Wiesenbad thermal baths

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 13 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	523 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.21 km 2
Residents:	3242 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	134 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09488
Area code :	03733
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 630
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Mühle 1 09488 Thermal Bath Wiesenbad
Website :	www.thermalbad-wiesenbad.de
Mayoress :	Berit Schiefer (independent)
Location of the municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad in the Erzgebirgskreis

Thermalbad Wiesenbad is a municipality on the Zschopau in the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony . On January 1, 2005, the community of Wiesa was renamed Thermalbad Wiesenbad.

View over part of Wiesenbad to the north

'The meadows or Job's bath' after Matthäus Merian (around 1650)

Church in Wiesa

Church in Neundorf

Stop of the Zschopautalbahn in winter

geography

The municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad essentially consists of three former Waldhufendörfern, the thermal bath and two other settlement areas in the valley area of ​​the Zschopau. The district of Schönfeld is at its westernmost point in a south-north orientation from the Zschopau valley. To the east of this, directly in the river valley, lies the Wiesa district, the corridors of which extend to the right and left of the Zschopau. Neundorf is north of Wiesa in a south-north orientation. The thermal baths in the Zschopau valley are located further east. The district of Himmelmühle was created on the site of a former mill. The district of Plattenthal is located in the valley of the Pöhlbach and was also created by an earlier industrial settlement. The highest point of the place is the Franzenshöhe (district Neundorf) at 702  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring communities

The municipality borders in the northeast of Selva , Großrückerswalde in the east, Mildenau in the southeast , Annaberg-Buchholz in the south, Tannenberg in the southwest , Ehrenfriedersdorf in the northwest and Drebach in the north .

structure

The districts of Himmelmühle , Neundorf , Plattenthal , Schönfeld , Wiesa and Wiesenbad belong to the Wiesenbad thermal baths .

history

In the 12./13. In the 17th century, Thuringians and Franks settled the area. The first documentary mentions took place in the 14th century. 1381 Schönfeld, 1386 Neundorf as Im neue Dorf and 1398 Wiesa in the form of Knight Heiderich von der Wiese. In today's Wiesenbad, the first buildings were built in 1474 with the lordly mill of the knight in Wiesa.

Mining began in the 15th century. Iron, cobalt, copper, silver and tin were mined here. At the turn of the 16th century, a warm spring was discovered on the right bank of the Zschopau in the later village of Wiesenbad, which was set in in 1501 and inaugurated in 1505 by the bishop of Meißen as the St. Jobs bath.

In 1604, Hans-Georg Meusinger von Kollersritt had the manor house built in the Wiesa manor.

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) suffered here too. For example, all the residents of Schönfeld left the place and sought protection in Annaberg . (See also literature )

In the 18th century the ore deposits in the tunnels were running low and new sources of income had to be found. So they began with lace-making, trimmings and agriculture, which Schönfeld experienced a heyday especially through the flax cultivation.

January 1, 1956 was the hour of birth of the municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad, not to be confused with today's municipality, because it was not until January 1, 1999 that the towns of Neundorf, Schönfeld, Wiesenbad and Wiesa merged to form the municipality of Wiesa, which on January 1, 2005 has been renamed the thermal bath Wiesenbad.

Population development

On October 3, 1990, the districts of today's municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad had a total of 4169 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year:

1993 - 3,938 1994 - 3,919 1995 - 3,939 1996 - 3,897 1997 - 3,910

1998 - 3,937 1999 - 3,925 2000 - 3,920 2001 - 3,872 2002 - 3,876

2003 - 3,844 2004 - 3,814 2005 - 3,783 2006 - 3,710 2007 - 3,674

2009 - 3,587 2012 - 3,490 2013 - 3,453

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

Politics - Local Council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Free voters Bürgerforum e. V. (FWBF): 9 seats
• CDU : 6 seats
• Friends of the Fire Brigade (FdF): 1 seat

City council election 2019 Turnout: 70.4%  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 50.9% 37.7% 11.4% n. k. FWBF CDU FdF SPD Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4 + 2.6  % p -3.3  % p + 4.1  % p -3.4  % p FWBF CDU FdF SPD

A total of 16 seats FWBF : 9 FdF : 1 CDU : 6

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in the Wiesenbad thermal baths

Buildings

• St. Trinitatis Church in Wiesa (built 1903-1904 in Art Nouveau style)
• Village church in Neundorf (1899/1900)
• Peace Chapel in Wiesenbad (1914/1915)
• Bismarck Tower , a 15 m high observation tower above the Kurhaus in Wiesenbad, also called May's Tower (1899)
• Hohenwendel Castle between Wiesenbad and Streckewalde (1908–1910)

Memorials

• At the Weberteich in the Schönfeld district, a memorial stone commemorates all victims of fascism .
• A memorial stone opposite the municipal office commemorates the Catholic Hitlerite opponent Marie Richter, who was imprisoned and tortured in the Schützenhaus concentration camp in Annaberg in March 1933 and then committed suicide .
• Behind the church in the Neundorf district, a memorial with a plaque with names of the fallen commemorates the victims of the First World War and another memorial to the victims of the Second World War.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the district of Wiesa was the VEB equipment and tool building Wiesa (GWB), where handguns were manufactured from 1957 to 1990, from 1985 also the in-house development of the Wieger brand . The Schönfeld paper mill, which is still producing, is located in the Zschopau valley.

traffic

The federal highway 95 leads through the district of Schönfeld and the federal highway 101 through the district of Wiesenbad .

The Zschopautalbahn has stops in Wiesenbad and Wiesa. In 2007, the Schönfeld-Wiesa train station was closed in favor of the newly established Wiesa (Erzgeb) stop. Today, of the formerly extensive buildings of the gauge changing station, only the reception building still exists.

Public facilities

Kurparkhalle and local pyramid , Wiesenbad thermal baths

In the district of Wiesenbad there has been a thermal bath since the middle of the 16th century . The healing water has a temperature of 26 ° C, contains fluoride and carbonic acid and is used today to treat diseases of the postural and musculoskeletal system. After 1945, Prof. Arnold played a key role in setting up this facility and essentially treated polio and Bechterew's disease . In the 1970s, more than 100 Bechterew's disease patients were in Wiesenbad for a cure at the same time. Since 1994 the ward houses have been modernized and expanded and a completely new bath house built. In addition to the classic orthopedic indications, the Miriquidi Thermalbad Wiesenbad rehabilitation clinic is the center for the treatment of secondary conditions after poliomyelitis (PPS syndrome) in Germany. The spa company has been 100% owned by the municipality since the 1990s. In the spa park there is also the Troparium Butterfly tropical house (butterfly park, reptile zoo, aquarium). The tropical house is currently closed.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Christoph Wonneberger (* 1944), Protestant pastor and representative of the GDR opposition movement

Personalities associated with the place

• Carl Friedrich Reiche-Eisenstuck (1790–1864), German politician and President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament, owner of a manor in Schönfeld

literature

• Heimatverein Thermalbad Wiesenbad e. V .: Heimatblätter Thermalbad Wiesenbad - interesting facts from the districts of Neundorf, Schönfeld, Thermalbad Wiesenbad and Wiesa. (Issue series, since 2005)

Web links

Commons : Thermalbad Wiesenbad  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the community
• Website of the spa company of the same name
• Heimatverein Thermalbad Wiesenbad e. V.
• Website of the parish of Wiesa in the Erzgebirge
• Thermal bath Wiesenbad in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
4. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections
5. ↑ Bismarck Tower Thermalbad Wiesenbad on bismarcktuerme.de
6. ↑ Hohenwendel Castle on architektur-blicklicht.de