Rehefeld fence house

Rehefeld fence house City of Altenberg Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 50 ″ N , 13 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	693 (650-845) m
Residents :	145 (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	01773
Area code :	035057
Location of Rehefeld-Zaunhaus in Saxony
	View of the Rehefeld fence house

Rehefeld and Zaunhaus on a map by Hermann Oberreit (1821)

View of the Rehefeld valley and the drag shoe

View of the Rehefeld fence house in winter

Royal Saxon junction stone from the Alte Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststrasse post route at the Hemmschuh car park near Neurehefeld

Rehefeld-Zaunhaus is a district of the Saxon town of Altenberg and is located on the Ore Mountains ridge between Hermsdorf and Altenberg.

geography

Geographical location

The altitude of the place is 650–845 m above sea level , it is considered the coldest place in Saxony and the most snow-sure place in the Eastern Ore Mountains . Its corridors are located in the headwaters of the Wilden Weißeritz . The Hermsdorf-Rehefeld stop on the Nossen – Moldava railway line still existed until 1972 . The narrow-gauge Pöbeltalbahn should branch off here.

Neighboring places

The neighboring towns of Rehefeld-Zaunhaus are Altenberg , Zinnwald-Georgenfeld , Hermsdorf / Erzgeb. , Seyde , Schmiedeberg and Schellerhau . On the Czech side there are Moldava ( Moldau ) and Cínovec ( Hinterzinnwald ).

history

The oldest district is Zaunhaus. In 1550 reference was made to a hunter's house and a little later to three other houses. In 1557 a mill was built.

The place Rehefeld was later founded under the name Sorgefrey in the Altenberg office . An upper raft master Henry of Romans bought the mill in 1606 and the Vorwerk Sorgenfrey . Later lumberjacks settled in a clearing near the Vorwerk. The hunting lodge located there was a Christmas present from Crown Princess Carola of Saxony to her husband, Crown Prince Albert of Saxony , in 1869 .

Neurehefeld, located on the Hemmschuh , was built after 1683 and is located by the escort house , which stood on the important connecting road from Hermsdorf through the Hemmschuhwald , the old Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststrasse . Today nine people live here.

Two royal Saxon milestones from the time of 1859/1860 on the old Poststrasse (Abzweigstein and Ganzmeilenstein) in the Hemmschuhwald near Neurehefeld were restored in 2005 and re-erected in 2012.

Rehefeld-Zaunhaus has been part of the city of Altenberg since January 1st, 1994.

Memorials

In the local cemetery , graves and a memorial stone of the FIR commemorate two unknown concentration camp prisoners who were murdered by SS men in the spring of 1945 on the death march of a subcamp .

leisure

In the vicinity of Rehefeld-Zaunhaus there is a wide network of hiking trails with many geological and mineralogical views and the international mountain hiking trail Eisenach-Budapest . In winter, a ski lift and a toboggan lift delight visitors. The Hemmschuh nature reserve is an interesting biotope.

literature

Fence house . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, p. 413 f.

Web links

Commons : Rehefeld-Zaunhaus - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Rehefeld fence house on the Altenberg website
Rehefeld fence house in the Eastern Ore Mountains
Rehefeld-Zaunhaus in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg
↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994

[Einwohnerzahl-1] Numbers and facts on the website of the city of Altenberg

[2] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994