Rudelswalde

Rudelswalde City of Crimmitschau Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 36 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	280 m
Area :	3.23 km²
Residents :	340  (Feb 29, 2012)
Population density :	105 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	08451
Area code :	03762
Location of Rudelswalde in Saxony

Rudelswalde is a district of the large district town of Crimmitschau in the Saxon district of Zwickau . The place was incorporated on July 1, 1950. Rudelswalde has a size of 323 hectares, lies at an altitude of 318 m above sea level and on December 31, 2008 had a total of 378 inhabitants. The place has largely retained the character of a row village .

geography

location

Rudelswalde is located west of the urban area of ​​Crimmitschau am Döbitzbach, a tributary of the Pleiße . State road 290 runs south and west of the village and leads to the "Schmölln" junction on federal motorway 4 . North-west of Rudelswalde is the state border with Thuringia .

Neighboring places

Thonhausen	Mark Sahnau	Leitelshain
Mannichswalde		Crimmitschau
	Langenreinsdorf	Neukirchen / Pleiße

history

St. Catherine's Church

In 1220, Henrich von Crimmitschau had a stately Augustinian monastery built not far from his castle, the Wasserburg zu Crimmitschau (today Schweinsburg Castle ), half an hour south of the city, near the old Martinskirche (today Carthauser ), and gave him the whole corridor all around. Rudelswalde was first mentioned in this context. The oldest records and documents of Rudelswalde, which was named after its first settler Rudolph (Rudolpheswalde spelling 1351), extend until shortly before the beginning of the Thirty Years War . About 100 years earlier it must be assumed that the Dingstuhl (village court) must have already existed. The first court books begin in 1544. Rudelswalde was a typical row and farming village with few ancillary trades, e.g. B. Sheep's wool spinning and combing and some craftsmen such as tailors , shoemakers , bricklayers and blacksmiths . In the Thirty Years War, twelve inhabited properties were devastated. In 1633 45 people died of the plague in only 22 estates .

Rudelswalde was part of the Schoenburg care of Crimmitschau, which became Wettin in 1413 and was incorporated into the Electoral Saxon Zwickau in the 16th century . Until the 19th century, the manorial rule over Rudelswalde was partly part of the manors Carthauser , Frankenhausen and the parish of Langenreinsdorf . As an administrative village, part of Rudelswalde was directly under the Zwickau office.

Due to the clay, limestone, gravelly and sandy soils, good agricultural yields have always been achieved in Rudelswalde. Between 1742 and 1744 limestone quarries and lime kilns were operated in the place. On April 1, 1803, the church and 13 farms were destroyed by flames. The new village church St. Katharinen in the center of the village was built in 1811/12 and in 1861 received an Opitz organ with eight sounding stops. From 1826 Rudelswalde had its own school, which was replaced by a new house in 1885. The school system was often too expensive for the community, teachers rarely received the remuneration set in the country, so teachers often complained. By the school district law of July 11, 1921, the independence of the Rudelswalder school community was abolished, the pupils had to go to the Crimmitschauer elementary school . Only since 1859 has there been a dance hall in Rudelswalde; Until then, only row bars were allowed (according to a concession from 1812, all residents were allowed to give away beer one after the other in a certain order, advertising for it was not allowed, but everyone was well informed).

Rudelswalde belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau until 1856 . In 1856 the place was affiliated with the Crimmitschau court office and in 1875 with the Zwickau administration . 20 Rudelswalder did not return from the First World War . In 1926 the place had 576 inhabitants and five inns , for a few years there was no more gastronomy here. In 1997 the "Regenbogenhof" opened a guest house with a restaurant, set up in a converted farmstead that was formerly used for agriculture. In 1928 there was an exchange of territory and a border adjustment between the Free State of Saxony and the State of Thuringia . As a result, the splintered areas of the Thuringian part of Thonhausen in Saxony were ceded to Saxony and incorporated into Rudelswalde. The following incident was reported by a contemporary witness from the time of the Second World War : “Karl Ernst Hilbert, who was born in Rudelswalde, Oberfeldwebel of the German Air Force , took off on June 23, 1943 from the Altenburg military airfield in a Bf 109 , flew over his home town, gave his parents there or acquaintances a sign and crashed in the neighboring community Neukirchen. "

On July 1, 1950, Rudelswalde was incorporated into Crimmitschau. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Rudelswalde became part of the town of Crimmitschau in 1952 and became part of the Werdau district in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Werdau from 1990 and in 1994 in the Zwickauer Land district or 2008 in the district of Zwickau.

History of the Rudelswalde fire department

Since 1851 there have been fire extinguishing regulations and fire brigades in Rudelswalde , in which every male resident was obliged to participate in the extinguishing work - otherwise he had to pay a fine. In 1851 the syringe disengaged four times. In 1855 a gang of thieves and arsonists roamed the area around the community, so that they felt compelled to set up a guard and security service. In 1875 the Rudelswalder Mühle burned - the fire was successfully extinguished. In 1894 the syringe house built in 1851 was replaced by a larger massive building.

1928 is the founding year of the volunteer fire brigade in Rudelswalde; this emerges from a petition for 100 marks to the Crimmitschau volunteer fire brigade , which approved this amount to the Rudelswalder people for the construction of their newly founded fire brigade. In 1931 a riser tower was built. In the years 1959/60 the syringe house was enlarged, in 1972 the riser tower had to be demolished. In 1998 the newly built fire station was consecrated at the old location .

Attractions

• St. Catherine's Church
• Rudelswalde watermill

Web links

Commons : Rudelswalde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rudelswalde in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Rudelswalde district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Kanzleilehngut Carthause on www.sachsens-schlösser.de
2. ↑ The Frankenhausen manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
4. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
5. ^ Map with the exchange areas between Saxony and Thuringia in 1928
6. ↑ Rudelswalde on gov.genealogy.net