Roden (Saar)

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Roden, Church of the Assumption of Mary , neo-Romanesque facade

Roden (Latin name: Rodēna) is the largest district of the district town of Saarlouis in Saarland , ahead of Fraulautern and the city center . The population on December 31, 2006 was 8931 people.

Waters near Roden

location

While the city center of Saarlouis lies to the left of the Saar , the Roden district (as well as the Fraulautern and Steinrausch districts ) are on the right side of the Saar. Roden borders the iron and steel works in the neighboring town of Dillingen / Saar .

traffic

In Roden is the Saarlouis train station ( Saarlouis Hauptbahnhof ), which came to the city in 1907 when Roden was incorporated. With the Saarhafen there is also an inland port on Roden territory.

Designations

Historical location of the village of Roden on the "Plan de Sarlouis et de la Situation", map around 1740 with the city fortifications; in the east the village of Fraulautern with its abbey on the banks of the Saar (Saarlouis city archive)
  • Possible Celtic roots: Rodunum, nouns from the Celtic verb prefix ro and the suffix dunum . Ro stands for a well-performed activity, dunum refers to a fenced area. Thus a possible translation variant “the well fenced”.
  • Possible Celtic roots: Roten, Rotena, Rodena: Celtic name; comes from either 'rott' (lazy, rotten) or 'rotten' (clearing). Both declarations have their claim. On the one hand, the area around Saarlouis was a swampy landscape at the time of the Mediomatriker and Treverians and, on the other hand, the Celts who lived there were interested in farmland and therefore had to clear land. The term Rodena is a Celtic-influenced pronunciation of the Latin Rodēna that was assumed with a high degree of probability in the first decades of the region's integration phase into the Roman Empire.
  • Rodēna / Rodena: Latin name under late Roman rule, Middle Ages
  • Rodene: a name that appeared under Frankish rule. It is unclear whether a sound change or just repeated spelling mistakes.
  • Roden - until 1907 the name of the village.
  • Saarlouis 2: from 1907 to 1936. After incorporation.
  • Saarlautern 2: from 1936 to 1945. Sometimes assumed Germanization of the city name. In fact, only the contraction of the Celtic name components of Saar and Lautern is traceable and verifiable , which would ultimately reflect the incorporation of Fraulautern into Saarlouis in the same year.
  • Saarlouis-Roden: from 1945 until today, standard identification as a district.

history

The noble Berta and her husband Folmar, Count von Metz as well as Count im Bliesgau and Saargau , hand over the Rodena royal estate to the Mettlach Monastery as a pious foundation , gold engraving on the back of the Mettlach storage library from the 13th century

The oldest evidence of settlement in the vicinity of Roden comes from the Copper Age , although the first actual finds from Roden itself date back to the 9th century BC. Must be dated AD., That Celtic origin The first mention is dated Rodens depending on the source to the year 931 or 941st It is about the obligation of the Rodener Sprengels to take part in a pilgrimage to Mettlach. The first written mention of Roden is dated to the year 995, when the core of Roden, at that time a royal court, fell to the Mettlach monastery . The Benedictine Abbey of Tholey was patron saint and ten-mistress of the place for at least the 13th century . She also had water rights to the mills, fishing rights and customs rights on the Saar. This and the possession of lands are documented in four papal documents from the 13th century. An interlude was the transfer of the rights to the Rodener Sprengel to the Wadgasser Abbey from 1687 to 1721. Because the agreement between the two abbeys was not kept by the Wadgassen Abbey, this was reversed after a complaint by the Tholey Abbey in Trier. The rights and property were only finally lost with the French Revolution . In 1815 clearing fell to Prussia, and numerous buildings were demolished in the course of the fortification decisions. In 1901 the imposing church with its 62 meter high bell tower was inaugurated; it did not survive the Second World War . In 1907 Roden was incorporated as Saarlouis 2. The Roden train station became a state train station. This gives Saarlouis a direct connection to the rail network. After the annexation to the German Reich and the incorporation of Fraulautern, Roden was renamed Saarlautern 2. In the bomber night from 1 to 2 September 1942, large parts Rodens were destroyed, the battle for the Western Wall , which runs through Roden, fostered further devastation. After the Second World War and the construction work, the name of the district of Roden, which is still valid, was briefly renamed to Saarlouis 2.

Roden owns two Catholic churches, which are consecrated to the patronage of the Assumption of Mary and Christ the King .

gallery

  • Historical clearing

  • Bridge over the Ellbach

  • Old Roden building before 1935

Sons and daughters of Roden

literature

  • Marc Finkenberg, Roden. Traditional village and modern district, Saarlouis 1997 (history of the district town Saarlouis, vol. 6).
  • Johann Christian Lager: Documented history of the Mettlach Abbey, Trier 1875 (Rodener Weistümer from 1342/1484)
  • Andreas Neumann: RODENA: Rodener Histories 2008 (paperback) . Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-4378-5 . , 1st edition and 2nd edition

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://heimatforschung.rodena.de/index.php5?id=Rodunum [accessed on January 31, 2013].
  2. ↑ Andreas Neumann: Rodena: Rodener history (n) 2008 (paperback) . Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-4378-5 . , P. 19.
  3. ↑ Lecture notes "Pronunciation of Celtic place and field names", held in the German library of Saarland University.
  4. ↑ Andreas Neumann: Rodena: Rodener history (n) 2008 (paperback) . Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-4378-5 . , P. 6.
  5. ↑ See De Rodena after Wadgassen. Retrieved November 12, 2014 .
  6. ^ Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine, Metz. 1888/89, cf. Local research Roden on heimatforschung.rodena.de .
  7. ↑ Saarlautern, the border town with a new name, Saarlautern festival magazine, 1938.
  8. ↑ a b cf. http://heimatforschung.rodena.de/index.php5?id=Zeittafel [accessed on January 22, 2014].
  9. ↑ See Scan Heimatforschung Roden on heimatforschung.rodena.de .
  10. ↑ See http://heimatforschung.rodena.de/index.php5?id=Die_alte_Kirche [viewed on January 22, 2014].
  11. ↑ See http://saarlouiser-bahnhof.rodena.de [accessed on January 22, 2014].
  12. ↑ a b museum. academia wadegotia and Societas Urielis press office, scanned and freely available material, 2008/2009, mixed lot collection.
  13. ↑ Table of contents of the book Rodena: Rodener history (s) 2008 [seen on March 9, 2009].
  14. ↑ Despite identical title and ISBN due to complete revision of the 1st edition, fundamentally different; own comparison as of April 2009.

Web links

Commons : Roden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E