Niedersteinbach (Penig)

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Niedersteinbach
City of Penig
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 35 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 231 m
Residents : 381  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Langensteinbach
Postal code : 09322
Area code : 037381
Niedersteinbach (Saxony)
Niedersteinbach

Location of Niedersteinbach in Saxony

Niedersteinbach is a district of the city of Penig on the border between Saxony and Thuringia . It is located in the district of central Saxony .

Niedersteinbach used to belong to the municipality of Langensteinbach , which was incorporated into the city of Penig on January 1, 2003. The village of Obersteinbach , located south of the district, belongs to Niedersteinbach .

geography

Geographical location

Niedersteinbach consists of the three districts Niedersteinbach, Obersteinbach and Steinbach. The eponymous Steinbach flows through Ober- and Niedersteinbach, which flows into the Leuba in Langenleuba-Oberhain , which in turn flows into the Schömbach dam in Langenleuba-Niederhain , which is already in Thuringia . Niedersteinbach is located in the west of Saxony on the border with the Thuringian Altenburger Land . In the south, Niedersteinbach borders the Saxon district of central Saxony . The place is northwest of Penig and approx. 15 km east of Altenburg . The Obersteinbach part of the municipality is located south of Niedersteinbach.

The A 72 , the former B 95 (since 2015 S 51 or S 57 ) and the B 175 pass only a few hundred meters away.

Neighboring places

Langenleuba-Oberhain
Beiern
(Thuringia) 		Neighboring communities Wernsdorf
Flemmingen
(Thuringia) 		Dürrengerbisdorf Markersdorf

history

Niedersteinbach Church

First mentioned until the Leipzig division in 1485

Bridge over the Steinbach with a porphyry boundary stone

At the same time as the neighboring village of Wernsdorf to the east, the villages of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach emerged in the valley of the eponymous Steinbach around 1170. The places were mentioned for the first time after 1300. In the document the diocese of Merseburg describes the villages as border towns opposite the diocese of Naumburg . On March 10, 1347, the village of Steynbach was mentioned by Otto, the burgrave of Leisnig and Lord of Rochsburg . The lords of Leisnig founded the rule Penig in 1434 , to which Oberstein and Niedersteinbach belonged from then on. In the Treaty of Leipzig of the Wettin possessions of Steinbach was born on June 17, 1485 as a border river between the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony in the west and the Albertine set Duchy of Saxony in the east. It later also formed the border between Saxony and Thuringia. From then on Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach were separated into a Saxon and an Altenburg or Thuringian part.

Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach (Altenburg and Thuringia share)

The shares of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach , which became part of the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony in 1485, have since belonged to the Altenburg Office , which finally became Ernestine with the Naumburg Treaty in 1554 and subsequently belonged to various Ernestine Duchies : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826).

When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the Altenburg parts of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach became part of the re-established Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. Despite the fact that the Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach districts belonged to different countries, the residents of both places lived in Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach until the middle of the 19th century. In 1848 the governments of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg and the Kingdom of Saxony considered separating the communities. The contract signed on October 25, 1854 came into force on January 1, 1855. The Altenburg parts of the state of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach were combined to form the politically independent municipality "Steinbach", which in 1880 had around 150 inhabitants. After the administrative reform in the Duchy of Altenburg in 1876, the town of Steinbach belonged legally to the Altenburg District Court and, in terms of administration, to the Eastern District (until 1900) and the Altenburg District Office (from 1900).

From 1918 the municipality of Steinbach belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the state of Thuringia in 1920. Since 1922 the place belonged to the Thuringian district of Altenburg . In 1928 there was an exchange of territory and a border adjustment between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia. In the process, areas of Niedersteinbacher's share of the Thuringian municipality of Steinbach were given to Saxony and merged with the Saxon municipality of Niedersteinbach in the Rochlitz district administration. During the second district reform in the GDR on July 25, 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were reorganized. The Steinbach community was assigned to the reduced Altenburg district, which in turn now belonged to the Leipzig district . On December 4, 1952, Steinbach moved within the Leipzig district to the Geithain district , which means that for the first time since 1485, all of Steinbach's districts belonged to the same administrative unit again.

Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach (Saxon part)

The shares of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach, which came to the Albertine Duchy of Saxony in 1485, continued to belong to the lords of Leisnig as official villages. The office of Penig came in 1538 to the Wettin sovereign and in 1543 in exchange to the lords of Schönburg , who held the office of Penig as Schönburg sovereignty under Albertine-Saxon sovereignty until the 19th century. A part of the Saxon part of Niedersteinbach was under the jurisdiction of the manor Niederfrohna and thus belonged as an exclave to the office of Chemnitz . Since the Wittenberg surrender in 1547, the Saxon parts of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach have been under the sovereignty of the Albertine Electorate of Saxony , which was elevated to the Kingdom of Saxony in 1806 . In 1835 they came to the royal Saxon office of Rochlitz . Due to the separation of the Saxon and Thuringian parts of the two villages on the Steinbach, which was considered between the Kingdom of Saxony and the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in 1848 and which was carried out on January 1, 1855, the towns of Obersteinbach (1871: 12 inhabitants) and Niedersteinbach (1871: 206 inhabitants). From 1856 they were subordinate to the Penig court office and from 1875 to the Rochlitz administration , which was continued in the newly formed Free State of Saxony in 1918. During the border adjustment between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia in 1928, areas of Niedersteinbacher's share of the Thuringian community of Steinbach were given to Saxony and combined with the Saxon community of Niedersteinbach in the Rochlitz district administration.

On July 1, 1950, on the Saxon side, the previously independent municipalities of Niedersteinbach, Obersteinbach and Wernsdorf were merged to form the new municipality of Wernsdorf with the districts of Niedersteinbach and Obersteinbach (900 inhabitants). With the reorganization of the states of the GDR into 14 districts and the second district reform , the municipality of Wernsdorf with its districts of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach was assigned to the newly formed Geithain district in the Leipzig district on July 25, 1952 .

History since the unification of all districts in 1953

In January 1953, the municipal councils of Wernsdorf and the municipality of Steinbach, which changed from the Altenburg district to the Geithain district on December 4, 1952, decided to merge under the name "Wernsdorf". Since the majority of the districts of Wernsdorf had the ending "-steinbach", the name of the community of Wernsdorf, which now had 1099 inhabitants, was changed to "Niedersteinbach" on January 1, 1956. On January 1, 1981, new street names were introduced in the districts of Niedersteinbach, Obersteinbach and Steinbach.

On January 1, 1994, the municipality of Niedersteinbach merged with the municipality of Langenleuba-Oberhain to form the municipality of Langensteinbach . With this, when the district of Geithain was dissolved on August 1, 1994, the place did not become part of the district of Leipziger Land in the administrative district of Leipzig , like most places , but to the district of Mittweida in the Saxon administrative district of Chemnitz . Since January 1st, 2003 Niedersteinbach has been part of the city of Penig.

School history

Former school; in the background the church

A school was built in the 17th century , which was replaced by a new school building in 1843. An extension was added in 1903. The school became the Wernsdorf Primary School in 1952 . It was then rebuilt and expanded several times. It later served as a municipal kindergarten and home. The kindergarten was closed at the end of August 2014. Work on the demolition of the listed building will begin at the end of May 2020. The vacated area is to be greened.

Attractions

Boulder

Boulder "Old Swede"

In the sand pits that are there in the vicinity of the place, was found in the 1990s, a 32-ton boulder of granite . Because of its origins , it was given the name " Old Swede ".

Railway viaduct

Railway viaduct
Steinbach train station
Bridge over the S 57 at the Niedersteinbach exit

The Altenburg – Langenleuba-Oberhain railway , which was built in 1900 and put into operation in 1901 , led over a 7-arch, 107-meter-long viaduct until it was closed in May 1995, which can still be admired today. The place had a train station on this route.

church

The church in Niedersteinbach is a choir tower church of late Romanesque origin and was built around 1200–1250. Around 1754 the church was redesigned outside and inside. In the four corners there are representations of stations from the life of Jesus (birth, circumcision, baptism and communion). On the ceiling in the nave there are important scenes from the New and Old Testaments, and on the pulpit the four evangelists as well as Jesus, John the Baptist and Paul are depicted. The organ dates from 1851 and was built by the Schmeisser company in Rochlitz . The belfry was renewed in 2003, and the mechanical church clock from 1885 was also restored and strikes half and full hours.

Personalities

  • Karl von Hase (1800–1890), real privy councilor of Saxony, born in Niedersteinbach

literature

  • Richard Steche : Niedersteinbach. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 14th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Rochlitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population by city and district. (PDF) City of Penig, accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  3. ^ History of the city of Penig
  4. ^ The Altenburg Office in an overview of the Thuringian states, p. 85
  5. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
  6. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
  7. ↑ Map with the exchange areas
  8. ↑ The Rittgergut Niederfrohna in the book "Geography for all levels," p 593F.
  9. ↑ Mention of Niedersteinbach near Niederfrohna on p. 49
  10. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
  11. ^ Obersteinbach on gov.genealogy.net
  12. ^ Wernsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  13. ↑ Uwe Lemke: Old buildings are threatened with the wrecking ball . In: Free Press . May 12, 2020, p. 10 .

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Web links

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