Silberstrasse (Wilkau-Haßlau)
Silberstraße has been part of the town of Wilkau-Haßlau in the district of Zwickau , Free State of Saxony , since 1999 . It has around 2,000 inhabitants and is 340 m above sea level. NN . In addition to village development, the district includes a newly built residential area with modern residential units, large industrial plants with textile production and agricultural operations.
geography
Geographical location
The former village and today's district lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains, in a basin, about 10 km south of Zwickau and is divided by the Zwickauer Mulde .
Neighboring communities
The neighboring community is Reinsdorf with the districts of Vielau and Friedrichsgrün , and the cities of Kirchberg and Wildenfels in the district of Zwickau.
history
The origin of Silberstraße was a former Gutsweiler with Gutsblockflur in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde , whose manor and hamlet were mentioned in a document under the name Arme Ruh before 1251. In this case, the name Arme Ruh denotes the small amount of land owned by the manor, not the economic situation.
In the course of the developing silver mining in the Ore Mountains to the south, a trade route ran through the town early on, which was given the name Silver Route . According to tradition, a bridge over the Mulde already existed on site in 1470, which benefited the development of the place. Probably for this reason, the then landlord Kunz von Uttenhofen (old Franconian noble family) asked the sovereign between 1470 and 1479 to rename the manor and village to Silberstrasse. After 1480 Silberstraße belonged to the Parish Schönau , one of the larger parishes in the vicinity at that time.
While Silberstraße and Haara belonged to the offices of Zwickau and Wiesenburg until the 19th century , Oberhaßlau was under the administration of the Schönburg office of Hartenstein .
From the middle of the 19th century, the increasing economic development in the German Empire also reached the region around Zwickau . In May 1858 the Zwickau – Schwarzenberg line of the Upper Ore Mountains Railway was opened, which ran through Silberstraße and which was of great importance for the increasing rush hour traffic in the Mulde valley. In 1907 Silberstraße was also given its own stop on the now double-track line.
However, it was not until the end of the 19th century that larger commercial enterprises found their way into Silberstrasse. In 1892 the Blätterlein brothers operated an embroidery company, which was followed by an enamelling and punching plant in 1893 . Production of the plant was only stopped in 1972. With the Kammgarnspinnerei another important industry developed in the 1920s. The resulting Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH is now one of the most modern spinning mills in the world.
The economic boom of the place was also reflected in a rapid increase in the population. While only 60 people lived in Silberstrasse around 1820, in 1934 (also due to incorporations) there were already 1,287 inhabitants. In 2000 the population was 1,991.
The manor in Silberstrasse
The first documentary mention of the manor comes from the years before 1251 under the name Arme Ruh .
Around 1470 a bridge was built over the Mulde for silver mining in the Ore Mountains, which the then landlord Kunz von Uttenhofen (old Franconian noble family) used between 1470 and 1479 to ask the sovereign to rename the manor and village to Silberstraße.
In the following centuries there were several changes of ownership and structural changes to the manor complex.
Well-known major structural changes date from 1899. The manor building was demolished by the owner at the time, Ernst Gustav Alfred Dautzenberg . A mansion was built on the same spot, which was again expanded several times in the following years and rebuilt to the current view.
After the Second World War, the manor became community property. It served as a residential building and administrative building for the local agricultural cooperative until the political change, and was sold in 2011.
Incorporations
The community of Silberstraße developed historically from the three then independent places Haara , Oberhaßlau and Silberstraße. The village of Haara was first partially incorporated into Silberstraße in 1924, and on July 1, 1934, it was merged with Oberhaßlau to the north. The common name was Silberstraße because the larger commercial operations were located there.
The next territorial reform came in the late 1990s. In 1998, contrary to the requirements of the municipal area reform in Saxony, initially a merger with the municipality of Wiesenburg (now part of Wildenfels ) was planned, but this connection could not be enforced before the administrative court. On January 1, 1999, it was incorporated as a district to Wilkau-Haßlau . The district of Silberstraße today has an area of 2.79 km².
Sons and daughters of the place
- Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff (1700–1774), Oberhofjägermeister, director and chief inspector of all rafts and manor owner
- Curt Lahr (1898–1974), senior Saxon state employee, President of the Saxon Savings Banks Association, head of the Saxon State Chancellery and savings bank director
Web links
- Silberstraße in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where did the name Silberstrasse come from? In: Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Der Sagenschatz des Kingdom of Saxony , Volume 1, second improved and increased edition, Schönfeld: Dresden 1874. P. 418 (full text at Wikisource )
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 12 ° 33 ′ E