4th +2
AfD 7.8% + 3.1% 2 +1
LEFT 6.6% +1.6% 2 +1
FDP 4.6% + 3.1% 1 +1
Voter turnout: 64.9% + 8.0%

mayor

  • From 1816–1903 Qui Various belonged to the mayor's office in Heusweiler .
  • 1903-1916: Reinhard Dony
  • 1916–1918: Max Schlösslin ( court trainee , deputy during wartime )
  • 1918–1919: Ernst H. Ballke (actually mayor of Friedrichsthal , deputy)
  • 1919–1933: Josef Sieberin (from Düren , from 1933 to 1936 mayor of the city of Völklingen , † August 24, 1937 in a traffic accident)
  • 1934–1935: Albert Kronenberger
  • 1935–1945: Peter Schaub
  • 1945–1946: Karl Kreßmann
  • 1946–1950: Albert Warken
  • 1950–1956: Rudolf Kaspar ( CVP )
  • 1956–1960: Ewald Martin (CDU)
  • 1960–1960: Erhard Blug (SPD)
  • 1961–1964: Theo Jochum (CDU)
  • 1964–1974: Erwin Maurer (CDU)
  • 1974–1981: Emil Backes (CDU)
  • 1981–1991: Erwin Maurer (CDU)
  • 1991–1999: Klaus Meiser (CDU)
  • 2000–2008: Otwin Zimmer (CDU)
  • 2008–2016: Karin Lawall (SPD)
  • since February 1, 2016: Lutz Maurer (independent)

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 7, 1977.

Blazon : "A four-spoke black conveyor wheel over a blue wave shield base in gold, covered with a black St. Andrew's cross, which is covered with two diagonally crossed, downwardly twitching silver flashes." (The "conveyor wheel" means a pulley .)

The colors of the community are black / yellow.

The municipality of Quiigart is based on § 9 of the law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of Saarland (New Structure Act - NNG) of December 19, 1973 (Official Gazette p. 852) with effect from January 1, 1974 through the merger of the Quiigart office until then belonging communities Fischbach, Göttelborn and Quiigart were newly formed. Quiersche and Fischbach had their own coats of arms from these earlier communities, which were used as the basis for the new Quierschieder community coat of arms, whereby the symbolism of the coats of arms has been partially extended.

The black conveyor wheel indicates the great importance of hard coal mining for the rapid upward development of the three districts of Fischbach-Camphausen, Göttelborn and Qui Various in the past and present. It symbolizes the coal mines that were built in connection with the Quierschieder glassworks in the tunnel construction in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Camphausen and Göttelborn hard coal mines built in 1871 and 1887, which have now been closed.

The two diagonally crossed silver flashes represent the generation of electricity in the coal-fired power stations in Quiigart. Only the Weiher III power plant unit from Evonik Power Saar GmbH is still connected to the grid.

The black St. Andrew's cross in the golden field is the coat of arms of the noble lords of Saarbrücken . This family, owners of Dagstuhl Castle , had - probably before the 13th century - extensive possessions and rights in the Quiigart area, which passed to their heirs, the lords of Brücken and Fleckenstein, after they died out in the 14th century . The lords of Fleckenstein also took over the coat of arms of the noble lords of Saarbrücken, which thus served as a symbol of the von Quiigart family for centuries.

The blue base of the corrugated shield initially indicates the general geographical location of the new municipality of Quiigart, in the Fischbachtale, but then also the names of two districts, namely Fischbach and Göttelborn, which point to their origin on a stream or a spring.

The coat of arms was designed by Horst Kohler.

Coat of arms of the district of Quiigart

Coat of arms of the district of Quiigart

The coat of arms was approved on June 20, 1953.

Blazon : "A four-spoke black conveyor wheel in gold, covered with a black St. Andrew's cross covered by two crossed silver glassmaker's pipes."

The colors of the district are black / yellow.

The formative economic factors in the development of the community are indicated by the wheel as a conveyor wheel for the coal mining industry and by the glassmaker's pipes for the glassworks operated from 1779 to 1914. St. Andrew's cross and the shield color are taken from the coat of arms of the noble lords of Saarbrücken, who owned land in the municipality from the 13th century.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Kurt Hoppstädter.

District coat of arms Fischbach

The coat of arms was approved on July 14, 1964.

Blazon : "By a silver sloping bar, covered with two blue fish, divided by green and black."

The colors of the district are green / black.

It is a so-called talking coat of arms, which wants to describe the name and the location of the district on both sides of the brook with the wave bars as a brook symbol and the fish. The colors silver and blue indicate that it belongs to Nassau-Saarbrücken, to which the place owes its existence in the years 1720 to 1730. The colors black and green are intended to refer to coal mining and the abundance of forests.

The coat of arms was designed by Paul Schäfer.

Town twinning

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Quiersche belongs to the Saarland Transport Association (SaarVV) . Via the Fischbachtalbahn (course book route 681) there is hourly service from the stops in Quiigart and Fischbach-Camphausen to Saarbrücken and Lebach, and every half hour during rush hour. The journey time from Quiigart is 10 (Saarbrücken) or 20 minutes (Lebach). There are bus connections with the SaarVV to Saarbrücken, Sulzbach, Dudweiler and Göttelborn . There is a bus connection to Neunkirchen with the NVG and a connection to Dudweiler with the Saarbahn and Saarbus.

