Antonsthal

Antonsthal Municipality of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 8 ″  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	522 m above sea level NN
Residents :	545  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1998
Postal code :	08359
Area code :	03774
Location of Antonsthal in Saxony
View over Antonsthal

Antonsthal is a district of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. in the Erzgebirge district of the Free State of Saxony . It lies at the confluence of the Halsbach in the Schwarzwasser .

history

The Antonsthal settlement was built around 1828 south of the town of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Antonshütte built for ore smelting on the Schwarzwasser. The construction of the goes back to an initiative of the chief miner August von Herder , who wanted to escape the restrictive customs policy of Prussia by developing his own ore deposits. In a short time an ore house, a smelter, a hut house and small houses for the miners and their families were built. The official inauguration of the hut took place on July 4, 1831 by Herder in the presence of senior mountain officials, hut people and numerous residents and onlookers. The hut and place were named after the Saxon King Anton . The small town experienced a slight economic boom due to the hut and the growing number of inhabitants, but this was slowed down by the early shortage of lead ores. Most of the ironworkers now moved to Freiberg . The technology from the former smelter was brought to Freiberg, where it later found its place in the mining museum .

The smelter was finally sold to the paper manufacturer Ferdinand Weidenmüller . He had new factory buildings erected on the site, a turbine installed and, in 1868, began making paper using wood pulp. Structural extensions and the connection to the new railway line in 1884 led to a constant expansion of the paper and cardboard production. In addition, factory-owned residential buildings were built. The plant developed into the largest paper mill in the Western Ore Mountains.

On July 6, 1931, the severe flooding in Saxony also led to severe destruction in the Schwarzwassertal, which also affected Antonsthal.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the son of the manufacturer Viktor Weidenmüller became the owner of the plant. With the profits made during the Weimar Republic, he financed the construction of the police barracks in Aue and the first operations of SA units. Social Democrats and Communists from his factory were fired. In the last months of the Second World War , the paper mill was converted into an armaments factory.

In December 1945 still existing skilled workers began to resume paper production, mainly newsprint and gravure paper were produced. The new local administration had entrusted the long-term paper worker Ernst Beck with the management. In the GDR era, in addition to securing paper deliveries, he was also able to realize new social buildings such as a cultural center, a medical center or a library. The most modern paper machines were soon installed, which could also produce spinning paper for binding twine, wrapping paper and weaving yarn. Between 1950 and 1966, the total output almost doubled. The plant processed up to 500 trees a day, which soon had to be imported from the Soviet Union, as well as 100 tons of lignite coke , cellulose , kaolin , resin glue and sodium sulfite lye. The printing paper produced here served u. a. for the SED newspaper Neues Deutschland in Berlin, but it also went to the large graphic company in Pößneck . At the end of the 1960s, however, most of the paper was exported to the non-socialist economic area .

After 1990 paper production had to be stopped. The site, factory buildings and administration buildings were sold. A company for advertising and contract furnishing is now located on the site, as well as a foundry model shop in the former shipping building.

Antonshöhe was built as planned in connection with the uranium mining of SDAG Wismut in the years 1950 to 1952 by clearing in the middle of the forest. A night sanatorium was built a little away in the forest. A culture house was built in a central square, which has since been demolished. After mining stopped, most of the buildings were used as holiday homes for various businesses and as residential buildings.

Initially, Antonshöhe was a district of Breitenbrunn. On November 1, 1952, this place was merged with the district of Antonsthal of the municipality of Bermsgrün to form a new municipality of Antonsthal . On July 1st, 1998 Antonsthal lost its independence and was incorporated into Breitenbrunn.

Attractions

Silver wash with outdoor pool

Manor house of the Antonshütte

• Technical Museum Silberäsch Antonsthal: The silver washing in Antonsthal was built in 1828 as a poch wash to process the ores extracted from the Unverhofft Glück mine on the Eighth . As early as the 1960s, a technical display system was set up under the direction of monument conservationists. On display is a water-powered stamping mill and long-thrust stoves that were used to process the ores.
• Manor house of the König-Antons-Silber-Schmelz-Hütte ( Antonshütte )

Memorials

• Memorial stone in front of the municipal office for the wood peeler of the paper mill and communist Franz Dziebko , who died on January 29, 1936 as a result of abuse by SA and SS men in Bermsgrün and Zwickau-Osterstein . The Antonsthaler Papierfabrik ( VEB Papierfabrik Antonsthal "Franz Dziebko" ) and a street in Breitenbrunn (Franz-Dziebko-Straße) were named after him.

traffic

Antonsthal station (2016)

Antonsthal is on the Johanngeorgenstadt – Schwarzenberg railway line .

Web links

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

• Antonsthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 27, 2015 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Siegfried Sieber : To Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Aue and Johanngeorgenstadt. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1974. Page 122ff
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998