Reichenau (Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau)

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Reichenau
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 596 m
Residents : 682  (1990)
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 01762
Area code : 037326

Reichenau is a district of the Saxon community Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .

geography

Reichenau from the Castle Frauenstein seen from

location

Reichenau is located southwest of the Lehnmühle dam, which is fed by the Wilden Weißeritz , in the south of the Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau community. The federal road 171 ( Dippoldiswalde - Wolkenstein ) leads through the village . It connects Reichenau via the S 186 with the towns of Neubau and Hartmannsdorf to the north. Deserted areas in the fields of Reichenau are Helbigsdorf and Heilsberg .

Neighboring places

Kleinbobritzsch Hartmannsdorf New building
Frauenstein Neighboring communities Ammelsdorf
Holzhau Hermsdorf / Erzgeb.

history

Reichenau on a map by Hermann Oberreit (1821), south and west of the place, the mining facilities of the pits "Friedrich Christoph" and "Friedrich August" can be seen
Royal Saxon. Milestone as a junction stone at the intersection of Obergebirgische / Alte Freiberg-Teplitzer Poststrasse near Reichenau

In 1445 the place belonged to the care Frauenstein and in 1539 was parish to Frauenstein. The manor ruled the Frauenstein manor in 1551 . Reichenau was an official village from 1647. In 1834, part of the southern town of Neubau was incorporated. At that time Reichenau was part of the Frauenstein office. From 1856 to 1875 the administration was with the Frauenstein court office, then with the Dippoldiswalde administration . The district size of Waldhufendorf in 1900 was 1266 hectares . In 1925 the population of Reichenau was divided into 821 Evangelical Lutheran citizens and two Catholics . The official administration was converted into the Dippoldiswalde district (later the district) in 1952 . In 1994 it was merged with the Freital district to form the Weißeritz district. On January 1, 1994, the communities of Hartmannsdorf and Reichenau merged to form the new community of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau, which has been located in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district, formed from the old Saxon Switzerland and Weißeritz districts since August 1 . Reichenau is the seat of the Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau municipal administration.

Mining

Mining was carried out in Reichenau for centuries . The subject of the mining were several silver veins of the so-called noble quartz formation (eq), which were located in an approximately 2,000 × 200 meter large mine field west of Reichenau. The most important mines were Friedrich August and Friedrich Christoph , the latter mine demonstrably delivering silver to Freiberg as early as 1520 . The processing plants ( stamp mills and smelting works ) were located in the Gimmlitztal southwest of Reichenau.

In the Thirty Years War , mining came to a largely standstill. The resumption was slow, as in the 18th century one repeatedly encountered areas of the old mining that had already been erased. The yield remained modest, with the Friedrich August mine delivering almost 187 kilograms of silver between 1711 and 1784. It was only at the end of the 18th century that new, more productive ore deposits could be developed. The Friedrich Christoph mine was able to achieve a yield of almost 2,800 kilograms of silver between 1787 and 1834. In 1834 the two pits were combined into one mine. For drainage, the Friedrich Christoph Stolln was extended as the deepest drainage tunnel from the Friedrich Christoph mine to the Friedrich August mine (total length approx. 2 kilometers). The years around 1850/1860 brought extensive ore eruptions again, in 1865 alone 477 kilograms of silver could be mined. However, further mining would have required an advance beyond the depth of around 200 meters reached so far . Due to the uncertainty about the suspected further ore deposits in deeper areas, this was not done for financial reasons. So the Reichenau mining was stopped in 1887/88. Later ventures did not get beyond exploration.

Extensive dumps , pingen shafts , the hut house of the Friedrich Christoph mine built in 1795 , the mouth of Friedrich Christoph Erbstolln and the exposed foundation walls of an old silver wash in the Gimmlitztal still bear witness to the mining industry .

Development of the population

year population
1551 45 possessed men , 77 residents
1764 45 possessed man, 41 cottagers , 39¾ hooves
1834 786
1871 1070
year population
1890 900
1910 873
1925 824
1939 783
year population
1964 1054
1950 1077
1964 825
1990 682

literature

Web links

  • Reichenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Reichenau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office