Wernesgrün

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Wernesgrün
Municipality Steinberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 44 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 44 ″  E
Residents : 1131  (1990)
Incorporation : March 1, 1994
Postal code : 08237
Area code : 037462
Wernesgrün (Saxony)
Wernesgrün

Location of Wernesgrün in Saxony

Wernesgrün has been part of the Steinberg community since 1994 .

Geographical location

Wernesgrün lies in the east of the Vogtlandkreis , which is identical to the Saxon Vogtland . The Wernesbach , a tributary of the Göltzsch, flows through the village . The district lies between the Steinberg (659 m above sea level) in the north and the Kuhberg (795 m above sea level) in the southwest.
According to the natural space map of Saxony , the place is in the mesogeochore “Kuhberg-Steinberg-Hinterland” and belongs to the microgeochore “Wernesbach-Tal”.

Surname

The place was originally called "Bernersgrunne". This has been proven for the year 1411. In 1455 the name "Wernerßgrune" appears and means "clearing settlement of a Wernher". The place has been known as Wernesgrün since 1791.

Neighboring communities

Old seal of the municipality of Wernesgrün
Steinberg
Rodewisch (district of Wiedenberg) Neighboring communities Rothenkirchen
Snarling fir Column green

history

Wernesgrün Church

The municipality of Wernesgrün was founded around 1200 by Franconian and Upper Palatinate farmers. The first written mention of the place took place in 1411. Around 1476 there is evidence of a glassworks in the place. In 1499 half of the village belonged to the Knights of Wolframsdorf, the other half went to Cuntz von Hermannsgrün. The Wolframsdorfer share went to the rule Auerbach in 1505. From 1525 Wernsgrün belonged entirely to the Auerbach rule and after its division in 1535 to the Göltzsch rule. In 1597 the place came back to the rule of Auerbach and later came with this to the Vogtland office of Plauen . In 1808 Johann Andreas Schubert , the designer of the Göltzschtalbrücke , the first German locomotive and the first Elbe steamship, was born in Wernesgrün.

Albert Schiffner writes in his "Handbook of Geography, Statistics and Topography of the Kingdom of Saxony" published in 1839:

Wernesgrün (Wernsgrün = Bernhard or Wernesgrün) [...] with its own school; 1834 = 112 H. [houses] and 812 E. [inhabitants] […] is somewhat hidden in a rough mountainous area. […] There is less economic activity [ie agriculture] than forest work, soot trade, carting, sewing, lace making, sponge finishing, sheet metal work, etc. Of the ironworks that burned down in 1753 only the hammer house belonging to Sorga is left. The Plitschenhäuser stand separately in the north, on the Wildenauischen Steinberge, and also isolate the Schinckenmühle. In general, there are 3 mills here, along with a few saws, and 2 inns. The mica slate contains quartz bearings, chlorite, noble serpentine and jet stone.

In the second edition in 1845 he added:

Wernesgrün (860 E.), which is very hidden in woodlands, with the cock's house known from a novel, is located northwest of Steinberg am Wernsbach, has 1 fiefdom with a brewery, 1 gun hammer, several mills and saws, pitch-making, lots of soot and top sellers. The granite is very rich in schörl.

In 1841, the residents of Wernesgrün were allowed to sell coarse brushes because they were made locally.

The municipal office building was opened in 1928. A National Socialist labor service camp existed from 1933 to 1935. On the death march from Lengenfeld to Eibenstock in 1945 five concentration camp prisoners were murdered near Wernesgrün. A few years later, her grave in the local cemetery was transformed into a memorial to the victims of fascism. American troops had been in Vogtland since mid-April 1945 . After the armistice on May 8, 1945, the place, like the entire Vogtland, was occupied by the Americans until the beginning of July. Then the Soviet Army took over the administration in the place. From 1947 to 1949 the former Günnelsche double villa was used for the district children's home. 70 children could live. Since 1976 the places Rothenkirchen, Wernesgrün and Wildenau have been working together in the "Community Association on Steinberg ". In the course of the Saxon municipal area reform , the municipalities of Rothenkirchen , Wernesgrün and Wildenau voluntarily merged to form the municipality of Steinberg in 1994 .

