Blankenhain (Crimmitschau)

Blankenhain City of Crimmitschau Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 52 ″  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	331 m
Residents :	969  (Feb 29, 2012)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	08451
Area code :	036608
Location of Blankenhain in Saxony

Blankenhain is part of the large district town of Crimmitschau , in the district of Zwickau , Free State of Saxony and is located in the bottom of the Koberbach stream (see Koberbach dam ). The district of Blankenhain (816 inhabitants) has merged with the town of Rußdorf , which was affiliated in 1950 . The village also includes the place Großpillingsdorf with the district Kleinpillingsdorf , which was incorporated in 1974 and has 153 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Blankenhain is located in the western urban area of ​​Crimmitschau. The place is located in the west of Saxony on the state border with Thuringia , which runs in the north, west and south of the village. The Koberbach flowing through the village flows into the Pleiße in Neukirchen / Pleiße .

Neighboring places

Großpillingsdorf , Kleinpillingsdorf	Nischwitz
Seelingstädt		Mannichswalde
	Chursdorf	Russdorf

history

The oldest witnesses of human activity in the village are two stone tools, an ax hammer and a perforated shoe last wedge , which were found in the Blankenhainer corridor in 1981 and are around 4000 to 6000 years old.

Blankenhain was first mentioned in a document along with 189 other localities in a register of the Bosau monastery , which was created between 1181 and 1214. The name is probably composed of the Old High German word blanc, which means something like beautiful, shiny or shiny, and the ending -hain . This indicates that in addition to the still recognizable site of the place as a forest hoof village, it is a former clearing area. It is also only possible to guess where the first settlers came from, they were probably farmers from the Duchy of Franconia and Thuringia .

In 1316 a Ludewik von Blanchenhain is mentioned in the register of the bailiffs and in 1423 a Sophie Blangkynn . Later on, the owners change very often, but one gender of the " Blanken " does not appear again. In 1432, a moated castle was built on the site of the later castle , which was probably built on an early German fortification. In 1661 the old castle building with the adjoining parish farm burned down and around 1700 work began on the baroque style castle, which still exists today. Due to the fertile loess-loam soils, agriculture developed as the main line of business in Blankenhain, and rural crafts and trades were also a source of income for livelihood . In 1840 the local corporal farmers and craftsmen were able to buy their way out of their corporal service obligations. The manor built profitable ancillary industries, such as B. Lumber extraction, alcohol distillery, tannery and fish farming, in which the villagers u. a. could work. The smallholders could not keep up with the development of industrialization , sold their land to the lords of Blankenhain (see Blankenhain Castle ) and looked for new work in the neighboring towns.

View across the corridor in front of Blankenhain

The basic rule over Blankenhain was exercised by Blankenhain Castle until the 19th century. Until 1856, Blankenhain belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau . In 1856 the place was affiliated with the Werdau court office and in 1875 with the Zwickau administration .

In the course of the land reform in Germany after 1945, the former manor was expropriated and the land was distributed to farm workers, poor farmers and resettlers . In 1952/53 the local new farmers merged to form the LPG ( Agricultural Production Cooperative ). This large-scale economy and the effective use of modern technology improved the supply of the population. New stables, halls and administration buildings were built. Some old barns were converted into residential buildings next to the farm , and so the purpose of many farms changed. The village character of the place has been preserved to this day.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community of Rußdorf was incorporated. On July 25, 1952, Blankenhain was assigned to the Werdau district, Karl-Marx-Stadt district , as part of the district reforms in the GDR . On April 1, 1974, the municipality of Großpillingsdorf was incorporated with Kleinpillingsdorf , which had belonged to Thuringia until 1952 . From 1990 to 1994 Blankenhain belonged to the Saxon district of Werdau , which was merged in 1994 in the district of Zwickauer Land and in 2008 in the district of Zwickau. On January 1, 1994, the community of Blankenhain and its districts were incorporated into Crimmitschau. Since then, Blankenhain has been part of Crimmitschau.

Culture and sights

Blankenhain Castle, view over the castle pond

Memorial vase at the pond opposite Blankenhain Castle

Blankenhain, village pond

• Town center with castle ensemble (German Agricultural Museum Schloss Blankenhain ) with baroque castle, pre-castle, brewery building, farm building , post windmill (built around 1740), old village school from 1616 (new building in 1740), village church at the castle from 1714 and large castle pond
• Village church “St. Martin "in the district of Rußdorf from 1673 (reconstruction 1812)
• Byzantine style mausoleum from 1785 (local cemetery)
• Four-sided farm
• old village bakery
• old village smithy u. a.

Personalities

• Balthasar Andreas Spitzner (1679–1755), pastor in Oberalbertsdorf from 1716 to 1755
• Georg Friedrich Spitzner (1688–1764), commissioner and district administrator in Schwarzenberg
• Heinz Hofmann (* 1927 in Rußdorf), secret service officer of the NVA

literature

• New Saxon Church Gallery. The ephoria Werdau, edited by the clergy of the ephoria. Verlag von Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 87 ff. ( Slub-dresden.de , accessed on February 9, 2012).
• The district of Werdau. Interesting facts from the past and present . 1st edition. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1994, ISBN 3-89264-886-7 .

Web links

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

• German Agricultural Museum at Blankenhain Castle
• Blankenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blankenhain Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 64 f.
3. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
4. ↑ Rußdorf on gov.genealogy.net
5. ↑ Großpillingsdorf on gov.genealogy.net