Baldringen

Baldringen is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kell am See.

Geographical location

Baldringen located in the Natural Park Saar -Hunsrück about nine kilometers west of Kell am See, near the meeting point of national roads 268 (Trier -Saarbrücken ) and 407 ( Hunsrückhöhenstraße ) in decays.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1036, gave as provost Albero at St. Paulin the Abbey of St. Matthias Trier goods in Baldringen.

The place belonged to the late 18th century to the Official Saar castle in the Electorate of Trier.

After the 1792 French Revolutionary troops had occupied the left bank of the Rhine and incorporated after the peace of Campo Formio ( 1797) in French territory. In 1798, the then new French administrative structure was introduced, Baldringen belonged to the Canton Saar castle of the Department of the Saar. Unlike the rest of the territory of the left bank of the Rhine, the Canton Saar castle was initially allocated to the Congress of Vienna ( 1815), Austria. In the Second Peace of Paris, Austria joined with effect from July 1, 1816, among other areas, the canton to the Kingdom of Prussia from.

Under the Prussian administration of the place of the mayor's Zerf was assigned in a circle Saar castle of the district of Trier, who belonged from 1822 to the Rhine province.

On July 18, 1946 Baldringen 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 came Baldringen to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

The development of the population of Baldringen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Baldringen consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " In an occupied gold with silver shells 1:3:1 red cross ".

The red cross is reminiscent of the former national rule of the Electorate of Trier, the mussels. Extinct in the 15th century to the knights of Baldringen The municipal coat of arms exists since 1951.

Clubs

Clubs in the city are the Musikverein Baldringen, the youth group Baldringen and the volunteer fire department.