Glauchau

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Glauchau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 33'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Zwickau
Height : 266 m above sea level NHN
Area : 51.62 km 2
Residents: 22,233 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 431 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 08371
Area code : 03763
License plate : Z, GC, HOT, WDA
Community key : 14 5 24 080
LOCODE : DE GHU
City structure: Core city, 6 villages

City administration address : 		Markt 1
08371 Glauchau
Website : glauchau.de
Lord Mayor : Peter Dresler ( independent )
Location of the city of Glauchau in the district of Zwickau
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Glauchau ( also Glauche in the Saxon dialect ) is a large district town in the Saxon district of Zwickau . In the former district of Chemnitzer Land it was the district town. The city had its heyday at the time of high industrialization in Germany and was an important location for the textile industry .

Older forms of name

In medieval documents, the place, town and castle are given different names / spellings:

  • C luchowe (first mentioned on March 4, 1240, Latin)
  • Gluchowe (1256, Latin)
  • Gluchow (1335, Latin)
  • Glauchaw (1524)
  • Gluchaw
  • Glaucha (1536)
  • Glawche (1530), this apparently corresponds to today's Saxon pronunciation as "Glauche"
  • Glauchau (around / after 1675)

Because of the spelling Glaucha, there is a risk of confusion in documents with the former city of Glaucha near Halle / Saale .

Name origin and distribution

The name of the original Slavic settlement “Gluchowe” (or “Cluchowe”) is most likely derived from the Slavic terrain name “Gluchov” or “gluchy”, which translates as silent or silent .

Similar place names occur several times in the Slavic-speaking area, such as Gluchow in Poland near Warsaw and also northeast of Kiev in what is now northern Ukraine. see:

geography

Geographical location

Glauchau lies on the Zwickauer Mulde , on the edge of the Erzgebirge basin , at an altitude of 266  m above sea level. NHN (St. Georgen Church) in the south of the Saxon castle and heathland . The nearest regional centers are Zwickau (13 km), Chemnitz (26 km) and Gera (33 km). The Glauchau Bismarck Tower stands on the Bismarckhöhe ( 317.3  m ) above the city of Glauchau. The bottom of the Zwickau Mulde at the Glauchau railway bridge (routes to Zwickau and Gößnitz) is at a height of 230.5  m .


Expansion of the urban area

The city covers about 50 km², of which the Rümpfwald makes up 20 km² . Parts of this forest were used by the Soviet Army as a training ground. Today it is a nature reserve that is home to many animals that are on the Red List of Endangered Species .

Neighboring communities

The communities of Callenberg , Dennheritz , Remse , St. Egidien and Mülsen border Glauchau . Furthermore, Glauchau is surrounded by the cities of Lichtenstein , Meerane , Zwickau and Waldenburg .

The market square of Glauchau

City structure

Glauchau consists of the core city and 14 districts: The
following table shows the population of these districts on the reference date of the last census (May 9, 2011).

Community
key 		Part of the community population
010 Albertsthal 313
020 Ebersbach 131
030 Gesau 1,489
040 Glauchau 14,957
050 Höckendorf 170
060 Hölzel 154
070 Jerisau 503
080 Kleinbernsdorf 37
Community
key 		Part of the community population
090 Lipprandis 117
100 Niederlungwitz 2,677
110 Reinholdshain 863
120 Rothenbach 522
130 Schönbörnchen 797
140 Voigtlaide 183
150 Wernsdorf 665

history

City history

View around 1850
Castle complex for front and Hinterglauchau

The name of the city is explained as follows: The Old Sorbian word gluch with the meaning "quiet place, dense forest" was originally used as a forest designation as the starting point for Gluchov , from which Glauchau became.

In the middle of the 13th century, under the protection of a castle built around 1170 by the Schoenburger dynasty, the Upper Town - what is now known as the Upper Town - was a planned site. In terms of canon law, Glauchau belonged to the archdeaconate "trans muldam" of the diocese Naumburg- Zeitz when it was founded.

At first, however, at least three legally independent sub-towns developed: "Rechtstadt" (inner city with city wall and market square), "Vorstadt" (1525: "vorstat Glauchaw", later also called "Lange Vorstadt", with its own city wall and jurisdiction) and the Part of town "Hain" south of the castle. Later, in the late Middle Ages or the early modern period, the community called "Upper Town", which had no town charter and was a village community. All villages and residents of the Glauchau rule (except those of the "Rechtstadt" and the "Vorstadt") were legally subordinate to the district court in the suburb.

In 1363 a judge ("index") is recorded in Glauchau, and in 1389 a bailiff ("advocatus"). Bailiffs, senior bailiffs and subordinate bailiffs also serving under the Lords of Schönburg were heads of the courts in the Glauchau district. The bailiff or chief bailiff was solely responsible for the high jurisdiction (neck jurisdiction).

The construction of a town hall on the long market square is documented for 1444. With the resident tanners, tailors, cloth and shoemakers, a brisk economic life developed. The council and mayor of the Rechtstadt / inner city could be proven for 1479, as well as the mention of the Glauchau rule in the same year.

From 1526 the existence of separate jurisdiction (regional court) in the "Vorstadt" (later called Lange Vorstadt) is documented. Which benefits had to be provided depended on whether a person lived in the city center / city center or one of the suburbs. Only the residents of the Rechtstadt and the "(Langen) Vorstadt" were originally allowed to brew. The residents of the "Rechtstadt" originally did not have to do any forced labor, but instead had to call up 368 teams to defend the city ​​wall . In 1530 the "Pirnische Mönch" Johannes Lindner mentions Glauchau in his chronicle as follows: "Glawche, a place on a mountain, including the Czwickesche Mulde fleußt ... has to dig very well to teyl". The trenches mean the many small side valleys of the right high bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, on which the upper town / city center is located.

In 1542 the Reformation took hold in Glauchau . Under pressure from the Saxon Duke Moritz, the Leipzig superintendent Johann Pfeffinger preached here on October 18, 1542 for the first time in the Lutheran style in the George Church. In previous years, the strict Catholic sovereign Ernst II von Schönburg had not admitted Lutheran teachings and had even fought them .

On April 16, 1547, Emperor Karl V moves through Glauchau with his troops in the Schmalkaldic War . Since the troops of the Saxon Duke Moritz were already quartered here, he took his quarters in the Jerisau parish. During this time a fire broke out in the (Langen) Vorstadt and 28 houses between Niedertor and Marktplatz in the inner city / "Rechtstadt" burned down.

In 1616 the "(Lange) Vorstadt" had more houses (115) than the inner city ("Rechtstadt", 102 houses). Glauchau was spared in the Thirty Years War until 1631. From 1631 it was ravaged almost every year by looting, contributions, epidemics and fires. In 1633 around 1000 people are said to have died of the plague here , which must have been more than half of all residents.

In 1640 the Glauchau city ​​wall was riddled with holes and in places completely disappeared. In 1664 their repair was considered. The two sub-towns "Rechtstadt" (inner city with market place) and "Vorstadt" (also called "Lange Vorstadt"), which were legally independent until the 19th century, each had their own city wall, their own gates, their own seals and apparently their own jurisdiction and prisons. All suburbs of Glauchau and the villages in the Glauchau rulership were originally subject to the jurisdiction of the "regional court" in the fortified "(long) suburb". (It was not until 1831 that these two Glauchau sub-towns were united into one.)

In Glauchau, between 1546 and 1693, three people were involved in witch trials , one was sentenced to the death penalty and then expelled from the country.

In 1712 Glauchau was badly damaged by fire.

From 1766, the Albertsthal settlement was established, which was later named after two counts of Schönburg (including Albert von Schönburg-Hinterglauchau). The city of Glauchau had its own archive in the old town hall. When the municipal archives were completely destroyed in the fire in the town hall in 1813, only the documents in the manorial archives in Castle Fordglauchau were spared.

From 1821 to 1871 the population rose from 4540 to 22036. Of the 10,350 inhabitants, 8397 were already employed in trade or industry in 1849. A post office was opened here in 1822 . In 1831 the two legally independent Glauchau sub-towns "Rechtstadt" (inner city with market) and "Lange Vorstadt" as well as the village community "Oberstadt" were combined into one town.

