Heinersgrün

Heinersgrün community Weischlitz Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 16 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 50 ″ E
Height :	540 m
Area :	5.65 km²
Residents :	174 (2011)
Population density :	31 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Burgstein
Postal code :	08538
Area code :	037433
Location of Heinersgrün in Saxony
	The castle in Heinersgrün

Heinersgrün 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.

geography

Location and traffic

Heinersgrün is located in the southwest of the municipality of Weischlitz in the landscape protection area of the Dröda dam between the state road 319 (former federal road 173 ) and the federal highway 72 . In the immediate vicinity of the village are the nature reserve "Himmelreich" (former border strip of the inner German border ) and the area natural monument "Grenzheide", which belong to the Green Belt Germany . The former watchtower is located northwest of the village on the A 72 . ⊙ A little to the west of the tower is the Markusgrün (Marxgrün) desert , the houses of which were demolished in the course of the border security after 1961. ⊙ The Erzgebirge – Vogtland ridge trail runs northwest of Heinersgrün . 50.39484 11.989594 50.3939 11.9842

Heinersgrün is located in the west of the Vogtlandkreis and in the Saxon part of the historic Vogtland , on the border with the Bavarian Vogtland . The place is located in the center of the natural area Vogtland ( Central Vogtland hill country ).

Neighboring places

	Krebes
Föhrig Bavaria		Ramoldsreuth corridor
Blosenberg	Ebersberg corridor	Engelhardtsgrün

history

Chapel of St. Clara Heinersgrün (2012)

The Waldhufendorf Heinersgrün was mentioned in 1296 as "Heinrichsgrune" in the Bobenneukirchen Treaty. A manor house was mentioned in Heinersgrün as early as the 12th century. Around 1330 this was in the possession of the Upper Franconian and Vogtland noble family von Feilitzsch . The Vorwerk Marxgrün (Markusgrün) was mentioned in 1412, the Heinersgrün manor from 1542. The Heinersgrüner line of the von Feilitzsch family sold the manor in 1648 to the von Pöllnitz family . Another branch of the von Feilitzsch family bought it back in 1785. The St. Clara Chapel in Heinersgrün, which was initially used as a pilgrimage church and is still called the Santa Clara Chapel today, served as the burial place for the two families. She was in the 12./13. Built in the 16th century and first mentioned in a document in 1529. Ecclesiastically Heinersgrün was formerly the armed parish Wiedersberg gepfarrt, since 1930 after Bobenneukirchen.

With regard to the manorial rule , the place Heinersgrün belonged completely to the Heinersgrün manor only from 1764. Around 1542 and 1606 the place belonged partly to the parish of Plauen and the monastery Hof . Heinersgrün with Marxgrün was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon office of Voigtsberg until 1856 . In 1856 the place was affiliated to the Oelsnitz court office and in 1875 to the Oelsnitz administration . In 1920, Heinersgrün Castle fell victim to the flames, as the fire from the neighboring stable spread to the castle. As early as 1921, the palace was rebuilt in a slightly modified form by Philipp Freiherr von Feilitzsch. In 1936 he sold the Heinersgrün manor with the Markusgrün Vorwerk to the farmer Achaz von Zehmen , from whom it came to Emil Kleine-Brockhoff in 1942. However, von Zehmen kept the Markusgrün forest estate. The scattered settlement of Marxgrün northwest of Heinersgrün, the center of which was an estate with a manor house, was called Markusgrün from 1908 and officially from 1930. At that time the place had 25 inhabitants.

In the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 , the Heinersgrün manor and the Marxgrün Vorwerk were expropriated. The Rittgergut was initially used by the Red Army as supplies for about a year . Afterwards it was inhabited for a short time by new farmers and resettlers . In 1948 the castle was handed over to the FDGB by the Land Commission. Due to its location in the 5 km wide restricted area on the border with the FRG , a command of the GDR border troops had been housed in Schloss Heinersgrün since 1950 . Because the Rudolphstein bridge on the Munich – Berlin autobahn was blown up in 1945, the section of today's federal autobahn 72 (Hof – Chemnitz) built in the late 1930s was used as an interzonal crossing between 1945 and 1951 . The small settlement of Markusgrün was of particular importance for border security from 1945, as the border strip and the motorway including the crossing were easily accessible and visible from here. Since 1948 there has been a company of the German Border Police (DGP) in Markusgrün , the location of which was further expanded in the 1950s. In 1951, the motorway crossing at Markusgrün was closed and the motorway between Hof / Töpen and Pirk was closed to traffic until 1989 . At least in the 1980s, the section between the Großzöbern temporary exit and the Heinersgrün exit (which was not released during the later expansion) was accessible on two lanes within the restricted border area . After the inner-German border was also strengthened in the course of the construction of the Wall in 1961 , Markusgrün was in the 500-meter-wide protective strip . Since the place was no longer accessible, the abandoned buildings fell into disrepair and were later demolished. A few meters east of the village, the watchtower of the border troops, still visible from the motorway, was built .

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the Heinersgrün community became part of Oelsnitz district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). In 1972 the community of Heinersgrün took over the local castle and used it as a community office, post office, sales point, library, restaurant and house. In 1995 the building was sold to Joachim Gräf, who carried out an extensive renovation and furnished several apartments.

After the fall of the Wall , the former border strip was part of the Green Belt Germany nature reserve . From 1990, Heinersgrün belonged to the Saxon district of Oelsnitz. On January 1, 1994, the Heinersgrün community merged with six other communities to form the Burgstein community, which moved the place to the Plauen district , which was added to the Vogtland district in 1996. With the incorporation of the Burgstein community into the Weischlitz community, Heinersgrün has been part of Weischlitz since January 1, 2011.