Blumenau (Olbernhau)

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Blumenau
City of Olbernhau
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 5 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 440 m
Area : 4.59 km²
Residents : 505  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 110 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 09526
Area code : 037360
Blumenau (Saxony)
Blumenau

Location of Blumenau in Saxony

Blumenau is a district of the Saxon town of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge district .

geography

location

The Waldhufendorf Blumenau is located around 3.5 kilometers northwest of Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains . The location extends for about 2 kilometers on the left bank of the Flöha , which flows through the largest valley widening in this area. A small part of the settlement in the east lies on the right bank of the Flöha. In the southwest, the Thesenwald borders the corridor.

Neighboring places

Reukersdorf
Sorgau Neighboring communities Kleinneuschönberg
Jump Grundau Olbernhau

history

former municipal office
primary school

The first written mention of the place dates from 1434 as Blumenaw. With the Reformation in 1539 the place became part of the parish of Olbernhau, and in 1647 a teacher can be verified for the first time.

In 1814 , August Schumann only mentions Blumenau in the State Lexicon of Saxony:

"It has 265 inhabitants and a mill of two courses . There is a raft cabbage yard here, because in Blumenau it is special where good coal is burned and in the royal. Smelters are moved to Freiberg. You also do good agriculture. "

Schumann describes rafting and charring in more detail under the term "Görsdorf-Blumenauer rafts", including:

“It is supplied with water from several ponds in the Bohemian Forests or from the three-mile-long forest, the main wild mountain. It goes mostly on the Natzschku ( Natzschung ) which flows west of Bohemia, and on the Schwarzen Bockau , which flows east, from south to north, and on the fleas only from where the Natzschku unites with it near Grünthal . Up to the places near Blumenau and Görsdorf , where the wood is mostly charred and the coal is traded on the axis to Freiberg. […] The Elector August first used it to pour Bohemian wood into the Meiß niche for 20,000 thalers; now, next to the Freiberg rafts, it is intended especially for the Marienberg and Freiberg smelting operations. […] The staff of the Görsdorf-Blumenauer rafts consists of 6 officers and 20 charcoal burners, loggers and workers; it is under the supervision of Freiberg. The raft masters have lived alternately at Olbernhau and Sorgau since the 17th century. "

Regarding the transport to Freiberg, he mentions one elsewhere:

"Coal road leading from Blumenau to Freiberg (note: where Reukersdorf is located) it cuts through Hutta and Niederdörrenthal [...]"

In 1840 the first school building was built, which was replaced by a new building in 1889. In 1876 the place with the stop of the same name got a railway connection to the Flöhatalbahn . Goods are never dispatched here.

From 1912 the connection to the electricity network followed, two years later the street lighting was put into operation. The road in the Flöhatal was built between 1919 and 1926.

As a result of the floods of 1931, the Flöha was regulated and diked in 1934.

On January 1, 1994, Blumenau was incorporated into Olbernhau.

Development of the population

year population
1552 17 possessed men , 8 cottagers , 29 residents
1764 18 possessed men, 16 cottagers, 8 hooves
1834 368
1871 511
1890 763
year population
1910 1021
1925 1043
1939 1061
1946 1113
1950 1158
year population
1964 998
1990 694
1993 645

Infrastructure

traffic

Stop at Blumenau (2016)

State road 223 Flöha –Olbernhau runs through the village, and there is a connection to Sorgau and Reukersdorf via municipal roads . Blumenau has a stop on the Pockau-Lengefeld-Neuhausen railway , which is served by the DB Erzgebirgsbahn .

Established businesses

The place gained national fame through the production of wooden toys , especially wooden construction sets. The most important were the "E. Reuter Building Kit Factory", the "Louis Engel & Co. Building Box and Wooden Toy Factory" and the "Carl Fritzsche Building Box and Wood Material Factory".

From 1966 to 1976 the above-mentioned companies and a music toy factory were gradually nationalized and incorporated into the " VEB United Erzgebirgische Spielwarenwerke Olbernhau ". From this, in 1972, through the merger with the “VEB Spielwarenwerke Schneeberg”, the “Kombinat Holzspielwaren Vero Olbernhau”, and in 1980 “VEB VERO Olbernhau”. After the political change in 1990, parts of the latter became "Sonni Holzspielwaren VERO GmbH". After production was discontinued in 1993, it was acquired in 1995 by Christian and Jürgen Ebert in the building of the former Louis Engel & Co. from the Treuhandanstalt , continued and now operates as "Erzgebirgische Holzspielwaren Ebert GmbH".

literature

Web links

Commons : Blumenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Blumenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Olbernhau, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Blumenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ cf. Blumenau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 1st volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1814, p. 418 f.
  4. ↑ cf. Görsdorf-Blumenauer rafts . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, p. 236 f.
  5. ↑ cf. Reukersdorf . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 9th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1822, p. 144.
  6. ^ Railway stations in Saxony , accessed on January 3, 2013.
  7. ^ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 11 (PDF; 64 kB), accessed on January 5, 2011.
  8. ↑ cf. Rolf Morgenstern: Chronicle of Olbernhau for the 750th anniversary . Pp. 212-216