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	Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 12 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	584 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.29 km 2
Residents:	3146 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	111 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	08328
Area code :	037462
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 600
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Huebelstrasse 12 08328 Column Green
Website :	www.stuetzengruen.de
Mayor :	Volkmar Viehweg (independent)
Location of the municipality of Stützengrün in the Erzgebirge district

Stützengrün , called "Stitzngrie" in the local dialect , is a municipality in the Saxon Erzgebirge district with just under 3,500 inhabitants.

geography

Stützengrün is located in the Ore Mountains directly on the border with the Vogtland . The Weißbach flows through Stützengrün and flows directly into the Eibenstock dam .

Community structure

In addition to the district of Stützengrün with the formerly independent communities Oberstützengrün and Unterstützengrün, this includes the incorporated villages of Hundshübel and Lichtenau . The Neulehn district also exists at the foot of the Kuhberg, which is the origin of Oberstützengrün.

Neighboring places

Neighboring cities and municipalities are:

• in the district of Zwickau : Crinitzberg and Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg
• in the Erzgebirgskreis : Schneeberg , Zschorlau , Eibenstock and Schönheide
• in the Vogtlandkreis : Steinberg

Crinitzberg	Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg	Schneeberg
Steinberg		Zschorlau
	Schönheide	Eibenstock

Geomorphology and nature

Lush green mountain meadows as FFH area of European importance (yellow area)

→ Main article : Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün

The community lies on a hilly plateau made of the Eibenstock tourmaline granite and extends at an altitude of 570 to 680  m above sea level. NN . Long mountain meadows between Ober- and Unterstützengrün have been reported by Germany to the European Union as the Natura 2000 area " Mountain meadows around Schönheide and Stützengrün ", totaling 164 hectares (of which Stützengrün around one third and Schönheide two thirds). They are part of the European Natura 2000 network. A mountain meadow festival takes place there regularly, at which the previous use as hay meadows is demonstrated. Information hikes on the " Mountain Meadow Experience Trail" created in this area are also offered.

history

Stützengrün was first mentioned in a document in 1546 in the release letter from Balthasar Friedrich Edler von der Planitz , the son of Hans Edler von der Planitz , in which free guarding , lower jurisdiction as well as brewing and liquor licenses are granted, but also duties such as services in the fields of the landlord and during the hunt as well as annual lease payments were imposed. Before that there were already some farmsteads including a brewery at the foot of the Kuhberg , which were awarded by the rulers in Auerbach as "New Fiefs" and still have the place name Neulehn today . Oberstützengrün then emerged from Neulehn . The district of Unterstützengrün was independent as a village with its own mayor until 1950. Here, the first mention dates in a property deed a Mühlengut and a weapons Hammer of the Office Schössers of Schwarzenberg of the 1575th

In 1563 Stützengrün became an electoral village through the purchase of August of Saxony and belonged to the Schwarzenberg office . In 1632 an iron mine was opened, which shaped the character of the place for a long time. The brush production started around 1830 after mining came to a standstill. Potatoes were grown for the first time in Stützengrün in 1712.

Lichtenau came to Stützengrün on January 1, 1996 and Hundshübel three years later on September 1, 1999 due to the municipal reform .

Oberstützengrün

On October 24, 1525, the rule of Auerbach, which included the town of Auerbach and around 15 localities, became the property of the von der Planitz family . Ten years later, Hans Edler von der Planitz died , and the area was now taken over by Balthasar Friedrich, Hans von der Planitz's son, together with the Göltzsch rulership. In 1542, the three sons of Hans von der Planitz divided into the Auerbach domain. Balthasar Friedrich received the rule of Göltzsch. To it belonged Rothenkirchen and the area so rich in high forests, extending up to the Zwickauer Mulde . Over time it came to settlement in this wilderness. The “Planitzen”, as the people living there were called, penetrated into the forests, made them arable (a section of the valley is still called “die Reuth” (from clearing)) and initially built four farms at the foot of the Kuhberg . Little by little, other properties were added, including a brewery. This “new fiefdom”, founded by Auerbach, was undoubtedly the basis for today's Neulehn district . In the release letter of January 20, 1546, Balthasar Friedrich granted the courts certain rights and recognized them as an orderly village community in Stützengrün, which he promised to protect.

