Chemnitz-Gablenz

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Coat of arms of Gablenz
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Gablenz
district and statistical district No. 24 of Chemnitz
Location of the statistical district of Gablenz in Chemnitz
Coordinates 50 ° 49 ′ 45 "  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 45"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 45 "  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 45"  E.
surface 3.60 km²
Residents 15,520 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density 4311 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Apr 1, 1900
Post Code 09126, 09127
prefix 0371
Transport links
tram 5
bus 43, 62, 72, 82A / 82B, N13

Gablenz is a district in the southeast of Chemnitz .

geography

Neighboring districts are clockwise, starting in the north, the Yorck area , Adelsberg , Bernsdorf , Lutherviertel and Sonnenberg .

history

Waldhufendorf

The former farming village of Gablenz - a forest hoof village - was first mentioned in a document around 1200 (as Gabilencia ) in the interest register of the Chemnitz Benedictine monastery . Gablenz got its name after the stream of the same name that flows through the town. The name comes from the Slavic and means "apple tree stream", it was covered in 1888 towards the city of Chemnitz. The Gablenzbach flows underground into the Chemnitz river at the height of today's Rochlitzer Straße .

The old Waldhufendorf once extended from Chemnitz Johannisvorstadt in the west to Euba in the east. In the north, Gablenz bordered the Zeisigwald (today known as the Yorck area), the northeast extended beyond the Sonnenberg . In 1402 the Chemnitz monastery sold the western part of Gablenz, which belonged to the monastery, to the city of Chemnitz, which shifted the corridor boundary to today's Zeißstrasse and Jahnstrasse .

With the dissolution of the Chemnitz Benedictine monastery in 1547, Gablenz came to the office of Chemnitz . Like many surrounding villages, Gablenz was devastated and plundered several times during the Thirty Years War .

Workers' suburb and incorporation

The Chemnitz Bannmeile prevented a faster development of the community, only in the 19th century factories settled on both sides of the Gablenzbach . Because of the resulting influx, Gablenz developed into a working-class suburb , for example with residential buildings on Geibel- and Clausstraße . Gablenz grew more and more in the west with the city of Chemnitz and increased its population. Finally, the community was incorporated into Chemnitz on April 1, 1900.

St. Andrew's Church

St. Andrew's Church from 1889

A few years earlier the construction of a new Evangelical Lutheran parish church had become necessary. On December 1, 1889, the Gablenz Church was consecrated. The organ was installed by the Kreutzbach company from Borna. In 1899 the Royal Ministry donated two larger-than-life figures of the apostles Peter and Paul, which were placed on either side above the main portal. However, when it became necessary to give the church a name on April 1, 1900 due to the incorporation of the village of Gablenz into the city of Chemnitz and there was already a Petri and a Pauli church in the city, it could not use the name of one of the donated figures of the apostles received. It was agreed on the name "St. Andrew's Church".

During the bombing of Chemnitz on March 5, 1945, the church was badly damaged by an air mine. The altar wall of the apse had completely collapsed. As early as 1948 the congregation started to rebuild the chancel, but for reasons of economy only a straight wall was used to end the apse. This was decorated by the graphic artist Heinz Dörjer with the text of the Sermon on the Mount in red letters on a brown background. The re-inauguration took place on October 17, 1948.

Before the centenary of St. Andrew's Church in 1989, the interior was thoroughly renovated. Black overpainting was removed, the writing pad on the wall behind the altar was freshened up and heating was built in.

Today, St. Andreas is a protected cultural monument and, together with the listed entity (= building ensemble ), St. Andreas cemetery is included in the list of cultural monuments in Chemnitz-Gablenz .

Development from 1945 until today

In the eastern outskirts of Gablenz, a settlement with apartment blocks in prefabricated construction was built from 1967 to 1970 , which is still called the Hans Beimler area today. Another prefabricated housing estate was built in the northeast in the years 1970 to 1974 as the residential area Yorckstraße , which has formed the Yorck area since 1992/93 .

