Trassem

Trassem is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Saar castle. Trassem is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

Trassem is located on the Leuk, a small tributary of the Saar. Trassem comprises the main town and the Trassem connected to the City District Perdenbach.

History

History

Finds from the Stone Age and the urn field level in the community forest in the early 20th century, suggesting an early settlement.

Documented Trassem was first mentioned as " Sent Erasmen " in 1337 in a feud certificate of Freudenburg, the district Perdenbach as Pertenbach to 1450th Since the establishment of the Electorate of Trier Trassem heard about this. 1689 is the "House of Meiers of the electoral base court Trassem " built (now Church Street 25).

1794 Trassem how the entire left bank of the Rhine region of Germany, occupied by French revolutionary troops. Until 1814 annexed to the French law and political area. As part of the new division of Europe at the Congress of Vienna ( 1815), the village in 1816 comes as a part of the circle Saar castle in the Region of Trier in the Rhine Province of Prussia.

During the Second World War, the population Trassems is evacuated twice due to the front near: 1939 families to be evacuated with the have a suitcase to Saxony -Anhalt and Mecklenburg. This is done in the fall of 1944 again, but only up to the Hunsrück -Nahe region.

On July 20, 1946 Trassem was attached together with a further 80 municipalities in the counties registers and the Saar castle on February 16, 1946, separated from the rest of the French occupation zone Saarland. On June 8, 1947, this French territorial expansion was taken back down to 21 municipalities again so came Trassem to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Demographics

Due to its proximity to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the population Trassems developed positively.

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

Parish council

The local council in Trassem consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Economy

The local church Trassem - Perdenbach is a commuter town to the upper center of Trier, the middle center Saar castle and to Luxembourg. The most important employer in the area is the tourism industry.

By Trassem the federal road B407 runs. By the end of the 1980s, also the federal road B51. This forked at the southern end of town. The B51 was transferred as part of the Saar channeling on the right bank of the Saar. The nearest railway station is in Saar castle, the nearest airport is Luxembourg -Findel.

Personalities

• Ulrich Nussbaum ( born 1957 ), lawyer and non-party politician, since May 2009, finance minister in Berlin.