Vierherrenborn

Vierherrenborn is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kell am See. It is one of the youngest communities in Rhineland -Palatinate, was formed in 1954.

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Geography

Vierherrenborn lies on the western, up to an altitude of 500 m above sea level. NN rising part of the Hunsrück, the so-called Osburger forest. The municipality is part of the Natural Park Saar -Hunsrück

The community district is composed of land that originally belonged to Hentern, deer, Wiltingen and decays.

History

Vierherrenborn is one of the youngest towns in the state of Rhineland- Palatinate. It is in 1954 to end a 20- year - grubbing, melioration and construction activities by an approved on May 6, 1954 state law - has been raised to an independent political community - which came into force on October 1, 1954. Vierherrenborn is heavily agricultural. The courtyards are each surrounded by its arable land and thus spread very far. Vierherrenborn belonged to the territorial administrative reform to community association Saar castle -east district Saar castle, since 1970 on the newly formed community association Kell ( Kell am See today ) in the new district of Trier -Saar castle.

Through the resident from the Bonn settlement company " Rhenish home " being implemented in several settlement phases settlement project in the districts of villages Hentern, deer, Wiltingen and Zerf total of 42 new Bauer jobs were created in an average size of 17 ha acquired the through purchase and so-called voluntary expropriation around 855 ha Öd and hedgerows - a not economically more viable land use of Lohschälens and Reiser firewood - had to be laboriously cleared, cultivated and processed for arable and grassland management.

Overall, there were also due to the war, several settlement phases. The first settlements were made in 1937; after 1945 also expellees were resettled here.

The name Vierherrenborn goes back to a well in the district, on which in 1618 was hit by four bailiffs after " Wiltinger Scheffenweistum ", because here came the boundary points of their areas of influence.

The development of the population of Vierherrenborn, the values ​​from 1939 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Vierherrenborn consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

  • Hermann Gayer 1954 - 1957
  • Josef Schwalb 1957 - 1978
  • Matthias Putz 1978 - 1999
  • Franz Mersch 1999 -

Coat of arms

The coat of arms consists of a floating blue silver fountain with round basin, round column rectangular cover plate and ball. In the sign the arms of the four former landlords of the church today Vierherrenborn are mounted in a gevierten shield. The red wolf fishing in gold represents the governors of Sötern; the silver crowned lion in black for the gentlemen of Warsberg; the silver miter on silver palm branch in red for the monastery of St. Paulin; the Red Cross in Silver for the Electorate of Trier.

Economy and infrastructure

The community is dominated by agriculture. As of 2007, there were twenty farms with an average of 64 acres of land. A total of 1,279 hectares are used, the proportion of arable land is about 26 percent and 74 percent of permanent grassland. In 1975 there were 37 farms with an average of 22 hectares; 1975, a total of 804 hectares of agricultural land.

Personalities that act locally, worked or died

  • Ferdinand Selgrad (* 1927), glass and muralist, painter and mosaic artist who also works in bronze
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