In the recent past, Gablenz has seen a large population increase due to the extensive renovation of the residential areas. The residential areas Heimgarten, Sachsenring, Kreherstrasse and Zschopauer Strasse, among others, have been revitalized. The extraordinarily large number of gardens that are located between the housing estates also make Gablenz a popular residential area.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Chemnitzer Stadtbahn line 5 of the Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (CVAG) runs through Gablenz with the stops Reineckerstraße, Nürnberger Straße, Gablenzplatz, Arthur-Strobel-Straße, Pappelhain and Gablenz. The district can also be reached with bus lines 43, 62 and 72, ring bus line 82A / 82B and night line N13; Access from the south is possible by bus route 33, in the northeast by route 31 and 51. The longest street is Carl-von-Ossietzky- Strasse , which not only crosses numerous residential areas ( e.g. Lutherviertel , Hans-Beimler- area) but mainly intersects with streets on which there are significant and partly listed settlements (Heimgarten-Siedlung, Geibelstraße / Gartenstadt ).

education

Diesterweg School

Until February 2008 the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium was located in Gablenz , which - because of its first-class education in mathematics and science - is known beyond the borders of the city of Chemnitz. It moved to the renovated school on Humboldthöhe during the 2008 winter holidays. The Friedrich-Adolf-Wilhelm-Diesterweg-Oberschule as well as the Gablenz Oberschule and the Gablenz Primary School (formerly Ernst-Enge School) should also be mentioned. Furthermore, on Ernst-Enge-Str. the free integrative Montessori elementary school of the Montessori Association Chemnitz.

Gablenz Center

The former “Hans Beimler” supply center is located on Ernst-Enge-Straße . In the late 1990s it was completely modernized and expanded and is now called the Gablenz Center . It offers the neighbors several shopping opportunities in smaller and larger grocery stores, drugstores and book markets. It fulfills its central role by housing, among other things, catering facilities, a pharmacy, hairdressers and two bank branches.

Attractions

Many cultural monuments and ensembles

The list of cultural monuments in Chemnitz-Gablenz contains the cultural monuments of the district that were recorded in the list of monuments by the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony as of June 20, 2013. In addition, the cultural monuments deleted from the list of monuments are listed. Most of these protected cultural monuments are worth seeing, but above all they are worth preserving.

  • Villa with front garden

  • Brewery, with front yard and enclosure

  • Apartment building in clinker composite construction

  • Tenement house from the Wilhelminian era

  • Apartment building with Art Nouveau touches

  • Tenement house with shop

  • A small courtyard

  • Heimgarten settlement

  • Hans Beimler monument by Volker Beier

Garden city of Gablenzsiedlung

The Gablenzsiedlung garden city is located in the heart of Gablenz . It is described by the Monument Office as being built in two construction phases by the Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft für Chemnitz and the surrounding area, the oldest Chemnitz building cooperative, an impressive urban composition, lines accompanying the street in adaptation to gently moving terrain relief, accentuated by head buildings on Charlottenstrasse and by central plaza, traditionalist Design language, building history, urban development history, social history and urban planning of importance.

The extraordinary architectural gem impresses with its stylish outdoor facilities and varied, harmonious facade design. The almost completely preserved settlement was built between 1910 and 1937 and renovated between 1999 and 2003 in accordance with the preservation order. In 2003 the garden city was awarded the German Builder Prize.

  • Lindenhain, garden city

  • Postweg, garden city

  • Hawthorn, garden city

  • Crooked line, garden city

  • Fountain in Geibelstrasse

  • Geibelstrasse, garden city

  • Blumensteig, garden city

  • Motto in the garden city

literature

  • Jörn Richter (Ed.): Gartenstadt Gablenzsiedlung Chemnitz: Development, history and redevelopment of a cooperative settlement. CAWG eG, Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, 2002. 128 pages. ISBN 3910186386

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the history of the Sankt-Andreas-Kirchgemeinde and its church