Meerane

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Meerane
Map of Germany, position of the city of Meerane highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 12 ° 28'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Zwickau
Management Community : Meerane-Schönberg
Height : 253 m above sea level NHN
Area : 19.81 km 2
Residents: 14,001 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 707 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 08393
Area code : 03764
License plate : Z, GC, HOT, WDA
Community key : 14 5 24 190
City structure: Core city, 4 districts

City administration address :
Loerracher Platz 1 08393 Meerane
Website : www.meerane.de
Mayor : Lothar Ungerer ( independent )
Location of the city of Meerane in the district of Zwickau
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Meerane is a Saxon district town in the northwest of the district of Zwickau . It is the seat of the Meerane-Schönberg administrative association . A distinct textile industry developed in Meerane in the 19th century, which had a lasting impact on the cityscape.

geography

Geographical location

Meerane is located in a densely populated area on the northwestern edge of the Ore Mountains Basin on the border with Thuringia 17 km south of Altenburg and approx. 15 km north of Zwickau between the four-lane B 93 and the federal motorway 4 .

The Meerchen is the most important river in the city. In the urban area, the Seiferitz Bach flows into the brook from the south and the Dittrichbach from the east. In the southeast of the city, the regional watershed between the Pleiße and the Zwickauer Mulde runs near the motorway .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Crimmitschau (city), Dennheritz , Glauchau (city), Remse and Schönberg in the district of Zwickau as well as Gößnitz (city) and the district Guteborn of the community of Ponitz in the Thuringian district of Altenburger Land .

City structure

The districts of Crotenlaide , Dittrich , Götzenthal , Seiferitz and Waldsachsen belonged to Meerane . On March 1, 2011, they were deleted. Like 45 other Saxon communities, Meerane no longer has a regional structure.

history

10th to 13th centuries

Meerane was probably founded under Henry I in the 10th century as a border town between the Sorbian districts and across from the extended territory of Eastern Franconia . The Wendish (Sorbian) word "Mer" means "border". At that time, the place “Mer” continued to border on the Reichsstraße “ via imperii ”, which led in this section from Altenburg via Ponitz to Zwickau . The earliest date recorded for the Meeraner church is 1005, i.e. H. the Christianization of the area prevailed by the end of the 10th century at the latest.

The first documentary mention of Meerane is related to the death of the Bohemian King Wladislaw II. , Who died in 1174 after only four months at the Mare ( Mer ) Castle . Wladislaw II was forced to emigrate abroad in 1172 after he had renounced the throne in favor of his son Friedrich without the consent of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . He went to Thuringia on the property of his second wife Judith von Thuringia , who was a daughter of Landgrave Ludwig I of Thuringia. Two years later he died on Judith's wedding estate, Meerane Castle, without having seen his son Ottokar Přemysl ascend to the throne. After the death of her husband, Judith von Thuringia received the rule of Meerane as a widow's seat. This came to Bohemia through the marriage of Vladislav II with his first wife Gertrud von Babenberg .

Meerane was attested in 1361 as an oppidum de Mare and in 1405 as a town. There were many different names in the following period for the settlement around the legendary Mare Castle: Mehir, Mera or Mherann, before the spelling Meerane was determined by a city council resolution in 1853.

Meerane Castle and Manor

The Meeraner Castle is an abandoned castle ( Burgstall ), as neither remains of walls nor archaeological finds have been made of it. Your exact location is unclear.

“Mer” (Meerane) was an important place in the Middle Ages. This is passed down by a historian of the 12th century and by the Pirna Dominican monk Johannes Lindner in the 16th century. The Bohemian Duke (from 1158 king) Vladislav II (* around 1110; † January 18, 1174 "in predium Mer" (Meerane)) with his wife Jutta (Judith) resided here for a time . Jutta was the daughter of the Thuringian Landgrave Ludwig I († January 12, 1140). In 1174, Queen Jutta had to flee from her tyrannical son Sobieslaw to “Mer” and moved into residence here (safely at the castle). "Mer" was her own property. This was also the first mention of Meerane in documents. The existence of Meerane Castle is documented for 1174. After a falling out between Vladislav II of Bohemia and the German Emperor Friedrich I (* around 1122, † 1190), Vladislav II took up his new residence in "Mer" at the castle in 1173 - in exile outside of Bohemia . After only four months, Vladislav II died here in Meerane in 1174.

