Oberzwota

Oberzwota City of Klingenthal Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 23 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 34"  E
Incorporation :	April 1, 1974
Incorporated into:	Zwota
Postal code :	08267
Area code :	037467
Location of Oberzwota in Saxony

Oberzwota is a district of the town of Zwota in the city of Klingenthal in the Saxon Vogtland district . The place was incorporated into Zwota on April 1, 1974, with which it came to the city of Klingenthal on January 1, 2013.

geography

location

Oberzwota is located in the south-east of the Saxon part of the historic Vogtland in the western part of the Klingenthal district of Zwota. The place is bordered in the north by the Ore Mountains and in the south by the Elster Mountains . The highest mountain in the vicinity is 805 m above sea level. NN the high fire to the west . The houses are on both sides of the Zwota . In terms of natural space , the place is on the western edge of the Western Ore Mountains . Oberzwota is part of the Erzgebirge / Vogtland Nature Park .

Neighboring places

Zwotental		Kottenheide
		Zwota - Zechenbach
Friebus , gopplas green		State municipality

history

Oberzwota

The Zwota brook was first mentioned in 1122 as Zwotawa , the settlements of the same name in the Zwota valley not until much later. The name Zwotawa is derived from the Sorbian word Suwoda , which means something like border water . The Zwota valley was settled in the 16th century. In connection with the mining activities, two hammer mills were built. Around 1537/38 the first building in Oberzwota, a "bredt und mahl muhl, which Zwotamuhl calls" was erected by Nickel Baumgärtel. Not far from here, Jeremias Pestel built an iron hammer in 1575, which in 1582 was called "the new hammer". In 1678 the upper Zwotahammer burned down. Today there is a guesthouse in the half-timbered house “Am Oberen Hammer” in “Kottenheider Straße” in Oberzwota. From the 17th century an industry slowly began to develop in the course of the iron ore discoveries in the valley of the Zwota. Hammer workers from the Ore Mountains and Bohemia settled around the upper and lower hammer , as well as miners and woodcutters. In the 18th century, Protestant religious refugees from Bohemia , so-called exiles , who had immigrated in the previous century, introduced violin making . As a result, the manufacture of woodwind instruments developed in the upper part of the Zwotatal in the following years .

The scattered settlement Oberzwota was also known as "Zwotenthal", "Hammerlehn", "Oberhammer", "old hammer" or "Zwotenhäuser" in the 19th century. The place formed its “own commun”, which was subordinate to the Wohlhausen manor . In contrast, Zwota and Zechenbach were under the rule of the Zwota forest estate.

Until 1856, Oberzwota belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Voigtsberg . After 1856 the place belonged to the Klingenthal court office and from 1875 to the Auerbach administration . In the west and south, Oberzwota bordered the Oelsnitz administration .

Since 1875 the Zwotental – Klingenthal railway has passed Oberzwota to the south. The next station was northwest of Oberzwota on Gunzener Flur and was initially called "Zwota". In 1909 it was named " Bahnhof Zwotental ". In the same year, the "Zwota-Zechenbach stop" opened in the neighboring eastern town.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Oberzwota became part of the Klingenthal district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Klingenthal in 1990 and became part of the Vogtland district in 1996. On April 1, 1974, Oberzwota was incorporated into Zwota. Since the merger of the municipality of Zwota with the city of Klingenthal on January 1, 2013, Oberzwota has been part of the Klingenthal district of Zwota.

traffic

Oberzwota is affected in the southeast by the B 283 . The Zwotental – Klingenthal railway , which is served by the Vogtland Railway, passes Oberzwota in the south. The next stops are the " Bahnhof Zwotental " in the northwestern neighboring town of Zwotental and the "Haltpunkt Zwota-Zechenbach" in the eastern neighboring town of the same name.

Web links

Commons : Oberzwota  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Zwota
• Oberzwota in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Zwota with Oberzwota on www.total-lokal.de
2. ↑ The Obere Hammer on www.zwota.de
3. ↑ Oberzwota in “Handbuch der Geographie”, p. 449
4. ↑ Zwotenhäuser in the history of Wohlhausen ( Memento of the original of December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 74 f.
6. ^ The Auerbach administration in the municipality register 1900
7. ↑ Oberzwota on gov.genealogy.net