Mittweida
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ N , 12 ° 59 ′ E |
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| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Central Saxony | |
| Management Community : | Mittweida | |
| Height : | 280 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 41.26 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 14,475 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 351 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 09648 | |
| Area code : | 03727 | |
| License plate : | FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL | |
| Community key : | 14 5 22 360 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MTW | |
City administration address : |
Markt 32 09648 Mittweida |
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| Lord Mayor : | Ralf Schreiber ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Mittweida in the district of central Saxony | ||
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The university town of Mittweida is a town in the district of central Saxony in the state of Saxony . It is the seat of the Mittweida administrative community .
geography
Geography and geology
The city of Mittweida is mostly located west of the Zschopau valley in the Central Saxon mountainous region . The old town was built on the lower reaches of the Altmittweidaer Bach not far from where it flows into the Zschopau. Most of the districts are on both sides of the river in or near the Zschopau valley. The location at the Kriebstein dam in the north of the city is particularly distinctive . Only the districts of Frankenau and Thalheim are on the Frankenauer Bach and Erlbach, which drain towards the Zwickauer Mulde .
In terms of the geological conditions in Saxony, Mittweida is located in the center of the Saxon granulite mountains . The area around the city is characterized by the reddish granite of the Mittweida type embedded in the granulite and largely textureless here . Outcrops can be found in the Zschopau valley, for example. In the area of the university campus on Leisniger Strasse, the "Devil's Stones", larger-than-life cordierite gneiss blocks, are a geological natural monument.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are Kriebstein , Rossau , Lichtenau , Altmittweida , Königshain-Wiederau , Seelitz and Erlau , all in the district of Central Saxony.
City structure
history
The origin of Mittweida lies in the elongated Waldhufendorf on the Altmittweidaer Bach, founded after 1160 , which at that time comprised the corridors of the later Altmittweida and Mittweida. The name refers to a settlement in the middle of a (forest) pasture. Mittweida was first mentioned in 1209 and designated as oppidum (city) in 1286 . In 1350 the now independent village of Altmittweida south of Mittweida is mentioned as an antiqua Miteweide . In the Middle Ages , the city was surrounded by a city wall with four city gates. Next to the church there was a noble residence, which was located at the location of today's museum "Old Rectory Houses". This was owned by the von Haugwitz family in the 14th century . After 1360 a council constitution was formed. This means that the city was ruled by a council headed by a mayor. In 1398 Mittweida acquired lower jurisdiction (inheritance courts). The acquisition of the upper jurisdiction took place in 1423.
Around 1550 Mittweida in the Rochlitz office was one of the medium-sized cities in Saxony. Cloth making and linen weaving were the most important sources of income as early as the Middle Ages . With the establishment of a spinning mill in 1816, Mittweida began to rise to one of the most important textile industry cities in Saxony. With the opening of the Mittweida train station on the Riesa – Chemnitz line , the connection to the rail network took place on September 1, 1852. Between 1906 and 1997, the Mittweida – Drei Werden / Ringethal industrial line branched off from here.
With regard to political administration, Mittweida belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Rochlitz until 1836 . From 1836 Mittweida and the surrounding towns were under the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office . In 1856 Mittweida became the seat of the Mittweida court office , the district of which was assigned to the Rochlitz district administration in 1875 . On May 7, 1867, the private educational institution was founded as Technikum Mittweida , from which today's Mittweida University emerged . The company, founded in 1895 and renamed Mittweidaer Metallwarenfabrik in 1902, developed into the leading manufacturer of medals, orders and decorations in Germany by the end of the Second World War . After the war, the company was incorporated into the state- owned company VEB Wälzlagerkäfigwerk Mittweida . In 1924 Mittweida became an independent city , one of the smallest in Germany. In 1929/1930 the Kriebstein dam was built north of the city. As early as the second half of the 19th century, tourism began in the Zschopau valley with the development of “Mittweidaer Schweiz”.
