Crimmitschau

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Crimmitschau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Zwickau
Management Community : Crimmitschau-Dennheritz
Height : 240 m above sea level NHN
Area : 61.15 km 2
Residents: 18,350 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 300 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 08451
Area code : 03762
License plate : Z, GC, HOT, WDA
Community key : 14 5 24 030
LOCODE : DE CMU
City structure: Core city; 12 districts

City administration address : 		Markt 1
08451 Crimmitschau
Website : www.crimmitschau.de
Lord Mayor : André Raphael ( CDU )
Location of the town of Crimmitschau in the district of Zwickau
Bernsdorf Callenberg Crimmitschau Crinitzberg Dennheritz Fraureuth Gersdorf Glauchau Hartenstein Hartmannsdorf Hirschfeld Hohenstein-Ernstthal Kirchberg Langenbernsdorf Langenweißbach Lichtenstein Lichtentanne Limbach-Oberfrohna Meerane Mülsen Neukirchen/Pleiße Niederfrohna Oberlungwitz Oberwiera Reinsdorf Remse Schönberg St. Egidien Waldenburg Werdau Wildenfels Wilkau-Haßlau Zwickau Sachsen Thüringen Vogtlandkreis Erzgebirgskreis Chemnitz Landkreis Mittelsachsenmap
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Crimmitschau's landmark, the Red Tower at Taubenmarkt, replica of the former city wall tower

Crimmitschau ([ ˈkrɪmɪt͜ʃa͜u ], also Crimmitzschau ) is a large district town with around 19,400 inhabitants in the Saxon district of Zwickau on the border with the Free State of Thuringia . The city is a typical industrial city of the 19th century, where mainly textiles were produced. Crimmitschau had the nickname "City of 100 chimneys". Today there is still a cloth factory. Crimmitschau is the seat of the Crimmitschau-Dennheritz administrative association . As the origin of the name, the Old Sorbian family name Krimas , to which an -ov (to indicate that the place belongs to him) was added, is believed to be likely.

geography

Geographical location

Crimmitschau is located in the Pleiße basin and at the same time in the Vorerzgebirge at an altitude of 238–360 m above sea level. NN. Crimmitschau is framed in the west by the Westberg and in the east by the Gablenzer Berg. The city lies in the west of the Erzgebirge basin . At the northern edge of the city center, the Paradiesbach flows into the Pleiße from the east . The area is mostly used for agriculture; only in the west of the urban area there are two larger forest areas. In and around Crimmitschau you can already hear strong tinges of the Western Ore Mountains dialect, which is mainly spoken by the older residents of the city. In this dialect the city is called "Krimsche".

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the city of Zwickau , Dennheritz , Neukirchen , Langenbernsdorf and Meerane in the district of Zwickau , Heyersdorf , Jonaswalde , Ponitz and Thonhausen in the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land and Braunichswalde , Rückersdorf and Seelingstädt in the district of Greiz, which also belongs to Thuringia .

City structure

Surname population surface
 Height above sea level
December 31, 2006 12/31/2007 December 31, 2008 December 31, 2009 March 31, 2011 02/29/2012 06/30/2014 06/30/2018
Crimmitschau (main town) with
Leitelshain and elections 		16,454 16,149 15,920 15,723 15,452 15,217 14,421 13,961 1,231 ha 240-306 m
- Gablenz (with uncertainty) 00.464 00.460 00.448 00.444 00.420 00.426 00.415 00.408 0.457 ha 000–250 m
- Rudelswalde 00.389 00.375 00.368 00.355 00.345 00.340 00.317 00.305 0.323 ha 000–318 m
Blankenhain (entire) 01,036 01,023 01,020 01.003 01,000 00.969 00.948 00.911 1,143 hectares 330-356 m
- Blankenhain with Russdorf 0- 00.865 00.865 00.843 00.844 00.816 0- 0- 0-
- Großpillingsdorf with Kleinpillingsdorf 0- 00.158 00.155 00.160 00.156 00.153 0- 0- 0-
Frankenhausen (entire) 01,256 01,228 01,209 01,198 01,171 01,164 01,147 01,087 0.851 ha 000–240 m
- Frankenhausen 0- 01,033 01,013 01.004 00.983 00.977 0- 0- 0-
- Gösau 0- 00.138 00.140 00.139 00.135 00.135 0- 0- 0-
- Gosel 0- 00.057 00.056 00.055 00.053 00.052 0- 0- 0-
Langenreinsdorf 00.814 00.811 00.793 00.793 00.779 00.779 00.763 00.747 0.851 ha 000–280 m
Lauenhain with
Harthau and Gersdorf 		00.677 00.662 00.660 00.662 00.658 00.642 00.633 00.587 0.610 hectares 000–275 m
Mannichswalde 00.673 00.666 00.662 00.655 00.646 00.638 00.617 00.598 0.655 ha 000–361 m
Crimmitschau (entire) 21,763 21,374 21,080 20,833 20,471 20,175 19,216 18.604 6,121 ha 240-361 m

