Oberfrohna

Oberfrohna City of Limbach-Oberfrohna Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 50 ″  N , 12 ° 44 ′ 27 ″  E
Area :	7.05 km²
Residents :	3884  (Aug 11, 2015)
Population density :	551 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Incorporated into:	Limbach-Oberfrohna
Postal code :	09212
Area code :	03722
Location of Oberfrohna in Saxony

Oberfrohna is a district of the large district town Limbach-Oberfrohna in the Saxon district of Zwickau . Since July 1, 1950, it has formed the core of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna together with the Limbach district .

geography

Geographical location

Oberfrohna forms the western part of the town center of Limbach-Oberfrohna. The development goes into the Limbach district. The place is on the upper reaches of the Frohnbach .

Neighboring places

	Middle Frohna	Fichtigsthal
Bräunsdorf		Limbach
	Russdorf

history

Town hall Oberfrohna

Luther Church Oberfrohna

The original Waldhufendorf in the upper Frohnbachtal was first mentioned in 1415 as Cuerchfrone and in 1540 as Oberfrohne . The Vorwerk Oberfrohna was built around 1540 , which belonged to the knightly estate district Limbach in the Electoral Saxon office of Chemnitz . The linen weaving trade developed here in the 16th century. With the introduction of stocking knitting , industrial development began in the middle of the 18th century. In Oberfrohna, however, rather cloth gloves and the finest imitations of leather were produced. Numerous factories were initially built on former farms . The industrialization of the village let the population increase to 3400 inhabitants by 1890. In 1851 Oberfrona came to the royal Saxon court of Limbach as an accessory for the Limbach manor .

Until 1856 Oberfrohna belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Chemnitz . In 1856 Oberfrohna was affiliated to the Limbach court office and in 1875 to the administrative authority of Chemnitz .

With the incorporation of Rußdorf into Oberfrohna in 1935, the population rose to over 10,000. In the same year Oberfrohna was granted city rights.

By resolution of the SED , on July 1, 1950, the two cities of Limbach and Oberfrohna were merged with the district of Rußdorf to form the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Oberfrohna came as a district of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna in 1952 to the Chemnitz-Land district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt-Land district and the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ) 1990 as the Saxon district of Chemnitz was continued. When it was dissolved, Oberfrohna became part of the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna in 1994 and became part of the Chemnitzer Land district , which was opened up in the Zwickau district in 2008.

traffic

Since 1913 Oberfrohna was connected to the railway network by the Limbach – Oberfrohna railway line. This has not been operated since 1999. As part of the Chemnitz model , Limbach-Oberfrohna is to be connected to the Chemnitz Stadtbahn via parts of this disused connection. The plans on the part of Limbach-Oberfrohna and Chemnitz provide for a possible route via KÄNDER, Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf and Chemnitz-Zentrum . In 2003 a majority of the city council favored a corresponding variant, the cost of which is estimated at 16 million euros. Construction wouldn't start before 2015. According to the current status, the completion of the route would be expected in 2020 at the earliest. The cost of the project is estimated at around 100 million euros, three quarters of which will be borne by the federal and state governments. The rest of the way would have to be done by the Central Saxony Transport Association . In July 2012 it became known that the German Regional Railway also wanted to examine the renewed railway operation between Oberfrohna and Kellers .

In addition to several overland routes from Regiobus Central Saxony and the regional transport company Erzgebirge , a minibus (called Citybus) from Fritzsche GmbH runs on one of the two city routes.

Attractions

• Former town hall (1935)
• Luther Church (1893)
• Jahnhaus Oberfrohna
• Community forest
• Equestrian arena
• Catholic parish church

sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Steudte (1897–1973), politician (SED)
• Gottfried Grote (1903–1976), church musician
• Hans Walther (1921–2015), name researcher
• Gerhard Trölitzsch (1926–2017), politician (SED)
• Manfred Döring (* 1932), Major General of the Ministry for State Security
• Wilfried Fiedler (1933–2019), albanologist and Balkanologist
• Helga Glöckner-Neubert (1938–2017), writer
• Günter Reichelt (* 1957), national wrestling coach and multiple GDR champion / vice world champion 1983

Web links

Commons : Oberfrohna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Oberfrohna at www.limbach-oberfrohna.de
• Oberfrohna in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

literature

• Adolf Eduard Päßler: Chronicle of Oberfrohna . Ulbricht, Limbach 1899 ( digitized version )
• The district of Chemnitz in historical views . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1992, pp. 22-42, ISBN 3-89264-730-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Limbach Manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
2. ↑ The Royal Court of Limbach in the archive of the Free State of Saschen
3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
4. ^ The administrative authority of Chemnitz in the municipal directory 1900
5. ↑ Rußdorf on gov.genealogy.net
6. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
7. ↑ Free press: The train should go to Oberfrohna
8. ↑ Free press: Limbach-Oberfrohna: Company wants to reactivate rail