During the Second World War, around 500 female concentration camp prisoners in a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp performed forced labor from October 9, 1944 to mid-April 1945 in a company owned by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin and were registered under prisoner numbers 55240 to 55739. At least two of them, Maria Lanella and Wlaska Fedasiuk, died in the inhumane camp conditions. On May 7, 1945, the allied forces of the US Army and the Red Army met in Mittweida , which is reminiscent of a plaque on the northern abutment of the former Hainichener Strasse railway overpass.
In 1946 the town of Mittweida was incorporated into the Rochlitz district . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, Mittweida was assigned to the Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued in 1990 as the Saxon district of Hainichen .
Through the merger of the districts of Hainichen and Rochlitz , the district of Mittweida was created in 1994 , which means that Mittweida was the district town until it was incorporated into the district of Central Saxony in 2008. With the loss of the district seat Mittweida was awarded the title Large District Town in 2008 . The prohibition of the right-wing extremist free comradeship Sturm 34 active in Mittweida and the trial against some of its members caused national media coverage in 2007 and 2008. The group was founded in Mittweida in 2006 and had carried out several brutal attacks in the region. In 2009 Mittweida hosted Saxony's largest folk festival, the 18th Saxon Day . Mittweida was awarded the title of University City in September 2015.
Memorials
- Peace fountain on the market square in memory of the First World War
- Memorial in the “Schwanenteich” park for the victims of war and tyranny
- Memorial stone on Feldstrasse commemorating the subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp
Incorporation and administrative history
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Falcon Grove | January 1, 1952 | Incorporation to Ringethal |
| Frankenau | January 1, 1996 | |
| Kockish | August 1, 1923 | The Weißthal factory settlement, founded in 1875, has belonged to Kockisch ever since |
| Lauenhain | January 1, 1994 | Merger with Tanneberg to Lauenhain-Tanneberg |
| Lauenhain-Tanneberg | January 1, 1999 | |
| Neudörfchen | August 1, 1911 | |
| New care, manor district | October 1, 1936 | Incorporation to Zschöppichen |
| Niederthalheim | October 1, 1926 | Merger with Oberthalheim to Thalheim |
| Oberthalheim | October 1, 1926 | Merger with Niederthalheim to Thalheim |
| Ringethal | January 1, 1994 | |
| Rößgen | November 1, 1900 | |
| Tanneberg | January 1, 1994 | Merger with Lauenhain to Lauenhain-Tanneberg |
| Thalheim | 1st January 1974 | Incorporation to Frankenau |
| Zschöppichen | July 1, 1973 |
The current districts of the city of Mittweida belonged to different lords for a long time. This office affiliation is shown in the following table.
| place | Affiliation before 1590 | Affiliation between 1590 and 1830 | Affiliation from 1830 to 1856 |
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| Tanneberg | Office Rochlitz | Office Rochlitz | Office Rochlitz |
| City of Mittweida | Office Rochlitz | Office Rochlitz | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Neudörfchen | District Office Freiberg | Rochlitz Office (from 1606) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Zschöppichen with the Neusorge manor | Neusorge manor (to the Rochlitz office) | Manor Neusorge (from 1610 to the office of Augustusburg ) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Frankenau, Ober-Thalheim | Neusorge manor (to the Rochlitz office) | Manor Neusorge (from 1610 to the office of Augustusburg) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Nieder-Thalheim | Office Rochlitz | Office Rochlitz | Office Rochlitz |
| Rößgen, Kockisch | Office Rochlitz | Hereditary office Meißen (from 1764) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Lauenhain | Amt Nossen (exclave) | Amt Nossen (exclave) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
| Ringethal, Falkenhain | Lordship of Ringethal (to Freiberg district office, exclave) | Lordship of Ringethal (to Freiberg district office, exclave) | Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg |
After the offices were dissolved, the places came under the administration of the Mittweida judicial office. In 1875 the places were subordinated to the administration of the Rochlitz administration. From 1952, all of today's Mittweidaer districts belonged to the Hainichen district , with the exception of Thalheim (formed from Ober- and Niederthalheim in 1926) and Frankenau, which belonged to the Rochlitz district . In 1994, the new district of Mittweida with the district town of Mittweida was formed from the district of Hainichen and the district of Rochlitz . Since 2008, the city of Mittweida and its districts have been part of the newly formed Central Saxony district .
Population development
Development of the population (from 1960 December 31 , in brackets core city without incorporations) :
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In addition, more than 6,600 students are enrolled at the University of Applied Sciences, but only some of them are registered as residents.
politics
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mayor
The directly elected mayor is the chairman of the city council, head of administration and represents the city externally. The mayor is a full-time civil servant. His term of office is seven years. Since 2008 he has been named Lord Mayor. The last election of the mayor took place on June 7, 2015.
Overview of the mayors since 1833:
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Alderman
The full-time alderman is the first deputy of the mayor and represents the mayor in his area of responsibility. The division encompasses school / cultural / sports and social affairs, business matters and general administrative matters. The alderman is elected by the city council. Overview of the councilors since 2001:
- 2001–2015 Ralf Schreiber
- since 2015 Holger Müller
Deputy Mayor
In addition to the alderman, the city council appoints a deputy mayor. The honorary deputy is only active in cases where the mayor is prevented and the alderman is prevented. Overview of the Deputy Mayors since 2001:
- 2001–2019 Jürgen Kitzing
- since 2019 Siegfried Schnee
City council
The city council of Mittweida as the main body of the city according to the South German council constitution consists of 22 city councilors, who were newly elected in the last local election on May 26, 2019, and the mayor as chairman. The following table shows the 2019 election results and the distribution of seats according to previous elections.
| Political party | Seats 1994 |
Seats 1999 |
Seats 2004 |
Seats 2009 |
Seats 2014 |
Seats 2019 |
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Distribution of seats | |
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| CDU | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 40.6% | ||
| AfD | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 22.7% | ||
| THE LEFT | 4th | 5 | 7th | 5 | 6th | 4th | 17.5% | ||
| FDP | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6.5% | ||
| SPD | 4th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6.2% | ||
| GREEN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.5% | ||
| Turnout 2019: 60.8% | |||||||||
At least two members are required to form a parliamentary group in the city council.
Overview of the parliamentary groups in the city council from 2019 to 2024:
CDU: 10 members, parliamentary group leader Katrin Schütte
AfD: 5 members, parliamentary group leader Anke Seidel
DIE LINKE: 4 members, parliamentary group leader Torsten Bachmann
coat of arms
Blazon : “In gold, a black lion with a red tongue and armor.” The heraldic animal, first detectable in 1423, goes back to the Margraves of Meißen .
Town twinning
Mittweida maintains partnerships with Bornheim (North Rhine-Westphalia), Viersen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Česká Lípa (Czech Republic) and Gabrowo (Bulgaria).
There are also friendly contacts to the following places: Thalheim communities ( T (h) alheimer Treffen ), Slawutytsch (Ukraine), Weiz (Austria), Peterborough (England), Lambersart (France), Bornem (Belgium), Bardejov (Slovakia), Molde (Norway), Calau (Germany).
Attractions
Museums
The local history museum "Alte Pfarrhäuser" is located on the Kirchberg. Part of the museum is the "Johannes Schilling House", which shows sculptures, sketches and inventions by the sculptor and creator of the Niederwald monument , Johannes Schilling . In the local history museum there is also the Loest exhibition, which shows personal belongings of the Mittweida-born writer Erich Loest .
Since 1992, the Space Museum Mittweida of Tasillo Roman .
A total of 20 stumbling blocks have been laid in the city to commemorate the victims of National Socialism.
