Kretscham-Rothensehma

Train crossing in Kretscham-Rothensehma

Replica of the Great Pyramid of Cheops

Kretscham-Rothensehma is a village that belongs to the Neudorf district of the municipality of Sehmatal in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

Geographical location

Kretscham-Rothensehma is about eight kilometers north of Oberwiesenthal in the Ore Mountains . The location is on the eponymous "Red Sehma", which is one of the two source rivers of the Sehma . To the southwest of the village is the 1215  m above sea level. NN high Fichtelberg . To the east of the village is the Toskabank ( 887  m above sea  level ).

history

The place name is derived from the Slavic Kretscham (= tavern) and the red color of the Sehma flowing through it due to discoloration of Roteisenstein .

In 1519 the abbot of Grünhain granted the Schönburgers permission to build a new Kretscham in the valley of the Rote Sehma , which resulted in complaints from the man who was licensed to drink from Cranzahl about the new competition. 1526 was Freigut including brewery and Erbraum by Wolf von Schoenburg Hans Brenner, head of the Nürnbergischen company awarded several mines and a hammer in Unterwiesenthal possessed. In the 17th century the Kretscham was owned by the forester family Eberwein, whose most famous offspring was Cornelius Eberwein . The root trader Samuel Morgenstern can also be traced back to the second half of this century, who is recorded as (already deceased) "Inwohner [= inhabitant] in the rothen Sehma" (1689) or "Wurtzenhandel zur Rothen Sehma" (1704). His daughter Susanna Morgenstern married the day laborer (and later manual worker) Gottfried Grund from Bärenstein in 1689. In 1704, the daughter Salome Morgenstern married the Bärenstein day laborer (and later miner) Benedict Grund.

In 1789 there was a small settlement with ten houses around the Kretscham, which was considered a possible scene of the capture of Prince Albrecht of Saxony by the prince robber Kunz von Kaufungen until the 19th century . In 1848 Johann Traugott Lindner counted nine to ten houses, gray with blotting paper, in the settlement where Otto Eberwein set up a summer resort in the 19th century .

The southern and highest elevation of the Stahlberg ridge north-east of the village was named Toskabank at the beginning of the 20th century . It is named after Toska Eberwein, whose husband was the chief forester in Kretscham-Rothensehma at the time. This came from the local forester family and was very committed to the development of tourism and thus additional income opportunities for the place. Eberwein had benches set up on the ridge. They were renewed in the present and complement the resting bench at the lookout point. In 1916 Karl-Hugo Eberwein had a small pyramid built as a replica of the Great Pyramid .

traffic

State road 266 Cunersdorf –Hammerunterwiesenthal runs through Kretscham-Rothensehma .

In Kretscham-Rothensehma there is a stop for the narrow-gauge Fichtelbergbahn .

tourism

• The Stoneman Miriquidi , the most demanding mountain bike route in the Ore Mountains, runs south of the village.

literature

• Siegfried Sieber : From the story of Kretscham-Rothensehma. In: Culture and Home. Issue 7/1959, pp. 104-106
• Kretzschmar, Rothen Sehma . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 157.
• Rothensehma . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 18th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1833, p. 628.

Web links

Commons : Kretscham-Rothensehma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kretscham-Rothensehma in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Equidistant map 147: Section Wiesenthal 1897 and 1911 ( Deutsche Fotothek )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marriage of the daughter Susanna Morgenstern with Gottfried Grund in 1689. In: Traubuch der Erlöserkirche Bärenstein, No. 5/1689.
2. ↑ Marriage of the daughter Salome Morgenstern with Benedict Grund 1704. In: Traubuch der Erlöserkirche Bärenstein, No. 9/1704.
3. ↑ Official Journal of the Bärenstein Municipality, Edition 03/2013, p. 6 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.ins-erzgebirge.de/ausflugsziel.php?id=25
5. ^ Website of the Stoneman Miriquidi

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 3.3 "  N , 12 ° 59 ′ 16.2"  E