Old cemetery (Schönheide)

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Schönheide with the old cemetery in the foreground
The cemetery during the redesign in 2017

The old cemetery is a former cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Schönheide in the Ore Mountains , where burials were carried out from 1839 to 1995.

Cultural monument

The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony classifies the old cemetery with the former cemetery chapel, three mausoleums, two graves and a tombstone from 1705 as a cultural monument . The State Office describes the cemetery and its individual objects:
"Alter Friedhof Schönheide (totality), address: Schönheide Rathausberg - short description: Obj. 09305958 Objective totality of the old cemetery Schönheide, with the following individual monuments: cemetery chapel (with furnishings, including three colored glass windows and gravestone Susanna Wolf ), Crypt house of the von Querfurth family (with statue of Jesus, forecourt with five individual graves, enclosure wall and metal gate), crypt house of the Flemming family, crypt house of the Oschatz family and tombs of the Lenk and Tuchscherer families (see individual monuments list - Obj. 08957043, same address) the horticultural designed cemetery complex (garden monument). The garden monument is not revised.
Obj. 08957043 Brief description: Individual monuments of the old cemetery Schönheide: Cemetery chapel (with furnishings, including three colored glass windows and gravestone Susanna Wolf), crypt house of the von Querfurth family (with Jesus statue, forecourt with five individual graves, enclosure wall and metal gate), crypt house of the Flemming family , Crypt house of the Oschatz family as well as grave monuments of the Lenk and Tuchscherer families (see also list of items - Obj. 09305958, same address); Chapel plastered building with roof turret, in reform style, local and architectural significance as well as artistic significance. "

See also the list of cultural monuments in Schönheide .

An overview and numerous photos of the old cemetery, its buildings and tombs - also of the interior of individual mausoleums - can be found on the website “Monument Protection Schönheide”.

location

The cemetery is roughly in the middle of the village on the northern slope of Knock Mountain. The streets Rathausberg (formerly called Friedhofsweg), Straße der Einheit and Lindenstraße lead to him. South of the Straße der Einheit, sub-area 7 “Schädlichsberg” of the Natura 2000 area Bergwiesen around Schönheide and Stützengrün begins immediately on the other side of the street .

history

First and old cemetery on a map from the 19th century

The first cemetery of the community, which was settled from 1537 and founded in 1549, was on the southern side of the Dorfbach diagonally opposite the Martin Luther Church on the site of today's market square and the location of the town hall from 1882. Volkmar Hartenstein describes its location in the Neue Sächsische Church gallery: The old cemetery was on the brook opposite the church and took up the area of ​​the current town hall with accessories and part of the market square. It is not known when it was erected and when the first deceased were buried. A cemetery chapel is said to have been built in 1559.

The old cemetery, which was used for burials from January 10, 1839, was probably rebuilt for reasons of space after the population of the village had grown significantly. The area was expanded to the southwest in 1883. The deceased who did not belong to the parish, but belonged to other religious communities or were non-denominational, were also buried in the cemetery. After the establishment of a communal cemetery in the community of Schönheide, on which burials were carried out from 1996, there were no more in the old cemetery. After the usual rest period of 20 years, the rights holders removed the gravestones and other above-ground grave parts.

Conversion into a park

Luther oak, planted on October 31, 2017

After the last tombstones of the 20-year-old graves were removed in 2015, the parish began to transform the old cemetery into a park under the leadership of Christian Leistner, a member of the church council. This involved renewing the fences, redesigning the paths and other surfaces, and removing old trees. The park-like former cemetery is also a cultural monument in the form of a garden monument.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Schönheide de-dedicated the cemetery with effect from May 1, 2017.

Tree planting for Reformation anniversaries

Tree planting for the Reformation anniversary in 2017

For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a "Luther tree", an oak, was planted on October 31, 2017. Next to the tree is a granite stone, which is a cast iron plate with the inscription “God's word and Luther's teachings, will never pass away. 1517 2017 ”. With the exception of the year of planting, this new writing plate repeats the text as it was on the table of the Luther oak planted on Gustav-Haupt-Platz in 1917 on the now lost tablet.

Tree planting for the Reformation anniversary in 1917

As early as 1917, on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, the parish planted a Luther oak on Gustav-Haupt-Platz next to the school known today as the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule and provided the tree with an iron plaque cast by the Querfurth iron foundry in Schönheiderhammer: “Luther -Oak. God's word and Luther's teaching never pass away. 1517-1917 ". This writing plate fell victim to the turmoil of time and was lost. It was attached as a replica to a stone at the foot of the tree in November 2017 with the same text as in 1917. An iron foundry in Oberschönheide donated both bars.

Cemetery chapel

Cemetery chapel from 1909
Planned for the cemetery chapel? Bell from 1559 in the spire of the church (photo from 1907)

The cemetery chapel with an externally accessible death room is located on Rathausberg street on the edge of the cemetery. The foundation stone for the chapel was laid in 1909 and was consecrated on January 30, 1910. The plans were made by the Dresden architect Oskar Menzel , who had already designed the renovation of the Martin Luther Church in Schönheide in 1902/03. On the roof of the chapel sits a roof turret studded with slate, which is crowned by a gold-plated sphere with a gold-plated cross. It is decorated with crosses made of lighter material on several sides. It has sound openings, although bells never hung in this roof turret. With this in mind, there were likely plans for bells, but probably not realized because of World War I and the subsequent inflationary period. Perhaps there were considerations to bring the bell from 1559, which was hanging in the top of the tower of Schönheider Church, to the cemetery chapel at the time the cemetery chapel was built. The Martin Luther Church, which is within sight, meant that bells could be dispensed with. At funerals, the pastor left the cemetery chapel by airing his beret, giving the sexton a signal to ring the church bell (s) when the funeral procession left the chapel to go to the grave. This also explains why no bells for the cemetery chapel were procured until this cemetery was occupied.

The cemetery chapel was used as a Catholic church "for a while".

The State Office for Monument Preservation classifies the cemetery chapel as a cultural monument with the following information: "In reform style, inside three remarkable colored glass windows, church with local and architectural historical and artistic importance". The two large stained glass windows are about the resurrection of Jesus and the Last Judgment. A crucifix for the altar, a work by the Dresden sculptor Arthur Lange , was donated by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior from the Saxon Art Fund. This crucifix, together with two candlesticks, became the subject of a widespread postcard. The dating of the cemetery chapel by the State Office for Monument Protection as "1908 (church)" is incorrect. This also applies to his information on the cemetery with "around 1905 (cemetery)". The chapel's electrical lighting from the time it was built was replaced by simple frosted glass tubes in the 1960s.

After the cemetery was closed, the chapel was no longer used and structurally hardly maintained. In 2016, the parish repaired the leaky roof as well as gutters and downpipes. Local craft firms donated part of the work. Inside, the foundation stone could be opened and the easily legible text with information about the chapel, handwritten by the pastor Heinrich Theodor Wolf, could be copied. The chapel was opened to the public on Heritage Day on September 11, 2016. In the course of 2017, a communion service and a benefit concert took place in favor of the preservation of the chapel. On the first weekend in September 2017, on the occasion of the 480th anniversary of the beginning of the settlement of Schönheide, an exhibition in the cemetery chapel showed the history of the chapel and the cemetery. It was also on display on the Open Monument Day on September 10, 2017. The restoration of the chapel continues. In 2018 the new roofing of the west gable is due, the south side is planned for 2019, as well as the renewal of the plaster on the west and south sides of the building.

Mausoleums

Three mausoleums , known locally as the crypt and in the technical language of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, have been preserved in the Old Cemetery: Querfurth Mausoleum, Flemming Mausoleum and Oschatz Mausoleum.

Querfurth mausoleum

Querfurth mausoleum during restoration

For the family of the owners of the iron foundry in Schönheiderhammer , Edle von Querfurth, a rotunda was built around 1900 on the eastern edge of the old cemetery and provided with an opening to the west, in front of which four Doric columns support a classicist gable triangle. Under the building there is a crypt with coffins accessible through a horizontal iron door. This iron door is marked with the inscription “v. Querfurth ”and the family's coat of arms in plastic form. The State Office for Monument Preservation describes the building classified as a cultural monument: “Crypt rotunda with Jesus statue, forecourt with individual graves, enclosure wall and metal gate; Highly representative testimony to the neo-aristocratic sepulchral culture at the turn of the century, of local and architectural significance ”. The state office dates the mausoleum to "around 1900". The individual graves on the forecourt also include that for Hans Hugo Carl Edler von Querfurth , who belonged to the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1899 to 1909 . After the foundry was expropriated after the Second World War, members of the von Querfurth family were no longer buried in this mausoleum. The building fell into disrepair. When a demolition contractor from Schönheid received the order to demolish the mausoleum in 2010, he decided to contribute to its preservation and restoration. The “Friends of Historic Buildings” of Schönheid citizens was formed. This association carries out work on the restoration of the mausoleum. These continued in 2018. The mausoleum and the crypt with the coffins were open to the public on the Open Monument Day 2016.

Flemming mausoleum

Flemming family mausoleum

The Flemming family, who owned the largest brush factory in Schönheide and whose ancestor Christian Friedrich Flemming developed the production of brushes in the Ascherwinkel district around 1825 and founded a brush factory in 1831, had a mausoleum built on the edge of the cemetery on Lindenstrasse. The State Office for Monument Preservation dates the building to around 1900 and classifies it as a cultural monument: “Crypt in an old cemetery; representative family burial place from the turn of the century, testimony to upper-class sepulchral culture, of local and architectural significance ”. The almost square mausoleum has the shape of a Greek temple, the roof of which is crowned on the northern edge with a stone cross. On the north side, two columns support a wall arch that runs over the entire building. In the gable triangle, in a gold-ground mosaic, is written “Flemming Family”. The three side walls to the west, east and north are closed with plastered walls. In the plaster a stonightness is imitated by joints. On the east side of the mausoleum it says: "Honor the dead, honor the living". After 1990 the originally open north side was walled up and provided with a simple wooden door with a padlock. The square in front of the building is delimited by iron posts with decorative iron chains hanging from them. In the course of the redesign of the cemetery and the restoration of the buildings, the north wall was removed in 2017 and the crypt, which was filled with waste, was cleaned. On the first weekend of September 2017, on the occasion of the 480th anniversary of the beginning of the settlement in Schönheide, the crypt was open to visitors. In the crypt there are five ornate zinc coffins, two of which are children's coffins.

Oschatz mausoleum

"Oschatz'sche Familien-Gruft" - inscription in the gable triangle

The Oschatz mausoleum was built by the Oschatz family, who owned a brush factory. The building has the shape of a Greek temple on an almost square floor plan, the east and west walls of which are closed with masonry. To the south, three colorfully decorated glass windows are divided by four half-columns with Doric capitals. The north side is open. There the gable triangle is supported by columns with Ionic capitals. The gable triangles on both the south and north sides are decorated with identical plastic jewelry. On both sides mentioned, between the end of the column and the gable triangle stands “Oschatz'sche Familien = crypt”. To statically secure the mausoleum, a visible construction made of galvanized iron is attached on the south side in the lower wall area. A crack has formed on the upper south-western edge of the building. In the open hall there are urns in semicircular niches with the names and dates of the buried persons. The underground crypt is walled with field stones and was likely to have been built in the 1840s, soon after the cemetery was opened. The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments dates the above-ground mausoleum built above the crypt to the second half of the 19th century. It describes the building classified as a cultural monument “Crypt in an old cemetery; representative family burial place from the turn of the century, testimony to upper-class sepulchral culture, of local and architectural significance ”. According to a report in the "Schönheider Wochenblatt" about an accident during the construction of the mausoleum, it can be dated to the year 1898.

Gravesites

The State Office for Monument Preservation has classified the tombs of two families as cultural monuments.

Grave site of the family FL Lenk

Restored grave of the Lenk family

Members of the Lenk family, who owned the second largest brush factory, rest in the grave, which is provided with tombstones and a cast-iron grave cover with an opening closed by glass panes. The founder of this factory was Franz Louis Lenk, who lived from 1844 to 1914. Since his wife died in 1896, it can be assumed that the grave complex dates from this time. The design in the forms of the Gründerzeit corresponds to such a dating. In the cast iron gable triangle on the east and west side of the grave is the name "FL Lenk". The names and life dates of family members are written on the stones. This tomb was restored in 2016 and 2017. Rubbish filled into the grave was disposed of. It was rebuilt, the tombstones stabilized, the iron parts supplemented and cleaned and repainted. According to information circulating in the village, the restoration was paid for by descendants of the Lenk family from the proceeds of the sale of a dilapidated villa to the community of Schönheide.

Gravesite of the CG Tuchscherer family

Gravesite of the Tuchscherer family

The Tuchscherer family, formerly the owners of a textile company, have a grave in the old cemetery that has been preserved into the 21st century. The embroidery manufacturer Carl Gottlob Tuchscherer, owner of the company CG Tuchscherer, died on December 4, 1900. The tomb should have been created shortly afterwards. The grave is below that of the Lenk family. A sandstone structure in the form of a coffin stands on a plinth made of natural stone, which protrudes clearly from the surroundings, with three-dimensional decorations on the sides, including two half-profile griffins with the letter T between them. The grave is covered with two sandstone slabs, which are also provided with plastic jewelry. An oval pane of glass is embedded on each side of the cover. The grave is surrounded by an ornate iron fence that shows the Wilhelminian style. On the north side there is a slab made of black stone, which does not exceed the height of the fence. It says: "Resting place of the CG Tuchscherer family". The tomb is in good condition in 2017. More recently, the sandstone has been cleaned and the fence freshly painted.

Gravestone from 1705 for Susanna Wolf

Upper part of the 1705 tombstone for Susanna Wolf

The granite tombstone for Susanna Wolf, broken in two, stands together with other tombstones from the 20th century leaning against an embankment wall in the old cemetery. The State Office for Monument Preservation has classified it as a cultural monument.

history

The tombstone from 1705 comes from the first Schönheide cemetery. In this cemetery, where the market square is today and the town hall stands, no more burials were carried out from 1839 onwards. It is not known where parts of the tombs were moved after 1839. The evacuation took place no later than the beginning of the construction of the town hall in 1882. Around the turn of 1900 or shortly afterwards, large parts of the village stream flowing through the village from west to east were covered. The tombstone for Susanna Wolf above the area of ​​the building at Hauptstrasse 15 was also used for this purpose. During earthworks in 1957, the cover of the village stream was lifted. This tombstone was also picked up and probably broken. Nevertheless, its importance was recognized. Since then it has been placed in the Old Cemetery.

meaning

Susanna Wolf was the wife of a shift foreman at the hammer mill in Schönheiderhammer . Schönheiderhammer does not have its own cemetery and was always parish in Schönheide. The texts on the stone read:
Transcription: Woman becomes blissful through Kinderzejgen / So you abide in faith and sanctification / Sambt of discipline […] / Jesus /
Text in the middle of the stone: In this Grueft rests gently and in God seelig / Mrs. Susanna / Mr. Michael Wolffens shift supervisor auffm / Hammerwergk alhier / former married lover drilled crinicine / who were born in Schwarzenbergk / Feb. 17, 1668 / married 18 ½ years / shown 9 children / as 6 sons and 3 daughters / Died peacefully as a week-long woman / July 7th ao 1706 / your age 38 years 20 weeks
motto / My Jesus cross and pain / Comfort my heart even in death.

For the assembly of the two large parts of the broken tombstone, a monument-friendly solution is to be developed.

Memorial for victims from the time of National Socialism

Memorial stone for concentration camp prisoners

Memorial stone in the lower part of the old cemetery

In the northernmost part of the cemetery there is a memorial for 30 victims of the death march from subcamp No. 59 in Zwickau and from subcamp No. 87 in Lengenfeld of the Flossenbürg concentration camp , who died on April 14, 1945 in Schönheide when the prisoners were driven away by the approaching American troops were shot by SS men because they were exhausted and unable to continue walking or because they took a few steps away from the column to drink from a stream. When the concentration camp prisoners were driven through the villages of the eastern Vogtland and the western Ore Mountains, American military aircraft were already flying there in low flight - for example in Wernesgrün on April 11, where five prisoners were shot on April 14 - and one could heard the noise of American artillery on April 13th. The US Army had already reached the Vogtland. It is still unclear whether those who were shot included prisoners from the Schönheide subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, which was closed on April 13, 1945. In Schönheide, female prisoners from Plauen, probably from the Plauen subcamp , are said to have been added to those from the Zwickau and Lengefeld subcamps.

