Kaufungen (Limbach-Oberfrohna)

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Kaufungen
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 24 "  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 59"  E
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Wolkenburg-Kaufungen
Postal code : 09212
Area code : 037609
Kaufungen (Saxony)
Kaufungen

Location of Kaufungen in Saxony

Kaufungen is a place in the district of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna in the district of Zwickau , Saxony . On January 1, 1994, Kaufungen merged with Wolkenburg / Mulde to form the municipality of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen, which was incorporated into the large district town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on January 1, 2000 . The place is famous for Kunz von Kauffungen , who went down in Saxon history as the initiator of the Altenburg prince robbery.

geography

Vogelschänke in the Kaufung district of Sorge

Geographical location

Kaufungen is the easternmost town in the Wolkenburg-Kaufungen district of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna. The easternmost, upper part of the Kaufunger Flur bears the historical name “Sorge”. Kaufungen lies to the east or south of the Zwickauer Mulde . Geographically, the place is located on the southwestern tip of the Saxon Granulite Mountains .

Neighboring places

Wolkenburg / Mulde Pewter mountain Swap
Uhlsdorf with Mühlwiese , Herrnsdorf Neighboring communities Niederfrohna
Langenchursdorf Bräunsdorf

history

Kaufungen Castle
St. Galluskirche Kaufungen
Gasthof Kaufungen

In 1226, with "Cunradus de Coufungen et frater Guelferamus", the family of the lords of Kaufungen and their ancestral seat, the Kaufungen manor located in the village, were first documented. Henricus de Khoufungen from the family of the Lords of Kaufungen was documented in 1231. The local church was mentioned as early as 1254. In the 15th century, Kunz von Kauffungen was the owner of the Kaufungen manor. Due to differences with the Wettin dynasty, the Kaufungen manor was burned down in the summer of 1450. Due to his participation in the Saxon fratricidal war , Kunz von Kauffungen planned the Altenburg prince robbery because the Saxon elector refused to compensate him for a ransom, for the destruction of his property in Thuringia and for the expropriation of his manor in Schweikershain . After the failed execution of the prince robbery on the night of July 7th to 8th, 1455, Kunz von Kauffungen and his helpers were executed in Freiberg on July 14th, 1455 . His possessions were confiscated and the Kaufungen manor was razed to the ground.

The place Kaufungen belonged to the lordship of the manor Kaufungen that among the lords of Maltitz new on the ruins of the destroyed castle was built by the 1535th After the lords of Maltitz, the Kaufungen manor belonged to the lords of Pflugk , von Thumbshirn (from 1584), von der Planitz (around 1683) and von Einsiedel (from 1766). The Lords of Einsiedel had owned the neighboring Wolkenburg Castle since 1635 . Since 1766 there was a joint court administration of Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the rule of Wolkenburg belonging to the Electoral Saxon Office Borna . This existed until the middle of the 19th century. In 1851 Kaufungen came to the royal Saxon court of Limbach as part of the rule of Wolkenburg and in 1856 to the Penig court office , which became part of the Rochlitz administration in 1875 . The von Einsiedel family owned the Wolkenburg and Kaufungen manors until they were expropriated by the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. After that, the Kaufungen manor was dissolved and the land belonging to the manor was divided among new farmers . All farm buildings and several auxiliary buildings on the hillside behind the east wing were demolished in 1947. Only the two mansion wings remained as residential buildings. In 1950 the district of Mühlwiese was reclassified there due to its geographical proximity to Uhlsdorf .

Through the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Kaufungen came from the Rochlitz district to the Glauchau district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Glauchau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Chemnitzer Land district or 2008 in the district of Zwickau. The communities of Wolkenburg / Mulde and Kaufungen merged on January 1, 1994 to form the community of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen with the districts of Wolkenburg / Mulde, Kaufungen, Herrnsdorf, Uhlsdorf and Dürrengerbisdorf. On January 1, 2000, the municipality was incorporated into the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna after a failed administrative partnership with Waldenburg . The Kaufungen manor house, which was repaired after the fall of the Wall , has been used by a restoration company since 2003.

traffic

From Kaufungen you can reach federal highway 175 in a north-westerly direction via Wolkenburg / Mulde and Dürrengerbisdorf . The federal motorway 72 runs north-east of the village and can be reached via a motorway slip road to the “ Niederfrohna ” junction.

Attractions

  • Parish church of St. Gallus, Romanesque choir tower church from around 1200
  • Mauritius Church, one of the first classicist church buildings in Saxony, built between 1794 and 1804
  • Kaufungen Castle

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Kaufungen manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  2. ^ The Rittergut Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  4. ^ The rule of Wolkenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  5. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
  6. ^ Mühlwiese in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  7. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000
  8. ↑ Website of the restoration company Schloss Kaufungen
  9. ↑ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz , edited by Barbara Becker, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius et al., Munich 1998, page 1045
  10. ↑ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz , edited by Barbara Becker, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius et al., Munich 1998, page 1043