Schenkenberg (Chemnitz)
The Schenkenberg is an elevation on the southern edge of the city of Chemnitz in the Reichenhain district .
Definition of terms
The name goes back to the “Neue Schenken ” inn , which in the 19th century was a rest stop with a large tree-lined garden and a wide view of the old trade route to Bohemia (see also the Saxon salt route ) and is located at the confluence of today's B 174 Georgistrasse was located. Originally this inn was called "Zur Grünen Eiche". During the Napoleonic Wars it was temporarily occupied with wounded French soldiers. The exact construction date of the inn is not documented, but two fires on October 23, 1813 and on the night of February 21-22, 1903. The inn complex was rebuilt both times and renamed "Neue Schänken" after the second reconstruction. In the first half of the 20th century it was a popular ball and concert establishment for the Chemnitz population. The buildings were completely destroyed in the Second World War and never rebuilt. In its place, a bunker system of the Deutsche Post was built in the 1950s, which has not been used since 1989.
The mountain itself has only been known as Schenkenberg since the 1960s, where the modern street name (only in use since 1968) was accepted by the population within a short time and transferred to the entire hill.
The summit of the Schenkenberg is marked by the telecommunications tower of the former Deutsche Post, which is part of the directional radio network. The proximity of the former telecommunications center on Zschopauer Straße, the former spacious stasis complex in neighboring Adelsberg and the unobstructed view from Schenkenberg also gave it strategic importance in GDR times.
If you follow the B 174 out of the city center of Chemnitz, where it first runs along an Old Pleistocene Chemnitz terrace , a clear slope begins on Schenkenberg. Geographically, the B 174 leaves the Ore Mountains Basin at this point and the northern edge of the Ore Mountains begins. While the city of Chemnitz (city center) is at a height of approx. 295 m, the Schenkenberg already reaches 434.4 m and in the southeastern area of the city of Chemnitz is only made up of the Adelsberg with 509 m and the Dittersdorfer Höhe with 552 m (highest Survey in Chemnitz) exceeded.
Schenkenberg settlement
The settlement Schenkenberg with 24 homes and another 12 homes west of the Zschopauer road was in 1935 to 1937 as a settlement Julius Schreck -Straße by the architect Friedrich Kerner , the construction company "Home and Garden" and according to the ideas of the garden city movement built and was called from 1945 to approx. 1968 Siedlung Ernst-Enge- Strasse .
Characteristic were the slate roofs, the natural stone plinths, the porphyry walls of the doors and, above all, the connection of the houses with pergolas. In addition, each house has already been given a garage integrated into the development or a secondary access via a farm road. In the first years of its existence, the white plastered houses could be seen from many points in the large city of Chemnitz, which is located in the basin, so that the settlement was popularly known as the "Quark settlement" - later tree growth covered the view.
With the construction of the Hans-Beimler residential area, an area characterized by prefabricated houses in the Gablenz district of Chemnitz , a larger street was named after the anti-fascist Ernst Enge and the settlement received the third and now final name Schenkenberg within 25 years . The settlement was expanded in 2002–2005 to include a few houses in an unsuccessful urban design. Afterwards there is a meadow orchard (GLB) of the Chemnitz Green Space Office, which is maintained by NABU .
House no. 10 fell victim to World War II and was destroyed by an air mine.
Soviet cemetery
The Soviet cemetery, laid out in 1945, with its old avenue of linden trees and hundreds of warm red porphyry tombstones, reminds of the victims of the Second World War. Special features are the small chapel with the roof turret reminiscent of the Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress and two porphyry memorials. On one of the memorials it is noteworthy that, astonishingly, the dead are referred to as “citizens of the United Nations” (and not of the Soviet Union).
Sandstone stele
Tombstones
Obelisk by Hanns Diettrich
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Web links
- Photo panorama (private homepage)
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ' N , 12 ° 58' E