Rohrbach (Bad Brambach)

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Rohrbach
Bad Brambach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 36 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 600 m
Area : 1.25 km²
Residents : 91  (2011)
Population density : 73 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 08648
Area code : 037438
Rohrbach (Saxony)
Rohrbach

Location of Rohrbach in Saxony

View from the customs houses over Rohrbach
View from the customs houses over Rohrbach

Rohrbach is a district and a district of the southernmost municipality of Saxony , Bad Brambach in the Vogtlandkreis . The important trade route Leipzig - Eger once ran through the village . It crossed the border with Bohemia here and reached its greatest height in the Rohrbach district at 650 m above sea level.

geography

View over the scattered settlement to the west
Landscape in the Hennebachtal

The place is located in the Upper Vogtland directly on the border with the Czech Republic . The scattered settlement is located on a plateau south of the 670 m high Schieferknock . The watershed of Saale and Eger (Czech: Ohře) runs right through the village . The eponymous Rohrbach (Czech: Rokytnik) drains over the Fleißenbach (Czech: Plesná) to the Eger.

The Hennebach residential area on the Hennebach or Hannabach of the same name (Czech: Pstruhový potok ) belongs to Rohrbach, to the east, directly on the Czech border and equally scattered .

history

Origin of name

The name Rohrbach stands for a place on a stream that is lined with reeds or reeds . In the 18th century the place was also called the Wetterhütte , because farmers from Brambach grazed their cattle here and built one or more weather shelters for them.

Hennebach probably owes its name to the capercaillie .

The origin of the name of the highest mountain, Schieferknock, on the boundary of Oberbrambach , is also very interesting , because Nock is primarily the name for compact elevations in the Eastern Alps. Knock is used for this in Bavaria . This indicates that the area was reclaimed by Upper Palatinate settlers.

historical development

The village of Rohrbach was first mentioned under the name Rorbach in 1185. The document of Pope Lucius III. shows various localities of the later Schönbacher Länd among other things also Fleißen (Czech: Plesná) and Rohrbach as property of the Waldsassen Abbey . Both places were probably settled from Brambach. The old trade and later post road Leipzig-Eger led from Adorf and Landwüst in a north-south direction (on today's Grenzweg) through the town. It crossed the border with Bohemia here and led directly to Fleißen. The location on the street brought hardship and misery to the residents in times of war, so that the place was completely desolate around 1350 . Starting from the manor Brambach , the repopulation was carried out by Fröner , who raised sheep here. Rohrbach belonged to the Voigtsberg office until the 19th century .

Rohrbach was parish to Brambach . The parish came to extensive forest ownership through foundations in the Rohrbach district, which the field names Pfaffenberg and Pfarrholz still attest to today. The Brambach manor also originally had large forests. However, after bankruptcy, dismantling and auctioning in 1854, these were acquired by the Princely School of Meissen , which then built a new forester's house in Rohrbach in 1865 .

When a new road was built around 1830 from Adorf, through the Raunerbachtal, via Oberbrambach to Schönberg, traffic on the Saxon post road coming from the direction of Landwüst decreased in Rohrbach. The quarter milestone remained as a traffic-historical testimony.

The place received its own, two-class elementary school in 1846. The children from Hennebach were also taught here. The number of students in 1903 was 38 children with 208 inhabitants. In 1913 a new representative school building was built, which was used as such until 1950. Since then, the children have been going to school in Bad Brambach.

On January 1, 1972, Rohrbach was incorporated into Bad Brambach and has since been part of this municipality.

Development of the population

year population
1793 11 gardeners , 3 cottagers
1834 139
1871 207
1890 186
year population
1910 196
1925 204
1939 224
1946 320
year population
1950 249
1964 158

Worth seeing

  • The Saxon quarter milestone was re-used as a cover stone for a water pipe in Bad Brambach in 1935 and put up again there. Since 1950 it has been in its original location in Rohrbach on the old Poststrasse (corner of Grenzweg / Wiesengrund).
  • In the forests around Rohrbach, especially on the Pfaffenberg, the snow heather , which is predominantly located in the Alps, thrives .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (Ed.): Historical book of place names of Saxony , edited by Ernst Eichler, Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Hans Walther and Erika Weber, 3 volumes, de Gruyter-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 , Volume I: A – L, p. 558 ( Link to the digitized version , accessed on March 18, 2019)
  2. Historical place directory of Saxony
  3. Bruno Rudau : Bad Elster, Sohl · Radium bath Brambach. Bibliographical Institute Leipzig, Leipzig 1962, p. 55.
  4. See Rohrbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony