Wadern

Wadern Saarland is a town in the district Merzig- Wadern between Saarbrücken and Trier. It is populated with around 17,000 inhabitants thin, in terms of area but to Saarbrücken and St. Wendel, the third largest city in the Saarland. Although Wadern allowed to use the community status of " city ", neither historic rights or current characteristics of a city are available. Exceptions are the settlement of discounters and hypermarkets in place Wadern, the branch offices of some departments of the district administration, a distributed school site with a vocational training center in Nunkirchen and a high school in Wadern, and a small acute care hospital with surgery and internal department Marienhaus group of companies, it spatially and functionally connected a retirement home.

• 2.1 Local History
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Archaeological finds

• 5.1 Leisure Centre Noswendel

• 6.1 Football
• 6.2 riding
• 6.3 Tennis
• 6.4 Volleyball
• 6.5 Other

• 7.1 traffic
• 7.2 courts
• 7.3 Education

• Born 8.1 Wadern
• 8.2 Connected to Wadern

Geography

Location

Wadern located at the foot of the Black Forest High Forest. The 14 Districts are at an altitude of 250 m to 600 m above sea level and are embedded in the river valleys and the creeks prims Löster, Wahnbach and Wadrill. Wadern located in the Natural Park Saar -Hunsrück.

Boroughs

The parts of the city and its inhabitants (as of 31 August 2011):

Climate

The annual rainfall is 1114 mm. The rainfall is in the upper third of the measuring points of the German Weather Service. More than 90% show lower values. The driest month is April; most rains in December. The wettest month falls about 1.9 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the top tenth. In over 90 % of all places in the monthly rainfall varies less.

History

History

Wadern was first mentioned in a document in connection with the Abbey in Mettlach 950. After 1751 it resided Count Josef Anton von Oettingen - Sötern, who moved his court from High Baldern in Ries in his rule and Dagstuhl here after Wadern. However, its precarious financial position allowed him only a modest construction activity, after all Wadern was granted market rights.

Wadern was after the separation of the Saar in 1920 under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles administrative headquarters of the so-called residual circle Merzig- Wadern. After the Second World War Wadern 1945 was part of the French zone of occupation in July. On July 18, 1946 " Connecting communities arrangement relating to the administration of the Saar territory " was introduced by the French military government under General Koenig adopted. Since then Wadern belonged to separate Saarland.

Incorporations

The present city Wadern was created as part of the administrative and territorial reform in Saarland in 1974. On January 1, 1974 have the same resolution Office Wadern owned and previously independent municipalities Bardenbach, Büschfeld, Dagstuhl, Gehweiler, Krettnich, Lockweiler, Morscholz, Dutch esters, Noswendel, Oberlöstern, Wadern, Wadrill and Wedern, previously to the Official Weis churches belonging were communities Munchweiler, Nunkirchen and Steinberg and the municipalities Buweiler - Rathen and costs Bach together from office Nonnweiler to a new congregation under the name Wadern.

On 1 July 1978, the municipality Wadern was given city rights.

Policy

City ​​council

The municipal elections of 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

• CDU: 35.1 ( -8.1 ): 12 seats
• SPD: 32.3% (-2.8 ): 11 seats
• ProHochwald: 14.1 ( 3.6 ): 5 seats
• FWG / FBL: 5.5 (-2.2 ): 2 seats
• The Left: 5.0 ( 5.0 ): 1 seat
• FDP: 4.4 ( 0.9 ): 1 seat
• Green: 3.5 ( 3.5 ): 1 seat

Mayor

Twinning

There are partnerships with Montmorillon and Jeumont in France and with Sobotka (Czech Republic), with Wahrenbrück in (Brandenburg) and Toma in Burkina Faso.

Culture and sights

Museums

In Öttinger castle in the center of Wadern houses the Town Museum.

Structures

Worth seeing is the castle chapel in Dagstuhl district, which is used in church today. The baroque castle Munchweiler is the only surviving facility of its kind in the Saarland. The interior of the parish church, with a few exceptions Nunkirchen the original equipment from 1896 and has therefore rarity value in the Saarland.

