Gleesberg
| Gleesberg | ||
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.JPG) Köhlerturm and mountain restaurant |
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| height | 593.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Erzgebirgskreis , Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 35 '26 " N , 12 ° 39' 35" E | |
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| particularities | Köhlerturm ( AT ) and mountain restaurant | |
The Gleesberg is 593.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Ore Mountains in Saxony . It is located between the Aue and the city center of Schneeberg . There is an observation tower and a mountain restaurant on its top . Administratively, the Gleesberg belongs to Schneeberg. The Nursing Home for the elderly, known as Gut Gleesberg , is located on the slope of the mountain and emerged from a farm built around a radium-rich spring in the 19th century.
Geography and geology
The Gleesberg is located southeast of the city center of Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains and belongs to the Neustädtel district . It covers an area of around 71 hectares, 66.7 hectares of which are on Neustädter Flur and 4.7 hectares on Oberschlemaer Flur. Its rock contains abundant mica , which is probably where its name comes from. In Middle High German, glos or glosen means flicker, shine, shimmer. The summit of the Gleesberg lies in front of the northeast edge of the contact zone between Eibenstocker and Schlemaer granite. The following minerals were found in a quarry on Gleesberg: rock crystal , muscovite , molybdenite and various types of quartz. The eastern area of the mountain, which makes up two thirds of the total area, is densely overgrown with mixed forest. In the first development, the mountain height was specified as 602 meters, which had to be corrected to 593 meters above zero during a later precise measurement .
Tower and inn
For several centuries the path between Aue, Neustädtel and Schneeberg ran on the wooded slopes of the Glösberg . In the summer of 1879, the Erzgebirgszweigverein Schneeberg-Neustädtel erected a wooden observation tower on the top of the mountain, which was 13 m high and divided into four floors. When this had to be demolished due to dilapidation, the Erzgebirgszweigverein laid the foundation stone for a new observation tower, which was completed on October 2nd, 1898. This now 18 m high tower with a square floor plan was built according to plans by the architect R. Unger. The foundation and ground floor area are made of granite stones, above two floors are bricked up with raw yellow bricks. The viewing platform is glazed and finished off with a half-hip roof. The tower was named after the founder of the Erzgebirgsverein , the Schneeberg pedagogue Dr. Ernst Köhler , whose portrait adorns the entrance area.
Next to the tower is a mountain inn, which was built at the same time as the tower and is also based on designs by Unger. He used contrasting red bricks in the half-timbered style for the one-storey accommodation building, which with rows of yellow bricks form an economical facade decoration.
The first operator was Henner (Heinrich) Falk, who advertised the house as a “shelter hut Gleesberg” with “most wonderful stay”. 140 seats were available for "excellent hospitality with food and drink as well as for jamming = expulsion = pills and glottis = strengthening = elixirs" and for "morning concerts". In 1901 Hugo Unger is the owner of the mountain inn. He organized local festivals, for which a covered shelter was built between the inn and the tower.
In June 1914, the knitting machine manufacturer Max Paul Schnädelbach acquired the accommodation house and had a telephone connection set up. In 1925 the inn was sold to Carl August Dittrich. His new guest advertisement was “the best view from the Köhlerturm 602 m, over the entire Ore Mountains. Easily accessible in 30 minutes on the Radiumsteig from the bath . Beautiful guest rooms after the old ore mountains. Style. Good hospitality is provided. ”The old style mentioned here refers to the existence of regulars' table corners that were reserved for the residents of the surrounding towns. For example, there was a Zschorlau corner, an Au corner or a "Hutzn corner of the Erzgebirgszweigverein Radiumbad Oberschlema ". Historical cityscapes were hung in these corners and they were decorated with typical tools. These corners are said to have been preserved in 1994. In the 1930s, the son Karl Dittrich took over the property and arranged for an extension to the side of the original guest house, creating more accommodation. The extension reached up to the entrance of the tower and with this and the main building formed a rectangular inner courtyard. The parent company received a new roof. The Erzgebirgszweigverein Neustädtel , which is responsible for looking after guests in the Neustädtel area, organized mountain, children's and folk festivals on the Gleesberg. The road leading up the mountain was paved for car use.
At the end of the Second World War there were no owners of the inn. The observation tower was closed after 1945 because it was dilapidated. The newly founded FDJ was able to take over the building in 1947 and intended to convert it into a youth hostel . When the administrator appointed for this job was dismissed by the city of Schneeberg in 1948, the youth hostel project was discontinued. The inn now fell to the municipal utility of the city of Schneeberg. In the mid-1960s, he leased the property to the Helmut Bochmann family, who managed it until 1970. In their place came the Friedrich Seidel family, who passed the restaurant on to Hildegard and Kurt Simon in 1972. On December 9, 1989, the tenant family was able to reopen the tower with the support of the Schneeberg city administration.
After the end of the GDR, Silke Simon and Peter Müller inherited the inn from their grandparents. The premises have been renovated. They won over the folk artist Werner Kempf to furnish the guest rooms , who showed his painted views of the Ore Mountains here.
