Königshain-Wiederau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ' N , 12 ° 52' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Central Saxony | |
| Height : | 300 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 31.04 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2613 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 84 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 09306 | |
| Primaries : | 037202, 03727 (Topfseifersdorf), 037383 (Stein) | |
| License plate : | FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL | |
| Community key : | 14 5 22 290 | |
| Community structure: | 4 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Commercial area 3 09306 Königshain-Wiederau |
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| Mayor : | Johannes Voigt ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau in the district of central Saxony | ||
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Königshain-Wiederau is a municipality in the district of Central Saxony .
geography
The community is located about 10 km west of Mittweida and about 25 km north of Chemnitz . The Chemnitz Valley is to the west of the municipality . The nature reserve Sandberg Wiederau and Klinkholz is located in the municipality .
Community structure
Districts of the municipality:
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are Altmittweida , Claußnitz , the cities of Burgstädt , Lunzenau and Mittweida as well as Seelitz and Wechselburg . All surrounding regional authorities are also located in the district of central Saxony.
history
In 1168, Count Dedo von Rochlitz-Groitzsch founded the Zschillen Monastery . This brings Thuringian settlers into the area to cultivate the surrounding areas. So the districts of the municipality in the 12th / 13th Century laid out as Waldhufendörfer . Wiederau is mentioned in 1174 and Topfseifersdorf as Sifridersdorf in 1208 in a document from the Zschillen monastery as Wiedera . Stein, although certainly older, was first mentioned in 1489.
Until the Reformation , the places belonged to the Zschillen monastery. After the secularization the area from 1543 and belonged to the family of Schoenburg , domination Wechselburg . The area was shaped by agriculture and small-scale crafts. Agate is also mined near Wiederau and there were several quarries near Stein. On January 1, 1994, the formerly independent towns of Königshain, Wiederau and Topfseifersdorf were combined to form the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau. On January 1, 1999, the village of Stein in the Chemnitz Valley was added.
Population development
On October 3, 1990 Königshain-Wiederau had 3,207 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year:
| year | Residents |
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| 1998 | 3.112 |
| 1999 | 3.112 |
| 2000 | 3.128 |
| 2001 | 3.123 |
| 2002 | 3,079 |
| year | Residents |
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| 2003 | 3,056 |
| 2004 | 3,044 |
| 2005 | 3,028 |
| 2006 | 2,976 |
| 2007 | 2,905 |
| year | Residents |
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| 2012 | 2,698 |
| 2013 | 2,674 |
Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
politics
Municipal council
Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
Culture and sights
- see also: List of cultural monuments in Königshain-Wiederau
- Church of Wiederau
- Old village school (Clara Zetkin's parents' house)
- Königshain Church
- Lang mill in the Wiedertal
- Church with a Gothic tower and half-timbered houses in Topfseifersdorf
- Mill in Königshain
- Rock formation in stone in Chemnitz valley
Transport links
The federal road 107 and the state road 247 run through the community. The federal motorway 4 can be reached via the Chemnitz-Glösa connection approx. 17 km. The Via Porphyria and the Luther Trail Saxony run through the community . Between 1902 and 1998, Stein in the Chemnitz Valley had a stop on the Wechselburg – Küchwald railway line (Chemnitz Valley Railway ), which was closed in 2001 .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Carl Immanuel Löscher (1750–1813), born in Wiederau, designer and inventor of the mammoth pump
- Johann Gottfried Seydel (1789-1854), landowner in Königshain and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Karl Ernst Seydel (1825–1896), landowner in Königshain and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), born in Wiederau, politician ( MdR ) and women's rights activist
- Kurt Starke (* 1938), born in Königshain, sexologist
People who lived in the place
- Paul Fleming (1609–1640), German doctor and writer, lived between 1616 and 1628 in the parsonage in Topfseifersdorf
- Arno Pötzsch (1900–1956), German educator, Protestant pastor and poet of hymns, was pastor in Wiederau between 1935 and 1938
Web links
- Atlas Central Saxony
- Official website of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau
- Official website of the Wiederau parish
- Königshain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Wiederau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Stein in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Topfseifersdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/Erresult_GR19.php?landkreis=14522&gemeinde=14522290&_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-stimmengabe%22%3A1%7D
- ↑ https://wahlen.sachsen.de/Erresult_GR19.php?landkreis=14522&gemeinde=14522290&_ptabs=%7B%22%23tab-vorwahl%22%3A1%7D
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