Sachsenfeld

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Sachsenfeld City of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 5 ″  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 55 ″  E
Residents :	1031  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	February 1, 1913
Postal code :	08340
Area code :	03774
Location of Sachsenfeld in Saxony

Sachsenfeld is a district of the city of Schwarzenberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains . In order to distinguish the area around the Sachsenfeld hammer mill from that of the manor, in the 17th / 18th Century the designation Unter-Sachsenfeld for one, Ober-Sachsenfeld for the other . This distinction became less important in the course of the 20th century.

history

Sachsenfeld manor around 1860

Metal goods factory FW Kutzschner jun. (around 1900)

Sachsenfeld Manor 2009

Sachsenfeld is one of the ten villages that were donated to what was then the Grünhain monastery in 1240 . As early as 1231/33 it is said to have been mentioned for the first time as the Sachsenvelt . The emergence of the place can be expected towards the end of the 12th century. The layout of the place as a manor settlement indicates a single estate that developed into a village over the course of time.

The origin of Sachsenfeld was the later Upper Sachsenfeld, which mainly consisted of a manor and belonged to the Grünhain monastery until the Reformation was introduced. The official inheritance book of the Grünhain office names the Hammergut , the old mill , Polmers Gut , Fridels Gut and Goldhans Gut in Sachsenfeld in 1546 , referring to the later Lower Sachsenfeld. In 1559 the mayor of Annaberg , Hans Schwarz, acquired the manor from the Saxon Elector August . After that, the owners changed frequently. In 1569 the estate went to Lucas Uthmann, the son of Barbara Uthmann . In 1580 it was owned by the Junker Hans Hünerkopf, who is said to have commissioned the establishment of the hereditary crypt of the Sachsenfeld rule. In 1593, Nikolaus Klinger , master hammer and owner of the Förstel hammer near Raschau, the ball hammer near Schwarzenberg , a hammer in Rittersgrün and the hammer mill in Erla also brought the Sachsenfeld manor into the family's possession.

Nicol Klinger made an outstanding contribution both to the expansion of the Beierfeld church and to the expansion of the estate as a castle. As early as 1602 he handed over the estate to his son-in-law, Hans Rüdiger, the son of the burgrave Lucas Rüdiger zu Thorn in Prussia. In 1613 he acquired the Eisenhammer Untersachsenfeld. The important economic position of Rüdiger became particularly clear in the years 1609 and 1616, when he entertained the Saxon Duke and Elector Johann Georg on his estate. After Rüdiger's death in 1630, his son of the same name took over the properties that were damaged and looted in the Thirty Years' War . In 1644 the estate including the Untersachsenfeld hammer and the two Sachsenfeld mills came into the possession of his brother-in-law, the lieutenant colonel and governor of the offices of Grünhain and Schwarzenberg , Veit Dietrich Wagner , who was later also responsible for the construction of Johanngeorgenstadt . In 1650 he acquired the neighboring village of Beierfeld from the Elector , which was then removed from the Grünhain monastery.

After his death in 1668 there were other owners: his son-in-law, the knight's feudal and higher court advocate for Bayreuth and bailiff to Helmbrecht Christof Melchior Feuerlein and in 1722 Count Heinrich Wilhelm Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg (1675–1741), in whose family the estate over 100 Years stayed. His son Friedrich Ludwig Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels and Tecklenburg was governor of the Erzgebirge district . He owned a library of more than 10,000 volumes in a rented farmhouse. After the estate went bankrupt in 1811, it was bought by Carl Georg Freiherr von Müller, whose son took it over nine years later for 29,000 thalers. After a fire in 1833, in which only the stair tower remained, the castle was rebuilt. In the course of industrialization and the associated suppression of agriculture, the Sachsenfeld manor lost its importance in the course of the 19th century. With the Saxon rural community order introduced in 1838 , Beierfeld and Sachsenfeld were given their political independence. In 1857 Hammer-Untersachsenfeld was incorporated into Neuwelt . On February 1, 1913, (Upper) Sachsenfeld lost its independence and was incorporated by Schwarzenberg, who had already become the owner of the manor in 1912. In 1916 Sachsenfeld was also reclassified to the church. After going to the Beierfeld Church up to then, people now attended the service in Schwarzenberg .

During the 1950s and 1960s, the castle was saved from deterioration through renovation and renovation measures. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was fundamentally reconstructed again and was operated privately as a restaurant at times.

Development of the population

year population 1548 1 5 possessed men , 4 ½ hooves 1551 2 11 residents 1834 1 382 1834 2 51

year population 1871 1 510 1890 1 632 1910 1 1463

¹ Obersachsenfeld

² Lower Saxony field

Sachsenfeld today

Sachsenfeld is known today as a district of Schwarzenberg, above all as the location of the oncological specialist hospital Marienstift , which was built at the beginning of the 20th century. On a tour of Schwarzenberg you can also visit the manor, the Hammergut and the Hammerbrücke, which was restored in the 1990s.

View of Sachsenfeld from the Schwarzenberg Central Cemetery

The restored Hammerbrücke in Untersachsenfeld

literature

• Thomas Brandenburg: The history of village and estate (castle) Sachsenfeld. In: Spiegelwaldbote (published by the Beierfeld / Grünhain administrative community) No. 1, 2, and 3/2002
• Poenicke, GA (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony based on nature, newly recorded by F. Heise, Architect. IV. Section: Erzgebirge District . Leipzig, around 1860
• Richard Steche : Obersachsenfeld. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 27.

Web links

Commons : Sachsenfeld (Schwarzenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony: Obersachsenfeld  - sources and full texts

• Obersachsenfeld in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Untersachsenfeld in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb., City. (PDF; 0.69 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 31, 2015 . 
2. ↑ See Obersachsenfeld in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ↑ See Untersachsenfeld in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony