Neudörfchen (Mittweida)

Neudörfchen City of Mittweida Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 24 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 24 ″  E
Residents :	626  (1910)
Incorporation :	August 1, 1911
Incorporated into:	Mittweida
Postal code :	09648
Area code :	03727
Location of Neudörfchen in Saxony

Neudörfchen is a district of the large district town of Mittweida in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It was incorporated into the city of Mittweida in 1911.

geography

Mittweida-Neudörfchen, entrance to the village

Neudörfchen (Mittweida), panorama

Neudörfchen is located east of Mittweida in the central Saxon hill country on the east bank of the Zschopau . The river flows in an arc around the town and thus forms a natural border with the town of Mittweida.

Neighboring places

Rößgen	Kockish	Weinsdorf
Mittweida		Seifersbach
	Schönborn becoming three

history

Railway overpass Mittweida, Hainichener Straße, information board on the abutment

The Waldhufendorf Neudörfchen was first mentioned in 1378 as "Nuwendorfchen". The mill of Neudörfchen is proven as early as 1408. Only grain and malt were ground in it. Since 1474 it was owned by the council of Mittweida. In 1552 there was evidence of a grinder and a hammer in the village. Since then, the council of Mittweida has also been the landlord of the place.

Neudörfchen originally belonged to the Freiberg district office , it was only in 1606 that it was documented that it belonged to the Rochlitz office , which remained until the 19th century. In 1832, the administration of the places in the Mittweida area, including Neudörfchen, was assigned to the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg office. The offices were dissolved during the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Saxony in the 19th century . As a result, the place came under the administration of the Mittweida court office in 1856 . In 1875 he was placed under the administration of the Rochlitz administration. On August 1, 1911, it was incorporated into the city of Mittweida. On May 7, 1945, the Allied forces of the US Army and the Red Army met in Neudörfchen , as a plaque on the northern abutment of the former Hainichener Strasse railroad overpass reminds of.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the town of Mittweida and its former districts became part of Hainichen in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Hainichen from 1990 onwards . In 1994 it became the district town of the newly formed Mittweida district . Since 2008, it and its districts have belonged to the newly formed Central Saxony district .

Development of the population

year population 1551 9 possessed men , 14 residents , 3 1/8; Hooves 1764 7 possessed men, 10 cottagers , 2 1/2; Hooves 36 bushels each 1834 182

year population 1871 294 1890 370 1910 626 2020 179

religion

Neudörfchen was originally parish to Seifersbach . At the same time as the political incorporation of the place, the church members were reassigned to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Mittweida in 1911.

Economy and Transport

Former location of the Mittweida industrial train station in Neudörfchen

Neudörfchen has always been connected to the town of Mittweida by a bridge over the Zschopau, which was renewed in 1519 and 1814. In 1895 a stable stone bridge was built. The road from Mittweida to Hainichen leads over the bridge to Autobahn 4 (Hainichen junction).

In 1908/09, at the same time as the Mittweida industrial railway was opened, the Mittweida power station was built. While the power plant is still partially in operation today, the railway line was closed for operation in 1997 and then shut down.

Attractions

Mittweida power station near Neudörfchen

Mittweida power station near Neudörfchen

• Mittweida power station

The Mittweida power station, built in 1908, is based on an unusual idea for electricity supply using the water power of the Zschopau and a combination of steam and water power.

The steam power plant went into operation in 1909 with a steam generator. A steam turbine followed in 1914 and another unit in 1927. Starting in 1919, the system was converted into a run-of-river power plant to use water power. It went online in 1923 and is still in operation today. Since the water and steam base load was insufficient to cover Mittweida’s electricity needs, the Mittweida pumped storage plant was built around 1926 . The storage basin was built around 2,100 meters from the power plant. At a height difference of 119 meters, it was connected to the hydropower plant via a pressure pipe and went into operation in 1928.
The upper 724 m long section of the pipeline had a diameter of 1.25 m and was made of wood. The staves were reinforced by so-called tension rings at a distance of 25 cm. The lower part with a diameter of 1.10 m consists of electrically (!) Welded iron pipes, some of which are still visible today on the surface of the earth. The expansion compensation in the longitudinal direction is remarkable, it was achieved by overlapping, sliding pipe connections .

The reservoir is now out of operation, only the run-of-river power plant was put back into operation in 1991.

In the mid-1990s, the power plant's system was continuously reconstructed. Today it is considered a technical monument of national standing. Training courses and events with a technical and scientific background take place on the site. Part of the building is used by the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences as a test and training center. The power plant on the Zschopau and the former upper basin called the reservoir are connected by a hiking trail.

• Zschopautal area hiking trail and Zschopautal cycling trail through the "Mittweidaer Zschopautal"

Web links

Commons : Neudörfchen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neudörfchen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• History of Neudörfchen on the homepage of the city of Mittweida
• Homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Mittweida

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neudörfchen in the Historical Directory of Saxony .
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 58 f.
3. ↑ The locations of the Frankenberg-Sachsenburg district in the 19th century in the "Handbuch der Geographie"
4. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
5. ^ History of the Mittweida hydropower plant
6. ↑ The Mittweida hydropower plant on the enviaM website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Energieversorgung Südsachsen AG, Chemnitz, Mittweida University of Technology and Economics, Mittweida City Administration (ed.): Mittweida power plant ... at the source of electricity. 1998.
8. ↑ Description of the hiking trail (PDF; 139 kB)