Tannenbergsthal
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Tannenbergsthal
Community Muldenhammer
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| Height : | 681 m | |
| Area : | 17.92 km² | |
| Residents : | 1430 (December 31, 2008) | |
| Population density : | 80 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | October 1, 2009 | |
| Postal code : | 08262 | |
| Area code : | 037465 | |
Location of Tannenbergsthal in Saxony |
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Tannenbergsthal , until 2007 Tannenbergsthal / Vogtl. , is a part of the municipality Muldenhammer in the Saxon Vogtlandkreis .
geography
Geographical location
Tannenbergsthal is located in the valley of the Kleine Pyra , a tributary of the Zwickauer Mulde , on the eastern edge of the Vogtland and on the western foothills of the Ore Mountains.
Adjacent communities are the cities of Auerbach and Klingenthal as well as the rural community Grünbach and the other districts of Muldenhammer, Hammerbrücke and Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz . All places mentioned belong to the Vogtlandkreis .
Districts of the former municipality of Tannenbergsthal were Gottesberg, Jägersgrün, Schneckenstein and Tannenbergsthal with pitch soaps.
Climate and vegetation
There is a typical low mountain range with an average annual temperature of around 6.5 degrees Celsius. Relatively long winter months - again somewhat snowier in recent years - are usually only replaced by spring in May.
Sometimes the first night frosts appear as early as August. In the neighboring village of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz there is one of the “coldest points” in Germany (measured night temperatures).
The community is completely surrounded by spruce forests, which were once planted as a monoculture for forestry purposes . With a bit of luck you will find places rich in mushrooms in these forests.
The climate is unsuitable for high-yield fruit growing. Sour cherries, plums and apples thrive in protected locations under favorable circumstances (if the summers are not too short). Berries and legumes, on the other hand, are widespread.
history
The origins of Tannenbergsthal and Gottesberg go back to tin mining in the 15th century. Iron ore mining was added later. After the decline of mining, textile production gained in importance. Tannenbergsthal belonged to the Voigtsberg office until the 19th century , while Jägersgrün was an exclave to the Plauen office .
In the Jägersgrün district, the so-called “old mill” stood until the beginning of the 1990s, which was named “Hessenmühle” in the 18th century, named after its founder Christian Heß. Historically, it must be distinguished from the Hessmühle in Morgenröthe. Originally it was a grain mill. It was later converted to generate electricity in order to supply a neighboring yarn spinning mill with energy.
In the 19th century and in the early 20th century, the place experienced a considerable boom and growth spurt through the construction of the textile factory and the work of the entrepreneur Keffel. Under his commitment, the first workers' apartments and houses for senior employees were built. The town experienced its greatest economic boom after the Second World War with the expansion of the textile factory into the Vogtland artificial leather factory Tannenbergsthal with a vehicle fleet and data processing center. Numerous workers' apartments, 10-class schools, day-care centers, pre-schools, sports halls and other facilities were built. Holiday homes on the Baltic Sea, childcare and holiday camps were made possible by the Vogtland artificial leather factory to motivate and regenerate the workers and their families. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the factory was one of the model VEBs of the GDR with export surpluses and worldwide trade relations. Due to the work of the Treuhand after 1990, lucrative export connections as well as parts of the factory's machine park were withdrawn, and some were handed over to competing companies based in West Germany.
After the Second World War , the Schneckenstein district was a uranium ore mining area under the SDAG Wismut until the late 1950s .
In addition to the development on the main road (B 283), the townscape is shaped in many other places by the industrial past. The old factory, the row houses for workers, the recognizable remnants of an old park, located between the old manor house, today's medical center and the factory, as well as the decaying remains of the disused train station in the Jägersgrün district, bear witness to this.
From the early Wismut period there is a medium-sized settlement of residential houses and - very disturbing the townscape - large prefabricated buildings that were built between the 1970s and 1980s. They served as living space for the families of hundreds of workers who were then working in the leatherette factory. Until June 14, 2007 the community was called Tannenbergsthal / Vogtl.
On May 1, 2009, Tannenbergsthal and the two neighboring towns of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz and Hammerbrücke merged to form the new community of Muldenhammer .
Religions
There is a small Evangelical- Lutheran congregation and a not inconsiderable number of members of so-called free church associations. Due to a lack of members (aging and emigration, etc.), the parishioners in Hammerbrücke , Tannenbergsthal and Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz are currently being looked after by an evangelical pastor.
