Großrückerswalde

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	536 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.65 km 2
Residents:	3356 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	126 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09518
Area code :	03735
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 250
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Marienberger Str. 108 ; 09518 Großrückerswalde
Website :	www.grossrueckerswalde.de
Mayor :	Jörg Stephan ( CDU )
Location of the community Großrückerswalde in the Erzgebirge district

Großrückerswalde is a municipality in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis . The eponymous village of Rückerswalde was first mentioned in 1386; the community gradually emerged from several places.

geography

location

The community Großrückerswalde lies in and on the valley of the Preßnitz . The highest point of the place is the old court with 742 m, the lowest point is at the confluence of the Preßnitz in the Zschopau with 395 m. The three kilometer long forest hoof village Großrückerswalde is located in an east-west direction in a right side valley of the Preßnitz. The district Streckewalde , the one kilometer long forest hoof village, lies on the western slope of the Preßnitz valley. The district of Mauersberg , also a Waldhufendorf, lies on a plateau west of the Preßnitz. Niedermiedeberg is located in the Preßnitz valley as a former settlement around a hammer mill. Schindelbach is a smaller settlement in an eastern side valley of the Preßnitz.

Neighboring communities

Großrückerswalde is 34 kilometers southeast of Chemnitz . Neighboring community in the east is Marienberg , in the south Mildenau and in the west Thermalbad Wiesenbad . In the northwest, Selva is a neighboring municipality.

structure

Großrückerswalde with soil
Mauersberg
Niedermiedeberg

history

Großrückerswalde with Boden and Schindelbach

Großrückerswalde manor (around 1860)

Manor house of the former Rückerswalde manor. Rehabilitation Clinic 2017

Fortified church Großrückerswalde

The first documentary mention of Rotgerswalde dates back to April 8, 1386. Margrave Wilhelm I von Meißen assigned the rule of Scharfenstein with associated villages, including Großrückerswalde, as a widow's seat to the widow Anargs von Waldenburg . The village was founded in the course of the German settlement in the east in the second half of the 12th century and received its first parish church at that time . Nothing is known about their appearance. In 1457/60 ( dendro ) the church was given a wooden fortified floor and thus became a fortified church . The village of Boden was first mentioned in 1525 as Fotzenbodem . Andreas von Berbisdorf acquired the Vorwerk ( manor ) Rückerswalde in 1541 .

In 1543/1544 the Marienberg City Council bought "half the village" of Boden, the Bodenmühle, Mauersberg and the Schindelbach Forest. The first teacher mentioned died in 1568 after about 50 years of service. The plague claimed 72 deaths in 1583. In memory of this event, the image of the plague was created in the church. It is one of the oldest pictorial representations of a village in Saxony and contains the names of the deceased. Between 1590 and 1611 the mills in Judenstein, Hirschleithe and on the Fichtebach were built.

In 1705 Rückerswalde received its first school building, in 1707 the place was called Fernrückerswalde . Friedrich Ludwig Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg bought the manor in 1744. Schindelbach was first mentioned in a document in 1752. The local residents bought a fire engine in 1801 and used it to equip the wooden syringe house . In 1810 the manor and the castle burned down. In 1820 the place was named Großrückerswalde . In 1821 the residents of Boden built a stone bridge over the Preßnitz. Around 1850 the manor district with the districts Fichtenbach, Neue Häuser, Scheidebach and Haus am Wasser became the own municipality of Rückerswalde . In 1864 the first school building was replaced by a new building, and a post office opened in 1880. The Voluntary Fire Brigade (FF) Großrückerswalde was founded on February 13, 1881, ten years later the FF Rückerswalde followed. In 1887 Rückerswalde received a telephone connection to Marienberg. The Pressnitz Valley Railway was inaugurated on May 31, 1892 . Schindelbach opened its own school building in 1894; The municipal office opened in 1911. In 1913, Rückerswalde connected to the electricity supply, and Schindelbach followed in 1927. During the outbreak of the Spanish flu in Europe it came in 1918 to an influenza - epidemic in the community. In 1924 the volunteer fire brigades in Boden and Schindelbach were formed.

As a result of the church struggle between the German Christians and the Confessing Christians , the parish split up for a time. A gliding school was established on the Hänelberg in 1935/1936 .

After the Second World War until 1990

In 1949, SV Großrückerswalde 49 , which still exists today, was founded.

The Society for Sport and Technology took over the glider airfield in 1950 and maintained a group of interested glider pilots in town. In 1956 a water pipe was built in Schindelbach, the school building had to give way to a new building from 1961 to 1963, which in 1978 also received a teaching pool. In 1968 youth ski jumps (K-points 13 m and 27 m) were built on the Hänelberg. Between 1969 and 1979 there was a new local water pipe in Großrückerswalde. Despite violent protests by the population, the Deutsche Reichsbahn shut down the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt (Preßnitztalbahn) in 1986 and dismantled it in the following years.

After the turn

Together with the administrative reforms in the re-established federal states, the municipal structures were reorganized. The airfield was in the same year its status as a commercial airport . On January 1, 1994 Mauersberg and Niederschmiedeberg were incorporated .

In 1996 the Evangelical Middle School Erhard and Rudolf Mauersberger was founded , named after the cantors Erhard Mauersberger and Rudolf Mauersberger . (→ see sons of the church )

The flood on July 5, 1999 claimed one death in Schindelbach. Since the 1990s, the pyramid pushing has been taking place in Großrückerswalde every Saturday before the first Advent .

Großrückerswalde is now part of the European region and a member of the Association for the Development of the Annaberger Land e. V.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1839, part of the Rückerswalde manor district became a municipality and the manor formed the Rückerswalde manor district.
Merger of the manor districts of Rittergut Rückerswalde and Lehngut Niederschmiedeberg on January 1, 1920 with the municipality of Rückerswalde.
The community of Rückerswalde with Fichtenbach, Neue Häuser, Scheidebach and Haus am Wasser was incorporated into Großrückerswalde on October 1, 1930.
On May 1, 1936, Boden and Schindelbach were added.
An administrative community was established on January 1, 1994 with the communities of Mauersberg and Niederschmiedeberg .
On January 1, 1999, Streckewalde was incorporated.
A merger with the neighboring community of Mildenau was sought for 2013 , whereby the administrative seat of the newly emerging community of Preßnitztal with around 7500 inhabitants should become Großrückerswalde. So far (as of July 2019) there have been no changes.

Population development

The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:

1982 to 1988

1982 - 4,070
1983 - 4,065
1984-4,055
1985 - 4,070
1986 - 4,050
1987-4.022
1988-4,009

1989 to 1995

1989 - 4,000
1990-4,065
1991-4,033
1992 - 4,000
1993 - 3,999
1994-4,055
1995 - 4,077

1996 to 2002

1996 - 4,096
1997 - 4,108
1998 - 4,130
1999 - 4,104
2000 - 4,049
2001 - 4,018
2002 - 4,002

2003 to 2012

2003 - 4,004
2004 - 3,982
2005 - 3,944
2006 - 3,882
2007 - 3,868
2009 - 3,754
2012 - 3,549

from 2013

2013 - 3,508
2018 - 3,346

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Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 73.8% (2014: 65.1%)

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50

40

30th

20th

10

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51.0%

40.8%

5.0%

3.2%

n. k.

CDU

ProG

ULWV ^c

left

FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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35

30th

25th

20th

15th

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-14.1 % p

+ 32.8 % p

-0.9 % p

-3.2 % p

-14.4 % p

CDU

ProG

ULWV ^c

left

FDP

Remarks:

^c Independent Loyal WV

A total of 16 seats

CDU : 9
ProG : 7

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:

CDU : 9 seats
Per Großrückerswalde (ProG): 7 seats

mayor

Jörg Stephan ( CDU ) has been mayor of the community since 1990 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Fortified church Großrückerswalde
The town hall is located at Marienberger Straße 108.
There is a tourist office in the museum building in the Mauersberg district.
The Mauersberg Music Museum in the Mauersberg district, Hauptstrasse 22, is known far beyond the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

Local businesses

According to the municipality's website, more than 140 companies in industry, craft, trade and services were registered at the end of 2014. Selected examples are: Home Fashion in Großrückerswalde, Carl Dietrich GmbH in Streckewalde ( serviettes , blankets, table runners, tablecloth rolls, tablecloths, placemats) and Nevelty (exclusive clothes ).

traffic

Großrückerswalde train station in the Boden district

With the emergence of the larger community, the place received a station on the Preßnitztalbahn, which was renamed Großrückerswalde a year later . Several bus lines connect the individual districts with each other and also run to Annaberg-Buchholz and Marienberg. The Erzgebirge regional traffic operates a school bus system for Wolkenstein-Großrückerswalde.

The Großrückerswalde airfield in the northeast is open on request from the operator and allows aircraft up to a take-off mass of 2 t to take off and land.

Education and clubs

Evangelical high school Erhard and Rudolf Mauersberger

Großrückerswalde primary school
Five cultural associations

Sports

As of the end of 2014, there were six sports clubs in the community for the sports of gliding , skydiving, soccer, volleyball, fistball , shooting , table tennis, bowling, bike ball and hockey . they were created between 1949 and 1999.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Christoph Schreiter (1770–1821), professor of theology at Kiel University
Ewald Dost (1897–1945), National Socialist politician, member of the Reichstag , 1934–1945 Lord Mayor of Zwickau
Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), Kreuzkantor from 1930 to 1971
Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), Thomaskantor from 1961 to 1972
Samuel Rösch (* 1994), winner of the eighth season of The Voice of Germany .

Personalities who have worked on site

Johann Gottlob Schlegel von Gottleben, master's degree, pastor, inspector from 1728
Otto Bräutigam: Glider pilot, April 21, 1939 world record flight over 364 km in a two-seater crane to Vienna-Aspern

Parish partnership

Czech Republic Klášterec nad Ohří in Okres Chomutov in the Czech Republic

literature

Karl-Heinz Melzer, Bernd Stephan (ed.): Festschrift for the 625th anniversary of the first mention: Großrückerswalde 1386–2011. Wolkenstein, 2011.
The Grossrückerswalde Parish. in: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, pp. 348–366. ( Digitized version )
Richard Steche : Grossrückerwalde. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 7.