Deutschgeorgenthal
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Deutschgeorgenthal
Municipality Neuhausen / Erzgeb.
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 25 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 20 ″ E
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| Height : | 640 m above sea level NN | |
| Residents : | 24 (Dec. 31, 2016) | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1994 | |
| Postal code : | 09544 | |
| Area code : | 037327 | |
Location of Deutschgeorgenthal in Saxony |
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Deutschgeorgenthal is a district of Neuhausen / Erzgeb.
location
The district, which belonged to the municipality of Cämmerswalde until 1994 , is located in the transition area from the Western Ore Mountains to the Eastern Ore Mountains on the Bohemian border, which is marked by the Flöha at the confluence of the Rauschenbach.
An old border crossing to Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, connects Deutschgeorgenthal with the neighboring Czech municipality of Český Jiřetín ( Georgendorf ) . The Eisenach – Budapest EB mountain hiking trail runs through Deutschgeorgenthal and the E3 European long-distance hiking trail from the Black Sea to Spain through Český Jiřetín .
To the west of the village, the Flöha is dammed in the Rauschenbach dam. Neighboring places are southwest Neuwernsdorf and northwest Cämmerswalde.
history
Georgenthal was founded in 1592 by the Bohemian nobleman Georg von Lobkowicz and named after his first name. The raft ditch, also called Neugraben rafts, built between 1624 and 1629 runs above Deutschgeorgenthal . Through this, wood was rafted from the Bohemian forests into the Freiberg mountain area. In 1895 a royal Saxon customs office was built in Deutschgeorgenthal, and goods had to be cleared here until 1938.
In autumn 1938 the Wehrmacht used the border crossing to occupy the Sudetenland . In 1945 the crossing was closed. On August 21, 1968, Soviet tanks and trucks drove across the border crossing to crush the Prague Spring . In 1995 the crossing was reopened for pedestrians. The crossing has also been open to cars since 2008, the bridge over the Flöha was rebuilt in 2012 and is approved for up to 3.5 tons.
Web links
- Homepage of the place
- Deutschgeorgenthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures on neuhausen.de ( Memento from March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
