Pölbitz

Pölbitz City of Zwickau Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 23 "  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 21"  E
Residents :	3793  (Dec. 31, 2005)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1895
Postal code :	08058
Area code :	0375
Location of Pölbitz in Saxony

Pölbitz is a district of Zwickau , which has been the district town of the Zwickau district in the Free State of Saxony since 2008 . Already on January 1, 1895, the place lost its independence and was incorporated into the city of Zwickau as the first formerly independent municipality. Today Pölbitz is part of the “Northern District” and has the official number 31.

Geographical location

Districts and districts of Zwickau

Pölbitz is north of the city center. The Zwickauer Mulde flows through the district . Neighboring districts are Weißenborn in the west, Niederhohndorf in the northwest, Crossen in the north, Schneppendorf in the northeast, Auerbach and Eckersbach in the east and the northern suburb in the south.

history

The place Pölbitz

Pölbitz was first mentioned in a document in 1219. The town came into the possession of the city of Zwickau in 1350. Already in 1378 the place belonged to the Vogtei Zwickau. After the Reformation, Pölbitz was subordinate to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau between 1553 and 1856 . In 1856 Pölbitz came to the Zwickau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration .

On January 1, 1895, Pölbitz was incorporated into Zwickau as the first independent municipality with around 2000 inhabitants. On April 1 of the same year, the Pölbitz stop on the Dresden – Werdau railway line was opened. When the city of Zwickau was spun off from the Zwickau administration in 1907, Pölbitz has belonged to the independent city of Zwickau since then. In the course of industrialization, the population of Pölbitz grew rapidly from the middle of the 19th century. As a continuation of the “Beucheltschen Brewery”, the “Actien-Bierbrauerei zu Pölbitz” was formed on May 23, 1868, later known as the “Sächsische Union-Brauerei AG”. As the largest terrace hall in West Saxony, the “Neue Welt” concert and ballroom was opened in 1903 with an Art Nouveau park on Leipziger Strasse. Between 1950 and 1970 a considerable number of new apartments were built in the area of ​​"Franz-Mehring-Straße". After 1989, numerous industrial areas were used by demolition and subsequent rebuilding. The Pölbitzer Bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde was rebuilt in 2006.

Automobile construction in Pölbitz

In 1904, Dr.-Ing. hc August Horch moved his company from Reichenbach in the Vogtland to Zwickau, where on May 10th it was named A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke Actiengesellschaft was entered in the commercial register. The location was in today's “Audistraße” in the Pölbitz district. After August Horch had to leave Horch AG in 1909 because of disputes with the CFO, he founded the Zwickauer Horch works in Lessingstrasse with his friends, investors Paul Fikentscher and his nephew Franz. 51 a second company, which was registered as August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH on July 16, 1909 in the commercial register of the city of Zwickau. Thereupon a legal dispute broke out with his former company because of the brand name Horch , which August Horch lost in the last instance before the Reichsgericht in Leipzig. A son of Franz Fikentscher invented the brand name “Audi” as a consequence of the legal dispute; this is the translation of the imperative “listen!” (audi = hear! = listen!) into Latin. On April 25, 1910, the company was renamed Audi Automobilwerke GmbH and converted to Audiwerke AG Zwickau in 1915 . After Auto Union AG was founded in Chemnitz in 1932, the Auto Union racing department was founded in the Pölbitzer Horch works in 1933.

During the Second World War , the railway and industrial facilities in Pölbitz were bombed. After 1945 the automobile plants were dismantled as a reparation payment . The two Auto Union plants located in Zwickau-Pölbitz were expropriated after a referendum in June 1948 . The following state- owned enterprises (VEB) were created from the plants in Pölbitz :

• Audi became VEB Automobilwerk Audi Zwickau and later VEB Automobilwerk Zwickau (AWZ)
• From Horch was VEB Horch automotive and engine Zwickau as operation in industry association vehicle (IFA) and from 1957, the VEB Sachsenring automotive and engine Zwickau .

By resolution of the SED - Council of Ministers , the two state-owned companies Automobilwerk Zwickau and Sachsenring motor vehicle and engine works were merged into VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau on May 1, 1958 . This became necessary in order to be able to achieve the targeted production figures for the new Trabant automobile . Sachsenring Automobilwerke GmbH was founded in July 1990 . Vehicle production at Sachsenring ended on April 30, 1991. The former VEB-Sachsenring was wound up by the Treuhandanstalt by December 1993 and then re-privatized.

→ Main article : Sachsenring (company)

Population development

date population December 31, 1998 3,391 December 31, 1999 3,403 December 31, 2000 3,407 December 31, 2001 3,343 December 31, 2002 3,614 December 31, 2003 3,686 December 31, 2004 3,696 December 31, 2005 3,793

year Population (forecast) 2010 3,950 2015 4,100 2020 3,800

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

Public institutions, culture and leisure

Public facilities

• Zwickau Employment Agency

societies

• Fortuna 97 Pölbitz
• Pölbitzer SV
• Heimatverein Pölbitz eV
• 1. Asian Martial Arts Association Zwickau eV

Public cultural and sports facilities

• "04-Bad" outdoor swimming pool, founded in 1904 and reopened in 1955 after being destroyed in the Second World War
• Concert and ball house "New World"
• August-Horch-Museum , on the site of the former Audi factory

traffic

railroad

Zwickau-Pölbitz stop

The Pölbitz stop on the Dresden – Werdau railway line was opened on April 1, 1895. In that year Pölbitz was incorporated into Zwickau. The breakpoint was initially called Zwickau Haltpunkt and from 1911 was named Zwickau (Sa) Hp . In 1924 it was renamed Zwickau-Pölbitz . Due to industrialization, the Pölbitz district had grown significantly, from then on the stop was primarily used for rush hour traffic. With the raising of the railway tracks in Zwickau, a massive station building was built in Pölbitz from 1923 to 1925. The building has been empty since the breakpoint was no longer manned.

tram

The northern terminus of the Zwickau tram is in Pölbitz . The district is currently served by lines 4 and 7.

Street

The Federal Highway 93 ran in front of the new alignment on the leading through Pölbitz Leipziger Strasse.

Web links

Commons : Pölbitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pölbitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Pölbitz at www.webgugger.de
• Pölbitz on the website of the city of Zwickau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pölbitz in the description of the Zwickau districts ( memento of the original from April 11, 2014 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. 
2. ↑ Pölbitz on the website www.webgugger.de
3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
4. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
5. ↑ Audi-Automobilwerke AG, Zwickau and predecessor inventory 31072 in the Chemnitz State Archives
6. ^ Website of the culture and ball house "Neue Welt"
7. ↑ Norbert Peschke: Railway stations in and around Zwickau - Zwickau traffic junction: Volume 1 , Photo & Verlag Jacobi, Fraureuth 2010, ISBN 978-3-937228-40-2 , p. 121 ff.