Malnutrition and lack of water

The inmates were weakened by malnutrition. Some of them had friends and acquaintances among the inmates of the other subcamp. Due to the physical changes caused by the lack of nutrition, they hardly recognized each other. Among the concentration camp prisoners from the subcamp in Lengenfeld was Alfred Viehweg from Schönheide, who, while marching through Schönheide, asked the Lengenfeld camp commandant in vain to be allowed to stay in his hometown Schönheide. He had to continue the march and was murdered near Marienbad.

Volker Braun on the death march

The writer Volker Braun deals with the death march in his 2004 story The Unoccupied Territory . In the section The Hike , he reports on the departure of 800 prisoners in Lengenfeld, of the rest at the gymnasium in Schönheide on the morning of April 14, 1945 and that 700 more prisoners from Zwickau had come. On the route from Schönheide to Eibenstock, let 23 - Volker Braun breaks off by mentioning this number and does not use a verb that describes the death of these prisoners.

Mass grave in Schönheide

Those killed in Schönheide were buried in a mass grave next to a sports field. Immediately after the end of World War II and the entry of the Soviet Army, local SA and NSDAP officials had to exhume the dead and bury them in the Old Cemetery. The memorial area is a flat area 4 by 20 meters north of a slope in the cemetery. It is covered with concrete slabs measuring 40 by 40 centimeters. To the north is the garden of an apartment building. It is separated by a fence about one meter high. At the east and west end there are trees of life , at the west end there is also a rhododendron plant. To the north, the flat surface is delimited by a knee-high stone wall facing the slope, which is covered with concrete slabs. To the left and right of the monument there are three to four trees of life, to the north of it the slope is characterized by raspberry bushes. A staircase with 23 irregular steps made of various stone materials leads from the cemetery to the memorial area.

Memorial monument

The monument made of red Rochlitz porphyry tuff has the shape of a short, approximately three meter high obelisk on a stone base of the same color and is crowned with a red painted five-pointed star on which hammer and sickle are crossed in plastic form . Originally the inscription: "Here rest those innocently murdered by Nazi hordes" was carved into the stone. This inscription was replaced - probably after 1990 - by a cast iron plaque with the same text painted with silver bronze. However, this is in capital letters, and under the text is a rose stem with a blooming rose. This oversized cast plate disturbs the proportions of the monument.

The base and upper part of the memorial stone could be a re-use of the so-called victory memorial, which until the end of the Second World War on Gustav-Haupt-Platz in Schönheide, later the Peace Square, commemorated the victims of the war against France in 1870/71. The size and proportions of the base and upper part are so consistent that there is much to be said for using the two named parts of the memorial, which was dismantled after the end of the war, for the new memorial.

The town council of Schönheide decided to use an amount of 10,000 euros in the budget for 2020 for the renovation of the monument. The obelisk is to be cleaned, the wall that supports it is to be stabilized and the writing that was originally stamped into the obelisk is to be restored in 2020 and the cast plate removed.

On May 8, 2020, the official administrator Eberhard Mädler, municipality of Schönheide, and Andreas Schubert, chairman of the Schönheide History and Local History Association, laid a wreath in front of the memorial. On his ribbons it says “In silent memory of the victims of the Second World War in Schönheide”.

Visiting prisoners, their relatives and descendants

During a visit to former inmates as well as relatives and descendants of French prisoners of the Lengenfeld subcamp in Schönheide in the 2000s, they handed over a commemorative plaque to the municipal administration. She attached this at the bottom of the memorial, although it is not intended for outdoor use. It is now damaged by the weather and can hardly be read. A blue and white stripe reminiscent of the lengthways striped prisoner clothing is depicted on this board . A blue triangle with a black “F” (for France) in the stripe field reminds that the concentration camp inmates had to wear this cloth badge on their inmate clothing, which identifies them as foreigners from France. The text on the board reads: “ASSOCIATION DES DEPORTES DE FLOSSENBÜRG ET KOMMANDOS. IN MEMORIAM “(German: Association of the deportees from Flossenbürg and Kommandos. In memory). In France there is an association of this name with headquarters in Paris.

