Rödlitz

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Rödlitz
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 40 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 336 m
Area : 4.51 km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 09350
Area code : 037204

Rödlitz is a small town in the Zwickau district in Saxony . It belongs as a district to Lichtenstein / Sa. The current mayor is Lutz Weißpflug.

geography

Rödlitz is about 14 km east of Zwickau and about 27 km southwest of Chemnitz . The place lies at the foot of the western Ore Mountains, at an altitude of 350 m above sea level.

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Panorama from Rödlitz from the direction of Oberdorf

history

  • Railway viaduct over the village street of Rödlitz (2016)

  • Rödlitz Church

Rödlitz was originally created as a forest hoof village. Historians do not agree on the first documentary mention of Rödlitz. Some believe that Rödlitz was first mentioned as Redlicz in 1286 . Others are of the opinion that Rödlitz was named in a document in 1460.

The most important landmark of this place is the Rödlitzbachtal railway viaduct, which was opened in 1879. It is part of the Stollberg – St. Egidien . This line ran from St. Egidien to Stollberg . The Hohndorf-Oelsnitz hard coal district was opened up with this railway line. Today the City-Bahn runs on this route . In 1994 Rödlitz was incorporated into Lichtenstein.

The Rödlitzer village festival has been held every year in the first week of June since 2002.

Memorials

A memorial stone at the fork in the road main street / Bahnhofstrasse recalls since 1964 at six communist opponents of Hitler that in the Action grid in the 1944 Flossenburg were admitted where they or on there death march to the Dachau concentration camp were murdered: Max Bauer (resistance fighters) Oswin Bonitz, Otto Günther, Paul Jähn, Josef Merter and Arthur Viehweg.

traffic

Rödlitz can be reached via the Glauchau-Ost and Hohenstein-Ernstthal motorway connections on the A4 or Hartenstein on the A72 . With the Rödlitz-Hohndorf stop, the place has a rail link to Stollberg and St. Egidien . Shortly after the stop in the direction of Hohndorf is the Rödlitzer Viadukt.

  • Rödlitz-Hohndorf stop (2016)

  • North side of the Rödlitz Viaduct

  • Railway viaduct in Rödlitz (2016)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Arno Wetzel (born April 23, 1890 - November 19, 1977), zoologist and university professor
  • Kurt Helbig (born June 28, 1901 in Rödlitz, † January 30, 1975 in Plauen), weightlifter
  • Fritz Thost (1905–1974), teacher, draftsman and carver
  • Gerhard Böhm (1920–1993), politician (SPD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives
  • Frank Sorge (* 1947), soccer player

literature

  • Richard Steche : Rödlitz. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 13. Issue: Glauchau District Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 31.

Web links

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