Gut Gleesberg
On the western slope of the Gleesberg (Köhlerweg 1), where a radium-containing spring was discovered, the Schneeberg mountain master Fritzsche set up a farm between 1856 and 1859. The various buildings, such as a manor house , a tenant house, stables and barns were completed at longer intervals and should largely come from "branched off" materials from railway construction. All buildings are at right angles to each other and together form an inner courtyard, which also houses the spring, which is protected by a pergola. A brick wall surrounded the property.
In June 1889 Willmar Schwabe , a homeopathic pharmacist and chairman of the local health insurance fund for Leipzig and the surrounding area , bought the property and made it available to the health insurance company free of charge , together with the Förstel manor, which he had also acquired . The reconstruction of both goods for use as “homes for convalescents” was financed by Schwabe. In 1889 the first female patients moved into the Gut Gleesberg homestead , while males came to the Gut Förstel homestead . After 15 years Schwabe transferred the two convalescent homes, together with the 1897 acquired spa Augustusbad of Dr. Willmar Schwabe'schen Heimstätten-Stiftung and transferred it to the Leipzig local health insurance fund in 1905. The people sent here were largely self-sufficient; they grew fruit, vegetables and grain. For transport purposes, they used dog teams, which was suggested by Schwabe. He had given the institution three St. Bernard dogs at the beginning . The source, which was named after the wife of the founder "Maria-Louise-Brunnen", was used for the healing treatments. Albertine sisters from an ecumenical sisterhood founded in 1869 by Holy Brother Albert, who through charity serve the poorest and the lonely, were employed to manage the home and to look after them. 60 people could be treated at the same time. During the Nazi era , Gut Gleesberg came to the " Augustusbad Bathing Authority " and served as an NSV maternal rest home. During the war, bombed out citizens from northern German port cities moved here, and later also war wounded. In April 1945 the estate, although clearly marked with a red cross according to the Geneva Convention , came under artillery fire by the American armed forces. Serious damage could be prevented through the efforts of residents and local residents.
After uranium mining began in the area in 1946, miners also came to the estate for maintenance. After 1952, when the districts of the GDR were founded, the competent council of the district of Karl-Marx-Stadt ordered the closure of the nursing home. After a few unknown periods of time, a “home after work” was created in the buildings.
After the end of the GDR, the Schneeberg city administration, which was now responsible for the former estate again, negotiated with the Schwabe heirs about a return transfer. This was successful in 1996, and the new foundation management also provided one million German marks for the renovation and modernization of the buildings. The reconstruction work on the existing houses and the construction of a connecting building was carried out by the Chemnitz office Meister architektur on behalf of the non-profit Dr.-Willmar-Schwabeschen Heimstättenbetriebsgesellschaft in 1997. In 2001 the home resumed its nursing work as the Gut Gleesberg retirement home in the sense of the founder. 30 permanent employees look after the 50 residents who come from Schneeberg and the surrounding areas.
Other use
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Around 20,000 square meters of space on Gleesberg served as a garbage dump for decades. In 2004/2005, a professional final renovation of the garbage dump was carried out, commissioned by the Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft Südwestsachsen. For this purpose, the rock walls were secured, a surface cover and subsequent recultivation carried out.
The footpaths on the Gleesberg are part of the European long-distance hiking trail "EB" , which leads from Eisenach to Budapest.
On the slope of the Gleesberg on Oberschlemaer Flur is the "Gleesbergquelle", whose radon-containing water is used in the Schlema spa.
literature
- Reinhart Heppner ; Jörg Brückner ; Helmut Schmidt: Saxon-Bohemian panoramic mountains of the western Ore Mountains in words and pictures. With tourist information. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2000, pp. 40 f., ISBN 3-89570-593-4
Web links
- Gleesberg with Köhlerturm ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Documents and photos from the Schneeberg zum Gleesberg city archive (PDF file; 4.96 MB)
- a picture postcard from Haus Baum Gleesberg from 1936 in the AK-Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Manfred Blechschmidt , Klaus Walther : Silbernes Erzgebirge . Chemnitzer Verlag 1998; P. 164
- ↑ Mineral Atlas with information about the Gleesberg
- ^ Gleesberg on the website of the Bad Schlema community
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Schneeberg ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 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.
- ↑ Files from the Schneeberg City Archives
- ↑ History of "Gut Gleesberg" ( Memento from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Homepage of the Chemnitz architecture firm Meister. Retrieved on January 16, 2016 (the reference list can no longer be called up, originally at [http://www.meister-architektur.de/de/ma/referenz/kat004/prj001/prj001.htm]).
- ↑ Homepage of the retirement home "Gut Gleesberg"
- ↑ Homepage of the engineering company C & E Consulting und Engineering GmbH from Chemnitz with the report on the work ( Memento from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 301 kB)
- ↑ European long-distance hiking trail "EB" (Eisenach - Budapest) (1st part) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of the health spa in Bad Schlema