Quiersche is connected to the national road network via the federal motorway 1 ( Oldenburg in Holstein - Saarbrücken ) and the federal motorway 8 ( Luxembourg - Salzburg ).

Local businesses

Quiersche is a power station (Weiher III) of the Steag . Here, electricity and district heating are generated from hard coal and mine gas . The power plant has an output of 707 MW. Its chimney of 232 meters is the highest in the Saarland. Hard coal for the power station was used until it was closed. a. delivered from the nearby Göttelborn mine .

In 2004/2005 one of the world's largest photovoltaic systems at the time was built in Göttelborn with a capacity of 7.4  MW on an area of ​​165,000 m².

Göttelborn PV system, photographed from the headframe shaft IV. In the background: Coal-fired power station Weiher III.

media

  • Quierschieder indicator
  • Wochenspiegel Fischbachtal / Sulzbachtal
  • The Quierschder
  • There cheese sheets

Public facilities

  • Local government
  • Police station
  • Postal agency
  • Community library
  • youth Center
  • Local history museum Quiigart
  • outdoor pool

education

  • Elementary school Quiigart
  • Primary school Fischbach-Göttelborn
  • Quianders comprehensive school
  • Volkshochschule Quiigart

nature and environment

Landscape of industrial culture north (LIK.Nord)

Quiersche belongs to the large-scale nature conservation project Landscape of Industrial Culture North (LIK.Nord). The cities of Neunkirchen and Friedrichsthal, the municipalities of Illingen, Merchweiler, Schiffweiler and Quiigart as well as the district of Neunkirchen and Industriekultur Saar GmbH (IKS) have merged to form a special purpose association and in 2009 won the federal competition "Large-scale nature conservation projects and rural development" from the Federal Environment Ministry. The aim of the project is to shape the future-proof development of the old industrial landscape, which is characterized by mining. This is intended to maintain and further expand the biodiversity of the landscape through maintenance and targeted interventions. The landscape laboratories “ Post-mining landscape ” and “Forestry and natural processes” are located in the area of ​​the municipality of Quiigart . The project has been in the implementation phase since the end of 2013.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Hermann Köhl, glassworks owner (* May 12, 1839; † November 5, 1926 in Saarbrücken )
  • Josef Gerhardus, pastor (born August 27, 1889 in Herdorf an der Sieg, † November 19, 1974 in Ochtendung)
  • Peter Mager, politician (born May 24, 1901 in Quiigart, † December 21, 1993 ibid.)
  • Hans Unfricht, pastor (born March 3, 1910 in Illingen, † September 22, 1986)
  • Erwin Maurer, retired mayor D. (* November 28, 1927 in Quiigart, † August 30, 2012 ibid.)

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked in the church

  • Alois Hospelt, Pastor (born May 6, 1892 in Berg im Ahrtal ; Pastor-Hospelt-Straße in Göttelborn is named after him)
  • Hans Glawe (born May 7, 1923 in Neunkirchen / Saar), sculptor
  • Oskar Stenzhorn, painter (born March 5, 1924 in Friedrichsthal / Saar)
  • Michael Burkert (* 1952), former President of the Saarbrücken City Association
  • Klaus Kieser (* 1961), cultural manager, dance journalist and publisher
  • Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (* 1963), former tennis player and today's politician
  • Location views

  • View over the Paulsburg (1985)

  • Quierschder Wambe

  • Blospitt

  • Catholic Church

  • Water tower in Göttelborn

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm Martin: Qui Various: Its history and character.
  • Rainer W. Müller (Hrsg.): Qui Various, the community in the Saarkohlenwald, a community book with Fischbach, Göttelborn and Camphausen, Qui Various 1998.
  • Rainer W. Müller: Quiigart once and now - A walk in pictures through Quiigart, Fischbach-Camphausen and Göttelborn. 1988.
  • Helmut Simmet: Göttelborn - On becoming and growing a place shaped by mining. 1998.
  • Armin Schmitt, Peter M. Lupp: Cultural monuments in the city association Saarbrücken - Grube and settlement Göttelborn. 2001, ISBN 3-923405-20-0 . (published by the Saarbrücken City Association )
  • Delf Slotta: Göttelborn - former mine site and mining environment. (Compendium)
  • Martin Conrath: The black grave. Emons, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89705-403-5 . (Saarland thriller, takes place on the Göttelborn mine area)

Web links

Commons : Qui Various  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
  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. 806 .
  3. ↑ Municipal elections 2019 - 41516 - Quiigart. State Returning Officer Saarland, June 26, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ruth Hanna Sachs: White Rose History . Exclamation! Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0-9710541-4-2 , pp. 25, 36 . google books
  5. ↑ Saarland Official Gazette No. 39/1977, p. 882 (PDF; 430 kB)
  6. ↑ Saarland: LIK.Nord | Saarland.de. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .