Bear Rock

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Bear Rock
City of Altenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 640  (550-749.2)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.75 km²
Residents : 279  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 101 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 01773
Area code : 035052
Bärenfels (Saxony)
Bear Rock

Location of Bärenfels in Saxony
overall view
overall view

Bärenfels (formerly also the health resort Bärenfels ) is a district of the Saxon town of Altenberg in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .

geography

Bärenfels is located about 30 km south of Dresden and is about 2 km above the B 170 . In the west the Pöbelbach flows from the headwaters at the Erzgebirgskamm in Schmiedeberg into the Rote Weißeritz , in the east the Wilde Weißeritz towards Dresden. Bärenfels is surrounded by forests and embedded between the two mountains Spitzberg and Hofehübel.

The places around Bärenfels are:

Bärenfels is located on district roads 9045 and 9041 and on state road 183 . The federal highway 170 runs nearby towards the Zinnwald border crossing . In the nearby Kipsdorf is the end point of the historic steam railway line Weißeritztalbahn . The next regular train stations are in Altenberg and Geising .

history

Bärenfels was probably founded in 1503. The place got its name not from the bear , but from the owners of the Bärenstein estate to which the area belonged. Between 1546 and 1559, Hans von Bernstein was commissioned to unite places on the Weißeritz into a manor and to build a Bärenfels castle. In the Thirty Years War Bärenfels died out completely. Only in 1701 some people are said to have settled here again. Since 1791 Bärenfels belonged to the Altenberg office , from 1856 to 1875 to the Altenberg court office , and then to the Dippoldiswalde office . With the district reform in 1952 , Bärenfels became part of the Dippoldiswalde district . After the Saxon district reform in 1994 , Bärenfels was transferred to the Weißeritzkreis, which was formed from the district of Dippoldiswalde and the district of Freital . After more than 500 years of independence, Bärenfels was unintentionally incorporated into Altenberg on January 1st, 1999. From August 1, 2008, the Weißeritzkreis and the neighboring Saxon Switzerland district formed the new Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

Bärenfels' spellings also changed over time. The place was called "Bernfels" in 1556, "Behrenfels" in 1564 and "Berenfelß" in 1570. From 1784, today's spelling became common.

Bärenfels ran the additional health resort until after 1990 .

Attractions

  • Bärenfels spa park

  • Bärenfels spa park

  • Porcelain carillon

  • Symbolic bear

  • 17th century inn

  • Bärenfels forest house

Personalities

  • Maximilian von Klotz (born August 26, 1796 in Biesig near Reichenbach / OL ; † November 28, 1864 in Bärenfels), forester, from 1830 royal Saxon. Forester and raft supervisor in Bärenfels, grave at Hofehübel
  • Paul Hölzig (1911–1989), hand puppeteer, lived and worked in Bärenfels.
  • Diana Sartor (* 1970), world and European champion in skeleton, lives in Bärenfels.

traffic

It was planned to build a station on the Pöbeltalbahn in Bärenfels . However, this railway line was never realized.

Web links

Commons : Bärenfels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Bärenfels in the digital historical place directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg
  2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999