Stein in the Chemnitz Valley

Stein ; Stein in the Chemnitz Valley Municipality Königshain-Wiederau Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 18 ″ N , 12 ° 48 ′ 30 ″ E
Area :	3.69 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Incorporated into:	Königshain-Wiederau
Postal code :	09306
Area code :	037383
Location of Stein in Saxony

Stein , officially Stein im Chemnitz valley until 1999 , is a district of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It was incorporated on January 1, 1999.

geography

Stein im Chemnitz Valley, welcome table at the entrance to the village

Rock in stone in the Chemnitz valley

Geographical location and traffic

Stein is located in the southwest of the municipality of Königshain-Wiederau. The place is located in a side valley of the Chemnitz , only the lower district is located directly on Chemnitztalstraße. In the vicinity of the place there are striking rock formations that gave stone its name. The nature reserve Sandberg Wiederau and Klinkholz is located north of Stein .

The federal highway 107 runs east of Stein , and the Via Porphyria passes southwest of the village . Between 1902 and 1998, Stein in the Chemnitz Valley had a stop on the Wechselburg – Küchwald railway line (Chemnitz Valley Railway ), which was closed in 2001 . This ran in the Chemnitz valley west of the place.

Neighboring places

	Wiederberg (to Göritzhain )	Again
Goritzhain
	Mohsdorf	Diethensdorf

history

Church of Stein in the Chemnitz Valley

Vater-Jahn sports facility in Stein

Former Stein (Chemnitztal) stop (2019)

The Waldhufendorf Stein was first mentioned in 1489 as Stain , although the place is probably older. The village, which owes its name to the striking group of rocks on the south side of the village, has its origins in a mill on the Chemnitz, which was called Staina or stone mill . Like the neighboring houses of Rabenberg, Stein originally belonged to the Zschillen monastery , which in 1543 came with the entire property to Duke Moritz of Saxony . He immediately secularized it and exchanged it for the Lords of Schönburg for the towns of Hohnstein , Wehlen and Lohmen in what is now Saxon Switzerland . Therefore, the name Wechselburg came up for the place and the monastery complex . Since then, Stein has been run as an official village of the Schönburg lordship of Wechselburg , which belonged to the Lords of Schönburg under Wettin suzerainty.

As part of the administrative reorganization of the Kingdom of Saxony, Stein was placed under the administration of the Royal Saxon Office of Rochlitz in 1835 as part of the Schönburg feudal lordship of Wechselburg . Around 1840 the Rabenberg with its seven houses was reclassified from Göritzhain to Stein. In 1856 Stein came to the Burgstädt court office and in 1875 to the newly established Rochlitz administration . In the second half of the 19th century the Chemnitz Valley was opened up for traffic, from which Stein also benefited. The road through the Chemnitz Valley was opened on July 19, 1870 in the presence of King John of Saxony . On the railway line Wechselburg – Küchwald (Chemnitztalbahn) opened in 1902 , Stein received a station called Stein (Chemnitztal) .

Due to the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the municipality of Stein im Chemnitztal was incorporated into the Rochlitz district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). Ecclesiastically, Stein im Chemnitz Valley has always been part of Wiederau. The small church in Stein was not consecrated until May 14, 1961. The building was later given a kitchen and sanitary area. The steeple and bells were consecrated in 1990. The two bells from 1853 were acquired in 1967 from the church in the village of Kreudnitz near Rötha south of Leipzig, which shortly afterwards had to give way to the Witznitz II open-cast lignite mine .

The municipality of Stein in Chemnitztal came to the Saxon district of Rochlitz in 1990 , which was added to the district of Mittweida in 1994 and in 2008 to the district of central Saxony. On January 1, 1999, Stein in Chemnitztal was incorporated into the Königshain-Wiederau community. Since then, the official name has only been stone . With the cessation of passenger traffic on the Chemnitz Valley Railway in 1998, the Stein stop (Chemnitz Valley) was taken out of service. The Chemnitz Valley Cycle Path is to be built on the former route, although this has not yet been implemented in the Stein area.