Grünhain-Beierfeld
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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ' N , 12 ° 48' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony | |
County : | Erzgebirgskreis | |
Height : | 505 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 22.25 km 2 | |
Residents: | 5851 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 263 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 08344 | |
Area code : | 03774 | |
License plate : | ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP | |
Community key : | 14 5 21 260 | |
LOCODE : | DE GFJ | |
City structure: | 3 districts | |
City administration address : |
August-Bebel-Strasse 79 08344 Grünhain-Beierfeld |
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Mayor : | Joachim Rudler ( CDU ) | |
Location of the city of Grünhain-Beierfeld in the Erzgebirge district | ||
Grünhain-Beierfeld is a city in the Saxon Ore Mountains . It was created on January 1, 2005 when the city of Grünhain was incorporated into the municipality of Beierfeld .
geography
The highest point in the urban area is the Spiegelwald at 728 m above sea level. NN .
Neighboring communities
Zwönitz borders in the north, Elterlein in the east, Raschau-Markersbach in the south and Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb in the south-west . and in the west Lauter-Bernsbach and Lößnitz to the city.
City structure
Grünhain-Beierfeld is divided into three districts :
history
The city of Grünhain-Beierfeld was created on January 1, 2005 through the incorporation of the previously independent city of Grünhain into the municipality of Beierfeld.
Beierfeld
The area around Beierfeld was settled in the 12th century. Like many other places in the Ore Mountains, Beierfeld is a two-row forest hoof village . The place name suggests Bavarian colonialists. In 1233 Beierfeld came into possession of the monastery through Meinhard II von Wirbene's foundation of the Grünhain monastery. Thus, until the Reformation, the Grünhainer abbot had jurisdiction over the place and received interest and compulsory payments.
With the onset of mining, however, the change from a pure farming village to an industrial community began. The emerging spoon making in the 17th and 18th centuries and the sheet metal industry in the 19th century became the determining branches of industry in the town. From the initial artisanal production of household and kitchen appliances, factory production in large companies developed from the beginning of the 20th century.
Grünhain
There is no reliable information about the circumstances of the initial settlement of Grünhain. It is certain that Gruninhain was first mentioned in a document in 1231/33. The location on the salt road Halle – Preßnitzer Pass –Böhmen motivated Cistercian monks to found a monastery here ( Grünhain Monastery ) around 1230 . Grünhain is attested as an oppidum as early as 1267 . The importance of Grünhain for the Ore Mountains and beyond, especially in the three centuries before the Reformation , is due solely to the existence of the monastery. In 1285 Abbot Dietrich gave the place a city seal that contained three green trees and a grouse. After the dissolution of the monastery, Grünhain became the seat of the Electoral Saxon Office of the same name , which in turn lasted for more than 300 years.
After the city had seen itself exposed to ever greater debt burdens in the course of the 1990s, it gave up its independence on January 1, 2005 and was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Beierfeld . This also took over the town charter from Grünhain and changed its name to "Stadt Grünhain-Beierfeld".
Waschleithe
Waschleithe is first mentioned in a document in 1528. Mining began in the Oswald Valley, in which Waschleithe is located, as early as the 13th century. In addition to silver, tin and iron, marble was also extracted later. Mining continued until 1920. The place name derives from the mining industry, which comes from "Erzwaschen am Hang".
Incorporations
On January 1, 1999, Waschleithe was incorporated into Beierfeld.
On January 1, 2005, the city of Grünhain was incorporated into the municipality of Beierfeld and renamed the city of Grünhain-Beierfeld.
politics
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City council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 18 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
mayor
Joachim Rudler was re-elected on June 7, 2015 with 90.3% of the valid votes cast and thus confirmed as mayor in office.
Partnerships
Grünhain-Beierfeld has been in partnership with the town of Scheinfeld in the German state of Bavaria since 1990 and with the municipality of Třebívlice in the Czech Republic since 2012 .
