Reichenbach (Callenberg)

Reichenbach Municipality Callenberg Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 26 ″  E
Area :	3.35 km²
Residents :	798
Population density :	238 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1994
Postal code :	09337
Area code :	03723
Location of Reichenbach in Saxony

Reichenbach is a district of the municipality of Callenberg in the district of Zwickau (Free State of Saxony ). It was incorporated into Callenberg on March 1, 1994.

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Reichenbach is located in the southwest of the municipality of Callenberg am Erlbach , a tributary of the Zwickauer Mulde . The place is north of the Oberwald reservoir , which arose from the disused opencast nickel mine "Callenberg Süd I". This former open-cast mine was connected to the now disused and dismantled section of the industrial railway of the St. Egidien nickel smelter , whose depot was in Obercallenberg . The route that can still be seen today on the embankment led through the southern part of Reichenbach. The federal highway 180 runs west of the place, which crosses south of Reichenbach with the federal highway 4 at the junction "Hohenstein-Ernstthal".

Neighboring places

Callenberg		Langenchursdorf
Grumbach		Hawks
	Obercallenberg	Waldenburger Oberwald

history

Reichenbach cultural meeting place, formerly a school, then town hall

Map section of Reichenbach with the route of the ore railway

Information board former stocking factory Reichenbach (Callenberg)

Wedding chapel Callenberg in Reichenbach

View of Reichenbach from the former embankment of the ore railway

The forest hoof village Reichenbach was mentioned in a document in 1243 as "Richenbach". In this document the exchange of the places that came from the Lords of Waldenburg to the Remse monastery was recorded . Reichenbach belonged with the places Tirschheim (today: district of St. Egidien ) and parts of Swabia (today: district of Waldenburg ) and Wickersdorf (today: district of Oberwiera ) to the places of the Remse monastery, which after disputes between the monastery and the Lords of Schönburg were handed over to Ernst von Schönburg in 1488 by the Torgau judgment . Since the four scattered places were Electoral Saxon fiefs, the Schönburgers were not allowed to merge with their Schoenburg rulers, which were immediately part of the empire and in whose territory the places were located. The administration of the four places of the present Tirschheim lordship was taken over by a separate thing chair , which had the competence of a Saxon vassal court . A court director administered the higher and inheritance jurisdiction, which were included in the manorial rights of the Lords of Schönburg. The assignment of the lordship of Tirschheim changed due to multiple shifts of property within the von Schönburg family between the Schönburg lordships of Penig and Remse, which were also under electoral Saxon feudal rule . From 1797, the Tirschheim estate was part of the rent office of the Schönburg (recess) lordship of Waldenburg , while the higher and inheritance courts were administered by the bailiff of the Schönburg feudal lordship Remse . In 1834, 532 people lived in Reichenbach. The relationship between the Kingdom of Saxony and the House of Schönburg was reorganized in 1835. The areas under Saxon feudal rule, such as the rule of Remse and the manor of Tirschheim, were placed under the administration of the royal Saxon office of Zwickau . On September 25, 1856, the judicial powers of the Tirschheim lordship as well as those of the Remse lordship were ceded to the Saxon state. Since then, Reichenbach has been administered by the Remse court office like the other associated towns until the administration in the Kingdom of Saxony was reorganized in 1875 . From 1875 Reichenbach was initially part of the Zwickau administration . After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of ​​the Schönburg recession in 1878, Reichenbach and the entire former judicial district of Remse came to the newly founded Saxon governorate of Glauchau in 1880 . Textile processing had a long tradition in Reichenbach. Already in 1683, 27 linen weavers and 2 linen wall dealers were mentioned in the village. The hosiery trade was founded in 1735. With the opening of the first textile factory in 1863 (production of hosiery and gloves), the textile industry developed in Reichenbach, which existed until the end of the GDR in 1989. The school, built in 1890, was inaugurated the following year. The gym dates from 1923.

