Oudrenne

Oudrenne is a village of the North-East of the France, in the department of the the Moselle, close to Sierck-the-Baths and Thionville. Its inhabitants is Oudrennois.

Short history

Oudrenne is a village of old prévôté of Sierck-the-Baths, old possession of the abbey of, located on Right Bank of the the Moselle at 15.5 km at the east of Thionville and at 5.9 km at the east of Koenigsmacker.

Sit of a stronghold of high average and low justice under the old mode, forming today a commune as well as a parish, Oudrenne currently includes/understands two appendices which were at the beginning of last century communes with whole share: Lemestroff and Breistroff-the-Small

Was at the origin of an extent more important than nowadays. It included/understood in addition to the appendices current of Lemestroff and Breistroff-the-Small the following agglomerations: Hunting, Small-Hettange, Monneren, Wrentligen and Dodenhorfen. The villages of Wrentligen and Dodenhofen were destroyed during the Guerre Thirty Year old and do not exist today any more.

Oudrenne is quoted for the first time during creation into 932 of the parish of Oudrenne under the name of Udera. This toponym meaning “Running Water” is not a Germanic toponym. It is possible that it is Celte because one can bring Udera closer to the HARD current Breton word meaning water. It is even problable that it is a toponym Préceltique, i.e. pre-indoeuropéen, to be itself maintained in Western Europe. This proves in any case that the area of Oudrenne is inhabited since the time Celtique and even probably since the Neolithic .

In a declaration of goods of the abbey of Mettlach at the 11th century, one finds Oudrenne indicated by the name of UDERA VILLA which is obviously a Latin form of the old name pregermanic. On a chart the year 1200, one finds for the first time Germanic form ODERN. We find ODEREN in thereafter 1384, OUDERN in 1579, UDERN in 1594, UDEREN during the 17th century, ODEREN in 1689, OUDERN at the 18th century, for the first time the current form of OUDRENNE in 1756 and finally form OUDREN in 1869. At the time of the German annexation 1870, Oudrenne regains a germanized shape: UDERN. With the return of French in 1918, the village regains the shape of 1756: OUDRENNE. The true name of Oudrenne, that employed by the French-speaking population of the village east UDEREN with the tonic accent on “U” long initial.

Oudrenne currently forms part of the Canton of Metzervisse and of the Arrondissement of Thionville-Is.

The parish is devoted since 1767 to Sainte Marguerite whose festival is on July 20th.

Population

It is in the parochial Registre S that one formerly finds a great number of names of people having lived Oudrenne. One finds unfortunately no register former to the Thirty Year old war. As in the majority of the communes of the area of Thionville, they did not escape with the massacre. There was moreover one turbid period after the Guerre Thirty Year old during which the registers were not held, because in many villages there remained nothing any more but one handle of inhabitants who tried to survive after a fashion.

The first parochial registers of Oudrenne go up only with 1688. By dividing into sheets the parochial registers of 1688 with 1700, one can have an idea of the names which the people carried who lived Oudrenne at the beginning of the XVIIIe century. A great number of these families live Oudrenne still today. Here the list collected: MILLINGER, SPECHT, JULYWALL or JULYWAL or JOLIVALD, NICOLAI, SYNDT, NENICH, HENSGEN, MARGANCHE, GRAAF, PARADEYX, DAPP, AULNER, GLASS OF BIER, KOOLEN, RECHT, KERRN or KERN, KNAAB, WEISDORFFER, BORN, WEISDORF, SCHMITT, MULLER, KINZINGER, FICK or FUCKS, STURM, EICH or EISCH, KAUFMANN, JUNK, BAACH, BECKER, HOMBOURGER, SCHNEIDER, ZIMMERMANN, SCHIRMER, WEYS, SYBIL, KOOL, STRAP, WEBER, BURINGERS, MANSIONG, NOCKLES, BUCKET ELEVATOR, FATTELER, GIRKING or GIRKENG, BEAUTIFUL or BIEL, SCHARF, KAICHINGER, TYRIONG, SCHUCHER, RETZINGER, VINE GROWER, TRAPP, WEINGARTNER, KOCH, TETTINGER, NEY, SCHUDER, KOUN.

