Blauenthal

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Blauenthal
City of Eibenstock
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 37 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 470 m above sea level NN
Residents : 60  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 08309
Area code : 037752
Blauenthal (Saxony)
Blauenthal

Location of Blauenthal in Saxony

Blauenthal is a district of the town of Eibenstock in the Erzgebirge district , which developed from an iron hammer in the 16th century .

location

Upper section of the Blauenthaler waterfall (April 2011)

Blauenthal is located in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde, east of the Eibenstock dam, not far from the confluence of the Große Bockau in the Zwickauer Mulde at an altitude of 470  m above sea level. NN . According to the natural space map of Saxony, Blauenthal lies in the mesogeochore “Eibenstocker Bergrücken” and belongs to the microgeochore “Blauenthaler Mulde-Tal”.
The landmark of the place is the Blauenthaler waterfall . A rock nearby is called Teufelsfels . A legend tells of a worker who found the "yellow flower" there.

Neighboring places

Neidhardtsthal Burkhardtsgrün
Wolf green Neighboring communities
Eibenstock Wildenthal Sosa

history

Surname

Blauenthal got its name after the founder of the hammer mill there, Andreas Blau . The place was already referred to as Plauenthal in one of the oldest maps of the countries of Elector August , which Job Magdeburg drew in 1566 .

Place emergence through business settlement

Lithograph (1841)
Blauenthal (around 1910)
Hammerherrenhaus Blauenthal (April 2010)
Blauenthal Church (2011)

A ring wall around 750 m south of the village is evidence of medieval settlement traces in the immediate vicinity . In contrast to Wolfsgrün (Oberblauenthal), Blauenthal used to be called Unterlauenthal. The place emerged from a hammer mill that was built in 1536 by Andreas Blau. He built the first Saxon sheet metal hammer in Blauenthal and thus became the founder of tinplate production in the Ore Mountains. The plant included a blast furnace , pressing and grinding works, two fresh and stick fires, two tin fires and a tin works. The owners in the following decades included Jeremias Siegel , Heinrich Siegel and Friedrich Siegel, who, according to the keystone with the initials "FS 1677", had the manor house renovated. In 1681 three sheet fires and a Hohofen are mentioned on this hammer mill. After the auction in 1730, Blauenthal came into the possession of Johann Heinrich Hennig on Carlsfeld . At the end of the 18th century, Carl Gottlob Rauh is named as the owner, having also owned Schönheiderhammer . In 1832 Ludwig Reichel is mentioned as the owner who ran an iron foundry here.

In Saxonia , published in 1841 . The Saxon Patriotic Museum says about Blauenthal:

“An important hammer mill, founded around 1500 and named after a Blau family from Nuremberg, now belonging to Mr. CL Reichel, has a towered castle, 1 Hohofen, 4 fresh, bar and tin fires, 1 tin hut, 1 grinding and 4 stamp mills, significant logging and cattle breeding, 1 sheep farm, good brewery and distillery, 1 grinding and 1 grinding mill, 1 brick factory, 1 inn, etc. […] There are over 20 houses with more than 300 inhabitants, which are parish in Eibenstock. But it has its own school, to which Wolfsgrün also adheres, and a hall for some church activities. "

Carl Reichel, son of Ludwig Reichel, converted the iron and steel works into a wood pulp factory in 1882, which was then taken over by Gustav Toelle in Niederschlema and Auerhammer in the 1890s .

In the place are u. a. the vacant mansion of the former hammer mill, the Parkhotel Forelle and the Blauenthaler waterfall , which was originally created as an overflow from the wood pulp mill's trench. Next to the waterfall is the 10.6 m long Blauenthal cave in the tourmaline granite, listed in the Saxon cave register of the cave research group Dresden under No. EG-49.

In 1994 Blauenthal was incorporated into Eibenstock with the districts of Spitzleithe, Wolfsgrün and Neidhardtsthal .

church

An Evangelical Lutheran parish has existed in Blauenthal since 1910. For many years the parishioners came together in apartments. After the end of the Second World War , parts of a barrack could be bought in Eibenstock, in which armaments production had taken place until the end of the war. The first small church was built from these parts. In 1982 construction began on the current church, which was consecrated in 1983.

The Eibenstock districts of Blauenthal, Wolfsgrün and Neidhardtsthal have had a common local logo since 2012. The elements of water, hammer mills, hydropower and mining reflect the historical and current events of the places.

The logo is divided into two parts. The upper part is kept in green. Three black hammers on the right symbolize the hammer mansions of the three districts. The water wheel on the left symbolizes the water power, which z. B. at the dam of the Eibenstock dam in Neidhardtsthal is still used today. The lower blue field is separated from the upper field in a wave shape. This symbolizes the Zwickauer Mulde , which flows through all three districts. In the blue field there are hammers and mallets in a crossed shape, symbolic of mining in the region.

