Hartenstein (Saxony)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 12 ° 40 ′ E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Zwickau | |
| Height : | 360 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 36.7 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 4540 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 124 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 08118 | |
| Area code : | 037605 | |
| License plate : | Z, GC, HOT, WDA | |
| Community key : | 14 5 24 090 | |
| City structure: | Core city; 3 districts | |
City administration address : |
Marktplatz 9 08118 Hartenstein |
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| Mayor : | Andreas Steiner (independent) | |
| Location of the town of Hartenstein in the Zwickau district | ||
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Hartenstein is a country town southeast of Zwickau , on the Zwickauer Mulde in the district of Zwickau .
geography
Neighboring communities
The city is located in the Western Ore Mountains. Neighboring communities are Langenweißbach , Mülsen and Wildenfels in the district of Zwickau as well as Oelsnitz , Stollberg , Aue-Bad Schlema and Lößnitz in the Erzgebirgskreis .
City structure
The city consists of the districts of Hartenstein, Thierfeld (since January 1, 1994), Zschocken (since January 1, 1996) and Stein (since October 1, 1934).
history
Hartenstein was first referred to as a town in 1378 and is said to have been founded by the Meinheringer who built Hartenstein Castle in the county of Hartenstein along the trade route from Zwickau to Bohemia in the 12th century . The city then came under the sovereignty of the Burgraves of Meißen , was pledged to the Lords of Schönburg in 1406 and became their property in 1414. They and the lower county remained with them when the upper part of the county of Hartenstein was bought by the Saxons in 1559 .
From 1701 the city was the main town of the Schönburg-Hartenstein rule , a line of the princes of Schönburg , until after the recess with the House of Wettin in 1740 it finally came under Electoral Saxon rule. (One line of the princely family carried the family name Schönburg-Hartenstein until the 20th century.)
1921 Hartenstein went into the history of puppetry: BEST from Bad Ems Dating Max Jacob , a member of the Wandervogel movement , founded the Hartensteiner puppet shows ; after the puppet company moved to nearby Hohnstein , it became world famous under the name Hohnsteiner Puppet Games. The founding place of this important puppet theater is Hartenstein.
Hartenstein Castle, which was converted into a palace , was almost completely destroyed in an American bombing raid on April 20, 1945. In the vicinity of Hartenstein is the Prinzenhöhle , a scene in the Saxon prince robbery .
- Development of the population
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- Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- Civic Voters' Association (BWV): 6 seats
- CDU : 6 seats
- Fire Brigade Association Hartenstein eV (FVH): 4 seats
Economy and Infrastructure
Hartenstein has its own junction on the federal motorway 72 (junction 12 Hartenstein) that runs north of the city area . It is also connected to the rail network by the Schwarzenberg – Zwickau railway line. The DB Erzgebirgsbahn runs on it .
The location of the disused shaft 371 of the SDAG Wismut is located in the district of Hartenstein .
View from the castle ruins, the red building is the town hall
View of Hartenstein above the outdoor pool
Half-timbered houses at the Weißes Ross inn in the center
The Paul Fleming Monument in Hartenstein
Hartenstein (Sachs) station with platforms (2016)
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Attractions
- Hartenstein Castle , former residence of the County of Hartenstein , now in ruins
- Stein Castle , former residence of the Schönburg- Stein rule
- Memorial to the writer Paul Fleming, who was born in Hartenstein, on the market square
- historic half-timbered house on the market square, motif of a German postage stamp in 2011
- Prinzenhöhle , a scene of the Altenburg prince robbery in 1455
- The Fritz-Seidel-Schanze was inaugurated in 1953, but ski jumping operations were stopped in the mid-1970s.
- Tower hill castle (ring wall) "Ur-Stein" on the mountain slope above the Hartenstein train station
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Heinrich von Lindenau (* 1586 at Hartenstein Castle; † 1615 in Börnichen b. Oederan), manor owner
- Paul Fleming (1609–1640), doctor and writer of the Baroque
- Gottfried Benedict Funk (1734–1814), educator and consistorial councilor
- Christlieb Benedict Funk (1736–1786), physicist and mathematician
- Dietrich Martin (1929–2000), sports scientist and functionary
- Albrecht Neubert (1930–2017), translation scholar
- Magnus Meischner (1821-1892), lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
Personalities who have worked on site
- Friedrich Wilhelm Berger (1844–1911), conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony), mayor of Hartenstein
- Erich Matthes (1888–1970), ethnic publisher and local researcher from the Ore Mountains
- Max Jacob (1888–1967), founder of the Hartensteiner , later Hohnsteiner puppet shows
- Wolf Butter (* 1949), clarinetist, composer, actor
literature
- Richard Steche : Hartenstein. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 12. Issue: Zwickau Official Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1889, p. 22.
- Richard Oertel: Building blocks for the history of the city of Hartenstein and its surroundings ", 5 volumes, Hartenstein 1924 and 1925.
- Michael Wetzel : The Schönburg Office of Hartenstein 1702-1878. Social structure - administration - economic profile. Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-937209-03-4
- Hartenstein. In: Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald (= values of our homeland . Volume 31). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1980, pp. 95–99.
- City administration of Hartenstein: Castle town of Hartenstein with Thierfeld and Zschocken , Horb am Neckar 2004 and 2005.
- City administrations of Hartenstein and Wildenfels. Hartenstein and Wildenfels , Schlema 2003.
- New Saxon Church Gallery. The Hartenstein Parish. Leipzig 1902
- E. Geißler: On the history of the castle and the city of Hartenstein, In: Glückauf, magazine of the Erzgebirgs-Verein, 15th year, 1895, p. 90
Web links
- Official website of the city
- Hartenstein in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony