Frankenberg / Sa.

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Frankenberg / Sa.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 13 ° 2'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Central Saxony
Height : 262 m above sea level NHN
Area : 65.62 km 2
Residents: 13,940 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 212 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 09669
Area code : 037206
License plate : FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key : 14 5 22 150
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Markt 15
09669 Frankenberg / Sa.
Website : www.frankenberg-sachsen.de
Mayor : Thomas Firmenich ( CDU )
Location of the city of Frankenberg / Sa. in the district of central Saxony
Altmittweida Augustusburg Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf Brand-Erbisdorf Burgstädt Claußnitz Döbeln Dorfchemnitz Eppendorf Erlau (Sachsen) Flöha Frankenberg/Sa. Frauenstein (Erzgebirge) Freiberg Geringswalde Großhartmannsdorf Großschirma Großweitzschen Hainichen Halsbrücke Hartha Hartmannsdorf (bei Chemnitz) Königsfeld (Sachsen) Königshain-Wiederau Kriebstein Leisnig Leubsdorf (Sachsen) Lichtenau (Sachsen) Lichtenberg/Erzgeb. Lunzenau Mittweida Mühlau (Sachsen) Mulda/Sa. Neuhausen/Erzgeb. Niederwiesa Oberschöna Oederan Ostrau (Sachsen) Penig Rechenberg-Bienenmühle Reinsberg (Sachsen) Rochlitz Rossau (Sachsen) Roßwein Sayda Seelitz Striegistal Taura Waldheim Wechselburg Weißenborn/Erzgeb. Zettlitz Zschaitz-Ottewig Sachsenmap
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Frankenberg / Sa. is a city on the Zschopau near the Saxon industrial city of Chemnitz in the district of central Saxony . The cigar-making trade and the automobile industry achieved particular economic importance.

geography

Geographical location

Frankenberg is located within the Saxon Granulite Mountains in the Erzgebirge foothills not far from the city of Chemnitz in the Zschopau valley. It is surrounded by many mixed forests such as the Lützeltal, the Striegistal or the beech forest.

The Zschopau flows past the western outskirts embedded in a meadow landscape. Furthermore, the Mühlbach not only crosses the district of the same name, but also the town center. The Kleine Striegis also flows through other districts .

From a political point of view, it is in the Free State of Saxony , in the administrative district of Chemnitz and in the district of central Saxony.

Neighboring communities

Rossau
Lichtenau Neighboring communities Hainichen
Chemnitz Niederwiesa , Flöha Oederan

All neighboring communities, with the exception of the independent city of Chemnitz, are, like Frankenberg, part of the Central Saxony district.

The division of the city of Frankenberg into its districts

City structure

Since the last regional reform, Frankenberg has consisted of six districts:

history

colonization

Frankenberg was founded by settlers from Franconia in the middle of the twelfth century . The exact year of the founding of the former Waldhufendorf is not known. The first documentary evidence for the settlement dates from 1206, in which a Henricus de Frankenberc is mentioned. The often mentioned year of creation 1188 is an arbitrary assumption with no historical reference. Max Kaestner suspected the emergence of Frankenberg to 1175. Frankenberg was part of the territory of the monastery Hersfeld (Hessen) entitled castle Warde chub and Hwoznie.

Frankenberg around 1650

Documented forms of name

  • 1206: Henricus de Frankenberc
  • 1214: Vrankenberch
  • 1282: Frankenberg
  • 1311: Vrankinberc
  • 1427: Franckinberg
  • 1555: Frankenbergk
  • 1791: Franckenberg

The name refers to a mountain inhabited by Franconians.

Further development

View of the Frankenberg city center
The Frankenberger Rittergut, built in 1553

The rulership with Sachsenburg Castle and the town of Frankenberg passed into the possession of the Wettins in 1232 after Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious had the rule of the Lords of Mildenstein smashed in connection with the Mildenstein tithes dispute .

In 1368 the lords of Schönberg acquired the rule, together with the Sachsenburg, which they had expanded into a late Gothic castle around 1480. The Reformation was introduced in Frankenberg in 1539. Under Caspar von Schönberg, the Frankenberg manor, also known as the "new building", was built in 1553. Today it is the oldest building in the city and houses the city museum. After the death of Caspar von Schönberg's sons, the rule was divided between two nephews. The descendants of the von Schönberg family could only hold the rule Sachsenburg with the city of Frankenberg until 1610. In January 1610, the Elector Johann Georg I bought the Frankenberg manor, and in March 1610 the heavily indebted Sachsenburg rulership, including subjects. In 1633, both were combined to form the “ Amt Frankenberg-Sachsenburg ”, the main town of which was the city of Frankenberg. The manorial rule over Frankenberg lay with the city council.