The six so-called “castle houses” were exempt from taxes, so free yards . Burgmannen / Ministeriale were probably sitting here . The location of the former castle houses should be at today's August-Bebel-Str. 13-25 (as of 1981, 2020 apparently still up to date). The exact location of the castle is so far (as of 2019) unclear. Confirming archaeological finds or masonry are missing so far. It is assumed, however, that it was located roughly in place of today's town church, i.e. on the mountain spur between Dittrichbach and Seiferitzer Bach above the junction with the "Meerchen" brook, above the triangular old market in the immediate vicinity of the former castle houses.

The city at that time was surrounded by a city wall, which included today's market, today's Neumarkt / Kirchplatz and the castle (later the city church). The castle was therefore integrated into the city wall and represented a city ​​castle . The old market was outside the city fortifications.

The exact time at which the Meerane rule came into the Schoenburg administration is unknown. The fiefdom deed of 1361 shows that the Lords of Schönburg had owned Meerane as a Bohemian fief for many years; probably since 1182 or 1233.

As early as 1300 the lords of Schönburg had transferred their neighboring lordships Glauchau and Lichtenstein to the Bohemian king and received it back from him as a Bohemian imperial fief. So they were safe from the Wettins access . The Meerane lordship was already a Bohemian fief when they acquired it around 1300. In 1361 the rule of Meerane is mentioned in a document as a Bohemian fiefdom of the Schönburgers. Before 1493, the former rule of Meerane was incorporated into the Glauchau rule of the Lords of Schönburg - with administration at Glauchau Castle  . The Meeraner castle probably no longer existed at that time. Destruction in the Hussite Wars is conceivable, as Hussite armies besieged / destroyed the neighboring towns and castles Waldenburg and Glauchau several times.

The Lords of Schönburg-Crimmitschau owned the Meerane lordship as a royal Bohemian fiefdom. This is documented for 1361. With the extinction of this line, this rule came to the other Schönburg lines and was ultimately united with the Glauchau rule before 1493. Meerane was mentioned for the last time as an independent rule in 1459.

The legend "The white woman of Meerane" is linked to the lost Meerane castle. This legend is supposed to be a modification of the legend of the white woman from Orlamünde . In the saga collection of Johann Georg Theodor Grasse (1874), the “white woman” is presented as the “born Countess of Meran” in the legend “Countess of Orlamünde”.

Under the so-called castle hill there are medieval corridor systems, which were probably used primarily for storing food and, as in Gera, are called "caves".

14th to the first half of the 19th century

City view from 1839, lithograph
Hotel Schwanefeld with the former post office (left) on the Saxon-Thuringian state border Meerane-Guteborn

The further development Meeranes is until the 19th century by belonging to the Nice Burgi's dominions worn which Meerane as Bohemian kingdom after fiefs possessed. The exact time at which the Meerane rule came into the Schoenburg administration is unknown. The fiefdom deed of 1361 shows that the Lords of Schönburg had owned Meerane as a Bohemian fief for many years; Probably since 1182 or 1233. There are references to this from the time of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus II , who ruled from 1278 to 1305. In 1493 the dominion of Meerane was united with the Schönburg dominion of Glauchau , which was also a Bohemian fiefdom. Already in 1516 there was no court of its own in Meerane, the Glauchau office apparently allows court to be held here if necessary or court days.

On May 7, 1565, Georg I von Schönburg gave the city of Meerane statutes that were important in terms of regulatory policy and included the development of a council constitution with a mayor and council. However, the powers of the council only extended to the lower finance and police administration as well as the prosecution of petty matters. At that time, Meerane Castle was already uninhabited, its remains were removed in 1572 and partially used to build the town hall. The castle hill directly in the center of Meeran still indicates the location of a castle, even if you look for it in vain.

