Limbach (Vogtland)

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Vogtland district
Management Community :	Netzschkau-Limbach
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.21 km 2
Residents:	1427 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	08491, ; 08468 (Mühlwand)
Primaries :	03765, ; 036621 (Reimersgrün)
License plate :	V, AE, OVL, PL, RC
Community key :	14 5 23 190
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Alte Schulgasse 1 ; 08491 Limbach
Mayor :	Bernd Damisch
Location of the municipality of Limbach in the Vogtlandkreis

Aerial view of Pfaffengrüner Strasse

View of the rectory in Limbach

Limbach is a municipality in the Saxon Vogtlandkreis .

geography

Geographical location

Limbach is located in the east of the Vogtland natural area in the Saxon part of the historical Vogtland . The Limbach of the same name flows through the main town and flows into the Göltzsch in the neighboring town of Mylau to the north . The Göltzsch delimits the eastern municipal area near the Mühlwand district.

geology

In the Mühlwand district, alum slate was mined between 1691 and 1826 . Gold was previously mined in the central Göltzschtal near Buchwald.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent local authorities are the cities of Elsterberg , Lengenfeld , Netzschkau , Reichenbach im Vogtland and Treuen as well as the municipality of Pöhl .

Local division

The districts of Limbach belong to:

Lauschgrün

Reimersgrün

Mill wall

Buchwald with lower book forest

history

Early settlement

The place was probably settled with Slavs (Sorbs) by Frankish farmers before it was founded. In 1904, a ring wall island ( ring wall ) was discovered by school teacher M. Benedikt from Plauen . The island has a diameter of 20 m and is surrounded by a 10 m wide moat. The moat was fed by the Seifenbach coming from the spruce houses. Similar ring walls can also be found in the surrounding towns of Christgrün and Kleingera. Some chronicles assume that the ramparts were sacrificial, court, burial place and tribal shrine of the Sorbs. Other sources refer to the ramparts as fortifications in which the new settlers sought protection. Perhaps the circular ramparts served both the Franks arriving during the eastern colonization and the Slavs who had previously settled there.

Place name

Linden tree at the rectory, planted as an expiatory tree in 1849

The name Limbach is said to come from "Linde am Bach" (Old High German Linta) or from Leimbach (Old High German glue equal to loam or clay). Perhaps a new settler brought the name with him from Franconia as part of the eastern colonization . According to linguists, places with the ending -bach are of Franconian origin.

Historically, the following spellings have been handed down: 1349 Limpach, 1370 Linpach, 1394 Lymbach, 1460 Limpach, 1529 Lymbach; Limpach, 1791 Limbach, 1875 Limbach near Treuen.

Early mentions

The name Limpach is mentioned for the first time in 1129. For the festival of apparitions on January 6, 1772, the parsonage burned down to the ground. In this fire, all writings and books were destroyed except for one book.

The next reference to (Limbach) is in the neighboring village of Wißensande (Weißensand). On June 24, 1274, a citizen from the neighboring municipality of Limpach, who was called Hans Limpach, moved there.

Linden trees

Before the village was founded, Sorbs who had a special relationship with oaks and linden trees settled in the area . The residents of Limbach later had a special relationship with linden trees: This is shown by the municipal seal introduced in 1932, which shows a 13-leaved linden tree over a stream.

There were many linden trees in the village because it was customary for the eldest son to plant a tree at his wedding. A particularly old linden tree stands in front of the rectory. According to tradition, it was planted by Karl Lohse in 1849 as an atonement tree. Karl was the son of the cantor and teacher Gottlob Lohse (1809-1852). Karl was a teacher in Netzschkau. In 1848 he spoke on the market square in Treuen and in 1849 took part in the march to Dresden for the Dresden May uprising . Because of this revolutionary activity he was removed from office. In order not to endanger the existence of his siblings, he repented and planted the linden tree at the rectory.

Another remarkable linden tree stood at the intersection of Karl-Marx-Strasse / Pfaffengrüner Strasse / Pfarrberg. Before the farmers had their mares mated, they led them three times around the linden tree so that the fertility of the linden tree would be transferred to the mares.

