Quittenbach

Quittenbach City of Klingenthal Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 22 ″  E
Postal code :	08248
Area code :	037467
Location of Quittenbach in Saxony

Quittenbach is a scattered settlement belonging to the village of Klingenthal in the town of Klingenthal in the Saxon Vogtland district . The settlement belongs to the district of Klingenthal and lies directly on the border with the Czech Republic .

geography

location

Quittenbach located in the southeast of the Saxon part of the historic Vogt country , but heard with respect to the natural environment for Westerzgebirge . The settlement consists of several groups of houses, which are scattered on the west bank of the Quittenbach up to its confluence with the Zwota . The east bank of the border river already belongs to the Czech Republic . Quittenbach is located east of the city center of Klingenthal between Körnerberg in the west and the Czech Eibenberg in the east. Quittenbach is located in the Ore Mountains / Vogtland Nature Park .

Neighboring places

	Untersachsenberg	Bublava (Schwaderbach)
Kriegberg (today: Körnerberg / Friedensberg)		Tisová u Kraslic (Eibenberg) , Zelená Hora u Kraslic (Grünberg)
Unterklingenthal		Kraslice (Graslitz)

history

The emergence of the Quittenbach settlement on the Grenzbach of the same name is closely linked to the emergence of the Klingenthal settlement. In the course of mining in the valleys of the Brunndöbra and Zwota, the “Hellhammer” or “Höllhammer” was completed around 1591, which was used to smelt the ores and is seen as the nucleus of what would later become Klingenthal. This was first mentioned under this name in 1604 as a hammer settlement. The settlement on Quittenbach did not originally belong to Klingenthal, but was registered as a fief in Voigtsberg . In 1626, Georg Christoph von Boxberg von Hellhammer asked for a hammer mill to be built, but this was not granted to him out of concern about possible damage to the hallway. Instead, he was allowed to set up four houses with associated agricultural land. Quittenbach has belonged to Klingenthal since the loan to von Boxberg in 1626.

In the 17th century, numerous Protestant religious refugees ( exiles ) settled in Quittenbach and Klingenthal, especially from the neighboring Bohemian town of Graslitz, who left their Bohemian homeland in the course of the Counter-Reformation . They brought their abilities and skills in violin making with them, which made the region a center of violin making within a short time (see: History of violin making in Klingenthal ). The outstanding figure in violin making in Klingenthal was Caspar Hopf (1650 to 1711), who settled in Quittenbach and whose descendants worked in the violin making trade for many generations. Furthermore, in Quittenbach u. a. the violin makers Johann Krauss (around 1672), Friedrich Wilhelm Meisel (1749 to 1814) and the Hoyer family (18th century) were active.

Until 1856, Quittenbach was in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Voigtsberg . After 1856 Quittenbach belonged to the Klingenthal court office and from 1875 to the Auerbach administration . The settlement had 48 inhabitants in 1843 and 83 inhabitants in 1890.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Quittenbach became part of Klingenthal in 1952 and 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. The scattered settlement Quittenbach, which stretches along the border with the Czech Republic on the west bank of the Quittenbach, is located on "Quittenbachstrasse".

Web links

• Quittenbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Quittenbach on gov.genealogy.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the city of Klingenthal
2. ^ Directory of the Vogtland instrument makers
3. ↑ "Blick" newspaper from April 23, 2016 ( memento of the original from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Book "Violin and Lute Maker"
5. ^ Chronicle of violin making in Klingenthal
6. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 74 f.
7. ^ The Auerbach administration in the municipality register 1900