Wadgassen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ' N , 6 ° 48' E |
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| State : | Saarland | |
| County : | Saarlouis | |
| Height : | 187 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 25.91 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,992 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 656 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 66787 | |
| Area code : | 06834 | |
| License plate : | SLS | |
| Community key : | 10 0 44 120 | |
| LOCODE : | DE AGN | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Lindenstrasse 114 66787 Wadgassen |
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| Mayor : | Sebastian Greiber ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Wadgassen in the Saarlouis district | ||
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Under Wadgassen is both the Saarland municipality in the district of Saarlouis , about 15 kilometers west of Saarbrücken to understand and the community town of Wadgassen itself. For a better distinction, the wording Wadgassen (place) is also used in correspondence when it comes to the community part.
geography
Wadgassen is located in the valley of the Bist , a left tributary of the Saar , on the northern edge of the Warndt region and thus in the southwestern part of the Saarland . The closest cities are Saarlouis in approx. 7.7 km and Völklingen in 6 km away. The community is traversed by the Bist, which flows into the Saar at Hostenbach. The Rotsolig spring in Wadgassen (place), which over the Ellbach u. a. the Wadgasser natural swimming pool is supplied with water.
Districts with population (as of January 1, 2017)
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history
In the past, Wadgassen had a whole series of names that cannot be reduced to obvious forms such as Wadgaßen or Wadgass. Some of the documented names are: Villa Wuadegozzinga and Wadegozzinga, Vallis Goziensis, Wadegassen, (de) Wadgozen, Wadegocenges, Wadegoyzen, Wadegozinga, Wadegozhingen, Wadegozzinga, Wategozingen, Watlegozinga.
Early days
Several archaeological finds in Differten and Friedrichweiler indicate that the area was already inhabited in the Stone Age . In addition to a Celtic burial mound , excavations in Differten revealed evidence of settlement from Roman times . In addition to a few finds that indicate a small vicus , these are limited to verifiable cross-connecting roads to the routes Divodurum - Vicus Saravus - Mogontiacum and Augusta Treverorum - Contiomagus - Vicus Saravus. A special find was the very well-preserved sandstone slab of Merkur von Differten , which was discovered when the old local church was demolished in 1893 and depicts the god Mercury with a herald's staff. The Gallo-Roman representation is an important indication of the continuous settlement also in the Roman era. A copy of the plate is in the Merkurstube in the Bisttalhalle in Differten.
Royal court and abbey
The first documented finds show the area of today's large community of Wadgassen as a Franconian royal court , which was probably created after the migration period. In the year 902 Wadgassen, known as Villa Wuadegozzinga , is the residence of the Carolingian king Ludwig the child , who issued a certificate here. The first documentary mentions of the other parts of the community are made much later. The oldest document from 1067 mentions Differten. The places Werbeln , Hostenbach and Schaffhausen are first mentioned in a document much later in the years 1214, 1225 and 1325. Friedrichweiler's founding document actually dates from 1725.
In 1080 the royal court came into the possession of Sigbert I , the count of the lower Saargau, through a gift from King Heinrich IV . Sigbert's son, Count Friedrich von Saarbrücken , determined in a will the court with all associated possessions to found an Augustinian canon monastery . Archbishop Albero von Trier founded a Premonstratensian monastery in 1135 in what is now Wadgassen , the first abbot of which was Canon Wolfram, who was appointed from the Prémontré Abbey .
In the centuries that followed, up to its dissolution in 1792, the Wadgassen Abbey developed through the work of the Premonstratensian Canons, through foundations and donations, into a spiritual and cultural center in the central Saar with large free float and extensive rule. Its core area was Wadgassen, that is, the actual abbey with the Oberhof and the Spurk, the Hostenbach dairy with the towns of Hostenbach, Schaffhausen and the village of Werbeln. At the beginning of the French Revolution, Differten was half owned by the abbey, in Friedrichweiler it only owned properties. Today's Roden district of the district town of Saarlouis also belonged to the Wadgasser Abbey for a few decades. From 1687 to 1721 the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey transferred its chartered rights to the Rodener Sprengel to the Wadgasser Abbey. Failure to comply with the agreements led to a lawsuit by Tholey Abbey in Trier, which ultimately restored the old property rights.
The fact that members of the Bruch family, as owners of the Saarland brewery GA Bruch of the same name, have been provosts of the Wadgasser Abbey for three generations , in which beer had been brewed since the beginning of the 16th century, led to the creation of the Wadgasser Klosterbräu in 2011 In view of the past and the original recipe that is no longer available, this beer has more of a local marketing meaning.
Cristallerie
In 1843 Nicolas Villeroy , Jean-François Boch and Eduard Karcher founded the Cristallerie Wadgassen, the first director of which was Eugen von Boch. The Cristallerie dominated the Wadgasser industry until the middle of the 20th century, which can be seen in many everyday details, including the name of the carnival club "Glasspatzen". However, the V&B Cristallerie was not the first company to manufacture glass here. As early as 1680 there was a small glass factory of the abbey in Wadgassen-Werbeln. The last glass production took place in 1986. The area of the old storage rooms and the kilns in the main building were converted in the 1990s by the summer theater. The New York Story (1996), The Heart Timeless (1997), the Cabaret (1998), The Man of La Mancha (1999) were performed there. The summer theater was closed in 2000 for cost reasons.
Large municipality / municipality
On January 1, 1974, the municipalities of Differten , Hostenbach , Schaffhausen and Werbeln , which were part of the Wadgassen office, were incorporated into the municipality of Wadgassen as part of the regional and administrative reform in Saarland, creating the larger municipality of Wadgassen . The (self) designation of the Wadgassen community is often found in publications. Until the introduction of the uniform five-digit postcode system in 1993, the postcode was 6633, then 66787.
Remunicipalisation
Since the end of the 1990s and increasingly from 2000 onwards, the municipality has endeavored to remunicipalise various areas of disposal and supply. It realizes this through the Wadgassen GmbH pool, which is linked to the community, and the disposal company. The Bäderbetrieb Wadgassen GmbH established the Gemeindewerke Wadgassen GmbH as a subsidiary, which in turn established the GemeindeStrom Wadgassen GmbH. The Bäderbetrieb Wadgassen GmbH is responsible for the administration of the indoor swimming pool and the sauna in Differten as well as the outdoor swimming pool in Wadgassen (place). Gemeindewerke Wadgassen GmbH acts as operator and in sales in the area of water supply , in the area of wastewater only as a factor, in the area of electricity as network operator and in the area of gas network as lessor. The GemeindeStrom Wadgassen GmbH is solely responsible for selling the electricity.
Sovereign tasks such as sewage and waste disposal are combined in the disposal company. After the EVS exit, the community also offers garbage collection itself and maintains its own, still provisional recycling center in Bahnhofstrasse in Wadgassen (town).
politics
Municipal council
The result of the municipal council elections on May 26, 2019 is shown in the diagrams opposite.
mayor
- 1946–1956: Reinhold Hanke, CVP
- 1956–1960: Emil Lorscheider, CDU
- 1960–1968: Johann Münchow, SPD
- 1968–1974: Alois Trouvain, CDU
- 1974–1988: Friedrich Mouty, CDU
- 1988–2014: Harald Braun, SPD
- since May 1, 2014: Sebastian Greiber, individual applicant (for the FDP election, now SPD)
Coat of arms of the municipality
The coat of arms was approved on July 15, 1976 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior.
Blazon : "Above a lowered, curly blue tip, inside a golden heraldic lily, split by gold and red, in front a half, red-armored black eagle at the crack, behind a continuous golden cross."
The colors of the parish are red - yellow.
The importance of the royal court and the abbey for the origin and development of the municipality of Wadgassen is documented in the new municipal coat of arms through the inclusion of the royal eagle and the cross as symbols that are common to all districts. The lily symbolizes the time of Lorraine and French sovereignty and the colors blue - gold, which were also the colors of the French royal family, can also be found in the coat of arms of the Saarbrücken county in Nassau-Saarbrücken . The eagle as the coat of arms of the German kings appears for the first time in the twelfth century towards the end of the reign of Frederick I Barbarossa . As a ruler symbol on royal insignia or royal garb, it is older. As a royal game, it also appears with the kings and emperors from the Salian house , under whose reign in 1080 the royal court of Wadgassen was donated to the counts in Saargau. Due to the representation of the common figure and the structural reform of 1974, the eagle can be understood as a symbol for the Federal Republic of Germany.
Coat of arms of the district
The place of Wadgassen has a completely different coat of arms than the municipality of the same name:
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Blazon : "In red under two slantingly crossed, shortened silver abbot bars, a silver glass melting furnace with three golden furnace openings from which golden flames beat." |
| Foundation of the coat of arms: The abbot staffs symbolize the founding of the place and the existence of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen from the 11th to the end of the 18th century. The crystal factory operated by Villeroy & Boch on the abbey site from 1842 and its economic influence on the community is represented by the glass melting furnace. |
The coat of arms was approved on July 25, 1968 by the Saarland Ministry of the Interior. The colors of the district are red and white.
