Wegefarth

Wegefarth Oberschöna municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 8 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	335-355 m
Area :	7.91 km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1950
Postal code :	09600
Area code :	037321
Location of Wegefarth in Saxony

Wegefarth is a district of the municipality Oberschöna in the Saxon district of Central Saxony in Germany .

geography

location

Wegefarth is located on the northern edge of the Osterzgebirge at the confluence of the Schirmbach in the Große Striegis . To the south of the village is the Frankenstein Viaduct on the Dresden – Werdau railway line . The Bahnhof Frankenstein railway settlement belonging to the Wegefarther district is located on this , but can only be reached from Wegefarth via Oberschöna.

Wegefarth also includes the Frankenstein station in the south-west of the municipality .

Neighboring places

Bräunsdorf	Langhennersdorf
Wingendorf		Kleinwaltersdorf
Frankenstein station	Oberschöna	Small business

history

Wegefarth manor, mansion 2017

Wegefarth Church 2015

The Waldhufendorf Wegefarth in the valley of the Great Striegis was probably founded before 1162. It was first mentioned in a document in 1292, but it seems to have played an important role as a fortification to protect a ford over the Große Striegis, on the way between Sachsenburg and Freiberg . In a document from 1185, in which the boundaries of the eastern possessions of the Altzella monastery are described, the four Eckhard villages are also commemorated. These were fiefdoms of the Hersfeld monastery in Hessen . It was later concluded that Oberschöna, Linda , but also Wegefarth and probably St. Michaelis belonged to these villages. A manor in Wegefarth is already occupied in 1340, the Wegefarth manor is documented in 1551. Over the centuries, Wegefarth was particularly determined by the local manor, which in addition to agriculture and forestry also included commercial operations, including a cotton spinning mill. Mining was only practiced on a small scale.

Wegefarth was until 1856 in the electoral or royal Saxon district office Freiberg . From 1856 the place belonged to the Freiberg judicial office and from 1875 to the Freiberg district administration .

In the course of the construction of the Dresden – Werdau railway line in 1869, a railway settlement called "Bahnhof Frankenstein" was built around the newly opened Frankenstein (Sachs) station. Although the station is located in the south-western district of Wegefahrt, 1.8 km away, it was given the name of the closer Frankenstein (0.5 km west). Oberschöna, east of the train station, is also 1 km closer to the station than Wegefarth.

On July 1, 1950, Wegefarth was incorporated into Oberschöna with its Frankenstein station district. As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Wegefarth came as a district of Oberschöna in 1952 to the Freiberg district in the Chemnitz district (renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Freiberg from 1990 and was added to the district of Central Saxony in 2008.

traffic

Frankenstein (Sachs) station (2016)

Wegefarth can be reached via local roads from Oberschöna, Kleinschirma and Bräunsdorf or Langhennersdorf. The Bahnhof Frankenstein settlement is located on State Road 203.

The Frankenstein (Sachs) station on the Dresden – Werdau railway line is the traffic stop for the regional train RB 30 (Dresden– Zwickau ), which runs every hour and has been operated by the Central German Regiobahn since June 2016 . The Franken-Sachsen-Express (line RE 3 Dresden – Hof with a change to Nuremberg in Hof) passes the Frankenstein (Sachs) station without stopping.