By dividing into sheets the parochial registers of 1780 with 1789, one can see the names of the families which lived in Oudrenne one century later the day before the revolution. They are the following families: DAPP or DAP, SCHUDER or SCHOUDER, LEGILL, SCNEIDER, KINSINGER, KINTZINGER or KINTZIGER, NENNIG, JOLIVALT, WEBER, GUIRCKINGER, EICH, MARTIN, MASION, MANSION or MANSIONG, BENEDICT, SCHIRMER, NEY, MONTENACH, VINE GROWER, KEIP, LAUGH, HIRTZ, MALLINGER, SPIERQUEL, CLANS, THEIS, JOST, REYART, FHITS, MICH, RABEISEN, BRUCH, NAGELSCHMIDT, ADELVIN, NOSPELT, KROMPHOLS, ENGELDORFF, GIRINGER, BOLZINGER, KROMP, MULLER, BOTTEVINGT, BECKER, BRAUN, JUNGFLEISCH, SIMUS, THYRY, the BRABANT, LENGTH, KLEINER, JAGER, MINEWEG, SINT, HENSGEN, SCHMITT, HAMENTHIENNE.

Mayors

It is during the French revolution that the abbey of Mettlach lost its rights on Oudrenne because at that time the goods of the clergy were confiscated. Oudrenne thus became a commune managed no longer by the abbot of Mettlach but by a mayor. We found the list of the mayors of 1823 to our days.

List mayors of Oudrenne:

Short history of Oudrenne

The parish of Oudrenne is one of these old parishes of the highland sierckois whose origins go up so far in time that they merge with the medieval religious legend. It is closely related to the large metropolis tréviroise aui was the mother and the founder of many branches in the Rhenish Countries and natives of the Moselle region.

If we want to thus know the girl, initially seek to know his/her mother.

The beginnings of the church of Trier, with the saints Eucaire and Paulin, date from second half of IIIéme century. For this time, the series of its bishops has been practically known for us without continuity. However among this noble phalange, we raise a name which deserves a very detailed attention, because it is that of the first character who enters the history of the parish of Oudrenne, it is Saint Liutwin.

Time of king Childebert (695 - 711) lived at the court of Burgundy a young person noble-to which the king had entrusted the duchy of Gaulle Belgium, current Netherlands. It was called Lutwinus (Liutwin = Leutewein = joy of the people). According to Théofrid d' Echternach, its biographer, he was the nephew of Saint Basin, bishop of Truces (671 - 695). Of its alliance with a princess of its time it had a son, Milan, which will be one day can famous successor on the metropolitan head office of Trier. Touched by the monastic movement of its time, Liutwin left the honors of the court, was made coenobite and then founded a small hermitage in a deserted and inaccessible place in the narrow valley of the Saar. It dedicated it to Saint Denis of which it had obtained some relics of his uncle de Trèves. This last besides even blessed to him this to oratoir one September 9th, celebrates of the titular saint.

The schmuck was a prince of the dynasty salienne. Brother of the queen Mathilde (890 - 968), wife of the emperor Henri Oiselier, he was uncle and chaplain at the same time of Othon the Large one. While reaching the episcopal see of Trier, he was spent liberally with the restoration of the monarchism in his diocese, grace especially to the abbeys of Notre-Dame and Saint-Maximin in Trier and by the monastery of Mettlach. Among its many strongholds a field located in edge of the Moselle appears, of average importance, which primitevement seems to have been a royal real estate passed later on in temporal the trévirois. It was the ground of UDERA, later OUDRENNE. A rather important grouping serfs there lived and drew his modest subsistence from a poor and ungrateful ground. These serfs were the descendants of the frank colonists who had been established in our area 450 years earlier. They spoke the means francic, language which was going to become our “Platt”. At that time, a place of worship missed there. Robert provided for it.

