Drebach
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 13 ° 1 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony | |
County : | Erzgebirgskreis | |
Height : | 477 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 32.86 km 2 | |
Residents: | 5127 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 156 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 09430 | |
Primaries : | 03725, 037341, 037369 | |
License plate : | ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP | |
Community key : | 14 5 21 150 | |
LOCODE : | DE DBC | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
August-Bebel-Strasse 25 B 09430 Drebach |
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Website : | ||
Mayor : | Jens Haustein (independent, mandate from the CDU ) | |
Location of the municipality of Drebach in the Erzgebirge district | ||
Drebach is a municipality in the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony (Germany).
geography
location
The 6 km long forest hoof village Drebach is located in a side valley of the Zschopau in a south-west-north-east direction. The district of Scharfenstein is located in the Zschopau valley. The highest point of the place is at 600 m on the border to Ehrenfriedersdorf and the lowest point on the Zschopau at 340 m.
Neighboring communities
Großolbersdorf is to the east of the municipality , Selva in the southeast and south , Wiesenbad thermal baths to the south and Ehrenfriedersdorf and Thum to the west .
structure
The municipality of Drebach has the following districts:
- Drebach
- Scharfenstein (incorporated on January 1, 2005)
- Grießbach (on January 1, 1999 to Venusberg)
- In the reason (on January 1st, 1999 with Grießbach to Venusberg)
- Spinning mill (on January 1, 2010 with the incorporation of Venusberg)
- Venusberg (incorporated on January 1, 2010)
- Wilischthal (on January 1, 1999 with Grießbach to Venusberg)
- Wiltzsch
history
Local history
On April 8, 1386 Drebach was first mentioned in a document as "Dretebach". In the period that followed, the spelling was subject to multiple changes. In 1414 “Tartebach” was written, 1485 “Tretbach”, 1542 “Dreybach”, until finally in 1814 today's spelling appeared. The name of the place can almost certainly be traced back to the Middle High German word draete, drāte (hurry, quickly, quickly). Drebach is a settlement on the hasty, fast flowing river. In the years 1518 to 1587 the silver mining brought a rich yield. With the Reformation in 1539 Drebach remained an independent parish with the villages of Grießbach, Herold and Venusberg . The first church school teacher was mentioned in 1588 and the church school was built in 1600 . The church was rebuilt in 1614. From 1648 to 1703 the doctor and alternative practitioner David Rebentrost worked as a pastor in Drebach. He laid the foundation stone for the crocus meadows with an area of currently eight hectares. In 1746 a lime works was built in the Heidelbachtal. The first stocking knitters were mentioned in 1785. In the years 1825/1826 the rebuilding of the church, the manor and the church school , which was destroyed in a devastating fire on May 12, 1823, took place . In 1866 the middle school, from 1915 municipal office, was built. In 1877 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. The first telephone station was built in 1884. In 1889/1900 the upper and lower schools were built. In 1896 the manor district was united with the community. The lime works were shut down in 1901, and an electricity plant was built in 1909. In 1919 street lighting was started. In 1926 the laying of gas and water pipes began. The gas supply was started in 1928. On the night of February 15, 1945, Anglo-American bombings destroyed or damaged eleven houses and killed five residents. A country cinema was opened in 1959, and a school for the entire town was completed in 1967. The inauguration of a school observatory on the premises of the Drebach secondary school took place in 1969. On June 1, 1986, on the occasion of Drebach's 600th anniversary, a new observatory with a Zeiss planetarium was opened. From 1994 to 2009 the community was a member of the administrative association Grüner Grund .
