Gornsdorf

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Coat of arms of the community of Gornsdorf
Gornsdorf
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Gornsdorf highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 12 ° 53'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Erzgebirgskreis
Management Community : Burkhardtsdorf
Height : 502 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.19 km 2
Residents: 1911 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 456 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 09390
Area code : 03721
License plate : ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key : 14 5 21 230
LOCODE : DE GDQ
Association administration address: Am Markt 8
09235 Burkhardtsdorf
Website : www.gornsdorf.de
Mayoress : Andrea Arnold ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Gornsdorf in the Erzgebirge district
Sachsen Amtsberg Annaberg-Buchholz Aue-Bad Schlema Auerbach (Erzgebirge) Bärenstein (Erzgebirge) Lauter-Bernsbach Bockau Börnichen/Erzgeb. Breitenbrunn/Erzgeb. Burkhardtsdorf Crottendorf Deutschneudorf Drebach Ehrenfriedersdorf Eibenstock Elterlein Gelenau/Erzgeb. Geyer Gornau/Erzgeb. Gornsdorf Großolbersdorf Großrückerswalde Grünhain-Beierfeld Grünhainichen Heidersdorf Hohndorf Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb. Johanngeorgenstadt Jöhstadt Königswalde Lauter-Bernsbach Lößnitz (Erzgebirge) Lugau Marienberg Mildenau Neukirchen/Erzgeb. Niederdorf (Sachsen) Niederwürschnitz Oberwiesenthal Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. Olbernhau Pockau-Lengefeld Raschau-Markersbach Scheibenberg Schlettau Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) Schönheide Schwarzenberg/Erzgeb. Sehmatal Seiffen/Erzgeb. Stollberg/Erzgeb. Stützengrün Tannenberg Thalheim/Erzgeb. Thermalbad Wiesenbad Thum Wolkenstein (Erzgebirge) Zschopau Zschorlau Zwönitzmap
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Gornsdorf is the smallest municipality in terms of area in the Ore Mountains District in Saxony . It has been part of the Burkhardtsdorf administrative community since March 21, 2008 .

geography

View of Gornsdorf

Gornsdorf is about 15 km south of Chemnitz and 12 km east of the district town of Stollberg / Erzgeb. in a side valley of the Zwönitz . The place extends on the Gornsdorfer Bach . The neighboring communities are Burkhardtsdorf , Gelenau / Erzgeb. , Auerbach , Zwönitz and Thalheim / Erzgeb.

history

Carved figure of the monk Jordan in front of the Gornsdorf town hall

According to a largely unknown legend, the village was founded around the year 1200 by the monk Jordan from the Walkenried monastery . The first settlers of the place were Harzer (important for turpentine extraction ) and probably came from the southern Harz. The initial Jordan village became Gornsdorf through sound shifting over time.

The first documentary mention, however, comes from the year 1346. Around 1500 mining began. In 1630 the village was destroyed as a result of the Thirty Years War . Gornsdorf remained a small farming community for several centuries, counting just over 100 inhabitants in the 16th century and around 250 in the 18th century. The first linen weavers came to the village around 1670, and a little later braid weavers. The first hosiery workers are mentioned in the church book in 1745.

There was rapid industrialization, especially in the textile industry. Gornsdorf grew into a hosiery village. In 1912 Gornsdorf was connected to the railway network by the narrow-gauge railway Schönfeld-Wiesa-Meinersdorf (closed again in 1976) .

In the 19th century the population rose rapidly from 550 (1821) to 2262 (1890), then further to 3585 (1931). The village grew up the mountain slopes and the settlements on Andreasberg (with allotment gardens), on Badberg and in the lower part of the village emerged. This community had turned into an industrial community and even supplies circuit boards for the electronics industry as far as Canada and Japan.

Until its dissolution, the community was part of the Auerbach administrative community based in Auerbach (Ore Mountains) .

Population development

1643 to 1985

  • 1643 - 0150
  • 1701 - 0180
  • 1832 - 0733
  • 1855 - 1,113
  • 1880-1,788
  • 1890-2.178
  • 1930 - 3,585
  • 1947 - 3,850
  • 1979-2,950
  • 1985 - 2,560

1988 to 1999

  • 1988 - 2,457
  • 1990 - 2,401
  • 1992 - 2,275
  • 1993 - 2,253
  • 1994 - 2,278
  • 1995 - 2,309
  • 1996 - 2,369
  • 1997 - 2,400
  • 1998 - 2,382
  • 1999 - 2,349

2000 to 2012

  • 2000 - 2,356
  • 2001 - 2,333
  • 2002 - 2,334
  • 2003 - 2,300
  • 2004 - 2,282
  • 2005 - 2,263
  • 2006 - 2,238
  • 2007 - 2.211
  • 2009 - 2,158
  • 2012 - 2,064

from 2013

  • 2013 - 2,026
  • 2014 - 1.990
  • 2015 - 1,994
  • 2016 - 1,949
  • 2017 - 1,940
  • 2018 - 1.914
Source from 1985: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony with territorial status January 2007
Seal of Gornsdorf

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019
Turnout: 65.0%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
45.4%
35.6%
19.0%
   
A total of 12 seats

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • CDU : 6 seats
  • Free voters: 4 seats
  • LEFT : 2 seats

mayor

In September 2013 Andrea Arnold was elected mayor.

Local partnership

Economy and Infrastructure

Gornsdorf has a large number of small and medium-sized companies from all economic sectors. The largest employer in town is KSG GmbH, founded in 1956 and re-privatized in 1993 .

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the community. Since 1992 there has been no educational institution for secondary education in Gornsdorf. Students in these grades either go to secondary schools in Auerbach or Thalheim or Burkhardtsdorf or to grammar schools in Thum, Stollberg or Zwönitz.

traffic

Gornsdorf station, goods shed (2016)

Autobahn and federal highways

Gornsdorf is south of the B 180 , which leads through the neighboring municipality of Burkhardtsdorf. The A 72 and its connections Stollberg-Nord and Stollberg-West are approx. 8 km away.

Public transport

The municipality of Gornsdorf is connected to the local public transport network of the Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen by three bus routes .

The Chemnitz – Aue railway line ( Zwönitztalbahn ) runs through the neighboring municipality of Burkhardtsdorf. The closest train station on this route is in the Burkhardtsdorf district of Meinersdorf. Between 1912 and 1976 the place had a train station and a stop on the narrow-gauge railway Schönfeld-Wiesa-Meinersdorf .

Culture and sights

The Gornsdorf Church
Goethehain Gornsdorf
  • Stocking museum
  • Volkshaus
  • Goethehain
  • Natural pool
  • Ev.-luth. church
  • Bad luck

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • 1933: Carl August Uhlmann (1853–1940), stocking manufacturer
  • ?: Dr. med. Cupper
  • 2006: Walter Hunger (1924–2007), long-time chairman of the local wood carving association
  • 2008: Herbert Uhlig (* 1926), teacher and local chronicle

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

Web links

Commons : Gornsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
  3. ↑ http://www.gornsdorf-erzgebirge.de/index.php/gemeinde/bekanntmachungen/187-wahlresult-der-buergermeisterwahl-an-22-09-2013.html