Tholey
Tholey ( [ tolaɪ ] ) is a municipality in the district of St. Wendel. The tourist town located about 30 km north of the state capital of Saarbrücken in the northern Saarland.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 4.1 landmarks
- 4.2 Museums
- 4.3 Sculpture
- 5.1 traffic
- 6.1 freeman
- Born 6.2 In Tholey
- 6.3 Connected to Tholey
- 7.1 climate
Towns
Since the Saarland administrative and territorial reform of 1 January 1974 the municipality Tholey consists of the following districts:
- Bergweiler
- Hasborn - Dautweiler
- Lindscheid
- Neipel
- Scrub
- Sotzweiler
- Theley
- Tholey
- About Roth- Niederhofen
History
History
First traces of settlement on the territory of the present municipality Tholey go of Celtic origin (see also Iovantucarus ). Multiple discoveries prove an extended settlement by the Romans. So about 2002 were obtained as part of a rescue excavation new insights into the complex settlement " Schweich house". In the Middle Ages large parts of present-day Saarland Abbey Tholey were tributary. To protect the abbey a castle was built on the Schaumberg. Manors were Lorraine and Kurtrier.
Tholey located on the edge of the foam mountain, the "outstanding " mountain in Saarland and the Hunsrück edge. Celtic * dol ( where) means " outstanding", also included (originally Dorley ), akin to the German in the name of the neighboring Doll mountain and on behalf of the Loreley great, doll. " Ley " is Celtic and Germanic and means " rock ". Tholey is therefore " the village on the rocky outcrop ." Given the near Celtic / Roman settlement Vicus Wareswald also the derivation of the name and Tholey Theley from the Latin word for bricks, " tegula " is often considered.
As part of the Saarland administrative and territorial reform, the previously independent nine municipalities mountain hamlet, Hasborn - Dautweiler, Lindscheid, Neipel, scouring Sotzweiler, Theley, Tholey and About Roth- Niederhofen were 1 January 1974 merged to form a new congregation under the name Tholey.
Church History
According to legend, the St. Wendelin to 610 of the founder and first abbot of the Benedictine abbey. 1794 the monastery was abolished after destruction by the French. Since 1949 located in the place again a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation Beuronese.
Church and Town Hall Tholey
The three-manual organ of the Benedictine St.Mauritius Tholey
Jewish History
In Tholey was a Jewish community from the 18th century to around 1940. A first Jewish family was called in 1729. 1843 lived 88 Jewish people in Tholey (9 % of the total population of 952 people), 1895 there were 91 A synagogue was inaugurated on December 4, 1863 by District Rabbi Kahn from Trier. Since 1876 there was a Jewish parochial school. 1925 were still 50, 1935 41 people in the Jewish community at. Under the increasing disenfranchisement in the Nazi period and due to the economic boycott, many moved to other cities or emigrated. After the deportation of Tholey born or resident there for a prolonged time Jewish residents were at least 20 killed. The synagogue was sold in 1937 and later canceled. On its foundations at the Triererstraße a house was built.
Policy
Parish council
The municipal council with 33 seats is made after the local elections of 7 June 2009 as follows:
- CDU:
- SPD:
- LEFT:
- FDP:
- GREEN:
Mayor
Culture and sights
See: List of monuments in Tholey
Landmarks
- Schaumberg Tower: highest observation tower in the Saarland, World War II Memorial, weather station, transmitters
Museums
- In the local museum Neipel the geology and prehistory and early history of the town and its surroundings is documented. The museum also features special exhibitions.
- The Cultural History Museum Theulegium is divided into five thematic groups: geology, prehistory and early history, Abbey St. Mauritius Tholey, Schaumburg office and History Museum in the basement.
Sculpture
To the northwest of the district Sotzweiler is the word sail, an approximately 13 -meter-high steel sculpture dating from the place artist Heinrich Popp.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Already in Roman times, conducted a road from Metz Tholey to Mainz.
Tholey was formerly connected with the railway St. Wendel Tholey to the railway network.
The church today by the Federal Highway 1 (Oldenburg in Holstein - Saarbrücken) well connected to the national road network.
Personalities
Freeman
- Johannes Kühn ( born February 3, 1934), poet and writer
Born in Tholey
- Albrecht Meydenbauer (1832-1921), Privy building officer and civil engineer, co-founder of photogrammetry
- Paul Schütz (1910-1990), politician of Saarland
Connected to Tholey
- Serena Spoleto, Holy, early Christian martyr is revered in Tholey.
- Fritz Schwerdt (1901-1970), Church Goldsmith, features of the Benedictine
- Father Maurus Sabel (1912-2012), founder of the " Tholeyer Boys Choir " of the Benedictine Abbey, Abbey last Khajuraho
- Fridel border (* 1929), church musician and composer; Media: Organ Music from the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey (1978 )
Worth mentioning
The volcanic rock Tholeiit is named after Tholey. However, its definition has changed, so that the volcanic rock located in Tholey to the present definition is not Tholeiit.