History to the present

Until the 19th century, the manor over Limbach was partly owned by the Christgrün manor and the Limbach manor, mentioned in 1394. The manor Limbach in turn belonged to the Elsterberg lordship , which was incorporated into the Plauen office in the 16th century .

Until 1856, Limbach belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Plauen . In 1856 the place was affiliated with the Treuen court office and in 1875 with the Auerbach administration . As a result of the first district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Limbach became part of the Plauen district in 1950 , but was incorporated into the Reichenbach district in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ) through the second district reform in the GDR in 1952 from 1990 onwards as the Saxon district of Reichenbach and merged into the Vogtland district in 1996.

Incorporations

Former parish	Date of incorporation	annotation
Buchwald with lower book forest	April 1, 1974
Lauschgrün	January 1, 1994
Mill wall		was created around 1816 in the Limbacher Flur
Reimersgrün	January 1, 1994

Population development

Development of the population ( December 31 ) :

1998: 1,638
1999: 1,644
2000: 1,645
2001: 1,634

2002: 1,620
2003: 1,597
2004: 1,614
2007: 1,565

2008: 1,563
2012: 1,512
2013: 1,493

politics

Municipal council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 70.4% (2014: 60.4%)

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70

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50

40

30th

20th

10

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78.6%

13.3%

8.1%

FWVL

CDU

SPD

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

% p

25th

20th

15th

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5

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-10

-15

-20

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+ 21.2 % p

-20.2 % p

-1.1 % p

FWVL

CDU

SPD

A total of 10 seats

FWVL : 9
CDU : 1

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 10 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

Free Voters' Association Limbach (FWVL): 9 seats
CDU : 1 seat

mayor

Bernd Damisch was re-elected in July 2015.

Culture and sights

Museums

Alum factory Mühlwand
Vogtland Gold Museum and Natural History Cabinet in Buchwald

Buildings

Michaelis Church with rectory and farm building - Aufn. February 2008

The Limbach church from the 14th century was renovated in the 18th century and received a baroque rectory. The altar was donated by Charles Crodel .

Memorials

Tomb

Tomb of concentration camp inmates

A memorial stone in the local cemetery commemorates seven unknown concentration camp prisoners who were thrown dead from the transport train of a death march in the spring of 1945 and buried here. The train consisted of open wagons and had SS guards; he came from the direction of Plauen and drove in the direction of Reichenbach. The dead were collected along the embankment and taken to the cemetery in a horse-drawn sleigh. According to Walter Wolf, the train had to stop in Reichenbach. The inmates had attached strings to tin cans and tried to use them to get snow from the track bed. According to the eyewitness, there were shootings at the train station.

Wheel cross stone

A wheel cross stone ( atonement stone ) is located at the junction between Karl-Marx-Straße and Pestalozzistraße. A wheel cross is carved on both sides of the unworked diabass stone. Ortschronist Alfred Leistner announced in 1963 that he believed it was a memorial stone. A child is said to have been run over at this point in 1740. The following is written in the court book of Treuen: Kauf- u. Lehnbrief: Jahannen Renigen Erlerin on the house conceded by the Limbach community at Platz 16.10175 ... next to Gottfried Denner's garden not far from the village ++ pond until a child was previously killed by the stone ...

Economy and Infrastructure

Limbach (Vogtl) stop, view towards Reichenbach (2017)

traffic

The Limbach (Vogtl) stop is on the Leipzig – Hof railway line ( Saxony-Franconia mainline ) and is served by the Vogtlandbahn in local transport . Between 1903 and 1966 the district of Mühlwand had a stop on the Lengenfeld – Göltzschtalbrücke railway line .

The now downgraded, former federal highway 173 leads through the districts of Lauschgrün and Buchwald .

Sons and daughters of the church

Gerd Bonk (1951-2014), weightlifter

literature

Richard Steche : Limbach. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 9th booklet: Auerbach District Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1888, p. 9.