Wadern

Wadern is a city of the Saar in the district Merzig-Wadern. It has a not very dense population, cash 17000 inhabitants for a surface of 111 square kilometers but it is the commune of the Saar most extended after Saarbrucken and Saint-Wendel.

Geography

Wadern is located between Saarbrucken and Trier, with the foot of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald. Its altitude varies from 200 to 600 meters. It is composed of 14 villages whose Wadern is the administrative center. The city and its villages are in the small valleys of the Prims and the brooks Löster and Wadrill.

History

Wadern was mentioned for the first time in 950 in the context of an act of the abbey of Mettlach. In 1765 Wadern acquired the mercantile right by its sovereign the count Joseph Anton von Öttingen-Sötern. This sovereign of origin souabe, whose family seized the power of the field of Dagstuhl (and Wadern) per marriage in 1680, transformed the small village into an important city by many innovations, buildings representative and a strict payment concerning the trade and the economy of his small country. Wadern was French of 1792 with 1814 and was then the Chef-lieu of a canton of the Département of the Saar. It passed thereafter under Prussian domination (of 1816 to 1918. It kept administrative offices for the area until after the Second world war. She knew a new time of growth during the Seventies. Throughout mandate of the mayor Herbert Klein (1958 - 1984) the commune increased (some villages were annexed) and the infrastructures were improved (swimming pool, versatile room, etc). Finally, into 1978, the commune was transformed officially into Stadt Wadern (“city”, regarded as titrates official and administrative).

The city belongs to the natural park Saar- Hunsrück. It has little industry but it has a certain importance cultural (concerts, exposures, gone in historical style, etc) and offers to the tourists some remarkable curiosities (three castles, ruins of the medieval castle, a Gallo-Roman tumulus, etc)

14 villages of Wadern

Bardenbach, Büschfeld, Überlosheim, Dagstuhl, Gehweiler, Krettnich, Lockweiler, Löstertal, Morscholz, Noswendel, Nunkirchen, Steinberg, Wadern, Wadrill and Wedern.

Policy

List successive mayors

1958 - 1984: Herbert Klein, CDU
1984 - 1998: Berthold Müller, CDU
1998 - present: Fredi Dewald, SPD

Twinnings

Economy and infrastructure

Local companies

SG-technologies GMBH (in Büschfeld)
Thyssen ~ Krupp Ag ~ Drauz Nothelfer GMBH (in Lockweiler)
Zerspanungstechnik Kulpa GMBH (in Wadrill)
Haco-Center department store (in Wadern)

Public services

hospital
international Center of research of data processing (with the castle of Dagstuhl)
magistrates' court

education

several nursery schools and primary
college
college
specialized school
professional training center

culture and curiosities

castle of Dagstuhl
castle of Münchweiler
ruin of medieval castle (in Dagstuhl)
castle " Öttinger Schlösschen" (in Wadern)
tumulus Gallo-Roman (in Oberlöstern)
series in concerts of classical music: " Concerts with small the résidence" (in Öttinger Schlösschen)

Museums

Museum of the country in Öttinger Schlösschen (exposures on the history and the art of the city)

Monuments

Vault of the castle of Dagstuhl with paintings of Octavie de Lasalle (Nazaréens, 19th century).

External bonds

Official site
Marienhauskliniken St Elisabeth (hospital)
Hochwald-Gymnasium Wadern (college)
international Center of research of data processing
Ruins of the medieval castle of Dagstuhl
Castle of Dagstuhl

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