Wittersheim (Mandelbachtal)
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Wittersheim
community Mandelbachtal
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| Height : | 263 m | |
| Area : | 11.45 km² | |
| Residents : | 631 (Feb 2016) | |
| Population density : | 55 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 66399 | |
| Area code : | 06803 | |
Location of Wittersheim in Saarland |
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 View of Wittersheim
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Wittersheim is the second smallest town in the Mandelbachtal community . It is located in the southeastern Saarland in the Saarpfalz district . Wittersheim is a distinct residential and commuter community. Most of the employed work as commuters in the Saarbrücken area .
geography
location
Wittersheim is located in southern Bliesgau in the Saarpfalz district in Saarland. The strongly hilly landscape is dominated by agriculture .
climate
The climate is influenced by the Atlantic. The average annual precipitation is 786 mm, the rainiest time is in the spring months. The mean annual temperature is 9 ° C. The long-term average temperature does not drop below 0 ° C even in January. The prevailing wind direction is west to southwest. The bio-climate is mild to irritant-friendly.
history
The Romans first settled here . During excavations in the past century, coins from the 4th century were found among other things. In 1977/78 a Roman estate in the "Obere Tattenbach" corridor was uncovered.
The name of the place goes back to the Franconian times.
Wittersheim was first mentioned in a document in 1267 in a process over the patronage rights to the churches of Wittersheim and Bebelsheim.
Wittersheim is also shown on the map by geometer Tilemann Stella from 1564.
One of twelve Catholic parishes in the Blieskastel office was the parish consecrated to St. Martin in Wittersheim in 1607 .
Located on an old military road and very close to the state border, Wittersheim had always suffered very badly in the wars of all centuries. The village was almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War .
In 1826, Wittersheim's first school was built in the vicinity of the church .
The brothers Georg and Andreas Hamm from Wittersheim set up a bell foundry in the garden of their parents' mill in 1843 . Andreas Hamm created the third largest bell in the world at the time in Frankenthal in 1874 , the so-called imperial bell for Cologne Cathedral . She had a diameter of 3.25 m and a weight of 27 tons.
In 1880, under adjunct Andreas Feibel, the first community syringe house was built behind the church. It was used, among other things, to accommodate a four-wheeled district sprayer. In 1889 a new school building was built in the bridge garden.
In the area of infrastructure , the first aqueduct was laid in 1908 and in 1929 the first public transport connection with buses from Wittersheim via St. Ingbert to Jägersfreude was established.
In 1928 a row cemetery was found. In addition to the skeletons, the graves also contained weapons, bronze rings, necklaces and breast chains. The cemetery belongs to the 7th century AD.
With the beginning of the Second World War , the 562 residents of Wittersheim, which was in the " Red Zone ", were evacuated. 29% of the evacuees did not return. On March 16, 1945 the US Army took Wittersheim. Only 3 of 124 houses remained undamaged by fighting. The degree of destruction was around 90%, so that almost no old building fabric was left. The community's utility facilities were also unusable.
On October 15, 1950, the Speyer Bishop Joseph Wendel inaugurated the Catholic Church of St. Remigius, which was rebuilt after the war damage. Four years later, in 1954, construction of the fire station began on Erfweiler Strasse. Another six years later, in 1960, the inauguration of the new elementary school and gymnastics hall took place.
On April 6, 1973, the multi-purpose hall was opened . In 1978 the fire station at the school was rebuilt.
On January 1, 1974, Wittersheim was incorporated into the new municipality of Mandelbachtal.
The field lime kilns in the Tattenbach were restored in 1985.
In 1993 the chronicle of Jakob Ackermann from Wittersheim was published by the Society for Folklore in Saarland.
religion
Wittersheim is mostly Catholic . The evangelical Christians belong to Protestant parish Ensheim , which also has a church has in Ormesheim in which take place at least once a month worship.
politics
Local council
Distribution of seats in the local council :
Mayor
The local mayor is Wendelin Lonsdorf ( SPD ).
Community partnerships
There is a partnership with Wittersheim ( Alsace ).
Culture and sights
Cultural landscape center Haus Lochfeld , restored lime kilns, wayside cross trail, village-friendly expansion of the area around the parish church. As well as the park in the center of the village.
Other sights: The observation tower on the Heidekopf in the Kirchenwald, the optical telegraph (in the Bebelsheim area ) and the Gräfinthal natural stage (in the Blieshaben-Bolchen area ).
Buildings
One of the buildings worth seeing in Wittersheim is the Catholic Church of St. Remigius . After destruction in the Second World War, it was rebuilt from 1948 to 1950. The organ of the church with thirteen registers was built in 1976 by the organ building company Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ).
Sports
Nordic walking park, sports hall, cycling and hiking trails
Regular events
- Trofeo Karlsberg the municipality of Mandelbachtal is a partner of this junior World Cup cycling race, which takes place annually on the weekend after Corpus Christi .
Clubs and associations (selection)
The following associations, with a large number of members, shape village life in Wittersheim.
- The Wittersheim-Bebelsheim music association frames almost all events with its traditional brass music. Every year there is a spring concert and a Christmas concert in the multi-purpose hall.
- The game association Bebelsheim-Wittersheim has an artificial turf pitch. The club is the first and only game community in which two independent clubs in Mandelbachtal have been merged into one. The first team plays in the Landesliga Ost. The club colors are black and yellow.
- The Kneipp Association Wittersheim-Bebelsheim eV offers a wide range of preventive health-promoting projects in different groups. u. a. Children's gymnastics, women's gymnastics, step dancing, step aerobics, body forming, table tennis for men, ball games for men over 40, bowling and hiking.
- The voluntary fire brigade Mandelbachtal, fire fighting district Wittersheim ensures fire protection and technical assistance, the fire brigade also supports the local associations and the local council at its events. z. B. Securing the Trofeo Karlsberg, guard of honor on the day of national mourning, St.Martins celebration. The deletion district has its own fire station with a Löschgruppenfahrzeug (LF 08/06) and a GW Dekon P . The former syringe house with hose drying tower still exists (see fruit and horticultural association)
- The German Red Cross , local association Wittersheim ensures the care of the injured as well as the supply of warm meals in crisis situations. This is demonstrated annually in a large-scale cooking exercise, in which several hundred servings of pea soup are distributed to the population. The DRK naturally also supports the local associations at their events.
- The interest group "Preservation of the cultural landscape near Bebelsheim and Wittersheim" is committed to the preservation of the cultural landscape in its current form, in particular the designation of a nature reserve on the areas of the members is to be prevented in order to guarantee further agricultural use in full.
- The fruit and horticultural association Wittersheim eV has its own club house with a distillery. The clubhouse is located in the former milk delivery point (locally pronounced: "Milchheisje") directly attached to it is the former syringe house with hose drying tower of the volunteer fire brigade .
Economy and Infrastructure
Public facilities
Cemetery, consecration hall, fairground, Catholic church, war memorial chapel, fire station
traffic
Wittersheim is connected to the federal highway 423 and is only a few kilometers from Saarbrücken Airport.
Personalities
- Andreas Hamm (1824–1894), bell founder and machine manufacturer in Frankenthal (Palatinate)
- Georg Hamm (1817–1878), brother of Andreas Hamm, also a bell founder and machine manufacturer
literature
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): Experience nature: Cultural landscape center Haus Lochfeld. B. Faber 4th edition 2013.
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): To save the soul: The Catholic Church of St. Remigius in Wittersheim. B. Faber 2nd edition 2017.
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Ed.): Silent memorial: The war memorial chapel in Wittersheim B. Faber 1st edition 2017.
- Verkehrsverein Mandelbachtal eV (Hrsg.): Beautiful by nature: Mandelbachtal - the community with a view. B. Faber 3rd edition 2017.
Others
In the local dialect , the place name is roughly pronounced “Aries”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages , Munich 1903, p. 282, Certificate No. 694. Online
- ^ 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. 809 .
- ↑ Local councils Mandelbachtal ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 263 kB), on: www.mandelbachtal.de, accessed on December 9, 2014
- ↑ Mayor of the Mandelbachtal community ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 176 kB), on: www.mandelbachtal.de, accessed on December 9, 2014
- ↑ St. Remigius- Wittersheim ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) On: pfarrei-mandelbachtal.de, accessed on June 24, 2012
- ↑ Musikverein Wittersheim-Bebelsheim ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: der-bliesgau.de
- ^ Website of the SVG Bebelsheim-Wittersheim
- ↑ Information on the Kneipp association ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: der-bliesgau.de
- ↑ Wittersheim volunteer fire department
- ^ Website of the DRK Wittersheim
- ^ Website of the IG Kulturlandschaft ( Memento from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Georg Hamm website (PDF; 20 kB)