Source: Website of the city of Crimmitschau

climate

The least precipitation falls in February with 37.3 mm and most in August with 75.5 mm. The total annual precipitation is 631.6 mm.

history

middle Ages

Schweinsburg Castle
Roland on the town hall (not erected as a symbol of Reichsland freedom, but as a facade decoration in 1892, melted down in 1942, repositioned in 1994)

In the course of the German expansion to the east , the town and the Crimmitschau castle of the same name (today Schweinsburg Castle in Neukirchen / Pleiße ) were founded in the period from 1170 to 1200 as a planned German settlement by Main Franconian, Upper Franconian and Thuringian settlers on the site of an older Sorbian settlement. In 1212 a Henricus de Crematzowe appeared. The certificate with his name represents the first documentary mention of the place and the rule Crimmitschau. This Heinrich von Crimmitschau was a major imperial knight and judge of the Pleißenland . In 1222, the Crimmitschau Castle was mentioned in a document as "vest huz Cremaschowe". In the same year the Laurentiuskirche was mentioned as the main church of the later city.

Around 1300 Crimmitschau first became the property of the Schönburger . The city was surrounded by a city wall, which, like its three gates, was built between 1300 and 1350. The Red Tower was also built in 1350 and was the city's landmark until it was demolished in 1928. The Niedere or Schmöllnsche Tor was located on today's Mannichswalder Platz, the Obere or Zwick'sche Tor on today's Taubenmarkt, where the Red Tower is located and the water gate in today's Badergasse, the water gate bridge reminds of the gate.

After the transfer to the House of Wettin in 1413, Crimmitschau was granted the Schmöllner town charter by Margrave Wilhelm II on June 4, 1414 . Confirmations of the town charter followed in 1453, 1464 and 1488. Around 1429 the first cloth makers order was mentioned. In 1430, Crimmitschau and the town hall burned down in the Hussite War . In 1436, when the bookmaker's rules were entered in the city register, a cloth makers' guild was founded. This was followed in the 16th century by the guild regulations for linen weavers (1556), carpenters (1558) and blacksmiths (1563).

Early modern times and 19th century

The originally Schoenburg care Crimmitschau, which became Wettin in 1413 , was merged in the Electoral Saxon Office of Zwickau in the 16th century . In the course of the witch hunt , from which Crimmitschau was affected from 1587 to 1600, a woman and a man were tried.

Brewing beer was widespread until the Thirty Years War . The oldest brewing regulation dates from 1575. In 1614 alone there were 33 malt and 18 breweries in Crimmitschau. The highlight of the brewing activities was the so-called Crimmitschau civil war , in which there was a dispute between the Crimmitschauer breweries and the Blankenburg manor brewery . There was no winner, and with the city's decline in the Thirty Years' War, beer brewing also declined. In 1682 there were only two breweries left.

In 1634, 1635 and 1639 the city was plundered and pillaged several times, partly by Swedish troops. In 1634 the imperial general Melchior von Hatzfeldt moved through Crimmitschau and took his toll on the population.

In 1748 David Friedrich Oehler founded a cloth manufacture and dyeing factory in the city . After 1750, fabric and flannel production flourished in Crimmitschau under his direction . Oehler enforced his publishing system against the guilds , and as early as 1777 Crimmitschauer half cloths were exported to South America.

Crimmitschau around 1840

The common office, castle (Schweinsburg) and town, was separated in the 18th century. In 1765 Dorothee von der Planitz sold the town and jurisdiction of Crimmitschau to Johann Christoph Seyffarth for 9,000 thalers ; the town and all its inhabitants became the property of a wealthy patrician family who at that time already owned Schiedel . Machine spinning was introduced in the city in 1814 and the first steam engine was installed in 1824 . On March 15, 1844, Crimmitschau was connected to the German railway network ( Saxon-Bavarian Railway to Leipzig , later extended to Bavaria). The former city hospital was first mentioned in 1848. Shortly before it was closed in 1999, it still had 180 beds.

After the council of the city of Crimmitschau on August 28, 1841, the local manor with the city jurisdiction of Dr. Seyffarth had acquired, the city gained its independence. The city of Crimmitschau belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau until 1856 . In 1856, Crimmitschau became the seat of the Crimmitschau court office of the same name , which in 1875 became part of the Zwickau administration .

At the turn of the 20th century, Crimmitschau was the so-called "City of 100 Chimneys " due to the high concentration of companies in the textile industry . At the end of the 19th century, Crimmitschau had the most millionaires in the German Empire in relation to the total population of the city . They settled on the Westberg and built representative villas so that they were not burdened by the smoke from the chimneys in the prevailing westerly wind weather conditions. Today there is only one cloth factory, namely Spengler & Fürst , which was founded in 1837 as a Buckskin factory and was honored with a bronze medal at the London World Exhibition in 1851 .

On June 16, 1870, the first local newspaper of the German Social Democrats appeared here , the Crimmitschauer Bürger- und Bauernfreunde , which existed until 1879. After the Franco-Prussian War , there was a boom in Germany in the so-called founding years (1871–1873), in which Crimmitschau also participated. Around 1880 there were 40 full cloth factories, 16 Vigogne spinning mills, five dye works and two cotton twisting mills.

Textile workers' strike until World War II

Solidarity postcard for the strike in Crimmitschau (1903/04)
Postcard from Crimmitschau, around 1900. The town as well as the Kaiser Wilhelm monument and the town hall are shown

Following Launch of the right of association in Saxony in 1861, the textile workers went on strike in Crimmitschau 1882, 1884 and 1887 for higher wages. From August 22, 1903 to January 18, 1904, one of the longest and largest textile workers' strikes in the empire took place, which caused an uproar nationwide. On the first day of the strike, 26 spinning mills , 52 weaving mills , four dye works and two tube factories with a total of 7,827 workers, mostly female workers , stopped working. Another 1,500 homeworkers were directly affected. For 21 weeks, the workers fought for the ten-hour day and received international attention, which was reflected in various donations to the strikers. The strikers defended themselves against the use of strike breakers who had invited entrepreneurs to Crimmitschau with operational blockades and threats, which led to the state of siege over Crimmitschau and the stationing of foreign gendarmerie units in the city around the turn of the year 1903/1904 . Shortly afterwards the strike came to an abrupt end when the union leaders and strike leaders, behind the backs of all workers, declared any continuation on January 18, 1904 useless. Despite all efforts, it was not until 1908 that the Reichstag decided to introduce the ten-hour day.

During the First World War , 1,018 residents of Crimmitschau were killed, plus 227 from the surrounding villages.

In 1933 there were more than 80 companies in the city that made their living from the textile industry, including 32 spinning and twisting mills, 28 cloth mills, 8 tearing mills, 7 textile machine manufacturers, 2 core factories, 2 tricot mills, 1 upholstery weaving mill and several dyeing and bleaching mills.

During the Second World War , bombs hit several Crimmitschau houses on the Leitelshainer / Freundstrasse and Hohlstrasse on July 7, 1944 . However, it was not a systematic air strike by the Allies. On April 13 and 14, 1945, US tanks advanced on the motorway from Meerane, and the city was captured on April 15. Due to the declarations of Yalta and Tehran, the US troops left West Saxony and on July 1, 1945 the Red Army entered Crimmitschau.

