Weißenborn (Zwickau)

Weissenborn City of Zwickau Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  E
Residents :	4345  (Jun 30, 2006)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1922
Postal code :	08058
Area code :	0375
Location of Weißenborn in Saxony

Johanniskirche Weißenborn

Weißenborn has been a district of Zwickau since January 1, 1922 , which has been the district town of the Zwickau district in the Free State of Saxony since 2008 . The place is located in the district of Zwickau-Nord and has the official number 32. The district with a building consisting mainly of one and two-family houses is a sought-after residential area.

Geographical location

Districts and districts of Zwickau

Located northwest of Zwickau city center, Weißenborn borders on Niederhohndorf to the north , Pölbitz to the east and Marienthal to the south . In the far west, Weißenborn shares a border with the urban area of Werdau .

history

Weißenborn was originally a village at the gates of the city of Zwickau. The place was first mentioned in 1324. A part of Weißenborn originally belonged to the more distant possession of the Grünhain monastery in the Western Ore Mountains . In the course of the introduction of the Reformation , Grünhain Monastery was secularized in 1533 . After its final dissolution, the monastic part of Weißenborn came under the administration of the Electoral Saxon Zwickau Office in 1536 . While the other part of Weißenborn was still subordinate to the council of the city of Zwickau around 1553, Weißenborn was run as an official village in the Electoral Saxon, later royal Saxon office of Zwickau from 1590 . In 1856 Weißenborn came to the Zwickau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . Weißenborn was incorporated into Zwickau on January 1, 1922.

The constant industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century brought significant changes for Weißenborn as well. Weißenborn was connected to the city center and the neighboring community of Lichtentanne by the Zwickau trolleybus since December 1, 1938 . The two final stops at Weißenborn-Stadtpark and Weißenborn-Siedlung existed . The trolleybuses on this line were replaced by diesel buses from August 31, 1977, the trolleybuses then gradually removed.

Immediately opposite the Johanniskirche is the premises of August Horch & Cie. Founded by August Horch in 1904 . Motorwagenwerke AG , since 1918 Horchwerke AG ; the factory later formed the Sachsenring part I.

The Weißenborn Johanniskirche was the place of activity of Pastor Max Hahn (born June 26, 1862, † July 3, 1939) from 1891 to 1925. After the Horchwerke was founded, August Horch also belonged to this parish. Horch became a close friend of the pastor. Max Hahn, who himself took an active part in many automobile competitions, also became very well known as the “automobile pastor”. Also a prominent resident of Zwickau-Weißenborn was chief engineer Hermann Lange . Lange left his company together with August Horch in 1909 in order to continue working as chief designer at the newly established Audi factory in Zwickau . The graves of Max Hahn and Hermann Lange are not far from Weißenborn in the Zwickau main cemetery.

In the years 1925/1926, with the support of Simon Schocken, the area known as Schockensiedlung was also built on. Schocken was a co-owner of the Schocken department store group . In the settlement, to which Villa Schocken also belongs, there is a Simon-Schocken-Platz.

Population development

date population December 31, 1998 4,841 December 31, 1999 4,707 December 31, 2000 4,672 December 31, 2001 4,601 December 31, 2002 4,542 December 31, 2003 4,444 December 31, 2004 4,384 December 31, 2005 4,390 June 30, 2006 4,345

year Population (forecast) 2010 4,300 2015 4,000 2020 3,900

Source: Urban development concept of the city of Zwickau 2020 (status: December 2006) as well as statistical information of the city of Zwickau 2006/1.

Buildings

Well known is the 13th century St. John's Church , which was first built in Gothic style and later rebuilt in neo-Gothic style . By 1880 the church was almost in ruins, but was expanded in 1886 by building officer Oskar Mothes , who also had the St. Mary's Church in Zwickau Gothicized and was responsible for the construction of the neo-Gothic Reinsdorf brick church . The church also served as a place of worship for the Niederhohndorf farming families.

leisure

The Zwickau Forest Park in the “Weißenborn Forest” with its three ponds, the city forester's office and the forest that extends as far as Werdau is a popular excursion and recreational destination in the Zwickau region. These include a forest sports field and the Bellmanns Brunnen spring , where, according to legend, a bird catcher named Pöllmann was bitten by an adder and is said to have died as a result of this bite. In the forest park there is also a medieval tower hill castle right next to a water hole called the Böser Brunnen . It belonged to the single-row forest hoof village Rappendorf , which was once important for supplying the city of Zwickau . It was founded in the 12th century and burned down and devastated during a Hussite siege in 1430 . Directly on the hiking trail in front of the deserted village, an information board explains the excavations on the Rappendorf desert during the GDR era.

traffic

The Zwickau-Pölbitz stop on the Dresden – Werdau railway line is on the eastern border of Pölbitz.

literature

• Richard Steche : Weissenborn. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 12. Issue: Zwickau Official Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1889, p. 69.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Division of the urban area of ​​Zwickau into city districts and districts ( memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.2 MB), accessed on November 4, 2011 
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
3. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
4. ↑ Zwickauer Stadtchronik, 20. Jahrhundert, Zwickau.de, accessed on December 7, 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ August-Horch-Museum Zwickau GmbH (Ed.): August Horch pioneer of motor travel. Zwickau 2001, ISBN 3-00-008754-0 .
6. ↑ Zwickau pages: Schocken's shopping palace and warning “stumbling blocks”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ The deserted village Rappendorf in the digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony
8. ↑ Weißenborn - somewhat well-spring, loamy and wooded. In: zwickau.tourbee.de. Retrieved March 1, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Weißenborn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Weißenborn in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Johanniskirche Zwickau in the parish of Zwickau Nord