Population development
Development of the population (from 1971 December 31) :
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- Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony
With an average age of over 50 years, Tannenbergsthal has one of the highest average ages in the Vogtland district.
Memorials
A memorial stone at the entrance to the former Gottesberg district commemorates five Soviet prisoners of war whose names are unknown and who were murdered by SS men at this point . Below the church in a small park there used to be a Hans Beimler monument.
Culture and sights
In Tannenbergsthal, a local history museum opened on November 27, 2005 in the manor house which Friedrich Eduard Keffel had bought from the hammer mill owner Lattermann in 1854 and which the Keffel family lived in until 1952. In this museum the history of Tannenbergsthal and its former districts is illuminated. The main topics are mining in the region, the importance of the snail stone and regional industrialization from textile production to synthetic leather production, as well as the industrial work of the Keffel and Meinel family.
The Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Church built on the western slope of the valley from 1910, which was largely financed by Friedrich Eduard Keffel II and Edmund Meinel, with its interior painting in Art Nouveau style and the owl organ are worth seeing .
The former mansion on Bundesstrasse 283 is a two-story baroque building from 1718. Inside there is a two-story hall with a flight of stairs .
The most important sight is the topaz rock Schneckenstein .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The federal road 283 runs through Tannenbergsthal .
The Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf (CA line), which runs through Jägersgrün, was opened in 1875. After the incorporation of Jägersgrün, the station was given the new name Tannenbergsthal (Vogtl) in 1935. With the construction of the Eibenstock dam , the route was interrupted and through traffic stopped on September 27, 1975. In the remaining section Schönheide Ost – Muldenberg of the CA line, passenger traffic was stopped in two sections in 1978 and 1982, freight traffic continued until 1995. In 1998 the section was closed.
Since 2008, the Association for the Promotion of Historic West Saxon Railways has been operating tourism and excursion services with a motorized trolley between Schönheide Süd and Hammerbrücke.
Established businesses
Since the final closure of the artificial leather factory a few years after the German reunification, the community has suffered from increased financial shortages, increased relocation of the population and an aging that is now visible. On the former factory site with the partially preserved buildings from the 1890s, a few small companies try to stay afloat with varying degrees of success.
A descendant of the former factory owner Keffel has again taken over large parts of the company premises as well as some residential buildings in the community.
There are plans to mine tin again, but resistance to it too.
education
The school, built in the 1970s, was closed in 2003 due to a lack of students and the school classes with the few remaining students were merged with the classes of the school in the neighboring village of Hammerbrücke.
The old school from 1905 is on the B 283, between the towns of Tannenbergsthal and Jägersgrün. A short time after the fall of the Wall, the old classrooms were still used by musical instrument students and a daycare center for grades 1 to 3. These facilities have since been closed and the premises have been rededicated as offices.
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Hans Poser (1917–1970), who based on his place of birth also worked under the pseudonym Wolfgang Tannenberg , was a composer and professor at the Hamburg State University of Music.
- Gerd Heßler (* 1948), former cross-country skier
Other personalities
- Heinrich Ludwig Lattermann (1776–1839), hammer gentleman and politician
- Hermann Lattermann (1809–1867), hammer gentleman and politician
- Louis Riedel (1847–1919), dialect poet, was a teacher in Gottesberg
- Edmund Meinel von Tannenberg (1864–1943), manufacturer and later co-owner of the Edmund Keffel company in Tannenbergsthal.
- Andrea Roth (* 1953), member of the state parliament, district councilor and teacher.
literature
- Tannenbergsthal. In: The eastern Vogtland (= values of the German homeland . Volume 59). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0938-1 , pp. 196-199.
Web links
- Tannenbergsthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Report & pictures about the visitor mine "Grube Tannenberg" and the mineral museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
- ↑ KirchenMusikVogtland: Martin Luther Church, Tannenbergsthal . on www.kirchenmusikvogtland.de
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony II, administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz . edited by Barbara Becker, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius et al., Munich 1998, p. 928
- ↑ Huge tin treasure discovered in the Ore Mountains. welt.de from August 30, 2012 , accessed on August 30, 2012.
Gottesberg | Hammer Bridge | Hunter green | Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz (with Morgenröthe and Rautenkranz) | Sachsengrund | Snail stone | Tannenbergsthal