Pluwig

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '  N , 6 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Ruwer
Height :	310 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.87 km 2
Residents:	1681 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	345 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54316
Area code :	06588
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 107
Association administration address:	Untere Kirchstrasse 1 54320 Waldrach
Website :	www.pluwig.de
Mayoress :	Annelie Scherf ( WG Scherf)
Location of the local community Pluwig in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Pluwig and Willmerich / Wilzenburg, aerial photo (2016)

Wilzenburg / Willmerich and Pluwig in the background, aerial photo (2016)

Pluwig ( Moselle Franconian : Pluwisch ) an der Ruwer is a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Ruwer , which has its administrative headquarters in Waldrach .

Geographical location

The community of Pluwig is located at the foothills of the Osburger Hochwald between unwooded hills on a slope terrace along the district road 63 .

Districts are Pluwig, Wilzenburg, Willmerich, Geizenburg and Pluwigerhammer with the former Pluwig train station .

Rivers in the municipality are the left tributaries of the Ruwer : the Gusterather Waschbach , the Wilzenburger Waschbach and the Geizenburger Waschbach .

history

Roman settlement, first documented mention

The fact that Pluwig was at least a Roman settlement is attested by Roman names in the local area: The field name Auf Kastert contains the Roman word castrum (army camp). Furthermore, Roman settlement remains have been found in several places in Pluwig, for example in the current cemetery and in the Willmerich district.

The Pluvei farm, mentioned in a document, was located where the Pluwig cemetery is today. The Bethstein near Pluwig could have a pre-Celtic meaning, see The Three Prayers . The first documentary mention comes from the year 981, in which Pluwig is named as Bubiacum: As part of compensation, King Heinrich restitutes the Paulinstift in Trier a. a. also "tres picturae" (three vineyards) to Bubiacum.

Middle Ages, early modern times

Pluwig with its current districts belonged to the Von der Brücken family in the Middle Ages . In 1211 Friedrich von der Brücken ( Fredericus de Ponte ) left Pluwig to the Trier cathedral chapter initially as a pledge, later the cathedral chapter bought the Pluwig rule . The rule of Pluwig, also known as the "Pluwiger Ländchen", remained the property of the cathedral chapter until the end of the 18th century and was an imperial territory, it did not belong to an imperial circle or to the imperial knighthood .

In the history of the parishes of the Diocese of Trier one finds the reference that already in 1250 there was a chapel in Pluwig and that the whole Pluwiger Ländge was under the patronage and tithe right of the Trier cathedral provost. Throughout the Middle Ages, the people of Pluwig were "poor people", as Jacob Grimm said in a wisdom about Pluwig (1542). The Pluwiger worked in Lehnsabhängigkeit the provost in agriculture and had regularly and on time the taxes after the tithe pay.

18th and 19th centuries

In 1794, French troops under their general Jean-Victor Moreau occupied the Electorate of Trier. When they marched in, the old Pluwiger Church, which stood on the site of the current cemetery, was destroyed. In 1802 Charles Mannay became bishop of the Saar department of Trier on the proposal of Napoleon. In 1804 he dissolved the parish of Gusterath (to which Pluwig belonged until then) and designated Pluwig as the parish seat. In 1805 he visited the place in his capacity as bishop. The current church was built in 1805 - initially as a single-nave church. With the establishment of the parish in 1805, the school in Pluwig is mentioned for the first time. In 1814 the Prussian colonel Count Henkel von Donnersmark took possession of the Trier area on behalf of the King of Prussia .

