Silwingen

Silwingen District town of Merzig
	Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 23 " N , 6 ° 34 ′ 20" E
Height :	292 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	387 (Jun 30, 2011)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66663
Area code :	06869
Location of Silwingen in Saarland
	View of the town of Silwingen

Silwingen is one of 17 districts of the district town of Merzig in the Merzig-Wadern district ( Saarland ). Until the end of 1973 Silwingen was an independent municipality.

history

Silwingen is one of the oldest settlements in the region, which is suggested by grave finds from the La Tène period and a burial mound in the Büdingerwald.

Further evidence is the remains of a Roman villa that were found during the construction of the Merzig – Bettelainville railway in 1910. The fact that the Romans were extremely active in the region is known for sure since the many finds during the construction of the motorway towards Luxembourg . This is shown by the buildings of the recently rebuilt Roman Villa Perl-Borg .

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1030, when the Margravine Jutta von Lorraine gave the Abbey of St. Matthias in Trier "Mamonis Villa" ( Mondorf ) and some surrounding villages. In this document the village was named "Selvingen", in later documents the spellings "Seluingen", "Selewingin" and "Selewiggin" appear.

In 1778 the place had 15 inhabitants and paid tithes jointly to the Count von der Leyen and to the St. Mathias Abbey in Mondorff .

As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Silwingen was assigned to the city of Merzig on January 1, 1974.

Web links

Commons : Silwingen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Silwinger local chronicle

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, Certificate 303: "Margravine Jutta von Lothringen gives the village of Mamendorf with accessories to the Abbey of S. Matheis"
↑ Constantin von Briesen : Documented history of the Merzig district. Franz Stein, Saarlouis 1863.
^ 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. 804 .

[1] Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, Certificate 303: "Margravine Jutta von Lothringen gives the village of Mamendorf with accessories to the Abbey of S. Matheis"

[2] Constantin von Briesen : Documented history of the Merzig district. Franz Stein, Saarlouis 1863.

[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. 804 .