Development of the population

year population
1551 2 possessed men ,
7 cottagers
1791 7 cottagers
1834 328
1871 254
year population
1890 177
1910 221
1925 241
1939 403
year population
1946 438
1950 549
1964 433
1990 303

Religions

Blauenthal owns a small church with a free-standing bell tower, in which services alternate between the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Eibenstock and the regional church community of Blauenthal.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the district there is a small industrial area, in which mainly Erzgebirge arts and crafts are produced: a carving room and an art casting workshop. During the GDR era, construction companies were present in the area, some of whose warehouse buildings are still in use. A nationally active forwarding company is also based in Blauenthal. Granite has been extracted in a quarry on the road towards the Aue for decades .

In the summer of 2013, the Bockau-based company Zeeh, heating technology and container construction, moved into a 120 by 20 meter production hall and the expanded former station building in the new industrial area of ​​the station area.

Two inns offer hikers and other tourists food and accommodation, the Parkrestaurant and Hotel Forelle , an FDGB holiday home in GDR times , and Hotel Zimmeracher , used in GDR times as the holiday home of the state- owned Karosseriewerke Dresden. The Eibenstock administration had paths rehabilitated and roads paved. The residents were able to gradually renovate their houses from 1990 onwards.

traffic

Park restaurant Forelle (2011)

Until the construction of the Eibenstock dam , Blauenthal had a railway connection to the Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf line . The last trip on the section to Adorf took place in October 1975, trains continued to Aue until 1995.

The route of the disused railroad from Aue via Blauenthal to Wolfsgrün is paved and has been used as part of the Muldental cycle path since 2013 . A cycle path crossing point has been under construction at the former train station in Blauenthal since 2013. From here, the branches of Aue coming Karl route from passing through the valley of the Great Bockau over the Erzgebirgskamm further into Czech Karlovy Vary leads. The Muldental cycle path is to be continued to Schönheiderhammer . From there, the community of Schönheide is planning the continuation to Wilzschhaus , planning to Muldenhammer is also in progress.

The federal road 283 leads through the local situation from Adorf to Aue .

literature

  • Unter-Blauenthal . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, pp. 123-126.
  • Siegfried Sieber : History of Blauenthal. In: Glückauf, culture and home sheets of the districts of Aue and Schneeberg 4 (1957) 5, pp. 89-92
  • Carl Schiffner : Old huts and hammers in Saxony , edited by Werner Gräbner, in series: Freiberger Forschungshefte - Kultur und Technik - D 14, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, pp. 104-106
  • Blauenthal. In: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967. pp. 118-122.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Small-scale municipality sheet for Eibenstock, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 28, 2015 .
  2. Natural space map service of the Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV Dresden ( information )
  3. The story of the little sky key in Unterblauenthal , accessed on May 2, 2011
  4. Link to the map in the Dresden State and University Library
  5. Otfried Wagenbreth and Eberhard Wächtler: Technical Monuments in the German Democratic Republic , 4th edition 1989, unaltered reprint 2015, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015, p. 94 digital copy , accessed on July 31, 2015.
  6. ^ Carl Schiffner : Old huts and hammers in Saxony , edited by Werner Gräbner, in series: Freiberger Forschungshefte - Kultur und Technik - D 14, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 105ff.
  7. Alexander Wilhelm Köhler (Ed.): (New) Bergmännisches Journal, first piece, in the Crazische Buchhandlung, Freyberg 1788, p. 106 digitized , accessed on May 9, 2015
  8. Bergmännisches Journal, Volume 1, published by Crazische Buchhandlung, Freyberg 1789, page 110. Digital copy , accessed on May 9, 2015.
  9. ^ Werner Marggraf: Erzgebirge Hammerherrenhäuser. Special issue Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 1994, p. 51ff.
  10. Without author: Saxonia. Museum for Saxon Patriotic Studies . Fifth volume in 24 deliveries, with 72 lithographed supplements, by Eduard Pietzsch and Comp., Printed by BG Teubners Officin in Dresden, 1841, page 108, digitized , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  11. Gerhard Ebisch: Old production sites of the wood pulp, cardboard and paper industry in the valleys of the Zwickauer Mulde, the Schwarzwassers and the Mittweida and their tributaries. Schwarzenberg 2001, p. 49ff.
  12. Evangelical Lutheran parish Eibenstock-Carlsfeld (ed.): Kirchennachrichten , September 2018, p. 6
  13. cf. Blauenthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  14. [1] , website, accessed on August 28, 2013
  15. Schönheider Wochenblatt No. 10/2015 of March 6, 2015, p. 1