Mohorn

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Mohorn
City of Wilsdruff
Former municipality coat of arms of Mohorn
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 6 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 316 m
Residents : 1300
Incorporation : August 1, 2000
Postal code : 01723
Area code : 035209
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Location of Mohorn in Wilsdruff

Mohorn is a district of the small Saxon town of Wilsdruff with around 1300 inhabitants on the northern edge of the Tharandt forest .

geography

Mohorn was laid out along a stream whose name has not been passed down. To the left and right of the approximately 500 m wide valley, the terrain rises partly steeply and there are slopes with inclines of up to 20% (strongest road incline 15%). A paved road was built along the creek at an early stage and is now part of federal highway 173 . Another important road connection is the state road S 195 to Siebenlehn . The slopes and the adjoining plateaus were only gradually settled with homesteads, which is why the development continues to decrease with increasing distance from the main road.

history

historical postcard from Mohorn

Development of the place

Mohorn was mentioned early on in connection with the diocese of Meißen , when Margrave Heinrich the Illustrious gave it to the cathedral monastery in Meißen under the name of Ohorne in 1267 . The Sorbian name Ohorne means that lying around the mountain .

Since 1578 the educational institution of the pastor and book author Michael Bapst existed in Mohorn .

Mohorn station in 1905

Small silver mining was carried out until the 19th century . The inhabitants used the surrounding plains for grain and livestock farming early on, which still make up a large part of village life to this day. After clay was found underground, a brickworks was built on the western edge of Mohorn in the 19th century, of which only the pond used for fishing remains at the end of the 20th century. The local economy received a strong boost from the construction of the Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway on the Wilsdruffer network on January 31, 1899. For many years, the railway carried goods and people every day until the last passenger train ran on May 27, 1972. In the following year, freight traffic was also stopped.

At the end of the Second World War , a death march of female concentration camp prisoners passed through the village , two of whom were Jewish women who were able to escape and hide in a barn. Betrayed by a Hitler Youth , they were brutally murdered. A memorial stone on the B 173 between Mohorn and Herzogswalde at the confluence of the Triebischtalstraße commemorates this crime.

The social change after 1945 also changed the economic and social conditions in the village. After 1960 the LPGs developed . This gave rise to large-scale farming and large-scale animal production facilities. Most of the fields have been cultivated by Agrar GmbH since the 1990s. She also runs the dairy farm with around 650 cattle.

40 years of socialism severely impaired private industry. After the political change in 1989, many tradespeople and traders dared to make a fresh start and thus revive the townscape. At the exit of the village in the direction of Freiberg , an industrial area was created that did not lead to a boom as planned due to the general decline in the number of traders in East Germany, but a company that was already located in the village relocated here.

Around the turn of the millennium, new residential areas were developed, such as Zum Archangel Michael , which is reminiscent of the Zum Archangel Michael silver mine a few kilometers away . A new row house settlement at the old station has also been built. The Kastanienhöhe settlement area was built on the northern slopes of Mohorn in the 2010s .

Administrative history

The community Mohorn initially consisted of the two districts Mohorn and Grund and belonged to the district of Dresden until the GDR district reform in July 1952 . Then Mohorn briefly became part of the reduced Freiberg district (Karl-Marx-Stadt district), but a few months later on December 4, 1952, it was reclassified to the Freital district . After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of the Free State of Saxony in 1994, Mohorn became part of the new Weißeritz district.

Herzogswalde was reclassified from the Meißen district to the Dresden district on July 1, 1950 , was in the Freital district from 1952 and was incorporated into Mohorn on January 1, 1974.

On August 1, 2000, Mohorn and its districts were incorporated into Wilsdruff.

education

For the education of 6 to 11 year olds, a new school building was built on the Schulberg in 1970, which still houses a primary school today. A day care center is located opposite the school.

Culture and sights

church

Due to the common administration of the localities of Mohorn and Grund for centuries, most of the facilities for recreation and leisure are located in Grund, which is closer to the Tharandt Forest (Klein-Tirol) . In addition to the forest pool, there is a bowling alley, two sports fields and several restaurants. The Mohorner Porphyry Fan is of particular interest to friends of geology . The place has several restaurants.

The landmarks of Mohorn include, on the one hand, the town hall built in 1926 in rural Art Nouveau style , which has been the seat of the Citizens' Office for Mohorn, Grund and Herzogswalde and the local council since the district reform, and on the other hand the church and rectory built in 1496.

Engine shed

A special attraction is the ultra- light airfield on the old narrow-gauge railway line in the direction of Nossen, which can be seen from afar through its hangar .

The former locomotive shed of the Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway, which was the domicile of the Mohorn Model Railway Club until 2008, was renovated in 2011/2012 from a historical preservation point of view and has since been used as the town's cultural and club center. Access was originally implemented using a 970-530 narrow-gauge car set up in front of a shed door .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Mohorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000