After the division of inheritance in the Schönburg-Glauchau family line in 1681, 5/9 of the urban area was assigned to the Amt Fordglauchau and 4/9 to the Hinterglauchau . This led to considerable administrative problems, which could not be alleviated by the establishment of an alternating director's office. Furthermore, the parish valley courts with jurisdiction for around 20 houses built on the parish back formed a separate administrative and judicial district in the city area. Thus, the (upper) pastor of Meerane exercised manorial rights including lower jurisdiction over the houses built on the parish lean and over some farms in the Schönburg part of Waldsachsen (Saxon Ant.) Until the 19th century . As a result, the parish valley courts were among the Schönburg vassal courts that were directly subordinate to the general government in Glauchau. On August 21, 1848, the judicial district merged with the municipality of Meerane.

At the intersection of the "Hohen Straße" from Leipzig to Zwickau , which today roughly corresponds to the Bundesstraße 93 and the road from Schmölln to Glauchau , the inn Zum Guten Born was built in the 18th century on the adjacent Ponitz corridor in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . Right next to the “Zum Guten Born” inn, the “Zu den 3 Schwanen” inn (called “Schwanefeld” since 1830) with a post office and relaxation area was built in the Meeraner area of ​​Schönburg . Between the Gasthof Schwanefeld and the customs station there was the “Meeran court” in 1749, which also had a gallows. After the Saxon state had acquired land at the intersection, it built a customs house for customs and accis collection and a road keeper's house on the border of the districts of Ponitz (Saxony-Altenburg) and Meerane (Schönburgische Herrschaft or Kingdom of Saxony) in 1831 Oberwaldsachsen), in which only Saxon officials lived, d. H. Royal highway takers, royal highwaymen, a royal rifleman, a royal postilion. Since 1825 a post station with changing horses was set up on the Meeraner side. On November 15, 1858, due to the opening of the Glauchau-Schönbörnchen-Gößnitz railway, the last stagecoach ran through “Schwanenfeld”. In 1909 the customs post was closed. The “Schwanefeld” inn has now developed into a four-star hotel. It is a curiosity to this day that it is partly in Thuringia (Guteborn in the Ponitzer Flur) and partly in Saxony (Meeraner Flur) and the state border goes right through the house.

Second half of the 19th century to the present

Meerane, steep wall information board

Industrialization began in the 19th century, based on a weaving mill that had been based in the 16th century , the founding of a weavers' guild in 1612 and the arrival of Dutch weavers. The manufacture of woolen and semi-woolen women’s clothing fabrics in a total of six mechanical weaving mills with 1220 workers, the finishing dye mill and worsted yarn spinning mill were important . The Glauchau – Gößnitz line of the Saxon State Railway was opened in 1858. In 1876, 2500 looms were working in the city.

After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of ​​the Schönburg recession in 1878, the city of Meerane came to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau in 1880 . This in turn belonged to the Zwickau district team until 1900 and then to the newly formed Chemnitz district team . Meerane was spun off as a district-free city from the Glauchau administration in 1924.

In 1948, the investigation into the textile pusher trials in Glauchau-Meerane took place in the Meeraner Gasthof "Goldener Löwe" . Many entrepreneurs have been arrested or driven away and expropriated.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the city of Meerane became part of Glauchau in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Glauchau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Chemnitzer Land district and in 2008 rose in the district of Zwickau.

Religions

The population has been predominantly Evangelical Lutheran since the Reformation . In 1925, 22,576 residents were listed as Evangelical Lutheran, 14 as Reformed , 260 as Roman Catholic , 17 Jews and 1,227 as “other” .

Incorporations

Former parish date annotation
Crotenlaide 10/01/1923
Dittrich 07/01/1950
01/01/1974		 Incorporation to Pfaffroda,
reclassification to Meerane
Götzenthal (upper) 07/01/1936
Seiferitz 07/01/1950
Untergötzenthal¹ 04/01/1928
Waldsachsen² May 19, 1974

¹ as a result of the exchange of territory on April 1, 1928, ceded by Thuringia to Saxony
² as a result of the exchange of territory on April 1, 1928, the Thuringian share in Waldsachsen assigned to Saxony

On March 1, 2011, all incorporated places were deleted as parts of the municipality of Meerane.

Population development

In 1546 there were 193 residents , 1583 120 possessed citizens and 1750 100 houses in the city, 159 houses in the suburbs and 14 parish and manorial houses.

