Marpingen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ' N , 7 ° 3' E |
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| State : | Saarland | |
| County : | St. Wendel | |
| Height : | 301 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 39.73 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9961 (Dec. 31, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 251 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 66646 | |
| Primaries : | 06827, 06853 | |
| License plate : | WND | |
| Community key : | 10 0 46 112 | |
| Community structure: | 4 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Urexweilerstr. 11 66646 Marpingen |
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| Mayor : | Volker Weber ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Marpingen in the St. Wendel district | ||
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Marpingen (in the local dialect Maarbinge or Maarbinge ) is a municipality in the north of the Saarland . It is located in the southwest of the St. Wendel district . The municipality was created in 1974 after a regional reform through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Marpingen, Urexweiler, Alsweiler and Berschweiler. The place gained national fame in the late 19th century, when alleged apparitions of Mary in the village and a nearby forest led to a large pilgrimage and, as a result, to a military operation by the Prussian army to suppress an alleged popular uprising.
geography
The municipality of Marpingen is located in the Prims-Blies hill country on the edge of the Saar-Hunsrück nature park, around 25 km north of the state capital Saarbrücken .
The villages are surrounded by agricultural landscapes, rolling hills and mixed forests. 800 hectares of the community area are forested. The source of the small river Ill gushes in the district of Urexweiler, which flows through the community and forms the basis for the approximately 1100 hectare nature reserve "Valleys of the Ill and its tributaries", which is partly in the community. There, in the 1990s, the landscape was redesigned so that it was so close to nature that previously lost animal species such as the beaver could be resettled and the biodiversity of the flora increased.
Church organization
The community is divided into four districts (population figures as of October 31, 2016):
| Parish | Area (km²) | Residents |
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| Alsweiler | 9.24 | 2063 |
| Berschweiler | 6.84 | 1036 |
| Marpingen | 12.60 | 4683 |
| Urexweiler | 11.50 | 2778 |
To the municipality Marpingen includes the settlement Rhine Road , to the municipality Urexweiler the settlement have-not .
Districts
Marpingen
The 12.56 km² large Marpingen (approx. 4700 inhabitants), the main town of the municipality, is located in the Alsbach valley in the middle of the hilly Hunsrück foothills. Before the regional and administrative reform, Marpingen was the largest rural community in the St. Wendel district . Just a few kilometers north of the village, the striking Schaumberg, the "local mountain of the Saarland", rises near Tholey . Marpingen became known nationwide in the sporting sector (handball, table football, running club, gliding) and as a place of pilgrimage for popular piety , in memory of the Marian apparitions of 1876/1877 , where three women also reported on Marian apparitions in the mid-1990s and have been followers since then Germany and neighboring countries attracted. The Roman Catholic Church does not officially recognize the apparitions. There is a primary school and a comprehensive school on site. The existing cultural and sports facilities (school auditorium, “sister house”, two sports halls, an artificial turf, a riding arena, a glider airfield as well as signposted hiking and Nordic walking trails) enable a lively club life in the sporting and cultural area.
The district of Marpingen has a heraldic four-petalled rose in the m-shaped serrated shield. The green color speaks for the local loyalty of the inhabitants. The five-petalled rose was taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Blieskastel . Around 1200 the Blieskasteler owned Marpingen as a fief.
Berschweiler
Berschweiler is the southernmost of the three valley settlements in the Alstal, which also includes Alsweiler and Marpingen. From a geological point of view, Berschweiler belongs to the Lebach-Ottweiler-Bergland. With around 1000 inhabitants and an area of 6.84 km², it is the smallest of the four municipal districts. The village must have been established long before it was first mentioned in a document in 1281, because parts of a stone ax from the early Stone Age were found during an excavation in 1949. Several finds testify to Roman times, including the remains of a villa. A golden car loaded with valuables is also said to be buried in the immediate vicinity of Berschweiler.
Since the introduction of the Reformation, the Protestant denomination has played a large part in the village community. In 1574, the Evangelical Lutheran religion was introduced in Berschweiler and in neighboring Urexweiler, which at that time belonged to the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken. After the 30-year war, which almost completely depopulated Berschweiler, a predominantly Catholic population settled here again, which formed the majority of the population until the 18th century. In the 19th century the Protestant population grew strongly and since then has made up the majority in the village. After the Second World War , the desire to have one's own house of worship became a reality. The inauguration of the Protestant parish hall with church space took place on April 19, 1953. The Catholic population celebrated the consecration of their church on June 14, 1953.
