Fisch
Fish is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Saar castle.
Geographical location
The place is in Saargau between the Saar and the Upper Moselle, near the Luxembourg border in the west. Surrounding municipalities are Mannebach, Saar castle, Merzkirchen and Wincheringen. The nearest big city is Trier, approximately 18 km to the northeast. Fish is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic Camino de Santiago Cologne -Prüm and Trier -Metz (France) and the present route Trier- Perl.
West of fish was the Roman road Metz - Trier, today partly as a county road 111
The municipality still include the living spaces settlement avenue road, Alterhof and Maklich.
History
The place name comes from the Latin Aedificium fish ( homestead ) and refers to an earlier Roman manor. Around 1150, the village was first mentioned in documents as vischus.
In the Thirty Years' War located Hofgüter the Lords of Warsberg were destroyed here. Until the conquest by French troops in 1794 fish belonged to the Luxembourg rule Wincheringen.
On July 18, 1946 the congregation fish was attached together with a further 80 municipalities in the counties of Trier 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 the place came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland -Palatinate.
The development of the population of the municipality of fish, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in fish consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
Mayor since 1989 Dieter Schmitt.
Attractions
The listed Rehlinger church with its Romanesque tower from the 12th century and the nave from the 18th century is the last relic of the lost village Rehlinger - Littdorf ( position → 49.6164172327786.5020930766667 ).