On Sunday, February 26, 932, quinta halendas martii, it came him even in Oudrenne and devoted to it the small church, one of the first of the low valley of the Moselle. Consequently occasion, it made gift of this church, i.e. of this parish, with the abbey of Mettlach. The charter of dedication specifies clearly that the Robert archbishop devoted this church “in honorem sancti Liutwini archiepiscopi, cuius etiam LMBO ipsius villae ess noscuntur and dotata uno manso cum mancipiis presentialiter super sedentibus”.

This church was dedicated to Saint Liutwin, archbishop. Its incomes are defined. Moreover, it is equipped with a ground manse with the serfs who live for the moment.

By this act, the abbot of Mettlach became land lord of the ground of Oudrenne. He was also retributive, outlet drain and decimator, i.e. he carried the title of priest of the place, but a priest indicated who replaced it in the locality. One of the serving first of the parish of Oudrenne appears in XIéme century under the name of Robert. The extent of the young parish of Oudrenne was much more important than nowadays. It already comprised at the time of its foundation the following agglomerations: Lemmestroff, Small-Breistroff, Hunting, Small-Hettange, Monneren and two localities disappeared from Dodennofen and Wrentelingen.

The importance of the act of 932 is capital for the parish of Oudrenne. Henceforth and during more than eight century, its destinies will be closely related to those of the abbey of Mettlach. Its past if is varied that each detail deserves an private interest.

Temporal and spiritual lord at the same time of the field of Oudrenne, the abbot of Mettlach assumed the loads of them and enjoyed the incomes it.

To temporal, the administration of the field was entrusted by the Abbot of Mettlach to the archbishop of Trier from which it held the stronghold besides. To XIIé siècl, the aforementioned vouery passed to the counts de Sarrebrùck who still had it in 1327. Later we find the Lords of Moncler as dedicated to Oudrenne. By her marriage with Jacques de Sierck (1365-1386), Elisabeth de Moncler (1370-1424) brought, between autresn the vouery of Oudrenne in the family of Sierck. The house of Lorraine had already long time of the goods on the ground of Oudrenne. In 1265, we see the duke Lorraine to offer the abbey of Viller-Bettnach the franc-ailleul which it had in Lemestroff. Since then, the rights of the duke extended in this field. A record of justice gone back to 1431 in Oudrenne quotes the rights of the duke of Lorraine in this place and names égamelement its dedicated, i.e. Arnold de Sierck. Here thus lords of Sierck become dedicated of Lorraine and Mettlach with Oudrenne! This situation will last two century old meadows. Gradually they also acquired of it the high one and average justice, giving up with the abbey of Mettlach simple land justice.

In 1579, the stronghold of Oudrenne was engaged with the Lords of Varsberg for the sum of 4600 guilders. In 1594 Oudrenne passed for half under-prévoté Sierck while other half belonged to the seigniory of Mensberg.

The successors of the lords of Sierck in the vouery of Oudrenne were the barons d' Eltz, and after them, the family Schenk de Schmittbourg, during the XVIIIé century.

Of Lorraine that it was, the village of Oudrenne became French, by the treaty of February 28th, 1661 with Vincennes. The employees of the farm of the king then settled in Oudrenne. As for abbée of Mettlach, it kept its rights of land lord there. It is in this quality that nou sle see, in 1735, to pay faith and homage to Roy de France, in Metz, for its ground of Oudrenne.

Beside the right of justice, the land lord of Oudrenne had the right to raise the dîme on his field. Here like everywhere else to the Middle Ages and under the old mode, this thorny question always gave place to innumerable disputes, and many litigations. Let us limit to most essential.

More Censier of Mettlach precise inter alia the royalties to which the churls of Oudrenne were fixed: impositions in cash and in kind, in any season, for all the serfs of the place: “Twelve sums of money by household in the Saint Martin's day, last six with Christmas one year, two the following one and thus alternatively, last five still for May, Christmas two capons, at Easter a capon and fifteen eggs, three weeks of drudgery in December, two in January, one in February, two in April, one in May, three days of additional drudgery per annum and per hearth, a corn cartage towards Mettlach by household in August, a cartage of wine in October, etc”.

