Venusberg (Drebach)

Venusberg Drebach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	450 m above sea level NN
Area :	11.3 km²
Residents :	1059  (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	94 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	09430
Area code :	03725
Location of Venusberg in Saxony

Venusberg is a district of the Saxon community Drebach in the Erzgebirgskreis .

history

Venusberg with Wiltzsch and Spinnerei

Venusberg manor around 1860

Venusberg Manor 2017

Oldest workers' barracks in the Ore Mountains from 1843 in Venusberg (spinning mill), photo from 1954

The place is first mentioned in 1414 as "Fenichbergk". In 1486 the manor Venusberg included a Vorwerk , Venusberg, the village "zum Herold" and eight subjects in Drebach. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the peasants also rise up in Venusberg. With the Reformation in 1539 the place comes to parish Drebach. The district of Wiltzsch is first mentioned in 1551. In the following period, from 1612, the manor frequently changes hands. A mill with a bakery is mentioned in the Wilisch valley in 1661, and a spinning mill is built in the village in 1827, the owner of which, Oehme, founded the region's first factory school in 1832. At the same time, the Schüllermühle was converted into a spinning mill. In the Venusberg-Spinnerei district, the oldest workers' tenement barracks in the Ore Mountains was built in 1843 (demolished in February 2020 despite the existing monument protection). The owner of the Schüllerspinnerei, Johann David Schüller, built a new, larger spinning mill on the border with Herold in the years up to 1858 . A school was built in 1861, but was replaced by a new building in 1891. With the construction of the Wilischthal – Thum narrow-gauge railway , the town received a rail connection in the Spinnerei district in 1886 and in Gelenau for the Wilitzsch district. In 1899 the place received a telegraph connection. A factory fire brigade was founded in the spinning mill in 1904. A public electricity network is built from 1908. In 1921 the manor district of Venusberg was dissolved. The corridors come to Drebach and Venusberg. In 1922, Wiltzsch was connected to the electricity network. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1925. The first water supply systems are built from 1926. From 1943 onwards, female concentration camp inmates carried out armaments orders from the Dessau Junkers Works in parts of the Schüller spinning mill (“Venus Works ”). The forced labor had 1,000 Jewish women from Hungary and run from Western European countries, from the concentration camp and the Bergen-Belsen were transported and in the satellite camp of the Venusberg Flossenburg were interned. Many died of abuse and starvation. Since the parish offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the surrounding area refused to bury the dead in the cemeteries, the bodies were buried near the camp.

From 1994 to 2009 Venusberg was part of the administrative association Grüner Grund . Until the merger with the municipality of Drebach on January 1, 2010, Venusberg was an independent municipality with the associated districts of Grießbach , Spinnerei, Wiltzsch, Im Grund and Wilischthal . The last mayor of Venusberg was Kathrin Sieber.

Population development

year population 1834 767 1871 1,248 1890 1,455

year population 1910 1,473 1925 1,531 1939 1,633

year population 1946 1,682 1950 1,775 1964 1,968

The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:

1982 to 1988 1982 - 2,725 1983 - 2,708 1984 - 2,706 1985-2683 1986-2689 1987 - 2,642 1988 - 2,580

1989 to 1995 1989 - 2,586 1990-2,587 1991 - 2,513 1992 - 2,581 1993 - 2,597 1994 - 2,632 1995 - 2,494

1996 to 2002 1996 - 2,500 1997 - 2,531 1998 - 2,439 1999 - 2,419 2000 - 2,435 2001 - 2,465 2002 - 2,429

2003 to 2007 2003 - 2,410 2004 - 2,371 2005 - 2,351 2006 - 2,334 2007 - 2,334 2008 - 2,321

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

Memorials

A memorial from 1958 near the former fine spinning mill commemorates over 100 women who died as a result of forced labor in the subcamp.

Personalities

• Ludwig Kühn (1893–1977), politician, President of the Saxony Chamber of Crafts

literature

• Venusberg . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, p. 197 f.
• The middle Zschopau area (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 28). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 176–177.
• Kurt Scheffler: Venusberg - word and image from our past. Association for History and Tradition Preservation eV: Venusberg, 2006. DNB 1022753088
• Pascal Cziborra: Concentration Camp Venusberg. The dragged off death. Lorbeer Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-938969-04-5 .

Web links

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

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

• gemeinde-drebach.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Drebach. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Venusberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ^ Wiltzsch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
5. ↑ See Venusberg in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony