Schwerdorff
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle | |
| Canton | Bouzonville | |
| Community association | Bouzonvillois-Trois Frontières | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 22 ′ N , 6 ° 35 ′ E | |
| height | 181-304 m | |
| surface | 9.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 473 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 50 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57320 | |
| INSEE code | 57640 | |
Schwerdorff (German Schwerdorf ) is a French commune with 473 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
geography
The community is on the German-French border . The German neighboring municipality is Rehlingen-Siersburg , district of Fürweiler .
The municipality includes the village of Schwerdorff itself and the two hamlets Cottendorff in the north and Otzwiller in the east.
history
Schwerdorff and Fürweiler were connected by a bridge that was destroyed in World War II. The reconstruction only took place in 1999 as part of the Friendship Bridge project .
Since 1990 there has been a community partnership with the German town of Oberesch .
Parish church
There is evidence that Schwerdorff was an independent Catholic parish as early as the 10th century . The place appears on a list of the Trier bishop Ruotbert , who was in office from 931 to 956 , which names 74 parishes that were obliged to make an annual pilgrimage in honor of St. Liutwin to Mettlach .
The first parish church was demolished shortly after 1749 because it was in disrepair. A new building erected in 1754 offered space for 612 people and had two bells , one of which was brought to Saarlouis by soldiers in 1793 and cast there into a cannon . It was not until 1835 that it was possible to purchase a second bell cast in Hettange-Grande at a price of 900 francs . This amount was raised through donations that Pastor Nicolas Hiéronimus (1803–1860, term of office 1834–1860) collected from house to house. In March 1846 the older of the two bells ripped while it was ringing; in July of the same year it could be re-poured and consecrated . The same bell cracked again in October, so that it was re-cast in March 1847. Apparently the bell was not in a good star, because when it called for mass on December 22nd, 1864, another crack appeared.
Shortly before, in 1861, the decision was made to enlarge the church, as it had become too small for the congregation. For this purpose, the choir and sacristy were torn down in 1865 , and the foundation stone for the new building was laid on May 25, 1865 ( Ascension Day ) . The hewn stones come from the quarries of Großhemmersdorf ; stones from the demolished old choir were also reused.
As is well known, one of the two existing bells was torn; only the smaller one was still usable. On April 16, 1866, three new bells could finally be consecrated, whereby the two existing bells had to be melted down for cost reasons.
The tiles for the church come from Villeroy & Boch from Mettlach and were laid by specialists from the ceramic factory from May 7th to 16th, 1866. When the new church was consecrated on May 24th, 1866, only the interior was still to be completed.
Because the nave and the bell tower no longer fit the extension, a new construction of these two parts of the church was started in 1885. The foundation stone was laid on June 18, 1885, the consecration of the neo-Romanesque style took place on September 13, 1886.
The new pastor Pierre Nicolay (1877–1941, term of office 1909–1926), who took office in 1909, campaigned for a new, more melodic chime consisting of four bells, which was finally cast by the Fonderie Jeanne d'Arc à Robécourt and consecrated on September 18, 1911 has been. The cost was 14,000 marks .
The church is called Notre-Dame de l'Assomption because it bears the patronage of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . Your parish festival is therefore celebrated on August 15th.
The church bells were saved twice
The imminent First World War would actually have resulted in the renewed loss of the bells, which had been haunted by bad luck for more than 100 years (see Bell Cemetery ), and they should have been melted down during the Second World War . In both cases, however, they were saved because two pastors took great risks. In 1917, François Xavier Pierre Nicolay initially managed to postpone the bells; The pastor simply disregarded a new delivery order issued in 1918. In 1941, the Diedenhofen district management wrote to Alphonse Remigy (1911–1993, term of office 1940–1992), “that the four bells of the Schwerdorff parish church can get stuck. Examination by experts ”. Remigy replaced the word can with must . When he presented the falsified letter to the construction crew, who had already started removing the bells, the foreman had the dismantling stopped.
The organ's tin pipes were also supposed to be delivered as part of the metal donation during the First World War. After the organ builder Adrian Spamann had already dismantled them and calculated compensation of 803.60 marks (6.30 marks per kilo plus 35 marks for the expansion), the pipes were stored in the elementary school. Fortunately they were forgotten there, so that they could be installed again after the end of the war, whereby Spamann's meticulous records proved to be helpful.
The 100th anniversary of the church consecration was celebrated on September 21, 1986.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 384 | 396 | 351 | 363 | 384 | 392 | 442 | 473 |
Culture
Cottendorff plays the leading role in the documentary "Greetings from Cottendorf" (D 2006, approx. 40 min.) By the director Nikola Wyrwich , which was shown in 2007 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken .
The Esch Castle , which belongs to Schwerdorff, is the setting for Ulrike Pfeiffer's feature film Rococo .
Esch Castle
Altar of the village church
Pulpit of the village church
the cemetery
literature
- Rémy and Christiane Divo: Schwerdorff. L'Eglise au Fil du Temps . August, 1995.
- Rémy and Christiane Divo: Schwerdorff. Monuments sacrés et Traditions religieuses . August, 1995.
- Rémy and Christiane Divo: Schwerdorff. La paroisse au fil du temps . July, 1994.
Web links
- Schwerdorff on conseil-general.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ peripherfilm.de: I'm going in now , accessed on October 30, 2014.
- ↑ Data on the film ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Babelsberg Film University
- ↑ Rococo. In: Archive of the dffb . Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Severin Hermeskeil: Rococo: how a scene is created. (No longer available online.) 2005, archived from the original on October 23, 2017 ; accessed on October 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