In 1993 the Naturschutzbund began to seriously deal with the resettlement of the beaver in Saarland. At the Ill there was the opportunity to combine the biotope protection project "Illrenaturation" with the species protection project "Beaver reintroduction" to create an ideal symbiosis. After beavers were settled in December 1994 and October 1995, seven more beavers were relocated from Saxony-Anhalt to Saarland in the spring of 1996. Five of them found their new home in Berschweiler. In the meantime, the beavers have offspring. This can be seen as a sure sign that the animals in Berschweiler feel very comfortable in their buildings and dams.
Berschweiler is an idyllic, agricultural community in wooded hills with important and well-preserved old farmhouses and many streams and ponds.
The school camp of the municipality of Marpingen with its extensive range is also located here. As part of the “Local Agenda 21”, several very active working groups have been formed in Berschweiler that play a key role in shaping the townscape and what is happening.
Urexweiler
The village (approx. 2800 inhabitants) has numerous associations, such as B. the DC-Bock 1976, the sports club (SVU), fruit and gardening club , hiking and mandolin club, music club Harmonie, choir Concordia 1878 eV, poultry breeding club, carnival club Urexweiler, rabbit breeding club, tennis club Urexweiler, table tennis club Urexweiler and many more. After an old "Exweller Original", the now deceased Hanjob , the inhabitants of Urexweiler are sometimes jokingly referred to as that. A popular event in the village is the so-called Exwell Village Festival , which takes place annually on the first weekend in September.
Alsweiler
The Hiwwelhaus , the oldest surviving farmhouse in Saarland, is located in Alsweiler (approx. 2100 inhabitants) . It was built in 1712, today it has been converted into a cultural center and is operated by Hiwwelhaus e. V. managed. The various events in the Hiwwelhaus include: B. Photo and art exhibitions, piano and guitar concerts as well as general scientific lectures. In the historical part of the house, the “Geschichtsforum Alsweiler e. V. “Guided tours on the history of the property.
Non-independent settlements
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About two kilometers outside of Urexweiler is the historical settlement habenasst .
Rheinstrasse
In the era of Roman colonization, two of the four most important thoroughfares of that time crossed in the Wareswald in the immediate vicinity of what is now Alsweiler: on the one hand the road from Metz to Mainz, on the other hand the connection from Trier to Strasbourg, which is still known today as the "Rheinstrasse" becomes. It is assumed that this connecting road was not built by the Romans, but was already used at the time of the Celts, this is also suggested by several finds from the Celtic period.
The Rheinstraße, also known as et Heisje , was developed by an ancestor of the Recktenwald family, who built a small house in what is now the Rheinstraße area, from which the nickname of the small settlement can be traced back. Little by little, people moved into the settlement, most of whom were related to one another. The Rheinstrasse settlement is best known for its beautiful hiking landscape and the view of the St. Wendeler Land. The Peace Cross on Rheinstrasse was erected in 1995 by the residents of this small district as a memorial to thank them for 50 years of peace in Germany. The Johannis Chapel ( Stròòßer Kapell ) is in a wonderful location on Rheinstrasse . The equestrian festival takes place here on May 1st every year, and is attended by people from all over the region. There is also a small sports field that is occasionally used for local games. Today around 140 people live here in 44 houses.
climate
The annual precipitation is 1069 mm and is thus in the upper third of the values recorded by the measuring points of the German Weather Service . Over 88% indicate lower values. The driest month is April; it rains most in December. In the wettest month there is around 1.6 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the upper third. In 68% of all places, the monthly precipitation fluctuates less.
history
Marpingen was first mentioned in a document around the year 1084. In a document written in Latin , Emperor Henry III confirmed that a knight named Emich gave his fiefdom, the castellum marpedinum , to the Bishop of Verdun . In 1984 a 900th anniversary celebration was held on this occasion. Finds from the Neolithic Age (Klopfstein), the Bronze Age (jewelery from a tumulus ) and warrior graves from the Celtic era prove, however, that the area of today's Marpingen was inhabited earlier.
The place was assigned to the canton Tholey in the Moselle department until 1814 .