Culture and sights
Museums
- " Heimatecke " exhibition facility in Waschleithe
- Herkules-Frisch-Glück Waschleithe show mine
- Saxon Red Cross Museum Beierfeld
- Multimedia cultural landscape in the King Albert Tower
music
- Original Grünhainer hunting horn blower
Buildings
- Remains of the Cistercian monastery Grünhain
- Ruins of the St. Oswald Church ("Dudelskirche") in Waschleithe
- Peter-Pauls Church and Christ Church in Beierfeld
- City church St. Nicolai in Grünhain by Johann Traugott Lohse
- King Albert Tower on the Spiegelwald
- Electoral Saxon distance pillar from the market and royal Saxon station stone on Zwönitzer Strasse in Grünhain
Parks
- Waschleithe nature and wildlife park
- Grünhain sports and leisure park
Sports
- Grünhain natural swimming pool
- Spiegelwaldhalle, a multi-purpose sports hall with 400 seats and 100 standing places for school and club sports as well as events
Regular events
- Monastery festival in Grünhain
- Spoon maker festival in Beierfeld
- Harzerfest in Waschleithe
(the three events take place alternately every year)
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Grünhain-Beierfeld is not connected to regional traffic by a federal road. The most important connection is the state road 270, which connects the city with the nearby federal road 101 in Schwarzenberg and the state road 258, a motorway slip road to the A 72 , in Zwönitz.
The Zwönitz – Scheibenberg railway line , on which both Beierfeld and Grünhain had a train station, was dismantled in 1947 as a reparation payment . Passenger traffic still takes place in the nearby Schwarzenberg (Erzgeb) train station , which is served hourly by the Erzgebirgsbahn ( RB95 Zwickau – Aue – Schwarzenberg – Johanngeorgenstadt). Grünhain-Beierfeld is part of the Central Saxony transport association .
education
- a two-class elementary school
- a two-tier high school with a technology center
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Werner Turck (1932–2015), entrepreneur (awarded in September 2012)
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630), Thomas Cantor, born in Grünhain
- Christian Gotthilf Tag (1735–1811), cantor and composer in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, born in Beierfeld
- Moritz Heinrich Rosenhauer (1803–1888), Protestant pastor and politician, born in Grünhain
- Gustav Adolf Vodel (1831–1908), lawyer and politician, MdL, born in Grünhain
- August Friedrich Viehweger (1836–1919), architect, born in Grünhain
- Hermann Viehweger (1846–1922), architect, born in Grünhain
- Fritz Körner (1873–1930), dialect poet of the Ore Mountains, born in Waschleithe, died in Beierfeld
- Ernst Stuck (1893–1974), dentist, Imperial Dental Guide, born in Grünhain
- Liselotte Pieser (1917–1998), economist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, born in Beierfeld
- Heinz Glaser (* 1926), soccer player, born in Beierfeld
- Wolfgang Kießling (1929–1999), historian, born in Beierfeld
- Rolf Winkler (1930–2001), sculptor and graphic artist, born in Grünhain
- Dagmar Meyer (* 1931), dialect speaker and author, born in Grünhain
- Kurt Steinbach (* 1922), soccer goalkeeper, born in Grünhain
- Hermann Golle (* 1934), engineer for mechanical engineering and aircraft technology, born in Beierfeld
- Rolf Böttcher (1935–2019), 1984 to 1996 president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony
- Hans-Dieter Hofmann (1947–2019), President of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church Office of Saxony, born in Beierfeld
- Stephan Malzdorf (* 1948), former Kruzianer, singer, folk musician and radio presenter, born in Beierfeld
- Eva-Maria Wernicke-Wehling (* 1953), luge athlete, born in Beierfeld
People connected to the city
- Kunz von Kauffungen (around 1410–1455), the initiator of the Altenburg prince robbery, was taken prisoner near Waschleithe
- Johann Gabriel Löbel (1635–1696), owner of a glassworks and hammer master, died in Grünhain
- Jacob Oertel († 1762), organ builder
- Christian Gottlob Steinmüller (1792–1864), master organ builder
- Gustav Wilhelm Theodor Spindler (1859–1928), representative of near-natural forestry in the Ore Mountains, was a forester in Grünhain
- Paul Korb (1904–2002), KPD and SED functionary, temporarily worked as a punch in Beierfeld
- Thomas Köhler (* 1940), double Olympic champion in luge, lived temporarily in Beierfeld
- Ortrun Enderlein (* 1943), luge athlete, worked at the Beierfeld measuring equipment factory
- Hanna Roßner (1943–2012), dialect speaker and author
View from the Spiegelwald to the district of Grünhain (in the background the Schatzenstein )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999 .
- ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
- ↑ https://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_s10_bmlr.prc_erg_bm_a?p_bz_bzid=BM151&p_ebene=GE&p_ort=14521260
- ^ Website City of Grünhain-Beierfeld , accessed on May 13, 2018
- ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Rescue in the Ore Mountains. (The Saxon Red Cross Museum) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 1, Northern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 204–205, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2 .
- ↑ Grünhain-Beierfeld: Werner Turck receives honorary citizenship , accessed on September 5, 2012.