Obergräfenhain

Obergräfenhain City of Penig Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 27 ″ N , 12 ° 42 ′ 22 ″ E
Residents :	438 (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1996
Incorporated into:	Langensteinbach
Postal code :	09322
Area code :	034346
Location of Obergräfenhain in Saxony

Obergräfenhain is a district of the city of Penig in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). The district consists of the municipality parts Obergräfenhain I and II. These were incorporated into Langensteinbach in 1996 and came with this in 2003 to the city of Penig.

geography

Geographical location

Obergräfenhain lies on a plateau between the border with Altenburger Land in the west and the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde in the east. The larger district of Obergräfenhain I is located south of the "Rochlitz" junction of the A 72 , Obergräfenhain II is located north of it, on Narsdorfer Straße.

Neighboring places

	Narsdorf	Dolitzsch
Rathendorf		Corba
Langenleuba-Oberhain	Elsdorf (Ober- and Niederelsdorf)	Himmelhartha

history

Obergräfenhain, church

Obergräfenhain was first mentioned in 1339 or in a document in 1345. 1378 belonged "Grefinhayn superior" ("Ober-Grefinhaynn") to the "castrum Rochlitz ". The place name is derived from “Grafenhagen”, which means “the count's cherished and protected place”.

The place was partly under the jurisdiction of different gentlemen and was until 1856 in the south-west of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Rochlitz .

From 1856 Obergräfenhain belonged to the Rochlitz court office and from 1875 to the Rochlitz district administration . In 1872 Obergräfenhain was given a train station on the Rochlitz – Penig line , which crossed the Leipzig – Chemnitz line in the neighboring town of Narsdorf . Passenger traffic on the Narsdorf-Penig section was discontinued in 1990 and the line closed in 1998. The station building was moved to Lunzenau and set up on the property of the “Zum Prellbock” restaurant. It now houses a railway museum.

During the second district reform of the GDR in 1952, Obergräfenhain was assigned to the Geithain district in the Leipzig district , which was added to the Leipziger Land district in 1994 . On July 1, 1996, it was reclassified to the Mittweida district and at the same time incorporated into Langensteinbach . With this, the place came on January 1, 2003 to the city of Penig, which in 2008 came to the district of central Saxony.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

There is a roof tile factory with 180 jobs in Obergräfenhain .

traffic

Viaduct Obergräfenhain

West of the village runs the federal highway 72 and the federal highway 175 , which are connected with each other in the local area via the exit “Rochlitz”.

Between 1872 and 1990 Obergräfenhain had its own railway station on the railway line Rochlitz-Penig that in the northern neighboring Narsdorf the railway line Leipzig-Chemnitz crossed. The latter affects Obergräfenhain in the northeast. The station in Narsdorf is currently the station with the shortest distance to the town. After the Obergräfenhain halt went out of operation in 1995, the wooden waiting building was moved to the site of the railway adventure restaurant “Zum Prellbock” in Lunzenau in 1997 .