Bornwald
The Bornwald is the northern part of the Bornwald / Heinzewald forest district in the Erzgebirge in Saxony .
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The core of this area was once the area of Berthelsdorf, which had become desolate before 1452 . In addition, there were parts of the surrounding area: The Bornwald of Börnichen / Erzgeb. , the Lengefeld forest and the Lautenhain von Lauta. Today's name Heinzewald is based on the Heinzebank settlement , which is located in the southern end of this forest at the intersection between B101 and B174.
Today's meaning
The Bornwald / Heinzewald attracts day trippers in the area (as far as Chemnitz) to hike and relax. Except for the B 101 it is completely closed to public traffic and is therefore very quiet. Distinctive points are the lower and upper Neunzehnhain dam, the Schwarzer Teich and Pfützenteich waters and the rocky cliffs on the Lange Stein.
history
There used to be settlements in the Bornwald / Heinzewald area:
- The above-mentioned Berthelsdorf, which is first mentioned as a place in a document in 1369
- The Bornwald houses in the northern part, which were built together with a spinning mill around 1820 and demolished after the dams were built
- The factory settlement Neunzehnhain between the dams, today the hydrobiological laboratory of the Technical University of Dresden
- A number of mills and lime kilns, of which only the Lengefeld lime works on the B101 still exists
- The claim about the existence of two other places in this forest area (Mittelbach and Schwarzbach) is probably a legend.
In the Middle Ages, this forest area was crossed by an important salt road from Halle to Bohemia ( antiqua semita bohemorum ). When Marienberg was founded in 1521 , this road was relocated from the forest area and has since led via Marienberg ( B 174 ). It is conceivable that the Lengefeld image of Mary that still exists marks the intersection between this street and Silberstraße (Schneeberg-Annaberg-Freiberg), but this view is not shared by all local researchers in the area.
A legend tells from the time of the Thirty Years' War (here 1632 and after) that a treasure was buried on the Lange Stein.
literature
- The middle Zschopau area (= values of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 196–198.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 32 ″ N , 13 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ E