Steinbach (Jöhstadt)

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Steinbach
City of Jöhstadt
Coat of arms Steinbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 559  (550-650)  m
Residents : 849  (Jul 26, 2011)
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 09477
Area code : 037343
Steinbach (Saxony)
Steinbach

Location of Steinbach in Saxony

Steinbach is part of Jöhstadt in the Ore Mountains District . The first mention of the place comes from the year 1401. Together with its district Oberschmiedeberg , Steinbach was incorporated into Jöhstadt on January 1, 1999.

Geographical location

Steinbach, view from Oberschaar

location

The location is located in a valley depression of the central Ore Mountains in the Ore Mountains District, formed by several valleys that meet here . The place is determined by the course of the Steinbach brook and the Preßnitz , the main paths of the place run along the watercourses. The district of Steinbach is located around 8.5 km northeast of the city center of Jöhstadt at an altitude of between 550 and 650 m above sea ​​level . The 890-meter-high Hirtstein forms the southeastern end of the village, while the 817-meter-high Glösenstein borders the village to the southwest.

Due to its location in a branched valley basin, the place developed early as a forest hoof village , in that the land was divided up in strips more or less far from the valley floor up the mountain slopes.

Neighboring places

Arnsfeld with Oberschaar Oberschmiedeberg
Grumbach Neighboring communities Reitzenhain
Lard pit statute

history

The Steinbacher Church
Steinbacher goat meeting, information board

The name of the place was derived from the stream of the same name, which rises on the slope of the Hirtstein and flows through most of the place. As far as we know today, Steinbach was founded by Franconian settlers around the year 1200 as part of the planned settlement of the primeval forest covering the entire Ore Mountains. The first mention of the place dates from a document of the Bohemian King Wenzel from the year 1401. Between 1684 and 1686 the Steinbacher church was built on the model of the parish church built between 1679 and 1681 for the glory of God in Bernsbach bei Aue . After Steinbach was parish in Arnsfeld until 1693, Steinbach became an independent parish with Oberschmiedeberg, which was first mentioned in 1501. Mining was carried out around Steinbach as in the entire Ore Mountains. Of this u. a. the Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln, excavated in 1748, which has been operated as a visitor mine since 1997. In 1792 he received his own stamping mill for ore processing. Between 1749 and 1841 the mine had an ore yield of around 140 kilograms of silver and a large amount of cobalt. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Steinbach lived more from agriculture, forest and timber industries.

Until 1856, Steinbach was an administrative village in the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon office of Wolkenstein . From 1856 the place belonged to the Jöhstadt judicial office and from 1875 to the district administration Annaberg . In 1878 the local volunteer fire brigade was founded. With the opening of the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt in 1892 Steinbach received a railway connection.

The neighboring town of Oberschmiedeberg became a district of Steinbach on January 1, 1949. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Steinbach came to the Annaberg district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Annaberg from 1990 and was added to the Ore Mountains district in 2008. On January 13, 1984 the last passenger trains ran between Niederschmiedeberg and Jöhstadt. As a result, Steinbach train station (near Jöhstadt) also went out of service. A kindergarten was built on the station area, which was demolished in 1999. Since 1998 there has been a sister church relationship between the parishes of Arnsfeld and Steinbach.

On January 1, 1999, the municipality of Steinbach was incorporated with the district Oberschmiedeberg to Jöhstadt. Since August 2000, Steinbacher Bahnhof has been the northern end point of the Pressnitz Valley Railway, which is operated as a museum railway.

coat of arms

Steinbach's coat of arms depicts a green tree standing on a black rock. Below that, two blue wavy bars symbolize a stream. The background is white. The coat of arms depicts the location of the place in the wooded valleys of the Steinbach and the Preßnitz.

Development of the population

year population
1551 17 possessed men , 8 residents
1764 16 possessed men, 54 cottagers , 2½ hooves
1834 747
1871 1096
year population
1890 1236
1910 1050
1925 1004
1939 1089
year population
1946 1161
1950 1521
1964 1331
1990 1024
2011 849

Sights and memorials

Location pyramid Steinbach

Attractions

  • Steinbach station, northern terminus of the restored Pressnitz Valley Railway
  • Steinbach Church, built between 1684 and 1686, with a pulpit altar from 1715, a baptismal angel hanging from the ceiling and an organ from 1932.
  • Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln
  • Hirtstein , remarkable basalt rock formation
  • Location pyramid Steinbach
  • numerous half-timbered houses in the local area
  • Mettenschichten : on the Saturday before the 2nd Advent in the Andreas Gegentrum visitor mine and on December 25th at 5 a.m. in the Steinbacher Church.

Memorials

A memorial stone at the old Ulanenweg recalls 26 unknown concentration camp prisoners from the satellite camps will in Tröglitz / Rehmsdorf of the Buchenwald concentration camp who fled during the bombing of their transport train, recaptured and SS men were killed.

Economy and Transport

Transport links

The reconstructed Steinbach station building on the Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt narrow-gauge railway
VI K 99 1715 at the water house in Steinbach station (2010)

From 1892 to 1984 the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt ran through the town. After the line was closed and the track system was dismantled, a day-care center was built on the station premises in 1985, which was demolished in 1999 to rebuild the track system.

With the inauguration of the Steinbach-Hp.Stolln section of the Steinbach-Jöhstadt museum railway, Steinbach has been the end of the railway since August 2000; the tracks were rebuilt on the previous track planum based on the track plan of the 1930s.

A widely branched network of hiking trails starts from Steinbach. The Annaberger Landring (Südring) runs through the village .

economy

Mining shaped the region of the Preßnitz Valley for several centuries, so numerous evidence of silver ore mining can still be found near Steinbach today. The trimmings industry, which arose in the wake of declining mining, and the commercial manufacture of wooden articles have also disappeared again. Today, a few small and medium-sized businesses characterize the townscape, agriculture and forestry are present in the surrounding area.

photos

literature

  • Christina Hillig, Manfred Mauersberger: Festschrift on the occasion of the first mentions of Steinbach 600 years ago and Oberschmiedeberg 500 years ago. Jöhstadt, 2001.
  • Bernd Schreiter : The home book of the Preßnitztal. Verlag Bernd Schreiter, 2015.
  • Richard Steche : Steinbach. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 4th booklet: Official Authority Annaberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 89.

Web links

Commons : Steinbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 68 f.
  2. ^ The official authority Annaberg in the municipal register 1900
  3. Oberschmiedeberg on gov.genealogy.net
  4. Steinbach on gov.genealogy.net
  5. Bernd Schreiter: The home book of the Preßnitztal. Verlag Bernd Schreiter, 2015, p. 92.
  6. ^ The coat of arms of Steinbach on the website of the city of Jöhstadt
  7. See Steinbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  8. Freie Presse, local edition Annaberg of November 8, 2011, p. 10.
  9. The Steinbacher Church on the website of the city of Jöhstadt
  10. Website of the "Andreas-Gegentrum-Stolln"
  11. ^ Map of the Annaberger Landring