Since the Second World War

On October 22, 1945, the Crimmitschau schools were reopened and in September 1949 the first store of the state HO was opened. On April 11, 1946 took place in Crimmitschau the merger of local organizations of the KPD and SPD for SED .

The city is home to its own theater, which opened in 1947 with Schiller's Kabale und Liebe in the former gym and three years later moved to its current location on Theaterplatz.

With the administrative reform in East Germany in 1952 Crimmitschau retired from the district of Zwickau and was the September 1, 1952 Circle Werdau in the district of Chemnitz (1953 in the district of Karl-Marx-Stadt renamed) associated with the from 1990 Saxon district Werdau was continued and In 1994 in the district of Zwickauer Land and in 2008 in the district of Zwickau.

At the end of the 1980s, prefabricated buildings on inner-city Mannichswalder Platz

In 1962 the VEB Volltuchwerke Crimmitschau was founded from several textile companies, to which further plants in Werdau, Burg , Neustadt / Orla and Hartha were connected in 1971 . By 1978, all of the local cloth manufacturers were connected. The entire company employed around 4900 people in 1980, over 2000 of them in Crimmitschau.

In the GDR, many construction projects were realized: 1953 began with the construction of 188 apartments in the Wilhelm-Liebknecht-Straße , a year later was workers' housing cooperative Crimmitschau founded and 1956 45 apartments on the corner could Donath- / Hohlstraße related become. Between 1963 and 1969, the prefabricated building area in today's Helmut-Bräutigam-Straße with 344 apartments was built. In the same year, two blocks of flats with 32 apartments were handed over in Lindenstrasse . In October 1964 the ice rink in Sahnpark was inaugurated. The construction of the game reserve began in 1966 and The Spinner , the symbol of the city on the fountain in the market square, was created in 1967 by the sculptor Hans Eickworth. The largest prefabricated building area in the city on Westbergstrasse with 680 apartments was handed over to the citizens in 1978, followed in 1979 by two apartment blocks with 110 age-appropriate and partially handicapped and wheelchair-accessible apartments as well as a department store, a children's combination and a school. In March 1985, after intensive preparation, development work began in the inner-city residential building site Parkgasse / Buttenplatz . The foundation stone was laid on December 11, 1987. 1,150 remote-heated apartments, a crèche, a fitness studio and a shop have been set up here.

From June 9th to 17th, 1989, the 575th anniversary of the city charter was celebrated.

After German reunification , the textile industry in Crimmitschau almost completely collapsed. This bitter turning point is also remembered with a small display board in the Bonn House of History - representative of the development in many other East German cities. The necessary structural change is still ongoing. Political and social change also occurred. In the first free local elections on May 6, 1990, the CDU achieved a clear victory. From August 1, 1994, the city no longer belonged to the Werdau district, but was incorporated into the re-established Zwickauer Land district. Crimmitschau was named a major district town on October 1, 1994 . Work was also continued on the renovation of the historic city center.

In 1999 the Crimmitschau district hospital closed in favor of the new Pleißental Clinic in Werdau . On March 25, 1999, Crimmitschau and Dennheritz reached an administrative agreement that came into force on May 1, 1999.

Religions

Almost 20% of the inhabitants of Crimmitschau belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . In addition to the three parishes in the closer urban area, there are seven Evangelical Lutheran parishes in the incorporated villages of Blankenhain, Frankenhausen, Gablenz, Langenreinsdorf, Lauenhain, Mannichswalde and Rudelswalde. The regional church community is also represented in Crimmitschau with its own house. The Roman Catholic St. Francis parish belonging to the diocese of Dresden-Meißen comprises almost 7% of the inhabitants of Crimmitschau. There are also other Christian communities and free churches .

Evangelical St. John's Church in the southern part of the city

The oldest church in the city is the Protestant St. Laurentius Church in the city center, which began in 1529 when the Reformation began . Due to the economic rise of the city and the associated increase in population, it was decided to build another church in the southern suburb at the end of the 19th century, but it was not until 1912 that the St. John's Church was completed and inaugurated.

