Mittweida (Markersbach)
Mittweida is a district of the municipality of Raschau-Markersbach in the Ore Mountains in the Saxon Ore Mountains District .
history
The Waldhufendorf Mittweida is first mentioned in 1286 in a fragmentary register of the diocese of Naumburg. It was probably created around 1200 at the same time as the neighboring villages of Markersbach , Schwarzbach and Raschau , which directly adjoin the Mittweida village hallways . Unlike the last-named villages, Mittweida was not given away to the Grünhain monastery in 1240 and never belonged to its property. It was part of the Hartenstein County and as such was pledged to the Schönburgers in 1406 . Since the sale of the Upper Forest part of the county to the Electorate of Saxony in 1559, Mittweida belonged to the Crottendorf Office and later to the Schwarzenberg Office .
The village was of particular importance due to the iron production and processing carried out here. At times, seven ironworks were operated here, including the Obermittweida hammer mill , which was active until 1860 , the Pöckelhammer and a wire mill in the center of the village with the second largest production in Saxony. Furthermore, Mittweida was a center of the nail smithy and on March 29, 1848 was a scene of the machine storm in the nail smiths revolt . Insurgent nail smiths destroyed Gustav Jahn's machine nail factory , which had emerged from the wire factory after they had already stormed the Leinbrock factory in Elterlein . Subsequently, paper and cardboard manufacture and wood grinding established themselves on the existing waterways. The economic decline of the village went hand in hand with the Great Depression in the 1920s.
After lengthy negotiations Mittweida gave up his independence on July 1, 1935 by order of the Schwarzenberg governor Harry von Craushaar and became part of the community of Markersbach.
Population development
The following population figures refer to Mittweida with Obermittweida:
- 1559-35 possessed man
- 1660 - 210 people over 14 years (of which 63 couples are married)
- 1755 - 328 people over 14 years of age (108 couples of married couples)
- 1764 - 27 possessed men, 28 cottagers, 9 hooves
- 1795-758
- 1834-1010
- 1871-1086
- 1890-1324
- 1910-1388
- 1925-1372
Personalities
- Carl Gotthilf Nestler (1789–1864), hammer gentleman from the Ore Mountains and founder of the Nestler & Breitfeld company
- Enoch Pöckel (1578–1627), Hammerherr, council member and council builder in Leipzig
- Rudolph von Schmertzing (1591–1646), electoral Saxon major and war commissioner, owner of the Förstel hammer mill and brief tenant of the Obermittweida hammer mill
Web links
- Mittweida in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 9 ″ N , 12 ° 51 ′ 42 ″ E