The town of Frankenberg was the main town of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Frankenberg-Sachsenburg until 1856 and the main town of the Frankenberg court office between 1856 and 1875 . From 1875 the city of Frankenberg belonged to the Flöha administration .

The dominant branches of business in Frankenberg have been weaving and related textile trades since early modern times. It was next to the linen weaving (later cotton weaving) also Zeug- and drapers, later calico printing plants, dyeing and bleaching factories. This resulted in an extensive textile industry in the 19th century. With the opening of the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway line , Frankenberg received a train station on March 1, 1869.

Saxon distance column

Because the two world wars of the 20th century did not cause any significant destruction in Frankenberg, the buildings around the historic town center, the large market square in front of the town hall, offer interesting insights into the history of the city between the 16th and 19th centuries:

  • Alte Kantorei - in this building standing on historical foundations directly next to the Aegidien Church (first building in 1517) the city archive has been located since 1994,
  • Weavers 'House - (original building from 1540, rebuilt in 1889) - is the first weaver and show house of the linen weavers' guild, which at that time had 800 members.
  • Saxon post mile pillar : It is a replica (without a base) of the distance pillar from 1725 from the market (the original is shown in the local history museum), which makes the hardship of the travels vivid with its true to original inscriptions, e.g. B. to "Dreßden 13 St." (distance measurement: 1 hour / hour = 4.531 km).
  • Altes Amtshaus - the Italian youth fashion store, which opened on a corner of the market in 2008, is located in a house built in 1833 as a main school building and court subsidiary. The cigar factory of H. E. Wacker produced here from 1852 to 1945 (production started in 1842).
  • Offizin C. G. Roßberg - in the Roßberg printing house the first newspaper in the world was printed on October 11, 1845 using a wooden printing press on the wood pulp paper invented by Friedrich Gottlob Keller .

Immediately in an adjacent street is an Anspännergut - one of six estates that were created around the center of the village during the early days of Frankenberg. This building here is the last one that has been preserved to be faithfully rebuilt after two city fires (1712, 1788).

Framo TV 300 in the vehicle museum in Frankenberg

In more recent history, Frankenberg became known for the commercial vehicles of the Framo brand ( Fra nkenberger Mo torenwerke), which were produced here between 1923 and 1933. After that, production was relocated to Hainichen. From 1957 the company called itself VEB Barkas-Werke, because there were disputes over the Framo brand. Due to the complete conversion of the vehicle construction from mixed construction (wood with sheet metal paneling) to a self-supporting all-metal body, this production facility was set up in Chemnitz, before the Barkas Hainichen operations were merged with the engine plant and the Karl-Marx-Stadt vehicle plant. For this purpose, the management of the company was moved from Hainichen to Karl-Marx-Stadt. Production of the bodywork began there in 1960 and was gradually relocated from 1986 to the Barkas plant in Frankenberg, which belonged to Barkas from 1965.

The final assembly of all Barkas vehicles took place from 1933 to 1991, when the last B 1000-1 rolled off the assembly line on April 10, in Hainichen.

The town of Frankenberg / Sa came through the second district reform in the GDR . to the district of Hainichen in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 and was added to the district of Mittweida in 1994 and in 2008 in the district of Central Saxony.

garrison

Partial view of the Wettin barracks, January 2008

Between 1913 and 1916, Frankenberg also became a garrison town : barracks for the Saxon army were built on a larger area northeast of the city center and beyond the railway line . In the course of the rearmament operated by the Nazi regime , further buildings were added in the 1930s and the barracks were now used by Wehrmacht units.

There was no military use of the complex between 1945 and 1956. After the founding of the NVA is changing units in these barracks, most recently the were Artillery Regiment 7 and the projectile launcher Division 7 of the 7th Armored Division .