Development of the population (from 1960 December 31) :

Population development

1834 to 1946

  • 1834-4.172
  • 1875-21,277
  • 1880-22,293
  • 1885-22,013
  • 1890-22446
  • 1910-25,470
  • 1933-24,855
  • 1939-24,447
  • 1946 - 26,804 a

1950 to 2002

  • 1950 - 26,519 b
  • 1960 - 24,520
  • 1981-22,194
  • 1984-21,260
  • 1995 - 19,606
  • 1997-19,390
  • 1999 - 19.001
  • 2001 - 18,439
  • 2002 - 18,173

2003 to 2012

  • 2003 - 17,745
  • 2004 - 17,513
  • 2005 - 17,244
  • 2006 - 16,937
  • 2007 - 16,752
  • 2008 - 16,517
  • 2009 - 16,287
  • 2010 - 16,115
  • 2011 - 15,942
  • 2012 - 15,226

from 2013

  • 2013 - 15.003
  • 2014 - 14,850
  • 2015 - 14,851
  • 2016 - 14,659
  • 2017 - 14,481
  • 2018 - 14.208

Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony

a October 29th
b August 31

politics

City council

After the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the following parliamentary groups were formed in the city council based on the election results :

new town hall
Parliamentary group / political groups Seats
Fractional community CDU - Meeraner Bündnis 8th
Free Voters Group 7th
AfD parliamentary group 3
Left Party 2
non-attached (FDP) 1
non-attached (NPD) 1
Meerane pillar

mayor

In May 1990 Peter Ohl was elected by the DSU as the first post-reunification mayor and in 1994 he was confirmed in office for the free voters. Lothar Ungerer has been mayor of Meerane (independent) since 2001. In the mayoral elections on June 8, 2008 and June 7, 2015 Ungerer was confirmed in office.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a bizarre three-storey silver castle with an open gate and nine small pointed turrets, in the middle covered with a shield divided three times by red and silver diagonally right." The coat of arms officially introduced by the city council in 1897 commemorates the nine during the Hussite Wars destroyed the towers of the city wall. The coat of arms is that of the Schönburger .

Town twinning

In 1990 a town partnership was established with Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. In addition to the public sector, there is also an exchange between clubs and organizations. In Lörrach, a Meeraner Platz was christened in 2002 , in return, as part of the new town hall building, the Lörracher Platz was built a year later .

Since May 2015 there has been a partnership with the municipality of Lanusei on the Italian island of Sardinia .

Culture and sights

Museums

Old Town Hall

The local history museum on the city's history from prehistoric times to 1945 was set up on the first floor of the old town hall. Special attention is paid to the historical textile manufacture with a hand loom and a mechanical loom . In 2011 a permanent exhibition “ Werner Bochmann ” with Erich Knauf and Ralph Arthur Roberts on the life and work of the Meeraner hit and film composer was opened in the city's art house . The Kunsthaus also houses the ART IN gallery of the Meeraner Kunstverein with exhibitions that change several times a year.

Buildings

Pond place with Martinskirche
Post office

Due to the strong expansion in the 19th century as a result of industrialization, the historical building fabric is limited. The historic old town hall, built in the Renaissance style in 1727 , has been fully restored and is still used for weddings. The St. Martin's Church, first mentioned in a document in 1314, was rebuilt after several fires and received the nave in its current form in 1884. It has a winged altar by Jacob Naumann (1506) restored in 1963/1964 with Mary and child in the shrine and a Gothic choir (Consecrated in 1503). The core of the tower is still Romanesque. The rectory next to the church is Meerane's only original Baroque building.

The Italian staircase leading down from the church to Teichplatz was built in 2004 according to plans by manufacturer ER Funke from 1900. The neo-baroque post office in the city center was built in 1901. Under the castle hill there are medieval corridor systems that were primarily used for storing food and, as in Gera, are known as "caves".

On Chemnitzer Strasse in the southeast of the city, the weaver fountain, built in 1934, shows scenes from the textile industry. There are numerous renovated villas from the Wilhelminian era on Schwanefelder Strasse in the northwest . The Waldsachsen church was built in 1561 and renovated in 1653, 1736 (new tower), 1831 and 1868 (enlargement of the church). The organ was repaired in 1852 and replaced by a new instrument by Johann Gotthilf Bärmig in 1868 .

