Saint Arnual

Old town center with the new Eschberg district in the background

Sankt Arnual (in the local dialect Daarle ) is a district of Saarbrücken . Until 1897 Sankt Arnual was an independent municipality.

history

Once settlement area was here Mediomatrici . In Roman times there was a Roman garrison ( Roman fort Saarbrücken ) on the opposite bank of the Saar (at the foot of the Halberg ) and a Gallo-Roman settlement at the site of today's St. Arnualer Markt. The village of Merkingen was built on the ruins of this settlement and is said to have been donated by the Merovingian king Theudebert II to the Metz bishop Arnual (also Arnoald ) around 600 . The document of the Metz bishop Adventius about it from the year 857 (the beginning of his episcopate is dated to the year 858) is not preserved in the original, but only in French-language summaries from the 18th century. Bishop Arnual founded a successful mission center around 600 and is probably buried here as well. Five different churches were the forerunners of today's collegiate church in the Middle Ages . Archaeological excavations in the 1990s have confirmed an important Merovingian burial site in the crossing of the collegiate church. Soon Arnual was venerated as a saint , and Merkingen was renamed Sankt Arnual.

At the grave lay the Middle Ages came through donations over a Augustinian canons - pen , the pen St. Arnual .

In 1897 the village of St. Arnual was merged with Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken's first airport was located in St. Arnual and was replaced by the new Saarbrücken-Ensheim airport in 1955 .

population

On December 31, 2005, 9,179 people lived here. In 2010 there were 9,235 inhabitants in St. Arnual.

Worth seeing

St. Arnual rock paths

Collegiate Church (ev.) With the tomb of Elisabeth of Lorraine and the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken .
Christ the King Church (cath.)
Rock paths along the Saar
Keltenstein (→ Celts )
Maltitz pavilion
Tobacco pond

Trivia

In vernacular, Sankt Arnual is called "Daa (r) le". Contrary to the popular belief that the name comes from “Daal” (valley), “Daa (r) le” arose from a corruption of Sankt Arnual. “Sankt” (as in “Dingmert” - St. Ingbert ) was colloquially shortened to t or d, “Arnual” to “Aarle”.

literature

Stefan Flesch, Joachim Conrad, Thomas Bergholz: Monks on the Saar. The medieval settlements in the border region between Saarland and Lorraine . Minerva-Verlag Thinnes and Nolte, Saarbrücken 1986, ISBN 3-477-00073-0
Hans-Walter Herrmann (Hrsg.): The collegiate church St. Arnual in Saarbrücken . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1724-7 (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, Volume 130)
Evangel. Parish of St. Arnual (ed.): The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. Arr .: Hans-Günther Marschall u. Employee v. Hans-Walter Herrmann u. Rolf J. Kiderle. Self-published, Saarbrücken no year 31 p., Ill.
Hans-Walter Herrmann , Jan Selmer [Hrsg.]: Living and dying in a medieval collegiate monastery. Archaeological and architectural studies in the former St. Arnual Abbey in Saarbrücken. (= Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland. Vol. 43), Saarbrücken 2007, 584 pages, 628 figs., 19 tabs., 4 plans, 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 978-3-923877-43-0 .
Traudl Brenner: Meager sky festivals were Lehoczky's first bang. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung v. 24./25. May 2008, p. E1 (east)
Joachim Conrad: Stiftsdekan Nikolaus Beuck. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 90-92. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Joachim Conrad: Stiftsdekan Jodocus Bruer von Lumbeck. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 177-178. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Film: Documentary “St. Arnual ”from 1996 by bibel-tv and Landesbildstelle

Individual evidence

↑ See Hans-Walter Herrmann: The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. SVRKG 130, p. 590
↑ See Hans-Walter Herrmann: The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. SVRKG 130, pp. 591-595
^ Autopsy December 28, 2006 . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
↑ Braun, Edith : "Our dialect" (column), Saarbrücker Zeitung, April 30, 2010, p. I4

Web links

Commons : Sankt Arnual - Collection of images, videos and audio files

49.216944444444 7.0169444444444Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ' N , 7 ° 1' E

[1] See Hans-Walter Herrmann: The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. SVRKG 130, p. 590

[2] See Hans-Walter Herrmann: The collegiate church of St. Arnual in Saarbrücken. SVRKG 130, pp. 591-595

[3] Autopsy December 28, 2006 . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2012.

[4] Braun, Edith : "Our dialect" (column), Saarbrücker Zeitung, April 30, 2010, p. I4