Jahnsbach

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Jahnsbach
City of Thum
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 57 "  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 53"  E
Height : 551 m
Area : 4.81 km²
Residents : 1372  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 285 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 09419
Area code : 037297
Jahnsbach (Saxony)
Jahnsbach

Location of Jahnsbach in Saxony

Jahnsbach is a district of the Saxon town of Thum in the Erzgebirgskreis .

geography

location

Jahnsbach is about 3.5 kilometers northwest of Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Ore Mountains . The location extends for about 2 kilometers along the Jahnsbach , which the Wilisch flows to. In the east, the location flows smoothly into that of Thum. To the south of the village, the Geyer forest borders the corridor.
Through the village the state road 233 Dorfchemnitz - Herold and the federal road 95 Chemnitz - Oberwiesenthal crossing in Thum . There is also a connection to Geyer via Kreisstraße 7105.

Neighboring places

Auerbach
Hormersdorf Neighboring communities Thum
Geyer Ehrenfriedersdorf

history

Jahnsbach Church
restored royal Saxon milestone in the street of friendship
Jahnsbach stop (2016)

The first verifiable mention of Jhanspach dates from November 24, 1442 in a letter about the sale of the place by the previous landlords Nikol Rabe and his mother Barbara to Hans Kagerer. The first landlord is Nikol Rabe's father, Hans Rabe, around 1420.

In the first half of the 16th century, Jahnsbach was given some freedom as a result of small tin ore deposits in its corridors, including: brewing rights , bird trapping, free construction timber and, above all, exemption from all physical burdens “with hand and horse, so that they can wait for their little food and the mining work " . With the Reformation in 1537 Jahnsbach came to Parochie Thum, the last Catholic and at the same time first Protestant pastor was Valentin Mann.

In 1784, several residential buildings and stables were destroyed by fire. 1785 was knitters - Guild for Thum, Jahnsbach and around established, the trade held in 1780 in feeder. On November 19, 1800 Jahnsbach received the electoral approval to build his own school, which was inaugurated in 1801. The first and only teacher was Christian Friedrich Dost.

In 1817 August Schumann mentions Jahnsbach in the State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony concerning a. a .:

"It belongs to schriftsäßig Manor Gelenau, has a mill of 3  courses and 400 inhabitants. Including Gelenau it has 364 cows. In 1799 the stocking knitters made 330  doz there. cotton gloves, hats and stockings; the linen weavers 25  shocks of linen and the lace makers 5440 pieces of lace . "

In 1827 Ehregott Hofmann had a lawn bleaching facility built , the so-called lower bleaching facility, which was converted into a steam bleaching facility by Robert Neubert in 1891. Around 1830 Lobegott Wilsch had a second bleaching facility built , the so-called upper bleaching facility. On July 5, 1847, a major fire destroyed the Erbgericht as well as four residential buildings and the upper Bleiche .

On May 1, 1849, the partial jurisdiction in Saxony was abolished, the jurisdiction over the municipality of Jahnsbach was transferred to the judicial office of Selva. In 1852 a new school building was inaugurated, in 1855 the roads to Geyer and Hormersdorf were built as emergency work. On September 13th, a new, larger school building was inaugurated and 384 students moved into it. In 1882 a trade association was founded, one year later the general local health insurance fund, and in 1899 Jahnbach was connected to the network of the Thum electricity company.

On April 19, 1904, the groundbreaking ceremony for the church took place. In the presence of ecclesiastical and political dignitaries and with great sympathy from the population, the foundation stone was laid on June 2nd of that year and the cemetery was inaugurated on August 19th. On October 2, 1905, the church building was consecrated as a "Kreuzkirche" by Superintendent Schmidt from Annaberg, and the parsonage was finally built in 1910–1911.

With the opening of the extension of the narrow-gauge railway Schönfeld-Wiesa-Thum to Meinersdorf , Jahnsbach and the station of the same name received a railway connection on October 1, 1911. Passenger traffic was stopped on September 29, 1974, freight traffic followed on January 1, 1976, the tracks were later dismantled.

Jahnsbach and Thum were bombed in an air raid on February 14, 1945. Several farms and factories were burning in Jahnsbach. The damage amounted to more than 800,000 Reichsmarks and one person was killed. 132 Jahnsbacher lost their life in the Second World War.

In 1960 the LPG "Silberzeche" was founded.

On January 1, 1999, the previously independent communities Herold and Jahnsbach merged with the city of Thum.

Development of the population

year population
1551 22 possessed men , 25 residents
1764 22 gardeners , 20 cottagers , 2 hooves
1790 331
1817 400
1834 748
year population
1852 952
1871 1427
1875 1667
1880 2067
1890 2483
year population
1895 2338
1910 2376
1925 2385
1939 2280
1946 2225
year population
1950 2387
1964 2077
1971 2000
1990 1610
1998 1585

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Jahnsbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Small-scale municipality sheet for Thum, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  2. a b cf. Jahnsbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. Timeline for history 1200–1675 ( memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de
  4. a b c Timeline of history 1696–1847 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de
  5. cf. Jahnsbach . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 262 f.
  6. a b Timetable for history 1849–1899  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de  
  7. a b Timeline of history 1900–1945 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de
  8. ^ Railway stations in Saxony , accessed on January 3, 2013.
  9. a b Timeline of history 1945–2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de  
  10. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 2 (PDF; 39 kB), accessed on February 15, 2011.