Geringswalde

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
coat of arms Germany map
Coat of arms of the city of Geringswalde
Geringswalde
Map of Germany, position of the city of Geringswalde highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 12 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Central Saxony
Height : 268 m above sea level NHN
Area : 30.05 km 2
Residents: 4183 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 139 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 09326
Area code : 037382
License plate : FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key : 14 5 22 190
LOCODE : DE GWA

City administration address : 		Markt 1
09326 Geringswalde
Website : www.geringswalde.de
Mayor : Thomas Arnold (independent)
Location of the city of Geringswalde 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
About this picture

Geringswalde (also known as Dessch ) is a country town in Saxony in the middle of the city triangle of Leipzig , Chemnitz and Dresden .

Geringswalde with a large pond

geography

location

The city is located northeast of Rochlitz , directly on federal highway 175 . The highest point of Geringswalde is on a ridge of the Saxon Granulite Mountains near the observation tower in the north of the city at 305  m above sea level. NN . The King Friedrich August Tower was inaugurated on August 31, 1907 and after Friedrich August III. , the last king of Saxony. From here, when the weather is clear, you can see the Erzgebirgskamm , Augustusburg and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig.

The elongated large pond was created by damming the cloister brook that rises in the nearby Fröhne , a piece of forest, its outflow is the Auenbach that flows into the Zwickauer Mulde .

City structure

The districts belong to Geringswalde

  • Hilmsdorf
  • Holzhausen
  • Hoyersdorf
  • Neuwallwitz

history

origin

The Lords of Schönburg founded a castle around 1158 and the town of Geringswalde around 1200 in the area that would later become Altgeringswalde. The castle was destroyed by Ottokar I of Bohemia (died 1239). On the foundation walls of this castle, the Schönburger founded their house monastery in 1233, which became their hereditary burial place.

The place name was first mentioned in a document in 1233 as Gerungeswalde in the deed of foundation of the Benedictine monastery of St. Marien from January 2nd, 1233 and again, this time as Gerungswalde , in the protection and confirmation bull of Pope Gregory IX. of October 29, 1237. A settlement in this place had already taken place earlier, as in the document of 1233 of areas et fundum castri destructi et opidi desolati cum Piscina eciam adiacente (land of the destroyed castle and the devastated town with the adjoining Fish ponds). Hermann II von Schönburg founded the Benedictine convent in 1233, which served as the family's burial place until the Reformation.
The place name goes back to the personal name Gerung or Gering and means settlement on / in the forest of a Gerung / Gering . The namesake could have been the Meissnian bishop Gerung, who made great contributions to the settlement of the country during his tenure from 1152 to 1170.

Since remains (ditches and ramparts and a few remains of walls) of a (second) castle - with at least two outer castles - have been preserved on the Schloßberg near Geringswalde, Geringswalde must have received a new castle later under the Lords of Schönburg.

Early modern age

Manor house of the manor (and former monastery)

After the Reformation , the nunnery was closed in 1542 (some nuns were granted the right to live until their death) and converted into a manor , which was in turn dissolved and largely demolished after the Second World War . For a short time there was an Orthodox-Lutheran state school of the Schönburger in the former monastery, founded in 1566, which was dissolved by the Elector of Saxony in 1568 because its rector was accused of Flacianism . When the three brothers Wolf, Georg and Hugo von Schönburg shared their father's rule in 1559, Wolf and Hugo set up their own superintendors in Waldenburg, Geringswalde, Lichtenstein and Hartenstein . In 1590 the Lords of Schönburg sold the former imperial direct rule of Geringswalde to the Electors of Saxony. This is how Geringswalde became part of Electoral Saxony.

There was no city wall around Geringswalde.

industrialization

Up to the 19th century, linen weaving was the predominant trade in the city with up to 250 masters. In 1862 August Ettig founded the Geringswald seating furniture industry, and since 1872 there were tool industry companies in the town. Geringswald's first professional mayor, Oswald Goldammer, who was in office from 1882 to 1913, knew how to promote the town's industry. During his tenure, the city was connected to the railway network and several buildings that characterize the cityscape were built, including the town hall, church and school building. In 1906 and 1923 there were strikes among workers organized in the woodworkers' association. The 1920s were characterized by economic boom and social decline. The municipal outdoor pool was opened in 1926. The settlement on the northwestern outskirts was created in the 1930s.

After the Second World War

In 1949 the immediately neighboring villages of Klostergeringswalde and Hilmsdorf were incorporated. In 1953 the outpatient clinic at the pond was opened and crèches, kindergartens and after-work homes were set up in the following years. New housing estates emerged mainly south of the large pond. The outdoor swimming pool was reconstructed in 1983 and the bus station opened in 1987, replacing the previous stops on the market square. In 1994 and 1999, other neighboring towns were incorporated, and since 2007, brownfield sites have been demolished .

Incorporations

Former parish date annotation
Aitzendorf January 1, 1999
Altgeringswalde January 1, 1994
Arras January 1, 1999
Dittmannsdorf July 1, 1950 Incorporation to Aitzendorf
Hilmsdorf July 1, 1949
Holzhausen January 1, 1999
Hoyersdorf March 1, 1974 Incorporation to Holzhausen
Klostergeringswalde April 1, 1949
Neuwallwitz February 1, 1936 Incorporation to Holzhausen

politics

City council

City council election 2019
Turnout: 63.4%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
37.5%
21.0%
16.6%
13.9%
6.2%
4.8%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+ 14.3  % p
-8.4  % p
-8.2  % p
+ 3.5  % p
+ 0.5  % p
-1.7  % p

Since the city ​​council election on May 26, 2019 , the 15 city council seats have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

mayor

Thomas Arnold was confirmed in office in June 2015.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Martin Luther Church from the south
  • Saxon post-mile column (large parts of which are a copy), the original coat of arms of which is on display in the Rochlitz Castle Museum from 1727 . The current location is Bahnhofstrasse. Originally it was on the market and later on the large pond, at the level of the former dam mill (today a green area).
  • The former manor goes back to a monastery of the Benedictine nuns. The manor house was destroyed in 1945 after the end of the war.
  • In the listed town center are the paved market and representative buildings, which were mainly built around 1900.
  • In the village church on the cemetery in Altgeringswalde, the brightly painted altar , which was created around 1510 and carefully restored in 1994, is worth seeing.
  • From a castle in the nearby Fürstenwald, which was destroyed in the Middle Ages, only tiny cellar remains have survived.

  • New and old town hall on the market square

  • Diesterwegschule on Lutherplatz (not far from the market square)

  • Rectory in Bahnhofstrasse

  • Saxon post mile column in Bahnhofstrasse

  • Altgeringswalde village church

Regular events

  • Geringswald pond and plant festival on the first weekend of September around the large pond.

traffic

Streets

The federal highway 175 runs through the village . In a westerly direction this leads via the city of Rochlitz to the Rochlitz junction of the federal motorway 72 (Chemnitz-Leipzig). From the east, Geringswalde can also be reached via the B 175 via the Döbeln Ost and Leisnig junctions on the federal motorway 14 (Leipzig – Dresden). Country roads connect the city to Mittweida , Zettlitz and Milkau, among others .

Rail transport

Since the opening of the Waldheim – Rochlitz railway on December 7, 1893, Geringswalde and today's district of Arras have been connected to the railway network. After the political change in eastern Germany, the route quickly lost its importance. On June 1, 1997 the tourist traffic was stopped, in 1998 the line was closed.

  • Geringswalde station, street side (2016)

  • Geringswalde station, track side (2016)

  • Geringswalde station area (status 2011)

  • Geringswalde station, outbuilding (2016)

Public transportation

There are daily bus connections to Rochlitz , Geithain and Waldheim , on weekdays also to Mittweida . Geringswalde is in the tariff area of ​​the Central Saxony transport association .

economy

The area around the city is dominated by agriculture.

The traditional trades, including line weaving , stocking knitting, tannery and home brewing lost their importance in the 19th century. Various branches of industry took their place, including cabinet-making in numerous factories and workshops and the metalworking industry in the form of toolmaking and the manufacture of jewelry goods . There was also a brick factory that used clay deposits south of the city, a cigar factory and a brewery until the 1920s. The Klosterbach and the Auenbach, dammed up in the area of ​​the city to form a large pond, drove several mills in their vicinity , one of which is still in operation today, albeit with an electric drive.

After the Second World War and into the 1990s, the United Tool Factory (VWF), which belonged to the Schmalkalden Tool Combine, the seat furniture joineries and branches of the VEB Orsta-Hydraulik Rochlitz gave the town its economic character. There was also a concrete plant , which was equipped with a tower crane in the seventies, a textile processing industry that traded under the name " Geri clothing ", a concentrate mixing plant , a branch of VEB Stern-Radio Rochlitz (in the former cigar factory) and an off A branch of Florena Waldheim that emerged from a plant of Reichalda KG . Most of these businesses closed in the 1990s, but the tradition of metal processing is still carried on by some medium-sized companies. Commercial areas were set up on Arraser Strasse and Dresdener Strasse. Several wind turbines have been built on the hills around the city .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in the place

literature

  • Richard Steche : Geringswalde. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 14th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 9.
  • Wolf-Dieter Röber , Steffen Winkler : "Monastery Geringswalde", In: Series of publications Heft 6, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, City of Glauchau, 1986, pp. 35–39.
  • Reinhold Hofmann: Foundation and history of the Geringswalde Monastery, Waldenburg (Saxony), 1929 (or 1920)
  • A tradition from the Geithain City Court for the period 1570–1852 on local administration, civil and voluntary jurisdiction, church and school matters, court books and court records is in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives, inventory 20606 City of Geringswalde (City Court).

Web links

Commons : Geringswalde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Geringswalde in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Collective of authors, including Prof.Dr.sc.phil. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : "The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture". Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990-91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. "Church and Art", p. 100, on Geringswalde Castle and Monastery
  3. ↑ Reinhold Hofmann, Conrad Müller (ed.): Foundation and history of the Geringswalde monastery . Waldenburg 1920, p. 118.
  4. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony , Berlin, Volume I, p. 302, ISBN 3-05-003728-8
  5. ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther: Saxony. All city names and their history , Faber and Faber Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-038-4 , p. 64f.
  6. ^ Church and Art In: Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer , Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture. Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection of Schloss Hinterglauchau. Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, p. 101
  7. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber , Steffen Winkler: "Kloster Geringswalde", In: Series of publications Heft 6, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, City of Glauchau, 1986, GDR, pp. 35–39
  8. ↑ a b City history . City of Geringswalde. 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  9. ↑ Economy . City of Geringswalde. 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b c d State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
  11. ↑ a b c d 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 .
  12. ↑ a b c Ministry of the Interior of Saxony (ed.): Lists of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the subdivision of the independent manor districts and state forest districts. 1952.
  13. ↑ The Saxony Book. Municipal publishing house Saxony, Dresden 1943.
  14. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
  15. ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14522190
  16. ↑ Geringswalder Post Mile Column ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geringswalde.de
  17. ↑ Geringswalde: Old Castle Geringswalde. In: Sachsens-Schlösser.de. Retrieved March 25, 2014 .
  18. ^ City of Geringswalde (City Court). In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . (Info text on Geringsgwalder City Court under "Introduction")