Grünhainichen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 13 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Administrative association:	Wildenstein
Height :	421 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.72 km 2
Residents:	3346 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	117 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09579
Primaries :	037294 03725 (part of Waldkirchen)
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 270
Address of the municipal administration:	Chemnitzer Str. 41 09579 Grünhainichen
Website :	www.gruenhainichen.com
Mayor :	Robert Arnold (independent)
Location of the community Grünhainichen in the Erzgebirge district

Grünhainichen is a municipality in the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony (Germany). The community consists of the districts Grünhainichen, Borstendorf and Waldkirchen and belongs to the administrative association Wildenstein . The community is after Seiffen / Erzgeb. the second most important center for wooden toy production in the Ore Mountains.

geography

location

The Waldhufendorf district of Grünhainichen lies west of the Flöha . It extends in a west-east direction. The highest point of the place is the Scheffelsberg at 501 m, the lowest point is on the Flöha at 328 m. The district of Waldkirchen , also a Waldhufendorf, is located west of Grünhainichen in a side valley of the Zschopau . The borstendorf district , which was also created as a Waldhufendorf, extends east of the Flöha in a side valley up to the ridge in the direction of Eppendorf .

Neighboring communities

In the north they border Augustusburg , Leubsdorf with the district of Marbach, in the east Eppendorf , in the south Pockau-Lengefeld with the districts Wünschendorf and Reifland in the southeast, in the southwest Börnichen / Erzgeb. to the community. In the west border Gornau / Erzgeb. and Zschopau .

history

Grünhainichen is 1349 in the loan book of Friedrich III. des Strengen first mentioned in a document as "Heinchin". With the Reformation in 1539 the place became part of the parish of Waldkirchen. The place was the official village of the Office Augustusburg (formerly Schellenberg). The spoon maker Hans Oehmen is mentioned in the church book in 1579. It is probably the oldest evidence of wooden goods production in the Ore Mountains. As early as 1650, carpenters, box makers, board cutters, violin makers, drum makers and pipe drills were mentioned. The chip puller is also mentioned for the first time this year. The local craftsmen and traders offered the goods at trade fairs in Frankfurt (Oder) , Lüneburg , Dresden , Leipzig and Braunschweig . The place is called "Little Leipzig".

The first teacher is mentioned in 1711. Around 1750 a stone bridge is built over the Flöha. The first school building was built in 1787; in the same year the first doctor works in town. During this time, the production of wood products took off more and more, in the 70 houses of the village only 18 farmers are resident. In the 19th century, other toy manufacturers emerged. In 1848 Grünhainichen became an independent parish and Borstendorf became a branch church. The church is consecrated on October 14, 1850.

Grünhainichen Church

On May 24th 1875 the connection to the railway network takes place. The volunteer fire brigade was founded on June 13, 1875. In 1879 the Saxon government set up a state toy and trade school. On August 1, 1881, the Siegel & Hasse paper factory begins production. In 1888, the toy publisher Oswald Wagner set up a foundation to help those innocently in need . Around 1900 there were seven toy shops and over 1000 house industrialists working in the town. The town hall was built in 1907. The outdoor pool was built in 1926. The toy making profession was officially recognized in 1936. The Madonna with Engelberg by Grete Wendt received a Grand Prix and a gold medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. In 1954 the toy and trade school closes. In the years 1970 to 1972, the last private toy manufacturers and craft businesses were nationalized. After the fall of the Wall, many companies were re-privatized from 1990 onwards. Since 1992 there is only one elementary school in Grünhainichen. In 1994 Grünhainichen became a member of the Wildenstein Administrative Association. In 1999, Wendt & Kühn inaugurated the new summer version of the outdoor play box. The music box itself has been around with Christmas figures since 1979.

On March 1, 2009, the previously independent communities Grünhainichen and Waldkirchen merged to form the new community Grünhainichen. On January 1, 2015, the municipalities of Grünhainichen and Borstendorf merged.

Population development

December 31, January 2007 territory:

1982 to 1988 1982: 1,809 1983: 1.790 1984: 1,753 1985: 1.718 1986: 1,705 1987: 1,688 1988: 1.632

1989 to 1995 1989: 1,585 1990: 1,520 1991: 1,500 1992: 1,529 1993: 1,513 1994: 1,462 1995: 1,437

1996 to 2002 1996: 1.412 1997: 1,451 1998: 1,457 1999: 1,454 2000: 1,446 2001: 1,417 2002: 1,382

2003 to 2009 2003: 1,383 2004: 1,382 2005: 1,362 2006: 1,329 2007: 1,302 2008: 1,281 2009: 2,374

2010 to 2013 2010: 2,319 2011: 2,278 2012: 2,292 2013: 2,202

Memorials

• Memorial stone from 1974 in the park on Mühlenstrasse in memory of the fallen soldiers of the Red Army and resistance fighters against fascism
• three wooden memorial plaques for the victims of the Second World War in the church, made in the former toy and trade school
• War memorial made of sandstone with a small park for the fallen soldiers of the First World War on Grete-Wendt-Straße, popularly known as the "coffee mill" due to its shape
• one of three cast iron plates originally attached to an obelisk in memory of the victims of the Franco-Prussian War with a peace oak from 1871 on Chemnitzer Strasse
• a memorial stone for the victims of war, flight and displacement in the cemetery

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 66.3% (2014: 57.9%)

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30th

20th

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26.9%

21.3%

20.4%

17.9%

13.6%

n. k.

