Königswalde

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Management Community :	Bärenstein-Königswalde
Height :	537 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.51 km 2
Residents:	2220 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	114 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09471
Area code :	03733
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 340
LOCODE :	DE KGL
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Jöhstädter Strasse 5 ; 09471 Koenigswalde
Website :	www.koenigswalde.de
Mayor :	Ronny Wähner ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Königswalde in the Erzgebirge district

Königswalde ( Erzgebirge : Kinnisch'wall ) is a municipality in the Erzgebirgskreis , Saxony , Germany . Due to the still largely existing stone ridges as field boundaries, Königswalde is one of the most distinctive Waldhufendörde villages in the Ore Mountains .

geography

Königswalde, gypsy rock

The Waldhufendorf Königswalde lies in a north-south direction in the valley of the Pöhlbach . The highest point is the Zigeunerfelsen at 737 m in the valley of the Conduppelbach .

Neighboring communities

In the east of Königswalde lies Jöhstadt , in the south the place borders on Vejprty (Weipert) in the Czech Republic, in the south-west on Bärenstein , in the west on Sehmatal , in the north-west on Annaberg-Buchholz and in the north and north-east on Mildenau .

Community structure

In addition to the main town of Königswalde, there is also the Brettmühle district , which, however, has no official district status.

history

View from the west of the striking Waldhufendorf Königswalde

View from the southwest. Outskirts on the Pöhlberg

Rectory in Königswalde

Around 1200 the area to the right of the Pöhlbach (east) was settled. The place was under the rule of the Waldenburgers and was called Lichtenhain . Lichtenhain was first mentioned in a document in 1291. After the Waldenburgs died out, their possessions and with them the side east of the Pöhlbach came to the Electoral Saxon office of Selva in 1479 . In 1512 the eastern part of Paul von Thumbshirn was sold to the city of Annaberg . The district was called the council side . In 1523 a church was built on the council side, which was initially a branch church of the Mildenau parish. The board mill south of the village on the road to Bärenstein was built in 1536 by the council of the city of Annaberg.

The part to the left of the Pöhlbach was settled around 1250 and originally belonged to Bohemia as part of Schlettau Castle . This part was first mentioned in an imperial document from 1379 as "Kunigswald" and came in 1413 to the Grünhain monastery . With the dissolution of the Grünhain monastery in the course of secularization , the western half of Königswalde came to the newly established Schlettau Office in 1536, which was merged into the Grünhain Office a short time later . The district was later referred to as the official site .

With the partition of Leipzig in 1485 the council side came to the Albertinern (office of Wolkenstein), the official side to the Ernestine (office of Schlettau). In 1529 the Reformation was introduced in the area of the Grünhain monastery west of the Pöhlbach, which was Ernestine . The Albertine area east of the Pöhlbach was still Catholic until 1539. The residents of the official side on the Ernestine, Protestant side of the Pöhlbach now went to the Albertine, Catholic side of Königswalde to worship. The Albertine Duke George of Saxony closed the Königswalder Church in 1530 because he forbade the new teaching on his territory. The church did not reopen until after his death in 1539. Since then, both districts have had a common Protestant church. After the Wittenberg surrender in 1547, the official site as part of the Grünhain office also became Albertine. The Pöhlbach remained the administrative border between the two places until the 19th century. While the eastern side of the council and the Brettmühle were in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon office of Wolkenstein until 1856, the western side of the council belonged to the Electoral Saxon or royal Saxon office of Grünhain ( Unteramt Schlettau ) until 1856 . From 1856 the entire place belonged to the court office Annaberg and from 1875 to the district administration Annaberg .

