Marpingen Explained

Image Coa:	Wappen marpingen.jpg
Coordinates:	49.45°N 10°W
Image Plan:	Marpingen in WND.svg
State:	Saarland
District:	Sankt Wendel
Elevation:	301
Area:	39.68
Postal Code:	66646
Area Code:	06827, 06853
Licence:	WND
Gemeindeschlüssel:	10 0 46 112
Divisions:	4
Website:	www.marpingen.de
Mayor:	Volker Weber^[1]
Leader Term:	2016 - 26
Party:	SPD

Marpingen is a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km west of Sankt Wendel, and 25 km north of Saarbrücken.

The municipality contains the urban areas Marpingen, Urexweiler, Alsweiler und Berschweiler, which have the status of Ortschaft, and Rheinstraße, which is in the administrative area of Marpingen, and Habenichts, which is in the administrative area of Urexweiler.

History

In 1876, at the height of the Kulturkampf, Marpingen was claimed to be the site of an apparition of the Virgin Mary, leading to a major conflict between the Prussian Government and the believers who flocked to Marpingen as a result.^[2]

See also

• Marian apparitions
• Kulturkampf

External links

• "The Marian apparitions at Marpingen" – multi-part summary and commentary on Blackbourn's book on the Marpingen visions
• Marpingen pilgrimage

Notes and References

1. https://www.saarland.de/stat/DE/_downloads/aktuelleTabellen/Wahlen/Direktwahlen/Gew%C3%A4hlte_B%C3%BCrgermeister_und_Landr%C3%A4te_im_Saarland.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=11 Gewählte Ober-/Bürgermeister*innen, Landrät*innen und Regionalverbandsdirektor*in im Saarland
2. Book: Blackbourn, David . David Blackbourn. Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany . Alfred A Knopf . New York . 1994 . 0-679-41843-1 . registration .