Kemnitz (Weischlitz)

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Kemnitz
community Weischlitz
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 510 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 112  (December 31, 2013)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Burgstein
Postal code : 08538
Area code : 037436
Kemnitz (Saxony)
Kemnitz

Location of Kemnitz in Saxony

Kemnitz is a district of the municipality Weischlitz in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony . The municipality of Kemnitz with its district Grobau was merged on January 1, 1994 with six other municipalities to form the municipality of Burgstein . This in turn was incorporated into the large community of Weischlitz on January 1, 2011.

geography

Location and traffic

Kemnitz is located in the west of the municipality Weischlitz in the north-western Burgstein area. The village lies in a flat and open valley basin of the Kemnitzbach , which is dammed up in the western town hall to the Kemnitz dam. The most south-westerly point of the Kemnitz town hall is affected by the Leipzig – Hof railway line . Kemnitz is located in the west of the Vogtlandkreis and in the Saxon part of the historical Vogtland on the border with the Thuringian and Bavarian Vogtland . The three-free state stone is located in the neighboring town of Grobau . Geographically, the place is in the center of the natural area Vogtland ( Central Vogtland Kuppenland ).

Neighboring places

Reinhardtswalde
Grossbau Neighboring communities Dehles
Good lord Krebes , Schwand

history

Kemnitz Church (Vogtland)
The water castle Kemnitz (Vogtland) - around 1850

The name Kemnitz comes from Old Sorbian and means Steinbach. In a document from 1122 the brook is mentioned as the border of the Dobnagau . The place itself is mentioned for the first time in 1298 in a deed of donation from Kunigunde, the third and last wife of Vogt Heinrich I , the founder of the dynasty line Vögte von Plauen . In the deed, Kunigunde bequeathed the Cronschwitz Monastery rights to annual income, including 2 chickens and 2 cheeses from Kemeniz. In the Middle Ages, three ring walls were built in the village . At first this was Kemnitz Castle at the southern exit of the village on the road towards Gutenfürst, of which there is still a tower hill and a moat. The second facility was the Kemnitz moated castle northeast of the town, from which a castle hill and a moat have been preserved. The third complex is the moated castle Altes Schloss , which was mentioned in 1543.

In 1502 the parish of Krebes and the parish and pilgrimage church on the Burgstein had several properties in Kemnitz. In the course of the Reformation and the associated loss of importance of the pilgrimage to the Burgstein, the noble von Feilitzsch family seized the land and built a manor around 1583. In 1607 it belonged to the von Tettau family . From 1661 to 1769 the owners of the von der Heydte are proven, who sold it to the noble von Beulwitz family . This family was the last owner of the manor to live in a moated castle. In the early 1840s, the von Feilitzsch family bought the estate back. After the estate was burned down to the servants' house in 1855, the von Feilitzsch family lived in the castle in Heinersgrün . In the 19th century, the moated castle fell into ruin and was demolished. Today only remains of trenches and a heap of rubble have survived. Kemnitz belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Plauen until 1856 . In 1856 the place was affiliated with the Plauen court office and in 1875 with the Plauen administration .

In the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 , the Kemnitz manor was expropriated. Only one farm building remains from the manor today. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Kemnitz came to the Plauen-Land district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). In 1954, due to its proximity to the border with Bavaria , the village came under the 5 km exclusion zone and until 1989 could only be reached with a pass. On July 4, 1983, Grobau was incorporated into Kemnitz. With the turnaround the situation in the restricted area ended for Kemnitz. The former border strip in the Grobauer Flur has since been part of the Green Belt Germany nature reserve .

The municipality of Kemnitz with its Grobau district belonged to the Saxon district of Plauen from 1990 onwards . On January 1, 1994, it merged with six other communities to form the community of Burgstein , which had belonged to the Vogtland district since 1996. With the incorporation of the Burgstein community into the Weischlitz community, Kemnitz has been part of the Weischlitz community since January 1, 2011.

In church terms, the Kemnitz chapel was initially subordinate to the parish of Misslareuth and was also looked after by the chaplain from Krebes. When Krebes gained its own parish , the Kemnitzer church became a branch church of Krebes. However, Misslareuth and Krebes were both parishes in dispute and therefore Kemnitz was also part of this centuries-old dispute between the Principality of Bayreuth and the Electorate of Saxony . The places Gutenfürst and Reinhardtswalde were and are parish to Kemnitz. Since 2001 the church has belonged to the Geilsdorf rectory .

Worth seeing

  • Church, built 1731–1734, with a distinctive pulpit altar
  • Tower hill and remains of the moated castle
  • Kemnitz dam, a dam of the Kemnitzbach
  • Atonement cross , on the road to Gutenfürst

Web links

Commons : Kemnitz (Vogtland)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony: Kemnitz  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kemnitz Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  2. ↑ The Kemnitz moated castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  3. ↑ The moated castle Altes Schloss Kemnitz on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 76 f.
  5. ^ The Plauen District Administration in the municipality register 1900
  6. ↑ The Kemnitz Manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  7. ↑ Grobau on gov.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Kemnitz on gov.genealogy.net
  9. ^ Burgstein on gov.genealogy.net