Sien

This article describes the community in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the village in Burkina Faso see Sien (Burkina Faso) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	345 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.47 km 2
Residents:	531 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55758
Area code :	06788
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 082
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.sien.de
Local Mayor :	Steffen Bernhard
Location of the local community Sien in the Birkenfeld district

Sien is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community .

geography

Sien lies between Idar-Oberstein and Lauterecken, northeast of the Baumholder military training area .

history

The first written mention of the place name took place in 1128 as Sinede . Since 1112 the place was part of the County of Veldenz . Local rule was divided in the 13th century . One half belonged to the Wildgraves , the other half, after changing ownership several times, from 1431 to the Lords of Sickingen . In 1765 the time of the condominate ended and Sien was completely under Johann XI. Dominik Albert Prince of Salm-Kyrburg . After the French Revolution , the village was part of the canton of Grumbach in the Saar department . In the Congress of Vienna it was added to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld (1816–1826), from 1826 it belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha , each to the exclave of the Principality of Lichtenberg . In 1834 this and with it Sien fell to Prussia . On April 1, 1939, the previously independent community of Sienerhöfe was incorporated.

Population development

The development of the population of Sien in relation to the current municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 379 1835 640 1871 813 1905 683 1939 613 1950 685

year Residents 1961 644 1970 618 1987 605 1997 599 2005 586 2019 531

religion

As was customary in the past, the population had to adopt the religion of the sovereign. Due to the local rule that was divided for a long time, in the 16th century the denomination split split into Protestants and Catholics.

In the 19th century there was a relatively large Jewish community that inaugurated its synagogue on November 3, 1843, "with a lively (m) participation" of the entire Christian population . In 1852 72 of the 530 inhabitants were Jewish. Most emigrated to America towards the end of the century. In 1925 only ten Jews lived in Sien. Six of them were deported and murdered by the National Socialists in 1942 .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Rhodesia consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Steffen Bernhard was elected mayor of Sien by the local council on November 11, 2019.

After the direct election on May 26, 2019, in which no applicant had started, the municipal council originally confirmed the previous mayor Otto Schützle in his office on June 18, 2019, which he had held since 2001. However, Schützle had to give up shortly afterwards for health reasons.

Culture and sights

Prince Dominik had the - today Protestant - baroque church with onion dome built. He also built the hunting lodge in 1771 with a three-axis central projection and a portal with a sandstone relief. The Catholic Church was built in 1892 in a neo-Gothic style.

Memorial plaque to the Sien Castle in the Sienerhöfe district

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Sien
• List of Natural Monuments in Sien

Economy and Infrastructure

Sien is on federal highway 270 . In Lauterecken there is a station of the Lautertalbahn .

literature

• Erich Gemmel: Festschrift for the 1000th anniversary of the community of Sien ; Sien 1970
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: Roman times traces of settlement and culture in Sien in the 2nd / 3rd centuries. Century AD ; Sien 1991
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: The "Siener Tonschnabelkanne" - a testimony to Celtic pottery art ; Sien 1994
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: The former Jewish community of Sien - traces and memories ; Sien 1998
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: Forgotten stories that the Sienese field names tell us ; Sien 2001
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: 55 Siener wind stories - memorable from the 1000 year old history of Sien ; Sien 2003
• Ruth and Ulrich Eckhoff: Harry Rothschild - a German-Jewish fate . In: Heimatkalender 2009 Landkreis Birkenfeld , Bad Kreuznach 2008, p. 161f

Web links

• Website of the local church
• Local community Sien on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community association
• Literature about Sien in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Statistics of the German Empire, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Empire, Part I ; Berlin 1939; Page 284
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ Art. Sien in Alemannia Judaica .
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Dieter Jost: General information on the Sienese municipal administration. Sien Church, 2019, accessed August 24, 2020 . 
7. ↑ State badge for 14 deserving citizens. Otto Schützle. District of Birkenfeld, January 6, 2012, accessed on August 24, 2020 .