List of street names related to mining in Zwickau
The list of street names related to mining in Zwickau contains the 52 Zwickau streets that were named after shafts , personalities or otherwise with reference to mining .
| Surname | Namesake | comment |
|---|---|---|
| Agricolastrasse | Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) | Taught in Zwickau at the Greek and Latin School, drove several times the Planitz shafts and described a. a. the Planitz earth fire . |
| Albert-Funk-Strasse | Albert Funk (1894–1933) | Zwickau miner and resistance fighter murdered by the Nazis |
| At the power plant | Karl-Marx-Schacht 3 coal mine power plant | |
| Aurora path | Geinitzsiedlung / Am Auroraschacht of the Zwickau coal mining association | |
| Barbarastrasse | St. Barbara | Patron saint of miners |
| Bergmannsstrasse | on the former site of the Erzgebirge coal share association / August-Bebel-Werks | |
| Breithauptstrasse | August Breithaupt (1791–1873) | Co-founder of the Erzgebirge coal share association |
| Bockwaer Kohlenstrasse | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted. | |
| Bürgererschachtstrasse | Citizen shafts I and II of the Zwickau citizens' union. Was built to connect the citizen shafts. | |
| Carl-Wolf-Strasse | Carl Wolf | Founder of the company Friemann & Wolf ( mining lamp manufacture ) |
| Dortmunder Strasse | Dortmund | Twin town and mining town in North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Eisenweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Ernst-August-Geitner-Strasse | Ernst August Geitner (1783-1852) | ran the Geitner drive gardening at Hammerwald |
| Falkschachtweg | G. Falk coal works | |
| Rock path | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Flözweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Conveying path | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Fresh Happiness Street | “Frisch Glück” coal plant with a Frisch Glück pit | |
| Fork path | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Geinitzstrasse | Hanns Bruno Geinitz (1814–1900) | Geinitzstraße was initially simply called Werkstraße and connected the shafts of the Zwickauer Steinkohlenbauverein from the Fortunaschacht, where it branched off from Lengenfelder Straße, through the factory premises via the Vereinsglückschacht with the Glückaufschacht, where it crossed the then Vereinsglückstraße / today's Planitzer Straße. The part of Werkstrasse to the west of today's Planitzer Strasse is now called Erzgebirgische Strasse. The Geinitzsiedlung emerged as a miners' settlement after the Zwickau coal mining association ceased operations on the site of the Aurora and Vereinglückschachtes on both sides of Geinitzstrasse. |
| Glückaufschacht Street | Glückaufschacht of the Oberhohndorfer-Schader-Steinkohlenbauverein. | |
| Glückaufweg | ||
| Pit path | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Haldenweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Hammerweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Häuerweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Hermannschacht-Strasse | At the Frisch-Glück-Schacht. Residential area from the 1990s, the street was named (misleadingly) after the Hermannschacht of the Oberhohndorfer-Schader-Steinkohlenbauverein, around 700 m away. | |
| Help God shaft road | Help god shaft of the Zwickau citizens' union | |
| Himmelfürststrasse | Himmelsfürstschacht of the coal mining association of Niederplanitz and Vorderneudörfel | |
| Hüttenweg | at the Queen Marienhütte in Cainsdorf | |
| Knappenweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Coal road | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted | |
| Coal road / light fir tree | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted | |
| Koehlerweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Middle coal road | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted | |
| Obere Kohlenstrasse | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted | |
| Obersteigerweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Oskar-Arnold-Strasse | Oskar Arnold († 1919) | Bergdirekter at the Erzgebirge coal share association |
| Saarstrasse | Saarland | Saarstrasse is the former Planitzer Strasse that led to Planitz. Today's Planitzer Strasse was built for the Zwickauer Steinkohlenbauverein and was initially called Vereinsglückschachtstrasse after its main shaft. |
| Schachtweg | Schachtweg settlement ; between Himmelsfürst- and Vereinglückschacht | |
| Schaderstrasse | Leads to the Hermann shaft of the Oberhohndorfer-Schader-Steinkohlenbauverein. | |
| Slate path | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Schlägelweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Steigerweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Stollenweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Lower Coal Road | The coal route was used to remove the coal that was extracted | |
| Uthmannstrasse | Barbara Uthmann (1514–1575) | alleviated the plight of the Erzgebirge miners' wives by introducing lace-making |
| Club Glückstrasse | Part of the Geinitzsiedlung on the site of the Club Gluck Shaft of the Zwickau Hard Coal Association. | |
| Wilhelmschachtweg | Wilhelm shaft of the Zwickauer-Oberhohndorfer coal mining association | |
| Zechenweg | Geinitzsiedlung | |
| Zimmererweg | Schachtweg settlement; between Himmelsfürst- and Vereinglückschacht |
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Corresponds to shaft II of the Oberhohndorf hard coal works taken over by the Oberhohndorfer-Schader-Steinkohlenbauverein.
- ↑ The shaft was called Himmel s Fürstschacht; on the street named after him, the fugue-s was left out for unknown reasons (ignorance?).
- ↑ Waldemar May, Otto Stutzer , Eckardt: 75 years of collaborative work by the Saxon hard coal mines . Overview of the geological structure of the Ore Mountains hard coal basin. Ed .: District group Saxony of the Zwickau hard coal mining section. Zwickau June 1936, p. 18 .
- ^ Oskar Arnold: Field and seam map Förster & Borries, Zwickau 1902
Web links
- Street directory Zwickau 2012. (PDF) Zwickau city administration, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2018 .
- Street directory Zwickau 2017. (PDF) Zwickau city administration, 2017, accessed on June 22, 2018 .