Langenau (Brand-Erbisdorf)

Langenau Large district town of Brand-Erbisdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 11 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 47" E
Height :	489 (420-591) m
Area :	16.41 km²
Residents :	2012 (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	123 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 2002
Postal code :	09618
Area code :	037322
Location of Langenau in Saxony

Langenau is a district of the large district town of Brand-Erbisdorf in Saxony . It was incorporated on April 1, 2002. Since then, Langenau, with its former districts of Gränitz and Oberreichenbach, has been one of two localities in the town of Brand-Erbisdorf.

geography

location

Langenau is about 3 km southwest of Brand-Erbisdorf. The Great Striegis rises in the south of the village at an altitude of about 525 m above sea level . The highest elevation around Langenau is the Tännicht at approx. 596 m above sea level on the southern edge of the district. On top of it is a surveying column of the Royal Saxon Triangulation that was erected in 1868 . The Striegistal on the northern border is at an altitude of 420 m above sea level.

The valley of the Große Striegis forms the "long meadow", on the edges of which the farms were formed in the 12th century and in the course of which the cottages and the village road later emerged in the valley.

Neighboring places

Oberreichenbach	Sky prince	Brand-Erbisdorf

Kleinhartmannsdorf	Gränitz	Großhartmannsdorf

history

church

Renaissance portal from the destroyed Niederlangenau manor at the church

Former Manor OberLangenau, manor house 2015

The name Langenau is derived from a long floodplain, an elongated brook and meadow bottom. Langenau was first mentioned in 1185 in a border document from the Meissen margrave Otto the Rich .

The builder of the Meißen Albrechtsburg , Arnold von Westfalen , married Margarethe Rülcke in the 15th century and acquired the manor Langenau from the property of his brothers-in-law. It later fell back to the noble Rülcke family. From the 18th century until the abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction , the place consisted of the two official manors (manors) Oberlangenau and Niederlangenau. The owners of the manors included the Rülke families (Rülcke, Rulecke, Rülicke, etc.), von Hartitzsch , Griebe and von Tettau . Later manor owners were the Griebe, Rudolph, Braun, von Oehlschlägel and von Hopffgarten families . From 1618 both places are mentioned, which the church and school - centrally located - shared.

The Thirty Years' War left enormous wounds in the place, both during the quartering of the Imperial General Sergeant Heinrich Holk in neighboring Linda in 1632 and during the two unsuccessful sieges of the nearby Freiberg by the Swedes in 1638 and 1642/43. In 1762, during the Seven Years' War, the battle of Freiberg raged nearby. During the wars of liberation against Napoleonic rule, 12,000 French camped for a short time right next to the town before the Battle of Nations in 1813.

town hall

After the Saxon state took over jurisdiction in 1856, the two municipalities that had been subordinate to the Freiberg district office until then were added to the newly established Brand Court Office . From 1875 Ober- and Niederlangenau belonged to the Freiberg district administration . On July 1, 1905, Oberlangenau and Niederlangenau merged to form the municipality of Langenau.

With the second district reform in the GDR, Langenau came to the Brand-Erbisdorf district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). In the GDR times, the place was also the venue for the annual bike race around Langenau . January 15, 1970 Gränitz and on January 1, 1993 Oberreichenbach were incorporated into Langenau. With the dissolution of the Saxon district of Brand-Erbisdorf , Langenau became part of the Freiberg district in 1994 . For several years Langenau, with its districts of Gränitz and Oberreichenbach, was the largest municipality in the former Freiberg district, before it was incorporated into the large district town of Brand-Erbisdorf on April 1, 2002 , with which it has been part of the central Saxony district since 2008.

Economic development

Langenau was already a decidedly agriculturally oriented Waldhufendorf from the point of settlement . The place has never lost its agricultural character. With the expansion of mining in the Freiberg-Brander ore district , miners also settled as cottagers from the 16th century . The construction of the Freiberg – Langenau branch line towards the end of the 19th century brought several individual industrial settlements (fertilizers, wood products, furniture), which were particularly encouraged with the shutdown of mining in 1913.