These royalties are recalled regularly at the time of some litigations and all the years to the yearly plaids. The excommunicatoin threat even that which would try the desire for derogating from these obligations: “And which hoc irritare amplius studuerit, idem happy memorie episcopus Ruotpertus anathematizavit. Sawing ergo sub anathema ess, quicunque hoc studuerit adnihilare”

The mass of the dîme varied regularly according to the fertility of the year or the importance of harvests. Usually, these said were put in adjudication and the product of this operation poured to the abbey mense.

In 1697, under the French mode, said them royal brought back to Oudrenne 16 maldres corn, 6 of oats and as much of barley.

With the fn of the XVIIIé century, Mettlach collected in Oudrenne and Budling approximately 180 corn maldres, 30 of barleys, 10 of broad beans and chick-peas, 100 oats maldres, 20 hoods of wine and 4 pigs fatty. The revenues were evaluated 6654 pounds. Still let us add to that the right of mortmain, the right to the fines and with pave, straight which the abbey exerted with the country, and will have us appreciably the sum of the incomes of Mettlach with Oudrenne.

These said were distributed in the following way: the abbey of Mettlach perceived two thirds of all said them; a sixth of the grosses said returned in the chapter of the cathedral of Trier and as much to the priest who had right still to a third of small said to Oudrenne, Lemmestroff, Small-Hettange and Small-Breistroff. In Hunting, the priest perceived a ninth of the grosses said and a sixth of small. It was what one called the adequate portion.

In a census the year 1789 one announces for the village of Oudrenne 531 inhabitants, 57 houses, 0 tilery, 1 mill, 0 factory, 251.34 hectares of meadows, 0 hectare of vine, 2.09 hectare of gardens and chenevières, 274.74 hectares of wood particular is on the whole 538,61 hectares for which it is necessary to add 109.59 hectares of wood national.

In another census gone back to 1817 one finds for Oudrenne 488 inhabitants, 57 houses and a mill with flour.

one finds a state even more detailed for the year 1844 when one announces a population of 550 inhabitants like 121 houses. The school of Oudrenne is this year attended by 32 boys and 32 girls. The teacher has an income of 270F, the village includes/understands 404 hectares 97 ares of arable lands, 38 hectares 79 ares of meadows, 194 hectares of bosi and 4 hectare of vine. There exists a mill with flour. one announces in more than the brook which crosses the village to a bridge to 3 arches and which it forms 4 km further one pond where beautiful crayfish are found. The ground at that time produces corn, hemp of good quality but the wine is poor. The village has a tilery established into 1826 which manufactures in 1844 annually 200.000 curved tiles or bricks.

The village seems well to thrive during the XIXé century since in 1852 one announces already 975 inhabitants. The school accommodates 75 girls and 80 boys. The village contains 190 houses, 65 barns, 1 firm, 150 a public horses, 12 fountains and well. The communal incomes amount to 940 F. One finds in wood much game and hares. It is still announced that Oudrenne can in the event of mobilization troops place 200 men and 50 horses.

Pilgrimages

Close links always linked it with the monastery of Mettlach. In any time, this filiation appeared concretely by the participation of the community in the annual pilgrimage in the abbey of Liutwin Saint. Our parish was not the only one to have been obligation with this displacement. 76 localities of banks close or remote of the Saar made this voyage annually. The abbot of Mettlach did not make exception by requiring this pilgrimage of his faithful. Other abbeys made in the same way.

One could wonder which was the origin of this habit. With the Middle Ages, it was a right of each lord, suzerain, in his field, to require its churls a recognition of this vassalage by some gesture or external demonstration. The abbot of Mettlach, suzerain in his vast stronghold, acted in the same way by inviting once per annum his churls to the abbey of Mettlach.

It was a displacement usually rather painful…

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