On August 3, 1872, the Königswalde station in the south-west of the village was opened together with the Vejprty – Annaberg-Buchholz railway line and Bf . With the opening of the Abzw Plattenthal – Königswalde railway line, the Königswalde (Erzgeb) freight station in the north of Königswalde opened on May 15, 1928 as the end point of the railway line known as the Plattentalbahn. The Königswalde (Erzgeb) train station has since been known as Königswalde (Erzgeb) ob Bf . While the lower station was taken out of service on April 13, 1951, the upper station was closed on September 27, 1998.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Königswalde came to the Annaberg district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Annaberg from 1990 and was added to the Ore Mountains district in 2008. Since 1996 the municipalities of Königswalde and Bärenstein have formed the Bärenstein-Königswalde administrative community .

Population development

On October 3, 1990, Königswalde had 2,356 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year:

1993 to 1997

1993 - 2,279
1994 - 2,298
1995 - 2,316
1996 - 2,358
1997 - 2,408

1998 to 2002

1998 - 2,418
1999 - 2,388
2000 - 2,424
2001 - 2,434
2002 - 2,426

2003 to 2007

2003 - 2,452
2004 - 2,412
2005 - 2,390
2006 - 2,384
2007 - 2,400

from 2009 on

2009 - 2,342
2012 - 2,295
2013 - 2,301

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

politics

Königswalde municipal office

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 75.7%

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30th

20th

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35.6%

25.5%

22.6%

16.3%

CDU

UB

Sports

Fw.

A total of 14 seats

UB : 4
Fw . : 2
Sport : 3
CDU : 5th

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

CDU : 5 seats
Independent Citizens (UB): 4 seats
Sport: 3 seats
Fire brigade (Fw.): 2 seats

mayor

The member of the state parliament (since 2014) Ronny Wähner has been mayor of Königswalde since 2013.

Culture and sights

see also: List of cultural monuments in Königswalde

Buildings

Saint Trinity Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Trinity

Memorials

Königswalde, memorial to the 1st and 2nd World War

Memorial stone on Brettmühlenweg, near August-Bebel-Straße 40, in memory of the Wehrmacht soldier Otto Kressner from Annaberg (born October 17, 1902), who was killed at this point by SS men in April 1945 because he had cut his vacation by two days had exceeded.
Memorial to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars in the cemetery

tourism

Königswalde is affected by two supraregional and one regional hiking and cycling trails:

Stage 7 of the Erzgebirge-Vogtland ridge trail from Statute to Bärenstein runs through the Conduppelbach valley via Brettmühle and then towards Kühberg
The Stoneman Miriquidi , the most demanding mountain bike route in the Ore Mountains, runs on the Pöhlberg - Bärenstein section through the western district of Königswalde via Brettmühle to Kühberg.
The Annaberger Landring (western part) runs east of Königswalde, then through Brettmühle and then through the Conduppelbach valley to Jöhstadt .

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture has determined the place for centuries. In the 19th century, several industrial companies settled in the valley, including the Pangratz glass grinding mill mentioned in 1892. Most of the time the residents were employed in the neighboring towns. On January 18, 2008, Iris Sellke - tenant of the Gasthof & Pension Brettmühle - received the Saxon Founders Prize 2008.

traffic

Königswalde (Erzgeb) ob Bf (2016)

Königswalde was connected to the Zschopautalbahn in 1872 . However, this upper station was 180 meters (at 703 m above sea level) above the locality. In 1928, the Plattental Railway , which ran in the Pöhlbachtal , was extended to Königswalde. This lower station existed until 1951, then the line was dismantled again. The upper station was closed in 1998.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Sigismund Scherertz (1584–1639), clergyman and writer
Christian Lehmann (1611–1688), pastor and important chronicler of the Ore Mountains
Bruno Herrmann (1870–1927), dialect poet, councilor and mayor

literature

Lothar Klapper: Königswalder History Book - A Saxon Erzgebirge Village in Eight Centuries (From the Beginnings to 1945). Königswalde 2000.

Lothar Klapper: Königswalder History Book Part 2: Contemporary History 1945–2000. Königswalde 2000.

Municipal administration Königswalde (Ed.): Königswalder history in old and new pictures. Königswalde 2011.

Königswalde . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 11 f.

Richard Steche : Königswalde. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 4th booklet: Official Authority Annaberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 81.