Oberrothenbach

Oberrothenbach City of Zwickau Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 5 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 25 ″ E
Height :	258 m
Area :	9.02 km²
Residents :	618 (Dec. 31, 2005)
Population density :	69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Postal code :	08058
Area code :	037604
Location of Oberrothenbach in Saxony

Oberrothenbach has been a district of Zwickau since January 1, 1999 , which has been the district town of the Zwickau district in the Free State of Saxony since 2008 . The place currently has about 600 inhabitants. Despite the incorporation, Oberrothenbach is a place within the meaning of §§ 65 to 69 of the Saxon municipal code . The place is located in the Zwickau-Nord district and has the official number 35.

Geographical location

Districts and districts of Zwickau

Oberrothenbach is located in the north of Zwickau and west of the Zwickauer Mulde . To the west of the village was the district of Helmsdorf , which was largely demolished in the 1950s to build the "Helmsdorf industrial waste disposal facility". The place is between the Zwickau districts of Crossen in the east and Moselle in the north and Hartmannsdorf in the west and Niederhohndorf in the south.

Neighboring places

	Lauenhain with Gersdorf and Harthau	Moselle
Dänkritz		Crosses
Hartmannsdorf	Weissenborn	Niederhohndorf

history

The farming village of Oberrothenbach was mentioned in 1221 as "Rudnbax". Since 1248 the place was parish after Mosel . For centuries, Oberrothenbach belonged to the Schoenburg rulers , although it was almost entirely surrounded by places belonging to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau , such as the later district of Helmsdorf . Oberrothenbach was initially subject to a Schönburg vassal court , which was connected to the Schönburg manor Obermosel. The manorial rule over the place was partly with the manors of Middle and Lower Mosel , which belonged to the Saxon office of Zwickau. In the 19th century Oberrothenbach was under the Schönburg rule of Glauchau , Hinterglauchau . After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of the Schönburg recession in 1878, Oberrothenbach came with the Schönburg part of the Upper Moselle to the Zwickau administration .

On April 1, 1938, the western neighboring town of Helmsdorf was incorporated into Oberrothenbach. In 1952 Oberrothenbach and Helmsdorf were assigned to the Zwickau-Land district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ).

From the end of the 1940s, uranium ores were processed for the USSR by SAG Wismut in the neighboring town of Crossen to the east . The Helmsdorf gravel pit, built around 1890 and used as a prisoner-of-war camp before 1945, was intended to deposit uranium sludge from Crossen. After the activities of the SDAG Wismut began in Helmsdorf in 1956, the place was forcibly evacuated until 1958 and then demolished. The Helmsdorf industrial tailing plant (IAA) was built on the site , into which the liquid process waste from ore processing Crossen was pumped and deposited via a hose conveyor . A radioactive accident smaller scale experienced in the year 1961 , the people of Oberrothenbach. After a pipe intended for the water return and running vertically in the Helmsdorf industrial waste disposal facility was broken in the lower part, it also broke on the outside of the dam due to overpressure . As a result, large amounts of the radioactive sludge flowed through the village into the Zwickauer Mulde. Since the damage could not be repaired immediately, this condition lasted for several days. Ultimately, it was only thanks to the narrow valley location that residential buildings were not contaminated.

On January 1, 1999 , Oberrothenbach was incorporated into Zwickau. Until then it consisted of the sub-communities Oberrothenbach and Helmsdorf. However, parts of Helmsdorf have disappeared in a mud pond in which the remains of the ore wash ( bismuth wash ) were stored for years . The renovation has been going on there for many years. The radioactively contaminated water is cleaned and fed into the Zwickauer Mulde .

Population development

date	population
December 31, 1999	689
December 31, 2000	664
December 31, 2001	661
December 31, 2002	676
December 31, 2003	660
December 31, 2004	643
December 31, 2005	618

Source: Urban development concept of the city of Zwickau 2020 (as of June 2006).

Economy and Transport

Oberrothenbach stop

The Zwickaus central sewage treatment plant is located here. Oberrothenbach has a stop on the Dresden – Werdau railway line and can therefore be reached by train. The place can also be reached by bus line 111 (Zwickau- Glauchau ).

Associations and institutions

Oberrothenbach has a volunteer fire brigade , a festival meadow on which all festivals and events (e.g. Christmas market, village festival, etc.) are held. There is also a children's playground there.

There is an equestrian club in the former Helmsdorf.