Mettlach

Mettlach is a municipality in the district Merzig- Wadern (Saarland ) with 10 districts. On the origin of the name, there are several explanations. According to the prevailing opinion, he goes back to the Romano- Celtic * Metallacum, which in turn is derived from the Roman personal name Metilius. (Literally: Between Lake ) Mostly a learned reinterpretation of the Latin medius Lacus is herein seen what was the common interpretation of the past.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 district Mettlach
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Local businesses
  • 4.3 Leisure
  • 5.1 Attractions
  • 5.2 Miscellaneous
  • Born 6.1 Mettlach
  • 6.2 personalities connected with the community

Geography

Geographical location

Mettlach is located on the Saar loop and extends west to Saargau. In the north the municipality extends to the Rhineland-Palatinate border. The town of Merzig is just 8 km away, while the town of Saarbrücken is 50 km away. The city of Luxembourg is 40 km away, as well as Trier. According to Metz is 70 km.

Almost half of the municipal area ( 49.8 %) is covered by forest, 41.2 % of the area is used for agriculture, only 9% is built-up area. The lowest point is at 154 m above sea Saarhölzbach. NN, the highest altitude point is the Jewish brain in Saarhölzbach at around 500 m above sea level. NN. The highest elevation, which is entirely on the municipality, is width, long Enste rabbits with 451 m above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The districts and their inhabitants ( 31 December 2009):

History

To 676 founded the Frankish Duke Lutwinus, who later became Bishop of Trier, an abbey on the site of the present hamlet of Mettlach. About 990 Abbot Lioffin built a Marienkirche Church as grave of the founder. This church in the form of an octagon ( based on the model of the Aachen Cathedral) is today known as the Old Tower and represents the oldest building of the Saarland see also Castle Saarstein

The present abbey buildings date from the 18th century and were taken over in 1801 by Jean -François Boch in the course of secularization. They accommodate up to now the headquarters of Villeroy & Boch. On 13 August 1921, the buildings were heavily damaged by a major fire (see pictures in the gallery below ).

The first bridge connecting Mettlach with Keuchingen, was completed in December 1886. It was funded by Villeroy & Boch, and was initially a toll. As the bridge in the 1930s was no longer cope with the increased traffic, it was replaced by a new building. This inaugurated on November 15, 1936 bridge was destroyed in the Second World War. It was only on 24 December 1951, the new suspension bridge was handed over by Prime Minister John Hoffmann circulation.

On 1 October 1936, the reunion of separated since July 1, 1778 and places Mettlach Keuchingen was. On January 1, 1974, the Saarland administrative and territorial reform of the formerly independent municipalities ten Bethingen, Dreisbach, Faha, Mettlach, Nohn, Orscholz, Saarhölzbach, Tünsdorf, Wehingen and widths, the new community Mettlach formed in the course.

Through the revitalization of Lutwinuswallfahrt (every year in the week before Pentecost) Mettlach is a place of pilgrimage since 2003.

Policy

Parish council

Since the local elections of 7 June 2009, the council is composed as follows:

Mayor

  • Since 2011: Carsten Wiemann, SPD.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 9 February 1976 by ​​the Home Office.

Blazon: " Azure, three ( 2:1) silver roses with red seeds and red sepals. "

District Mettlach

The district Mettlach has 3146 inhabitants (as of December 2009) and an area of 9.54 km ². He is 159-388 m above sea level. Mettlach is located at the output of the Saar loop on both sides of the Saar.

Economy and infrastructure

Since the 1980s, tourism in Mettlach is gaining in importance; accommodation capacity of the municipality lies at 1,400 beds.

Traffic

Mettlach is located on the Saarstrecke Saarbrücken and Trier. Every hour at the railway stations Mettlach and Saarhölzbach holds the regional train Homburg -Saarbrücken and Trier DB Regio AG. Mettlach is connected with the Saar to the European waterway network. At the western edge there is a large modern lock among other for cargo vessels that supply mainly the Saarland steel sites with coal.

Local businesses

Mettlach is the headquarters of the ceramics company Villeroy & Boch and the company Lands' End, the ( Outlet Store ) operates a retail store in Mettlach German headquarters.

Leisure

Mettlach is located on the hiking trails Saarland circular trail and Saar -Hunsrück -Steig. Also a section of the Hunsrück- Steig height ( Orscholz - Mettlach- Saarhölzbach ) performs Mettlach.

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Saar loop at the Cloef
  • Cloef atrium in Orscholz
  • Old Abbey
  • Old tower
  • Keravision at Villeroy & Boch
  • Anna Boch Museum / Exhibition opens April 2011
  • Montclair castle in the Saar loop
  • Castle Ziegelberg
  • Castle Saareck
  • Parish Church of St. Lutwinus ( Liutwin ) with ( unique in Germany ) Alabaster chancel windows
  • Chapel of St. Joseph

See also: list of architectural monuments in Mettlach

Others

On 5 December 2006 the Weimar Triangle was held in Mettlach.

Personalities

Born in Mettlach

  • Roger von Boch- Galhau (1873-1917), businessman and landowner
  • Matthias Wehr (1892-1967), Bishop of Trier
  • René von Boch- Galhau (1843-1908), entrepreneur, Privy Councillor of Commerce
  • Luitwin von Boch (1906-1988), District Administrator of the Merzig Wadern in 1945, founder of the University of the Saarland, President of Villeroy & Boch 1932-1972
  • Franz Egon von Boch- Galhau (1909-1981), entrepreneur, agriculture and forestry, landowner
  • Charles Conrath (1913-1992), native writers
  • Wendelin von Boch- Galhau (* 1942), agriculture and forestry, entrepreneurs
  • Hans Georg Stritter (* 1949), politician

Persons who are connected with the community

  • Jean -François Boch (1782-1858), developed an entirely new industry with the production of the later so-called Mettlach plates ( floor tiles).
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld (1794-1875), organ builder, built in 1844, the organ in Mettlach
  • Eugen von Boch (1809-1898), entrepreneur, mayor of Mettlach
  • Karl August von Cohausen (1812-1894), architect, art historian, Antiquity, archeologist; built the church in Mettlach
  • Franz Georg Himpler (1833-1916) was a German architect of the Mettlach St. Joseph chapel built
  • Anna Boch (1848-1936), Impressionist painter from Belgium, spent many holidays in Mettlach
  • Eugène Boch (1855-1941), Impressionist painter, friend of Vincent van Gogh, worked in the painting school Mettlach
  • Gattinger Wilhelm (1861-1927), landscape painter
  • György Lehoczky (1901-1979), architect and stained glass painter, worked among others at St. Mary's Church in Mettlach- Orscholz
  • Matt Lamb (1932-2012), Irish- American painter and peace activist; one of his studio he built in 1994 in Mettlach district Tünsdorf
  • Therese Zenz (* 1932), canoeist, lives in Mettlach
  • Benjamin Becker ( born 1981 ), tennis player

Galleries

  • Photos

Courtyard of the Old Abbey after the fire of August 13, 1921

The Old Abbey in 2011

The first bridge in Mettlach, recorded in 1896 (looking toward Keuchingen, the right is the toll booth to see )

The new, inaugurated on 24th December 1951 bridge under construction ( view from Keuchingen towards Mettlach )

The bridge over the Saar in 2012

Park of the Old Abbey with the created by André Heller earth spirit, who was originally exhibited at the Expo 2000

  • Mettlach in the visual arts

Wilhelm Gattinger: View from the Old Abbey in the Saareckpark (1925 )

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