Franconia (Waldenburg)

Francs City of Waldenburg (Saxony) Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 2 " N , 12 ° 36 ′ 43" E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Dürrenuhlsdorf
Postal code :	08396
Area code :	037608
Location of Franconia in Saxony

Franconia is a district of the city of Waldenburg in the district of Zwickau (Free State of Saxony ) on the border with Thuringia . The place was incorporated into Dürrenuhlsdorf on July 1, 1950 , with which it came to the city of Waldenburg on January 1, 1999.

geography

Geographical location

Franconia is located in the northern urban area of Waldenburg on the border with the Free State of Thuringia ( Altenburger Land ). The Frankener Dorfbach flowing through the village drains into the Zwickauer Mulde .

Neighboring places

	Goepfersdorf	Wolperndorf
Swabia		Punch joke
	Dürrenuhlsdorf

history

Local history of Franconia

Half-timbered house in Franconia

Franconian village church, today used as an event center

Analogous to many places in the region, the settlement took place at the instigation of Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch in the 12th century. The Waldhufendorf Franken was mentioned in 1421 as "Francken". The place name arose from the origin of the settlers who came from the Duchy of Franconia (area around Fulda , Nuremberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber ). Similar to the neighboring town of Swabia, the place name is related to the first settlers.

Franconia originally belonged entirely to the Remse Monastery , which was a subsidiary of the Bürgel Monastery in Thuringia. In 1488, the majority of the village fell under the rule of the Lords of Schönburg as a vassal village . In the period that followed, until the 19th century, it belonged as an official village to the Schönburg dominion of Waldenburg . Only a small part of Franconia with 5 houses and 33 inhabitants (status: 1834) remained after 1488 under the administration of the Schönburg lordship of Remse , which was under electoral saxon sovereignty and which arose from the possession of the Remse monastery, which was dissolved in the course of the Reformation in 1533 . Another small portion of Franconia, also with five houses and 30 inhabitants (1834) was under the administration of the Saxon rule Wolkenburg which as Enclave in Schön Burgi's dominions to Saxon Official Borna belonged.

In the 19th century, the affiliation of the parts of Franconia that did not belong to the Schönburg dominion of Waldenburg changed. As part of the administrative reorganization of the Kingdom of Saxony, Franconia (Remser share) was subordinated to the Zwickau district administration as part of the Schönburg suzerainty in Remse in 1835. The feudal lordship of Remse and its locations has since been administratively administered by the royal Saxon office of Zwickau . In 1856 this share came to the Remse court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . The royal Saxon portion of Franconia belonging to the Wolkenburg rule came to the royal Saxon court of Limbach in 1851 and to the Penig court office in 1856 as part of the former Wolkenburg rule , which was merged into the Rochlitz administration in 1875 .

After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of the Schönburg recession in 1878, in 1880 all three shares of Franconia came together to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau . From 1918, Franconia belonged to the Free State of Saxony.

On July 1, 1950, Franconia was incorporated into the municipality of Dürrenuhlsdorf. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Franconia came to the Glauchau district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 as a district of the municipality of Dürrenuhlsdorf (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), was continued as the Saxon district of Glauchau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Chemnitzer Land and In 2008 in the district of Zwickau. With the incorporation of the community of Dürrenuhlsdorf, Franconia became a district of the city of Waldenburg on January 1, 1999.

Franconian village church

The original chapel of Franconia, dating from the Middle Ages, was a branch church of the church in Wolkenburg / Mulde until 1528 . After that it was parish church until it became a branch church of Ziegelheim in 1555 . The new construction of the village church with classical style elements took place in the years 1835/36 under the rule of Prince Otto Victor I. von Schönburg -Waldenburg. The hall church with gallery, designed according to the Italian model, is a strictly geometrical building with a double-towered western front and a flat gable roof. Since 1878 it was a branch church of Schlagwitz, between 1936 and 2001 again of Ziegelheim. In 1965 the church was used for the last time. The building then fell into disrepair until the roof collapsed in 1990. After an emergency security and a renewal of the roof structure took place in 1992, it was transferred to municipal property in 1995. In 1996 the "Friends of the Church of Franconia eV" was founded. In the same year the church was deedicated . The building was restored by 2000. Afterwards it was opened as a "meeting and event center Church of Franconia", which can be used for concerts, exhibitions, wedding celebrations, anniversaries and seminars. The local parish Franken-Schlagwitz has belonged to the parish of Waldenburg since 2001.

Attractions

Event center church Franconia
Monument courtyard Franconia
"Old House", probably the oldest Saxon farmhouse and numerous half-timbered houses in the village

Web links

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

Franconia (Waldenburg) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Franconia on the website of the city of Waldenburg

Individual evidence

↑ Handbook of Geography, p. 502
^ Franconia in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 899
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.
↑ Die Herrschaft Remse in the “Handbuch der Geographie”, p. 231ff.
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.
^ The rule of Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
↑ Franken in the “Handbuch der Geographie”, p. 502
↑ Description of the district of the Zwickau district directorate from p. 192
^ The rule of Wolkenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
↑ Francs on gov.genealogy.net
↑ Dürrenuhlsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
^ Description of the Franconian Church
^ Website of the Kulturkirche Franken
^ The Franconian Church Event Center on the website of the city of Waldenburg
↑ The Franken Denkmalhof on the website of the city of Waldenburg

[1] Handbook of Geography, p. 502

[2] Franconia in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 899

[3] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.

[4] Die Herrschaft Remse in the “Handbuch der Geographie”, p. 231ff.

[5] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.

[6] The rule of Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the archive of the Free State of Saxony

[7] Franken in the “Handbuch der Geographie”, p. 502

[8] Description of the district of the Zwickau district directorate from p. 192

[9] The rule of Wolkenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony

[10] The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900

[11] Francs on gov.genealogy.net

[12] Dürrenuhlsdorf on gov.genealogy.net

[13] Description of the Franconian Church

[14] Website of the Kulturkirche Franken

[15] The Franconian Church Event Center on the website of the city of Waldenburg

[16] The Franken Denkmalhof on the website of the city of Waldenburg