Sötern
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Sötern
Nohfelden municipality
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| Height : | 415 m above sea level NN | |
| Area : | 13.49 km² | |
| Residents : | 1235 (Jan 2012) | |
| Population density : | 92 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 66625 | |
| Area code : | 06852 | |
Location of Sötern in Saarland |
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 View of Sötern. In the center of the picture the Evangelical Church .
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Sötern is a district of the municipality of Nohfelden in the St. Wendel district in northern Saarland . Until the end of 1973 Sötern was an independent municipality.
The name Sötern is derived from the Celtic word "sedos" for hill.
geography
The place lies at the foot of the Black Forest high forest near the Bostalsee and has about 1200 inhabitants. The highest mountain in Saarland, the Dollberg, is located on the outskirts of the village . The district covers an area of 13.49 km².
history
The village of Sötern (around 1180 Shotere, 1256 Sothere, 1342 Sotern) was the main town of the Eberswald rulership, which was established in the 13th century and was always under the overlordship of the electors and archbishops of Trier . Fiefs were initially the noble lords of Vinstingen , Schwanenhals line. After their extinction in 1467, the rule fell to the heiress Barbara, who was married to a Count von Mörs - Saar Werden . She in turn bequeathed the rule to her daughter, who was married to the Wild and Rhine Count of Kyrburg . His descendants remained the feudal holders until the French Revolution .
The feudal holders always passed the Eberswald rule on as an after-fief . In 1398 Nikolaus Mohr von Sötern is in possession of the estate. The Junker Mohr von Sötern had a castle in Sötern, which is mentioned in a document in 1381. The Countess Barbara von Saar Werden also enfeoffed the Mohr von Sötern in 1489 with the so-called High Court of Sötern ; her grandson, the Wild and Rhine Count, renewed the fief in 1515.
After the Mohr von Sötern died out in 1521, rule over the two heir daughters came to the Lords of Hagen.
The latter was inherited in 1575 by the bailiffs von Hunolstein and the gentlemen Landschad von Steinach . In the same year they bought Schwazenberg's share. After the Landschad von Steinach had died out, this part also passed to the Bailiffs von Hunolstein, who thus reunited the entire Eberswald rule in one hand. Under the governors of Hunolstein, a new baroque palace was built in place of the ruined moated castle.
When the Bailiffs von Hunolstein of the Sötern line died out in 1716, the barons (1764 Counts) Eckbrecht von Dürckheim , who were appointed as heirs in the will and who were related in the female line, followed who retained the rule of Eberswald until the French Revolution.
The former village of Obersötern and the nearby Hof Haupenthal did not originally belong to the Eberswald rulership, but to the Hunolstein estate and were given to Philipp von Sötern as a castle loan in 1431. Both settlements belonged to the high court of Wolfersweiler and thus to the high jurisdiction and sovereignty of the Veldenz and later the Zweibrücken counts. In a wisdom of the Wolfersweiler court from 1507, the place Obersötern and the Hauptenthaler Hof are expressly assigned to this jurisdiction.
In 1608 both came under the jurisdiction of the Hunolsteiners in exchange for Eitzweiler . Since then they have also belonged to Sötern in a sovereign and judicial way. However, the Hauptenthaler Hof is no longer mentioned after 1782. Obersötern on the left of the Söterbach is now part of Sötern. This came in 1691 by inheritance to the Counts of Oettingen-Baldern, who died out in 1798.
From 1798 to 1814 Sötern belonged to the canton Hermeskeil in the Saar department .
From 1817 Sötern belonged to the Oldenburg principality of Birkenfeld . With this, the community came to the Birkenfeld region in the Free State of Oldenburg in 1919 . On April 1, 1937, the Birkenfeld region was incorporated into the Prussian Rhine Province under the Greater Hamburg Act and assigned to the Birkenfeld district . After the Second World War , the area and thus Sötern initially belonged to the French occupation zone . By the French military government under General Kœnig , Sötern and 17 other communities in the southern district of Birkenfeld were annexed to Saarland on July 18, 1946 and incorporated into the district of St. Wendel .
A Jewish community existed in Sötern until 1942. The last 12 Jewish residents were deported in April and July 1942.
As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Sötern was assigned to the municipality of Nohfelden on January 1, 1974, together with twelve other municipalities .
politics
The mayor of Sötern is Thomas Georgi ( SPD ).
The local council has nine members. The seats are distributed as follows:
- SPD: 7 seats
- CDU: 2 seats
The information comes from the results of the local elections on May 25, 2014.
literature
- Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements VI. Die Herrschaft Sötern In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Vol. III. Fr. Campe, Nürnberg 1872, pp. 264–274 ( Google Books )
- Eva Tigmann - Michael Landau: Our forgotten neighbors. Jewish community life in the country - families and their fates using the example of the synagogue communities Sötern and Bosen , Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2010 (= history, politics and society. Series of publications by the Saarland Democracy Foundation, Volume 12), ISBN 978-3-86110 -477-3
- Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, éditions errance, Paris 2003
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sötern at www.nohfelden.de
- ^ The synagogue in Sötern (community Nohfelden, district Sankt Wendel). In: www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
- ↑ New Structure Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, § 49, published in the Saarland Official Gazette 1973, No. 48, p. 857 (PDF page 29; 487 kB)
- ^ 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. 810 .
- ↑ Election results of the 2014 municipal elections in the municipality of Nohfelden, Sötern district
