Hirschberg (Olbernhau)

Hirschberg City of Olbernhau Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '25 "  N , 13 ° 23' 50"  E
Height :	503 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	09526
Area code :	037360
Location of Hirschberg in Saxony

Hirschberg is a district of the Saxon town of Olbernhau in the Erzgebirge district .

geography

Hirschberg, Ortsstrasse (2017)

location

Hirschberg is located about 5 kilometers south-east of Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains directly on the German-Czech border, which marks the course of the Schweinitz here . Since 2016 there has been a border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists in Hirschberg. To the east and south-east, the Hirschberg Forest borders the corridor, while the Flöha forms the natural border in the north .

The state road 214 Olbernhau– Deutscheinsiedel leads through the locality , north of the locality the S 211 branches off to Bienenmühle.

Neighboring places

Oberneuschönberg		Niederseiffenbach
Brandov		Seiffen / Erzgeb.
		Oberlochmühle

history

The cemetery chapel in Hirschberg

Memorial to the victims of the First World War

The first written mention of the place dates from 1647 as Hirschbergk .
The deceased could be buried in the Brandau cemetery until 1648, after which they had to be brought to the Olbernhau cemetery to have their own.

August Schumann describes in 1817 in the State Lexicon of Saxony Hirschberg concerning a. a .:

“It has 9 houses and a farm with 64 inhabitants. The inhabitants own little trees and do some services on the royal. Vorwerke. They are parish in Olbernhau. This village was created after the wood was aborted by charring . The Vorwerk which Caspar VI. v. Schönberg initially set up a hunting lodge in 1619, then Abraham I von Schönberg's widow, Ursula Catharina, born von Starschädel, who had been a widow's residence since 1623, became a royal after 1647. Saxon Kammer-Vorwerk, and, like Rechenberg and Grün-Schönberg, leased, but leased in 1780. The economy consists of agriculture and cattle breeding ...
Above Hirschberg, people used to dig in the Eisenstein forest, of which two tunnels can still be seen up the Schirnitz. "

With the construction of the Flöhatalbahn , the place with the stop "Schweinitztal" received a railway connection on October 1st, 1895. On May 15, 1939 this was given the name "Oberneuschönberg". On June 10, 2001, passenger traffic on the Olbernhau-Grünthal- Neuhausen section was discontinued.

In 1874 Hirschberg was part of Niederseiffenbach. With the dissolution of the community of Niederseiffenbach on April 1, 1939, Hirschberg and Niederlochmühle became part of the community of Oberneuschönberg. In 1950, Hirschberg became part of the latter when Oberneuschönberg was incorporated into Olbernhau.

Development of the population

year population 1667 6 cottagers 1748 9 cottagers 1834 90

year population 1871 99 1890 159

literature

• Hirschberg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 86 f.
• District Office Middle Erzgebirgskreis, Ed .: On the history of the cities and municipalities in the Middle Erzgebirgskreis , a time table (parts 1–3)
• Hirschberg Forest . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 89 f.

Web links

Commons : Hirschberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hirschberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Hirschberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
2. ↑ cf. Hirschberg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 86 f.
3. ^ Railway stations in Saxony , accessed on January 3, 2013