Partnerships
Economy and Transport
- Mechanical engineering FLSmidth Wadgassen GmbH. In 2007 the company Koch GmbH was bought up and renamed FLSmidth Koch GmbH. This merged in 2010 with FLSmidth MVT GmbH to form FLSmidth Wadgassen GmbH. The concept paper presented in April 2010 and the measures taken in recent years provide for the conversion of FLSmidth Wadgassen GmbH into a pure technology center for conveyor technology.
- Lifestyle Outlets myland Cristallerie Wadgassen, abbreviated as “myland / Cristallerie Wadgassen” and “myland”, opened on October 4, 2012, on the site of the old Cristallerie. In "Myland" which was in October 2012 Factory Outlet Center by Villeroy & Boch integrates (V & B).
- The former Wadgassen station is on the Völklingen – Thionville railway line and on the former branch to the Saar line .
Culture and sights
Museums
- German Newspaper Museum (DZM) in the former abbey courtyard, the original manor and farm yard of the Premonstratensian monastery in Wadgassen. Address: Am Abteihof 1, 66787 Wadgassen (village).
- museum. academia wadegotia - Wadgasser history and living community history; Exhibitor in Wadgassen (village). Address: stairs 13, csw new building. Private sponsorship in the form of an institute museum .
Former museums
The museums that had been on the site of the former Cristallerie Wadgassen for many years were closed in the course of the planning of the outlet center: the Saarland two-wheeler museum on September 30, 2007 and the glassworks museum, as part of the Wadgassen adventure center run by Villeroy & Boch , on September 30 September 2010.
Buildings
A few (parts of) buildings have been preserved from the former Premonstratensian monastery. The German Newspaper Museum of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation is now located in the former manor and farm yard, two former servants' houses can be found on Saarstrasse and various remains of walls and buildings can be found on the site of "myland / Cristallerie Wadgassen". In addition to the late baroque hospital building and a preserved part of the gatehouse, there are also remains of the baroque garden wall of the abbey's herb garden. In the village you will find the renovated Spurker House, the former inn, brickworks and place of execution of the high court Wadgassen. On this elongated two-storey building, mentioned as early as the 13th century, you can still clearly see the different construction phases. For example the gallery from the 16th century as access to the upper floor and the baroque windows from the 18th century. Other relics of the abbey are the historic boundary stones from the 18th century.
education
Day care centers
- Kita Regenbogen Differten
- Waldwichtel Friedrichweiler day care center
- Kita adventure island Hostenbach
- Sunshine day care center in Schaffhausen
- Catholic day care center Maria Heimsuchung
Elementary schools
- Primary school in the Bisttal Differten [1]
- Hostenbach-Schaffhausen primary school
Community school
- Bisttalschule Wadgassen / Bous
gallery
- Wadgassen
A sculpture by Harald Thoma on the traffic circle near the parish church
Glass model of the Wadgasser Abbey in the parish church
The Bist near Wadgassen shortly before its confluence with the Saar
Remains of the side aisle of the former Premonstratensian abbey church
Building of the former crystal factory in the abbey grounds
Former two-wheeler museum on the grounds of the Cristallerie
Freetime activities
The six municipal districts have a wide range of sports, local recreation, cultural and leisure facilities. In Differten you will find the indoor swimming pool, a fish pond and the wildlife park in the recreational area equipped with forest hiking trails. From here you can also get to the "Eulenmühle" nature reserve, which extends over an area of 56 hectares to Überherrn . At the entrance to Wadgassen, the Saarland's largest natural water park with a total area of 5 hectares is located. The Saaraue , which has been developed as a natural biotope and recreational area, is located in Hostenbach .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Emilie Koch (1922–2020), entrepreneur
Sons and daughters of the church
- Peter Lorson (1897–1954), Catholic theologian, Jesuit, writer
- Johannes Kirschweng (1900–1951), priest and writer. There is a memorial in front of the German Newspaper Museum
- Werner Zimmer (1936–2015), German radio and television presenter
- Volker Panzer (* 1947), German journalist
- Monika Kneip (* 1952), table tennis player
- Benjamin Buss (* 1977), songwriter and musician
Personalities associated with the community
- Christian Hermann Wienenbrügge (1813–1851), Catholic priest, religious teacher and poet
literature
in alphabetical order of the authors:
- Josef Burg (Hrsg.): Regesten of the Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen until 1571. Saarbrücken 1980.
- Josef Burg: The Wadgassen Abbey and the "Pfarr Oberkirch" at the time of the Thirty Years' War. In: Volksbank Wadgassen Annual Report 1976 , pp. 15-20.
- Josef Burg: The Wadgassen Abbey in the Thirty Years War. In: Our home 3, (1978), pp. 145–150.
- Josef Burg: "The Court" in Wadgassen. In: Our home 14, 1989.
