Illingen, Saarland

Illingen is a municipality in the district of Neunkirchen Saarland, located about 20 km north of Saarbrücken and nationally recognized resort.

• 2.1 Amalgamations
• 2.2 spin-offs

• 3.1 Mayor
• 3.2 municipal
• 3.3 partnerships

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Local businesses
• 4.3 educational institutions
• 4.4 Medicine
• 4.5 Volunteer Fire Department

• 5.1 Museums
• 5.2 Culture
• 5.3 Regular events
• 5.4 Structures
• 5.5 Attractions in the districts

• 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Local structure

The municipality Illingen next to the eponymous district Illingen includes the districts Hirzweiler, Hüttigweiler, Uchtelfangen, Welschbach and Wustweiler. They were up to the administrative and territorial reform in 1974 independent communities.

History

Illingen can look back on more than 1100jährige history and is today considered the center of the Illtal. First documented in 893 AD, Illingen was about 450 years imperial rule of the Lords of Kerpen, who resided in the castle on the water Ill. Their rule ended with the outbreak of the French Revolution and the ensuing persecution of nobles, before eventually had to flee the family of Kerpen. The castle fell into disrepair and was long used as a quarry. Until the mid-19th century, a Kienrußbrennerei been in operation. At the beginning of the 20th century parts of the castle have been restored, especially the bailey with the Fünfeckturm, which is now part of a hotel restaurant, which was built in 1999. The round tower was renovated in 1951 and is one of the landmarks of Illingen.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the formerly independent communities Hirzweiler, Hüttigweiler, Uchtelfangen, Welschbach and Wustweiler were incorporated.

Spin-offs

On January 1, 1974, a territory was ceded by that time more than 150 inhabitants of the neighboring town ship hamlet.

Policy

Mayor

Parish council

Due to the local elections of 7 June 2009, the following distribution of seats arose in Illingerstraße council:

Partnerships

The municipality has Illingen partnerships and friendship treaties with Tuchow in Poland, Buk in Hungary and Toviklin in Benin. The individual districts entertain the following partnerships:

• District Illingen: Civray (Vienne ) (France )
• District Hüttigweiler: Verzy (Champagne -Ardenne, France)
• District Hirzweiler: Walschbronn (Lorraine, France)
• District Welschbach: Schwerborn (district of Erfurt)
• District Wustweiler: Woustviller (Lorraine, France)

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

On the edge of Illingen, at the motorway junction Saarbrücken, the federal highways intersect A 8 ( Luxembourg - Pirmasens ) and the Federal Highway 1 (Lübeck -Saarbrücken ); latter has a connection point Illingen. (Exit 142)

By Illingen the Primstalbahn runs. This route is served first, by the hourly free regional train line Illingen -Homburg, holds withdrawn in the municipality except at the starting station Illingen (Saar) even at 2004 mode breakpoint Gennweiler. Secondly wrong there also the hourly regional train line Lebach - Jabach Illingen -Saarbrücken, the commissioned in 2006 Wemmetsweiler curve is traveling behind Gennweiler to Fischbach Valley Railway to Saarbrücken and is therefore called Fischbach- Illtal train. The latter line stops except at the two stations mentioned also at the front of the train station Illingen (Saar) located breakpoint Wustweiler in the same district Illingens. Both regional rail lines are operated by DB Regio AG. In Saarbrücken Hbf and Homburg (Saar ) Hbf is connected to the long-distance transport.

The Illingen station ( Saar) is an important transfer point in the western part of the district of Neunkirchen. Here also take bus routes of the Saar -Pfalz- Bus GmbH and Neunkircher transport company ( NVG ) together.

Local businesses

The supra-regional business park at the Saarbrücken Cross is home to many modern production and service enterprises. The focus here is automotive suppliers. RWE Amprion GmbH operates within the boundaries Illingen Uchtelfangen the substation Uchtelfangen, which plays an important role in the European electricity transmission grid.

Educational institutions

• Illtal Gymnasium Illingen, UNESCO School
• Advanced Realschule Illingen
• Primary school Illingen
• Primary school Uchtelfangen
• Primary school "On the Ill " Hüttigweiler
• Catholic kindergarten Uchtelfangen
• Ev. Kindergarten Uchtelfangen
• Kindergarten Hüttigweiler
• Kindergarten Hirzweiler - Welschbach
• Community College Illingen e.V.

Medicine

Cusanus carrier company trier mbH ( ctt ) operates in Illingen Specialist Clinic St. Hedwig ( specialist hospital for neurological rehabilitation and geriatrics ).

Volunteer Fire Department

The volunteer fire department Illingen is composed of the five fire districts Illingen, Uchtelfangen, Wustweiler, East and Welschbach. She has to take care of about 19,400 citizens of over 240 active fire fighters. The fire department, a total of 21 fire-fighting and special vehicles. In addition to ensuring fire safety in the places of the community and the industrial areas in Uchtelfangen, Welschbach and Illingen the fire department of the municipality Illingen is responsible also for a portion of federal highway 1. The individual deletion districts have main tasks for which they are specially fitted each. So are responsible for respiratory protection as the LBZ Illingen for technical assistance, LBZ Uchtelfangen for water supply and operations involving hazardous substances and extinguishing District East. With special vehicles such as DLK 23-12, ABC explorers and GW - contained breathing the volunteer fire department Illingen is also used across the community in the district of the district of Neunkirchen.

Culture and sights

Museums

An important cultural center showing a Saarland is unique collection of medieval masterpieces with religious motifs ( including a picture of Lucas Cranach the Elder ) is the stationing Dominus Mundi in the district Wustweiler. The modern sacred and Kunstbau was designed in 2002 by the eminent Munich architect Alexander Freiherr von Branca.

Culture

The distinctive Illipse has distinguished itself within a very short time as the Saarland Cultural Forum in the park. Half a million visitors have experienced since 2001 in Illipse classical, jazz, blues, rock with world-class artists, but also theater, cabaret, operetta and folk Offers ( dialect stage ). Is quite popular, the traditional New Year's Concert, the gumbo jazz series in cooperation with the Saarland broadcasting and a festival of Irish music and a cappella vocal Festival flood (including with Viva Voce ).

Regular events

• Illingen is classic market town (we are the market ) with great annual fairs and weekly markets ( Friday) as well as the castle and pond Festival and the traditional sausage market in October. In the summer of the Great Medieval Market to Illingen takes place.
• The livestock market on the first Sunday of Illingerstraße is Saarland far unique in this form.
• The Illingerstraße Rosenmontagszug is the second largest carnival procession in the district of Neunkirchen, and annually attracts 10,000 to 15,000 visitors.
• The DARC eV Ortsverband Illingen Q13 held every year in March, the " Illingerstraße Conference" in Cultural Forum Illipse.
• In addition to many concerts throughout the year include the events Big Night Music, Wustock and Impression Musicale for many years to solid cult Urkal Santander in Illtal.

Structures

The Baroque Church of St. Stephan with onion dome and Lehoczky windows, buildings under monument protection in church road with Gerber school ( around 1850 ), the rectory from 1731 by Gregory Maes, the remarkable city hall built in 1876 by Ludwig Israel with impressive ceiling work in the Town Hall and the Cultural Forum Illipse are striking buildings in the Illtalgemeinde Illingen. Second landmark of the municipality next to the Baroque Church of St. Stephen Kerpen is the castle with the castle park. The mountain chapel to the Seven Sorrows of Mary with a Pietà by Matthias Weyser is by men pilgrimage and the pilgrimage of the Sinti ( which was established in 1955 by the parish priest Arnold Fortuin ) nationally known. Interesting is also the Crucifixion on the Illingerstraße cemetery by Matthias Weyser (1790).

In the Jewish cemetery Heister Street / Raßweilerweg about 180 intact grave stones have been preserved.

Attractions in the districts

Wustweiler: Sacral and Art Exhibition " Statio Dominus Mundi " with works of medieval masters in the forest road; Community center " Old School " with exhibits from the Celtic and Roman times.

Hirzweiler: Hirztaler village and show dairy; Adventure Around the love cattle.

Hüttigweiler: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene.

Welschbach: Rose Garden Welschbach; Village square, walking area " in Roth".

Uchtelfangen: The late Baroque Protestant church back to 1771, as well as the neo-Gothic Catholic church, built in 1890 by Reinhold Wirtz. This is also known as the Cathedral of Illtals.

The recreational areas Hoster forest ( at the edge of Wustweiler, Hüttigweiler and Hirzweiler ) and Sonneborn ( Uchtelfangen ) with heated outdoor pool, forest cabin and Kneipp facilities.

Nature and Environment

In the field of nature conservation is Illingen has made a name.

Illingen is part of the total nationally representative project " Illrenaturierung ", which is supported by the communities Illingen, Eppelborn, Marpingen and Merchweiler. The project area includes the entire catchment area of the River Ill (Saarland) with around 125 km ². With the reintroduction of beavers to the Ill have managed to make nature itself to the builder and for the permanent guarantor of renaturation. Together with cooperation partners in the area of ​​the old gravel pit Hirzweiler - Welschbach been developed into a Bioptop for amphibians and other endangered animal and plant species as part of a pilot project. Here, a flock of sheep ( " Skudden " ) and a herd of goats ( " Thuringian Forest Goat " ) play the role of " carer landscape ". Due to the extensive year-round grazing with the two herds the encroachment of the countryside is avoided and so preserved their habitat character sustainable. The gravel pit Hirzweiler - Welschbach is publicly accessible for pedestrians.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 963 mm. The driest month is April. Most it rains in December. 82% of the measurement locations of the German Weather Service indicate lower values ​​; the precipitate is thus in the top fifth. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the middle third. In 55 % of all places in the monthly rainfall varies less.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Paul Guthörl (1895-1963) was a geologist and paleontologist.
• Arnold Fortuin (1901-1970) was a Catholic priest in Illingen and Beuren. He saved many Sinti during the period of National Socialism before the gas chambers and is founder of the Pilgrimage of the Gypsies to the mountain chapel. He was appointed in 1965 by the German Bishops' Conference as the first " national pastor " of the German Sinti and Roma.
• Anton Schmitt ( † 1916), naval hero in World War 1
• Peter Müller ( * 1955), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (since 2012) and politician ( CDU), Minister-President of Saarland 1999-2011
• Karl Josef Lesch ( b. 1946 ), Roman Catholic theologian
• Christoph Sahner ( b. 1963 ), athlete and Olympian
• Patrick Herrmann ( born February 12, 1991), football player