Lunzenau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ' N , 12 ° 45' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Central Saxony | |
| Height : | 225 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 28.33 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 4147 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 146 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 09328 | |
| Primaries : | 037383, 037384 (Himmelhartha) | |
| License plate : | FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL | |
| Community key : | 14 5 22 350 | |
| City structure: | Urban area and 6 districts | |
City administration address : |
Karl-Marx-Strasse 1 09328 Lunzenau |
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| Mayor : | Ronny Hofmann ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Lunzenau in the district of central Saxony | ||
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Lunzenau is a small town in the district of central Saxony in central Saxony .
geography
The city is located in the Central Saxon Granulite Mountains , directly on the Zwickauer Mulde and is around 25 km from Mittweida , around 25 km from Chemnitz and around 65 km from Leipzig .
Districts
- Berthelsdorf
- Cossen
- Elsdorf (Ober- and Niederelsdorf)
- Goritzhain
- Himmelhartha
- Hohenkirchen
- Rochsburg
- Schlaisdorf (Groß- and Kleinschlaisdorf)
history
The Sorbian name of the place is Luncznaw (dt. Mühlhausen), it is the southernmost sorbent settlement of the Sorbian Kleingau Rochelinzi ( Rochlitz ) . In 1170 German colonists laid out a row village next to the existing Sorbian hamlet. Five years later, Lunzenau was mentioned as the property of the knight Guntheros de Rohsberg (Gunther von Rochsburg). In 1209 Hohenkirchen was mentioned as the parish responsible for Lunzenau. Lunzenau was granted city rights in 1333. The Lunzenau Muldenbrücke was first mentioned six years earlier.
From the city chronicle
- 1390: first church was mentioned
- 1495: the Lunzenau fishing guild is founded
- 1500: first parish court of Lunzenau
- 1523: the peasants, who came under the Rochsburg rule, lodge a complaint against their feudal lord with the Duke of Saxony
- 1572: the first town hall in Lunzenau burns down
- 1574: the school is first mentioned in a document
- 1633: the plague rages and halves the population
- 1635: the church, the brewery and around half of all town houses are destroyed in a large city fire
- 1781: Second big fire in the town - church, town hall, the diaconate with the school, the brewery and malt house and around ca. of the houses burn down
- 1788: Consecration of the 40 m high St. Jakobus Church
- 1790: Peasants' uprising against Rochsburg rule, Lunzenau citizens take part, the compulsory labor is terminated
- 1831: Whitsun - major fire in the “Count's Schoenburg sheep farm”, 300 sheep are also burned
- 1835: general city regulations are introduced
- 1839: May flood after a downpour, 80 cm above the road, the Bachhaus and the cutting mill are torn away with it
- 1849: Lunzenau municipal guard fights for the achievements of the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848 , the captain (weaver Schlimper) is sentenced to death and pardoned in 1853
- 1872: The Göhrener Bridge is put into operation, the Leipzig – Chemnitz railway line is inaugurated
- 1858: devastating floods of the Zwickauer Mulde
- 1898: Electric power also in Lunzenau
- 1927: a major storm destroys all bridges and paths on the lower reaches of the Brausetalbach
- 1945: Bombing over Elsdorf on January 16, severe damage to buildings, no dead or injured. On April 15th the US troops marched in, the city was then handed over by Mayor Arnold, in June the occupation forces change and the Soviet Army moves in
- 1954: Severe flooding endangering the Muldenbrücke in Lunzenau, whose lane has just been widened
- 2000: Renovation work on the town church "Sankt Jakobus" begins
- 2002: August - “ flood of the century ”, historical highs are measured on the Zwickauer Mulde , there is no major damage in Lunzenau
Spelling of the place name
The following forms of the place name are documented:
1333: Luncznaw
1387: Lonczenawe
1436: Luncznaw
1490: Lünczinaw
1791: Lunzenau
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Berthelsdorf | January 1, 1994 | |
| Cossen | January 1, 1994 | |
| Elsdorf | January 1, 1994 | |
| Goritzhain | January 1, 1994 | |
| Großschlaisdorf (Schlaisdorf) | July 1, 1949 | |
| Himmelhartha | April 1, 1996 | |
| Hohenkirchen | January 1, 1967 | |
| Kleinschlaisdorf | before 1875 | Incorporation to Großschlaisdorf |
| Niederelsdorf | January 1, 1952 | Merger with Oberelsdorf to Elsdorf |
| Oberelsdorf | January 1, 1952 | Merger with Niederelsdorf to Elsdorf |
| Rochsburg | January 1, 1994 |
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
coat of arms
A fish and a fisherman's house can be seen on the coat of arms.
