Niederwiesa

Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Central Saxony
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.39 km 2
Residents:	4862 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	297 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09577
Area code :	037206
License plate :	FG, BED, DL, FLÖ, HC, MW, RL
Community key :	14 5 22 420
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Dresdner Strasse 22 ; 09577 Niederwiesa
Website :	www.gemeinde-niederwiesa.de
Mayor :	Raik Schubert (BI Niederwiesa e.V.)
Location of the municipality Niederwiesa in the district of central Saxony

Niederwiesa is a municipality in the district of central Saxony bordering the city of Chemnitz . Since January 1, 1996, it has included the districts of Niederwiesa, Braunsdorf and Lichtenwalde. Around 5,000 people live on 16.36 square kilometers. The restored Lichtenwalde Castle with its extensive baroque garden is well known.

geography

Aerial view of Niederwiesa

The municipality of Niederwiesa is located on the Zschopau , around ten kilometers east of Chemnitz city center.

Neighboring places

Lichtenwalde	Braunsdorf	Frankenberg / Sa. - Altenhain
Chemnitz
Hilbersdorf	Euba	Flea

Community structure

The community is divided into the three districts Niederwiesa, Braunsdorf and Lichtenwalde . The districts of Braunsdorf and Lichtenwalde are also localities within the meaning of §§ 65 to 68 of the Saxon municipal code . For each of these localities there is a local council , which has two members in Braunsdorf and ten members in Lichtenwalde, as well as a local mayor as chairman. The local councils are to be heard on important matters affecting the locality. The final decision is then made by the Niederwiesa municipality council.

history

The place Wiesa was probably founded around the year 1216. At that time, no distinction was made between Oberwiesa and Niederwiesa. In 1346 Wiesa was mentioned as an independent parish in the register of the diocese of Meissen for the first time as knowledge . In 1378 the distinction between Wese superior and Wese inferior appears . At that time the place was in the Gau Rochlitz , as the settlement started from Rochlitz Castle . From 1450 zen der Wysen belonged to the feudal lordship of Lichtenwalde , but the city of Chemnitz ( Kempnitz ) exercised the right of the ban mile . In 1509, the so-called beer wars between Wiesa and Chemnitz led to a dispute over brewing rights and serving . Presumably because of the disputes about the privileges of the city of Chemnitz, it was divided into Oberwiesa and Niederwiesa in 1563. In 1540, a church school was first mentioned in Niederwiesa. B. have to earn their money as a craftsman or shopkeeper.

In Niederwiesa there was a Vorwerk in 1562 that was later called a Lehngut . This was part of the lordship of the manor Lichtenwalde . The place Niederwiesa also belonged temporarily to the Lichtenwalde lordship or, as an official village, directly to the Electoral Saxon Office Lichtenwalde , which was administered from 1696 by the Electoral Saxon Office Frankenberg-Sachsenburg and from 1783 by the Electoral Saxon or later Royal Saxon Office Augustusburg . After the end of the Saxon constitution of offices in 1856, Niederwiesa was under the jurisdiction of the Frankenberg court office and, from 1875, of the Flöha administration . Niederwiesa already owned a church in the Middle Ages, which was replaced by a new building in 1898. Until the 19th century Niederwiesa had a clear village structure that was exclusively geared towards agriculture. Around 1836/40, hard coal was mined in the Struthflügel in Niederwiesa . With the infrastructural connection through the construction of the Niederwiesa train station on the Dresden – Werdau railway line (1866), the opening of the Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway line (1869) and the associated connection to the major cities, local trade developed. After a brewery was built in the neighboring town of Oberwiesa in 1860 (existed until 1890), another was built in Niederwiesa in 1884 on Dresdner Strasse, which is now known as the “Brauhof” restaurant.

On January 1, 1914, the municipalities of Oberwiesa and Niederwiesa merged to form the municipality of Wiesa , which was renamed Niederwiesa on July 20, 1915 according to the municipality's resolution . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the Niederwiesa community became part of the Flöha district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Flöha from 1990 and in 1994 in the Freiberg district, respectively In 2008 in the district of Central Saxony.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1914, Niederwiesa and Oberwiesa merged to form the new community of Wiesa. In 1915 Wiesa was renamed Niederwiesa.

On July 1, 1995 Braunsdorf was incorporated. Lichtenwalde followed on January 1, 1996.

Niederwiesa Church

Population development

(from 1975 reference date: December 31)

year	Residents
1914	3,950
1933	4,507
1939	4,954
1946	5,721

year	Residents
1947	6.316
1964	5,075
1975	4,474
1989	3,676

year	Residents
1995	4,793
1996	4,840
2005	5,270
2006	5,237

year	Residents
2007	5,160
2008	5,139
2009	5,076
2010	5,057

year	Residents
2011	5,047
2012	4,990
2013	4,950
2014	4,914

Source from 1995 with territorial status January 2011: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony / Regional data for Saxony's municipal statistics

from 1990: population update based on the register data from October 3, 1990 (inhabitants: 4989)

from 2011: population update based on the census results from May 9, 2011 (population: 5047)

Religions

There is an Evangelical Lutheran and a Catholic parish in the village, of which the former has more members.

politics

Municipal council

The local election on May 26, 2019, with a turnout of 68.3% (+ 11.4 percentage points), led to the following result for the composition of the local council :

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
BI	41.0%	7th
SU	23.1%	4th
AfD	11.4%	1
IG Niederwiesa	9.0%	1
CDU	6.7%	1
GREEN	6.5%	1
SPD	2.2%	0

mayor

Dietmar Hohm was mayor of the municipality from 1990 to 2012 . On January 1, 2013, he was replaced by Ilona Meier, who ran as the only candidate and was elected in October 2012 with 86% of the vote. With the mayoral election on November 3, 2019, Raik Schubert was elected as the new mayor with 1690 votes counted (69%). He took office on January 1, 2020.