As almost everywhere in Saxony, the industrial revolution began in Glauchau in the middle of the 19th century . The Counts of Schönburg favored the settlement of industry here under tax law. In 1864 the Seydel and Sons company set up the first mechanical looms in Glauchau. Other companies followed. In the 1860s there were great sales difficulties, so that the Glauchau textile industry was initially in a serious crisis and there was great unemployment. Ultimately, however, Glauchau developed into a city of the textile industry that had to compete with the city of Chemnitz and other textile cities in Saxony. The so-called lower town emerged here as a factory town, of which today (2020) hardly any factory buildings have survived. From 1870 to 1880 the number of mechanical looms in Glauchau rose from 530 to 1060.

In 1858 the Zwickau-Glauchau Chemnitz railway line was opened. Also in 1858 the branch line Glauchau-Meerane-Gössnitz was opened, which enabled a connection to the economically important line Leipzig-Hof via the Gössnitz train station . The line to Zwickau and Chemnitz developed into the most economically important railway line that runs through Glauchau. From 1875 the Muldentalbahn Glauchau-Penig-Rochlitz-Großbothen was put into operation, which also reached Wurzen in 1877. The Glauchau station ultimately developed into a large marshalling and loading yard, which however lost its importance after 1990. From the old facilities of the Glauchau marshalling yard, a large locomotive shed with the associated turntable has been preserved, which is used by an association that demonstrates steam locomotives on special dates on this site.

The opening of the long-distance water pipeline in 1857, the construction of the power station in 1909 and the opening of the station in 1926, which had become necessary due to the high traffic density, were regarded as signs of industrial progress (this is probably the new construction / extension of the station). Although the industry grew strongly and shaped the cityscape, Glauchau developed at the beginning of the 20th century into a garden city with splendid and well-tended villa quarters - the many wealthy owners of Farbik - who are mainly in the upper town south of the castles. During the global economic crisis, a mayor had the Glauchau rosarium built. (It was refurbished before 2020).

Other construction projects / openings to be mentioned are: Stadtsparkasse (1843), Gasanstalt (1853), Citizens' School with Realschule classes (1858), Realschule (1871), Städt. Building school for college and Civil engineering (1898), slaughterhouse (1896), Stadtbad (indoor swimming pool, 1901), German roofing school (1905), secondary school (1909), Luther Church on the We (h) rdicht (1909) and several elementary schools and a vocational school in this year, water tower / Bismarck tower (1910), later with youth hostel, new city hospital (1914), military barracks (1914).

After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 were in the old police station detained the old town hall, political opponents and abused. Such a cell was set up as a memorial until 1989.

The textile industry was in Glauchau in 1940 in the fields of spinning , weaving , finishing , hosiery , manufacture and processing of artificial silk and rayon Until around 1990 there were these industries in Glauchau. You were the main employer in Glauchau for a long time.

The double castle complex was owned by the noble family of the Counts and Lords of Schönburg-Glauchau until it was expropriated without compensation as part of the land reform in 1945 . The Forderglauchau Castle was artillery damaged -Beschuss in April 1945, during the communist era but repaired.

In 1948, many Glauchau entrepreneurs were exposed to the Glauchau-Meerane textile pusher trials , arrested or driven away and expropriated. Until around 1990 or shortly thereafter, Glauchau was a major employer u. a. the VEB Spinnstoffwerk and VEB PALA (weaving mill) in the upper town. There was an aluminum processing company called "Alume", whose main plant was also in the upper town. In the lower town there was the VEB worsted spinning mill and many other industrial companies, including those in the metalworking industry.

After the political change and reunification , Glauchau established itself as one of the three Saxon freight centers. Since 1994 Glauchau has had the status of a " major district town ".

Naundorf and Grabowe desert areas

In the 13th century, the two villages Naundorf and Grabowe, which were located in today's Glauchau town hall, were given up. They originally belonged to the district of the Marienkirche in Zwickau . In 1219 Naundorf and Grabowe are still mentioned in a document. Not later. It is unclear when they fell. In 1482 the Naundorf meadows are mentioned as "pratum sub villa deserta Nuendorff".

Grabowe was to the left of the Zwickauer Mulde "beyond the upper Muldenbrücke", so probably in the area of ​​today's Gesau district . Here, in the 16th century, gardens were still called "graves" several times. Naundorf was in place of today's Glauchau reservoir. The so-called Naundorfer Wiesen (former field name) were located here until the reservoir was built.

Walter Schlesinger suspected that the Grabowe desert was the seat of the Schönburg ministerial Hermann von Graben , who was named as a witness in a document from the royal district judge Volrad von Colditz in 1248. (The same book probably incorrectly mentions Heinrich von Graben, but he is not listed in the table of contents. There is probably a confusion between the first name and Heinrich von Glauchau.).

In 1256 a knight Heinrich von Naundorf appears in a document , who apparently had his seat in this place. For Hermann von Graben it is documented that he was the castle man of the Glauchau Castle, for Heinrich von Naundorf this is just as likely. According to Walter Schlesinger, both places could have been abandoned because they were in the flood area of ​​the Zwickauer Mulde.

Place of execution at the new cemetery

A colored pencil drawing from the Glauchau execution site has been preserved from 1875. In addition to the cemetery on Lichtensteiner Straße, which was newly built in 1869, it shows the so-called fire column and, separately to the right of it, a six-foot-high walled rectangle, which was the place of execution . In 1875 these two objects were still preserved. Today, to the right of the entrance to the new cemetery, there is a free area used as a parking space, which did not become part of the new cemetery, as the place of execution, fire column and originally also the bike and gallows were located here. The people who were executed here were surely also buried in unconsecrated earth in this area.

The execution of 18 year old J. Michael Rabe from Neukirchen bei Borna is documented here for the year 1772. He had asked a farmer in Gesau for something to eat, but got nothing. He later set fire to his house. He was judged here with the sword and his body burned at the stake . It was probably the last public execution on this place of execution.

Castle Glauchauer Sachsenallee (formerly ring wall)

"The legend of the castle on the large meadow near Schönbörnchen" has been handed down to this day:

In the old days there was a castle on the large meadow near Schönbörnchen. Its owner was a knight who had seven unmarried daughters. It was uncomfortable near the castle. Next to a ditch, which has been leveled today, a number of will-o'-the-wisps led the nocturnal wanderer on wrong paths. Much worse, however, was the fact that the building was a robbery castle. It was called the "Weiler" and had an underground passage to the "Lug", the robber baron's castle on the Scherberg. At the robber barons' castle the travelers were "suffered", in the hamlet the booty was then divided.

When Glauchau was re-mapped around 1800, Major Friedrich Ludwig Aster , Saxon cartographer, also created “Asterer's miles sheets” from Glauchau. On the large meadow near Schönbörnchen, these have a ring wall called “the choice”.

In 1846 Albert Schiffner wrote : “Before reaching the Feldschlößchen, however, we want to notice a place on the left leveled in 1846, to which the legend of an ancient tower is attached, which dominated the valley here and protected great treasures. During the leveling of this walled and moat, old oak-bearing space under the foundations of the Count's pleasure house, which stood here under the name of the Chaumière in the previous century , a second mighty brick foundation of now unknown dimensions ”.

The location of the plant was still unclear in 1981. Apparently before 1988, ground monument preservers in the GDR era managed to find the place where the castle complex had stood. Research should be done at a later date. It probably never came to this because of the fall of the GDR in 1989/1990. The facility should be located "between the sports park and Sachsenallee". Apparently what is meant are the football stadium and the “Sachsenallee” prefabricated housing estate. Nothing unearthly can be seen today and the place is not marked. It is likely to be a small castle complex, e.g. B. have traded a tower castle or a tower hill castle with a moat. The location - in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde - seems very likely because of its function as a customs castle . It cannot be ruled out that remnants of the facility were removed or built over during construction work after 1990. In the area mentioned there is now a street, buildings of the Glauchau municipal utility and parking spaces.

