Affalter
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Affalter
City of Loessnitz
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 40 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 24 ″ E
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| Height : | 505 (440-560) m | |
| Area : | 8.48 km² | |
| Residents : | 1443 (May 9, 2011) | |
| Population density : | 170 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 | |
| Postal code : | 08294 | |
| Area code : | 03771 | |
Location of Affalter in Saxony |
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The village of Affalter is a district of the town of Lößnitz in the Erzgebirge in Saxony .
geography
location
Affalter, northeast of Lößnitz, extends more than four kilometers uphill to the right and left of the Affalterbach at an altitude of 440 m to 627 m above sea level. NN . The highest point is on the Katzenstein and the lowest point at the exit of the village in the direction of Lößnitz.
Located on the northern edge of the Western Ore Mountains, the rural residential area developed in the catchment area of Zwönitz , Lößnitz and Aue, characterized by a long agricultural tradition.
The Affalter district, which has been part of the town of Lößnitz since January 1, 1999, is part of the Silberberg urban union and consists of the districts of Grüna , Streitwald and Affalter.
The district of Affalter covers 1193 hectares , with a fifth of the area (239 hectares) being covered by forest.
The number of inhabitants was 1542 (as of June 30, 1998), that is about 129 inhabitants / km².
Affalter is connected to the national traffic by the federal highway 169 in the south-west to Lößnitz-Aue, in the north to Gablenz and Stollberg . The following places border Affalter (starting clockwise from the north): Niederzwönitz , Lenkersdorf , Dittersdorf , Lößnitz, Grüna, Beutha and Gablenz-Waldschänke . From 1895 to 1967 there was a railway connection with the station in Oberdorf through the Würschnitztalbahn .
Natural space
The Affalter district is located in the lower Ore Mountains between the Zwickauer Mulde and the Zwönitztal , about 40 km north of the main ridge. The districts of Grüna and Affalter are separated from each other by the B 169. Grüna is northwest and Affalter southeast of the federal highway.
Morphological characteristics of the area are plateaus in which transverse hollows and notched valleys have worked their way. Affalter lies in a valley through which the "Dorfbach" flows and which is cut about 100 m deep. The steep slopes rise up to an altitude of approx. 600 m above sea level. NN at. The terrain incline is up to 30 °. The Dorfbach has its origin in the Streitwald, becomes the Lößnitzbach at the boundary of Lößnitz and flows into the Zwickauer Mulde at Aue. The valley runs in SW-NE direction. The natural vegetation is a spruce forest , in which firs and beeches and occasionally mountain ash can also be found. From a geological point of view, the area is characterized by Ordovician layers. In addition, there are Silurian tuffs and effusive rocks and Pleistocene hanger loams and debris. There are slate quarries in the south-eastern part of the district . The annual mean temperatures in this part of the Ore Mountains are 7.5 ° C in the valleys and 6.5 ° C in the high areas. The mean January temperatures are −1.5 ° C (−2.5 ° C), the mean July temperatures are 16.5 ° C (15.5 ° C). On 205 (190) rainy days, an average of 700 mm to 900 mm of precipitation falls.
history
Place name
The name Affalter is derived from the Old High German words afal or aful (apple) and tra (tree - Gothic triu, English tree). The apple tree can also be seen in Affalter's coat of arms.
Local history
Affalter was founded around 1200 when farmers came from all parts of Germany to reclaim the previously wild woodland . Each newly settled farmer was assigned a strip of land, a so-called hoof . Since the forest had to be cleared, such a foundation is called Waldhufendorf . The first documentary mention in the interest register of the city of Lößnitz falls in the year 1396. Both places (Nieder- and Oberaffalter) were first mentioned in 1497 as Nideraffalder and Obiraffalder . Historically, Oberaffalter belonged to Hartenstein . Niederaffalter was divided, the 15 western estates also belonged to Hartenstein, the seven eastern ones to Schönburg . In 1712 there was the first joint school for Ober- and Niederaffalter, and after a brief break in this collaboration, a joint schoolhouse was built by the two towns in 1777. Since the year 1560 there is information about the processes of the community in the Lößnitz church book . The Evangelical Church of Affalter was ordained in 1931, the Methodist Church 1935th
In addition to the usual fodder crops and grain, flax was also grown, which is why there was an oil mill and a yarn bleaching facility in Niederdorf. When Lößnitz factories were established, many people from Affalter worked there, mainly from Niederdorf. Since the 17th century, a larger part of the population found employment in the slate quarrying industry. In 1869, a horse pound was operated in the Albrechtsche Schieferbruch to fetch water from the quarry. Around 1870 a total of 17 quarries are said to have been in operation. Nieder- and Oberaffalter were administered by the Office of Hartenstein until at least 1816, in 1843 by the Office of Hartenstein and Stein, in 1875 by the Schönburg rulers and in 1885 by the Schwarzenberg Office .
Affalter was created in 1925 through the merger of the two Waldhufendörfer Nieder- and Oberaffalter, which adjoined each other in the area of today's school. Towards the end of the twenties of the 20th century, a youth hostel was built in the so-called Spellhütte (a remnant from the time of slate mining) , which was named after Clara Zetkin in GDR times . Despite its proximity to industrial cities, Affalter has largely been preserved as an agricultural place, this also applies to the founding form of the Waldhufendorf, since local expansions are limited to the upper area of Oberaffalter and the Streitwald, in addition to closing some gaps.
On April 1, 1939, Streitwald was incorporated, followed by Grüna on February 1, 1974 .
Until 1966 Affalter had a connection to the Zwönitz – Chemnitz Süd railway line .
On January 1, 1999, Affalter and its districts joined the nearby town of Lößnitz on a voluntary basis.
Development of the population
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literature
- Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald (= values of our homeland . Volume 31). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978.
- Siegfried Sieber : Affalter. From the history of an Erzgebirge village , 1930
Web links
- Private homepage on the history of Affalter
- Affalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Niederaffalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Oberaffalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Lößnitz, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
- ^ The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Affalter ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ Cf. Affalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ See Niederaffalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ See Oberaffalter in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Affalter with Streitwald | Dittersdorf with Dreihansen | Grüna | Lößnitz with Niederlößnitz