The beginning and middle of the 19th century were shaped by two developments in Pluwig: On the one hand, many people from Pluwig left their homeland because the barren agriculture could no longer feed them. From 1855 the first big wave of emigration from America reached the Pluwiger Ländchen. Long-established Pluwig family names can be found in the emigration registers: Kimmlinger, Annen, Philippi, Josten, Treinen or Klopp. On the other hand, with the expansion of the road and rail connections in the Pluwiger Ländchen, the prerequisites for industrialization were in place: A first industrial complex was located on the Pluwig hammer, directly at the Pluwig train station. An iron smelter was created here with a hammer, cutting and rolling mill. A second industrial site was in Gusterath-Tal , also at a train station. An ore wash was built here from 1889 to 1891. The ore that was processed in the Waasch in Gusterath Valley came from a mining company in Hockweiler . Mainly lead, tin and copper ores containing silver as well as pyrites were mined there. In 1890 a 5 kilometer long cable car was built from the Hockweiler pit across the ridge towards Gusterath to the Erzwwasher on the Ruwer in Gusterath valley. However, the industrial settlements were quite vulnerable in terms of their profitability: Already in 1893, almost all workers in both the Hockweiler mine and the Gusterath ore laundry were laid off and production stopped. The Pluwiger iron hammer mill was also shut down in the last third of the 19th century. In 1921 the Romika shoe factory was opened in Gusterath .

20th century

In the Weimar Republic , the Pluwiger almost exclusively vote for the Catholic Center Party ; Social Democrats, Communists and National Socialists, on the other hand, were hardly elected. After 1933, Ortsgruppenleiter and Ortsbauernführer determined the fate of the community in conjunction with the various party organizations of the NSDAP (HJ, BDM, RAD). During the Second World War , the place was spared even from severe destruction. With the invasion of the Americans in February / March 1945, the war ended for Pluwig. The railway connection between Trier and Hermeskeil was put back into operation in 1949, along with the Pluwiger Hammer train station .

While the Pluwiger lived mainly from agriculture after the war, many became part-time farmers as early as the 1950s and earned their income mainly from their work at Romika . In 1969 the new development areas Auf Grawert , Im Hargarten and Im Kellert were developed. In 1999 the new development area Auf Steinisch followed . Over time, the structure of the population and the village changed: skilled workers and engineers, civil servants, teachers and professors, employees and the self-employed moved to Pluwig and many of them work in Trier.

Population development

The development of the population of Pluwig, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 250 1835 370 1871 409 1905 441 1939 603 1950 657

year Residents 1961 693 1970 779 1987 1,115 1997 1,192 2005 1,265 2019 1,681

politics

Local mayor

• 1999 to 2014: Wolfgang Annen (CDU), later mayor of the Ostbevern municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia
• since 2014: Annelie Scherf (CDU)

coat of arms

The blazon reads: "In the divided shield, split above, a silver lecture cross in front in red, behind in silver a black hammer with mallet, below in silver a black, red-armored eagle's head."

The local patron of Pluwig has been St. John the Baptist . It has a cross as a symbol, here included as a reference to it as a lecture cross.

The former economic structure around the mining of ore is characterized by the inclusion of hammer and mallet . Up until the turn of the 20th century, ore was dug in the Pluwig area. To this day, the widely known name “ Pluwiger Hammer ” has been retained for part of the district where the ore was crushed.

Pluwig was considered an imperial rule . The eagle has been a symbol of imperial power since Emperor Konrad II . This historical feature of Pluwig is symbolized in the lower shield.

Culture

Pluwig, St. John the Baptist

Pluwig is known for the Pluwig summer events and the Karl May Festival in the former quarry area.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Pluwig

Economy and Transport

Pluwig is on state roads 139 , 143 and 146 . Today the Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg runs along the route of the former Hochwaldbahn .

Numerous small and medium-sized companies are based in the village. Since August 2013 there is a senior center in Pluwig. Pluwig has a community center, a sports facility and a daycare center and is located on Romika-Weg .

Personalities

In 2017, Eugenie Müller , chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of women entrepreneurs in the craft sector (UFH), was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

literature

• Peter Kühn: Pluwig. A little chronicle of the Pluwiger Ländchen. Pluwig 2002.

Web links

Commons : Pluwig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local community in Pluwig
• Website about Pluwig
• Link catalog on the subject of Pluwig at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Lintz, 1849, p. 59 ( online at Google Books )
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ "In the beginning there was a dream. - The story of the Karl-May-Freunde e. V. on the homepage of the Karl-May-Freunde Pluwig association " (pdf)