Raschau-Markersbach

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Raschau-Markersbach
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Erzgebirgskreis
Height : 494 m above sea level NHN
Area : 39.55 km 2
Residents: 4997 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 126 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 08352
Area code : 03774
License plate : ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key : 14 5 21 500
Association administration address: Main street 71
Website : www.raschau-markersbach.de
Mayor : Frank Tröger (Free Voters)
Location of the municipality of Raschau-Markersbach in the Erzgebirge district
Sachsen Amtsberg Annaberg-Buchholz Aue-Bad Schlema Auerbach (Erzgebirge) Bärenstein (Erzgebirge) Lauter-Bernsbach Bockau Börnichen/Erzgeb. Breitenbrunn/Erzgeb. Burkhardtsdorf Crottendorf Deutschneudorf Drebach Ehrenfriedersdorf Eibenstock Elterlein Gelenau/Erzgeb. Geyer Gornau/Erzgeb. Gornsdorf Großolbersdorf Großrückerswalde Grünhain-Beierfeld Grünhainichen Heidersdorf Hohndorf Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb. Johanngeorgenstadt Jöhstadt Königswalde Lauter-Bernsbach Lößnitz (Erzgebirge) Lugau Marienberg Mildenau Neukirchen/Erzgeb. Niederdorf (Sachsen) Niederwürschnitz Oberwiesenthal Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. Olbernhau Pockau-Lengefeld Raschau-Markersbach Scheibenberg Schlettau Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) Schönheide Schwarzenberg/Erzgeb. Sehmatal Seiffen/Erzgeb. Stollberg/Erzgeb. Stützengrün Tannenberg Thalheim/Erzgeb. Thermalbad Wiesenbad Thum Wolkenstein (Erzgebirge) Zschopau Zschorlau Zwönitzmap
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View from Grünstädtel to the Mittweidatal

Raschau-Markersbach is a municipality in the Saxon Ore Mountains District , which was formed on January 1st, 2008 through the merger of the municipalities of Raschau and Markersbach .

geography

The municipality in the Western Ore Mountains lies on the creeks Große Mittweida and Pöhlwasser and the Hundsmarterrücken elevations , on which the upper basin of the Markersbach pumped storage plant is located, Emmler and Schafberg .

Community structure

The municipality of Raschau-Markersbach consists of the following districts:

Only Raschau and Markersbach form their own localities within their borders that existed until 2007 . The other districts were already incorporated into one of the two earlier municipalities at that time.

Neighboring communities

In the north, the cities of Grünhain-Beierfeld and Elterlein border the municipality, in the east the city of Scheibenberg and the municipality of Crottendorf , in the southeast the city of Oberwiesenthal , in the south the municipality of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. and in the west the large district town of Schwarzenberg .

history

After protracted controversies, the necessary resolutions to dissolve the Raschau-Markersbach-Pöhla administrative community were passed in the course of 2007 . The agreement to merge the two municipalities of Raschau and Markersbach was signed by the two incumbent mayors Henry Solbrig and Manfred Meyer on October 26, 2007 after the necessary legitimation was given by local council resolutions.

Raschau-Markersbach is one of the Saxon municipalities with the highest trade tax revenues (benefiting from the Markersbach pumped storage plant ). Due to the Saxon Financial Equalization Act of 2008, the municipality's allocations from the Free State of Saxony were canceled. By decision of January 2, 2009, the municipality must also pay an annual financial contribution of 1.7 million euros to poorer municipalities. The own debts of around 7 million euros are not taken into account. Along with 19 other affected communities, the community is involved in a lawsuit against the financial equalization scheme ; they are represented by the former Saxon Minister of the Interior, Klaus Hardraht . The lawsuit was dismissed in January 2010.

In February 2009, discussions were held with the mayor of Scheibenberg, Wolfgang Andersky, about the formation of a large community to which, in addition to Raschau-Markersbach, Scheibenberg and Schlettau should also belong.

On April 3, 2014, a thunderstorm of heavy rain triggered a mudslide and damaged several roads. The mud made its way through the village over a length of 300 meters, damaging at least ten houses from the mud and water. Already in 2001, 2002 and 2008 districts were damaged by floods and mudslides.

politics

City council election 2014
Turnout: 51.8%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
42.5%
18.5%
23.1%
13.7%
2.2%
BG RM
    
A total of 16 seats

Municipal council

After the merger to form the municipality of Raschau-Markersbach, the municipal council consisted of the previous 13 Raschau and 11 Markersbach municipal councils, which in their previous composition also functioned as local councils . With the municipal council election on June 7, 2009, the number of seats on the committee was reduced to 16 in accordance with the provisions of the Saxon municipal code, local councils were not elected.

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • CDU : 7 seats
  • Citizens' Community Raschau-Markersbach (BG RM): 4 seats
  • Free voter community Raschau-Markersbach (FWG): 3 seats
  • LEFT : 2 seats

mayor

The mayors of Raschau and Markersbach were retired at the end of 2007. Until July 31, 2008, the previous mayor of Markersbach, Manfred Meyer ( CDU ), acted as administrator . In the mayoral election on June 8, 2008, he was able to prevail against his four competitors with 62.9% of the valid votes and took office on August 1 of that year. On August 1, 2015, his successor Frank Tröger (Free Voters Raschau-Markersbach) took over the office.

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coat of arms

A municipal coat of arms has not yet been established. The coat of arms of the district of Raschau shows in red on a green Dreiberg a silver horse jumping to the heraldic right. The Markersbach coat of arms shows a tap standing on water in a red field. The rooster is taken from the local seal of the Mittweida district.

Partnerships

The existing city partnerships will be continued according to the merger agreement. Partner communities are:

Culture and sights

Buildings

Ruins of the Langenberg lime works

Sports

  • SV Mittweidatal 06 Raschau-Markersbach e. V. with the departments football, handball, volleyball, women's gymnastics, cycling, skiing and bowling
  • LSV Blau-Weiß Langenberg eV with the football department

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

View through the bridge under construction of the Markersbach bypass to the Markersbach Viaduct (2009)
The lower reservoir of the Markersbach pumped storage plant

The community of Raschau-Markersbach is located on federal highway 101 . In the district of Markersbach, a 1.7 km long bypass was built between October 2005 and May 2011 , which is intended to relieve the local situation of through traffic. The centerpiece is a 44 m high and 317 m long concrete bridge with two reinforced concrete hollow pillars over the Mittweida valley. In the course of construction, several difficulties arose with the mountainous terrain to be overcome. In October 2006, a slope that was notched deep into the terrain slid off the planned east connection of the bridge, so that lengthy safety measures and incline changes had to be carried out. In July 2007, when the pit for the foundation of one of the two bridge piers was excavated, old mining was encountered, so that extensive stabilization of the subsoil was necessary. According to the official communication of the Plauen Road Construction Office, the annual onset of winter, which occurred surprisingly, also hindered completion. The construction costs of the bypass were originally estimated at € 13 million, but ultimately came to around € 25 million. The completion of the project was originally planned for November 2007. Until it was opened to traffic on May 16, 2011, there was a total delay in construction of three and a half years.

On December 1, 1889, Raschau and Markersbach were connected to the Annaberg-Buchholz-Schwarzenberg railway line , which was discontinued for passenger traffic on September 27, 1997. To overcome the great difference in altitude in the Markersbach district, the railway line leads in a wide curve through the community. In addition, 3 bridges are necessary to bridge valley heirs, including the well-known 37 m high Markersbach Viaduct . The Ore Mountain View Railway has been running on the route several weekends a year since 2009 . The connection to the local public transport is guaranteed by various bus routes operated by Regionalverkehr Erzgebirge GmbH . The next train stations are in Schwarzenberg and Annaberg-Buchholz .

Commercial enterprise

The main industrial companies in the municipality are:

In addition, there are a large number of craft and family businesses in the community.

education

Raschau elementary school before the renovation

The school system in Raschau and Markersbach was founded with the introduction of school teaching in the 16th century. It was not until 1840 that the school office was expanded to include a girls 'and boys' teacher in both places. The industrialization and the consequent rapid population growth made the hiring of additional teachers needed. The school building in Raschau dates from 1883. In 1973 the extended school was renamed the Clara-Zetkin-Oberschule . Today a primary school is housed in this school building on the market square in Raschau. A second was baptized in 1973 in the Siedlung des Friedens and two years later with the name Paul-Blechschmidt -Oberschule . The resulting secondary school in Raschau was closed on July 31, 2005 after a steady decline in the number of pupils due to the state's withdrawal of participation and has been vacant since then.

The two school buildings in Markersbach date from 1862 and 1982. The ten-class Thomas Müntzer secondary school was converted into a four-class elementary school in 1992 . From then on, the Markersbach students mainly attended the secondary schools in Raschau and Scheibenberg, as well as the grammar schools in Schwarzenberg and Schlettau . The state primary school was closed in 2001. Only the Jenaplan School , a state-approved elementary and secondary school in private ownership, keeps the school running in the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked on site

Panoramas

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View of Raschau and Grünstädtel
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View from the B101 to the middle and lower district of Raschau

literature

  • Siegfried Hübschmann: Raschau. About the becoming and growing of a church. Published by the municipal council on the occasion of the 750th anniversary celebration, Raschau 1990
  • Siegfried Hübschmann: The Förstel in Langenberg. Edited by: Dr. Wilmar Schwabesche non-profit Heimstättenbetriebsgesellschaft mbH. Scheibenberg: Heidler & Fahle GbR, around 2002
  • Gaston Nogrady: 1250–2000 Chronicle of the Church in Markersbach. Evangelical Lutheran Markersbach parish, 2000

Web links

Commons : Raschau-Markersbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008
  3. ↑ Freie Presse, local edition Schwarzenberg of January 15, 2009: Lawsuit against tax on the rich - 1.7 million euros for poor places
  4. ↑ Freie Presse, Schwarzenberg local edition of January 16, 2009: First installment transferred - Raschau-Markersbach has to pay 147,394 euros a month in financial compensation
  5. ↑ Judgment: "Rich tax" in Saxony is legal ( Memento from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Freie Presse, local edition Annaberg of February 12, 2009, p. 13: Schlettauer angry at Scheibenberg - Mayor fears creeping incorporation
  7. ↑ News from Chemnitz: Severe storms in the Ore Mountains trigger a mudslide ( memento of the original from April 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news-chemnitz.de
  8. ↑ Lightning strike and flooding in the Ore Mountains on April 4, 2014
  9. ↑ MZ Web: Mud avalanche rolling through Ort in the Ore Mountains from April 4, 2014
  10. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
  11. ^ Hentschke Bau GmbH : B 101, OU Markersbach. ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hentschke-bau.de
  12. ↑ Freie Presse, local edition Schwarzenberg of December 9, 2010: Bridge construction site in the winter stroke.
  13. ↑ Press release of October 10, 2005: Gleicke gives the go-ahead for the Markersbach bypass.
  14. ↑ a b The B 101 is open to traffic, the Markersbach bypass.