Weissthal

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Weissthal
City of Mittweida
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 4 ″  N , 12 ° 59 ′ 46 ″  E
Residents : 163  (1875)
Incorporation : 1875
Incorporated into: Kockish
Postal code : 09648
Area code : 03727
Weißthal (Saxony)
Weissthal

Location of Weißthal in Saxony

Weißthal is a district of the large district town of Mittweida in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . It had belonged to Kockisch since 1875 and was incorporated into the city of Mittweida with this in 1923.

geography

Mittweida graticule

Weißthal is northeast of Mittweida in the central Saxon hill country . The place lies in an arch of the Zschopau , which borders it in the north, west and south.

Neighboring places

Ringethal
Ringethal Neighboring communities Weinsdorf with Liebenhain
Rößgen Kockish

history

Weißthal is the youngest district of Mittweida in terms of origin. It was only created in the 19th century. In 1854 there was a spinning mill called "Weißthal" on the Zschopau, the name of which it owes to its founder, Johann Gotthelf Christian Weiß. In 1875 the company was converted into the “Weißthaler Aktien - Spinnerei” stock corporation. In the same year, the Weißthal settlement with 163 inhabitants that grew up around the spinning mill came under the administration of Kockisch in the newly established Rochlitz administration . After 1886 the company was expanded with its own weaving mill with 400, later with 670 looms in Bahnhofsstraße in Mittweida. On August 1, 1923, Kockisch and Weißthal were incorporated into Mittweida.

After the Second World War , the Weissthaler spinning mill was transferred to public ownership in 1946 , and later it was assigned to VEB cotton spinning mill as Plant II . With the political change in 1990 the factory was closed. Most of the spinning mill has since been demolished.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Kockisch and Weißthal came with Mittweida in 1952 to the Hainichen district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which came to the newly formed Mittweida district during the administrative reform that took place in 1994 . Since 2008, the city of Mittweida and its districts have been part of the newly formed Central Saxony district .

In 2020 there were 47 inhabitants in Weißthal.

religion

In terms of church, Weißthal belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Mittweida as part of Kockisch.

Economy and Transport

Weißthal owes its foundation to industrialization in the 19th century. The “Weißthal” factory estate developed around the spinning mill that existed in 1854. The cotton mill was closed in 1990.

In 1861, at the instigation of the Ringethal manor owner, a bridge was built over the Zschopau from Ringethal to Weißthal. It served the better connection of the so-called "water villages" with Mittweida. Until the bridge was built, farmers and traders had to take long and arduous journeys through the Zschopau ford or over the wooden bridge in Neudörfchen to get to Mittweida. The bridge was renewed around the year 2000.

Attractions

  • Hiking trail on the left bank of the Zschopau, called "Via Mala"
  • Circular hiking trail through the "Holy Wood" to Kockisch and back to Ringethal
  • Stone sculpture "Hermann von Schroeter" or "Bridge Lord" on the bridge from Weißthal to Ringethal. It was erected as a result of the new construction of the Weißthal Bridge, consisting of Rochlitz porphyry.
  • Graticule south of Mittweida. It denotes the intersection of the 51st degree of north latitude with the 13th degree of longitude east.

Web links

Commons : Weißthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The cotton spinning mill from JCG Weiß in Weißenthale near Mittweida  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weißthal in the Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
  3. ↑ Description of the hiking trail through the Holy Wood