Liebenhain (Rossau)

Love grove municipality Rossau Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 49 ″ N , 13 ° 0 ′ 22 ″ E
Postal code :	09661
Area code :	03727
Location of Liebenhain in Saxony

Liebenhain is a settlement belonging to the district of Weinsdorf in the municipality of Rossau in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). It was incorporated into Rossau together with Weinsdorf on July 1, 1950.

geography

Geographical location

Liebenhainer waterfall

Liebenhain is located on the east bank of the Zschopau opposite the Mittweidaer district Kockisch . Liebenhain is connected to this in the area of the Liebenhainer Mühle via a suspension bridge. The Liebenhainer waterfall is located south of the Liebenhainer mill. To the north of the Liebenhainer Mühle there are still some buildings that used to be industrially used.

Neighboring places

Ringethal
Weissthal		Weinsdorf
Kockish

history

Liebenhainer Mühle

Kockisch-Liebenhain suspension bridge

The Liebenhainer mill on the Zschopau in the corridor of the town of Weinsdorf, first mentioned in 1378, was mentioned in 1384 as "Libenheym". Liebenhain was at times considered a desert . As a grain mill, the Liebenhainer Mühle was responsible for the villages of Weinsdorf and Kockisch. The grist to and from Kockisch was transported on a boat ferry.

Until 1832, Weinsdorf and Liebenhain belonged to the Electoral Saxon and Royal Saxon Office of Rochlitz . In 1832, the two places as well as the city of Mittweida, under whose administration they were, separated from the Rochlitz office and placed under the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office. The offices were dissolved during the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Saxony in the 19th century . As a result, the Liebenhain settlement with the municipality of Weinsdorf came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856 and under the newly established Rochlitz administration in 1875 .

In 1877 there was still an oil mill on the small island by the suspension bridge built a few decades later in 1908. A mill ditch was derived from the Zschopau for the mill. There was also a stamping mill in Liebenhain. Grain was ground in the Liebenhainer mill until the end of the 19th century. Between 1877 and 1882 Gustav August Engelmann was the owner of the Liebenhainer mill, and since 1882 the factory owner Franz Eduard Weidenmüller . In 1887 he acquired the land of the mine in Drei Werden and built a paper mill there in 1905/06. In 1900 he had a workers' house built in Liebenhain (parcel no. 238 of the parcel for Weindorf). A wood grinding shop was built in Liebenhain in 1902. It was in operation until 1935. Until 1908, Liebenhain and Kockisch were only connected by a ferry. Since this did not produce enough income for the ferrymen involved, the suspension bridge to Kockisch over the Zschopau was built in 1908. Until 1938, a bridge toll had to be paid for crossing the bridge. The residents of the Liebenhainer Mühle had their own key, for which only a one-time annual fee had to be paid.

Also in 1908, the Mittweida industrial railway to Ringethal was built by Liebenhain, which was in operation until 1969. Since Liebenhain did not have its own loading point on the railway line, around 1935 the wood was transported by horse and cart to the "FE Weidenmüller paper factory" in Drei Werden, where it was processed into paper. Weidenmüller transferred workers from the main factory, the former Antonshütte in Antonsthal near Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb , to the factory in Drei Werden . , after turning three. For some of them, apartments were built in the converted old Liebenhainer mill. In 1936 there was a fire in the six-family house of the company "FE Weidenmüller" in Liebenhain. In 1937 the paper mill in Liebenhain was shut down. The building became the property of the city of Mittweida in 1938. The turbine house was used between 1937 and 1945 by the city of Mittweida to generate electricity.

On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Weinsdorf was merged with the district of Liebenhain with the municipalities of Oberrossau and Niederrossau to form the municipality of Rossau, which became the district of Hainichen in the Chemnitz district through the second district reform in the GDR in 1952 (1953 in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district renamed) was incorporated. Between 1950 and 1970 the Liebenhainer mill was used again by the Mittweida electricity company to generate energy. The mill moat and weir were widened by installing three turbines. At the Liebenhainer Mühle there are a total of three weirs, which were built by the mill, the paper mill and the Mittweida electricity company.

As part of the community of Rossau, Liebenhain belonged to the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 , which was merged in 1994 in the newly formed district of Mittweida and in 2008 in the newly formed district of Central Saxony.