Königshain (Königshain-Wiederau)

Königshain Municipality Königshain-Wiederau Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 20 ″ N , 12 ° 52 ′ 37 ″ E
Area :	13.76 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Königshain-Wiederau
Postal code :	09306
Area code :	037202
Location of Königshain in Saxony

Königshain is a district of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . On January 1, 1994, it merged with Wiederau and Topfseifersdorf to form the Königshain-Wiederau community.

geography

Königshain, lower district

Geographical location and traffic

Königshain is the easternmost part of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau. The Königshainer Bach flowing through the six kilometer long town drains over the Wiederbach into the Chemnitz . To the south of the village is the Königshain Forest , through which the Via Porphyria leads. State road 247 runs through Königshain and meets federal road 107 in the neighboring town of Wiederau to the west .

Neighboring places

Topfseifersdorf	Thalheim (Oberthalheim)	Frankenau
Again		Altmittweida
Diethensdorf	Claussnitz	Röllingshain

history

Königshain Church

Former Königshain school

Königshain Mill

The Waldhufendorf Königshain was settled by Thuringian farmers between 1100 and 1250 . The name Kungeszewig , which was common around 1180 , refers to the former royal forest that was still owned by the Wettins in 1174 . However, the place was first mentioned in a document in 1448 as "Konigßhayn". The current church of Königshain was built in the years 1764 to 1766, instead of a previous building, in the style of the Protestant Baroque . Königshain originally belonged to the Zschillen monastery . This came in 1543 with the entire property to Duke Moritz von Sachsen , who immediately secularized it and exchanged it for the Lords of Schönburg for the places Hohnstein , Wehlen and Lohmen in today's Saxon Switzerland . Therefore, the name Wechselburg came up for the place and the monastery complex . Since then, Königshain has been run as an official village of the Schönburg rulership of Wechselburg , which belonged to the Lords of Schönburg under Wettin suzerainty.

As part of the administrative reorganization of the Kingdom of Saxony, Königshain was placed under the administration of the Royal Saxon Office of Rochlitz as part of the Schönburg feudal lordship of Wechselburg in 1835 . In 1856 Königshain came to the Mittweida court office and in 1875 to the newly established Rochlitz administration . The mill in Claussnitzer Strasse, built in 1856, is a specialty, as it originally served as an electricity company and supplied the entire town with electricity. It has been privately owned since 1932 and produces flour. The former school building in the village was built in 1890. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the municipality of Königshain was incorporated into the Rochlitz district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which came to the Rochlitz district in Saxony in 1990 and in the Mittweida district in 1994 and in the district in 2008 Central Saxony rose.

On January 1, 1994, Königshain merged with Wiederau and Topfseifersdorf to form the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau.

Cultural monuments and sights

Königshain Church

Personalities

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)
Kurt Starke (* 1938), born in Königshain, sexologist

Web links

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

Königshain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Königshain on the website of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau

Individual evidence

^ Website of the Via Porphyria
^ Website of the parish of Königshain
↑ Königshain in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 906
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.
^ The rule of Wechselburg in the State Archives of the Free State of Saxony
^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
↑ Königshain on gov.genealogy.net

[1] Website of the Via Porphyria

[2] Website of the parish of Königshain

[3] Königshain in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 906

[4] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.

[5] The rule of Wechselburg in the State Archives of the Free State of Saxony

[6] The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900

[7] Königshain on gov.genealogy.net