According to a representative of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony , this plaque will be removed in the course of the renovation of the monument in early 2020.

Assessment by the state of Saxony

The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments does not mention the memorial for the murdered concentration camp prisoners in its description of the old cemetery, its buildings and graves.

In the response of the Saxon state government to a small inquiry in the Saxon state parliament about war cemeteries in Saxony from 2015, it is stated about the memorial in Schönheide that 42 war victims are buried in the Schönheide cemetery, there are no individual graves, a collective grave has a size of 42 square meters . When asked about monument protection, the state government's answer did not include the memorial in Schönheide.

Commemorative plaque for Rudi Radecker

Dreher Rudi Radecker, born in 1914, had been a member of the Communist Youth Association and the Communist Party of Germany from a young age . He lived in Schönheide and worked in a Schönheide factory that manufactured brush machines. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and used in the war against France. In 1941 he was arrested for undermining military strength , sentenced to death by Divisional Court 154 in Dresden and executed by shooting on January 6, 1942. Rudi Radecker was reminded of Rudi Radecker in Schönheide during the GDR era on the Rudi-Radecker-Platz at the Bayerischer Hof, the day care center named after him and a memorial stone erected next to the town hall in 1986. After 1990 these memories were erased: the name of the square was removed, the square has been without a name since then. The day care center was named "Adventure Land". The memorial stone next to the town hall was also removed. Only on the memorial stone in the old cemetery for the concentration camp victims is a Rudi Radecker plaque. The text simply reads: “Rudi Radecker. Born on October 24, 1914. Executed on January 6, 1942 ”. At the urging of regional members of the Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime (VVN) , this plaque, which had been removed from the former location, was affixed around the year 2000.

According to a representative of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, this plaque will be removed in the course of the renovation of the monument in early 2020.

