Maxhütte (Zwickau)

Maxhütte Large district town of Zwickau Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 6 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 37 ″ E
Incorporation :	April 1, 1939
Postal code :	08056
Area code :	0375
Location of Maxhütte in Saxony

Maxhütte is a district of the city of Zwickau , which has been the district town of the Zwickau district in the Free State of Saxony since 2008 . The place is located southwest of the city center in the district of Zwickau-West . The Maxhütte settlement is part of the Reichenbacher Straße and Freiheitssiedlung district , which has the official number 41. On April 1, 1939, Maxhütte was reclassified together with Brand from Lichtentanne to Zwickau.

geography

Location and traffic

It is located southwest of the city center on Bundesstraße 173 ("Reichenbacher Straße") between the former Reichsbahn repair shop in Zwickau and the tracks of the Dresden – Werdau and Zwickau – Falkenstein railway lines in the north and the Zwickau airfield in the southeast. In addition to the workers' settlement built around 1900, Maxhütte is characterized by a large number of companies and trades.

In the area of public transport , Maxhütte is connected to the city center by bus line 29 operated by the Zwickau municipal transport company .

Neighboring places

In the north Maxhütte borders on Marienthal , in the northwest on Brand and in the south on Neuplanitz . Since there is a wide field landscape between Neuplanitz and Maxhütte, the two places are separated from each other in terms of urban planning. To the west of Maxhütte is the "Freedom Settlement". It was spun off from Lichtentanne on January 1, 1999 and incorporated into the city of Zwickau.

history

The history of the Maxhütte settlement, which is now part of Zwickau, southwest of Zwickau's main train station, began in the last decade of the 19th century. In August 1893, the Queen Marienhütte in nearby Cainsdorf , designated in 1892 as the largest ironworks in Saxony, stopped producing pig iron in the blast furnace due to the depletion of ore supplies from the surrounding area. This ended the block delivery contract that Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn , a Thuringian branch of Maximilianshütte founded in 1872 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Upper Palatinate , had with Königin-Marienhütte in Cainsdorf. The general director of Maxhütte in Rosenberg decided to build a new Thomas Stahl plant with an attached rolling mill on the area south-west of Zwickau's main train station , which was then part of the Lichtentanne community .

For the new Maxhütte plant, land was acquired in the west of today's city of Zwickau ( Marienthaler Flur) and in the neighboring community of Lichtentanne in 1893 . In 1895 the construction of the steelworks named after the then Saxon King Albert began with block and prefabricated streets. Commissioning took place on August 10, 1898. However, the steelworks did not have a long service life. After several shutdowns , the König-Albert-Werk was finally shut down in December 1930.

The name of the Maxhütte lives on to this day in the Maxhütte workers' settlement that was built next to the plant around 1898. On April 1, 1939, the Maxhütte settlement was reclassified together with Brand from Lichtentanne to Zwickau. Currently, the Maxhütte settlement is part of the Reichenbacher Straße and Freiheitssiedlung district (official number 41) in the Zwickau-West district. While the former workers' housing estate is now in its entirety as a monument under monument protection, new businesses have settled on the former factory premises.