Desert fire
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Desert fire
Large district town Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 23 ″ E
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| Height : | 386 m | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 | |
| Postal code : | 09337 | |
| Area code : | 03723 | |
Location of desert fire in Saxony |
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Wüstenbrand is a district of the large district town Hohenstein-Ernstthal in the district of Zwickau in Saxony . It was incorporated on January 1, 1999.
geography
Geographical location and traffic
Wüstenbrand is located east of Hohenstein-Ernstthal on the "Rabensteiner Höhenzug", which separates the northern edge of the Erzgebirge basin from the southern edge of the central Saxon loess loam hill country . To the north-west of Wüstenbrand is the "Pfaffenberg-Oberwald" nature reserve with the Langenberger Höhe ( 484 m above sea level ), to the north-east of the village is the Rabensteiner Forest with the Totenstein ( 483 m above sea level ). The highest point of the place is the Heidelberg ( 450 m above sea level ) with its observation tower.
Neighboring places
| Grüna | ||
| Ernstthal |
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Grüna |
| Oberlungwitz |
history
According to Schumann's lexicon (1826), the history of desert fire goes back to 1148. That year some settlers, together with Hugo von Wartha , had the idea of accelerating the clearing by means of a fire that spread down the valley. The settlers called their settlement "Zum Brande". The harvests achieved were very different: There were good harvests in the east, hence Reichenbrand ; at the Wiesenbach the so-called "Green Aue" ( Grüna ) with medium yields; poor harvests on stony mountain soil in the western part. The place name probably comes from the old settlement "zum Brande", which was given the name "Wüstenbrand" because of the "desert" properties there. The first written mention of the place took place in 1346. In 1460 the place was named as Wustenbranth .
So desert fire is older than Hohenstein and Ernstthal . In contrast to the two cities, the place did not belong to the Schönburg rule , but to the imperial rule of Rabenstein until 1375 . Then the nobles von Waldenburg sold it to the Benedictine monastery in Chemnitz . With the Reformation this dependency ended in 1540 and Wüstenbrand came as an administrative village to the newly formed Wettin office of Chemnitz . In 1583 the place received the salt and brewing rights as well as the baking and slaughter rights. The craft developed in the region around 1750. In addition to the line weaving and bleaching, stocking knitting developed into an important line of business around 1728. Wüstenbrand belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Chemnitz until 1856 . In 1856 the place came to the judicial office Limbach and in 1875 to the administrative authority of Chemnitz . By 1830 the desert fire had become a handsome, wealthy and well-built factory and church village. With the opening of the Chemnitz - Zwickau section of the Dresden – Werdau railway line in 1858, the Wüstenbrand station was opened to traffic. At the same time, the coal railway to Lugau was opened, which was later extended to Neuoelsnitz and was in operation until 2003. Between 1897 and 1951 there was also the Limbach – Wüstenbrand railway , the remainder of which between the Schützenhaus and Wüstenbrand junction was later assigned to the Chemnitz – Obergrüna railway until it was closed in 2004. A postal expedition opened in Wüstenbrander Bahnhof in 1867, and a postal agency was raised in 1878. Since October 1, 1891, Wüstenbrand had an independent post office in Bahnhofstrasse. At the turn of the 20th century there were plans to build a purely villa village with a curch character due to the high iron content of the local springs. For this purpose, any further industrial settlement should be avoided. Ultimately, however, the aspirations did not become a reality.
As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Wüstenbrand came to the Hohenstein-Ernstthal district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Hohenstein-Ernstthal from 1990 and in 1994 in the Chemnitzer Land or In 2008 in the district of Zwickau. As a result of the municipal reform , the previously independent place was incorporated into Hohenstein-Ernstthal on January 1, 1999.
Attractions
- The Heidelbergturm is a 20 m high observation tower , which was built in 1991 on the highest elevation of the place, 450.1 m above sea level. NHN high Heidelberg was built. There was already a tower on the mountain in earlier times, but it had to be demolished in 1923. The Heidelberg Festival takes place on the mountain every year .
- Wüstenbrand village church, built in 1850/51
- Mausoleum, built in 1928
Transport and infrastructure
In 1858 Wüstenbrand received a connection to the railway network with the Wüstenbrand station . Today only the Dresden – Werdau railway line is served. Furthermore, it was formerly on the Neuoelsnitz – Wüstenbrand (1858–2003), Limbach – Wüstenbrand (1897–1951) and indirectly on the Chemnitz – Obergrüna industrial line (1903–2004). With the state roads 242 and 245, two regionally important roads lead through the district. In addition, Wüstenbrand has its own junction on federal motorway 4 .
Personalities
- Karl Reumuth (1886–1964), university professor, orthography reformer
- Johannes Schober (1935–2016), racing cyclist
- Herbert Hein (* 1954), soccer player
literature
- Richard Steche : Desert fire. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 7th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1886, p. 60.
Web links
- Desert fire in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Desert fire on the official website of Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Individual evidence
- ^ The "Pfaffenberg – Oberwald" nature reserve on the Zwickau district website
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
- ^ The administrative authority of Chemnitz in the municipal directory 1900
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
- ↑ Desert Band on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ Geoportal Sachsen Atlas
- ↑ Good visibility even from low altitudes in freiepresse.de from November 9, 2015, accessed on November 10, 2015