District council

In the last local election on May 25, 2014, two candidates from Niederwiesa made it to the district council: Dietmar Hohm (CDU / RBV parliamentary group) and Sebastian Walter ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

coat of arms

The coat of arms is a reaper on a river with three stones against the background of three trees and the Braunsdorf water tower. The river is the Zschopau , which flows through the municipality. The three stones symbolize Niederwiesa and the two districts of Braunsdorf and Lichtenwalde. The coat of arms was created by joining the three individual coats of arms when the three places were united.

Community partnerships

The community partnership with Bestwig has existed since October 3, 1990, and a second partnership with the Hungarian community of Tiszadorogma was added in 2005 .

Culture and sights

Museums

The Niederwiesa town hall

Due to its extensive collection of around 7,000 exhibits , the fire brigade museum is a museum that is unparalleled in the region. The members of the Niederwiesa volunteer fire brigade collected the pieces themselves, starting with the 19th century. The museum is open on request.

The weaving museum of the Tannenhauer company in Braunsdorf is a former weaving mill that was in production until the GDR era. Various looms, machines and techniques can be viewed and some of them can be tried out yourself. The museum is open all year round on various weekends and holidays. The production and factory exhibition of the Cammann Gobelin Manufactory is located in the factory building.

Lichtenwalde Castle houses the Museum for Peoples and Cultures with the Frank Collection, a clock museum, the world's first dowsing rod exhibition, and a collection of dolls and historical toys. Visits are possible every day, except on Mondays. The environmental library of the Saxon State Foundation for Nature and Environment is also located in the castle.

Buildings

Lichtenwalde Castle

The baroque castle Lichtenwalde, built between 1722 and 1726, is the highlight of the community. In 1730 the adjacent baroque garden with its pavilions , fountains and sculptures , in which concerts often take place, was laid out . The castle area also includes an orangery , a manor and a brewery, the castle chapel from the 13th century with the adjoining terrace form the core of the castle. The castle was restored between 1999 and 2003 after the fire at the beginning of the 20th century that destroyed half of it. Next to the castle is the family grave of Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt . The castle promenade, on which there are several restaurants and shops, is the focus of many trips to Lichtenwalde.

Memorials

The grave and memorial stone to the left of the entrance to the local cemetery commemorate two unknown female Jewish concentration camp inmates from the death march from a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp
Memorial plaque on Eubaer Straße 29 , the house where he was born, for the communist Nazi opponent Arthur Emmerlich , who organized local resistance and was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1942 . A memorial stone for all victims of fascism on the station forecourt was removed after 1990.

Regular events

April: Witches' Fire
June: Fire Brigade Festival
June: Musical summer night dreams
September: fun fair

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Niederwiesa is conveniently located on the federal highway 173 and can be reached quickly via the federal highway 4 (junction Chemnitz-Ost).

Niederwiesa train station

In addition, the community with Niederwiesa station is on the supraregional Dresden – Werdau railway , the Saxony-Franconian Magistrale , and on the regional railway lines between Chemnitz and Hainichen ( Roßwein – Niederwiesa railway ), Olbernhau and Cranzahl . This is served every hour by the RB line 30 Dresden – Zwickau, and every hour on weekdays by the 516 City-Bahn Chemnitz between Chemnitz and Hainichen and the Erzgebirgsbahn .

The second stop within the municipality, Braunsdorf-Lichtenwalde , is on the railway line between Chemnitz and Hainichen in the Braunsdorf district and is served every hour on weekdays and once every two hours in each direction on weekends and public holidays. The stop is often offered as a starting point for excursions in the area.

With the second stage of the Chemnitz model from 2009, the railway line to Hainichen will be used with low-floor two-system vehicles. This enables direct access to the city center of Chemnitz.

Educational institutions

Oberschule Niederwiesa

Niederwiesa, with its two districts of Braunsdorf and Lichtenwalde, has two kindergartens , one elementary school (Seeber elementary school) and one high school . The Oberschule Niederwiesa is known for its block lessons, in which the students are always taught two hours of 45 minutes each and then take a longer break. In May 2012 the Oberschule Niederwiesa was awarded the 1st Saxon School Prize for its excellent project work.

Villa in Niederwiesa

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Felix Barth (1851–1931), Saxon general of the infantry , played a key role in the development of the Polish armed forces in 1917
Arthur Emmerlich (1907–1942), resistance fighter against National Socialism
Dietrich Mendt (1926-2006), theologian

Personalities who have worked on site

Clemens Seeber (1851–1905), film pioneer
Guido Seeber (1879–1940), film pioneer
Rudolph Strauss (1904–1987), educator and archivist

literature

The middle Zschopau area (= values of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 53–56.
Ekkehard Kühnrich: The inhabitants of the parish Oberwiesa (Saxony). Cardamina, Plaidt 2008
- Volume 1: The Population 1515–1800. ISBN 978-3-938649-30-5 .
- Volume 2: The population 1801-1875. ISBN 978-3-938649-31-2 .
Municipal administration Niederwiesa (ed.): Niederwiesa yesterday and today. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942146-33-3 .