Sachsengrund

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Sachsengrund is a district of Muldenhammer in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony .

Geographical location

Sachsengrund is located near the border with the Czech Republic at an altitude of about 750 m above sea level. NN in a remote, wooded valley of the Great Pyra , which can only be reached by car via a cul-de-sac . The region naturally belongs to the Western Ore Mountains , but geographically it belongs to the Vogtland .

history

Zollhaus Sachsengrund

The settlement probably emerged from a hammer mill for the nearby iron stone pits. Elias Steiniger first appeared in a document in 1664 as the hammer lord of Rautenkranz and Sachsengrund. He probably made an attempt to rebuild the "limp plant" after the Thirty Years' War . 1703 a glassworks is mentioned in Sachsengrund . The hammer mill's privileges, however, were renewed in 1719 . The place belonged to the Voigtsberg office until the middle of the 19th century . Several customs houses were built in the 1930s. However, the expansion of the place remained rather modest. During the time of National Socialist Germany there was a children's home in Sachsengrund, which was run by the NSDAP's “Office for People's Welfare” of the Gaus Sachsen .

Until September 30, 2009 Sachsengrund belonged to the independent municipality of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz , since October 1, 2009 Sachsengrund belongs to the municipality of Muldenhammer .

Attractions

literature

Web links

Commons : Sachsengrund  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sachsengrund. In: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 170.
  2. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ S. address field of a picture postcard of the children's home

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '  N , 12 ° 32'  E