Berms green

Berms green City of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 37 ″  E
Residents :	1359  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Location of Bermsgrün in Saxony
Bermsgrün seen from Erla-Crandorf

Bermsgrün is a district of the town of Schwarzenberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

history

The place arose as a double row forest hoof village in the Schwarzenberg rule and was first mentioned in 1448 as Bermaßgrün . The fact that the village was founded in 1193 - in 1993 the inhabitants celebrated the 800th anniversary - cannot be proven with documented sources and archaeological excavations.

From the beginning, the village, half an hour south of Schwarzenberg, was parish to Schwarzenberg, to which the Kirchsteig also leads.

At the beginning of the 19th century Bermsgrün had 101 houses, 626 inhabitants and was provided with handsome cherry tree plantations. At that time the inhabitants made lace and traded with it. Most of the men were forest workers, miners and hammer workers, coal and iron stone wagons. Some trained bullfinches to sing and traded abroad. Shale spar was quarried in the Bermsgrün area. Around 1800 a lead mine was discovered that contained some silver.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , the workers' home was used as a place of detention and torture for Nazi opponents. A "training castle" of the German Labor Front existed in Bermsgrün at this time.

In the GDR era there was a vacation home of the " VEB Braunkohlenwerk Großkayna " in Bermsgrün .

On January 1, 1999, Bermsgrün was incorporated into Schwarzenberg.

Development of the population

year population 1550/51 18 possessed men , 2 cottagers , 11 residents , 7 ½ hooves 1764 40 possessed men, 6 gardeners , 29 cottagers, 9 ¾ hooves 1834 1 1123 1871 1 1378

year population 1890 1 1604 1910 1 2878 1925 1 2568 1939 1 2691

year population 1946 2583 1950 2084 1964 1619 1990 1258

¹ with Antonsthal

Memorials

• Memorial plaque on the workers' home to commemorate the imprisonment of workers in 1933
• Memorial stone in the lower village for resistance fighters who were victims of Nazi terror, in particular Otto Hempel and Franz Dziebko

Culture and sights

• Carving art exhibition Harry Schmidt
• Bermsgrün circular hiking trail (yellow bar) with information on the history of Bermsgrün ( former municipal administration , old tunnels and shafts)
• Hoher Hahn - summit with a view - also hotel of the same name - former shaft

Trivia

In December 1990 the first sex shop in the district of Schwarzenberg opened in Bermsgrün.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Christian Gottlieb Wellner (1795–1857), factory owner, industrial pioneer in Aue
• Ernst Kleinhempel (1862–1934), politician (NLP)
• Ernst Scheffler (1891–1954), politician (KPD / SED)
• Robert Bauer (1898–1965), politician (NSDAP)
• Paul Blechschmidt (1907–1961), member of the National Committee “Free Germany”, major general
• Kurt Beck (1909–1983), photographer
• Werner Lang (1922–2013), mechanical engineer
• Manfred Blechschmidt (1923–2015), native and dialect writer
• Harry Schmidt (1927–2003), wood carver

Web links

Commons : Bermsgrün  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bermsgrün in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb., City. (PDF; 0.69 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Cf.: Bermsgrün in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony , where other spellings of the place name are documented.
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
4. ↑ See Bermsgrün in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
5. ↑ Erotisches Bermsgrün , in: Freie Presse , Ausg. Schwarzenberg of December 31, 1990.