Grumbach (Jöhstadt)

Grumbach City of Jöhstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  N , 13 ° 6 ′ 13 ″  E
Height :	770  (670-795)  m
Residents :	742  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1996
Postal code :	09477
Area code :	037343
Location of Grumbach in Saxony

Grumbach is a district of the Saxon town of Jöhstadt in the Erzgebirge district . The place, to which the Neugrumbach settlement about one kilometer to the northwest belongs, was incorporated on July 1, 1996.

geography

location

Grumbach is located about 4 kilometers north of Jöhstadt in the Ore Mountains . The location extends for about 1.5 kilometers in a west-east direction along the Grumbach, which flows east to the Preßnitz . The Rauschenbach and the Sandbach flowing through Mildenau , which also flow into the Preßnitz, arise in the vicinity . The Neugrumbach settlement is about 1 kilometer northwest of the town center.

Neighboring places

	Mildenau	Arnsfeld
Königswalde		Steinbach
	Jöhstadt	Lard pit

history

The Church of St. Margarethen seen from the south

Karl Friedrich Klinger Primary School Grumbach

Neugrumbach in winter (2017)

Grumbach, youth hostel

Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln (2017)

The Waldhufendorf is first mentioned as Grunbach in a document dated April 8, 1386 . It is assumed, however, that the settlement of the place was connected with the development of the land in the Ore Mountains from the middle of the 12th to the middle of the 13th century. There is evidence that there were seven mills in the village, three of the buildings have been preserved to this day. A youth hostel was built from a mill built between Grumbach and Jöhstadt in 1821.

In Grumbach there has been evidence of mining for various silver and iron ores, as well as arsenic, pebbles and cobalt since the 15th century. However, mining was often stopped again due to a lack of income. Usually only one to four people were employed in mining. The so-called Zechenhaus (Mühlenweg 12) is a witness of the old mining. The most important colliery in the east of the town was called the Roman Empire . It was in operation between 1523 and 1862. In the valley of the Preßnitz the Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln was excavated in 1748 , which has been operated as a visitor mine since 1997 . In 1792 he received his own stamping mill for ore processing . Between 1749 and 1841 the mine had an ore yield of around 140 kilograms of silver and a large amount of cobalt.

A typical trade for Grumbach was the manufacture of rakes and ladders. At the beginning of the 20th century, 20,000 rakes were manufactured annually in Grumbach, which were sold by dealers across the country. The last operation in this business was closed in 1989.

Grumbach and its lard pit were parish off to Arnsfeld until 1843. The church of St. Margarethen was built in its current form in 1680 and is probably a fortified church in its origin . It is considered to be the oldest stone building in town. In 1843 Grumbach became its own parish with a lard pit. From 1940 to 2001 the church was again under the control of the Jöhstadt parish. Since 2001 there has been a sister church relationship with the St. Salvator parish of Jöhstadt.

On the corridor of the former community forest around one kilometer northwest of Grumbach in the direction of Mildenau, the "Neugrumbach" settlement was built in 1825. The dialect name “Gemaawald” is still in use today for Neugrumbach.

Until 1856, Grumbach was an official village in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon office of Wolkenstein . From 1856 the place belonged to the Jöhstadt judicial office and from 1875 to the district administration Annaberg . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Grumbach came to the Annaberg district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Annaberg from 1990 and became part of the Erzgebirge district in 2008. On July 1, 1996, Grumbach was incorporated into Jöhstadt.

coat of arms

The upper part of Grumbach's coat of arms shows a miner dressed in black on a white background. In the lower part there is a green, a white and again a green wave bar, of which the top one has a hammer and mallet. While the upper part refers to the mining history of the place, the lower part refers to the name "place on the green brook".

Development of the population

year population 1551/53 28 possessed men , 13 residents , 21 hooves 1764 40 possessed men, 35 cottagers , 15¼ hooves 1834 1042 1871 1336

year population 1890 1241 1910 1131 1925 1120 1939 1195

year population 1946 1256 1950 1404 1964 1147 1990 957

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Heyn (1789–1869), testator in Grumbach and Großpöhla , member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
• Hermann Uhlig (1871–1942), educator and local researcher

Personalities who have worked on site

• Karl Friedrich Klinger, cantor. From 1849 to 1871 he ran a private seminar (as a branch of the Annaberg teachers' seminar). Many of his 70 or so pupils gained notoriety as teachers throughout Saxony and beyond. His grave is in the local cemetery. The Grumbach elementary school bears his name in his honor.
• Max Wenzel , teacher and dialect poet, worked as a teacher in Grumbach in 1903/04.
• Ehrenfried Ullmann , Lieutenant General of the NVA Air Force, lived in Grumbach from 1932 to 1953.

traffic

The district road 7130 Mildenau – Jöhstadt runs through Grumbach . Via the district road 7129 there is a connection to the state road 265 Steinbach– Cunersdorf in the east and west . The narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt (today partly a museum railway) runs east of the village in the Preßnitz valley . It has had a stop at the Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln since 1998 .

literature

• Richard Steche : Grumbach. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 4th booklet: Official Authority Annaberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 79.
• Bernd Schreiter : Grumbach in the Erzgebirge - A small text on the 625th anniversary of the first mention of the place 1386-2011. VBS Arnsfeld, 2011
• Bernd Schreiter: The home book of the Preßnitztal. Verlag Bernd Schreiter, 2015

Web links

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

• Grumbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• History of Grumbach and Neugrumbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Jöhstadt, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ cf. History of Grumbach and Neugrumbach ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 7, 2010 
3. ↑ [Bernd Schreiter: Das Heimatbuch vom Preßnitztal. Verlag Bernd Schreiter, 2015, p. 17]
4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 68 f.
5. ^ The official authority Annaberg in the municipal register 1900
6. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1996 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (PDF; 21 kB), accessed on September 12, 2012.
7. ↑ Bernd Schreiter: The home book of the Preßnitztal. Verlag Bernd Schreiter, 2015, p. 90
8. ↑ The Grumbach coat of arms on the Jöhstadt city website ( memento of the original from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ cf. Grumbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony