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Flour turret
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 40 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 523 m
Area : 22.09 km²
Residents : 1478  (Dec. 31, 2010)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2011
Postal code : 08539
Area code : 037431
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Location of Mehltheuer in the Vogtlandkreis (municipal boundaries as of 2009)

Mehltheuer is a village and at the same time a part of the municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. in the Saxon Vogtland district .

geography

The districts of Drochaus , Fasendorf , Mehltheuer, Oberpirk , Schönberg and Unterpirk belong to the village of Mehltheuer . It borders the town of Pausa-Mühltroff in the Vogtlandkreis, the town of Zeulenroda-Triebes in the Thuringian district of Greiz and the other two Rosenbacher localities Syrau and Leubnitz .

The village (the district) is located near the border with Thuringia around 10 km northwest of Plauen on a plateau at around 510 m above sea level. NN. The federal road 282 ( E49 ) from Schleiz to Plauen and the railway line Saxony-Franconia mainline run directly through the village . The Mehltheuer – Gera railway also begins here . In the east of the village there is a large wooded area that is evenly decreasing in height towards Plauen. The areas to the west and south are partly used for agriculture. Agricultural use dominates towards the north.

The district of Mehltheuer borders on three other districts of the community and a district of the city of Zeulenroda-Triebes.

Amber green
(Zeulenroda shoot)
Oberpirk Neighboring communities Syrau
Fasendorf

History of the district of Mehltheuer

First documentary mention and interpretation of the name

In 1418 Mehltheuer was first mentioned in a document in connection with desert goods. It literally means: the Meltern, know better on the Meltewer . A year later there was talk of 1 wustung czu der Meltewer and (wustung) zu der Melterey . And shortly afterwards, in 1422, Mehltheuer was clearly defined as a forest, because it is called a holtz called the Meltewer .

In the mile sheets of Saxony from 1794, the 1.5 km long ridge line between the 541 m high Steinpöhl and the 525 m high Lerchenberg is shown as the Mehltheuer in the forest east of the village of Mehltheuer . Today's B 282, which leads straight uphill from Syrau, clearly crosses this ridge line. The field name Mehltheuer indicates that due to the poor quality of the soil, grain cultivation would only be unprofitable here and that the flour would become expensive . In addition to rocky ground on the aforementioned Steinpöhl, this forest area also has waterlogging areas in the basins of the Syrabach , Triebitzbach and Fasendorfer Dorfbach and their respective tributaries.

16. – 19. century

The place was desolate for a relatively long time. It was probably not until the 16th century that the landlord from Leubnitz started farmers in Mehltheuer. In the 18th century, the Leubnitz manor built a Vorwerk here . Mehltheuer and its later districts Fasendorf, Drochaus, Schönberg and Oberpirk belonged to the Plauen office until the 19th century , while Unterpirk belonged to the Pausa office .

The village of Mehltheuer received a significant boost with the construction of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway in 1848, when Mehltheuer was given its own train station. Also the road from Schleiz or Zeulenroda - Pausa / Vogtl. to Plauen was expanded in the middle of the 19th century. In 1883 the Werdau – Mehltheuer railway was opened. Several buildings of a suburban character were built in the village.

Old post office in Mehltheuer 2012

However, the total area of Mehltheuer in 1900 was only 67 hectares . The reason for this was the long period of desertification. Even the Mehltheuer windmill belonged to the Oberpirk district at the time of its existence . It was a post mill that stood on the plateau west of the village and was in operation until 1909. To the south of the railway, in the wooded area in the direction of Schneckengrün , sophisticated Art Nouveau villas were built on what was then the land of Fasendorf .

1900-1945

In 1909 the tulle factory Mehltheuer AG was founded , which supplied the Plauen lace industry. After the First World War , a weaving department for curtains and upholstery fabrics was added. Towards the end of the Second World War , there was a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the Tüllfabrik from December 2, 1944 to April 16, 1945 , in which around 350 female prisoners had to do forced labor for the armaments factory Vogtlandische Maschinenfabrik AG ("Vomag") . The Jewish women, who came mainly from Poland and Hungary, had survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and had been transferred to Mehltheuer from Bergen-Belsen and the Flossenbürg satellite camp in Nuremberg; After being spared a death march in April 1945, they were liberated by American troops in Mehltheuer. After 1945, the textile company moved into the building again, which until the end of the GDR last produced on large Raschel machines .

1945 to the present

The St. Stephen's Chapel was consecrated on October 31, 1958 . Mehltheuer, like Oberpirk and Fasendorf, had previously been parish to Leubnitz, which meant an immensely long path to the church for Oberpirk, but also for Mehltheuer.

There was also a preschool children's home; it was a branch of Kobitzschwalde.

During the GDR era, a holiday camp for the Falkenberg / Elster depot was set up in the Waldhaus Mehltheuer .

Administrative division

  • On January 1st, 1974 the districts Drochaus, Fasendorf, Ober- u. Lower Pirk incorporated.
  • In 1977 the municipalities of Leubnitz , Rodau , Demeusel, Kornbach , Schönberg and Mehltheuer and its districts merged to form an administrative association Mehltheuer .
  • In 1994 the communities of Leubnitz, Syrau and Mehltheuer and their respective districts founded the administrative association Rosenbach .
  • In 1999 the previously independent community of Schönberg was incorporated into Mehltheuer.
  • On January 1, 2011, the three municipalities of the administrative association Rosenbach merged to the municipality of Rosenbach / Vogtl. The former municipality of Mehltheuer thus became a locality . The Rosenbach municipal administration is based in Mehltheuer.
  • The Reußenhof homestead in the north was still part of the Thuringian Bernsgrün in 1943 and is now part of the Mehltheuer district.

traffic

Former Mehltheuer station building (demolished in 2015)

The Station Mehltheuer is due to two railway lines: Since 20 November 1848 Take the Leipzig-Hof railway , opened by the Saxon-Bavarian railway Compagnie , trains through Mehltheuer. On November 15, 1883 the connected Werdau – Weida – Mehltheuer railway was put into operation.

Both the Elster Saale Bahn trains on the Leipzig – Gera – Zeulenroda – Mehltheuer – Hof route and the Vogtlandbahn trains on the VL5 in the direction of Plauen run every two hours and have connections to each other. The regional express trains Dresden – Hof pass Mehltheuer without stopping.

The train station in the Schönberg (Rosenbach) district was once of great importance. There the railway lines Schönberg – Schleiz and Schönberg – Hirschberg , on which there is currently no regular traffic, branch off from the Saxony-Franconia main line .

The federal highway 282 runs through Mehltheuer and is used as a feeder road to the A 9 . Located between Plauen or the Czech Republic and the Schleiz junction , the B 282 as part of European route 49 is very busy.

literature

Web links

Commons : Mehltheuer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mehltheuer in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony. Retrieved November 12, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz: Flossenbürg . The Flossenbürg concentration camp and its satellite camps. Ed .: Barbara Distel. C. H. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56229-7 .
  4. ^ Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial Accessed July 6, 2016
  5. ↑ Pascal Cziborra: Mehltheuer concentration camp. Lipstick instead of groceries . Lorbeer Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-938969-17-5 .
  6. ↑ Facebook entry
  7. ^ 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 .
  8. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011