Walter Schlesinger classified the complex as a tower hill castle. He assumed the seat of the Schönburg ministerial Hermann von Graben here , who is mentioned as a witness in a document from the royal judge Volrad von Colditz in 1248 (and named himself after the deserted Grabowe near Glauchau - probably his ancestral seat). “The choice” should be marked on the Aster Miles Sheet No. 516 on the left of the road from Glauchau to Gesau .

On the other hand, according to the current state of knowledge, there was never a castle on the Scherberg (at the former Scherteich and near the Scheermühle).

Incorporations

Former parish date annotation
Albertsthal August 1, 1918 Incorporation to Rothenbach
Ebersbach 1st January 1974 Incorporation to Reinholdshain
Elzenberg before 1880 Incorporation to Niederlungwitz
Gesau April 1, 1925
Höckendorf October 1, 1929
Hölzel before 1880 Incorporation to Wernsdorf
Jerisau April 1, 1937
Kleinbernsdorf before 1880 Incorporation to Reinholdshain
Lipprandis May 19, 1974
Niederlungwitz 3rd October 1992
Reinholdshain (with Audörfel) 3rd October 1992
Rothenbach April 1, 1929
Schönbörnchen October 1, 1929
Voigtlaide 1st August 1973  Incorporation to Wernsdorf
Wernsdorf 3rd October 1992

Population development

In 1550 the Schönburg residence town of Glauchau already had around 1350 inhabitants. In 1801 4062 inhabitants were registered. From 1821 to 1871 the population rose from 4540 to 22036. Of the 10,350 inhabitants, 8397 were already employed in trade or industry in 1849.

Development of the population (from 1960: December 31) :

Population development in Glauchau from 1834 to 2018 according to the table below
1834 to 1939
  • 1834: 6,296
  • 1875: 21.743
  • 1880: 21.358
  • 1885: 21.715
  • 1890: 23.405
  • 1910: 25.155
  • 1933: 31.199
  • 1939: 33.833
 1946 to 1997
  • 1946: 34,996 a
  • 1950: 35,387 b
  • 1960: 33.635
  • 1971: 31.828
  • 1981: 30.029
  • 1984: 29,343
  • 1995: 28.128
  • 1997: 27.935
 1999 to 2010
  • 1999: 27,592
  • 2001: 27,047
  • 2003: 26,633
  • 2005: 26.044
  • 2007: 25,357
  • 2008: 24,991
  • 2009: 24,684
  • 2010: 24,442
 from 2012
  • 2012: 23,355
  • 2013: 23,131
  • 2014: 23,231
  • 2015: 23,255
  • 2016: 22,925
  • 2017: 22,718
  • 2018: 22,440

Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office of Saxony
In April 2017, a total of 14,671 inhabitants lived in the actual city area.

a October 29th
b August 31

Memorials

Religions

City church St. Georgen

Christian churches and parishes have a long tradition in Glauchau. Some of them were founded in the 19th century, the large churches look back on a longer history.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church includes the parish of St. Georgen and the Luther parish in Glauchau as well as the parishes of Lobsdorf-Niederlungwitz and Wernsdorf. The Glauchau Catholics belong to the parish of the Assumption of Mary. There is also a New Apostolic congregation as well as various free church congregations.

The Evangelical Free Church Community in Glauchau & Meerane ( Baptists ) emerged in 1939 from the work of Pastor G. Mewes' chariot mission. Since then, this community has continued to develop. A parish hall was built and a branch was established in Meerane .

The Jehovah's Witnesses operate one of a total of nine congress halls in Germany on Grenayer Strasse, which is used for national congresses and meetings of the religious community. The four Glauchau parishes, which meet there for their weekly meetings, are also housed in the congress hall.

There are several other Christian congregations in Glauchau, including the Glauchau Adventist Church, the Evangelical C-Point Congregation Glauchau and the Elim Christian Church . Characteristic are the cooperation between the churches and parishes and the large number of joint projects, e.g. B. Jesus House Glauchau .

The majority of the population does not belong to any religious community.

politics

City council election 2014
Turnout: 44.8%
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38.2%
17.7%
16.7%
16.3%
7.9%
3.3%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
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  -2
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+ 3.3  % p.p.