After the political change , the area became the property of the Bundeswehr . In 1991, the headquarters and the headquarters company of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 37 Free State of Saxony were stationed here. On November 3, 1992, the military area was named Wettiner Kaserne . The following other Bundeswehr units are located here ( as of September 2017 ):

Memorials

VdN monument Volkspark Frankenberg

Incorporations

Districts incorporation 1
Former parish or manor district date annotation
Altenhain January 1, 1994
Dittersbach January 1, 1995
Gunnersdorf October 1, 1961
House village 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Mühlbach
Irbersdorf October 1, 1992 Merger with Sachsenburg to Sachsenburg-Irbersdorf
Langenstriegis March 1, 1994
Mühlbach (*) January 1, 1998
New building, manor district 1925
Neudörfchen July 1, 1934 Incorporation to Dittersbach
Ortelsdorf July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Gunnersdorf
Sachsenburg (Kammergut), estate district Landesanstalt July 19, 1949 Partial integration into Irbersdorf and Sachsenburg
Sachsenburg October 1, 1992 Merger with Irbersdorf to Sachsenburg-Irbersdorf
Sachsenburg-Irbersdorf January 1, 1994
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district December 10, 1948 Partial integration to Altenhain
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district June 1, 1948 Partial integration to Dittersbach in the course of the land reform
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district December 10, 1948 Partial integration to Frankenberg
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district December 10, 1948 Partial integration to Hausdorf
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district February 19, 1949 Partial integration to Hausdorf
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district June 12, 1948 Partial integration to Ibersdorf in the course of the land reform
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district October 27, 1949 Partial integration to Langenstriegis
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district June 1, 1948 Partial integration to Mühlbach in the course of the land reform
Frankenberg state forest district, manor district December 10, 1948 Partial integration to Sachsenburg

(*) On October 1, 1994, Mühlbach moved from the district of Flöha to the newly created district of Mittweida , while most of the other communities in the district of Flöha went to the district of Freiberg .

Population development

Population development of Frankenberg from 1834 to 2017 according to the table below
year Residents
1834 4,318
1875 10,462
1880 10,913
1925 13,646
1933 14,764
1939 14,833
1946 15,103
1950 15,264
1971 16,615
1981 14.093
year Residents
1984 14,460
1988 15,429
2006 16,521
2007 16,283
2009 15,878
2012 14,676
2013 14,602
2016 14,288
2017 14,177

from 1981: December 31st

politics

City council

City council election 2014
Turnout: 61.6%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
49.7%
26.5%
14.7%
6.5%
2.6%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 5.4  % p
+ 0.3  % p
-2.3  % p
-2.5  % p
-0.9  % p

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 22 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • CDU : 12 seats
  • Frankenberg Trade Association (GVF): 6 seats
  • LEFT : 3 seats
  • SPD : 1 seat

mayor

In 2002 Thomas Firmenich (* 1955) was elected mayor for the first time. The former professional soldier took office on November 1, 2002, and was confirmed in office in 2009 and 2016.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a golden castle with two square towers, ungezinnter wall and gate is open; on the wall between the towers a crowned saint (Saint Catherine of Alexandria) in a golden cloak and red undergarment, in her right hand a downward pointing sword, in her left hand holding a palm branch, behind her a half-visible straightening wheel. "

Town twinning

Most of the names of the partner communities are related to the names of the Frankenberger districts.

Culture and sights

Museums

Rittergut Frankenberg ( Frankenberg Local History Museum )
  • Open-air museum of the medieval mining town of Bleiberg e. V. at the staircutter in Sachsenburg,
  • Sachsenburg Castle ,
  • Vehicle Museum Frankenberg ,
  • Frankenberg local history museum , first established in 1909, later moved to the manor house of the former Frankenberg manor. This was built in 1553 by the von Schönberg family , who owned it until 1610. From 1771 it was owned by the Abendroth merchant family from Chemnitz, from whom it was inherited in 1812 by the von Sandersleben family , who owned it until 1945.
  • the cultural-historical collection on the history of paper and printing in the Offizin Roßberg am Markt (visit by appointment).

Buildings

The Church of St. Aegidien

The landmark of the place is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Aegidien with its tower, which is also visible from the motorway, the lower part of which dates from 1499. A church must have been built as early as the settlement in the 2nd half of the 12th century. In the late Gothic period, a completely new hall church with a polygonal choir and the west tower was built. After structural damage - parts of the choir vault had fallen down - a new nave was built from 1740 to 1744 according to the plans of Freiberg council carpenter Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff . This is a baroque gallery hall based on the model of the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden.