In 1937 the Luther Church was built in the incorporated village of Leitelshain. In the times of National Socialism it was occupied by the so-called German Christians .

Catholic Church of St. Francis

The Roman Catholic parish had owned a chapel in a villa built in 1904 in Crimmitschau since 1927 . The bishop set up a pastorate. The parish of St. Franziskus grew after the end of the Second World War, especially due to the influx of people who had been expelled from their homes . Larger services and masses were celebrated in the Protestant St. Johannis Church. The St. Francis Church was built in 2012/2013.

Until 1939 there was also a Jewish population in Crimmitschau :

year 1890 1905 1925 1933 1939
Residents 27 about 10 8th 9 1

Incorporations

Aerial view of Mannichswalde
Former parish date annotation
Blankenhain 01/01/1994
Frankenhausen 07/01/1950
Gablenz 07/01/1950
Gersdorf before 1875 Incorporation to Lauenhain
Gosel before 1875 Incorporation of the Saxon part of Gosel to Frankenhausen
Gösau 02/01/1973
Großpillingsdorf 04/01/1974 Incorporation to Blankenhain
Harthau 04/01/1935 Incorporation to Lauenhain
Kleinpillingsdorf before 1880 Incorporation to Großpillingsdorf
Langenreinsdorf 01/01/1994
Lauenhain 01/01/1999
Leitelshain 07/01/1906
Mannichswalde 01/01/1994
Mark Sahnau before 1875 Incorporation to Rudelswalde
Ponitz 04/01/1928 Part of Gosel was reclassified
Rudelswalde 07/01/1950
Russdorf 07/01/1950 Incorporation to Blankenhain
Temple Franconia 01/01/1877 Incorporation to Frankenhausen
Uncertain before 1875 Incorporation after Gablenz
elections 01/01/1891

Population development

In 1551 155 possessed men, 9 unassessed men and 168 residents were counted, in 1748 there were 292 possessed men and 27 hooves . While in 1834 only 3,767 people lived in Crimmitschau, by 1871 the number had risen to 15,280. The maximum number of inhabitants was reached in the early post-war period, since then the population has been falling - interrupted by the incorporation of the 1990s.

Development of the population since 1875:

Population development of Crimmitschau from 1875 to 2018 according to the table below
year Residents
1875 17,649
1880 18,925
1890 19,300
1910 28,818
1933 27,938
1939 27,247
1946 30.504
1950 34,541
1960 31,279
year Residents
1981 26,229
1984 25,086
1995 23,888
1997 23,420
1998 23,854
1999 23,570
2000 23.305
2001 23,104
2002 22,874
year Residents
2003 22,660
2004 22,528
2005 22.306
2006 21,953
2007 21,680
2008 21,080
2009 20,833
2010 20,901
2011 20,535
year Residents
2012 19,622
2013 19,396
2014 19,180
2015 19,180
2016 18,982
2017 18,746
2018 18,536

As of December 31, 1946: October 29, 1950: August 31. Source (from January 1, 1999): State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

politics

City council

town hall
City council by electoral term (in the 1990s as city ​​council )
Electoral term voter turnout WV a CDU left FDP SPD DSU Churches GREEN DFD Independent REP total
1990-1994 - 15th 3 5 2 4th 2 1 1 6th - 39
1994-1999 66.9%0 02 09 3 5 5 - - 1 - - 1 26th
1999-2004 49.0%0 01 12 5 3 5 - - - - - - 26th
2004-2009 41.34% 09 08th 4th 3 2 - - - - - - 26th
2009-2014 40.83% 10 06th 5 3 2 - - - - - - 26th
2014-2019 44.0%0 12 05 5 2 2 - - - - - - 26th
a1994: FWV C eV; since 2004: FCr (for Crimmitschau)