School history
Until the inauguration of the Karl Marx High School in 1967, Drebach had three schools in the lower, middle and upper district. In 1600 the first church school was built in Drebacher Niederdorf. Bartolomäus Petzold (1588–1640) held the lessons. In 1823 the church burned down and with it the attached school. Just one year later, a new church school was opened in today's cantor's house, and the lower elementary school with four classrooms was built in 1889/1890. After the Second World War, it was converted into a primary school with grades 1 to 8. A second school building was built in Oberdrebach in 1849. A hundred years earlier, a lay teacher began teaching children in a building on property no. In 1889/1890 a new building with two classrooms was built and in 1919 it was expanded to five rooms spread over three buildings. In 1945 the structure was converted into a primary school with eight classes. In the central part of the village, a third school building with a classroom was built in 1866, in which up to four years were taught together with class sizes of up to 70 students. In 1893 one room was added. In 1915 the school building was sold and redesigned as a municipal office; it currently still has this function. In 1925 the closed power station near the village square was converted into a gymnasium and a training school with two rooms. As a result, a vocational school association for Drebach and Venusberg was set up, which was dissolved again in 1950. The gym and the rooms were then used by the old elementary school and later by the POS , the secondary school and the elementary school founded in 2006. In the dkk refrigerator factory, apprentices have been trained as fitters of large household appliances since 1951.
Population development
Drebach is one of the few villages in the region that have so far defied the generally observed decline in population in the Free State of Saxony . According to the Saxony State Development Plan 2006, it was one of the few municipalities in the Free State in the period 2003–2006 that had a birth surplus . It is listed in the category of excess births of up to five children per thousand inhabitants. In 2005, 19 children were born in Drebach and six children in Scharfenstein. In the following year, 26 children were born in Drebach and nine in Scharfenstein.
The place has three daycare facilities . The Sunshine Day Care Center is located in the Scharfenstein district. In the middle of Drebach is the largest day care center sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran regional church . In the upper part of the village there is the Löwenzahn day care center with 30 places in the community center run by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Annaberg / Mittleres Erzgebirge e. V.
Population development
The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:
1982 to 1988
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1989 to 1995
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1996 to 2002
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2003 to 2012
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from 2013
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- Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
politics
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Municipal council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 18 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
Community partnerships
religion
The church communities in Drebach not only contribute to the spiritual but also to the cultural life and make contributions to child and youth work in rural areas . Drebach has three Protestant denominations . In the district of Scharfenstein there is an Evangelical Lutheran community. Their community center, inaugurated on February 6, 2005, is located on Burgberg. Drebach also has an Evangelical Lutheran parish with the village church , the surrounding cemetery and the parsonage in the vicinity of the manor at the lower exit of the village. In the center of the village, not far from the town hall, there is a small church building belonging to the Methodist community. At the upper exit of the village there is a community center of the regional church community .
The Scharfensteiner community belongs together with Hohndorf , Hopfgarten and Grünau to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Großolbersdorf. Drebach is the seat of a separate parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , to which Venusberg and Grießbach also belong. Herold was one of them until the 19th century, as the Kirchsteig leading through the New Houses straight to Herold still testifies to this day.
The community center Scharfenstein has an EC regularly -Jugendkreis and a number of up to Bible study aptly groups, such as a house group or a retiree circle. In addition, there is traditionally a diverse musical activity of a choir and a trombone choir within the framework of church music .
In the larger parish of Drebach, the activities are more extensive. In addition to the sponsorship of the kindergarten in the center of the village and the after- school care center of the elementary school, there is also a setup time home in the rectory. This is located near the church and consists of the rectory , an outbuilding and the community center, inaugurated in 2004, which was built on the site of the former parish barn belonging to the historic rectory and therefore bears its name. As part of the church's youth work, there is a youth group , a young community and a volleyball group in the community . There are also a number of prayer circles for different target groups.
The parish is particularly active in the musical field. In three Kurrendegruppen , the church choir singing, the brass choir and the church orchestra and music weekly total of up to 180 people. The festive musical design of the services forms the center of the work, supplemented by concerts mainly in the Easter, summer and pre-Christmas period.
Culture and sights
- see also: List of cultural monuments in Drebach
Community center
The community center was established in 2003 in a former, listed textile factory in Oberdrebach Am Zechengrund 4. The aim of creating this object was to enrich the cultural life in the village. The building now houses the “Löwenzahn” day-care center run by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Annaberg / Mittleres Erzgebirge e. V., a doctor's office, a number of event rooms and some apartments. The adjoining garden was designed with a variety of herb discounts that serve as illustrative material for courses on herb cultivation and use. So far, lectures and readings, performances of dialect theater, cabaret evenings and Taiji - or Czech courses have taken place in the community center.
