Niederwürschnitz

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 12 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Management Community :	Lugau
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.04 km 2
Residents:	2579 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	427 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09399
Area code :	037296
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 430
Address of the municipal administration:	Stollberger Strasse 2 09399 Niederwürschnitz
Website :	www.niederwuerschnitz.info
Mayor :	Matthias Anton
Location of the municipality of Niederwürschnitz in the Ore Mountains District

Niederwürschnitz is a municipality in the Erzgebirge district in Saxony . It is part of the Lugau administrative community .

geography

The place is located in the former hard coal district Lugau / Oelsnitz between the cities of Chemnitz and Zwickau on the northern edge of the natural area of ​​the Erzgebirge on the Würschnitz river . Noteworthy is the very good infrastructural development through the A 72 motorway , which is directly adjacent to the Niederwürschnitzer Flur with the exit Stollberg-Nord and the federal highway 180 which crosses the center .

history

The origin of the place goes back to the settlement of the area by immigrants from the west of the German Empire in the 12th century. In 1447 the Waldhufendorf founded here was first mentioned in a document. The name Niederwürschnitz is derived from the Slavic word "Virsnica" (Fischreusenbach), the name of the river flowing through this valley.

Finds in the adjacent Steegenwald suggest that a settlement must have existed here as early as the Bronze Age .

The community owes its current structure to the coal mining that started in the 1840s of the 19th century, which together with the textile industry transformed the agricultural area into a densely populated industrial region. Almost 5,000 people settled here in the flourishing economy. Brick manufacture played a not insignificant role in the past.

Municipal council

After the local elections on May 26, 2019, the 13 seats of the local council were distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Christian Democratic Union: 5 seats
• Free voters: 5 seats
• The left: 2 seats
• Alternative for Germany: 1 seat

administration

Since January 1st, 2000 the community Niederwürschnitz belongs to an administrative community with the city of Lugau .

partnership

A partnership exists with the city of Oberasbach in Middle Franconia (Bavaria).

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Niederwürschnitz
• Location of the largest "smoker" exhibition in the world: in 1998 a total of 8629 of the smoking works of art came together for an exhibition. The world's largest smoker in the world, measuring 3.15 m, was specially created for this exhibition.

More information can be found in the book Rauchzeichen aus dem Erzgebirge , recorded by the former mayor of the municipality, Rolf Höfer.

• The Niederwürschnitzer Christmas Mountain , an oriental, mechanical Christmas mountain that has existed since 1892. It contains u. a. Scenes of the Sermon on the Mount, the Ascension and the Nativity.
• The "Alte Ziegelei" leisure area houses the exhibition workshops of the brickworks and village museum as well as a wide range of leisure activities. see also web link
• Christmas Mountain - see web link
• Evangelical Johanniskirche , red Gothic brick building, 1903/1904 based on plans by Paul Lange . Inside a six-sided wooden baptism from the year the church was built, carved by members of the Niederwürschnitzer Weihnachtsbergverein.

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  Town pyramid Niederwürschnitz

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  Building of the Niederwürschnitz volunteer fire brigade

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  Würschnitz flood in August 2010

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  St. Johannis Niederwürschnitz (2016)

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  Lichtensteiner Strasse (2019)

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  Old Niederwürschnitz brickworks (2019)

Niederwürschnitz stop (2016)

traffic

The Niederwürschnitz stop is on the Stollberg – St. Egidien . In regular passenger rail traffic , only the Chemnitz City Bahn trains run once every hour and direction on weekdays and every two hours on weekends.

The plan is to build another route to the neighboring Stollberg , so that once it is completed (probably at the end of 2021), it will be possible to make transfers every 30 minutes from Oelsnitz and Niederwürschnitz via the “Stollberger Tor” industrial park to downtown Chemnitz.

Personalities

• Gerhard Harig (born July 31, 1902 in Niederwürschnitz; † October 13, 1966 in Leipzig), physicist and philosopher, resistance fighter against National Socialism, emigrant in the Soviet Union, prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp, university professor for natural and social sciences and state secretary for higher education of the GDR
• Paul Meinhold (born May 31, 1909 in Niederwürschnitz; † August 7, 1978), composer and conductor
• Eberhard Görner (born September 7, 1944 in Niederwürschnitz), book and screenwriter
• Uta Windisch (born January 20, 1949 in Niederwürschnitz), Saxon politician (CDU) and member of the Saxon State Parliament until 2014

Web links

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

Wikisource: The works of the Niederwürschnitzer Steinkohlenbau-Verein  - sources and full texts

• Niederwürschnitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Niederwürschnitz community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Result of the mayoral election on June 18, 2017. Niederwürschnitz community, June 19, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Chemnitz model. Stage 5: Expansion of Stollberg - Oelsnitz. Central Saxony Transport Association , accessed on November 28, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Chemnitz model stage 5: Expansion of Stollberg - Oelsnitz variant investigation and preliminary planning. (PDF; 7.2 MB) Citizen information event. Central Saxony transport association , August 24, 2015, accessed on October 23, 2016 .