Wehrden (Saar)

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Wehrden
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 50 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 236 m
Residents : 5210  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : April 1, 1937
Postal code : 66333
Area code : 06898
Wehrden (Saarland)
Wehrden

Location of Wehrden in Saarland
View of Wehrden
View of Wehrden

Wehrden is a district of the city of Völklingen in the Saarland regional association Saarbrücken .

location

Wehrden is on the left bank of the Saar and is crossed by the A620 . The district is located in a hilly forest and agricultural landscape. In the north, Wehrden borders on Schaffhausen and Hostenbach , in the south on the Völklingen district of Geislautern . The Völklinger Hütte and the Völklingen train station can be reached directly over the Saar Bridge. Geographically, Wehrden belongs to the Warndt region .

etymology

The place name probably goes back to the Middle High German word "Wert", which referred to a river island. In Wehrden the Rossel flowed into the Saar. As a result, a lot of debris accumulated, so the river could easily be crossed at this point.

history

Wehrden was in 1234 for the first time in a deed of donation from Count Simon III. from Saarbrücken to the nearby Premonstratensian - called Wadgassen Abbey . The operation of a saar ferry was first mentioned in 1313. This was of outstanding importance, since bridges were only built over the Saar in the 16th century. The income from the river ferry went to the Counts of Saarbrücken. In the Middle Ages, several major highways crossed in Wehrden.

In 1518 Wehrden was burned down during a feud, so that in 1542 there were only 13 households with 60 people. In the course of the Thirty Years War , Wehrden was also devastated and depopulated. From 1660 there was a new settlement. Around 1800 there were 34 households with 199 inhabitants again.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the French built a wooden bridge over the Saar, and in 1865 a stone bridge was built. With the inauguration of the new Saar Bridge in 1869, the ferry service was stopped. At that time a mill and a sawmill were the main non-agricultural employers in the area. Most of the population in Wehrden lived mainly from agriculture. In 1873 the Völklingen ironworks was built , which the industrialist Carl Röchling acquired in 1881 and extensively expanded. Many workers of the newly founded hut settled in the nearby Wehrden, which experienced an upswing as a result.

  • Wehrden, St. Joseph's Church

  • Wehrden, St. Josef, interior with a view of the apse

In 1894, with the increase in population in Wehrden, which until then belonged to the Catholic parish of St. Eligius Völklingen, a church building association was founded with the aim of raising funds for the construction of their own church . In 1898 to 1899, the construction of the church was neofrühgotischen St. Joseph after plans of from Roden coming architects Wilhelm Hector . In 1937 Wehrden was incorporated into Völklingen.

During the Second World War , Wehrden suffered severe damage in Allied bombing raids on May 11 and October 5, 1944. The Saar Bridge was also affected and could only be rebuilt in 1948/1949.

  • Wehrden, Catholic Church of St. Hedwig

  • Wehrden, Protestant Resurrection Church

  • Wehrden, Church of the Resurrection, Interior

Between 1953 and 1954 the Altenkessel architect Willy Lather built the Protestant Church of the Resurrection . The tower was only added in 1964. The Hungarian-born architect and glass painter György Lehoczky created the large round window in the chancel in 1954, which depicts the risen Christ, flanked by John the Baptist and the Archangel Michael. The Catholic parish church of St. Hedwig was built between 1964 and 1965. The glass painter Ferdinand Selgrad ( Spiesen-Elversberg ) provided the designs for the concrete glass walls. The monumental painting "The Elevated Christ" was designed by the Koblenz painter Jakob Schwarzkopf . In Wehrden there is also the Selimiye Mosque, which is run by the DITIB .

After the decline of the Völklinger Hütte in the mid-1970s, an attempt was made to upgrade the Wehrden district with funding programs.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics , City of Völklingen
  2. ↑ a b History of the Wehrden district , City of Völklingen
  3. ↑ a b c d History of the Wehrden district , www.voelklingen-im-wandel.de, accessed on October 20, 2011
  4. ↑ The history of the parish of St. Josef on: www.pg-warndt.de, accessed on August 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 362–363 and p. 602.
  6. ^ Völklingen, Wehrden: Parish Church of St. Josef . On: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on August 4, 2014.
  7. ^ Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Völklingen, Church of the Resurrection (Dossier K 409)
  8. ^ Institute for Current Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Völklingen, St. Hedwig (Dossier K 864).