Bernsbach
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Bernsbach
City of Lauter-Bernsbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 33 ″ N , 12 ° 46 ′ 22 ″ E
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| Height : | 580 m | |
| Area : | 8.76 km² | |
| Residents : | 4480 (December 31, 2011) | |
| Population density : | 511 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2013 | |
| Postal code : | 08315 | |
| Area code : | 03774, 03771 | |
Location of Bernsbach in Saxony |
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Bernsbach is a district of the town of Lauter-Bernsbach in the Saxon Ore Mountains District, which together with the district of Oberpfannenstiel has around 4600 inhabitants.
Geographical location
The place extends from the valley of the black water to the mirror forest at 728 m above sea level. NN and thus offers a good view of the Erzgebirge cities of Aue and Schwarzenberg . For this reason, Bernsbach is also called the "balcony of the Ore Mountains".
history
Bernsbach was founded around 1200 by Franconian settlers as a Waldhufendorf . In 1240 it was first mentioned in a document as Wernhardispach . Around 1460 the place was referred to as Pernsbach in the Zwickau Franciscans' schedule . At that time, Bernsbach belonged to the Grünhain monastery and after its dissolution from 1536 to the Grünhain office . In 1874 the community was assigned to the Schwarzenberg District Court and has been part of the Aue jurisdiction since 1950.
From 1679 to 1681 a church was built in the center of the village and thus separated from the neighboring town of Beierfeld , in which Bernsbach was parish until then.
During the heyday of mining in the Ore Mountains , iron, silver and sulfur were also found in Bernsbach. The ores obtained were processed in a smelter. Around 1538, hammer smiths and tinning companies settled in Oberdorf, bringing the artisanal processing of metal to the until then purely farming settlement. In order to supply the stoves with fuel, charcoal burners also came to the village.
The spoon-making, which has been in operation since the 17th century, as well as lace-making were other handicrafts. In the years around 1800, the seal engraving trade, the production of official stamps and coats of arms, was also at home in Bernsbach. With the construction of the railway line from Zwönitz to Scheibenberg in 1900, there was a further boom in the local economy.
The old tradition of black and tinplate production and the manufacture of iron goods has been preserved in Bernsbach to this day.
In 1987 the 750th anniversary was celebrated, which was traced back to a mention in 1237.
To determine the future development of Bernsbach, a referendum was carried out on June 26, 2011 , whether Bernsbach should merge with the neighboring town of Lauter or with Grünhain-Beierfeld . Following the will of the citizens, a merger with Lauter took place on January 1, 2013. The agreement on the unification of the city of Lauter-Bernsbach was concluded on August 23, 2012.
Population development
The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:
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1982 to 1988
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1989 to 1995
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1996 to 2002
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2003 to 2009
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2010 and 2011
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- Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
Twin town
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Bernsbach station was opened on May 1, 1900 as a stop on the Zwönitz – Scheibenberg railway line and in 1905 it was elevated to a station. With the dismantling of the Zwönitz – Elterlein section, it went out of service on August 21, 1947. At the location on "(Upper) Bahnhofstrasse" in Bernsbach, the reception building, the goods shed and some farm buildings are still there.
Today the next train station is in Lauter on the southwestern outskirts in the Schwarzwassertal.
societies
- SV Saxonia Bernsbach
- TV 1864 Bernsbach (gymnastics club)
- Bernsbacher Musikanten e. V. (brass band)
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Wolfgang Kaden (1927–2014), since June 30, 2012, development of the artificial kidney Aue I and II
- Erika Hackebeil, community nurse i. R.
- Manfred Lerch (* 1930), former local councilor D.
Other people connected to Bernsbach
- Fritz Alfred Zimmer (1880–1954), teacher and poet
- Curt Herbert Richter (1898–1974), musician
- Herbert Stoll (1905–1962), Ore Mountains dialect poet
- Karl Wolf (1924–2005), national soccer player in the national soccer team of the GDR
- Siegfried Wolf (1926–2017), national soccer player in the GDR national soccer team
- Eberhard Goldhahn (* 1927) lawyer and former CDU politician
- Armin Härtel (1928–2019), first bishop of the Methodist Church in the GDR from 1970 to 1986.
- Dagmar Meyer (* 1931), dialect speaker and author
- Ludwig Mehlhorn (1950–2011), civil rights activist and mathematician
- Rüdiger Süß (1972–1998), racing driver
panorama
literature
- Richard Steche : Bernsbach. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 7.
- Rudolf Scheithauer: Bernsbach, Erzgebirge: Past and Present. Council of the municipality, Bernsbach 1967.
- Matthias Hermann, Jens Müller: Bernsbach-Oberpfannenstiel: two places - one community. Horb am Neckar, Geiger 1992. ISBN 3-89264-719-4
- Municipal administration Bernsbach (ed.): Festschrift Heimatfest 775 years Bernsbach. 1237-2012. Bernsbach 2012. DNB 1023382059
- Bernsbacher room. In: Um Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 20). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 35.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernsbacher want Lauter as a partner - clear vote: More than two thirds of the voters vote in favor of merging with the rowan town. In: Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg of June 27, 2011
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013
- ↑ Bernsbach train station. In: sachsenschiene.net
Web links
- Bernsbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
