Hammer bridge

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Hammerbrücke (disambiguation) .

Hammer bridge Community Muldenhammer
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	675 m
Area :	8.15 km²
Residents :	1279  (Jan. 1, 2014)
Population density :	157 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 2009
Postal code :	08262
Area code :	037465
Location of Hammerbrücke in Saxony

Hammerbrücke is part of the community Muldenhammer in the Saxon Vogtland district .

geography

Hammerbrücke is located on the upper reaches of the Zwickauer Mulde on the edge of the Western Ore Mountains between Klingenthal in the south and Auerbach in the north and is surrounded on all sides by spruce forests.

Adjacent communities are the cities of Auerbach and Falkenstein , Grünbach and the district of Tannenbergsthal in the Vogtlandkreis.

history

The place was built around 1600 on an iron hammer . A glassworks and a silver mine were added towards the end of the 18th century . Hammerbrücke and Friedrichsgrün belonged to the Plauen office until the 19th century .

On February 1, 1936, Hammerbrücke and Friedrichsgrün merged.

On October 1, 2009, Hammerbrücke and the villages of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz and Tannenbergsthal merged to form the new community of Muldenhammer .

Development of the population (December 31) :

1971: 1771 1998: 1508 1999: 1503 2000: 1485

2001: 1461 2002: 1441 2003: 1418 2004: 1416

2007: 1350 2014: 1279

traffic

The Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf (CA line), which runs through Hammerbrücke, was opened in 1875. With the construction of the Eibenstock dam , this route was interrupted and the through traffic stopped on September 27, 1975. In the remaining section Muldenberg - Schönheide Süd (Wilzschhaus) - Schönheide Ost of the CA line, passenger traffic was discontinued in sections between 1979 and 1982, freight traffic continued until 1996. After the expansion of a switch connection in Muldenberg at the end of the 1990s, the line no longer has any connection to the rest of the DB network and is practically an island route. Since 2008, the Association for the Promotion of Historic West Saxon Railways has been operating tourism and excursion services with a motorized trolley between Schönheide Süd and Hammerbrücke. In 2017 the platform was converted to make it barrier-free.

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  Emmaus Church

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  Hammerbrücke station, track view (2016)

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  Rissbrücke local area

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  View of Hammerbrücke from Grünbacher Strasse

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HDR panorama image of Hammerbrücke. Taken from the edge of the forest on the outskirts towards Tannenbergsthal

literature

• The eastern Vogtland (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 59). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0938-1 , pp. 185-187.

Web links

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

• Hammerbrücke in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
2. ^ Report in the Free Press on the establishment of the Muldenhammer community. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 16, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ Website of the Association for the Promotion of Historic West Saxon Railways , accessed on November 16, 2017