Drochaus

Drochaus Community Rosenbach / Vogtl. Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 12 ″ N , 12 ° 0 ′ 1 ″ E
Area :	40.9 ha
Residents :	103 (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	252 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Flour turret
Postal code :	08539
Area code :	037431

Drochaus is a part of the municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. in the Saxon Vogtland . The village belonging to the locality Mehltheuer is located west of Plauen .

geography

Drochaus is located in the northwest of the municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. and borders on five other districts of the municipality and one district of the municipality of Pausa-Mühltroff . The Leipzig – Hof railway line runs through the district .

Ranspach (Pausa-Mühltroff)	Unterpirk
Schoenberg		Oberpirk
Demeusel		Leubnitz

history

Listed house on Oberpirker Straße

The place was first mentioned in 1298 as villa Trachans . Possibly the name derives genitive from the Old Sorbian personal name "Drogan". Since 1506 the place belonged to the office of Plauen . After belonging to the Pausa court office from 1856 and to the Plauen administration from 1875, the place finally became part of the Plauen-Land district in 1952 . 1974 Drochaus was incorporated into Mehltheuer. Together with Mehltheuer, the place has been part of the Rosenbach / Vogtl community since January 1, 2011 .

Development of the population

year	population
1557	18 possessed men , 9 residents
1764	18 possessed men, 2 gardeners, 6 cottagers, 7 3/5 hooves 30 bushels each
1834	186
1871	241
1890	241
1910	187
1925	203
1939	159
1946	199
1950	183
1964	140
2011	103

Web links

Commons : Drochaus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Drochaus in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Internet presence of the municipality of Rosenbach - page for the Drochaus district. Retrieved September 26, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Brigitte Unger, Werner Pöllmann u. a. (Ed.): The Vogtland Atlas . 3. Edition. Verlag Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-937386-18-8 , p. 123 .
↑ 2011 census results on statistik.sachsen.de. (PDF) Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
↑ Ernst Eichler , Volkmar Hellfritzsch , Johannes Richter : The place names of the Saxon Vogtland . 1. The name book (= Vogtlandmuseum Plauen [Hrsg.]: Series of publications of the Vogtlandmuseum . No. 50 ). 1st edition. Plauen 1983, p. 29 .
↑ Drochaus' population up to 1964 in the Digital Historical Directory. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .

[1] Brigitte Unger, Werner Pöllmann u. a. (Ed.): The Vogtland Atlas . 3. Edition. Verlag Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-937386-18-8 , p. 123 .

[2] 2011 census results on statistik.sachsen.de. (PDF) Retrieved September 26, 2019 .

[3] Ernst Eichler , Volkmar Hellfritzsch , Johannes Richter : The place names of the Saxon Vogtland . 1. The name book (= Vogtlandmuseum Plauen [Hrsg.]: Series of publications of the Vogtlandmuseum . No. 50 ). 1st edition. Plauen 1983, p. 29 .

[4] Drochaus' population up to 1964 in the Digital Historical Directory. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .