City District West (Saarbrücken)

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West district
Location of the district in the state capital (blue)
Location of the district in the state capital (blue)
Basic data
Country Germany
surface 34.9 km²
Residents 32,562 (January 31, 2018)
density 934 inhabitants per km²
founding 1st January 1974
Website www.saarbruecken.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik ( German )
politics
District Mayor Claus Theres
Political party SPD

The city ​​district West is one of the four city ​​districts of the Saarland state capital Saarbrücken . Its four districts and eleven districts have a total of 32,562 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2018).

geography

The district extends from the southern border of Klarenthal on Petite-Rosselle in Warndt over the Saar to the northern border of the city of Saarbrücken on Riegelsberg Süd. Other neighboring towns are Großrosseln (in the south ) Püttlingen , Völklingen (both in the west), as well as the city district of Mitte and the French Schœneck (both in the east).

structure

Altenkessel

The district with 5474 inhabitants was built in the 19th century as a mining community. In 1929 the Church of St. Elisabeth was built.

On January 1, 1974, the Altenkessel community was incorporated into the state capital Saarbrücken and thus the West district.

Districts

  • Large forest
  • Neudorf
  • Luisenthaler Glashütte
  • the Altenkessel colony
  • Rockershausen

Burbach

The largest district in terms of population and area (15,431 inhabitants) and as the seat of the West District Administration, has grown mainly through the Burbacher Hütte . Today it is a social hotspot.

Districts

  • Elevated road
  • Ottstrasse
  • Filling garden
  • Matzenberg
  • Von der Heydt

Gersweiler-Klarenthal

The conglomerate Gersweiler-Klarenthal on the left bank of the Saar in the West district consists of the former communities of Gersweiler and the Klarenthal-Krughütte, which was previously declared independent .

Gersweiler

Gersweiler is the slightly larger eastern sub-area with 6295 inhabitants, which has existed since around 1110.

Districts
  • Neu-Aschbach (Gersweiler part) in the north
  • Gersweiler Mitte in the south and southeast
  • Ottenhausen in the west
  • Settlement (today mostly to Ottenhausen) in the northwest
  • Rod mill (today mostly in Ottenhausen) in the extreme southwest

Klarenthal

Klarenthal (when Clarathal was founded) is slightly smaller with 5362 inhabitants and around 550 years younger than the mother community of Gersweiler.

Districts
  • Neu-Aschbach (Klarenthaler part) in the west
  • Krughütte in the center
  • Klarenthal in the northeast
  • Dellbrückschacht in the east and southeast
  • Krughütte Süd (today mostly to Krughütte) in the south

Demarcation

In the course of Klarenthal's independence from Gersweiler, the definition of the borders was partly based on private interests, which is why the border is nowadays somewhat different from the political border in the perception of the population. The political border begins approx. 2 km west of the border with the French Schœneck (which therefore only de facto borders on its partner municipality Klarenthal) and runs in a northerly direction from Petite-Rosselle through the forest area south of Klarenthal, which belongs entirely to Gersweiler, to the Klarenthaler Straße Am Break . From there in an easterly direction parallel to the Krughütte cemetery, then to the north along a forest path, finally along the aforementioned cemetery into the street Am Ziegelhof , whose median strip 250 m to the west is identical to the demarcation. The south-east border then runs through the middle of a plot of land and then over the middle of the streets Tulpenstrasse and Weidenstrasse , as well as an alley. Then along a property line and through the middle of the street Am Aschbacherhof in the direction of Kreisstraße (L274). From here, since a border correction in 1972, the border runs through the middle to Kokereistraße (L163), where the border to the north again follows the middle of the road (i.e. the middle of the left-turning lane). Klarenthal ends at a railway bridge of the Rosseltalbahn , Gersweiler runs further north and finds its northern limit in the middle of the river Saar (with the exception of the Luisenthaler bridge, which belongs entirely to the Völklingen district of Luisenthal, and the Luisenthal lock, which, contrary to its name, has both Ufern belongs to Gersweiler and is otherwise completely enclosed by the Saarbrücken district of Burbach.)

District Council

Result district election West 2019
in percent
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.4
29.4
11.5
11.4
9.5
4.6
1.2
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-8.0
-2.9
-2.5
+11.4
+4.0
+2.1
-4.1

The District Council West, which is elected every five years, has various tasks. Its primary rights are the right to propose matters relating to the city district, the right to be heard before the city council or committees pass resolutions in various cases, and the right to make decisions if the city council or mayor are not exclusively responsible.

composition

      
A total of 21 seats

The number of seats in the is 21.

SPD :   32.4%   7 seats
CDU :   29.4%   7 seats
The left :   11.5%   2 seats
AfD :   11.4%   2 seats
Greens :   9.5%   2 seats
FDP :   4.6%   1 seat

District Mayor and District Alderman

District mayor and thus chairwoman of the district council is Isolde Ries ( SPD ). District councilor is Rudi Renner ( Die Linke ).

particularities

Völklinger influence

Historically, today's West District includes parts of the Völklingen area of ​​influence. Before the territorial reform in 1974 , the smaller communities Altenkessel and Klarenthal in the Saarbrücken district were assigned to the next largest city in the district - since Saarbrücken was an independent city , this was Völklingen. Therefore, the two current parts of the city are partly served by the Völklingen bus company, Völklingen taxis do not regard trips to Altenkessel or Klarenthal as “leaving the city”; Corresponding envelopes are only due from Gersweiler / Burbach. They used to be supplied by the Völklingen municipal utilities .

Primaries

While Gersweiler and Burbach share the area code 0681 with the rest of the city of Saarbrücken (with the exception of Ensheim, Bübingen and Dudweiler), Klarenthal and Altenkessel have the Völklingen area code 06898. This is based on the fact that the border “in the middle “The two cities continued.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Figures, data and facts. State capital Saarbrücken. State capital Saarbrücken, accessed on February 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ 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. 803 .
  3. ↑ https://www.google.de/maps/place/Gersweiler,+Saarbr%C3%BCcken/@49.2250587,6.9035033,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4795b23daa1b5c2f:0x522d4d510ddaad0 Map of Gersweilers
  4. ↑ Preliminary results of local and European elections 2019 , saarbruecken.de. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ District Councilors and District Mayors, saarbruecken.de. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ tasks of the District Council , saarbruecken.de. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  7. ↑ City District West , saarbruecken.de. Retrieved August 8, 2020.