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City of Oederan
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 43 "  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 59"  E
Height : 425 m
Area : 13.3 km²
Residents : 848  (Jan. 1, 2012)
Population density : 64 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2007
Postal code : 09569
Area code : 037292
Gahlenz (Saxony)
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Location of Gahlenz in Saxony

Gahlenz is part of the municipality of the Saxon town of Oederan in the district of central Saxony .

View of Gahlenz
Listed three-sided courtyard, which today houses the village museum
"Gahlenz Giant"

location

The Waldhufendorf Gahlenz is located about 20 kilometers east of the Saxon city of Chemnitz in the lower Eastern Ore Mountains . The place is limited by the plateaus at the beginning of the northern Erzgebirge rise . The highest point of the place is 509 m (bones) above the sea.

Neighboring towns of Gahlenz are Oberreichenbach and Kirchbach in the northeast, Langenau in the east, Kleinhartmannsdorf in the southeast, Eppendorf in the south, Hammerleubsdorf in the southwest and Breitenau , Oederan and Görbersdorf in the northwest.

history

The settlement originated in the second half of the 12th century, starting from the Franconian-Thuringian area along a " Bohemian Steige ". Found potsherds from this period can be seen in the village museum . The first recorded place name form dates from 1378 as Galenczk .
The original meaning of the name cannot be clearly determined. The most likely interpretation is as a settlement where there are crows .

The inhabitants were mostly farmers and artisans, from 1554 to 1825 silver mining was carried out on a small scale.

In Gahlenz, there were persecutions of witches from 1666 to 1678 : four people got into witch trials , two were expelled from the country.

In 1816 August Schumann mentions Gahlenz in the State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony concerning a. a .:

“Here is a parish church and school, the collatur of which is owned by the Upper Consistory , and which are under the Freiberg inspection. The village consists of 90 houses and has 5 mills. Among the 710 residents 45 farmers, 2/2 are Hüfner , and 45  cottagers . "

Albert Schiffner added in 1828 a. a .:

“In 1815 Gahlenz had 112 houses and 768 souls; now around 800. There are 4 small meals, 1 oil and 2  cutting mills . The lowest property was once built on silver. For the last 20 years the Kleebu has improved the otherwise very unprofitable agriculture; but the fields remain cold and loamy, u. there are even boggy places (in the north) where one actually digs some clay and peat. You drive the common ore mountains here. Koppelwirthschaft, which is why some farmers more than 25 pcs. Keeping cattle. "

Agriculture continues to determine the structure. Other businesses are a travel company, a grain store with drying "Erzgebirgskorn" and a company that manufactures Erzgebirge wood art. The latter became known both regionally and nationally through the so-called " Gahlenzer Giants ", a collection of large wooden figures, some of which have been awarded the Guinness Book, at locations in Gahlenz.

In autumn 2006 the local council negotiated the incorporation into Oederan, which was completed on January 1, 2007.

Development of the population

year population
1551 46 possessed men , 16 gardeners , 29 residents , 62 ¼ hooves
1764 47 possessed men, 12 gardeners, 40 cottagers , 61 ½ hooves
1834 988
1871 1143
1890 1138
year population
1910 1243
1925 1238
1939 1232
1946 1570
1950 1497
year population
1964 1245
1990 1040
2000 991

politics

mayor

The last mayor before incorporation was Lothar Hofmeister ( CDU ) from 1994 .

Culture and sport

Personalities

literature

  • Richard Steche : Gahlenz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 6th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Flöha . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1886, p. 69.
  • Number . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 15th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1828, pp. 991-993.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics at oederan.de , accessed on October 19, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c See the history of Gahlenz on oederan.de , accessed on October 19, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Cf. Gahlenz in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
  4. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historisches Ortnamesbuch von Sachsen , Berlin 2001, Volume I, p. 284, ISBN 3-05-003728-8
  5. ↑ Manfred Wilde: The sorcery and witch trials in Kursachsen , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 459f
  6. ↑ Cf. Gahlenz, Galenz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, p. 31.
  7. ↑ See Gahlenz . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 15th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1828, p. 992.
  8. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007