History of the Wernesgrüner brewing industry

As early as 1436 the brothers Caspar and Christoph Schorer were granted the right to brew. In 1762 Johann Michel Günthel (Günnel) acquired an estate with brewing rights and thus established the family property of the Günnel family (later the "Grenzquell Brewery"). Since 1775 the Wernesgrüner breweries were allowed to sell beer in the city of Auerbach due to a won process. In 1816 there were six breweries and two brewhouses in the village, and in the following years the Günnel and Männel breweries prevailed. The Wernesgrün Brewers' Association was first mentioned in 1922. After the Second World War, the Günnel family was expropriated by a land reform decision. This also happened with the property of the Mannel family. In 1972 the two Wernesgrüner breweries were merged to form VEB Exportbier-Brauerei Wernesgrün. After the political change, the Wernesgrüner Brewery traded again as “Wernesgrüner Brewery AG” in 1990. The advertising with the slogan “The Pils legend is alive” is legendary. From 1993 to 2011, the MDR broadcast Wernesgrüner Musikantenschenke with 185 episodes took place on the premises of the Wernesgrüner Brewery. The Wernesgrüner Brauerei AG became part of the Bitburger Group in 2002. In the same year the Köstritz-Wernesgrüner Vertriebs GmbH was founded. Since 2003, the Wernesgrüner brewery is no longer operated in the legal form of a stock corporation (AG), but in that of a limited liability company (GmbH).

education

Around 1800 there was already a school in town. In 1900 a new school was inaugurated. In 1949, the Wernesgrüner elementary school was named "Andreas Schubert School". In 1992 the "Andreas Schubert School" was reopened, but closed again in 1999 due to the low number of students. The elementary school of the Steinberg community is now in the Rothenkirchen district.

The church in Saxony's church gallery from 1844

Religions

Originally the place was in Auerbach / Vogtl, 8 km away . parish. In 1837 the place got its own cemetery. In 1843 a prayer house was added to the school building, which was equipped with an organ by CG Jehmlich . The community board of Wernesgrün sought since 1878 a connection to the parish association Rothenkirchen. A year later, the Wernesgrüner parish was removed from the parish of Auerbach and assigned to the Rothenkirchen Parish Association as an independent parish. Today the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wernesgrün forms a sister church relationship with the parish in the neighboring town of Rothenkirchen within the parish of Auerbach.

traffic

The state road from Rodewisch via Wernesgrün to Rothenkirchen (today's B 169 ) has existed since 1842 . From 1858 the town and the local breweries tried to connect to the Saxon railway network, but this was unsuccessful. The closest station was from 1893 to 1975 the Rothenkirchen station of the narrow-gauge Wilkau-Haßlau-Carlsfeld .

Since 2010 efforts have been made by the “Via Wilzschhaus” development association to reactivate the upper section of the narrow-gauge railway from Carlsfeld to Rothenkirchen and to extend it with a new line to the brewery in Wernesgrün. Thus, for the first time in its history, Wernesgrün would have a railway connection.

Memorials

  • At the birthplace in Wernesgrün a plaque commemorates the engineering scientist Johann Andreas Schubert .
  • A memorial to the victims of fascism commemorates five murdered concentration camp prisoners and two deceased Soviet prisoners of war from 1945

Personalities

  • Johann Andreas Schubert (1808–1870), designer of the Göltzschtalbrücke, the first German locomotive and the first Elbe steamship
  • Thomas Olbricht (* 1948), chemist, doctor, former chairman of the supervisory board of Wella AG and patron of the arts

literature

  • Wernesgrün. In: The eastern Vogtland (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 59). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0938-1 , pp. 127–129.
  • Albert Schiffner: Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony . First delivery, containing the Zwickau directions district, Verlag Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1839, p. 405 digitized

Web links

Commons : Wernesgrün  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ This refers to the rooster houses belonging to Schnarrtanne , about which it is reported that the scream of a rooster during the Thirty Years ' War made soldiers aware of the inhabitants hidden in the forest under a rock.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natural space map service of the Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV Dresden ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d The eastern Vogtland (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 59). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0938-1 ., P. 127
  3. ^ Albert Schiffner: Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony . First delivery, containing the Zwickau directions district, Verlag Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1839, p. 405 digitized
  4. ^ Albert Schiffner: Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Reuss and Schwarzburg lands. Second edition corrected by supplements. Verlag von HH Grimm, Dresden 1845, p. 353 digitized
  5. ↑ Journal for the administration of justice and administration: First for the Kingdom of Saxony, Verlag von Bernhard Tauchnitz jun., New Series, Volume 2, Leipzig 1842, p. 194 digitized
  6. ↑ Presentation of the brewery history on Wernesgrüner.de , accessed on August 11, 2017
  7. ^ Report in the Berliner Zeitung "Tageszeitung" on March 20, 1997 , accessed on August 11, 2017
  8. ↑ Report on Fernsehen.de , accessed on August 11, 2017