Wincheringen

Wincheringen is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Saar castle. Wincheringen is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

Geographical location

The place is located on the Upper Moselle.

Districts are Wincheringen, Bilzingen and Söst.

History

The landmark of the village, the Warsberg house with former defense tower, dates the origin of the 11th/12th. Century. It belonged to a moated castle, which was destroyed over the centuries up to the manor house and the tower. The house takes its name from the reign of Gender Wars Berger, who found their way here from Varsberg in Lorraine to the Upper Moselle. From 1473 to 1793 they had a significant impact, the history of the town and the region. Today, the tower and house owned by the municipality. As a curiosity is to see that the bells of the nearby parish church of " St. Peter" hanging in the tower of the civil parish. After the former Warsberg tower in 1830 became the property of the community, he served as the bell tower of the former parish church, which was located in close proximity to the cemetery today. The 1884 inaugurated a new church was built after the plans of architect Reinhold Wirtz without bell tower. A small tower with a bell was used to display the conversion during the fair. The destruction of the church was on October 6, 1944 at the burned the entire roof of the church.

On July 18, 1946 Wincheringen was attached together with a further 80 municipalities in the counties registers and the Saar castle in February 1946 separated from the rest of the French occupation zone Saar, which no longer was under the Allied Control Council at the time. On June 6, 1947 this territorial carve-out was taken back up to 21 communities again so Wincheringen came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

On March 17, 1974, the two were incorporated formerly independent communities Bilzingen (135 inhabitants) and Söst (150 inhabitants). Bilzingen, located on the fertile plateau of the Saargaues, once ran through a Roman road between Trier and Metz. The agricultural embedded between fields and meadows Söst boasts coin finds from the time of Constantine and Frankish grave fields.

The development of the population of Wincheringen based on the present-day municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Wincheringen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

WGW = group of voters Wincheringen 21

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In the split front plate in silver a continuous red cross. Back in black with a silver, gold -winning, rotbewehrter Lion ".

Reason: Because of the membership of the place to the electorate of Trier ( he first appears in the Prüm goods directory in 893 ) shows the emblem of the Kurtrierische Cross, to the coat of arms of the family of Warsberg who had the castle as a fief geometry skills.

Attractions

The Wars Berghaus, the former water castle Warsberg, castle Wincheringen.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wincheringen

Castle in Wincheringen / Mosel

Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter in Wincheringen

Local situation Wincheringen

The district of Soest

Kath Branch Church of St. Bernard in the district of Soest

Viniculture

Wincheringen part of the " wine-growing area of ​​the Upper Moselle " in the Mosel region. In the village 38 wineries operate, the area under vines is 103 hectares Approximately 97 % of the cultivated wine are white wine varietals ( 2007). In 1979, 112 farms were still active and the vineyard was 114 ha

Personalities

• Reinhold Wirtz (1842-1898) was a German architect, municipal county and diocesan architect of the Diocese of Trier