Grünhain-Beierfeld

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
Website :	www.gruenhain-beierfeld.de
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

Mönchsbrunnen and old monastery forge

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.

The districts of Grünhain (left) and Beierfeld (right in the foreground) seen from the König-Albert-Turm on the Spiegelwald.

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 60.4% (2009: 46.8%)

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50

40

30th

20th

10

0

48.8%

37.2%

7.3%

3.5%

3.1%

n. k.

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

% p

30th

25th

20th

15th

10

5

0

-5

-10

-15

+ 26.4 % p

-14.1 % p

-5.1 % p

-2.0 % p

+ 3.1 % p.p.

-8.4 % p

A total of 18 seats

Left : 1
FWG : 10
CDU : 7

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:

FWG: 10 seats
CDU : 7 seats
LEFT : 1 seats

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

see also: List of cultural monuments in Grünhain-Beierfeld

St. Nicolai Church in Grünhain

Peter-Pauls-Kirche in Beierfeld

Ruins of the Dudelskirche in Waschleithe

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

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