Sehmatal

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	697 m above sea level NHN
Area :	44.51 km 2
Residents:	6378 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09465
Area code :	037342
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 560
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 76 09465 Sehmatal-Cranzahl
Website :	www.sehmatal.de
Mayor :	Andreas Schmiedel (Free Voters Citizens' Forum)
Location of the municipality of Sehmatal in the Erzgebirge district

Sehmatal is a municipality in the Erzgebirge district in Saxony . It was created on January 1, 1999 through the merger of the towns of Neudorf , Cranzahl and Sehma .

View from Bärenstein to Sehmatal

geography

location

The three districts that emerged as Waldhufendörfer are located along the Sehma in a north-south direction. The northernmost is Sehma, then Cranzahl and the southernmost Neudorf (with the place Kretscham-Rothensehma ). The highest peaks are the Bärenstein and the Kuhbrückenberg, both with a height of 898  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring communities

In the north, Sehmatal borders on Annaberg-Buchholz , in the east on Königswalde and Bärenstein , in the south on Oberwiesenthal and in the west on Crottendorf .

politics

City council election 2019 Turnout: 67.1% (2014: 53.1%)  % 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 27.5% 16.2% 48.7% 4.7% 3.0% CDU AfD FWBF left Green Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  18th  16  14th  12  10    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -10 -12 -14 -16 -15.8  % p + 16.2  % p -2.3  % p -2.0  % p +1.7  % p CDU AfD FWBF left Green

Municipal council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 5 seats
• Free voters Bürgerforum e. V. (FWBF): 9 seats
• Alternative for Germany : 2 seats

City council election 2014

In the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council were distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 7 seats
• Free local voter association Sehmatal e. V. (FW): 6 seats
• Free voters Bürgerforum e. V. (FWBF): 2 seats
• LEFT : 1 seat

mayor

In July 2013 Andreas Schmiedel was elected to succeed Udo Ott.

Partnerships

Partnerships exist with the German communities Sexau and Wyhl in Baden-Württemberg as well as Happurg and Altdorf near Nuremberg in Bavaria. Kovářská is in the Czech Republic and Running Springs (California) is the partner municipality in the USA .

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Sehmatal

Museums

The soup museum is located in the Neudorf district .

The smoker museum is located in the district of Cranzahl

Attractions

The "Zum Weihrichkarzl" demonstration workshop for the HUSS incense candle production is located in the Neudorf district .

Buildings

The Cranzahl dam is located southeast of Cranzahl on Neudorfer Flur .

Sports

In the district of Sehma there is an outdoor swimming pool that was renovated in 2005. The district of Neudorf is the home of cross-country Olympic champion Viola Bauer . Every year on the first Saturday in October, the Fichtelberglauf takes place from Neudorf . In 2006, the 9.1 kilometer long mountain run, which has an altitude difference of 500 meters, started for the 20th time. The run, which starts at the Spindelfabrik (714 meters above sea level) and ends on the plateau of the Fichtelberg (1215 meters above sea level), regularly counts up to 300 participants. The track record holder is cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer from the Czech Republic. In the 18th edition in 2004, it took 36 minutes and 6 seconds.

In the district of Cranzahl, the women of KSV Blau-Weiß Lumpen 1896 bowled Cranzahl in the 1st and Bundesliga. Before the 2017/2018 season, a large part of the team moved to SKV Stollberg after internal differences .

The football clubs in Sehmatal are FC Sehmatal (the merger of the clubs FSV Sehma and FC Cranzahl formed on July 1, 2002) and SV Neudorf. Cranzahl and Sehma have a grass pitch, Neudorf an artificial grass pitch.

Economy and Infrastructure

Sehma and the Sehmatal was an important production location for the textile industry during the GDR era. One of the largest yarn refinements in the GDR with around 800 employees was located in Sehma . In today's Neudorf district there was also a large factory that manufactured spinning machines. There is not much left of the "shine" of the textile industry back then. In the factory of the former "Garnveredlung Sehma" there is now a cable manufacturing company that employs around 200 people. The spinning machine construction from Neudorf still exists today, but only with a reduced workforce. Nevertheless, the Spindelfabrik Neudorf GmbH as well as the Neudorf production site of the Mennekes Group, Schröder + Heidler GmbH and Huss Maschinenbau GmbH are among the largest employers, some 100 or more employees, in town.

The Neudorf district is known nationwide for the incense cones made by the Huss family.

traffic

Cranzahl station

Sehmatal is on the Vejprty – Annaberg-Buchholz railway line and is connected to the DB Erzgebirgsbahn network with the Sehma stop and the Cranzahl train station . In Cranzahl the narrow-gauge Fichtelbergbahn branches off to Oberwiesenthal . Both railway lines run in the Sehmatal.

There is no federal road through the municipality. The connection to the road network is via the state road 266 and district roads leading through the districts.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Benjamin Metzler (1650–1686), cloth merchant and founder of the B. Metzler seel banking house. Sohn & Co. KGaA
• Carl Gotthilf Nestler (1789–1864), Erzgebirge hammer owner and entrepreneur (Nestler & Breitfeld)
• Friedrich Richard Küttner (1847–1929), textile manufacturer
• Hugo Küttner (1879–1945), artificial silk producer
• Max Dietze (1897–1940), local politician (NSDAP)
• Fritz Gerstenberger (1898 – after 1968), Ore Mountains dialect poet
• Fritz Voigt (1910–1993), transport scientist
• Gerhard Hönicke (1930–1984), track and field athlete
• Heinz Nestler (* 1938), Nordic ski trainer

People related to the place

• William Hering (1812–1897), Protestant pastor and politician, MdL
• Willy Kaltofen (1918–2012), musician and composer
• Gaby Nestler (* 1967), cross-country skier
• Alexander Bau (* 1970), luge rider
• Viola Bauer (* 1976), cross-country skier

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Sehmatal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1999
3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
4. ↑ http://www.radiodresden.de/nachrichten/lokalnachrichten/andreas-schmiedel-gewinnt-buergermeisterwahl-in-sehmatal-640627/