Brenschelbach – Wikipedia
Brenschelbach–Riesweiler ( ) describes a district of Blieskastel in the Saarland Saarpfalz district. It consists of three settlements with a very different character, namely Brenschelbach, Riesweiler and Brenschelbach-Bahnhof with the Blumenau mill. By the end of 1973, Brenschelbach was an independent community in the Homburg district.
Brenschelbach-Riesweiler is located in Bliesgau around 15 km southeast of Blieskastel in the southeastern corner of the Saarpfalz district in a border location with Rhineland-Palatinate and France. Riesweiler is at a height of 315 m ü. Nhn , Brenschelbach on 266 m ü. Nhn . [2]
With the insertion of the written tradition, “Brenstelbach” is mentioned in an undated border description of the rule of Bitsch from the middle of the 12th century. [3] A precarie contract between the Hornbach monastery and a diuring of February 2, 960 calls a “Riswillri Marcha” (district of Riswillr), which is identified with the smaller district of Riesweiler. [4] The two places fell to the younger line in Zweibrücken around 1297 when the Grafschaft Zweibrücken was diverted. In 1314 Riesweiler belonged to the parish of Brenschelbach. Riesweiler fell in the 14th century. The Blumenau mill came to the Hornbach monastery in 1403 as a legacy of the Agnes Kesseler. [5]
Brenschelbach died entirely in the Thirty Years’ War and was reorganized in the 1660s by reformed Swiss immigrants, while Riesweiler, on the other hand, at the end of the 17th century by Catholic families from neighboring Peppenkum and Medelsheim. Although the two places continued to form a community, the denominational barrier remained. Riesweiler was oriented towards the Parr, Brenschelbach to Hornbach.
Brenschelbach and Riesweiler belonged to the Althornbach school in the Pfalz-Zweibrückische Oberamt Zweibrücken until the French Revolution. [6] From 1793 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by French in the first coalition war. From 1798 to 1814 the places belonged to the Kanton Neuhornbach in the Donnersberg department. In 1802, 281 inhabitants lived in the Brenschelbach and Riesweiler, including 224 reformed, seven Lutherans, three Mennonites and 47 Catholics. [6]
Due to the agreements made at the Vienna Congress, the area initially came to Austria in June 1815 and was assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria on the basis of a state contract in 1816. Under the Bavarian administration, the places from 1817 belonged to the district commissioner Zweibrücken in the Rhine district, from 1862 to the Zweibrücken district office.
In 1920 Brenschelbach came to the Homburg district office with the separation of the Saar area. In 1937 it was connected to the Altheim Mayor’s Office, and again independent mayor in 1950.
As part of the Saarland area and administrative reform, the previously independent municipality of Brenschelbach was assigned to the city of Blieskastel on January 1, 1974. [7] Since then, Brenschelbach (-riesweiler) has been a district and a municipal district.
The tower of the Protestant church in Brenschelbach comes from 13th and 14th. Century. It belongs to the group of the so -called “Hornbacher towers”. The original gable roof was converted into a roof with a helmet tip in 1904. The cross rib vault can still be seen on the ground floor of the tower, which consists of cuboid masonry. The tower door previously had a pointed arch, but it was changed to a stabbing arch in 1722. The church’s nave was built by the community in 1928/29. The simple hall with choir room was built according to plans by the district building council Müller from Homburg. During the Second World War, the church building suffered serious damage that was resolved until 1950. The last major renovation of the church took place in 1976. [8]
On Ormersweiler Weg, outside the town towards the Franco-German state border, is the so-called “Schwedenstein”. It is an old boundary stone on which the year 1597 is located on both sides. On the French and formerly ducal Lorraine side, the Lorraine double cross is chiseled, on which German and formerly Princely Palatinate-Zweibrücken side is a coat of arms with diamond pattern and the letters PZ for Pfalz-Zweibrücken. The old border sign was given the name “Schwedenstein” due to a legend, after which the Swedish troops should have penetrated to this point in the Thirty Years’ War. [8]
Along the Schwalbbaches The Schwalbau nature reserve is located on the Franco-German border.
Result of the Bundestag election on September 24, 2017. [9]
The turnout was 72.9%
On February 23, 2012, Yvonne Malter (SPD) was elected as the successor to Alexander Guth from the Brenschelbacher local council as the new mayor. [8]
From 1916 to 1945, Brenschelbach was the end point of the Hornbachbahn, which started in Zweibrücken.
- ↑ Blieskasteler Nachrichten, January 17, 2020 – inhabitant statistics
- ↑ Geoportal.saarland.de
- ↑ Schöndorf 1992, S. 33
- ↑ Schöndorf 1992, S. 26 ff
- ↑ Schöndorf 1992, S. 60
- ↑ a b Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the kings. Bayer. Rheinkreis , Band 4, F. C. Neidhard, 1837, S. 139 f. ( Google Books )
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipal directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, circles and government districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart/ Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1, S. 809 .
- ↑ a b c City of Blieskastel: On the history of Brenschelbach. Accessed on December 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Blieskastel: Elections | Blieskastel. Accessed on June 20, 2018 (German).
Districts of Blieskastel
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