Winterbach (St. Wendel)

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Winterbach
City of St. Wendel
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Winterbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 312 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.96 km²
Residents : 2029  (2020)
Population density : 340 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66606
Area code : 06851
Winterbach (Saarland)
Winterbach

Location of Winterbach in Saarland
Center of Winterbach (2012)
Center of Winterbach (2012)
Logo of Winterbach (since 2014)

Winterbach is a district of St. Wendel in Saarland and, after Bliesen, the second largest district of the district town.

history

Winterbach is located on the Rheinstrasse, a Roman road whose origins go back to the Celtic era. Therefore, a settlement as early as 500 BC. Can be assumed in the Hallstatt period. The only completely preserved relic of the Hallstatt period in the whole of Saarland was also found in Winterbach, a millstone . Some Celtic graves are located near the Worrach, a watercourse. In Roman times there were many villas in Winterbach , the foundations of which were often discovered during construction work in the 20th century. However, even then the expansion of houses and streets was too far advanced for a more extensive archaeological research into the prehistoric development.

Winterbach was first mentioned in a document in 1242. To mark this occasion, a 770th anniversary celebration was held on three days in August 2012.

Until 1814, Winterbach was assigned to the canton of Tholey in the Moselle department.

On January 1, 1974, the municipality of Winterbach was incorporated into the district town of Sankt Wendel.

present

Winterbach was "never a center of anything, neither ecclesiastical, where Winterbach was oriented entirely to Alsweiler until the building of his own church, nor politically or economically," it says on the village's website. Nevertheless, Winterbach is today a popular place to live, also due to its favorable geographical location between St. Wendel and the A1 motorway . At the same time, the barrier effect of the former military training area promotes a certain separation from the district town and independence.

politics

Local council elections
 %
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60
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40
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20th
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60.1%
(-8.9  % p )
39.9%
(+ 8.9  % p )
2014

2019


Mayor Gerhard Weiand (CDU) has held this office since 1994. Overall, Winterbach is shaped by the CDU, with the SPD recording a greater increase in the 2019 local council elections for the first time in a long time. With the election results, the CDU currently has seven members of the local council, while the SPD sends four members.

church

Completed in 1906, the parish church of Winterbach is one of the last neo-Gothic churches built in Germany . Since 2012 she has been part of the St. Wendel parish community .

traffic

Winterbach is located on federal highway 269 and on state road 1st order 133 . The junction “St. Wendel-Winterbach ”of the B 41 is not in Winterbach, but at Wendelinuspark in St. Wendel.

Trivia

  • Detail of the “cheese eater” statue
    As for many places “in the country”, there is also a - more or less ironic - local necromancy for the people of Winterbach : the term “cheese eater” is nowadays seen more as a compliment. A statue of a man with a wheel of cheese, which was erected on the north-eastern edge of the village in the last century, testifies to this.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Winterbach (Saar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alban Braun: Pre- & early history: Grave mound fields of the Latène time . Heimatfreunde Winterbach, accessed on October 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Alban Braun: Remarkable finds from prehistoric times in the Winterbach district . Heimatfreunde Winterbach, accessed on October 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Alban Braun: Pre & early history: Celtic graves in the Seiters . Heimatfreunde Winterbach, accessed on October 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Alban Braun: Pre & early history: Roman villas on the Mechers and in front of the Allenwald . Heimatfreunde Winterbach, accessed on October 3, 2014.
  5. ^ 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 .
  6. ↑ a b Anton Wiesen: Village tradition ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Winterbach website; Retrieved October 3, 2014
  7. ↑ a b Election results 2019 on the website of the district town of St. Wendel
  8. ^ The local council ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website of Winterbach; Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Klaus Lauck: "In memory of Cardinal Scherer (1903-1996) - son Theleyer emigrant," Man of the 20th Century "in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)", Heimatbuch der Stadt St. Wendel 2004-2006 , p. 143
  10. ↑ Arnold Recktenwald on trauer.de