The altar was created by the carpenter Carl Müller from Oeder , the painter Christian Friedrich Krafft and the Hainichen- based Johann Gottfried Stecher in 1744. The remains of the pulpit from the 17th century was taken over from the previous church and is now in the Frankenberg Museum of Local History. In the 19th century, the interior of the church was historically overprinted, with the baroque gallery hall being largely preserved, but most of the 18th century furnishings being destroyed.

The Catholic branch church of St. Antonius on Humboldtstrasse is less noticeable ; only the parish hall can be seen on the street side. This church is kept simple on the outside, only a cross and an open bell tower adorn it.

The town hall

Right in the center is the historic town hall with its current building, which was built here in 1863 with the Ratskeller and a market fountain made of sandstone in 1921 with a symbolic construction worker on its stele; In 1983 it was reconstructed. In addition, numerous well-preserved or reconstructed half-timbered buildings show the housing situation of earlier centuries. Some house facades from the 19th and 20th centuries are designed with beautiful details that are reminiscent of the Art Nouveau era.

In the vicinity of the place there was the Alberthöhe , a ledge with a wooden arbor with a dome, the Emilien temple .

Parks

The Martin Luther Memorial in the park of the same name.

The Friedenspark is the largest green area near the center, it was created from a disused cemetery in 1890/91. A renovation took place in 2017.

A few trees and meadows form the Luther Park on the area between the grammar school and the St. Aegidien church , where the monument of the same name is also located.

The reed pond to the north of the motorway tangent is also worth highlighting. The reed pond was rehabilitated in 2016 after it was badly damaged by the floods in 2013.

The Lützeltal recreational area is also located on the outskirts of Frankenberg .

The city of Frankenberg was the host of the State Horticultural Show 2019 . In this context, two large parks were created in the city, the Mühlbachtal upgraded and the Zschopauaue redesigned into a local recreation area.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Frankenberg / Sa., In the middle of the Saxon triangle Chemnitz (distance approx. 10 km) - Dresden (distance approx. 55 km) - Leipzig (distance approx. 80 km), is connected to the federal motorway 4 with its own junction . The federal highways 169 and 180 run through the town .

The Frankenberg (Sachs) train station and the Frankenberg Süd and Dittersbach stops are on the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway line , which is served by the Chemnitz City Railway under the Chemnitz Bahn brand between Hainichen and Chemnitz. As of 2004, two diesel multiple units of the Regio-Shuttle type were used as vehicles due to the daily hourly service. Since 2017, the route has also been served every hour by two low-floor two-motor vehicles of the Chemnitz model of the Citylink type , which run as line C15 to the city center of Chemnitz. The separation point between diesel-electric operation with voltage on the Chemnitz tram is located in Chemnitz main station.

The nearest major airports are 60 km away from Dresden , 90 km from Leipzig / Halle and 158 km from Prague within a short time.

  • Frankenberg (Sachs) station with bimodal railcar No. 442 of the City-Bahn Chemnitz (2017)

  • Hp. Frankenberg Süd (new) (2016)

  • City-Bahn at the entrance to Hp. Dittersbach (2016)

Established businesses

The following companies are active in the city:

  • Benseler Coatings Saxony GmbH & Co. KG
  • SWAP eco future systems
  • FMA Frankenberger Maschinen und Anlagen GmbH
  • Andreas Junghans - Plant construction and stainless steel processing
  • Uhlemann & Lantzsch GmbH - clothing production and textile finishing
  • Technic Center Frankenberg / Sa. Engineering GmbH - chargers and motor controls
  • Nussbaum GmbH Frankenberg / Sa. - aluminum packaging
  • ELA-Container GmbH
  • Saxon Walzengravur GmbH

Historic companies

The following companies were based in the city and have now been dissolved or relocated.