Memorials

Parks

Monument in honor of the entrepreneur Wilhelm Wunderlich in the park of the same name
  • Wilhelm-Wunderlich-Park
  • Mittelberganlagen
  • Annapark
  • Schiller Park
  • Merzenberg plant
  • Wedding forest
  • Gornzigtal
  • Church wood
  • Skate park

Carnival

The city of Meerane is also known for its carnival culture, which is unusual in the region. In 1986 the Meeraner Carnevalsverein ( MCV ) was founded, the city's first carnival club. One year later, in 1987, the Sächsische Chaoten , another carnival association, was founded, with both associations in a competing relationship.

After reunification, Meerane got to know the carnival culture from the Swiss-Baden area through his town partnership with Lörrach . Even more formative, however, were the visits by the Basler Grachsymphoniker , a Swiss Gugge that contributed to the establishment of several Meeraner Guggen as well as the introduction of the Meeraner street carnival, which is now widely known in the region . Guggen, actually a peculiarity from the Alemannic area, found its way into the Meeraner carnival culture. Meeraner Guggen are: Gnallschoddn , Daredevil Guggis , Rasselbande , Big Bang Gugge

Sports

Steep wall

The city was also known for the steep face of Meerane . This 248-meter-long road owes its name to the 12% steep incline of the Bergstrasse (now renamed "An der Steile Wand") and was named that way by reporters in the 1950s during the peace trips that took place here .

The local soccer club Meeraner SV was a semi-finalist in the Eastern Zone Championships in 1948 and 1949 and a founding member of the GDR soccer league .

The men of the Meeraner hockey club play in the 2nd Bundesliga East (hall) and in the Oberliga Mitteldeutschland (field).

The Saxon handball club Meerane , founded in 2000, merged in 2013 with HSV Glauchau to form HC Glauchau / Meerane , whose first men's team plays in the central German handball league .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

2011 newly built station

The town is on the south running six-lane A 4 with the terminals Meerane and Glauchau-West , km to reach both about 2,. The B 93 bypasses the city to the west, while the actual city is mainly accessed from the S 288 state road from the B 175 near Glauchau via Waldsachsen to Crimmitschau. Subordinate roads lead to Ponitz, Gößnitz and Remse.

Meerane is on the Glauchau-Schönbörnchen-Gößnitz railway line , which in turn is part of the so-called Central-Germany connection . The only access point for rail traffic is Meerane station , which has only been used for passenger traffic since freight traffic was discontinued in 2000. With regional express trains in 2012, providing direct connections to Glauchau and after Goettingen over Jena and Erfurt , in addition operate regional trains to Glauchau and Gößnitz . The city is part of the Central Saxony transport association .

Established businesses

The town hall in the styles of expressionism.

Since Meerane was once an important location for the textile industry, related industrial operations such as dye works, tanneries and machine factories were also located here.

Until production was discontinued in 1991, the VEB IFA Karosseriewerke Meerane (also “Meeraner Karosseriewerk”, MEKAWE) manufactured the body of the Trabant 600, 601 Universal (“Kombi”) and Kübel. The roots of the body shop in Meerane lie with the company Hornig & Co, which was founded on August 13, 1869 as a wheelwright and was expropriated in 1946 a. a. Manufactured bodies for DKW , Horch and Audi .

Today, there are many companies from the automotive sector in the Meeraner economic center south-west. These take advantage of the proximity to the nearby Volkswagen plant in Zwickau- Mosel. Resident companies are z. B .:

In the Ifo study "The choice of place of residence of private households and the assessment of local location factors in the Saxon municipalities" (2008), Meerane took 14th place of all 505 municipalities in Saxony. The Ifo Institute has based its assessment on 14 factors, including: a. Retail, unemployment, recreational areas, hospitals, quota of doctors, public safety, traffic situation and local public transport.

education

Meerane there with the Friedrich-Engels-school Linde School and the Protestant elementary school St. Martin three elementary schools, with the state Tännichtschule and the privately funded International High School Meerane two high schools and the European school "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi". There are also two special schools and a vocational school center for economics and social affairs.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Neumarkt
Marienstrasse
Birthplace of actor Ralph Arthur Roberts
Memorial plaque on the house where actor Ralph Arthur Roberts was born

