Rothenthal

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Rothenthal
City of Olbernhau
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 494 m
Area : 7.21 km²
Residents : 454  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 63 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 09526
Area code : 037360
Rothenthal (Saxony)
Rothenthal

Location of Rothenthal in Saxony

Rothenthal is a district of the Saxon town of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge district .

geography

location

Rothenthal is about 4 kilometers south of Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains, right on the German-Czech border. The location extends for about 2.5 kilometers on the left bank of the Natzschung , which flows north to the Flöha and at this point has deeply cut the valley of the same name. In this area, the network also forms the state border with the Czech Republic .
Except for the neighboring Grünthal to the north, the location is sealed off from its neighboring villages by extensive forest areas on the German and Czech sides. State road 216 Reitzenhain –Grünthal
leads through the village, which ensures the connection to Olbernhau in the north and Rübenau in the south-west.

Neighboring places

Olbernhau Grünthal Brandov
Neighboring communities
Rübenau

history

In 1595 the Seygerhütte Grün- und Rothenthal is mentioned for the first time, the first mention of Rothenthall dates from 1657. The settlement was founded in 1626 by exiles . The form of the place name allows an interpretation of the previously wooded area, which was only made habitable through clearing , or it can be traced back to Augustus Rohdt, who had a wire hut built here on the Natzschung in 1626.

According to files in the main state archive in Dresden , allegedly Bohemian business people intended to build a wire works near Grünthal. In order to forestall this, Augustus Rohdt, a factor in the Saigerhütte in Grünthal, applied to the Saxon Elector for the privilege of setting up a wire works in Saxony. He received this privilege on June 26, 1626 in return for an annual rent payment to the Lauterstein office and the restriction not to be allowed to sell his products in Dresden, Pirna or Freiberg in order not to damage the electoral Drahthütte in Lohmen .
The tin hammer, built in 1645, in which both tin and black sheet metal was produced, was converted into a stick hammer in 1649 due to a lack of heels. According to a directory from 1650, 66 workers worked in the plants, including 12 wire pullers, 4 disk pullers, 12 men in the hammers, 5 men in the tin house, 3 men in the fresh hammer, 5 blast furnace workers and 7 charcoal burners.
After Rohdt's death, his son-in-law Lingke took over the works, in whose family ownership they remained for some time. In the hammer order for the Blech-Hammer-Wercke in which offices of Schwartzenberg, Wolcken- and Lauterstein of Elector Johann Georg II. Of March 26, 1660 it is stated in point 24 that our weyland factors Augusti Rothens heirs because of their two tin hammers and Ziehn-Haus, if they have it in Rothenthal, are bound by this order with its quantity restrictions, remuneration and price fixing as well as the penalties for violations. In addition to sheet metal and wire, the hut also supplied iron goods such as pans for the Saiger hut and cast iron stoves.
In the middle of the 18th century, the facilities came to a standstill and were gradually converted into nail forges, cutting and paper mills .
August Schumann mentions this in the State Lexicon in 1822:

“There used to be an iron hammer mill here, with Hohofen, Zayn hammers and the like. s. w. also since 1645 with a tin hammer; but since only a little iron stone is extracted in the vicinity, the work was closed about 60 years ago. "

Albert Schiffner added in 1833 a. a .:

“The Hammerwk belongs to Mr. Helbig, the paper mill to Mr. Winkler. In the past, several places bought the tin hammer in order to get a share of the wood allowances. let him go. "

Schumann also names a grinding mill on the Natzschung as well as forest work, rafting , frame construction, box and nail production, spinning and lace making as branches of the population's income.
Towards the end of the 18th century, the wood products industry developed, which in its heyday produced six important factories with hundreds of employees.
The first school building was erected in 1779 and replaced by a new building in 1880. In 1925 Rothenthal was connected to the electricity network, the connection to the central water supply - a job creation measure - took place in 1929/30.

The Stephanus Chapel was consecrated in 1958.

Stephen's Chapel, southeast side
Stephanus chapel, northeast side

On January 1, 1994, Rothenthal was incorporated into Olbernhau.

Development of the population

year population
1834 435
1871 736
1890 927
1910 1030
year population
1925 1043
1939 944
1946 955
1950 1008
year population
1964 1000
1990 649
1993 613

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Karl Horn (* 1898 in Rothenthal; † 1977 in Munich), NSDAP politician and member of the Reichstag

Trivia

Rothenthal is the setting for the dialect comedy Kater Lampe , written by Emil Rosenow in 1902 .
During his candidacy for the Reichstag in 1898 in the Marienberg / Zschopau constituency, Rosenow was often a guest at a local wood turner and learned the hangover story that had actually happened - with the participation of the people in the play who were all in Rothenthal or the surrounding area and Rosenow were also known.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rothenthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Olbernhau, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Rothenthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ a b cf. Rothenthal . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 9th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1822, p. 492 f.
  4. ↑ a b cf. Chronicle of Olbernhau , pp. 26–27; 171
  5. ↑ Saxon. HStA Rep. IX, Sect. In O. 2705, Loc. 36160
  6. ↑ Codex Augusteus or newly multiplied Corpus iuris Saxonici: Wherein the states belonging to the Electorate of Saxony and belonging to it contain ... published and issued Constitutiones, Decisiones, Madata and ordinances. Volume 2. Hall 1724, Column 331–332 digitized version , accessed on July 12, 2014
  7. ↑ cf. Rothenthal . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 18th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1833, p. 628.
  8. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994. (PDF; 64 kB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 11 , accessed on December 25, 2012 .