City council

Glauchau town hall

The city council of Glauchau consists of 26 councilors and the mayor. Since the city ​​council election on May 25, 2014 , the seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

Coat of arms, city flag and city seal

An older coat of arms showed a crenellated wall with a double helmeted tower with an open gate and portcullis in the middle. To the right of him a Schoenburg coat of arms, to the left a crescent moon.

An oldest city seal, presumably from the 14th century, shows the older city coat of arms without the Schönburg coat of arms and without a crescent moon. The seal of the legally independent "suburb" from 1606 shows a crenellated tower, the Schönburg coat of arms in the open gate.

Current coat of arms and city flag

Today's coat of arms: Blazon : “In blue, a silver castle with a battlement wall and a broad-roofed tower with little red and white flags; to the right of the tower a three times red and silver diagonally divided shield, to the left a facing, faced silver crescent. “The (older?) coat of arms appears for the first time on a seal from 1576. Walter Schlesinger describes the new city coat of arms as follows:" Since 1897 the coat of arms in the blue field has shown a silver one Castle with a red roof and flag in the Schönburg colors (red / silver), on the right by a Schönburg coat of arms, on the left by a silver crescent moon. "

The current city flag is red / white (two horizontal bars).

Town twinning

Glauchau maintains city partnerships with

Culture and sights

Buildings

A castle was built between 1170 and 1180 where the Hinterglauchau Castle stands today . Between 1470 and 1485 this was converted into a late Gothic castle. A double castle complex was created with the construction of the Fordglauchau Castle from 1527 to 1534, which is considered to be the earliest Renaissance building in Central Germany. During the same period, Hinterglauchau was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. In April 1945, the western part of the south wing of the Fordglauchau Castle burned out due to artillery fire. Today Hinterglauchau houses the local history museum as well as an art collection, and Fordglauchau a library, music school and gallery.

Bismarck tower Glauchau

  • Fordglauchau Castle

  • Hinterglauchau Castle

The baroque town church St. Georgen , rebuilt after the fire of 1712 in the years 1726 to 1728 and restored in 2005/2006, has a small late Gothic winged altar from 1510 and an organ by Gottfried Silbermann from 1730 in addition to the main altar made of sandstone .

The villa district in the southwest of the city is a unique testimony to the Wilhelminian era . Today there are still more than 25 villas in this area. Many were built in the style of historicism ( Lossow'sche Villa , Clementinenstraße 8), the Italian Renaissance (Hellmich-Villa, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße), Art Nouveau and Classicism (Bößneck-Villa, Plantagenstraße).

In the town hall tower there is a porcelain carillon with 13 porcelain bells made from Meissen porcelain .

The Glauchau Bismarck Tower , called the Peace Tower in GDR times , was built between 1908 and 1910 as a water tower and lookout tower in memory of Otto von Bismarck . It is considered a symbol of the city. The 46 meter high tower is the tallest Bismarck tower still in existence . It is normally open regularly; In good weather, the view extends to the Fichtelberg , but closed to visitors until further notice due to falling stones and a planned renovation.

The warehouse in Niederlungwitz is a late Gothic three-storey building from 1492. In Gesau there is a baroque village church from 1741.

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View from the Bismarck Tower in western, northern and eastern directions

Sports

There are several sports clubs in Glauchau. The best known are the VfB Empor Glauchau , whose first football team plays in the State League of Saxony, and the HC Glauchau / Meerane , which was created in 2013 from the merger of HSV Glauchau and the Saxon handball club Meerane and whose first men's team plays in the upper handball league of Central Germany .

Regular events

Up until 2007, Glauchau regularly held a major event, the Woodstage Festival , which attracted fans of independent culture from all over Germany.

On the last Sunday in October, TSG Glauchau e. V. the Glauchauer Herbstlauf , which with more than 2000 participants is one of the largest running events in Saxony.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Glauchau train station
Glauchau-Schönbörnchen stop (2016)

Glauchau is connected to the A 4 to the north via the two junctions Glauchau East and Glauchau West . From the southwest to the northeast, the city is also crossed by the federal highway 175 . This was built between the lower town and the Glauchau Ost junction of the A 4 before the Second World War; today it has four lanes. A further four-lane extension to Zwickau- Mosel to the B 93 is planned.

