Lichtenau (Stützengrün)

Lichtenau Municipality of Stützengrün Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 3 ″  N , 12 ° 32 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	590 m
Area :	6.24 km²
Residents :	484  (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	78 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1996
Postal code :	08328
Area code :	037462
Location of Lichtenau in Saxony

Lichtenau is part of the Saxon community of Stützengrün in the Ore Mountains District .

geography

location

Lichtenau is located in the Western Ore Mountains , on the edge of the Hartmannsdorfer Forest . The highest point is the Hohe Stein at 666 m above sea level. The Friedrichsbach flowing through the town flows into the Rödelbach at the lower end of Bärenwalde . The Filzbach rises on the outskirts and is dammed up into a felt pond in the Hartmannsdorfer Forest near Schneeberg .

Neighboring communities

Bärenwalde (2 km)	Hartmannsdorf (4 km)	Lindenau (7 km)
		Hundshübel (2 km)
Rothenkirchen (3.5 km)	Stützengrün (2 km)

Main road

Partial view of the scattered settlement Lichtenau (2016)

history

Former "Geleitshaus" restaurant in Lichtenau

A first documentary mention of the place can be traced back to 1350. Lichtenau belonged to the Wiesenburg office for a long time (until 1843). After a brief membership in the Kirchberg district, the mainly agricultural town came to the Zwickau district administration from 1873 and later to the renamed Zwickau district . From 1953 Lichtenau was administratively subordinate to the Aue district and was incorporated into Stützengrün in 1996. It is ecclesiastical to this day in the Evangelical Lutheran. Parish church in Bärenwalde , which belongs to the church district of Zwickau and not to Aue.

The Streudorf was incorporated into Stützengrün on January 1, 1996 as part of the municipal reform.

Development of the population

year population 1554 21 possessed men , 1 house owner , 13 residents 1764 29 possessed men, 10 cottagers, 3 ½ hooves 1834 541 1871 582 1890 471

year population 1910 518 1925 534 1939 512 1946 553 1950 628

year population 1964 528 1990 440 1995 484

traffic

The federal highway 169 leads past Lichtenau. Since the re-routing in 2010, the road no longer runs through Hundshübel , but has been moved closer to Lichtenau.

literature

• Siegfried Sieber : Lichtenau. In: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 75 ff.
• Lichtenau. In: P. Father: Guide through Zwickau and the Zwickau school supervisory district. Pp. 59-61, Zwickau 1936.

Web links

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

• Lichtenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale community gazette for Stützengrün. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ stuetzengruen.de
3. ↑ cf. Lichtenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony