Waldesruh (Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.)

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Forest rest
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 34 "  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 34"  E
Foreground: Vereinglückschacht Background: Waldesruh district
Foreground: Vereinglückschacht
Background: Waldesruh district

The Waldesruh or Waldesruhsiedlung is a locality in the southwest Saxon town of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. in the Erzgebirgskreis .

The planning of the factory settlement for miners was carried out by the Leipzig architects Handel & Franke taking into account healthy living conditions . The first 64 houses in the Waldesruh settlement were built between 1920 and 1922 with the support of the home building from the German trade union . The one- and two-story houses were developed in the homeland security style as three-gabled houses for 2 or 4 families. An expansion approved in 1924 was no longer carried out after the homestead contribution was discontinued. Another 30 houses were built between 1955 and 1957, and the settlement has not undergone any major changes since then. The settlement , which was originally called the miners' home, is also called Negerdorf by locals ; this popular name is a reference to the soot-blackened faces of the mining buddies who live there.

literature

  • City administration Oelsnitz / Erzgeb .: Oelsnitzer Lexikon Volume 1, Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 2008
  • Bernd Sikora: The Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field. In: Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen. Work report 4, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-395415-060-1 , p. 45 ff.