Buildings
On the market square there is a reconstructed Saxon post distance column with a four-fold double coat of arms, as it only occurs in Leisnig and Zwickau , and the market fountain with an Art Nouveau angel of peace.
The Evangelical Lutheran town church of our dear women on the Kirchberg dates back to the 15th century. Her tower is 60.25 m high. The old school now serves as a parish hall. The Pestalozzi School is another neighbor of the town church; the year 1876 can be read on a stone.
The smallest Silbermann organ in Saxony is located in the approx. 800 year old village church of Ringethal . The rectory is used as a leisure home. The castle was built in 1743/44 and was last used as a school until 1996. The robbery ringethal castle is an artificial castle ruin from 1804, which was built on a rock spur above the Zschopau, in place of a former medieval castle. The Zschopau Bridge near Ringethal is a prestressed concrete bridge built in 1999. On it stands the porphyry sculpture of the manor owner, who had a stone arch bridge built on this spot in 1863. Next to the Ringethal mill there is a hydropower plant (two turbines with a combined output of 370 kW).
From the Mittweida pumped storage plant near Neudörfchen , a circular hiking trail leads through the Bürgerwald to the reservoir , the former upper reservoir of the power plant.
The former cotton mill on the other side of Zschopau is a reminder of the city's industrial past. Down the river you come to the suspension bridge that connects the district of Kockisch with the former Liebenhainer mill.
In the neighboring village of Zschöppichen there is Neusorge Castle from the 18th century. Elsa Brändström , the angel of Siberia , ran a children's home in the castle from 1924 to 1931 for children of former German prisoners of war.
Parks / forest areas
- Swan pond, technical center, Goethehain and city park in Mittweida
- Tree and rock park in Ringethal
- Bürgerwald near Neudörfchen, Schweizerwald
gallery
Old school
Pestalozzi School
Church in Ringethal
Power plant near Neudörfchen
Cotton mill
Suspension bridge and Liebenhainer mill
Church in Tanneberg
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The main Riesa-Chemnitz line runs through Mittweida . The branch line to Drei Werden / Ringethal has been closed. The regional trains of the Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn stop every hour at Mittweida station and go through to Chemnitz main station without stopping. In addition, the Chemnitz City Railway stops every hour in Mittweida, which serves all stops on the way to Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof . As part of the Chemnitz model , the trams of the City-Bahn Chemnitz should run through to downtown Chemnitz.
The urban bus transport is carried out by REGIOBUS Mittelachsen GmbH .
Mittweida is nine to eleven kilometers from the federal highway 4 . Junction points are Hainichen, Chemnitz Ost or Frankenberg.
Established businesses
- Jeld-Wen - door and window production
- Kreissparkasse Central Saxony
- REGIOBUS Mittelachsen GmbH
- Tenowo, a subsidiary of the Hoftex Group
- Volksbank Mittweida eG
media
- Free press , local edition Mittweida
- 99drei Radio Mittweida (produced by HS Mittweida )
- medienMITTWEIDA (produced by HS Mittweida )
- Central Saxony TV (formerly Stadtfernsehen Mittweida)
- Mittweidaer Blick
Regular events
- Medienforum Mittweida
- Mittweida campus festival
- beta Mittweida
Healthcare
Since 1996 the Mittweida hospital has been part of the Mittweida Krankenhaus gGmbH district , a standard care hospital with 180 beds. The central Saxony district is the sole owner of the company . Since 2010 the district Mittweida Krankenhaus gGmbH has been the teaching hospital of the Technical University of Dresden . The hospital in Mittweida together with the Chemnitz Clinic form the certified Breast Center Chemnitz. The clinic for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy for children and adolescents operates a day clinic with ten places in Riesa .