Web links

Commons : Alter Friedhof Schönheide  - Collection of images

Remarks

  1. ↑ To reach the entry about Rudi Radecker in the Federal Archives, click on "DY55" in the left column of the Federal Archives page called up, then on "6 Biographical Collection" and then scroll down to "Radecker, Rudi".
  2. ↑ This plaque was still attached to the memorial stele in December 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments of the Saxon State Office for Monument Preservation Description cannot be called up directly. Close user information. Enter "Schönheide [OT]" in the search field. The list of cultural monuments in Schönheid opens. “Schönheide. Click on Schönheide [OT], Rathausberg “and click on the two numbers belonging to the cemetery in blue.
  2. ↑ Map of FFH areas and nature reserve from the map service of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Maps cannot be clicked directly: click on the gear next to the search field, then click on FFH areas and enter mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün in the search field , accessed on August 24, 2018
  3. ^ Karl Gottlob Dietmann : The entire ... priesthood in the Electorate of Saxony ... Volume I.3: Konsistorium Wittenberg. Richter, Dresden, Leipzig 1755, p. 609 ( digitized in the University Library in Halle ).
  4. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide. Schönheide o. J. (1909), p. 177. (digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library)
  5. ↑ Saxon equidistant map on a scale of 1: 25,000 from 1876 ( link to the map in the Dresden University Library )
  6. ^ A b Pastor Volkmar Hartenstein: The parish Schönheide , in Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Leipzig 1902, Sp. 557 digitized in the university library Dresden
  7. ^ Website of the parish , accessed on October 6, 2017
  8. ↑ a b Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide. Schönheide o. J. (1909), p. 101. (digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library)
  9. ↑ Comparison between the Saxon equidistant map from 1876 ( link to the map in the Dresden University Library ) and the one from 1905 ( link to the map in the Dresden University Library )
  10. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt. No. 29 to 31/2017, July 21, 2017, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Martin-Luther-Bote , Martin-Luther-Kirchgemeinde Schönheide, October 2017 edition, p. 5
  12. ↑ a b Schönheider Wochenblatt No. 44/17 of November 3, 2017, p. 1f.
  13. ↑ Greetings from home . Dedicated to our dear field gray and sea blue by their home communities Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide. Monthly news from home. Sheet 24 November number 1917, p. 188 Digitized in the Berlin State Library
  14. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt No. 48/17 of December 1, 2017, p. 1
  15. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt. May 26, 1909.
  16. ↑ Moderne Baufformen , monthly books for architecture and spatial art, editor Paul Klopfer, Julius-Hoffmann-Verlag Stuttgart, issue 6 of the year 1910, p. 218 to p. 221 (with five photos and the reproduction of a color drawing)
  17. ↑ a b Hans-Christian Moosdorf: What you inherit from your fathers .... In: Evangelical-Lutheran Kirchgemeinde Schönheide (ed.): Martin-Luther-Bote , issue 9/2018, p. 7
  18. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt. November 18, 1912.
  19. ↑ a b Free Press. Regional edition Aue, September 12, 2016.
  20. ↑ a b Schönheider weekly newspaper. No. 36/17, September 8, 2017, p. 2.
  21. ↑ Martin-Luther-Bote der Kirchgemeinde from October 2016, p. 8.
  22. ↑ Photo from July 22, 2018 at Wikimedia.Commons
  23. ↑ Free press. Regional edition Aue, September 2, 2017, p. 12.
  24. ^ Obituary notice in the Schönheider Wochenblatt dated December 6, 1900
  25. ↑ a b c Ulrich Fritz: Schönheide. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X , p. 254. (digitized version)
  26. ↑ a b District Committee Karl-Marx-Stadt and District Committee Aue of the Antifascist Resistance Fighters of the GDR (ed.): The way into the unknown. On the history of the Lengenfeld death march in April 1945. 1989, DNB 1117712737 , p. 12.
  27. ^ District committee Karl-Marx-Stadt and district committee Aue of the anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR (ed.): The way into the unknown. On the history of the Lengenfeld death march in April 1945. 1989, DNB 1117712737 , p. 7.
  28. ↑ Report by Ilse Kraneis about the end of the war in Wernesgrün on the Steinberg community website , accessed on October 31, 2017
  29. ^ Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial , accessed on April 27, 2018
  30. ↑ Gemeindeanzeiger, Official Gazette for the municipality of Stützengrün, edition 5/2020, May, p. 14, report on the death march without a heading. This report mentions a book by the French prisoner Paul Beschet. It is likely to be a mission in Thuringia during the Nazi era. A factual report . Act from the French by Hans Mittelmeyer (editors) and Rosemarie Pabel, 2005, ISBN 3-929413-89-2 . ( Digitized version of the municipal indicator), accessed on June 28, 2020
  31. ↑ Council of the community Schönheide (ed.): On the history of the community Schönheide . Information sheet on the 450th anniversary of the community, Schönheide o. J. (1987), DNB 891628215 , p. 12.
  32. ↑ Volker Braun: The unoccupied area. (Short story) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2004. ISBN 3-518-41634-0 , pp. 10f.
  33. ↑ a b c d Heike Mann: Schönheider want to refresh their memory Online report in: Freie Presse, regional edition Aue from January 31, 2020
  34. ↑ Volker Bretschneider and Bernd Garn: Old Views of Schönheide - Greetings from Schönheide , Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86595-460-2 , p. 47 (with photo of the memorial)
  35. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide, commission publishing by Armin Stopps Buchhandlung, Schönheide o. J. (1909/1910), p. 253 ( digitized in the Dresden State and University Library )
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  38. ↑ Small question from the MP Sodann, Landtag-Drucksache 6/1657, answer of June 8, 2015, Annex 1, p. 7, line 8 ( digital copy of the Saxon State Parliament, accessed on December 7, 2018)
  39. ↑ Small request from the Member of Parliament Sodann, Landtag-Drucksache 6/1657, answer of June 8th, 2015. Appendix 2 of the answer lists the grave sites declared as cultural monuments by the Saxon State Office for the Preservation of Monuments according to districts and urban districts. ( Digital version of the Saxon State Parliament , accessed December 7, 2018)
  40. ↑ Entry by Rudi Radecker in the Federal Archives
  41. ↑ Council of the community Schönheide (ed.): On the history of the community Schönheide . Information sheet on the 450th anniversary of the community, Schönheide o. J. (1987), DNB 891628215 , p. 11.
  42. ↑ "In spite of all" anti-fascist info of VVN-action group Aue-Schwarzenberg, no. 123, January 2002, p.2

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