Roschberg

Roschberg Namborn municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	400 m above sea level NN
Area :	3.05 km²
Residents :	410  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	134 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66640
Area code :	06857
Location of Roschberg in Saarland

Roschberg is part of the municipality of Namborn , district of St. Wendel , Saarland and forms its own municipality. Until the end of 1973 Roschberg was an independent municipality.

geography

Roschberg is 400 m above sea level

history

First mentioned in 1335 as Roßbergh. After the French Revolution, Roschberg belonged to Marie Oberkirchen or later mayor of Oberkirchen. On October 1, 1823, it became the mayor's office of St. Wendel - Landgemeinden and on January 1, 1836, the mayor's office of Oberkirchen. When the mayor's office in Oberkirchen was divided into Oberkirchen-Nord (Kingdom of Prussia / Rhine Province) and Oberkirchen-Süd (Saar area) on January 10, 1920, it initially remained with Oberkirchen-Nord and on January 1, 1921 it came back to Oberkirchen-Süd (Saar area ).

As part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland , the previously independent municipality of Roschberg was assigned to the municipality of Namborn on January 1, 1974.

Administrative affiliation after 1794:

• 1798 to 1814 - Mairie Oberkirchen
• 1814 to January 10, 1817 - Mayor's office in Oberkirchen
• January 11, 1817 to September 30, 1823 - Mayor's office in Oberkirchen
• October 1, 1823 to December 31, 1835 - St. Wendel mayor's office
• January 1, 1836 to March 22, 1920 - Oberkirchen Mayor's Office
• March 23, 1920 to December 31, 1920 - Oberkirchen-Nord mayor's office
• January 1, 1921 to May 6, 1921 - Oberkirchen-Süd mayor's office
• May 7, 1921 to July 31, 1935 - Namborn Mayor's Office
• August 1, 1935 to February 25, 1947 - Amt Namborn
• February 26, 1947 to August 31, 1951 - Namborn County
• September 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952 - Amt Namborn
• July 1, 1952 to December 31, 1973 - Office Oberkirchen-Namborn
• January 1, 1974 to the present day - Namborn parish

Parish affiliation

Roschberg initially belonged to the parish of St. Wendelin in St. Wendel and in 1792 came to the parish of Furschweiler, to which it still belongs today.

politics

Parish

The local council with nine seats is composed as follows after the local election on May 26, 2019 with a voter turnout of 83.3%:

• CDU: 33.61% - 3 seats
• SPD: 21.31% - 2 seats
• Free list Namborn: 45.08% - 4 seats

Mayor

• 1974 to 1994: Bernhard Stoll, CDU
• 1994 until today: Norbert Jung, Freie Liste Namborn

Coat of arms

A local coat of arms was introduced in 1988.
Description: "Under a silver shield head, inside a continuous red cross, in red over a silver trefoil covered with three fan-shaped green oak leaves, a jumping gold horse."

Economy and Infrastructure

Population numbers

• 1787 = 99 inhabitants - St. Wendel Office (Electorate of Trier)
• 1819 = 107 inhabitants - Oberkirchen Mayor's Office (Principality of Lichtenberg / Duchy of Saxony-Coburg) - 22 houses
• 1843 = 223 inhabitants - Oberkirchen Mayor's Office (Rhine Province / Kingdom of Prussia) - 35 houses
• May 17, 1939 = 255 inhabitants - Namborn Office (Saarland) - 1939 census
• November 14, 1951 = 297 inhabitants - Namborn office - 1951 census
• June 6, 1961 = 330 inhabitants - Oberkirchen-Namborn district - 1961 census - 61 residential buildings
• May 27, 1970 = 364 inhabitants - Oberkirchen-Namborn district - 1970 census
• December 31, 1973 = 368 inhabitants - Oberkirchen-Namborn district - regional and administrative reform on January 1, 1974
• May 25, 1987 = 386 inhabitants - Namborn municipality - 1987 census

traffic

Like Heisterberg, Roschberg is no longer connected to the public transport network by a state road .

Culture and sights

• Village community center (former school house)
• Three oaks (natural monument)
• Mariengrotte (near the shepherd's meadow)

literature

• Roschberg - A small village and its history 1984

Web links

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

• www.roschberg.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Namborn - residents with main and secondary residence in the municipality as of December 31, 2019
2. ↑ Restructuring Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, Section 44, published in the Saarland Official Gazette 1973, No. 48, p. 857 (PDF page 29; 499 kB)
3. ^ 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. 809 .
4. ↑ Document representation in the local chronicle Heisterberg (approx. 60 documents)
5. ^ Draft, execution and justification: Horst Kohler, Westhofer Weg 9, Mandelbachtal
6. ↑ Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province - Volume II - by Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius 1898, p. 128
7. ^ The administrative authorities in the Principality of Lichtenberg 1819 and other statistical information from Daniel Hinkelmann - Heimatbuch des Landkreis St. Wendel 1967/1968 XII. Edition, p. 124
8. ↑ Description of the government district of Trier - Second Part, Georg Bärsch 1846
9. ↑ Individual publications on Saarland statistics No. 35 - Official municipality register, 11th edition as of May 27, 1970 (census) and December 31, 1971 with an administrative map (with censuses 1939-1970) - Saarland Statistical Office 1972
10. ↑ Individual publications on Saarland Statistics No. 24 - Municipal Statistics 1960/61, Part 2: Buildings and Apartments - Results of the building count on June 6, 1961 - Saarland Statistical Office 1964
11. ↑ Statistical reports of the Saarland Statistical Office - population on December 31, 1973 (old territorial status) and on January 1, 1974 (new territorial status) - issued on April 9, 1974
12. ↑ Individual publications on Saarland Statistics No. 84 - Official municipality directory, 13th edition as of December 31, 1989 - Saarland Statistical Office 1990