Augustusburg

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Central Saxony
Height :	516 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.38 km 2
Residents:	4512 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	193 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09573
Area code :	037291
License plate :	FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key :	14 5 22 020
LOCODE :	DE A68
; City administration address :	Marienberger Str. 24 ; 09573 Augustusburg
Website :	augustusburg.de
Mayor :	Dirk Neubauer ( SPD )
Location of the city of Augustusburg in the district of central Saxony

View from the castle over Augustusburg

The Augustusburg seen from a distance

Augustusburg is a small town in Saxony . The city is named after the Augustusburg Castle , which is visible from afar and dominates the landscape , a former hunting lodge of the Saxon electors . It is also known for the Erdmannsdorf – Augustusburg cable car .

geography

Geographical location

Augustusburg is located in the Ore Mountains, about 17 km east of Chemnitz , 6 km southeast of Flöha , 30 km southwest of Freiberg and 10 km north of Zschopau in the district of Central Saxony . The city is located in the Lower Middle Ore Mountains natural area on a porphyry ridge between the Zschopau and Flöha valleys . The districts are in the valleys. It is mostly surrounded by forests. The highest point at 516 m above sea level is the dominating Schellenberg, on which the eponymous Augustusburg Castle is located. The lowest point is the Zschopautal at about 300 m above sea level.

City structure

Augustusburg comprises the districts:

history

In 1206 Schellenberg , a settlement at the foot of the castle of the same name, was first mentioned in a document. The Schellenburg , built in the 11th century, was the forerunner of today's Augustusburg ( Augustusburg hunting lodge ) and fell victim to fires in 1528 and 1547. In 1568, Elector August I of Saxony commissioned Hieronymus Lotter with a new building, which was already called Augustusburg in 1575. The mighty building, which was built in just four years, mainly served as a hunting and pleasure palace. The castle linden tree was planted in 1421 and is one of the oldest trees whose planting is clearly documented. In 1590 the name "Augustusburg" was transferred to the previous "Amt Schellenberg", which has been called Amt Augustusburg ever since . In July 1899 the city of Schellenberg was renamed Augustusburg. In 1911 the cable car was built, with which the city gained further tourist importance. This positive development has continued over the decades. With the renovation of the listed inner city area, the attraction for tourism increased once again.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , around 120 Nazi opponents from the surrounding "protective custody camps" were arrested in the summer of 1933 and had to do forced labor . A memorial plaque commemorates this event.

Incorporations

The former Jägerhof estate was incorporated into Schellenberg on March 1, 1891, and Augustusburg from 1899. On October 1, 1995, the former municipality of Grünberg became a district of Augustusburg. Erdmannsdorf (with the town of Kunnersdorf incorporated on April 1, 1929) and Hennersdorf followed on January 1, 1999.

Population development

The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:

1982 to 1988

1982 - 5,770
1983 - 5,704
1984-5,659
1985-5,648
1986-5,639
1987 - 5,618
1988 - 5,555

1989 to 1995

1989 - 5,408
1990-5,297
1991-5,208
1992 - 5,186
1993-5,207
1994-5,139
1995 - 5,061

1996 to 2002

1996-4,998
1997 - 5,121
1998 - 5,195
1999 - 5,283
2000 - 5,332
2001 - 5,345
2002 - 5,232

since 2003

2003 - 5,218
2004 - 5,225
2005 - 5,219
2006 - 5,152
2007 - 5,055
2017 - 4,538

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

Memorials

Memorial plaque at the north entrance of the castle (→ see above story)
Grave site in the cemetery of the Erdmannsdorf district for four unknown concentration camp prisoners who were murdered by SS men on a death march from a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945

Memorial in Erdmannsdorf for all victims of fascism

FIR memorial in Erdmannsdorf for anti-fascist resistance fighters

Memorial stone on the grounds of the senior citizens' home in Augustusburg in memory of 40 residents who were brought to Pirna-Sonnenstein in 1941 as part of the euthanasia program and murdered there

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 68.2% (2014: 54.6%)

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City council

Since the city council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

Party / list	Seats	+/-
CDU	2	- 2nd
The left	1	± 0
Community of voters (WG)	9	+ 2
YourAugustusburg (DA)	4th	± 0

mayor

Dirk Neubauer has been the mayor of the city of Augustusburg since October 2013 . On September 22, 2013, he was elected as a non-party with 47% of the vote. At the beginning of 2017 he joined the SPD.

Previous incumbent

1994 to 2004: Hans-Dietrich Eckardt (community of voters)
2004 to 2013: Evelyn Jugelt (CDU)
since 2013: Dirk Neubauer (independent / SPD)

Twin cities

Augustusburg has entered into a town partnership with the city of Oerlinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia ; the district of Erdmannsdorf has a partnership with the community of Bücken in Lower Saxony and the district of Hennersdorf with the community of Loitzendorf in Bavaria .

Culture and sights

see also: List of cultural monuments in Augustusburg

Buildings

Castle courtyard of the Augustusburg

In addition to the castle, the Protestant town church St. Petri (1845/1896) with furnishings by Schilling & Graebner dominates the townscape. A funicular railway runs between Erdmannsdorf and the city of Augustusburg . The wooden bridge over the Zschopau in Hennersdorf is also worth seeing .

Museums

In Augustusburg Castle there is a carriage museum, a museum for wildlife and ornithology and a motorcycle museum. It was opened in 1961 and is home to one of the most extensive collections of two-wheelers in Europe. Further offers in the castle are the fountain house, tower gallery and castle tour.

Leisure / sport

The Augustusburger Freizeitzentrum offers sporting activities. There are opportunities for skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing. In summer there is a summer toboggan run , miniature golf Klein-Erzgebirge and a large children's playground. There is a leisure pool in the Erdmannsdorf district. In addition, the motorcyclist winter meeting has been held at the castle in January since 1970.

Sponsorships

Augustusburg sponsors the 3rd Company of the 371 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in neighboring Marienberg.

Economy and Infrastructure

Church and new cable car in operation, 1912

Economically, tourism and services dominate in Augustusburg.

Road traffic

State roads lead to Chemnitz, Flöha and Eppendorf .

Rail transport

The Erdmannsdorf-Augustusburg train station is on the Zschopautalbahn . The regional trains of the Erzgebirgsbahn to Chemnitz and Annaberg-Buchholz stop there every hour . The Erdmannsdorf – Augustusburg cable car , a nationally known funicular , connects the Erdmannsdorf district with Augustusburg.

Personalities

Traugott Samuel Franke (1804–1863), mathematician and university professor
Eduard Beyer (1825–1907), entrepreneur and politician (National Liberal Party), member of the Saxon state parliament
Julius Gensel (1835–1916), lawyer and politician (National Liberal Party), member of the Reichstag and the Saxon state parliament
Walter Barthel (1931–2003), journalist, founder of political movements, double agent
Bert Ehm (* 1946), soccer coach and manager

Personalities associated with the city of Augustusburg

Gudrun Lange (* 1964), singer and musician
Hans Heinrich Graf von Könneritz (1790–1863), diplomat and manor owner
Richard Graf von Könneritz (1828–1910), politician, diplomat and manor owner, President of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
Gustav Wilhelm Theodor Spindler (1859–1928), representative of near-natural forestry in the Saxon Ore Mountains
Hans Heinrich Freiherr von Könneritz (1864–1924), manor owner and politician, MdL
Hellmuth Krumbiegel (1891–1980), landlord, prevented the prepared demolition of two towers of the Augustusburg in 1945 at the risk of his life

Honorary citizen

2016 ( posthumously ): Hans-Dietrich Eckardt (1942–2015), former mayor

literature

Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony II, administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 36-45.
Johann Gottlieb Harnisch: Chronicle of Schellenberg-Augustusburg . Reutzel, Schellenberg 1860. ( digitized version )
Erika Ranft: Augustusburg Castle of Fate. (Contemporary witness novel with evidence) Halle an der Saale 2010, ISBN 978-3-86634-952-0 .
Richard Steche : Schellenberg. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 6th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Flöha . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1886, p. 85.
Julius Ernst von Schütz: Historical-economic description of the famous castle and office of Augustusburg in Chur-Saxony . Leipzig 1770. ( digitized version )