Unterklingenthal

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Unterklingenthal
City of Klingenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 12 ″  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 533 m
Postal code : 08248
Area code : 037467
Unterklingenthal (Saxony)
Unterklingenthal

Location of Unterklingenthal in Saxony

Unterklingenthal is a group of houses belonging to the village of Klingenthal in the town of Klingenthal in the Saxon Vogtland district . The settlement is right on the border with the Czech Republic .

geography

location

Under Klingenthal is located in the southeast of the Saxon part of the historic Vogt country , but heard with respect to the natural environment for Westerzgebirge . The group of houses is located southeast of the old town of Klingenthal. Under Klingenthal is located on the eastern shore of Zwota that the district from Graslitzer district Hraničná separates (Markhausen) on the Czech side. Unterklingenthal is located in the Erzgebirge / Vogtland Nature Park . In Unterklingenthal, in the valley of the Zwota, is the southernmost and at 533 m above sea level at the same time the lowest point of the city of Klingenthal.

Neighboring places

Klingenthal (main town) Kriegberg (today: Körnerberg / Friedensberg)
Hraničná (Markhausen) Neighboring communities Quittenbach
Kraslice (Graslitz)

history

Historical panel "Mining in Unterklingenthal"

With the flourishing of mining for copper, tin, lead and silver in the Bohemian Graslitz , five kilometers away , at the end of the 16th century it extended to the Saxon border region, which initially resulted in the mining of tin and iron in the forests around what would later become Klingenthal took place on a small scale. Around 1591 the "Hellhammer" or "Höllhammer" was completed, which was used to smelt the ores and is seen as the nucleus of what would later become Klingenthal. This was first mentioned under this name in 1604 as a hammer settlement.

Mining around Klingenthal reached its peak in the 17th century. At the same time, numerous Protestant religious refugees ( exiles ) from Bohemia settled in, who left their Bohemian homeland in the course of the Counter Reformation . After mining lost its importance on both sides of the border in the 18th century, it was temporarily stopped entirely in 1875. In the 19th century a customs office is mentioned in the row of houses in Unterklingenthal belonging to Klingenthal.

With the short renaissance of the Bohemian copper mining, the settlement of Unterklingenthal, which lies directly on the border on the Saxon side, gained great importance. The initiator was the "Klingenthal-Graslitzer Copper Mining Union" founded in 1899. Between 1900 and 1904 the "Eberhard-August-Schacht" was sunk at a depth of 100 meters and connected to the "Helene-Schacht" on the Eibenberg northwest of Graslitz on the Bohemian side via a 1812.5 meter long cross passage.

Between 1901 and 1904 an ore processing plant was built in Unterklingenthal on the Saxon side. Between 1904 and 1912, this was where the sulfur-containing copper ores mined on the Bohemian side were processed. Ores from other regions were also smelted to cover the enormous costs. After the First World War and the break-up of Austria-Hungary , the Graslitz region became part of the newly founded Czechoslovakia in 1918 . With the new political situation, the ore processing plant on the Saxon side was discontinued. The buildings and processing plants of the "Klingenthal-Graslitzer Copper Mining Union" were demolished between 1923 and 1929. The "Eberhard August Shaft", however, was used as a weather shaft for the Czech mining industry until 1990, when it was finally kept in 1992.

Unterklingenthal, which stretches along the border with the Czech Republic on the east bank of the Zwota, is now a housing estate that includes the “Bergstrasse”, the “Talstrasse”, the “Zur Alm” street and part of the “Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse” .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of the city of Klingenthal
  2. ^ History of the city of Klingenthal
  3. ↑ Unterklingenthal in a document from the 19th century
  4. ↑ Book "Bohemian ore mining"
  5. ↑ Klingenthal in the book "Sächsischer Bergbau"