American soldiers occupied the place on April 14, 1945. It was only incorporated into the Soviet occupation zone on June 12, 1945 . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Reichenbach came to the Hohenstein-Ernstthal district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). In the same year, south of the village, on the corridors of the dissolved Bochmann estate in Obercallenberg, the nickel mine Callenberg Süd I was opened up , which was opened as the Oberwald reservoir in 1982 after its closure in 1977 . The first drilling has been carried out in the Reichenbach area since 1950. Between 1959/60 and 1990 the industrial railway of the St. Egidien nickel smelter was in operation, the mine station of which was located at the crossing between Reichenbach and Obercallenberg . In the continuation, the industrial line ran through the southern part of Reichenbach to the opencast mines Callenberg North I (1973–1988), ore 7 (1984–1988) and Callenberg North II (1978–1990) north of Reichenbach. On the southeast edge of Reichenbach, the Callenberg Süd II was still in operation between 1980 and 1990 . Between 1962 and 1964, the community of Reichenbach was the first village in the northern district of Hohenstein-Ernstthal to have a central water supply. When the Reichenbach School was closed in 1969, the town hall was set up in the building. Since then, the students have attended the central school in Callenberg. After nickel mining was discontinued, a parking lot for the Oberwald reservoir was built on the site of the Obercallenberg mine station in 1990. As a relic of the ore railway, two wagons were left standing near the dam of the Oberwald reservoir. The embankment together with some of the foundations of the overhead line masts, bridge piers and signal remnants are evidence of the industrial railway in Reichenbach to this day. The remaining open pit holes were rehabilitated after 1990.

The municipality of Reichenbach came to the Saxon district of Hohenstein-Ernstthal in 1990 , which became part of the Chemnitzer Land district in 1994 and the Zwickau district in 2008. On March 1, 1994, Reichenbach was incorporated into Callenberg. The former Reichenbach town hall in the center of the village was opened in December 2000 after extensive renovation measures as a cultural meeting place Reichenbach for clubs, interest groups and citizens of the seven Callenberg districts. It also houses an exhibition on nickel ore mining in the Callenberg area, including a relief model showing the landscape of today's Callenberg community at the time of nickel ore mining between 1952 and 1990. North-east of Reichenbach, the second funeral forest in Saxony was opened in September 2016 with the “Waldfriedhof Schönburger Land” . On March 29, 2018, the "Wedding Chapel Callenberg" opened in Grumbacher Strasse, which was built as a private event chapel in the architectural style of the Renaissance (16th / 17th century). Its church-romantic ambience can be used especially for weddings, but also for birthdays, company celebrations, conferences, concerts, Christmas parties or other occasions. Since it is a private event chapel, no religious scriptures, symbols, or the like are used. The marriages are carried out by a registrar of the responsible registry office Hohenstein-Ernstthal in the "Wedding Chapel Callenberg".

Attractions

• Oberwald reservoir
• Reichenbach cultural meeting place with an exhibition on nickel mining in the Callenberg area
• Callenberg wedding chapel

Web links

Commons : Reichenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reichenbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Chronicle of Reichenbach on the website of the municipality of Callenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Declaration of waiver by the abbot of Bürgel to four villages belonging to the Remse monastery in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
2. ↑ The places of Patrimonialgerichts Tirschheim under the administration of the rule Penig in the book "Geography for all levels", page 904 and 899 (Schwaben)
3. ↑ The patrimonial Tirschheim under the administration of Justice Office Remse in the "Handbook of geography," S. 410th
4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.
5. ↑ The Dingstuhl Tirschheim in the "Monograph on the Princely and Countess House of Schönburg"
6. ^ The Schönburg rule of Waldenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
7. ↑ Incorporation of the Remse rule with the Tirschheim and Ziegelheim dinghies in the Zwickau district directorate, “Handbook of the royal Saxon legislation of January 28th and 30th, 1835”, p. 132
8. ^ The Zwickau Office in the Archives of the Free State of Saxony
9. ↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
10. ^ Reichenbach on gov.genealogy.net
11. ^ Website of the Waldfriedhof Schönburger Land
12. ^ Website of the wedding chapel in Callenberg
13. ^ The Reichenbach cultural meeting place on the website of the municipality of Callenberg