In Mittweida there are two medical care centers , a neurological-psychiatric care center with resident doctors as providers and a hospital MVZ.
education
- Hochschule Mittweida - University of Applied Sciences
- Vocational school center Mittweida
- Mittweida municipal high school
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte School (secondary school)
- Pestalozzi School (primary school)
- Bernhard Schmidt School (primary school)
- Association for the promotion of vocational training at the vocational schools Mittweida e. V.
- Vocational school and vocational special school (state-recognized substitute school )
Personalities
literature
- Without author: City of Mittweida - information brochure with a multi-colored city map. NovoPrint-Verlag, Fellbach 1996.
- without author: Mittweida - district and university town. Verlag Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-874-7 .
- FI Czerwenka: Local customer of Mittweida and the surrounding area . Mittweida 1880 ( online ).
- Benny Dressel, Heiko Weber: Mittweida. Time leaps series, Verlag Sutton, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-846-8 .
- CA Funk: On the history of the city of Mittweida and its surroundings. Mittweida 1898.
- Christian Hermann: Mittweidisches Denckmahl That is / Description of the city Mittweida In Meissen based on the frame and origin. Chemnitz 1698 ( digitized version ).
- Frank Schleußing (Ed.): Mittweida - A look back : 1890–1930. Verlag Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-552-3 .
- City administration Mittweida (ed.): On the history of the city of Mittweida. Mittweida 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-21-8 .
- Richard Steche : Mittweida. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 14th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 22.
- A tradition from the Mittweida City Court for the period 1515–1853 on court and local administration, criminal, civil and voluntary jurisdiction, church, school and feudal matters as well as court records is in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives, inventory 20613 City of Mittweida (City Court ).
Web links
- Atlas Central Saxony
- Mittweida in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Link catalog on Mittweida at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Announcement of the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior on the awarding of the designation "University City" to the city of Mittweida from 23 September 2015 ( SächsABl. P. 1428 )
- ↑ Werner Pälchen and Harald Walter (eds.): Geology of Saxony. Geological structure and history of development. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele and Obermüller), Stuttgart 2008. pp. 274–275
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 58 f.
- ↑ The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office in the 19th century in the “Handbuch der Geographie”, Mittweida on p. 58f
- ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
- ^ Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial , accessed on July 6, 2016.
- ↑ cf. Pascal Cziborra: Women in the concentration camp. Possibilities and limits of historical research using the example of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and its satellite camps , Lorbeer Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, p. 93ff.
- ↑ a b c municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Directories of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the breakdown of the independent manor districts and state forest districts, 1952, publisher: Ministry of the Interior of Saxony
- ↑ a b c d e State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ a b c d e f Das Sachsenbuch, Kommunal-Verlag Sachsen KG, Dresden, 1943
- ↑ History of Weißthal on the homepage of the city of Mittweida
- ↑ Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony
- ^ Census results of October 29, 1946
- ^ Census results of August 31, 1950
- ↑ State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, Mittweida 2019 election results , accessed on June 24, 2019
- ↑ Town twinning of the German-Ukrainian Forum eV Accessed on April 3, 2020
- ↑ Cooperation between Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved April 3, 2020
- ↑ Raumfahrt Museum Mittweida
- ↑ Space Museum , on mittweida.de, accessed on December 15, 2019
- ↑ Ringethal. Retrieved December 15, 2019 . , on silbermann.org
- ↑ Description of the hiking trail (PDF; 139 kB)
- ↑ Homepage of the Mittweida Hospital gGmbH district
- ↑ Certified Breast Centers
- ↑ Riesa Day Clinic of the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents. Retrieved December 15, 2019 . , on lmkgmbh.de
- ↑ MVZ homepage
- ^ Association for the promotion of vocational training at the Mittweida vocational schools. V.
- ↑ 20613 City of Mittweida (City Court). In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved March 27, 2020 . (Info text under "Introduction")
Falkenhain | Frankenau | Kockish | Lauenhain | Mittweida | Neudörfchen | Ringethal | Rößgen | Tanneberg | Thalheim | Weißthal | Zschöppichen