See also: list of architectural monuments in Wadern

Archaeological finds

When the district Oberlöstern are two Roman monumental tombs from the 2nd century AD

Recreation

Leisure center Noswendel

Center of recreation and leisure center Noswendel is a 6.6 hectare lake. The entire complex covers about 20 ha One can explore the lake on a pedal boat and watch swans and ducks up close. There are two playgrounds, including basketball court. When you walk around the lake, you can take a look at the extraordinary nature reserve " Noswendeler break", the largest wetland of Saarland throw.

Sports

Football

Football clubs and sports courts are available in Wadern and almost all districts.

Figurehead of the men's football in the city Wadern is the SG Noswendel -Wadern, which emerged from the merger of the gaming operations of the clubs SV Noswendel and TuS 09 Wadern in 1998. The SG is currently playing (season 2011 /2012) in the federation League Saar. The women's team of SV Bardenbach abolished in 2012 promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.

In Morscholz there is a table football club.

Riding

The possibility of horse riding is in Wadern and environment at the Lindenhof Nuhweiler and in Lockweiler.

Tennis

Tennis courts and tennis clubs are often represented in Wadern inter alia, in Wadern, Lockweiler, Steinberg, Bardenbach, Löstertal, Morscholz and Nunkirchen.

Volleyball

With the TV - Lockweiler Krettnich volleyball club is available. The women's team plays in a league of Rhineland -Palatinate / Saarland.

Other

In Wadern and the 14 districts there's also fishing clubs, badminton club, Dartclubs, a judo and martial arts club, a kickboxing club, gun clubs, table tennis, gymnastics and hiking clubs.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Wadern itself has no connection to a remote or trunk road, however, the B runs 268 Saarbrücken - Trier through the nearby district Nunkirchen, and the A1 ( E422 ) via the interchanges Nonnweiler - Primstal or Nonnweiler - Braunshausen towards Saarbrücken and Trier is also from the city center just a few kilometers away.

From December 1897 to May 1980 ( passenger ) or by the beginning of 1988 ( freight) Wadern was with a station in Dagstuhl to the high forest railway Wemmetsweiler - tethered Hermes wedge ( Primstalbahn ). With the closure of the railway section Nonnweiler - Wadern Wadern in 1968 became the terminus, which is why 1980 ( 1988) the closure of the section Wadern due to the importance of loss - followed Büschfeld.

Courts

Wadern has a district court.

Education

In Wadern all level qualifications. The city has in addition to several primary schools, a special school, a junior high school Advanced, a high school, the high school forest Wadern ( HWG ), and a vocational training center for technical, commercial and social care professions.

Personalities

Born in Wadern

• Nicholas Munich (1794-1881), Cologne Cathedral Provost
• Hermann Ludwig (1858-1931), mayor of Neunkirchen ( Saar)
• Hans -Werner Müller ( * 1942), politician ( CDU)
• Wilfried Loth ( b. 1948 ), historian and political scientist
• Klaus Borger (* 1958 in Wadrill ), politicians ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
• Laura Méritt (* 1960), communications scholar
• Anke Rehlinger (* 1976), politician (SPD )
• Philipp Wollenberg (* 1989), football player
• Steven Zellner (* 1991), football player

Connected to Wadern

• Hans Kasper ( born 1939 ), former President of the Parliament and Finance Minister of the Saarland, lives since 1947 in the district Waderner Büschfeld. Kasper was also for many years in local politics in Wadern.
• Josef Schmitt (1921-1996), politician, co-founder of the CDU District Association Wadern died in Wadern.
• Hermann Wedekind (1910-1998), operatic tenor, actor, director and theater director, died in Wadern.
• Heinz G. Schwärtzel ( b. 1936 ), mathematician and computer scientist, on his initiative, the Leibniz Center was for computer science ( LTI ) at the time under the name of The International Conference and Research Center for computer science ( IBFI ) was established in Schloss Dagstuhl.