The city lies on the Dresden – Werdau railway line , a section of the so-called Saxony-Franconia Magistrale . This is served every hour by the regional express trains on the RE 3 Dresden – Hof line and the RB 30 Dresden – Zwickau regional train line, which runs at the same pace. The central Germany connection to Erfurt branches off the railway line , on which RE trains run every two hours. There is also an RB connection to Gößnitz with a connection to Leipzig, also every two hours. There is also the option of taking the city ​​train to Stollberg in the Ore Mountains . In Glauchau there are two stations with the Glauchau (Sachs) train station and the Glauchau-Schönbörnchen stop .

The nearest international airport is in Leipzig / Halle . Leipzig-Altenburg Airport , 20 km away , has not handled any scheduled flights since 2011.

Established businesses

Many companies in the fields of mechanical engineering , vehicle construction and the textile industry are located in Glauchau . The companies from the vehicle construction sector use the direct proximity to the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau in Mosel , which is only a few kilometers from the Glauchau city limits.

Large resident companies are e.g. B:

Healthcare

The 1842 opened Rudolf-Virchow-Klinikum Glauchau , a former district hospital, a hospital in the standard care with 325 acute care beds and 30 day-care places. The responsible authority is the district of Zwickau . The eye clinic founded by Heinrich von Wolffersdorff in 1934 is also a response to the "Glauchau eye disease" caused by air pollution from the chemical industry ( H 2 S ). With its 25 beds it is still of national importance.

media

The daily newspaper in Glauchau is the Glauchauer Zeitung , a local edition of the Chemnitz Free Press . Every Wednesday and Saturday, the newspaper WochenSpiegel is distributed.

education

Glauchau University of Cooperative Education

A school existed in Glauchau before 1500. As of January 1, 2007, there were five elementary schools, including a European elementary school, as well as two high schools and a high school. More than 1,300 people study at the vocational academy in order to obtain a degree that is equivalent to the academic degrees of the universities of applied sciences. The vocational school center “Dr. Friedrich Dittes "trains in the fields of metal technology, electrical engineering, IT, construction, nutrition and housekeeping. Possible forms of training are the dual vocational training, the technical college, the vocational school, the vocational special school, the basic vocational training year and the vocational preparation year.

safety

The city of Glauchau maintains several fire stations of the volunteer fire brigade in the urban area and in the districts , which provide fire protection and general help. The four fire stations of the fire brigade in the city center are in Erich-Fraaß-Strasse, Schindmaaser Weg, Tunnelweg (Gesau district) and Schönberger Strasse (Jerisau district), as well as others at the local fire departments in Niederlungwitz, Reinholdshain and Wernsdorf.

Former garrison

With the construction of a barracks, Glauchau became a garrison of the Saxon Army from 1913 . As a result it was a garrison town of the Wehrmacht and from 1945 to 1993 for the Soviet / Russian troops in Germany . After the withdrawal of the Soviet army, all the buildings of the former barracks were gradually demolished. The area was built on with a kindergarten (around 2019), a facility for the disabled, parking spaces for the Glauchau hospital and a sports hall belonging to the hospital, as well as several new buildings for the Glauchau hospital (after 2000?).

Of the former barracks, only the former officers' houses, which are on the access road to today's hospital, are probably left on the right of the road.

A military training area - formerly also with "shelters" and bunkers - was located at the upper end of Lichtensteiner Straße on the ridge "Rümpfwald", in the direction of the forester's house. This area was declared a nature reserve after the bunkers were leveled. It is criss-crossed by hiking trails.