  • Polytechnik Frankenberg GmbH (see also Polylux ) (dissolved)
  • LISEMA bed factory
  • FRAMO

Healthcare

Frankenberg / Sa., Former hospital

Since 1996, the hospital, together with the houses in Mittweida and Rochlitz, has belonged to the Mittweida Krankenhaus gGmbH district , a standard care hospital with 360 beds. At the end of 2013, operations in Frankenberg were temporarily suspended. The city is given the opportunity to renovate the property and set up a health center.

education

The Martin-Luther-Gymnasium

Frankenberg has five schools:

  • the Martin-Luther-Gymnasium near the city center with the Lutherpark in front of it and a memorial for Martin Luther , which was donated in 1904 by Robert Schramm
  • the Erich-Viehweg-Oberschule
  • the Astrid Lindgren Primary School
  • the Evangelical Primary School Frankenberg
  • the special school for mentally disabled Max Kästner (above Freiberger Straße) and

There are also seven kindergartens in Frankenberg:

  • Daycare center Taka – Tuka – Land
  • Triangle day care center
  • Christian day care center Dandelion
  • Heinzelmännchen Sachsenburg day-care center
  • Daycare center Wasserflöhe Dittersbach
  • Windwheel Mühlbach day-care center
  • Little Foxes Day Care Center

The school building, designed in 1901 by the architect Conrad Canzler and opened as the Royal Saxon Teachers' College , served as the Saxon Administration School until 1996 and then as a branch of the Saxony Justice School at the Niederbobritzsch Education Center until 2003 . From 2008 to 2011 the building was renovated and expanded into the education center of the city of Frankenberg, which now houses the Astrid Lindgren primary school, the Protestant primary school and the Dandelion day care center.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • 1895 Otto Fürst von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
  • Johannes Roßberg, owner of the printing house of the same name
  • 2015 Heinrich Dittrich (* 1942), surgeon, for his civic commitment to maintaining the hospital

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Heinrich von Beck (1854–1933), around 1890 Mayor of Frankenberg, then Mayor of Freiberg and from 1896 Lord Mayor of Chemnitz , 1908–1918 Saxon Minister of Education and 1914–1918 Chairman of the Kgl. Saxon. Total ministry
  • Theodor Körner (1791–1813), on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the citizens of Frankenberg erected the Körnerkreuz and a memorial stone in the city center on the nearby Haustein ( Harrasfelsen ) near Braunsdorf on June 20, 1864,
  • Heiner Müller (1929–1995), writer and playwright, lived in Frankenberg for a few years after the Second World War

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Saxony II, administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 243-247.
  • Günter Großer: Frankenberg / Sa., Yesterday and today - a comparison. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-86134-827-6 .
  • Silvia Radziwill: The textile history of Frankenberg. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-221-6 .
  • Richard Steche : Frankenberg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 6th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Flöha . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1886, p. 65.
  • City administration Frankenberg (Hrsg.): Frankenberg through the ages. Stadtbild-Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-942146-92-0 .

Web links

Commons : Frankenberg / Sa.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Frankenberg / Sa.  - Sources and full texts
 Wikinews: Frankenberg / Sa.  - in the news
Wikivoyage: Frankenberg (Saxony)  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Mineralienatlas - The Saxon Granulite Mountains; Retrieved June 26, 2014
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke (ed.): Historical place directory of Saxony. New edition. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8 , p. 225 ''
  4. ↑ Max Kästner, Johannes Schiller: Between Chemnitz and Freiberg, A home book for school and house, The home soil and its settlement. Frankenberg 1928, p. 32.
  5. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 243 ''
  6. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke (ed.): Historical place directory of Saxony. New edition. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8 , p. 225.
  7. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (Ed.): Historisches Ortnamesbuch von Sachsen , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 , Volume I, p. 269.
  8. ^ New building in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  9. ^ The Frankenberg manor on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  10. ^ Website of the Frankenberg City Museum
  11. ↑ Frankenberg in the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office in the book "Geographie für alles Stände", pp. 594f.
  12. ^ The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office in the 19th century in the "Handbuch der Geographie", p. 54 ff.
  13. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 70 f.
  14. ^ The Flöha district administration in the municipal register 1900
  15. ↑ a b c d e f g State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
  16. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  17. ↑ The Saxony Book. Municipal publishing house Saxony, Dresden 1943.
  18. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ministry of the Interior of Saxony (ed.): Lists of the municipalities that have been incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the breakdown of the independent manor districts and state forest districts. 1952.
  19. ^ Census results of October 29, 1946.
  20. ^ Census results of August 31, 1950.
  21. ^ Census results of January 1, 1971.
  22. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
  23. ↑ thomas-firmenich.de
  24. ↑ Information from the managing director of the Mittweida Krankenhaus gGmbH ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ↑ Information from the Saxon Court of Audit (PDF; 7.4 MB)