Langenberg (Callenberg)

Langenberg Municipality Callenberg Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 27 ″  E
Area :	5.64 km²
Residents :	713  (Dec. 31, 2005)
Population density :	126 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Incorporated into:	Chursbach valley
Postal code :	09337
Area code :	03723
Location of Langenberg in Saxony

Langenberg is a district of the municipality of Callenberg in the district of Zwickau (Free State of Saxony ). The place with its district Meinsdorf was united on January 1, 1994 with two other municipalities to the municipality of Chursbachtal , which was incorporated into the municipality of Callenberg on January 1, 1999. The primary school of the municipality of Callenberg is located in Langenberg.

geography

View to the Langenberger Höhe

Geographical location and traffic

Langenberg is located in the east of the municipality of Callenberg in the upper part of the Chursbach valley. The Langenberger Bach, a tributary of the Zwickauer Mulde, flows through Langenberg . About the in the southern corridor Langenberg settlement on spruce valley is Hohenstein-Ernstthal reached. A path leads from Fichtenthal to the Karl-May-Höhle , which is located in the "Pfaffenberg-Oberwald" nature reserve. The highest point of the place and the entire municipality of Callenberg is the Langenberger Höhe ( 484  m above sea  level ), from which one has a good view over the entire municipality and as far as the Leipzig lowland bay.

About the neighboring towns Meindorf and Pleißa is Bundesautobahn 4 with the connection point " Wüstenbrand reached".

Neighboring places

	Hawks	Meinsdorf
Waldenburger Oberwald		Grüna
	Ernstthal

history

Langenberg Church (Callenberg)

Local community center in Langenberg

Callenberg primary school in Langenberg

The Waldhufendorf Langenberg was created between 1183 and 1200 on the initiative of the Lords of Waldenburg through the settlement of Franconian farmers from the area of ​​the Siebengebirge and the Siegtal . The place was first mentioned under the name auf den Langenbergk around 1422 . Presumably there were already settlements of miners on Langenberger Flur around 1350 and of miners who were digging for silver on the neighboring "Hohen Stein" . The Langenberg Church was first mentioned in 1323. It was a branch church of the church in Langenchursdorf .

Regarding the manorial rule , Langenberg belonged to the manor Callenberg from 1482 until the 19th century , which in turn was a vassal court under the administration of the Schönburg rule of Waldenburg . During the Schönburg Peasants' War (1652 to 1680), the Langenberg peasants refused to serve their master at the Callenberg manor and sued him at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer for excessive labor. Hosiery knitting and linen hand weaving was introduced in Langenberg around 1750. After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of ​​the Schönburg recession in 1878, Langenberg came to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau in 1880 . In 1885 the Langenberg volunteer fire brigade was founded. The land for the new school in the town was purchased in 1887.

On April 15, 1945 about 25 American tanks came over the heights to Langenberg. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Langenberg came to the Hohenstein-Ernstthal district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). When the Langenberg / Falken school association was founded in 1948, an eight-level elementary school was created in Langenberg. The neighboring town of Meinsdorf was incorporated on March 1, 1974. After the opening of the new school building in Langenberg, where students from Langenberg, Falken and Meinsdorf learned, the previous school was converted into a bakery and the "House of Services" from 1987.

The community of Langenberg with Meinsdorf came to the Saxon district of Hohenstein-Ernstthal in 1990 , which was added to the district of Chemnitzer Land in 1994 and in 2008 to the district of Zwickau. On January 1, 1994 the municipalities of Langenchursdorf , Falken and Langenberg merged with Meinsdorf to form the municipality of Chursbachtal , which was incorporated into Callenberg on January 1, 1999. Since then, Langenberg and Meinsdorf have formed two of the seven districts of the municipality of Callenberg. On September 1, 2007, the Langenberg Middle School was converted into a primary school. In this context, the primary schools in Callenberg and Langenchursdorf were closed.

Church history

The Langenberg Church was first mentioned in 1323. However, it is unknown when the first church in the town was built. Ecclesiastically, Langenberg has always belonged to the parish of Langenchursdorf. In the original small Romanesque church, major construction work was carried out in 1503 and 1509. The year "1503" on the altar shrine reminds us of this to this day. This "Magdalenenschrein", completed in 1510, was made in the workshop of the Altenburg carvers Jakob and Peter Naumann. The last Catholic priest Abrosius Mehell officiated in the Langenberg Church until 1519. With the introduction of the Reformation around 1530, the residents of Meinsdorf also came to the Langenberg parish. On June 6, 1841, the separation from the mother parish in Langenchursdorf and the formation of the parish Langenberg with Meinsdorf took place.

Langenberg received a new church in 1847. The old, dilapidated church was demolished. The new church was equipped with a Kreutzbach organ. The Magdalen shrine from the old church was placed on the altar. The bells and the tower clock were also taken from the old church, but replaced by a new bell in 1878. The church, which was extensively renovated in 1933 due to its dilapidation, experienced a roof fire around the following year, in which the Kreutzbach organ was also damaged due to the extinguishing water. As a result, the Langenberg church received a Jehmlich organ . In 1966 the church received a new tower clock. In 1994 the parishes of Langenchursdorf / Falken and Langenberg / Meinsdorf reunited after almost 153 years of separation, so that the entire Chursbachtal now forms one parish again. On August 23, 2009, a memorial plaque was attached to the church for the social reformer Friedrich Naumann , who worked as a pastor in Langenberg between 1886 and 1890.

Personalities associated with the place

• Friedrich Naumann , pastor in Langenberg from 1886–1889

Web links

Commons : Langenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Langenberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Langenberg on the website of the municipality of Callenberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ The "Pfaffenberg – Oberwald" nature reserve on the Zwickau district website
2. ↑ The Callenberg Manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
3. ↑ Handbook of Geography, p. 504
4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.
5. ↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
6. ^ Meinsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
7. ↑ Langenberg on gov.genealogy.net
8. ↑ Chursbachtal on gov.genealogy.net
9. ^ The church of Langenberg on the website of the parish of Langenchursdorf