Exhibition hall
The so-called exhibition hall was built in the 1970s by the " LPG Vorwärts" as a laying hen house in Mitteldrebach. When the building had not been used as a stable since the end of the 80s, small animal breeding exhibitions were held in it on a regular basis, which gave it its current name. The Drebach community completely renovated the building in the 1990s. Since then it has been used as the largest hall in the village for events with a large audience and / or space requirements, such as carnival events, folk music concerts and small animal breeding exhibitions.
Scharfenstein Castle
The Scharfenstein Castle is located in the district of Scharfenstein in the valley of Zschopau. Among other things, it houses a permanent exhibition of Erzgebirge folk art under the title “Longing for Light” by the Hamburg collector Andreas Martin and a number of artisan workshops.
Public observatory and Zeiss planetarium
With its planetarium technology (Zeiss ZKP 3 Skymaster projector) from Carl Zeiss , the Drebach public observatory is one of the most modern planetariums in Germany. The inner dome has a diameter of 11 m and offers space for 70 spectators. The planetarium has had a full dome projection system from Carl Zeiss since November 2014 .
Planet trail and earth history trail
The planetary hiking trail stretches for almost 6 km from Ehrenfriedersdorf to the public observatory in Drebach. It runs on well-developed and signposted paths between the two places. The hiker can start with a model of the sun in Ehrenfriedersdorf and after 5.9 km arrives at the dwarf planet Pluto, which is located in the grounds of the public observatory. The hiking trail is designed on a 1: 1 billion scale. Benches and shelters are available. On the hiking trail, an earth history trail begins at the planet Jupiter , on which the history of the earth can be traversed on a time scale of 1: 1 billion. Characteristics of different development periods are described on information boards.
Natural monuments
Krokuswiesen
In March and April the Drebacher Krokuswiesen with thousands of crocus blossoms are a tourist attraction with national fame.
Heidelbachtal
nature reserve , in which among other things rare bird species such as the kingfisher or the dipper can be observed. A herd of around 20 European mouflons has been at home in the surrounding spruce forests since around the year 2000 .
Memorials
- A memorial plaque on the former Kulturhaus commemorates the social democrat Kurt Körbitz , who was mistreated by SA men in 1933 and died as a result, as well as the communist Emil Woytizka , who died in 1941 of a TB infection inflicted on him
- David Rebentrost memorial stone on Wolkensteiner Strasse
Regular events
Various events take place in Drebach.
- Traditional bonfires in spring
- Venusberger Badfest, in summer
- Fair with hype and marquee on Drebacher Dorfplatz, in autumn
- Christmas market at the manor in Drebach
- Christmas market at Scharfenstein Castle
Economy and Infrastructure
Economic structure
The community has two commercial areas, one on the former dkk site in Scharfenstein and one outside of Drebach at the lower entrance to the village, which are not yet fully occupied. The local economic structure is mainly characterized by smaller craft businesses. After the demise of by far the largest employer in the region, the DKK Scharfenstein plant, renamed Foron after the fall of the Wall , there was a lack of industrial jobs in the municipality, as there were no major industrial settlements in the years after 1990 either to have. The existing medium-sized industrial companies work in the areas of precision mechanics, electronics and advertising design. At the end of 2002 there was success with the settlement of a medium-sized company from North Rhine-Westphalia, which claims to have created 100 jobs after five years. Nevertheless, the space available in the commercial areas is not yet fully utilized.
In addition to the enormous and abrupt restructuring in the industry, similar upheavals took place in agriculture, albeit on a smaller scale, so that in addition to the successor company of the former LPG Vorwärts, the Drebach agricultural cooperative, there are several restitutors . However, the rapid change in the economic system also led to a rapid layoff of workers in agriculture. Tourism plays a rather subordinate role. There are a number of holiday apartments, often on farms, and two guest houses. The citizens' energy cooperative "Bürger Energie Drebach eG", founded in 2014, pursues the goal of implementing projects in accordance with the statutes that ensure a sustainable, local, future-proof and affordable energy supply for the community of Drebach and its districts in the long term. For this purpose, BED eG operates photovoltaic systems on the planetarium in Drebach, the "Sonnenstrahl" daycare center in Drebach, the outdoor swimming pool in Venusberg and the municipal administration in Scharfenstein. Charging stations for electric vehicles at Scharfenstein train station and in the surrounding communities are other BED eG projects.
