Thum

This article explains the city in the Ore Mountains; for other meanings, see Thum (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 12 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	505 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.9 km 2
Residents:	5118 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	271 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09419
Area code :	037297
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 640
City structure:	3 districts
City administration address :	Rathausplatz 4 09419 Thum
Website :	www.stadt-thum.de
Mayor :	Michael Brändel ( FDP )
Location of the city of Thum in the Erzgebirge district

Thum is a city in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .

geography

market

The city of Thum is located on the Jahnsbach. The Waldhufendorf of the same name joins to the west . To the east is the Herold district, also a forest hoof village. The forest area of ​​the Greifensteine borders the city in the south .

Neighboring communities

Gelenau is located north of Thum , Venusberg in the northeast , Drebach in the east, Ehrenfriedersdorf in the south and Zwönitz and Auerbach in the west .

City structure

Districts of Thum are:

• Thum
• Herald
• Jahnsbach

history

The settlement of the Greifenstein area probably took place in the 12th to 13th centuries. In addition to agriculture, Thum was strongly influenced by mining until the 16th century, with tin in particular, but also silver and lead being mined. Thum was first mentioned in a document in 1389. In 1445 the settlement was called a mountain town . In 1469, the Thumer citizens bought the upper and lower jurisdiction , which is to be seen as the acquisition of city rights. In 1542 Friedrich von Schönberg was enfeoffed with Jahnsbach, Thum and Oberdorf, as a result of which there was a lengthy and costly process, especially over the execution of jurisdiction between the Thumer citizens and the Lords of Schönberg . On January 15, 1648, the last battle of the Thirty Years' War in the Electorate of Saxony took place on Thumer Flur . Since the 17th century, the trimmings trade developed in particular . Since the 18th century it has been more and more replaced by the stocking knitting industry.

Saxon post mile pillar on Thumer Markt

In an air raid on the night of February 14th to 15th, 1945, the town church of St. Anna was destroyed down to the surrounding walls and the interior was destroyed. The reconstruction was carried out using the surrounding walls from 1946 to 1951, the tower was rebuilt.

As part of the municipal reform, the merger of the towns of Herold and Jahnsbach and the town of Thum to form the new town of Thum took place on January 1, 1999.

The Hof zu Thum, the manor and Oberdorf

At the beginning of the 15th century, the Thumer judges were enfeoffed not only with jurisdiction, but also with the free feudal courtyard behind the church and a "desolate courtyard" near the church. The farm's possessions probably extended to the farm meadows in Jahnsbach and the Thumer Kommunwald. The Lehnhof partly included the surrounding mines, a stamping mill and a smelter. In addition to the jurisdiction at the end of the 15th century, the court and the "desert court yard" were also transferred to the city of Thum.

In addition to the surrounding houses, Herold, the lime works , the forester's houses, the bone manor and part of Drebach belonged to the manor , formerly also known as the “Edelhof beim Elend” . The Rittergutsgemeinde (later also called Dorf Thum ) was politically and legally independent of the town of Thum until the 19th century. In 1879 it was dissolved, with the houses being divided between the town of Thum and Herold. The manor house of the manor was sold to the city of Thum in 1882 and has served as the town hall ever since.

The former village of Oberdorf , now called Oberthum, adjoins the city in the north and was an administrative independent place until 1822.

Steam brewery

The old Thumer brewery was founded in the 14th century and was owned by the church until 1546 and was then handed over to the city. In 1882 the civil brewing association dissolved and the master brewer William Böttger bought the building and the entire inventory. In 1898 Böttger had a new brewery built and was able to increase production from 10,000 hectoliters to 15,000 hectoliters. On July 30, 1926, William Böttger's widow sold the brewery to the city, but the city could not find a new buyer. Thus ended the almost 600-year brewing history in Thum. In 2000 the brand was revived under the name Thumer Lager ; The beer is brewed according to the original recipe of the Thumer Dampfbrauerei, however, in a Chemnitz brewery.

Population development

On October 3, 1990, Thum had 6,551 inhabitants. The population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year.

1993 to 1997 1993: 6.195 1994: 6,209 1995: 6,277 1996: 6.206 1997: 6.217

1997 to 2002 1998: 6,190 1999: 6,213 2000: 6.184 2001: 6.166 2002: 6,070

2003 to 2007 2003: 5,981 2004: 5,906 2005: 5,829 2006: 5,814 2007: 5,751

from 2009 on 2009: 5,659 2010: 5,592 2011: 5,528 2012: 5,424 2013: 5,367

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

Memorials

• Burial and memorial plaque in the cemetery of the district Herold for a Hungarian Jew who in the satellite camp Venusberg of Flossenburg concentration camp was killed
• A memorial cross in the cemetery of the Thum district commemorates all victims of fascism

Churches and denominations

• Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Thum, Jahnsbach and Herold
• Evangelical Free Churches ( Brethren ) in Thum and Herold
• Regional church community in Thum and in Jahnsbach
• Methodist Church in Herold
• Communion in Christ Jesus in Thum

The Chapel of the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic chapel named after Johannes Maria Vianney and the New Apostolic parish in Thum have since been given up.