Town twinning
Culture and sights
- see also: List of cultural monuments in Lunzenau
- Rochsburg Castle with museum
- St. James Church
- To the buffer stop - railway museum and restaurant with suitcase hotel
Memorials
- War memorial for those who fell in World War I in the Lunzenau cemetery
- Memorial from 1952 in Heinrich-Heine-Park in memory of the victims of fascism
- Monument to Max Vogler (1854–1889), local poet and Muldental poet
War memorial for those who fell in World War I
Memorial for the victims of fascism in Heinrich-Heine-Park
Monument to Max Vogler in the park named after him
Parks
- Heinrich Heine Park
- Max Vogler Park
- Lunzenauer Mulde Terrace
- Kern's garden
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The federal highway 72 is about 4 km away via the junction Penig, the federal highway 175 leads directly along the district Elsdorf, from where the state highway S 247 leads via Lunzenau to Mittweida . The state road S 242 connects Lunzenau with Burgstädt and Geithain , the district road K 8260 with Penig and Obergräfenhain . The district of Rochsburg is connected to Penig via the K8260 district road.
The closest train station is Burgstädt on the railway line from Chemnitz to Leipzig , after the stop in Cossen was given up in 2005 and operations on the Muldentalbahn, which runs through the city, were discontinued in 2002. Passenger traffic on the latter has been replaced by a daily VMS bus line . There are also regular bus connections to Burgstädt, Narsdorf, Wiederau and Mittweida on weekdays.
Lunzenau station (2016)
Cossen train station
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economy
The Lunzenau paper and cardboard factory was founded in 1885 by Wilhelm Vogel and incorporated into the VEB patent paper factory Penig in 1965 . In 1990 the Treuhandanstalt privatized the Lunzenau part of the business. Raw felt cardboard and special cardboard are manufactured in Lunzenau, but the production of woodchip wallpaper is discontinued.
Vogel first founded a weaving mill for upholstery fabrics in Lunzenau and had a private park designed from 1873 to 1877, which was named Heinrich-Heine-Park in 1952 .
education
- Evangelical high school
- Elementary school "An den Linden"
Leisure and sports facilities
- Football field
- Reitanlage Pferdehof Meinig
Poetry and truth
According to an old tradition, Lunzenau got its name from the following incident:
Once a knight is said to have traveled along the Muldental and when he was looking for a resting place at night, his gaze fell down into the wooded valley and he saw the full moon reflected in the water of the river and said: "This is Luna's Aue."
According to tradition, this is said to have become Lunzenau in the course of time.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
since March 2002: Werner Goldammer, director of the Lunzenau wind orchestra
sons and daughters of the town
- Sophie Sabina Apitzsch (1692–1752), also known as "Prince Lieschen", impostor
- Max Vogler (1854–1889), poet, fiction writer and literary historian
- Willi Herold (1925–1946), German war criminal
literature
To city
- Hermann Löscher, Johannes Strehle: History of the city of Lunzenau. , Printing and publishing house Reinh. Schmidt Burgstädt, 1933.
- Lunzenau - overview of the historical development. 1983.
- Richard Steche : Lunzenau. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 14th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 20.
Others
- Max Vogler : Mr. Kommerzienrat. An indictment against the Lunzenau factory owner Vogel. 1883.
- Lothar Krügel: Dr. Max Vogler - poet, writer and scientist. published on the 65th anniversary of the local poet's death. 1954.
Web links
- Atlas Central Saxony
- official website of the city of Lunzenau
- Lunzenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony. Volume I, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 , p. 629.
- ↑ a b c d e f State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ a b c d Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
- ↑ a b c Ministry of the Interior of Saxony (ed.): Lists of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the subdivision of the independent manor districts and state forest districts. 1952.
- ↑ Statistical Bureau of the Royal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Directory of communities and places for the Kingdom of Saxony. 1904.
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
- ↑ Website of the paper and cardboard factory ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Berthelsdorf | Cossen | Elsdorf (Ober- and Niederelsdorf) | Göritzhain | Himmelhartha | Hohenkirchen | Rochsburg | Schlaisdorf (Groß- and Kleinschlaisdorf)