Besides this theory by Pastor Obenaus, there is another one. Martin Leistner says in Die Bergbaulandschaft von Schneeberg and Eibenstock that the Vorderdorf (Oberstützengrün) is the oldest part of Stützengrün, so not like Obenaus, Neulehn . Siegfried Sieber writes: “Stützengrün was created as a double-row forest hoof village. From his goods the corresponding hoof stripes stretch on both sides of the road up to the height or to the forest. "

The above-mentioned chroniclers justify their view as follows: The Vorderdorf is a closed, plan-based Waldhufensiedlung, as they arose in large numbers in the Ore Mountains . In 1563 the place came together with Schönheide and Neustädtel into the property of the Saxon Elector August and thus became part of the administrative district Schwarzenberg . In 1687 the letter of exemption from 1546 was renewed by Elector Johann Georg III . This letter confirmed ancient rights and freedoms.

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Residential building (intersection Schönheiderstraße and Talstraße)

Completely independent of the first settlement at the foot of the Kuhberg , the later Oberstützengrün, a gun hammer and a mill estate were built in the Weißbachtal, the later Unterstützengrün, due to the low occurrence of Roteisenstein . The year it was founded is still in the dark today. From a file from 1575, however, it emerges that the owner of this gun hammer and mill could have been the official castles of Schwarzenberg . Subsequently, the owners of the gun hammer changed several times, which, depending on its "production profile ", is also known as a shovel or Zainhammer . In a petition from the chief forester Hans Günther from Burkhardtsgrün from 1615 to the Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony , the gun hammer and the mill estate are referred to as "under the pillars green".

Over time, an ever-growing scattered settlement developed around Mühlgut and Waffenhammer, which eventually extended to today's Vorderdorf (Oberstützengrün). The residents were under the jurisdiction of the respective owner. In the following years, Unterstützengrüns split off from the community as a whole. From then on it was only a tiny step to an independent community that received the name from its location. "Unter der Stützengrün" became Unterstützengrün.

In 1788 it says about Stützengrün: Stützengrün, an official village with Bergfreyheit, bey Aue, has 103 houses, an official Mühlenguth (Unter- or Neu-Stützengrün) and a Zayn, shovel and weapon hammer. The inhabitants do agriculture, carts and some trade.

Association of Municipalities

The first thoughts on amalgamating the two independent communities were already in place in 1919.

On October 4, 1935, another consultation was scheduled at "Schmidt's Gasthof". All of the local councilors were invited to this non-public meeting. In the resulting letter to the district leadership of the NSDAP it was unanimously decided that Unterstützengrün will remain as an independent municipality.

On September 2, 1949, a meeting of the Oberstützengrün Association Committee took place in the “Stollmühle” inn. The drafting of the border change treaty was on the agenda. On November 2, 1949, the border change agreement was unanimously recognized by the municipal council in Oberstützengrün. The boundary change agreement was posted in the respective municipal offices for 30 days. No objection was raised by the population. The administrative amalgamation of the two communities took place on December 28, 1949. On July 1, 1950, the independent communities Oberstützengrün and Unterstützengrün became the political municipality of Stützengrün.

Origin of name

There are several views on the origin of the place name. Obenaus writes in his chronicle that the place name comes from the first settler, who was called Stidizo, Studizo, Stitz or Stutz. In the document from 1546 it was also called "Stitzengrün". He derives the ending "-grün" from a forest location.

On the other hand, Stütz, Stitz in Middle High German means something like “steep slope, sloping point”. In view of the predominant terrain forms, the place name could also have been derived from it.

Development of the population

Due to the emergence of the community from the districts of Ober- and Unterstützengrün, the population development is considered separately until the merger in the 1950s.

Oberstützengrün 1557 to 1946

Population development in Stützengrün from 1834 to 2016 according to the tables on the right

year	Residents
1557	23 possessed men , 3 residents
1764	65 possessed men , 8 cottagers
1834	1,234
1871	1,375
1890	1,414
1910	1,603
1925	1,720
1939	1.914
1946	2,063

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year	Residents
1792	58 cottagers
1834	762
1871	708
1890	791
1910	1,022
1925	1,152
1939	1,065
1946	1,015

Overall community from 1950

From 1998 the population of the incorporated places Hundshübel and Lichtenau are included.