mayor

Lord Mayor after electoral term
Term of office voter turnout Votes for the OB Lord Mayor Remarks
1990 Karl-Heinz Sonntag (CDU) Mayor, resignation for personal reasons
1990-1991 Peter Deisenhofer (CDU) voted out of office because of irregularities in office
1991-1992 Martin Seidel (FDP) as acting mayor
1992-2003 Peter Zippel (CDU) no new candidacy for corruption allegations
2003-2010 40.91% 58.14% Holm Günther (independent)
2010-2017 42.55% 85.15% Holm Günther (independent)
since 2017 50.90% 44.90% André Raphael (originally independent, now CDU) elected in the second ballot
Local chief after election period
Electoral term Blankenhain Frankenhausen Langenreinsdorf Lauenhain Mannichswalde
2009-2014 Wolfram Koch (CDU) Stefan Rudert (SHF 1 ) Lutz Baumgärtel (FDP) Christian Jacob (CDU) Wolfgang Langwald (CDU)

1 SHF: Sächsischer Heimatschutz Frankenhausen e. V.

coat of arms

Crimmitschau has had a coat of arms since it received its town charter in 1414. The coat of arms, which is still valid today, was adopted by the city council in 1896 and confirmed by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior in the same year.

It shows the silver battlement wall on a red background, crowned by two silver towers, which can now be seen in side view. Between the towers is the shield of the Schönburger, who finally sold all territorial rights to the Kingdom of Saxony in 1878.

Town twinning

Since 1971, Crimmitschau has maintained a town partnership with the Czech town of Bystřice nad Pernštejnem , and since March 1990 another with the town of Wiehl in North Rhine-Westphalia . The maintenance of town twinning relationships is carried out by the Förderverein town twinnings Crimmitschau e. V.

Culture and sights

Blankenhain Castle
Laurentiuskirche
The savings bank in a building from the 1920s

theatre

From 1947 to 1950 the Crimmitschauer theater ensemble played in what is now the House of Sports , which has been called the "House of Clubs" for several years. The municipal theater in the former factory owners' association was opened on April 11, 1950. Crimmitschau has not had its own ensemble since 1957. In 1963 the building was reconstructed and reopened as a cultural center on the occasion of the first weaver festival . In 2006 around 35,000 people visited the building.

Museums

The former Gebr. Pfau cloth factory is the largest fully equipped full cloth factory in Central Europe. This technical monument, formerly known as the West Saxon Textile Museum, is now part of the Saxon Industrial Museum Association .

The since October 2006 as German Agricultural Museum Blankenhain Castle called open-air museum in the town district Blankenhain houses about 100 thematic exhibitions.

music

The composer Helmut Bräutigam , who fell in 1942, came from Crimmitschau. The concert series Crimmitschauer Kirchenmusiken has existed since 1996 and in 2007 had around 5,800 visitors at 24 concerts.

The band Dialog from Crimmitschau made the city known nationwide in the 1980s, especially with the pop-rock title 963 , which alluded to the city's zip code at the time.

Buildings

Architectural attractions are the late Gothic parish church of St. Laurentius (1513) with star and ribbed vaults , the Cistercian nunnery (founded around 1290) and the originally Romanesque village church in the Frankenhausen district and Blankenhain Castle with the agricultural museum . The town hall from 1772 with its 35 meter high tower is next to the theater the most worth seeing secular building in the center. The building was redesigned in 1891/92 by the Leipzig architect Arwed Roßbach in the neo-baroque style . Next to the town hall on Silberstraße, a Saxon post mile column was built as a replica in 2018 , the original of which was on the market from 1726 to at least 1875. In the Herrengasse, which leads south from the market square, there is a reconstructed Renaissance portal from 1586. Many representative manufacturer's villas in the west of the city are a reminder of the city's former wealth. Some have been restored as private homes in recent years. Only the Villa Vier Jahreszeiten at Bismarckhain, used as a hotel, is open to the public . There is a memorial for the victims of fascism in the cemetery .