- Josef Burg: The Oberhof in Wadgassen - a forgotten individual settlement. In: 100 Years of Mathilden Pharmacy 1896–1996 , Festschrift, Saarlouis 1996.
- Josef Burg: Spurk - history of a single settlement. In: 100 Years of Mathilden Pharmacy 1896–1996 , Festschrift, Saarlouis 1996.
- Josef Burg: From the history of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen. The foundation and its history. In: Saarheimat 29 (1985), pp. 162-171.
- Stefan Flesch, Joachim Conrad, Thomas Bergholz: Monks on the Saar - The medieval settlements in the border area between Saarland and Lorraine. Saarbrücken 1986.
- Catholic parish Maria Heims sucht Wadgassen, civil parish Wadgassen, Bisttalforum Wadgassen (ed.): Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen 1135–1792, contributions to the abbey and local history. Edited on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen. Wadgasser Publications No. 4, Saarlouis 1985.
- Walter Lauer: The glass industry in the Saar area. Braunschweig 1922.
- Adolf Morschett: Mute Witnesses of the Past, About Old Landmarks of the Abbey. In: Wadgassen unitary community. The year of anniversaries, 750 years of Hostenbach, 650 years of Schaffhausen, 250 years of Friedrichweiler. Dillingen / Saar 1975.
- Wolfgang Peters: Springiersbach and the beginnings of the Premonstratensian monastery in Wadgassen. In: Yearbook for West German State History 7 (1981).
- Manfred and Stefan Reinert: The double-towered abbey church of Wadgassen - a fiction. In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch , 41 / Jg. 2001, pp. 223-233.
- Saar Research Association (Ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts. Edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition of the first edition from 1934. Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 278–293.
- Georg Skalecki : Master builder and builder for the new baroque building of the Premonstratensian Abbey in Wadgassen. In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 33, 1993, pp. 159–175.
- Wilhelm Franz-Josef Trenz: The Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen in the time of the French Revolution , series: Analecta Praemonstratensis.
- Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey. At the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar region. Unchanged reprint of the Wadgassen 1901 edition with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978.
- Dominik Wolfgang Veix: The development of the Premonstratensian order particularly illustrated using the example of the Arnstein and Wadgassen abbeys. University diploma thesis, Vienna 1993.
Web links
- Wadgassen municipality (official website)
- Wadgassen community (private website)
- museum.academia-wadegotia.de (history, culture and living community history of Wadgassen with a focus on the abbey)
- Link catalog on the topic of Wadgassen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarland.de - Official population figures as of December 31, 2019 (PDF; 20 kB) ( help ).
- ↑ See old names for Wadgassen. Retrieved November 12, 2014 .
- ↑ See list of all cards used, card archive. Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
- ↑ See Friedrich Schröter: Roman branches and Roman roads in the Saar areas, Mönchengladbach 1846 (1974).
- ↑ See Heimatstuben. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved July 22, 2014 .
- ↑ See the timetable of the Rodena Theological-Historical Association. Rodena Theological-Historical Association, accessed on July 20, 2014 .
- ↑ See The Old Church. Rodena Theological-Historical Association, accessed on July 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Article on the Cristallerie Wadgassen. Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
- ↑ https://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Glasindustrie.htm , accessed on November 21, 2019.
- ↑ See schedule collection of the summer theater Cristallerie Wadgassen, Wadgassen municipal archive.
- ↑ See information on http://www.gemeindestromwadgassen.de/
- ^ Community result Wadgassen; Final result of the 2019 municipal council elections at: www.statistikextern.saarland.de, accessed on June 26, 2019
- ↑ Inauguration of the Saar Bridge Bous - Wadgassen 1951. Saar Nostalgie, October 11, 2009, accessed on July 19, 2014 .
- ↑ saarbruecker-zeitung.de ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) u. Sebastian Greiber becomes the new mayor of Wadgassen. Saarbrücker Zeitung, December 8, 2013, archived from the original on December 21, 2013 ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
- ↑ See Johannes Enno Korn, Adler und Doppeladler , in: Der Herold, Vierteljahresschrift für Heraldik, Volume 6, 1966, p. 305 f. and 334-337.
- ↑ SZ report: FLSmidth Wadgassen wants to split off and sell the workshop. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014 ; Retrieved July 7, 2014 .
- ^ SZ report: Myland lifestyle outlet center opens on the Cristallerie site. Retrieved October 7, 2012 .
- ^ Community of Wadgassen: day-care centers and crèches. Accessed June 19, 2018 (German).
- ↑ a b Wadgassen community: schools. Accessed June 19, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Wadgasser Rundschau 30/2020, 2, 4–7, https://archiv.wittich.de/epapers/176/2020/30/html5forpc.html [July 21, 2020].
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