The congregation of the Roman Catholic Church then met for regular services on Tuesday and Saturday in the former Methodist Church, which was acquired by a funeral home in 2009 and demolished in 2014 due to structural damage. Today she meets in the rooms of the Evangelical Free Church community.

politics

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2019 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

City council election 2014

Turnout: 57.4% (2009: 53.6%)

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SPD

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Seats municipal council Thum 2014 2 2 8th 6th 2 2 8th 6th  A total of 18 seats Left : 2 JBO : 2 BL : 8 CDU : 6

Town hall Thum

City council

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 18 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Citizens' list (BL): 8 seats
• CDU : 6 seats
• Association of youth wind orchestra of the city of Thum e. V. (JBO): 2 seats
• LEFT : 2 seats

mayor

Michael Brändel has been mayor since 2006 (non-party).

coat of arms

The current coat of arms was adopted by the city council on May 2, 2000 after Jahnsbach and Herold were incorporated.

The herald in the left part of the coat of arms stands for the Herold district. The tower in the lower part represents the city of Thum. The tree in the left field stands for Jahnsbach and is intended to represent a judgment or life tree. Flails and iron on a white background represent the former mining industry.

Town twinning

Thum's twin town is Žatec in the Czech Republic.

Attractions

City Church

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Thum
• City Church St. Annen: destroyed in 1945, rebuilt from 1947 to 1951. The altar structure comes from Thierbaum (former Grimma district ).
• Town hall (former manor)
• Cactus plant
• Zoo
• Saxon post mile column from 1727
• Royal Saxon milestones from 1865 in Jahnsbach and Herold
• former lime works in Herold
• Carving museum in Jahnsbach

traffic

The federal highway 95 runs through Thum .

In 1886, Thum received a railway connection through the narrow-gauge railway Wilischthal-Thum . The Thum station, inaugurated in 1906, was the operational center of both routes (“Thumer Netz”) after the construction of the Schönfeld-Wiesa-Meinersdorf narrow-gauge railway , which was shut down between 1967 and 1975.

leisure offers

Sports

• Football and tennis courts
• Bowling alley
• Riding arena
• Winter sports
• Sports stadium

Folk art

• Jahnsbach carving association
• Lace clubs in the districts of Jahnsbach, Thum and Herold

Meetings and leisure activities

• Leisure and family center in the Thum district
• Youth club in Jahnsbach

societies

Sports

The largest sports clubs in the area are the SV Jahnsbach , the Herolder SV , the TBV 08 Thum and the LV 90 Thum as well as the LSV Waldfrieden Thum for running enthusiasts. There is also a table tennis, chess and bowling club that are active in different leagues.

Culture

• Carving club
• Lace clubs
• Mountain Brotherhood Thum e. V.
• Bergkapelle Thum e. V.
• Association of youth wind orchestra of the city of Thum e. V.

Traditionally, the Thumer Orchestertreff takes place every year on the weekend after Whitsun, with more than 1000 musicians in 2008, for example.

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities of the city of Thum

Others

• The television series Spuk aus outside of the television of the GDR was partly shot in 1987 in Thum.
• The minerals of the Axinitgruppe were also called because of their earlier relatively frequent occurrence around Thum Thumit or Thumerstein referred.

literature

• Karl Alfred Schmidt: Colorful pictures from days gone by. Contributions to the history of the Parochie Thum. Verlag Delitsch, Thum 1900 ( digitized version )
• Richard Steche : Thum. 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. 90.

Web links

Commons : Thum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Thum in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - Sources and full texts

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Thum  - sources and full texts

• Thum 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. ^ Heinrich Magirius in "Fate of German Architectural Monuments in the Second World War". Edited by Götz Eckardt, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1978. Volume 2, p. 465
3. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1999
4. ↑ http://www.kath-kirche-zschopau.de/index.php?site=gemeinde
5. ↑ http://www.nak-mitteldeutschland.de/gemeinde/wiesa/aus-der-chronik/
6. ↑ http://www.freipresse.de/LOKALES/ERZGEBIRGE/ANNABERG/Abrissbagger-tilgt-Friedenskirche-aus-dem-Thumer-Stadtbild-artikel9035879.php
7. ↑ http://www.heilig-kreuz-annaberg.de/gottesdienste.shtml
8. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections