Good Prince (Weischlitz)

Good lord community Weischlitz Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	580 m
Area :	34.6 ha
Residents :	157  (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	454 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Burgstein
Postal code :	08538
Area code :	037433
Location of Gutenfürst in Saxony

Gutenfürst is a district of the municipality Weischlitz in the Saxon Vogtlandkreis . On January 1, 1994, it was merged with six other communities to form the Burgstein community. This in turn was incorporated into the large community of Weischlitz on January 1, 2011. Due to its location on the state border with Bavaria , the town's station acquired a certain importance as the Gutenfürst border station from 1945 to 1990, as it was on the demarcation line ( inner German border ) between the US and Soviet occupation zones , or between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR lay.

geography

Location and traffic

Signpost Kammweg Erzgebirge – Vogtland at Gutenfürst train station

Gutenfürst is located in the southwest of the municipality of Weischlitz on the border with Bavaria not far from the triangle between Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia with the three-free state stone . The place is on the ridge path Erzgebirge – Vogtland . Gutenfürst is surrounded by deciduous and coniferous forest (Gutenfürster forest). It is located in the " Burgsteinlandschaft " conservation area . The Brauhauspöhl at the entrance to the village was established as a nature reserve . The western corridor of Gutenfürst borders on Bavaria and thus belongs to the Green Belt Germany nature reserve , which includes the former inner German border . The Leipzig – Hof railway line also crosses the border to Bavaria there. The Gutenfürst station , which is also on this railway line, was a border station on the inner-German border between 1945 and 1990 .

Gutenfürst is located in the west of the Vogtlandkreis and in the Saxon part of the historic Vogtland on the border with the Bavarian Vogtland . Geographically, the place is in the center of the natural area Vogtland ( Central Vogtland Kuppenland ).

Neighboring places

Gutenfürst borders three other districts of the community Weischlitz and a district of the community Feilitzsch in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria.

Grossbau	Kemnitz
Corridor from Stöckigt		Kröstau
Münchenreuth (Bavaria)		Krebes

history

Manor of the Gutenfürst manor

Gutenfürst station

Central German regional railway in Gutenfürst station (2019)

The place was first mentioned in 1418 as a good first . The meaning is derived from the Middle High German "virst" - "mountain ridge, mountain ridge". The determinatum was also understood as "forest". So it is a place that is characterized by its good location on a ridge or in your forest.

Through various influences, such as B. Hussite wars , epidemics and fire, through infestation of a locust train in August 1693, through the Thirty Years' War , plague and famine, the existence of the place and its inhabitants were put to severe tests. The manor Gutenfürst, mentioned as early as 1583, which also exercised the manorial rule over Gutenfürst, belonged to the von Feilitzsch family in the earliest times . Then it came to the von Etzdorff family (around 1570), then again to the von Feilitzsch family (around 1588) and then to Walther von Nischwitz (1605). The following owners were Joachim von Reibold and the gentlemen von der Heydte , who still owned the estate in the middle of the 19th century. The manor Gutenfürst included a Vorwerk in Grobau and five houses along with parts of Krebes , Stöckigt and Kemnitz .

The current spelling with "ü", which is documented from 1640, is likely to have its origin in the language of the office . Since 1506 Gutenfürst belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Plauen . On November 20, 1848, the Plauen - Hof section of the Leipzig-Hof railway line was opened together with the Gutenfürst stop . The entire route was only passable from 1851. In 1856 the place was affiliated with the Plauen court office and in 1875 with the Plauen administration . Ecclesiastically, Gutenfürst has always been part of the so-called conflict parish Kemnitz .

In April and May 1945, Gutenfürst was initially occupied by the Americans, who withdrew at the beginning of July 1945 to the demarcation line established in spring 1945 behind the Saxon-Bavarian border. The Red Army then occupied the vacated areas assigned to it . As the last station before the demarcation line, Gutenfürst had become a border station . In the beginning, trains ran only irregularly, it was not until December 20, 1945 that freight trains with coal from the Central German lignite area crossed the zone border on a regular basis . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the community of Gutenfürst became part of the Plauen-Land district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). Unlimited interzonal traffic via the Gutenfürst border station was started in 1954. Between 1975 and 1980 the Gutenfürst station was expanded like a fortress to prevent escapes.

After the fall of the 1989/90 reunification , it lost its importance as a border station, and as a result the importance of the Gutenfürst station, which is now only served by regional traffic, fell rapidly. The community of Gutenfürst belonged to the Saxon district of Plauen since 1990. On January 1, 1994, as part of the first Saxon district reform , the community of Gutenfürst merged with the six communities of Geilsdorf , Großzöbern , Heinersgrün , Kemnitz , Krebes and Schwand to form the community of Burgstein , which got its name from the Burgstein mountain with its two church ruins. This belonged to the Vogtlandkreis since 1996. With the incorporation of the municipality of Burgstein into the larger municipality of Weischlitz, Gutenfürst has been part of Weischlitz since January 1, 2011.

Development of the population

year	population
1583	8 possessed man
1748	1 possessed man, 14 cottagers , 1 hoof (34 bushels)
1834	219
1871	222
1890	212
1910	195
1925	207
1939	166
1946	232
1950	212
1964	226
1990	258
2011	157

Web links

Commons : Gutenfürst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony: Good Prince  - Sources and full texts

• Gutenfürst (Weischlitz) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Gutenfüst on the website of the Weischlitz community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Unger, Werner Pöllmann u. a. (Ed.): The Vogtland Atlas . 3. Edition. Verlag Klaus Gumnior, Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-937386-18-8 , p. 121 .
2. ↑ 2011 census results on statistik.sachsen.de. (PDF) Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
3. ^ Website of the Erzgebirge – Vogtland ridge trail
4. ^ ^{A b} Steffen Raab: Gutenfürst. In: https://www.weischlitz.de/ . Gutenfürst local council, accessed on November 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Gutenfürst manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
6. ↑ The Vorwerk Grobau at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
7. ↑ Ernst Eichler , Volkmar Hellfritzsch , Johannes Richter : The place names of the Saxon Vogtland . 1. The name book (=  Vogtlandmuseum Plauen [Hrsg.]: Series of publications of the Vogtlandmuseum . No. 50 ). 1st edition. Plauen 1983, p. 40 .
8. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 76 f.
9. ^ The Plauen District Administration in the municipality register 1900
10. ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - A Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 82 ff.
11. ↑ Gutenfürst on gov.genealogy.net
12. ^ Burgstein on gov.genealogy.net
13. ↑ Gutenfürst's population figures up to 1990 in the digital historical directory. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .