St. Egidien
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ' N , 12 ° 37' E |
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| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Zwickau | |
| Management Community : | Around the Auersberg | |
| Height : | 261 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 21.26 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3268 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 154 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 09356 | |
| Primaries : | 037204, 03723 (Kuhschnappel), 03763 (Lobsdorf) | |
| License plate : | Z, GC, HOT, WDA | |
| Community key : | 14 5 24 280 | |
| Community structure: | 3 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Glauchauer Str. 35 | |
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| Mayor : | Uwe Redlich | |
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St. Egidien is a municipality in the Saxon district of Zwickau . It is part of the administrative community around the Auersberg .
geography
Geographical location
St. Egidien is located about eleven kilometers northeast of Zwickau and five kilometers southeast of the large district town of Glauchau . The place is at the transition from the Saxon Granulite Mountains (southwestern edge) to the Ore Mountains foreland . In the municipal area heights of 370 meters are reached. The Lungwitzbach flows through St. Egidien . Its tributary, the Kuhschnappelbach, feeds the St. Egidien dam , which lies between Kuhschnappel and St. Egidien .
Neighboring communities
| Callenberg | Hohenstein-Ernstthal | |
| Glauchau |
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Bernsdorf |
| Lichtenstein |
The district of St. Egidien borders clockwise: Lobsdorf in the north, Kuhschnappel in the northeast, Rüsdorf and Bernsdorf in the east, Lichtenstein in the south, the Rümpfwald in the west and Niederlungwitz in the northwest.
Community structure
The community of St. Egidien consists of the districts of Kuhschnappel (with Tirschheim ), Lobsdorf and St. Egidien.
history
St. Egidien was probably founded as "Tilling" between 930 and 968 (year of foundation of the Zeitz diocese ). Unfortunately, this can no longer be confirmed in a document, as the rectory in 1724 and the estate of the then community leader in 1831 each with all the documents burned down. The place was settled by Franconian farmers around 1150. They built a stone church in Niederdorf (today: "Am Berg"), which was consecrated to St. Aegidius . It was demolished in 1811 because it was in disrepair. The Church of Our Lady, which still exists today, was built in the 13th century as a small pilgrimage chapel. In 1752/53 the church was expanded and raised.
St. Egidien is mentioned for the first time in 1320 in the Naumburg document as "Ecclesia Sancti Egidii in Lunwicz". With regard to the basic rule of the place belonged to the 19th century as the official village to rule Glauchau , after partition in 1681 to the Official Forderglauchau . After an administrative reform was carried out in the area of the Schönburg recession in 1878, St. Egidien came to the newly founded Saxon governor of Glauchau in 1880 .
St. Egidien was connected to the railway network on November 15, 1858 with the opening of the station on the Chemnitz - Zwickau section of the Niedererzgebirgische Staatsbahn . This section later became part of the Dresden – Werdau railway line . The station gained importance as a railway junction with the opening of the Stollberg – St. Egidien on October 15, 1878, which served to connect the Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field . On June 26, 1869, the 27-year-old Karl May was to be brought from the St. Egidien train station to Bräunsdorf for a local appointment. However , he was able to flee at the local border of Kuhschnappel and escape to his hiding place, the so-called Karl May Cave near Hohenstein-Ernstthal .
As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the community of St. Egidien came to the Hohenstein-Ernstthal district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). In the same year, construction work began on the St. Egidien nickel smelter to process the nickel ore found in the Callenberg area , on whose site the Achat industrial park was built after its closure in 1990 .
The community of St. Egidien came to the Saxon district of Hohenstein-Ernstthal in 1990 , which was added to the district of Chemnitzer Land in 1994 and in 2008 in the district of Zwickau. On January 1, 1996 the municipality of Lobsdorf and on April 1, 1996 the municipality of Kuhschnappel (with the district of Tirschheim ) were incorporated.