year Residents 1950 3,597 1964 3,037 1971 2,863 1990 2,467 1998 4,092 1999 4,085 2000 4,004 2001 3,976 2002 3,981

year Residents 2003 3,941 2004 3,842 2005 3,806 2006 3,771 2007 3,724 2008 3,688 2009 3,640 2010 3,616 2012 3,474

year Residents 2013 3,444 2016 3,300 2017 3,237

Source from 1998: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

politics

Mayoral election 2014

The mayoral election on August 31, 2014 brought 61.8 percent of the 2,858 eligible voters to the polls. They elected Volkmar Viehweg (independent, CDU candidate) with 97.6 percent of the votes cast as the successor to Birgit Reichel (CDU), who had held office for over 14 years. His seven-year term began on October 1, 2014.

Local council elections 2019

In the election on May 26, 2019 , the CDU achieved seven seats with 47.5 percent (nine in the previous municipal council election in 2014), the Independent Voters' Association (UWV) with 26.5 percent and four (four) with 26.5 percent and the FDP with 26, 3 percent three seats (one). Two women work in the local council, one each for the CDU parliamentary group and one for the UWV parliamentary group.

Elections to the Saxon state parliament

First state election after reunification in 1990

In 1990, on October 14th, almost 14 days after reunification, for the first time in over 58 years, the Stützengrüner were able to participate in free elections for members of the state parliament of Saxony . After the reunification of Germany, the state of Saxony , which was dissolved in the GDR in 1952, was re-established. For this reason, this election was a special historical event for Stützengrün.

The election to the Saxon state parliament on October 14, 1990 produced the following results: With a turnout of 82.3%, the CDU received 59.5% of the second votes, the DSU 7.1%, which at that time corresponded to the Bavarian CSU , both parties together 66.6% so two thirds of the vote. The PDS , the successor party to the SED , received 4.7%, the FDP 11.2% and the SPD 14.8%. The voting decision in Stützengrün differed significantly from the result for the whole of Saxony: The turnout was only 72.8%, the CDU reached 53.8%, the DSU 3.6% and both parties together 57.4%. The PDS achieved 10.2%, the FDP 5.3% and the SPD 19.1% (see also the article in the state election in Saxony 1990 ).

State election 2019

In the elections to the Saxon state parliament on September 1, 2019 , the sixth since the historic state parliament election after reunification, the CDU received 42.9 percent, AfD 28.1 percent, SPD 7 with a turnout of 73.6 percent , 6 percent, Die Linke 6.2 percent, FDP 5.4 percent, Greens 2.6 percent and other parties 4.7 percent.

In the constituency of Erzgebirge 2, to which Stützengrün belongs, Stützengrün Eric Dietrich (CDU) was directly elected to the state parliament.

Bundestag election 2017

In the election to the German Bundestag on September 24, 2017 in Stützengrün with a voter turnout of 81.9 percent, the CDU received 36.7 percent, AfD 27.5 percent, SPD 11.0 percent, Die Linke 11.0 percent, FDP 7.5 percent, Greens 1.6 percent and other parties 2.6 percent. The constituency to which Stützengrün belongs is represented by the directly elected MP Marco Wanderwitz (CDU).

European elections 2019

In the elections to the European Parliament on May 26, 2019 in Stützengrün, with a turnout of 71.5 percent, CDU received 35.3 percent, AfD 24.7 percent, SPD 7.5 percent, Die Linke 7.3 percent, FDP 6, 6 percent, the Greens 4.4 percent and other parties 5.5 percent.

Cooperation with Schönheide

Stützengrün has a joint registry office with the neighboring community of Schönheide. This intermunicipal cooperation is to be expanded through a joint building authority. The Schönheide municipal council has already approved an agreement on this.

Religions

The ev.-luth. Parishes Stützengrün and Hundshübel belong to the parish of Aue . Lichtenau is in the ev.-luth. Parish to Bärenwalde in the parish of Zwickau . Stützengrün was parish in Rothenkirchen until 1706 and then a branch church of Rothenkirchen until 1885.

The regional church communities Stützengrün-Grund, Stützengrün-Neulehn and Hundshübel belong to the Auerbach / Vogtland district. They are the main initiators of the nationally known forest service on Whit Monday in Stützengrün , which has been taking place since the 1920s .

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Stützengrün

Village church

House around 1700

• At the center is the peasant baroque church, built between 1697 and 1701 and already a listed building during the GDR era, with a carved altar and a Jehmlich organ from 1859, which was restored in 1991. The laying of the foundation stone took place on January 26, 1697 in the presence of the bailiff of the Schwarzenberg district, Christian Kreß .
• Another attraction of the place is the 794.6  m above sea level. NHN high Kuhberg with the observation tower built by the Erzgebirge branch association Schönheide and opened in 1894, formerly named "Prinz-Georg-Turm" after the Saxon Crown Prince Georg, with a height of 20 meters.
• In addition, a mountain meadow adventure trail (approx. 4 km) has been set up with information boards on the local vegetation, in particular the importance of the mountain meadows in the FFH area Bergwiesen around Schönheide and Stützengrün in the Natura 2000 network of the European Union.
• Nadlerhaus in the Hundshübel district
• Narrow-gauge museum train to Schönheide
• Hiking trails around the Eibenstock dam

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Stützengrün is on federal highway 169 . Until 1975 the village had a train station and a stop on the 42 km long narrow-gauge railway Wilkau-Haßlau-Carlsfeld . Two arched railway bridges in the local area were demolished when the railway was closed. In the 1990s, part of the Schönheide Museum Railway was rebuilt. The museum railway that operates today uses the old route, stops at the Stützengrün stop at the brush factory and ends at the Neulehn stop, created in 2001, which is just behind the Stützengrün stop. The museum train takes six minutes for this stretch of the route.

Established businesses

• Brush industry
• Small and medium-sized businesses
• occasional agriculture
• Commercial area on the B 169

Brush factory, seen from Schönheide, in the middle the building from 1925, on the right buildings from the 1950s

The largest company is the " Bürstenmann " brush factory, which is also visually dominant with its factory buildings , the first construction phase of which from 1925 is an example of the industrial architecture of that time. The starting point was the establishment of a cooperative for the production of brushes by Schönheider brush workers, who led a long strike in 1906/7, in particular for working hours that were shorter than the 70 hours a week that had previously been in force. This brush factory of the consumer association Schönheide started with three workers and in 1913 had 40 employees. They mainly delivered their goods to consumer associations and their large-scale purchasing companies. After the First World War and inflation, the Großeinkaufsgesellschaft deutscher Konsumvereine (GEG) took over production and relocated it from Schönheide to the newly built factory. The number of employees rose from 100 in 1914 to 200 in 1930. After the expropriation in 1941, armaments were manufactured. From the summer of 1945 onwards, there were again over 100 employees who, in addition to brushes, also produced shoes - Igelit shoes - to cover the large demand . The factory grew significantly in the 1950s. During this time, the factory was expanded considerably with a new building. With a proportion of women of over 50%, around 1,200 people were employed at the beginning of the 1960s, as well as numerous homeworkers. A high level of vertical integration with its own sawmill and pressing plant for plastic parts was typical of the time. In the mid-1960s there were around 800 different products. During this time, the company switched from two to three shifts. Today the factory is owned by the registered cooperative Zentralkonsum and bears the name Bürstenmann GmbH.

During the GDR era there was a company holiday home for the VEB machine tool factory "Union" in Stützengrün in Karl-Marx-Stadt .

education

Primary school Stützengrün in Neulehn (2017)

The primary school in Stützengrün on Schulstrasse is sponsored by the municipality of Stützengrün. It is attended by students from Stützengrün and Schönheide. The secondary school in Schönheide, which leads to the secondary school, qualifying secondary school and secondary school leaving certificate after the 10th grade, is also attended by the students from Stützengrün. Corresponding agreements have existed between the two municipalities since 2003.

literature

• Tobias August Friedrich Schmidt: Parish Rothenkirchen (with Stützengrün), in: Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie, Eleventh Volume, Voigtland, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Dresden 1844, p. 84 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
• Richard Steche : Oberstützengrün. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 27.
• P. Häßler: Die Parochie Stützengrün (with four illustrations), in: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1902, Volume 14, Sp. 591 Digitized in the Dresden State and University Library
• Johannes Obenaus: Church and church school chronicle from Stützengrün in the Erzgebirge , Verlag F. Karl Zschiesche, Wilkau (Saxony) 1929, 204 pages
• Column green. In: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 95–99.
• Community administration Stützengrün (ed.), Karin Brückner (author): 450 years of Stützengrün: [a chronicle of the festival; 1546, 1996] , Stützengrün o. J. (probably 1996), 59 pages. DNB 1018547150
• Volkmar Hellfritzsch : Stützengrün - Linguistic to a place on the border , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 42 (2020), Heft 4, S. 5–7. ISSN  0232-6078
• Karlheinz Hengst : News about Stützengrün in the Western Ore Mountains, in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter, 42 (2020), Issue 4, pp. 8–11.

Web links

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

• official website of the municipality of Stützengrün
• Stützengrün in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Oberstützengrün in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Support green in the digital historical directory of Saxony
• Historical photos of Stützengrün in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library / German Photo Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Interactive dictionary of Erzgebirgisch dialect Erzgebirgisch.de
3. ↑ List of fauna-flora-habitat areas in Saxony (EU registration no. DE 5441303)
4. ^ Westerzgebirge Landscape Management Association , accessed on September 13, 2015
5. ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), p. 332 ( digitized in the State and University Library Dresden )
6. ↑ Gottfried August Arndt, Archive of Saxon History, Part 2, Leipzig 1785, pp. 367 to 388 [1] , accessed on July 3, 2014
7. ↑ August Schumann: Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony, containing a correct and detailed geographical, topographical and historical representation of all cities, towns, villages, castles, courtyards, mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, etc., the entire Royal. and Prince. Saxon country including the Principality of Schwarzburg, the Erfurt area, as well as the Reussian and Schönburg possessions. Volume 2, Schumann, Zwickau 1815, p. 551 ( digitized version )
8. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1996
9. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
10. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi: Earth description of the electoral and ducal Saxon lands . Bey Joh. Phil. Haug's widow. Leipzig 1788, page 399 digitized version , accessed on April 22, 2015
11. ↑ Directories of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945, 1952, published by the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony
12. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt, September 5, 2014, p. 2.
13. ↑ State Statistical Office [2] , accessed on September 3, 2014
14. ↑ An office in good new hands. In: Wochenspiegel currently from September 24, 2014, p. 3.
15. ^ Result for Stützengrün at Sachsen.de , accessed on August 21, 2020
16. ^ Official result for Stützengrün at Saxony Statistics
17. ↑ Results for Saxony at Wahlrecht.de .
18. ↑ Information from Sachsen.de , accessed on August 21, 2020
19. ↑ Report at Tagesschau.de , accessed on August 21, 2020
20. ↑ Information from Sachsen.de , accessed on August 21, 2020
21. ↑ Information from Sachsen.de , accessed on August 21, 2020
22. ↑ Freie Presse - regional edition Aue - 13 January 2018, p. 11
23. ↑ Freie Presse - regional edition Aue - from March 19, 2018, p. 9
24. ^ Report by Thomas Schneider about Whitsun 2011 , accessed on January 17, 2018
25. ↑ Christian Feustel: Temple-Benefit / As on Churfl. Passage to Sachßen ... Command / to Stützengrün in Voigtlande / A completely new church should be built / And for it the foundation stone / which ... 26th Ianuarii 1697. was laid / ... In a simple sermon. .. touched ... by M. Christian Feusteln ... , publisher Paul Friedrich Haller, Plauen 1697 ( link to the digitized version in the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt )
26. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
27. ↑ Information on the FFH area at Umwelt.Sachsen.de
28. ^ Homepage of the museum railway , accessed on November 29, 2013
29. ↑ Rainer Heinrich, Gordon Parzyk: The history of narrow gauge railway Wilkau-Haßlau-Carl field. Published by Deutsche Reichsbahn, Falkenstein / Vogtland railway maintenance office, Falkenstein / Vogtland 1988, p. 105.
30. ^ Website of the museum railway
31. ^ Woodworkers Newspaper. Organ of the German Woodworkers Association , Berlin, No. 52 of December 27, 1913, p. 418 Digital copy in the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
32. ^ Andreas Ludwig: Der Bürstenmann in Konsum - Consumer cooperatives in the GDR , book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Documentation Center for Everyday Culture in the GDR, Eisenhüttenstadt 2006, p. 153
33. ↑ Bürstenmann's homepage
34. ↑ Schönheider Wochenblatt, No. 10/18 of March 6, 2018, p. 2