Sankt Wendel (district)
The district of St. Wendel is a district in Saarland. It is bordered to the north by the district of Trier -Saar castle and to the district of Birkenfeld, in the east by the district of Kusel (all in Rhineland -Palatinate ), to the south by the district of Neunkirchen, in the southwest of the district Saarlouis and to the west by the county Merzig -Wadern.
Geography
The largest portion of the county is part of the Near Uplands, the North has still share in the foothills of the Hunsrück.
History
The area of the district of Sankt Wendel belonged to the late 18th century to various dominations ( Kurtrier, Nassau -Saarbrücken, Pfalz -Zweibrücken, Lorraine). From 1798 to 1814, the region was part of the French Département de la Sarre. As a result of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) erected Duke Ernst I of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld 1816, the Principality of Lichtenberg, which he sold in 1834 to Prussia. This made therefrom the district Sankt Wendel within the administrative district of Trier in the Rhine Province.
To a change in the territorial conditions occurred in 1920, when the Saar region of a specialized management of the League of Nations was assumed as a result of the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles (1919). For Saar belonged only to the south-western part of the former district of St. Wendel ( Freisen, St. Wendel, Oberthal, Tholey, Marpingen, Ostertal without black earth ). The companies located outside of the Saar parts, the area between Glan and Nahe, which accounted for about two-thirds of the district, formed now the rest District St. Wendel - Baumholder Baumholder with administrative headquarters. After the League of Nations administration ended on March 1, 1935, the old territorial conditions were not immediately restored. The " Saarland", so now was the official name of the area came under direct imperial administration. The rest of circuit was reclassified on 1 April 1937 in the district of Birkenfeld.
The Saarland state formed in 1947 was spatially larger than the area of the League of Nations administration ( 1920-1935 ). The Bavarian- Palatine places Osterbrücken, Hoof, low churches, Marth, hall and Bubach (now all parts of the city of St. Wendel ) from the district of Kusel were incorporated into the new St. Wendel, Saarland and the county. Likewise, the formerly Oldenburg - birkenfeldischen places to Namborn, Nohfelden, Haupersweiler and Wolfersweiler and the formerly generic geometry Nonnweiler were affiliated to the St. Wendel circuit.
Further changes followed as in the administrative and territorial reform in Saarland in 1974. Finally, the district area was amended in 2003 by a treaty between Saarland and Rhineland- Palatinate. One of Saarland Haupersweiler ( Freisen ) belonging road that was about a kilometer away from the village and geographically directly on the territory of the local church Herchweiler ( Kusel ) demarcated, was ceded to the State of Rhineland -Palatinate.
After completion of the municipal reform of the Sankt Wendel district now includes eight municipalities, including the county seat of Sankt Wendel, which is the only town of the same; smallest municipality is Oberthal.
Religion
The Catholic communities of the district belong to the Diocese of Trier and Speyer. Attempts to form a stand-alone Saar diocese in the years of the autonomous Saar State (1947-1956) (as the seat of St. Wendel certainly come into consideration would be ) failed.
The Protestant population of the county belonged since 1826 to the Rhine province of the Consistory in Koblenz in the Evangelical Church in Prussia ( ekip ). After the dissolution of the State of Prussia this ecclesiastical province was on November 12, 1948 independently and has since formed the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland; the Rhenish Church owns most evangelical churches in the county. The parishes Hoof and Lower Churches are part of the deanery Kusel in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.
Economy and infrastructure
In the study, which was published by the German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development on January 26, 2005 in Berlin, and refers to the purchasing power of appeal, the district of St. Wendel debuted at number five among all 439 German districts and cities. Only the big cities of Munich, Hamburg and Berlin and the district of Starnberg - known as the "Island of the affluent " - are placed before the district St. Wendel.
Basis of the study are the details that provide the Statistical Offices. It is striking that the district of St. Wendel, Germany achieves top positions precisely in disposable income, so the purchasing power. Here is the circle on place 15, the growth of the purchasing power even nationwide to square one. Together with other indicators obtained at the end of this fifth place.
Labor market
The district of St. Wendel has taken since 1 January 2005 under the so-called option model is the only county in the Saarland, the responsibility for the care of long-term unemployed. Organizationally, this task is located in the municipal employment promotion. The county has by far the lowest unemployment rate in the Saarland, not least thanks to the long-standing activities of the Economic Development ( www.wifoe -gmbh.de ) for years. Currently the unemployment rate is 3.4% (November 2011). A special emphasis of the county in the fight against youth unemployment. With the preventive created system of youth career assistance is targeted with educational and / or personal problems at an early stage to stabilize young people and allow them a high school diploma and an apprenticeship. The project was highlighted in 2007 by the Bertelsmann Foundation as one of five at the federal level particularly successful model projects. In November 2011, the unemployment rate for under -25s was the responsibility of the circle at 0.1 %, which St. Wendel on Rank 2 of all 421 county and cities ranked nationwide.
Tourism
The development of tourist infrastructure has already been tackled in the 1960s. One of the fundamental measures of this was the creation of a tourist usable artificial reservoir (120 acres of water ), the Bostal Lake, which under the former district administrator Werner Zeyer (later Prime Minister of the Saarland ) was designed and put into operation in 1979. The lake is surrounded by a 7 km long walking and cycling route, it can be used for swimming, sailing, windsurfing and pedal boating. A beach, a campsite, complete the offer.
What's offers: summer toboggan run in the lake near Braunshausen, the Celtic hillfort of Otzenhausen (La Tène period ), popularly known as " Hunnenring " Celtic- Roman excavations in varus forest at Tholey, Nostalgic journeys with old trains and railcars to the disused Ostertal - route, golfing on the 27- hole course near the district town of St. Wendel and on the golf course Heidehof at Nohfelden- iron, a dense network of well -developed hiking and biking trails, street of sculptures ( St. Wendel ) ( " sculpture Symposium " ), Ethnography Museum of the Divine Word Missionaries in St. Wendel, historical pilgrimage at the grave of St. Wendelin in the Wendalinusbasilika ( minor basilica ) ( St. Wendel ).
Traffic
The circuit area is determined by the Federal Highway 1 Saarbruecken -Trier and from the A - 62 Pirmasens Nonnweiler, which meet at the motorway junction Nonnweiler touches. In addition, the district is being developed by federal and state roads. The main highways are the B41 Neunkirchen- Birkenfeld and the B - 269 Sankt Wendel Saarlouis.
The railway opens up the district over the Nahe Valley Railway ( KBS 680).
The main railway stations in the district are St. Wendel and Türkismühle, where regional express trains stop.
Furthermore, there are two museum railway lines, the Easter Valley Railway ( KBS 12683 ) of Ottweiler to black earth and the high forest railway of Türkismühle by Hermes wedge). The railway line Türkismühle - Kusel also exists even partially, but take it no regular trains.
Policy
Council
In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
- CDU: 51.6 % (14 seats)
- SPD: 31.6 % (9 seats)
- The Left: 8.9% (2 seats)
- Alliance 90/The Greens: 4.1% ( 1 seat)
- FDP: 3.9% ( 1 seat)
The county is known in the Saarland as a stronghold of the CDU.
District administrators
These were:
In the direct election of the District Administrator 2007 yielded the following results:
Country councils of the residual circle St. Wendel - Baumholder
Coat of arms
The shield is divided in silver and blue. Inside is a rotbezungter and rotbewehrter Lion with reversed colors, topped with a golden heart shield. In this there is again a red heraldic lily.
Cities and Towns
( Population figures as at 31 December 2012)
Cities
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