Hohndorf

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

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '  N , 12 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	363 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.25 km 2
Residents:	3486 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	664 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09394
Primaries :	037298 u. 037204
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 290
Address of the municipal administration:	Rödlitzer Strasse 84 09394 Hohndorf
Website :	www.hohndorf.com
Mayor :	Matthias Groschwitz ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Hohndorf in the Erzgebirge district

Hohndorf is a municipality in the northwest of the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony .

Geographical location and transport links

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Panorama of Hohndorf from the south; in the background the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal

Hohndorf is located in the Erzgebirge foothills south of the B 173 and west of the B 180 . The A 72 runs east of the community. This can be reached via the connections Stollberg-Nord and Stollberg-West approx. 15 km. The A4 runs north of the municipality. The village is located about 11 km east of Zwickau and about 20 km west of Chemnitz and 8 km northwest of Stollberg / Erzgeb.

The Stollberg – St. Egidien with the Hohndorf Mitte stop and the Rödlitz-Hohndorf stop already in the Lichtenstein area . City-Bahn Chemnitz GmbH's regional trains run every hour from Monday to Friday and every two hours on weekends via Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. to Stollberg and via Lichtenstein and St. Egidien to Glauchau .

Hohndorf is drained by the Rödlitzbach .

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  Rödlitz-Hohndorf stop

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  Hohndorf Mitte stop (2016)

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 62.0%

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

58.2%

22.9%

18.8%

CDU

SPD

AfD

   

A total of 15 seats

• SPD : 3
• CDU : 10
• AfD : 2

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 15 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 10 seats
• SPD : 3 seats
• AfD : 2 seats

Municipal office (town hall) Hohndorf

mayor

Matthias Groschwitz (* 1957) was elected mayor in 2009 and was confirmed in office in 2015 with 99.2% of the votes.

Parish partnership

The community of Hohndorf has maintained a community partnership with the community of Kronau in the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg since 1994 .

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Hohndorf

church

Hohndorf has an Evangelical Lutheran community.

Personalities

• Johannes Eberhard Bochmann (1899–?), Politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
• Paul Kurzbach (1902–1997), composer
• Rudolf-Ernst Heiland (1910–1965), politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag , Member of the Bundestag ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Vice-President of the German Municipal Association, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Georg Rauch (1921–2008), member of the Waffen SS and allegedly involved in the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Italy in 1944
• Rolf Seim (1928–2015), Professor of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
• Holger Erler (* 1950), soccer player

literature

• Municipal administration Hohndorf (ed.): 550 years of Hohndorf: 1460–2010 - a village in the countryside. Hohndorf, 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-031717-0

Web links

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

• Hohndorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
3. ↑ https://www.hohndorf.com/unsere-gemeinde/partnergemeinde/ Community partnership between Hohndorf and Kronau on the homepage of the community of Hohndorf