Population development
On October 3, 1990, St. Egidien had 3516 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year:
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- Data source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony
politics
Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
Attractions
- Minerals cabinet
- The mineral cabinet houses a mineral collection of the former company "Nickelhütte St. Egidien"
- Owl house
- The owl house was built around 1600 as a half-timbered house. In 1707 it was completely renovated and reconstructed in 1983. Now it serves as a home for wood carvers and lace makers in St. Egidien.
- Church of "Our Lady"
- The Church of Our Lady is one of the oldest buildings in the town.
- Railway viaduct
- The railway viaduct over the Lungwitzbachtal is a five-arched viaduct from 1879 on the single-track railway line to Stollberg
Museums
- Local museum "Gerth Tower"
- In this museum there is an exhibition of approx. 400 exhibits that give an impression of the way of life of the population in past centuries.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
St. Egidien is located on the B173 between Zwickau and Chemnitz and the Dresden-Werdau railway , the Saxon-Franconian trunk line , also ends in St. Egidien Station of Stollberg next railway Stollberg-St. Egidien . Via the "Achatstraße", which partly follows the route of the former industrial railway of the St. Egidien nickel smelter, St. Egidien is connected to the federal motorway 4 , junction " Hohenstein-Ernstthal ".
St. Egidien station, front view (2016)
St. Egidien station railway side (2016)
St. Egidien station with RB to Zwickau (2016)
City-Bahn to Stollberg at St. Egidien station (2016)
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economy
Nickelhütte St. Egidien (1952–1990)
In 1952, the St. Egidien nickel smelter was built near the St. Egidien train station , in which the nickel ores from the deposits in the neighboring town of Callenberg were processed. Since 1959/1960, the industrial railway of the St. Egidien nickel smelter connected the opencast mines in the Callenberg area with the St. Egidien nickel smelter. The construction of the St. Egidien nickel smelter was a bad investment by the GDR - the deposit by no means showed the expected productivity - and so the smelter mainly produced mineral wool . With the political change and the new market situation, mining and production in the St. Egidien nickel smelter were stopped in 1990. The St. Egigien nickel smelter was spun off from the combine and transferred to the Industriegesellschaft St. Egidien mbH . This began in St. Egidien with the demolition of superfluous plants and the reclamation of the abandoned opencast mines.
Commercial areas
After 1990 the St. Egidien nickel smelter was demolished and the site was renovated. The area of the St. Egidien nickel smelter with the distinctive chimney became the Achat Industrial Park after 1990 , the name of which it received from the agate deposits in the St. Egidien area . In the industrial park agate are in addition to the industrial society St. Egidien GmbH u. a. the special vehicle construction of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH (since 2014) and Esda Strumpfwerke GmbH are located.
The community of St. Egidien also owns the “Am Auersberg” industrial park on the outskirts of the city of Lichtenstein .
education
St. Egidien has a “Bergschule” primary school, which is publicly sponsored, and an “Agate School” secondary school, which is independently sponsored. There are also three day-care centers for children.
Personalities associated with the community
- Gottfried Tröger (1935–2016), politician (CDU), member of the Landtag and Bundestag
- Heinz Wagner (* 1939), politician (CDU)
- Hartmut Rauschenbach (* 1950), footballer
- Thomas Jacob (* 1965), luge rider
- Heike Friedrich (* 1970), swimmer
- Ronny König (* 1983), footballer
literature
- Sanct Aegidien, Sanct Egidien . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 10th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1823, pp. 137–144.
- Richard Steche : St. Egidien. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 13. Issue: Glauchau District Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 5.
Web links
- St. Egidien in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Private website about St. Egidien
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ Data source: Festschrift for the 1000th anniversary in 1956
- ↑ Handbook of Geography, pp. 494f.
- ↑ St. Egidien (Tilgen) in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 898
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 92 f.
- ↑ The Glauchau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
- ^ Lobsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ Kuhschnappel on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
- ^ Website of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH
- ↑ Website of Esda Strumpfwerke GmbH