Tholey
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ' N , 7 ° 2' E |
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| State : | Saarland | |
| County : | St. Wendel | |
| Height : | 393 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 57.57 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 12,032 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 209 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 66630-66636 | |
| Primaries : | 06853, 06888 | |
| License plate : | WND | |
| Community key : | 10 0 46 118 | |
| Community structure: | 9 parts of the community | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
In the monastery 1 66636 Tholey |
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| Mayor : | Hermann Josef Schmidt ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Tholey in the St. Wendel district | ||
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Tholey ( [tolaɪ] , Saarländisch Tole ) is a municipality in the district of St. Wendel of the Saarland .
geography
location
The community is located about 30 km north of the state capital Saarbrücken in northern Saarland .
Districts
The municipality of Tholey consists of the following districts:
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Neighboring communities
Tholey's neighboring communities are - clockwise and starting in the north - Nonnweiler , Nohfelden , Oberthal and Marpingen (all in the St. Wendel district ), Eppelborn ( Neunkirchen district ), Lebach and Schmelz (both in the Saarlouis district ) and Wadern ( Merzig-Wadern district ) .
climate
The annual precipitation is 1001 mm. The precipitation is in the upper third of the measuring points of the German Weather Service . Over 85% indicate lower values. The driest month is April; it rains most in December. In the wettest month there is about 1.7 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the upper third. In 67% of all places, the monthly precipitation fluctuates less.
history
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The first traces of a settlement in the area of today's municipality Tholey go back to the Celts (see also Iovantucarus ). Multiple finds prove an extensive settlement by the Romans. In 2002, for example, new knowledge about the “Schweichhaus” settlement complex was gained during an emergency excavation. In the Middle Ages, large parts of what is now Saarland were subject to tribute to Tholey Abbey . A castle was built on the Schaumberg to protect the abbey . The manors were Lorraine and Kurtrier .
Origin of name
In a script from the year 634 (Testament of Grimo) mentioned as Taulegio , the place name is derived from Tegolegium , "brick-covered building".
Incorporations
As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reforms which were previously independent nine municipalities Weiler , hasborn-dautweiler , Lindscheid , Neipel, chafing , Sotzweiler , Theley , Tholey and About Roth-Niederhofen joined forces to present community of Tholey.
Church history
According to legend, Saint Wendelin is said to have been the founder and first abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius , but this is not historically proven. The abbey was first mentioned in a document in the "Testament of Adalgisel Grimo " from 634 . The abbey is therefore the oldest monastery in what is now Germany. In 1794 the monastery was closed after being destroyed by the French. Since 1949 there is again a Benedictine monastery of the Beuron congregation in the village .
Tholey Church and Abbey
Tholey Church and Town Hall
Church of St. Peter in the district of Theley
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Jewish history
A Jewish community existed in Tholey from the 18th century to around 1940. A first Jewish family was mentioned in 1729. In 1843, 88 Jewish people lived in Tholey (9% of the total population of 952), in 1895 there were 91. A synagogue was inaugurated on December 4, 1863 by district rabbi Kahn from Trier . A Jewish denominational school had existed since 1876. In 1925 there were still 50 members of the Jewish community, in 1935 there were 41 members. Due to the increasing disenfranchisement during the Nazi era and due to the economic boycott, many moved to other cities or emigrated. After the deportations , at least 20 of the Jewish residents born in Tholey or who had lived there for a long time were murdered. The synagogue was sold in 1937 and later demolished. A house was built on its foundation walls on Trierer Strasse. On April 21, 2015 Gunter Demnig laid 5 stumbling blocks in Tholey.
politics
Municipal council
The council with 33 seats is made after the local elections on May 26, 2019 as follows:
| Political party | Share of votes | +/-% p | Seats | +/- |
| CDU | 61.7% | - 2.8 | 21st | - 1 |
| SPD | 24.0% | - 2.0 | 8th | - 1 |
| LEFT | 5.6% | + 0.2 | 2 | + 1 |
| GREEN | 8.5% | + 4.6 | 2 | + 1 |
mayor
- 1974–1983: Anton Schäfer, CDU
- 1983–2003: Hans-Dieter Frisch, CDU
- 2003 – today: Hermann-Josef Schmidt, CDU
Community partnerships
Partner communities of Tholey are Alto Feliz in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in the French region of Center-Val de Loire .
Culture and sights
Churches
- Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius in the district of Tholey. One of the oldest Gothic churches in Germany. With church windows by the German-Afghan artist Mahbuba Maqsoodi and choir windows by the famous German artist Gerhard Richter (currently under renovation)
Landmarks
- Schaumbergturm : the highest observation tower in Saarland, Franco-German meeting place, transmitter systems
Museums
- The local history museum in Neipel documents the geology and pre- and early history of the place and its surroundings. There are also special exhibitions in the museum.
- The Theulegium Cultural History Museum in the Tholey district is divided into five thematic groups: geology, prehistory and early history, St. Mauritius Tholey Abbey , Schaumburg office and contemporary history in the basement museum.
sculpture
To the northwest of the district of Sotzweiler is the word sail , an approximately 13 meter high steel sculpture by the local artist Heinrich Popp .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Already in Roman times a road led from Metz via Tholey to Mainz .
Tholey was formerly connected to the railway network via the St. Wendel – Tholey railway line .
Today the community is well connected to the national road network by the Federal Motorway 1 ( Oldenburg in Holstein - Saarbrücken ).
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Johannes Kühn (born February 3, 1934), born in the Haborn-Dautweiler district , poet and writer
Born in Tholey
- Albrecht Meydenbauer (1834–1921), secret building officer and civil engineer, co-founder of photogrammetry
- Elise Haas (1878–1960), poet
- Theodor Schu (1892–1965), Roman Catholic bishop in China
- Paul Schütz (1910–1990), Saarland politician
- Johannes Kühn (* 1934), writer born in the Bergweiler district
Associated with Tholey
- Serena von Spoleto , saint, early Christian martyr, is venerated in Tholey.
- Pierre de Salabert (1734–1807), Abbot of Tholey since 1770 , Minister of State in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and in the Electorate of Bavaria , builder of the Munich Prinz-Carl-Palais
- Fritz Schwerdt (1901–1970), church goldsmith , furnishing the Benedictine abbey
- Father Maurus Sabel (1912–2012), founder of the “Tholeyer Boys' Choir” of the Benedictine Abbey , most recently Maria Laach Abbey
- Fridel Grenz (1929–2018), church musician and composer; Sound carrier: Organ music from the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey (1978)
- Odilo Pedro Scherer (Otto Scherer) (* 1949), Archbishop of São Paulo in Brazil , descendant of Edwin Scherer, who emigrated to Brazil in the 1880s , and his wife Franziska nee. Steffens from Tholey.
- Nadine Schön (* 1983), politician ( CDU ) and deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , born in Hasborn-Dautweiler, lives in Tholey
Worth mentioning
The volcanic rock tholeiite is named after Tholey. However, its definition has changed so that the volcanic rock near Tholey is not a tholeiite according to today's definition .
See also
Web links
- Tholey parish
- Literature about Tholey in the Saarland Bibliography
- Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius in Tholey
- Brazilians with German roots (from Tholey) the next Pope.
- Kulturhistorisches Museum des Schaumberger Land zu Tholey
- On the history of the Jewish community and the synagogue
- Link catalog on Tholey at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
- ↑ Geoplatt ( Memento of November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Edith and Eric Glansdorp: Traces of prehistory and early history in the middle Primstal - Archaeological exhibitions in the Neipel local history museum from 1997 to 2012 . Archäologie Büro & Verlag Glansdorp, Tholey 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-039212-2 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Haubrichs "Borders and Interferences", 2005
- ↑ Restructuring Act - NGG of December 19, 1973, § 37, published in the Saarland Official Gazette 1973, No. 48, p. 857 (PDF page 29; 499 kB)
- ^ 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. 810 .
- ^ Copy of the will of Adalgisel Grimo from the 10th century. ( State Main Archive Koblenz , inventory 1 a, number 1)
- ↑ Tholey Abbey - History: Middle Ages , accessed September 5, 2019
- ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH: Stumbling blocks against forgetting. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ The Regional Returning Officer - Final result of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung of February 7, 2019
- ^ Website of Tholey Abbey
- ↑ St. Mauritius Tholey Abbey: Homepage on the renovations 2018-2020. Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Neipel Local History Museum
- ↑ Museum Theulegium
- ↑ Heinrich Habel u. Lothar Altmann: Die Bayerische Staatskanzlei, 10th edition, Regensburg 2013, pp. 34–39.
- ↑ Nadine Schön, Member of the Bundestag (CDU). Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
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