Parks

There are several recreational areas in Crimmitschau: On the one hand, the Zöffelpark, which was founded in the pre-war period and which was named after Emil Oskar Zöffel, an important textile manufacturer in Crimmitschau's history. On the other hand the Bismarckhain, which is also known as Friedenspark (as it was called in the GDR ). This park is located directly on Zeitzer Straße, the arterial road towards Sahnpark, ice rink and the Schmölln motorway junction. In the park there is the Wettin Fountain, which was inaugurated on the occasion of the city rights ceremony in 1914, and the restored Bismarck Grotto.

The largest recreation area in the city is the 40 hectare Sahnpark north of the city center. 6.5 km of hiking trails run through the forest area. Here you will find the venerable outdoor pool, an animal enclosure, a children's playground and the venue of the ETC Crimmitschau : the artificial ice stadium, which can hold up to 6722 spectators and was roofed over in the mid-1990s.

Sports

Crimmitschau has a well-known ice hockey club , the ETC Crimmitschau , which was promoted back to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2006. In terms of football, FC Crimmitschau represents the city - the men from “FCC” currently play in the regional league. In addition, there has been an American football team since June 10, 2005, the Crimmitschau Tornados . In Crimmitschau there is the Sahnbad forest pool , which was named after the surrounding forest, the Mark Sahnau. It has two very large pools (100 × 50 m and 50 × 25 m). The larger of the two basins has the largest water surface in the Chemnitz administrative district . In the Vital Center on Zeitzer Straße there is a small indoor swimming pool and in the nudist area there is another outdoor pool that is protected from view.

Regular events

Regular events include, for example, the Crimmitschauer market festival, the pottery market in the Gablenz district, which is known throughout Germany, the Crimmitschauer car show, the guild and trade market and the Christmas market.

Economy and Infrastructure

year Unemployment rate Debt level in € m Debt level per inhabitant in €
1998 20,556 856
1999 19.644 828
2000 19,705 837
2001 17.977 776
2002 16,568 722
2003 15.208 667
2004 20.2% 14.376 635
2005 17.0% 13,417 601
2006 16.0% 12,591 568
2007 13.0% 11.765 538
2008 11.0% 11.765 538
2009 10,940 508

traffic

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Bridge of the A4 motorway over the Pleiße in Frankenhausen

Between Crimmitschau and the Frankenhausen district, the federal motorway 4 spans the Pleiße valley . There are junctions in Thuringia south of Schmölln with a connection via the state road S 61 to the city center and in Saxon territory south of Meerane via the four-lane federal highway 93 , from which the S 289 leads via the city center to Werdau. A separate Crimmitschau junction on the A 4 was planned for 2012. Other state roads that connect Crimmitschau with the surrounding area are the S 54 via Frankenhausen to Gößnitz , the S 288 to Meerane, the S 290 to Zwickau and the S 294 via Mannichswalde to Seelingstädt.

Crimmitschau station

Crimmitschau is on the Leipzig – Hof railway line , on which the S-Bahn trains from Central Germany run. The S5X express line connects the city every hour with Zwickau , Altenburg , Leipzig and Leipzig / Halle Airport , while the S5 runs every two hours with stops at almost all stops on the way to Halle (Saale) . In Werdau there are platform-level connections to the Vogtland Railway to Plauen and Cheb . The next long-distance train stations are Leipzig Hauptbahnhof , Jena Paradies and Erfurt Hauptbahnhof . The station was opened in 1844, the current building dates from 1873.

In addition to various regional bus routes, the Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen (RVW) also operate a city bus route.

Crimmitschau is on the Luther Trail in Saxony .

Established businesses

The industrial and commercial area Glauchauer Landstraße Crimmitschau , also the industrial area Crimmitschau Ost , was laid out in 1991 in the east of the city with the associated streets Glauchauer Landstraße , Gewerbering , Breitscheidstraße and Waldsachsen Weg . In 2002 it was decided to expand by 12 ha. 55 companies are currently located on the site there, with a total area of ​​73 hectares. The number of employees rose from 350 (1994) to almost 1800 (2006), the utilization rate is 89%. The resident companies include:

  • BiV Bau- und Industriegeräte Vertriebs GmbH
  • GTC Gastrotechnik Crimmitschau Manufacturing and Sales GmbH
  • H&T Production Technology GmbH
  • Linamar Antriebstechnik GmbH and Linamar Powertrain GmbH, parts of the Canadian Linamar group
  • LTC Lufttechnik Crimmitschau
  • Wirthwein Crimmitschau GmbH & Co. KG
  • Westfalia Presstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
  • Salzgitter Hydroforming GmbH & Co. KG
  • Enderlein Crimmitschau GmbH & Atelier Enderlein in Saxony GmbH
  • imq engineering company for material testing GmbH

In the commercial area there is also a shopping center ( Crimmitschau Center , designated as a special retail area) with around 25 service and retail stores. Another resident company is Spengler & Fürst on Carl-Spengler-Straße, a traditional Crimmitschau company in the textile industry.

media

In Crimmitschau, Blickpunkt Crimmitschau appears as the official and home newspaper , which is also distributed to households in Dennheritz.

education

Julius-Motteler-Gymnasium , Westberg part of the school

In the city of Crimmitschau there are three elementary schools with the Käthe-Kollwitz-Grundschule, the Frankenhausen elementary school and the "Christian-Friedrich-Schach" elementary school in Blankenhain, with the Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule and the Sahnschule high school, two high schools, the Julius-Motteler- Gymnasium and the special school Lindenschule. In addition, there is the school and public observatory "Johannes Kepler" especially for astronomical education. The Lindenschule elementary school, the fourth elementary school, was closed.

Personalities

Former honorary citizens

  • August Bürde (1791-1858)
  • July 2, 1847: Hermann Theodor Haustein (1814–1873), lawyer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), mayor
  • July 12, 1854: Adolph Schulze, businessman
  • June 30, 1874: Friedrich Ferdinand Gottweiß (1809–1893), school director
  • November 11, 1875: Bernhard Satlow (1811–1881), Mayor
  • April 17, 1878: Julius Moritz Hoffmann, City Councilor
  • 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
  • August 14, 1896: Heinrich à Roda (1827–1907), manufacturer
  • January 6, 1897: Friedrich Philipp Welker (1819–1910), private owner
  • January 2, 1909: Friedrich Eduard Ferdinand Hößelbarth (1847–1921), City Councilor
  • 1914: Bernhard Albrecht (1843–1926), Councilor of Commerce
  • March 22, 1933: Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), President of the Reich
  • May 17, 1933: Emil Oskar Zöffel (1859–1933), Councilor of Commerce
  • February 28, 1964: Werner Krumbein (1917–1996), music director
  • July 31, 1968: Gerhard Rudolf Meyer (1908–1977), museologist , ancient orientalist and archaeologist , former general director of the Berlin museums
  • October 12, 1984: Walter Richter (1904–1997), gardener and bromeliad breeder
  • January 19, 2005: Bertfried Bertfried Bräuninger (1942–2012), surgeon and former president of the ETC Crimmitschau
  • January 16, 2013: Armin Andrä (1926–2018), dentist, professor and author
  • January 20, 2016: Dieter Steiniger (1935–2019), senior teacher and city councilor

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities

  • Julius Motteler (1838–1907), member of the Reichstag, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
  • Mourad Kusserow (1939–2019), journalist, long-time editor for Deutsche Welle in Cologne
  • Ice hockey cracks from the early years of the GDR: among others Siegfried Speck †, Alfred Unterdörfel, Hans-Joachim Rudert †, Ernst Mälzer, Dieter Kratzsch (all * in Frankenhausen )

Varia

  • The band Dialog from Crimmitschau dedicated the song 963 to their hometown . All drive past.
  • In 2015 Matthias Gehler published the song Crimmitschau , with which he poetically pays tribute to his hometown.

literature

Web links

Commons : Crimmitschau  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Crimnitsch in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Crimmitzschau  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: The Oehler factory in Crimmitzschau  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: The Vigogne and carded yarn spinning mill by C. Wippern & Wiehe in Crimmitzschau  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Crimmitschau  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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  43. ↑ As a result of an exchange of territory with Thuringia, another part of the village of Gosel comes from the municipality of Ponitz to Frankenhausen.
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