Personalities who have worked on site

  • August Bebel (1866–1877), member of the Reichstag in the constituency of Meerane-Glauchau ( SPD )
  • Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842–1922), naturopath, inventor of the “Bilz-Brause” drink (today Sinalco)
  • Ernst Ebeling (1859–1932), Mayor of Meerane until 1889
  • Wilhelm Külz (1875–1948), Deputy Mayor 1903, co-founder and chairman of the LDP 1945–1948
  • Jürgen Martens (* 1959), politician (FDP), Saxon State Minister for Justice and Europe
  • Paul Rüdiger , First Mayor / Lord Mayor 1915–1941

literature

  • Reports on the administration and status of community affairs in the city of Meerane . Meerane 1880ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Just Heinrich Leopold: Chronicle and description of the factory and trading town of Meerane. Verlag Louise Geucke, Meerane 1863. ( digitized version )
  • Richard Steche : Meerane. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 13. Issue: Glauchau District Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 22.
  • Voices from Meerane and the surrounding area , Meerane 1926
  • Gerhard Demmering: The Glauchau-Meeraner textile industry. In: Economic and Administrative Studies, LXXXVIII, 1928.
  • Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Editor: Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939888-59-8 (with many articles on the history of the Meerane rule, which was integrated into the Glauchau rule in the 15th century; pp. 27, 45, 52, 53, 55ff , 77, 84ff, 86, 89, 90ff, 94f, 97, 102f, 105, 114, 116, 136, 137.)
  • Willibald Krause, Oskar Philipp (ed.): Home book of the city of Meerane. Meerane 1930.
  • handwritten chronicle by Meerane from 1621

Web links

Commons : Meerane  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Meerane in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b c Digital Historical Directory of Saxony - Meerane. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, accessed on October 20, 2012 .
  3. ↑ "Sea in Meerane?" - How the city of Meerane got its name
  4. ^ Robby Joachim Götze, Wolf-Dieter Röber, Steffen Winkler: Schloss Hinterglauchau, Museum and Art Collection , Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH Regensburg, 1998, Art Guide No. 2296, ISBN 3-7954-6035-2 , p. 2: Notes on the castle Meerane
  5. ^ Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–1991 in the Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. “Church and Art”, location of the Meeraner Castle near St. Martinskirche, p. 100
  6. ↑ Reiner Groß: Schönburgische Geschichte. A timetable. Edited by Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker. Chemnitz 2005, DNB 974872156 , p. 8: Entries "around 1300" (brochure).
  7. ↑ Steffen Winkler: The former size and importance of the city of Meerane . In: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, pp. 7–8
  8. ↑ Reiner Groß: Schönburgische Geschichte. A timetable. Edited by Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker. Chemnitz 2005, DNB 974872156 , p. 11 (brochure).
  9. ↑ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau, publisher: Enno Bünz, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, notes on the rule of Meerane, p. 86
  10. ↑ Steffen Winkler: Sage The white woman from Meerane. In: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, pp. 22–24 and P. 32 pt. 30
  11. ↑ The caves in the castle hill. (No longer available online.) City of Meerane, archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; Retrieved October 20, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meerane.de
  12. ↑ Book "The Schönburg Office Hartenstein 1702-1878", p. 148
  13. ^ Walter Schlesinger, edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 97.
  14. ^ Meerane in "Handbuch der Geographie", p. 480ff.
  15. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.
  16. ↑ Meerane at www.unbekannter-bergbau.de
  17. ↑ Website of the hotel "Schwanefeld" on the Saxon-Thuringian border ( memento of the original from January 16, 2018 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwanefeld.de
  18. ↑ a b Manfred Bensing, Karlheinz Blaschke, Karl Czok, Gerhard Kehrer, Heinz Machatscheck: Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the GDR . Ed .: Heinz Göschel. 2. rework. and exp. Edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig July 1984, p. 290-291 .
  19. ↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
  20. ↑ Finance Ministerial Gazette for the Free State of Saxony, No. 22, 1923
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