Mauersberg

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Mauersberg
Mauersberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 32 ″  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 549 m
Area : 5.9 km²
Residents : 656  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 111 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 09518
Area code : 03735
Mauersberg (Saxony)
Mauersberg

Location of Mauersberg in Saxony

Mauersberg is a district of the Saxon community Großrückerswalde in the Erzgebirge district .

geography

location

Mauersberg is about 6.5 kilometers southwest of Marienberg in the Ore Mountains . The location extends for about 1.5 kilometers in the valley of a stream flowing north of the Preßnitz .

State road 221 leads through the village from Marienberg via Großrückerswalde. It ends south-west of the village at State Road 218 Annaberg-Buchholz - Reitzenhain .

Neighboring places

Streckewalde Großrückerswalde
Neighboring communities Schindelbach
Mildenau Arnsfeld

history

Mauersberg Church
Mauersberg, Kreuzkapelle (2016)

In connection with the Buch monastery feud , the place was first mentioned in 1291 as Ursberg . At this point it was owned by the Cistercian monastery. Around 1300 the Upper Erzgebirge possessions of the monastery were sold to the landlords of Waldenburg on Selva .

Since the second half of the 15th century, the place had a small fortified church and was looked after by the Franciscans of the Annaberg monastery. With the Reformation in 1537, Mauersberg became a branch church of the Großrückerswalde parish until it became an independent parish on November 17, 1721 - from 1932 to 1938 it was again a branch church of Großrückerswalde.

In 1544 the village was acquired by the mining town of Marienberg. In 1654 an iron stone mine was set up and the ore extracted was delivered to the hammer mills in the Preßnitz valley for smelting. The colliery ceased operations in 1839. A village school was established in 1655, it was replaced by a new building in 1882.

In 1844 the Freiberg professor August Breithaupt described the minerals Bodenite and Muromonerite found here . Mauersberg belonged to the office of Selva until 1856 .

In February 1889 the old fortified church was demolished and replaced by a neo-Gothic building by the architect Theodor Quentin , which was consecrated on December 17, 1890.

On June 1, 1892, the “Boden bei Wolkenstein” stop of the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt was opened, giving Mauersberg access to the railway network - albeit deep in the valley and about 1.6 kilometers from the town center. Passenger traffic was finally stopped on October 1, 1984.

The connection to the electricity network took place in 1913, the connection to the central drinking water supply, however, only in 1970. In 1939 an air station of the Wehrmacht was built on the so-called Richterhöhe .

In the course of the land reform in 1949, Mauersberg had 44 farms with 148 employees.

From 1949 to 1953, the Kreuzkapelle donated by Rudolf Mauersberger was built, which is based on the demolished battlement church. The consecration took place on July 15, 1953.

In 1956 the LPG was founded “1. Mai ”, which merged in 1974 with the LPG“ Vorwärts ”Mildenau.

On January 1, 1994, Mauersberg was incorporated into Großrückerswalde.

Development of the population

year population
1551 23 possessed men , 7 cottagers , 38 residents
1764 34 possessed men, 31 cottagers, 14 hooves
1834 723
1871 827
1890 959
year population
1910 925
1925 996
1939 955
1946 945
1950 1023
year population
1964 887
1971 904
1987 844
1990 799
1993 771
year population
2009 660
2011 656

Culture and sights

Museum (see also list of cultural monuments in Großrückerswalde )
Village model by Rudolf Mauersberger, 1926

For the Mauersberg Kreuzkapelle , consecrated in 1953, Rudolf Mauersberger composed the chants for the Mauersberg Kreuzkapelle from 1954 to 1956 .

The Mauersberger Museum was dedicated to the late Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger in 1973 and expanded in 1984 to include the memory of the former Thomaskantor Erhard Mauersberger. The estate of the Mauersberger brothers also includes an extensive Erzgebirge collection and a self-made model landscape of Mauersberg. The similarity of the names “Mauersberg” and “Mauersberger” is probably just a strange coincidence.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Großrückerswalde. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Mauersberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
  4. ↑ a b c cf. mauersberg.net , accessed December 21, 2010
  5. ^ Railway stations in Saxony , accessed on January 3, 2013
  6. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994. (PDF; 64 kB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 11 , accessed on January 3, 2013 .
  7. ^ Matthias Herrmann: Kreuzkantor zu Dresden Rudolf Mauersberger . 1st edition. Mauersberger Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-00-015131-1 .
  8. ↑ https://www.mauersberg.net/museum

literature

  • Between Wolkenstein, Marienberg and Jöhstadt (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 41). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • Mauersberg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 6th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1819, p. 189 f.
  • The Mauersberg Parish. in: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, Sp. 491–504 ( digitized version )
  • Matthias Degen: The Kreuzkapelle in Mauersberg. Togetherness of life and death . in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 1/2012, pp. 14–15
  • Erna Hedwig Hofmann: The Kreuzkapelle in Mauersberg and its donor , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, 4th edition 1979
  • District Office Middle Erzgebirgskreis, Ed .: On the history of the cities and municipalities in the Middle Erzgebirgskreis , a time table (parts 1–3)
  • Richard Steche : Mauersberg. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 23.

Web links

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