Wernsdorf (Penig)

Wernsdorf City of Penig Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 39 ″ N , 12 ° 40 ′ 20 ″ E
Residents :	212 (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1956
Incorporated into:	Niedersteinbach
Postal code :	09322
Area code :	037381
Location of Wernsdorf in Saxony
	View from the west of Wernsdorf

Wernsdorf is a district of the city of Penig in the district of central Saxony (Free State of Saxony ). The place was renamed on January 1, 1956 after several incorporations in Niedersteinbach . This community merged on January 1, 1994 with Langenleuba-Oberhain to form the Langensteinbach community, which came to the city of Penig in 2003.

geography

Geographical location

Wernsdorf is located northwest of Penig not far from the state border with Thuringia ( Altenburger Land ). The Erlsbach flows through the village and drains into the Wiera via the Leubabach .

Neighboring places

	Langenleuba-Oberhain
Niedersteinbach		Dittmannsdorf
	Markersdorf	Penig

history

At the same time as the neighboring towns of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach, the town of Wernsdorf was created around 1170 as a two-sided row village with forest hooves . Its place name was derived from its founder, a Wernher. Wernsdorf was first mentioned in a document on July 25, 1324. This document documents the enfeoffment of Burgrave Albrecht IV von Altenburg and his son-in-law Otto von Leisnig with the villages of Göhren , Himmelhartha , Schlaisdorf and Gütern zu Wernsdorf by Margrave Friedrich II von Meißen . So far, the places were lent to Heinrich von Königsfeld . The only farm in the village that was officially mentioned in 1333 was under the parish court of Rochsburg until the 19th century . At the time of the Reformation , Wernsdorf was parish off to Niedersteinbach in 1539.

In 1551 there were 19 farms and 25 "residents" in Wernsdorf, some of whom belonged to the offices of Penig and Rochsburg . Both offices were exchanged for the House of Schönburg in 1543 and 1547/48 , but as " Schönburg territorial lordships " they were under the sovereignty of the Albertine electorate of Saxony . In 1835 Wernsdorf was integrated with the offices of Rochsburg and Penig into the Rochlitz office . From 1856 the place belonged to the Penig court office and from 1875 to the Rochlitz district administration .

The merger of the previously independent communities Niedersteinbach, Obersteinbach and Wernsdorf to form the new community Wernsdorf with the districts Niedersteinbach and Obersteinbach (900 inhabitants) took place on July 1, 1950. With the reorganization of the GDR states into 14 districts and the second district reform , the community Wernsdorf became with its districts Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach on July 25, 1952, assigned to the newly formed Geithain district in the Leipzig district . On December 4, 1952, the community Steinbach was reclassified from the Altenburg district to the Geithain district. This community was formed in 1855 from the Thuringian - Altenburg parts of Obersteinbach and Niedersteinbach. The incorporation to Wernsdorf took place in January 1953.

Since the majority of the districts of Wernsdorf had the ending "-steinbach", the name of the community of Wernsdorf, which now had 1099 inhabitants, was changed to "Niedersteinbach" on January 1, 1956. On January 1, 1994, the municipality of Niedersteinbach with its districts and the municipality of Langenleuba-Oberhain merged to form the municipality of Langensteinbach . With this Wernsdorf came with the dissolution of the Geithain district on August 1, 1994 not like most places to the district of Leipziger Land in the administrative district of Leipzig , but to the district of Mittweida in the administrative district of Chemnitz . Since January 1, 2003, Wernsdorf has been part of the city of Penig.

traffic

Wernsdorf station

To the east of the village, the federal highway 72 and the federal highway 175 intersect at the “Penig” exit. Between 1901 and 1995 Wernsdorf had its own train station on the Altenburg – Langenleuba – Oberhain railway line . The station building was in danger of collapsing and was demolished in July 2009.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Population by city and district. (PDF) City of Penig, accessed on October 8, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.
^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
^ Wernsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
^ Supplement to the Peniger Official Gazette No. 2 , February 19, 2010, p. 12.

[1] Population by city and district. (PDF) City of Penig, accessed on October 8, 2019 .

[2] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 82 f.

[3] The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900

[4] Wernsdorf on gov.genealogy.net

[5] Supplement to the Peniger Official Gazette No. 2 , February 19, 2010, p. 12.