Incorporations
On January 1, 1974, the previously independent communities Alsweiler and Urexweiler and Berschweiler (from the district of Ottweiler ) were incorporated. The four leaves of the rose chosen for the new coat of arms symbolize the four places of the municipality.
politics
Local council
The municipal council elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:
| CDU | 41.01% | 14 seats | −1 |
| SPD | 46.70% | 16 seats | +2 |
| LEFT | 5.29% | 1 seat | −2 |
| GREEN | 7.00% | 2 seats | +1 |
Group chairman in the Marpingen municipal council:
- CDU: Peter Keßler
- SPD: Lars Vogel
- Left: Erik Gutzke
mayor
- 1974–1982: Josef Sartorius (CDU)
- 1982–1990 Hermann Neis (CDU)
- 1990–2016: Werner Laub (SPD)
- Since August 1, 2016: Volker Weber (SPD)
Werner Laub resigned on July 31, 2016 due to reaching the age limit. He was replaced on August 1, 2016 by Volker Weber, who at 32 is the youngest mayor of Saarland. In the direct election on April 10, 2016, Weber won the first ballot against two other candidates with 56.98% of the votes cast. The turnout was around 69%. CDU candidate Manfred Wegmann received 35.91% of the votes and the freelance applicant Sabine Nowaczyk received 7.11% of the votes.
Culture and sights
Our Lady of Marpingen
The Lady von Marpingen is a baroque wooden sculpture from the 18th century. The 63 centimeter high sculpture is kept in a Lady Chapel with a fountain. The legend reports that the Marpinger villagers found a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in a damp meadow at the site of the chapel. From this a place of worship of the Virgin Mary developed, to which residents from the surrounding area also made pilgrimages to ask for good weather. It is not known why the baroque sculpture replaced the original statue.
Marienkapelle in the Härtelwald
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In 1932 the congregation built a chapel financed with donations in Härtelwald as a place of prayer and worship in honor of Mary , the mother of Jesus , after there were apparitions of Mary there in 1876 and 1877 . During the apparitions of Mary in Marpingen in 1876/1877 , the three girls Katharina Hubertus, Susanna Leist and Margaretha Kunz allegedly appeared on 3 July 1876 as the "Mother of God" (according to Trinitarian tradition), soon other children and adults claimed to have seen the Virgin and there have been reports of miraculous healings. The pilgrimages that began at that time had been massively suppressed by the state because of the prevailing culture war , and the church had therefore failed to properly examine the matter. Nevertheless, the pilgrimages prevailed at least regionally, so that the chapel was built, which was mainly financed by donations from the pilgrims. The journalist Friedrich Ritter von Lama published a book in 1934 under the title: “The Mother of God Apparitions in Marpingen - A Victim of the Kulturkampf”, which made Marpingen famous and which appeared as a reprint in the 1970s.
At the place of the earlier apparition of 1876, Maria is said to have appeared again thirteen times between May and October 1999 and conveyed messages to them. On August 8, 1999, more than 20,000 people made a pilgrimage to the chapel to attend the event. However, the Catholic Church does not recognize that the apparition is supernatural , and in 2005 an official church commission of inquiry determined doubts about the alleged appearance of a heavenly person.
Old Mill
The Marpinger mill building, which dates back to 1836 and was restored in 1999, houses a local museum, a meeting place and a café.
Old landmarks
The border between the Principality of Nassau-Saarbrücken and the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken used to run along the municipal boundary between Marpingen and the neighboring towns of Winterbach, Oberlinxweiler and Remmesweiler in the Wurzelbach . There are still a number of large boundary stones that were erected in the 18th century and partially restored. On one side they bear the coat of arms of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, on the other side the Nassau-Saarbrücker Wolfsangel. A little anecdote connects with the most imposing of these boundary stones, the so-called Vierbannstein near the Wurzelbach waterworks: When the bans in the St. Wendel area were to be reorganized after the Thirty Years War , the mayor of Marpingen, among others, also turned up whose local area actually ended far from the point mentioned. He resolved a dispute between him and the village mayors of the nearby towns by raising his hand and swearing: “As true God's heaven above me, so is Marpinger soil below me”. Of course, he was only able to keep this oath (truthfully) because he had filled his boots with soil from his garden. According to legend, this is why the Marpinger Bann extends so far to the north.
Sports
Glider airfield
The state performance center for gliding in Marpingen is one of the four German performance centers for this sport. Every year sporting competitions and flying encounters take place, which are noticed far beyond the Saarland. In 1995, Marpingen hosted the 9th International European Championships for women in gliding.
FC Hellas
The football club FC Hellas Marpingen was champion of the Landesliga Nord-Ost in the 2005/2006 season and thus promoted to what was then the highest football league in Saarland, the association league. In the 2009/10 season, FC Hellas will play again in the now eight-class North-East regional league.
The women's team of FC Hellas Marpingen was one of the strongest teams in Saarland in the late 1970s and early 1980s and took part in the final round of the German championship several times . The greatest success was the move into the final of 1978 , where they were defeated by SC 07 Bad Neuenahr .