FBI

FWB

CDU

WKS

SGR

FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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 20th

 15th

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+ 21.3  % p

-23.4  % p

-5.5  % p

+ 13.6  % p

-1  % p

FBI

FWB

CDU

WKS

SGR

FDP

     

A total of 16 seats

• FBI : 5
• FWB : 3
• WCS : 3
• SGR : 2
• CDU : 3rd

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Free Citizens' Initiative Waldkirchen ( FBI ): 5 seats
• Free Electoral Association Borstendorf ( FWB ): 3 seats
• Christian Democratic Union of Germany : 3 seats
• Voting Association for Culture and Sport ( WKS ): 3 seats
• SG Rotation Borstendorf eV: 2 seats

mayor

• 1983–1994: Helmut Wagner ( CDU )
• 1994 – February 2009: Klaus Höppe (CDU)
• March – July 2009: Gunther Kaden (independent) as official administrator
• 2009 – December 2014: Klaus Höppe (CDU) (as official administrator until July 2015)
• August 2015–2017: Günther Schneider (CDU)
• officiating since December 20, 2017: Robert Arnold (independent)

coat of arms

Grünhainichen's coat of arms until the founding of the unified community on February 28, 2009

Until February 28, 2009, the community Grünhainichen used a coat of arms depicting an Ore Mountain angel of light and two fir trees. This illustrates the importance of the Erzgebirge handicrafts for the place. With the foundation of the unified community with Waldkirchen it is now only the official local coat of arms. In addition to the traditional Grünhainichen angel as a symbol of the Grünhainichen district, the new municipal coat of arms shows a miner in the habit of a blue-colored worker as a symbol for the Waldkirchen district. The spruce trees between the two figures symbolize the wealth of forests in the Ore Mountains landscape. In the lower part the two rivers Flöha and Zschopau are shown, on the banks of which there are water mills (mill wheel).

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Grünhainichen

Museums

• Museum of Erzgebirge Folk Art

Buildings

Outdoor music box (winter version) in the town center

Outdoor music box (summer version)

• Fox tower (ruin)
• Large outdoor music box
• Classicist church
• Art Nouveau town hall with elements of the neo-Renaissance designed by Ernst Kühn, architect and city builder in Dresden, father of Margarete Kühn
• Outdoor swimming pool with preserved buildings around 1926

Sports

Grünhainichener BC

The Grünhainichener Ballspiel Club is a football club with a long tradition. The GBC was founded on May 13, 1913, took part in association games for the first time from 1921 and celebrated its first major success in 1926 as a champion of the Flöhatal district and promotion to the district league.

After the Second World War, the name was changed to BSG Tractor Grünhainichen in 1948 and the title of district master in 1951, 1961 and 1964. From 1964 to 1971 Traktor played in the district class (5th league of the GDR ). 1989 the fall into the 2nd district class. In 1990 and 2003 the again renamed GBC played in the 1st district class, was the district cup winner in 2005 and returned to the district league of the Middle Ore Mountains in 2008/09. The GBC stadium is called "Sportplatz am Naturbad" and has around 1500 spectators. There is mostly standing room and a few benches.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

• Wendt & Kühn KG

traffic

• Flöhatalbahn , stations Floßmühle and Grünhainichen-Borstendorf
• Zschopautalbahn , station Waldkirchen (Erzgeb)
• Bus connection to Eppendorf, Zschopau, Flöha, Augustusburg
• The S235 road, which connects Zschopau-Nord with Brand-Erbisdorf, runs through Grünhainichen

Personalities

• Guido Hermann Schäf (1840–1911), organ builder
• Margarete Wendt (1887–1979), founder, managing director of the angel manufactory Wendt & Kühn
• Margarete Kühn (1888–1977), founder and managing director of Wendt & Kühn
• Olly Wendt (1896–1991), designer at Wendt & Kühn
• Walter Schmidt (1903–1962), politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of Chemnitz from 1936 to 1945, born in Waldkirchen
• Günther Wagner (1925–1999), university professor in Leipzig
• Hans Wendt (1930–2008), managing director of Wendt & Kühn
• Roland Oehme (* 1935), screenwriter and director, born in Grünhainichen

literature

• The Grünhainichen Parish. In: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, pp. 289–306 ( digitized version )
• The middle Zschopau area (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 142–147.
• Grünhainichen, Grünhainchen . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, p. 610 f.
• Gisela Lorenz: Family book of the parish Waldkirchen with Grünhainichen and Börnichen (district Zschopau) 1548 to 1715. Leipzig: AMF 1999 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 4)

Web links

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

• Grünhainichen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
4. ↑ Public announcement of the election results of the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 ( PDF ) . In: Official Journal Administrative Association Wildenstein . No. 06/2019, p. 6 ff.