VEB DKK Scharfenstein has written industrial history as Foron by starting production of the first CFC and HFC- free refrigerator " Greenfreeze " here on March 15, 1993 . This was brought to market maturity with the support of Harry Rosin (Dortmund Hygiene Institute) and Greenpeace . All other manufacturers refused until this date to use this refrigeration technology that protects the ozone layer , which then found worldwide distribution and imitation. The company received the German Environment Prize for this .
education
Drebach has had a central school building since 1967, which is located in the center of the village near the observatory and the sports field. On July 1, 1966 the foundation stone for the new school building was laid. On August 30, 1967, the inauguration of the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) took place under the name " Karl Marx Oberschule" for 500 students and 30 teachers. The construction costs amounted to about 2.9 million GDR marks . On June 1, 1969, the farm building with the dining room, school kitchen, after-school facilities and a caretaker's apartment were also completed. In the same year the road from youth to school was built.
In the spring of 1990 the school was renamed " David Rebentrost School" in honor of the Drebach priest, who was closely associated with the crocus saga . In 1992, as part of the introduction of the new Saxon school system, the ten-level POS was converted into a six-level middle school . The primary school was relocated to the neighboring Venusberg. In the following years, the school, like the region in general, suffered the effects of the pronounced bend in the birth rate after reunification and experienced a rapid decline in the number of students, so that in July 2006 the middle school was closed as part of the Saxon school reorganization despite strong protests from the population . In the following month, a primary school for students from Drebach and the district of Scharfenstein was set up in the school building , which in 2007 was again attended by 120 students.
traffic
In Scharfenstein there is a stop of the Zschopautalbahn Chemnitz - Vejprty . The route is operated by the Erzgebirgsbahn .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Karl Stülpner (1762–1841), poacher, deserter, folk hero, born in Scharfenstein
- Georg Aenotheus Koch (1802–1879), classical philologist, lexicographer and educator
- Christian Friedrich Arnold (1823–1890), architect and professor at the Dresden Art Academy
- Aloisia Eberle (1889–?), Member of the state parliament in Bavaria, born in Scharfenstein
- Willy Irmisch (1898–1974), local politician, born in Venusberg
- Werner Salevsky (1940–1991), enduro athlete
- Dieter Salevsky (1944–2019), enduro athlete
Personalities who have worked on site
- David Rebentrost (1614–1703), pastor, doctor and alternative practitioner
- Johanne Amalie von Elterlein (1784–1865), poet of the first stanzas of the Erzgebirge " Heiligobndlied "
- Karl Sewart (1933–2019), writer
Others
Drebach does not only exist on earth, but also in space. The minor planet (6488) discovered in the Tautenburg State Observatory in Thuringia officially bears the name Drebach.
literature
- Kurt Melzer: Chronicle of Drebach. Drebach, 2015. DNB 1077832591
- Hermann Pährisch, Kurt Scheffler: History from Drebach. Drebach, 2012. DNB 1023852535
- Drebach community (ed.): Festschrift 625 years Drebach. Drebach, 2011. DNB 1012828395
- Drebach . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, pp. 792-799.
- Drebach (continued) . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 2nd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1815, pp. 3-9.
- The Drebach Parish. in: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, Sp. 206-234 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Drebach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Literature about Drebach in the Saxon Bibliography
- Drebach municipality
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Saxony regional register (incorporation of Scharfenstein into Drebach)
- ↑ a b c Saxony regional register (merger of Grießbach and Venusberg)
- ↑ Saxony regional register (merger of Venusberg and Drebach)
- ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historisches Ortnamesbuch von Sachsen , Berlin 2001, Volume I, p. 211, ISBN 3-05-003728-8
- ↑ Wochenspiegel Mittleres Erzgebirge, No. 28, July 11, 2007, page 4.
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ^ Message from November 11, 2014 on the observatory's homepage.
- ↑ a b Wochenspiegel Mittleres Erzgebirge, No. 28, July 11, 2007, page 5.
- ↑ Inventor of the Greenfreeze refrigerator awarded the Federal Cross of Merit - Greenpeace press release November 21, 2000. Accessed May 29, 2014 .