DJK St. Michael Marpingen
The first women's team of the DJK St. Michael Marpingen has been promoted to the second Bundesliga and plays in the group south in the 2007/08 season. The handball men of the DJK Marpingen together with the DJK Oberthal and the DJK Namborn form the HSG DJK Nordsaar. After a year in the Oberliga Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, the team is back in the Saarland League this season. The chairman is the well-known Urexweiler Norbert Geiger.
DVG Urexweiler
The German Association of Working Dog Sports Associations was founded in 1973. Dog sports such as versatility , agility , tournament dog sports and, for some time now , obedience are trained here. Puppy play lessons and free training are also offered. The club's athletes have already celebrated successes several times at national events.
Regular events
Rose Monday parade in Marpingen
The Rose Monday parade is one of the largest in the district and is followed by several thousand visitors every year.
Marienkirmes in Marpingen
Every year around August 15th (Assumption of Mary) a large fair is celebrated in Marpingen, which attracts thousands of visitors from the surrounding area for four days.
Exwell village festival
The famous “ Exwell Village Festival ” has been held in Urexweiler every year on the first weekend in September since 1980 . The festival offers all kinds of culinary specialties and is characterized by the fact that it is only organized by local associations. The “Vereinsring Urexweiler 1976 e. V. ". 33 local groups are organized in it, around 20 of which take part in the village festival. The festival has had a motto for years. In the predominantly Catholic place, the church also celebrates the evening mass on Saturday under the same motto as the village festival.
Sons and daughters of the congregation
- Adam Meyer (around 1410–1499 in Cologne), Benedictine abbot in Cologne and monastery reformer.
- Alois Kunz (1892–1943), German Holocaust victim. In 1995 he was honored by the Marpinger Municipal Council as a resistance fighter against National Socialism. His life story is the starting point of the “Alternative Heimatbuch”.
- Barbara Esser (1902–1952), politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag
- Bernadette Mac-Nelly (1920–2002), freelance painter, designer, stage and costume designer
- Erich Leist (1935–2014), football player
- Erwin Glod (1936–2003), football player
- Ernst Gägel (1936–2020), football player
- Rudolf Hinsberger (1943–2021), politician (SPD), district administrator of the Neunkirchen district
- Norbert Kuß (* 1943), victim of justice
- Richard Dewes (* 1948), politician (SPD), former Minister of the Interior in Thuringia
- Bernd Franke (* 1948), soccer player
- Georg Skalecki (* 1959), monument conservator
- Udo Recktenwald (* 1962), politician (CDU), district administrator of the St. Wendel district
- Patrick Huber (* 1968), physicist, university professor and author
- Kristina Barrois (* 1981), tennis player
- Langhals & Dickkopp , songwriter and cabaret duo
literature
- David Blackbourn : Marpingen. The German Lourdes in the Bismarckian era. Association for the Promotion of the Saarbrücken State Archives, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808556-8-6 . Improved new edition of: When you see her again, ask who she is . Rowohlt, Hamburg 1997.
- Wilhelm Bungert: Home book of the community Marpingen . Marpingen, 1980.
- Wilhelm Bungert: 900 years of Marpingen. Documentation about the 900 year celebration in Marpingen in 1984 , 1986.
- Friedrich Ritter von Lama : The apparitions of the Mother of God in Marpingen. A victim of the Kulturkampf. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1934, also published in reprint.
- Eberhard Wagner: Marpingen and the St. Wendel district under the swastika - an alternative homeland book. Röhrig University Press St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-86110-446-9 .
- Literature on Marpingen in the Saarland Bibliography
Web links
- Literature by and about Marpingen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Against forgetting
- Official website
- Marian place of worship "Härtelwald"
- Link catalog on marpingen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2020 (PDF; 98 kB) ( help ).
- ↑ Geoplatt ( Memento of November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FOCUS Online: With a bare bayonet against praying pilgrims . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).
- ↑ Marpingen, community - Citizen Information - FindCity. In: www.findcity.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ^ Ill - Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park. In: www.naturpark.org. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ^ Emil Wagner: Berschweiler, a chronicle . Ed .: Municipality of Marpingen. 1st edition. 1983, p. 27 ff .
- ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung: New impulses for village life. In: www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27th, 1970 to December 31st, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 809 .
- ↑ All results of the local elections in the municipality of Marpingen • Municipality of Marpingen. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel, report of December 14, 2005: Church does not recognize Marian apparitions
- ↑ Eberhard Wagner: "Marpingen and the St. Wendel district under the swastika - an alternative home book." St. Ingbert: Universitätsverlag Röhrig, 2008. 905 pp., 68 ills. ISBN 978-3-86110-446-9 .
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