Dörfel (Schlettau)

Dörfel City of Schlettau Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 9 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	555 m
Residents :	352  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1996
Postal code :	09487
Area code :	03733
Location of Dörfel in Saxony

Dörfel is a district of the Saxon town of Schlettau in the Erzgebirge district .

geography

location

The Waldhufendorf Dörfel is located about 3 kilometers north of Schlettau in the Ore Mountains . The place stretches about 1 kilometer starting on the right bank of the Zschopau up the slope to the east. State road 267 Tannenberg - Crottendorf runs through the valley of the Zschopau , via which there is also a connection to Hermannsdorf on the left bank. Dörfel is connected to Frohnau via a local road.

Neighboring places

	Tannenberg
Hermannsdorf		Frohnau
Scheibenberg	Schlettau	Buchholz

history

A linden tree in Dörfel, protected as a natural monument

Hard stone works Dörfel, in the background Annaberg-Buchholz with the Pöhlberg

The former immediate official village of the Grünhain office was first mentioned in 1411 as daz Dorffichin . In the past a ford led through the Zschopau. At the end of the 16th century, there was intensive iron mining. The village used to have two mills and an inheritance court. At the beginning of the 19th century the population was 224. In terms of the church, Dörfel belonged to Elterlein until 1559 and has been parish to Hermannsdorf since then .

In 1886 a wood grinding and cardboard factory was founded as the first large industrial company. A schoolhouse was inaugurated in 1892, and a new school and a syringe house were built in 1926.

On October 1st, 1996 Dörfel was incorporated into Schlettau.

Population development

year population 1559 24 obsessed man 1764 19 possessed men, 4 cottagers , 10 hooves 1834 302 1855 364 1871 402 1890 477

year population 1910 513 1925 500 1939 435 1946 440 1950 572

year population 1964 463 1990 399 1996 388

Personalities

• Georg Christoph Kreyziger (1695–1758), bookseller and historian, was born in Dörfel as the son of the village judge.
• Karlheinz Stoll (1927–1992), Protestant theologian, pastor and bishop, was born in Dörfel

literature

• Dörfel . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 1st volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1814, p. 741.
• Dörfel near Schlettau . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 15th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1828, p. 246 f.

Web links

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

• Dörfel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Schlettau, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 30, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Dörfel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
4. ↑ CFT Rudowsky: directory of whole villages of the Kingdom of Saxony ... after counting on 3 December 1855. Ramming, Dresden 1857, p. 13