Personalities

literature

  • Werner Haueisen : Glauchau. Birth town of Georgius Agricola. Sutton, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-194-3 .
  • Werner Haueisen: Glauchau (series of archive images). Sutton, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-589-9 .
  • Werner Haueisen: Glauchau in the 20th century. Sutton, Erfurt 2001, ISBN 978-3-89702-352-9 .
  • Werner Haueisen: Glauchau. The city on the river Mulde (series of archive images). Sutton, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 978-3-89702-177-8 .
  • Jens Hummel: Difficult years. Glauchau 1928 to 1948. Mironde 2008, ISBN 978-3-937654-24-9 .
  • City administration Glauchau (Ed.): 775 - All of that is Glauchau. 1240-2015. Glauchau 2015 ( digitized version )
  • Richard Steche : Glauchau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 13. Issue: Glauchau District Authority . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1890, p. 7.
  • Ernst Eckhardt: Chronicle of Glauchau , Arno Peschke publishing house, Glauchau 1882
  • Erich Berlet : History of the City of Glauchau , Part 1, Glauchau 1931; Part 2, Glauchau 1934
  • Walter Schlesinger : Basics of the history of the city of Glauchau , Glauchau, 1940
  • Robby Joachim Götze, Wolf-Dieter Röber , Steffen Winkler: Glauchau in three centuries , Volume I: Glauchau in the 18th century, Horb am Neckar, 2000

Web links

Commons : Glauchau  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Glauchau in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Götze senior and sons  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Manufacturwaarenladen and spinning mill from Seydel and Sons in Glauchau  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Wool dyeing works by Friedrich Wilhelm Grüner in Glauchau  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Glauchau  - travel guide
Wiktionary: Glauchau  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
  • Glauchau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Author collective: Die Schönburger, Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur. Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. (Castle) Hinterglauchau , pp. 21–22 ( Wolf-Dieter Röber )
  3. ↑ (Brochure) Reiner Groß: Schönburgische Geschichte. A timetable. private ed. by Britta Günther, Michael Wetzel, Tommy Schmucker. E. Gutermuth printing house in Grünhainichen, published in Chemnitz 2005, ( DNB 974872156 ?), Without ISB number, p. 7.
  4. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, "Cluchowe" p. 85.
  5. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 97.
  6. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 29.
  7. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Chapter "The independence of the suburbs" in: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 87.
  8. ↑ Marina Palm: Aspects of the founding of the city of Glauchau and its development up to 1495 . In: Series of publications, issue 4 . Museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1982, here p. 47
  9. ↑ Steffen Winkler: Sage The White Woman from Glauchau by Christian Lehmann around 1675. In: Special edition series (Legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, GDR, here p. 21
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  13. ^ Regional register Saxony - regional units
  14. ^ Basic data sheet for the municipality. (PDF) Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  15. ^ Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Saxony. All city names and their history. Faber and Faber Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-038-4 , p. 66.
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  19. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Chapter "About the first constitution of the city" in: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 67.
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  29. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 113.
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  32. ^ Fritz Resch (1879–1956): book or newspaper article 100 years of unified Glauchau , Glauchau, 1931
  33. ↑ Manfred Wilde: The sorcery and witch trials in Saxony. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 501.
  34. ^ Günther Bormann: The great fire in Glauchau of 1712 and the reconstruction of St. George's Church. A search for clues.
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  39. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Chapter "The independence of the suburbs" in: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, p. 70.
  40. ^ Fritz Resch (1879–1956): newspaper article 100 years of Glauchau united in "Die Heimat", supplement to the Glauchauer Zeitung, Glauchau, 1931
  41. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Edited by Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, Muldentalbahn p. 72.
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  54. ↑ Steffen Winkler: Sage of the castle on the large meadow near Schönbörnchen In: Special edition series , Museum and Art Collection Schloß Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1981, GDR, pp. 18–19, here p. 19
  55. ↑ Legend of the castle on the large meadow near Schönbörnchen (with information on the state of research). In: Series of publications, Issue 7, Museum and Art Collection, Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1988, GDR, p. 41 and p. 46, point 11
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  59. ↑ a b c State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
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  63. ^ History of the Evangelical Free Church Community Glauchau & Meerane
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  65. ↑ Jesus House Glauchau ( Memento from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  66. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
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  71. ^ Glauchau, Georgenkirche. Organ from 1730. (No longer available online.) Gottfried-Silbermann-Gesellschaft e. V., archived from the original on March 30, 2013 ; Retrieved September 9, 2012 .
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