Development of the population

year	population
1551	61 possessed men , 123 residents
1764	37 possessed men, 74 cottagers , 60 ¼ hooves
1834 ¹	848
1834 ²	959
1871 ¹	1277
1871 ²	1411

year	population
1890 ¹	1513
1890 ²	1486
1910	2583
1925	2453
1939	2695
1946	2685

year	population
1950	2771
1964	2748
1990 ³	2553
2000 ⁴	2553
2011 ⁵	2012

¹ Niederlangenau

² Oberlangenau

³ with Gränitz

^4th with Gränitz and Oberreichenbach

⁵ Census of May 9, 2011 excluding other districts

Culture

societies

A rich club life traditionally unfolds in Langenau. For more than 100 years, the volunteer fire brigade in Langenau has been an important institution, which, in addition to its main task as a security guarantee for the population, offered its members communication and cultural activities. In 1998 the association "Historical Fire Brigade Langenau Erzgebirge eV" emerged from it. Singing has a great tradition. In 2008 the anniversary “150 years of the men's choir” was celebrated. In 2009 the mixed choir celebrated its 25th anniversary. The "Heimatverein 1185 Langenau eV" has been working on local history since 1999 and has developed into an important factor in cultural and social work in the locality. He holds the strings in hand for the preparations for the 825th anniversary of the town (June 12-20, 2010). The "Schützenverein 1844 Langenau eV" was re-founded in 1996. Other clubs today include the Heimatverein, the gymnastics club, the SV “Fortuna Langenau eV”, the senior citizens' club “Striegistal”, the rural women’s club, the lace club, the railway club, the garden club, the men's choir 'Harmonie', the rabbit breeders club or the dog sports club.

Attractions

church

The main attraction of the place is the carved pulpit in the church, which the donor couple Braun used as the "peace pulpit" with a mountain parade, which stands for the end of mining and with farmers of the place as well as with returning soldiers in their common hope for the end of the first World war shows. It is the main work of the woodcarver Ernst Dagobert Kaltofen from Langenau. The entrance portal of the church in the form of a late medieval sandstone sculpture is also worth seeing. It comes from the Niederlangenau manor, which was razed after the Second World War . The figures shown on the left and right are variously associated with Arnold von Westfalen and his wife Margarete. There is a group of older half-timbered houses around the church.

The well-kept manor park of Niederlangenau with its picturesque pond invites you to take a short walk. A more recent attraction is the Kursächsische all-mile column , which was reconstructed in 2008 and shows the former course of the former post road Silberwagenweg from Annaberg to Freiberg through Langenau.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Today several agricultural companies, a company in the rural service sector and a company in the environmental services sector are located here as the main employer.

traffic

Langenau (Sachs) station, track side (2016)

From 1890 to 1997 Langenau was the terminus of the Brand-Erbisdorf – Langenau branch line .

State road 235 runs through the village.

Personalities

The Erzgebirge woodcarver Ernst Kaltofen (1841–1922) was born in Langenau . Coming from the mining profession, he carved very lively figures and reliefs with a remarkable effect of depth. He mostly borrowed the subjects from mining.

Richard von Oehlschlägel (1834–1895), owner of the manor Oberlangenau, was a conservative politician in the Saxon state parliament from 1871 to 1894 and chaired the state culture council. His father, "Premier-Lieutenant and Adjutant" Carl August von Oehlschlägel (1796-1859), acquired the manor and another property in Oberlangenau in 1849/52 and was postmaster in Tharandt from 1833-1859 .

The writer Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) chose Christoph Rülke, who died in the Turkish war in the 16th century, as the main character in his story " The way of love and death of the cornet Christoph Rilke " because of the similarity of names with the Rülkes (Rülke-Rilke) .

literature

H.-D. Dohrmann, R. Siegel: 100 years in service for the community. Chronicle of the volunteer fire brigade Langenau / Erzgebirge 1907–2007. - Hist. Fire Brigade Langenau e. V. (Ed.), Langenau / Nossen 2007.
H. Neumann, R. Siegel, H. Walter: Langenau in the course of time. House chronicle of a forest hoof village in the Ore Mountains. Printing and publishing company, Marienberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-931770-56-3 .
K. Walter, B. Seifert, S. Pilz: Living on the old mountain climb - From the AWG to the housing association "Glückauf" Langenau eG 50 years in retrospect. Housing cooperative "Glückauf" Langenau eG, Langenau 2004, OCLC 699324805