Kirchbach (Oederan)

Kirchbach City of Oederan Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 28 "  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 43"  E
Height :	441 m
Area :	7.98 km²
Residents :	216  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density :	27 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	09569
Area code :	037292
Location of Kirchbach in Saxony

Kirchbach is part of the municipality of the city of Oederan in the district of central Saxony .

geography

Kirchbach is located about 22 kilometers east-northeast of the Saxon city of Chemnitz . The federal highway 173 Chemnitz– Dresden runs north of the village .

Neighboring villages of Kirchbach are Oberschöna in the northeast, Linda in the east, Oberreichenbach in the southeast, Gahlenz in the south, Görbersdorf and Oederan in the southwest and Memmendorf and Frankenstein in the northwest.

history

The first documented form of place name dates from 1376 as Kirbach . In that year Kirchbach, which until then belonged to the Benedictine monastery of Chemnitz , was sold to Margrave Wilhelm I of Meißen and his brothers on Schellenberg for 190 shock Freiberger groschen , and was Augustusburger Amtsdorf until 1652 . After the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) Kirchbach was completely devastated and only had eight inhabitants. The elector bequeathed the village to Nicol von Schönberg in 1652 , who was a district tax collector and war commissioner in the service of the sovereign in order to reward "his undaunted, loyal, useful, most humble services" . In 1764 the place belonged to the manor Oberschöna in the Freiberg district office , which was also owned by the von Schönberg family. When the latter was sold by Friedrich Alexander von Schönberg, the district commissioner von Carlowitz on Großhartmannsdorf acquired it . The residents of Kirchbach were obliged to pay their landlords to pay interest and labor.

From 1808 to 1813 the community had to bear war costs. In addition to spanish services and grain, straw and hay deliveries, the community was charged 3,510 thalers war contribution during this period .

August Schumann mentions in 1817 in the State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony Kirchbach concerning a. a .:

“It has a branch church from Frankenstein, some mining, and in writing it belongs to the manor Ober-Schöna. Kirchbach is characterized by the school improvement that has only been carried out for a few years, which is why the canon and governor of Carlowitz has donated such an honorable monument. "

Albert Schiffner added in 1830 a. a .:

"[...] now has g. 250 souls, also 2 hat houses (for the New Blessing of God, north of Orte, and for the Prince of Heaven, in W), an inheritance court and 1 mill, [...]. "

From 1856 Kirchbach belonged to the Oederan court office and from 1875 to the Flöha district administration . In a bombing raid on Chemnitz in February 1945, 16 bombs fell on Kirchbacher Flur, which fortunately only resulted in broken window panes and minor damage to the roof. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Kirchbach came to the Flöha district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Flöha from 1990 and was added to the Freiberg district in 1994 .

On January 1, 1994 Kirchbach was incorporated into Oederan. Since 2008 the place belongs to the district of central Saxony.

In 2010 Kirchbach won gold in the nationwide competition Our village has a future .

Development of the population

year population 1551 27 possessed men , 11 residents , 53 hooves 1764 26 possessed men, 4 gardeners , 5 cottagers , 37 ½ hooves 1834 335 1871 360

year population 1890 344 1910 336 1925 353 1939 338

year population 1946 453 1950 446 1964 335 1990 241

Church and stone cross

church

Originally there was a pilgrimage chapel in Kirchbach, which was supplied by the Oederaner monastery. An appraisal of the church building made in 1750 speaks of the dilapidation of the roof and rotten beams, a dark and gloomy church, an old pulpit and altar. It was decided to knock out the existing vault, create a new ceiling and new church stalls and larger windows. The renovation began in 1777 and the inauguration took place on October 26, 1784. The pulpit altar, newly created in 1783, is the work of the Frankenberg sculptor Christian Gottfried Seypt. The former late Gothic altar has been restored in the Freiberg City and Mining Museum .

After around 100 years, the church building was renewed inside and out in 1883. Two years later the community obtained a new bell through voluntary donations and a new organ in 1890, since the old one had been destroyed by lightning in 1800.

Two of the church bells were melted down during the First World War. After the bells could be consecrated again in 1923 after fundraising, the bells were melted down again for war purposes in 1942 . It was not until 1958 that the triad of church bells rang again from the tower. They were renewed in 2001, as was the church tower.

Stone cross

At the southern end of the churchyard is a stone cross , which was probably found lying on the bank of the stream between 1920 and 1925 after a flood. Until 1968 it stood leaning against a tree at the northeast exit of the town, on October 9, 1969, it was concreted in at its current location. A crossbow and a round mark are incised on one side, and indefinable indentations on the reverse.

literature

• Dieter Bartusch: Kirchbach - an exemplary designed and excellent village. in: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Saxon State Center for Political Education (ed.): Rural area in Saxony. Dresden 2017, pp. 234–239
• Richard Steche : Kirchbach. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 6th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Flöha . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1886, p. 69.

Web links

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

• Kirchbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• History of Kirchbach on oederan.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics on oederan.de , accessed on February 11, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} See Kirchbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. The village church of Kirchbach ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 14, 2012 
4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 72 f.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} See the history of Kirchbach on oederan.de , accessed on October 19, 2012
6. ↑ See Kirchbach, also Körrbach, Kürrbach . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, p. 585 f.
7. ↑ See Kirchbach, offic. Kirbach . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 17th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1830, p. 287 f.
8. ^ The Flöha district administration in the municipal register 1900
9. ^ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony. (PDF; 64 kB) p. 6, accessed on January 13, 2012
10. ↑ Hans-Jochen Wendt: Stone crosses and cross stones in Saxony. II. Inventory of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . German Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 1979. pp. 54–55; or Kirchbach. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved February 11, 2015 .