Falkenau (Flöha)
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Falkenau
City of Flöha
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 19 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 57 ″ E
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| Height : | 288 m | |
| Area : | 9.08 km² | |
| Residents : | 1951 (Dec. 31, 2010) | |
| Population density : | 215 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | October 1, 2011 | |
| Postal code : | 09557 | |
| Area code : | 03726 | |
Location of Falkenau in Saxony |
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Falkenau has been part of the large district town of Flöha in the district of central Saxony in Saxony (Germany) since October 1, 2011 .
geography
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Falkenau lies in the valley of the Flöha . The highest point of the municipality is 432 m, the lowest point is the Flöha at 280 m.
Neighboring communities
Augustusburg is south of Falkenau , Flöha to the west , Frankenberg to the north and Oederan to the east .
Local division
The district of Hetzdorf belongs to Falkenau .
history
The first written mention of Falkenau as Falkenawe is to the year 1378. The place was probably founded around 1157. From 1453, it was mainly limestone that was quarried in Falkenau. First for the Chemnitz city wall and later for the Augustusburg hunting lodge . Lime mining on the Plauberg and wood rafting on the Flöha river existed for over 300 years. In the 16th and 17th centuries, silver mining was carried out in up to 29 tunnels in Falkenau . Originally laid out as a forest hoof village in the Augustusburg office , it was largely redesigned by industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, including the establishment of a cotton mill. The first cotton spinning mill was built in 1821. Another upswing came with the opening of the Annaberg-Buchholz and Bf-Flöha railway (1866), the Dresden – Werdau railway (Chemnitz – Freiberg section, opened in 1869) and the Reitzenhain – Flöha railway (1875). In the district of Hetzdorf, the Hetzdorf Viaduct , which was used as a railway bridge until 1992, was built in 1869 .
Until 1856, Falkenau belonged as an official village to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Augustusburg , formerly "Office Schellenberg". After the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, Falkenau was under the jurisdiction of the Augustusburg court office and, from 1875, of the Flöha administration . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Falkenau with its district of Hetzdorf came to the district of Flöha in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Flöha from 1990 and in 1994 in the Freiberg district or 2008 in the district of central Saxony. The incorporation of Falkenau with Hetzdorf to Flöha took place on October 1, 2011.
Population development
The population of Falkenau has shown a negative trend since the fall of the Wall. The years 1995–1997, which were characterized by the construction of the single-family residential area, are to be excluded.
The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2011:
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1980 to 1989
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1990 to 1999
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2000 to 2009
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2010 to 2019
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- Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, as of June 30, 2011
politics
The municipality of Falkenau and Flöha formed the administrative community Flöha since 1995 . Most of the administrative tasks have therefore already been carried out by the Flöha city administration. On June 29 (Falkenau) and June 30 (Flöha), the municipal and city councils of Falkenau and Flöha decided to merge voluntarily on October 1, 2011. Six municipal council members then went to the city council in Flöha, and five members formed the local council of Falkenau.
At the same time as the 2014 local elections, the Falkenau local council was elected. It consists of six members and the local mayor who is entitled to vote as his chairman:
- Free voters : 2 members
- CDU : 2 members
- AfD : 1 member
- SPD : 1 member
Culture and sights
Sports
The Falkenau e. V. is represented on the Plauer Berg with a 350 m long lift. The Falkenau gymnastics and sports club includes soccer, athletics, table tennis and volleyball.
leisure
The Falkenau open-air swimming pool is in a quiet location by the forest, only approx. 300 m from the B 173 (left between Flöha and Oederan when coming from Chemnitz).
Attractions
At the confluence of Ernst-Thälmann-Straße with Dresdner Straße is the listed Kursächsische Postmeile Column Falkenau , which was built in Falkenau in 1722.
The Hetzdorf Viaduct is located up the river and can be easily reached via the bike and hiking trail on the old track bed . The railway crossing over the Flöha was built between 1866 and 1868 as part of the Dresden – Werdau railway line and, with a total of 17 arches, is 43 m high and 328 m long.
Another destination is the now heavily weathered limestone quarries or Schwedenlöcher in the Schweddey Valley between Falkenau and Grünberg.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The federal highway 173 Dresden – Chemnitz runs through Falkenau . In the village, the S 237 road branches off to Eppendorf, which runs along the Flöha and Lößnitz valleys.
The place is connected to the railway network with the Falkenau Süd stop on the Dresden – Werdau line and the Falkenau stop on the Flöhatalbahn . In the district of Hetzdorf, the narrow-gauge Lößnitztalbahn branched off to Großwaltersdorf until 1968 .
Established businesses
In July / August 2009 “Our shop Falkenau eG” was opened. The purpose of the cooperative is to promote the income and economy of the members through joint business operations.
Personalities
- Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler (1771–1850), entrepreneur in Saxony and Poland
- Karl Nendel (* 1933 in Falkenau; † 2019 in Frankfurt (Oder)), "General of Microelectronics" in the GDR
- Rolf Seidel (* 1953 in Falkenau), member of the state parliament (CDU)
literature
- The middle Zschopau area (= values of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 79-82.
Web links
- Falkenau website
- Falkenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Hetzdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freie Presse Online: Falkenau: Merger - Falkenau and Flöha united from October 1st.
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 70 f.
- ^ The Flöha district administration in the municipal register 1900
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stadtkurier Flöha, Volume 18, No. 07/2011, July 20, 2011 ( Floeha_07_2011.pdf PDF ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. )
- ↑ Results of the local council election 2014 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
