Heidelsberg
| Heidelsberg | ||
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 View of the Heidelsberg from the Friedenskirche |
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| height | 564 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Western Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 34 '49 " N , 12 ° 42' 20" E | |
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The Heidelsberg is a mountain in front of the Eichert with a height of 564 meters. Both mountains have belonged to the Eichert district of Au since the beginning of the 20th century .
history
The Heidelsberg was first mentioned in 1526 in a document about a hammer mill on the Mulde . At the beginning of the 17th century, rock workers found tin veins, which promised a rich yield. Miners moved into the village, built their own settlement on the mountain from one and two-story houses, the Berg Freiheit . They broke the ore in pits, quarries and tunnels until the deposits were no longer productive. In addition to tin inclusions (hermaphrodites), the Heidelsberg also contains granite , slate , quartz , chert and lamprophyr , which were also mined and processed. The museum on Bockauer Strasse, which was established in the 20th century, was created through the expansion of a historic tunnel access and a hat house . Visitors can see the mouth hole , the entrance to the former tunnel, and numerous mining tools. In 1994 the historical mining association Aue e. V. , who researched the mining history of Aue and reopened ("worked up") the Upper Vestenburger Stolln (formerly errant ) for visitors. The museum, the former St. Andreas white earth mine and the tunnel can be visited. They are connected to the approx. 2 km long mining trail on the Heidelsberg , which runs along the slope of the Heidelsberg.
city Park
With the strong industrialization at the end of the 19th century, the city-side slopes were prepared as a recreation park using a promenade system, benches, flower beds and pavilions such as the Lorenz Pavilion . From 1900 the city park was expanded to 10 hectares through the purchase of land , and at the top of the Heidelsberg a park control room with an observation tower at a height of 485 m above sea level was possible. NN and a public restaurant Schützenhaus to be built. The restaurant advertised with a large tree-lined garden and a concert and ballroom . After the park area was completed, well-attended park festivals took place every year. The clubhouse was after the First World War to an urban inn and was named Parkschlösschen . In 1926 the building was run down and had to be extensively renovated. The renovation of the halls created several small rooms, in one of which the Auer Keglerverband opened two bowling alleys in 1927. - During the National Socialist era , the city park was redesigned: an amusement facility advertised as a "summer bobsleigh run", on which flat wooden sleds could descend on wooden planks and steel rails, was built. In 1937, a home hall in the style of a mountain hut was added, which Auer carpenters had completed within 20 days and which was available to the small traders. There were no park festivals between 1940 and 1945, as the beautification association , which had previously been the sponsor of the city park, had to dissolve due to bankruptcy.
After the end of the Second World War , the parks were again used for recreation for the residents. In the 1950s, the city resumed the tradition of park festivals. On this occasion, the summer toboggan run was repaired and smaller festival areas at the Parkschlösschen and around the park control room were set up. After a fatal accident in 1953, the railway was taken out of service and later dismantled. Additional offers such as the establishment of a small game reserve for wild boar and red deer, the construction and use of a small ski jumping facility on the slopes of the park and the opening of an open-air cinema gradually improved the recreational offer . When further events such as the Festival of Songs and Dance were organized in the city area from 1963 , the city park lost its importance. The no longer maintained green spaces overgrown, the open-air stage and the ski jump were removed. The buildings fell into disrepair: the tower of the park control room had already been closed since the end of the war because it was dilapidated and the terrace also had to be closed in 1970 and later removed. The home hall was converted into a youth club in the 1970s, and around 1990 it was demolished for structural reasons.
The revitalization of the city park began in 1990, a small round temple was renovated, the paths redesigned and the trees and bushes provided with information boards. When private individuals acquired the old parking lot from the city in 1996, they had the existing buildings renovated and those that no longer existed rebuilt. Since then, the city park has become a new tourist attraction with the park control room, observation tower and restaurant. Well-attended and attractive park festivals are being organized again, for example Frank Zander performed in a tent on the Heidelsberg fairground in 1996 .
Buildings on Heidelsberg
The northwestern part of the Heidelsberg was built on in small parts in the 1920s. For the children of the residents there was a primary school for a maximum of 100 pupils at the Upper Festival Square (Buchenweg 30). After the fall of the Wall , this facility was called the Heidelsberg School , but was abandoned as a teaching facility in the early 2010s. Several attempts were made to re-use it in the city administration, which were unsuccessful until the end of 2018. In the spring of 2019, the council discussed a preliminary construction inquiry regarding the re-use of the former school on the Eichert and granted this application: the school complex is to be converted into an administrative ensemble and apartments. In addition, a new senior citizens' home is planned for approx. 97 people. In August 2019, large parts of the roof structure were in flames, the police believe it was arson.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Aue took care of health issues intensively, offering forest recovery cures, especially for children. First, an accommodation house of the allotment garden and natural healing association Prießnitz on the Zeller Berg, founded in 1905/1906, was used for this. Then in 1925 the city administration built its own recreation center on the eastern slope of the Heidelsberg. As a day care center, located in the middle of the wooded slope, up to 30 children were taken in here every day, each for a four-week cure. It was a one-story, flat wooden building which, in addition to the sanitary and kitchen facilities, had a dining room, a lounge area and a wide open veranda. - The building no longer exists.
Halfway up, on Zwitterweg, the city built an asylum building for homeless families in 1927 . It offered simple but functional accommodation with a kitchen-living room, bedroom and two living rooms for a total of 33 families. There were laundry rooms and bathing facilities in the basement. This building - two floors with a loft - has been used for residential purposes since the 1960s.
Web links
- Information from the city of Aue on the mining nature trail on Heidelsberg
- Four historical photos of the Heidelsberg in the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ Height according to the press release of the city of Aue on May 17, 2014
- ^ Mineralienatlas - Heidelsberg
- ↑ Information on the mining nature trail on the Erzgebirge Adventure Land ; Retrieved October 25, 2010
- ↑ private page of the restaurant operator of the Parkwarte restaurant
- ↑ Timeline for the history of the city of Au on the city homepage
- ^ History of the Aue Zoo ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Reports from several residents
- ↑ Aue in the mirror of historical images of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century; Geiger Verlag Horb am Neckar, 1993, ISBN 3-89264-829-8 ; Pages 24; 96-98; 87/88.
- ↑ Article from the 'Wochenspiegel für das Erzgebirge' from August 28, 1996
- ↑ Collection page about schools in Aue ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Press release Auer city administration of 3 April 2019 re-use of the former Heidelsberg school prospect .
- ↑ Future for the Heidelsberg School. Blick.de, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Fire in the former Heidelsberg school - investigators suspect arson. www.radioerzgebirge.de, August 25, 2019, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Former school in the Ore Mountains in flames. August 24, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage of the Auer Naturheilverein with a note on the namesake , accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ Aue in the mirror of historical images of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century; Geiger Verlag Horb am Neckar, 1993, ISBN 3-89264-829-8 ; Pages 79/80