Waldbad Neuwürschnitz
The Waldbad Neuwürschnitz is a bathing facility in the city of Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains. It is named after the nearby district of Neuwürschnitz .
history
In the vicinity of the Steinhübel there were originally seven ponds belonging to the Oelsnitz manor, including the large and small Steinhübelteich, the Pöschenteich, the street pond, the alluvial pond and the mill pond. The Großer Steinhübelteich was populated with 18 shock young carp every two years . The fishing then yielded 90 guilders. In the meantime, some ponds have been drained and converted into meadows, garden land and forest (see Loh- and Haderwald ). The Oelsnitz manor lords not only drove the profitable sheep breeding, pond and forest management in this area, but also had the sand and clay deposits dismantled and quarries were made in order to obtain the melaphyr as tree material. However, attempts to extract hard coal failed here on the edge of the coal basin.
On April 7, 1901, however, the dam of the Great Steinhübelteich broke after days of rain. The masses of water drowned the quarry - the so-called black hole, where the open-air stage is today - and flooded all of Neuwiese . In the following years, the pond was not restored. As a result, the landscape lost a lot of its appeal. Dried out and overgrown by bushes, the “Great Pond” soon lived only in the memory of old Neuwiesers.
After 1945, especially in the 1950s, this area became a focus of the national reconstruction work of the citizens of the then independent community of Neuwürschnitz. In 1955/56 the Waldbühne , which the chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers , Otto Grotewohl , visited on the occasion of the miner's day in 1957, was created in many voluntary work assignments . In the years that followed, the Neuwürschnitzers expanded the entire site as a local recreation center. The former Große Steinhübelteich, also popularly known as the gondola pond, was dammed up again as a forest pool. A restaurant, a cottage settlement as well as a tent and camping site were also built.
Today the Waldbühne is mainly used for open-air concerts, seasonal cinema screenings and as a destination. The annual Waldbad Regatta, which took place for the first time in 2006 on the occasion of “50 Years of the Waldbühne”, has established itself as a crowd puller.
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 11 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 1 ″ E