Wiesa (thermal bath Wiesenbad)

Why Municipality of thermal bath Wiesenbad Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	466 m
Area :	8.38 km²
Residents :	1211  (May 9, 2011)
Population density :	145 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1999
Incorporated into:	Wiesa, now the Wiesenbad thermal baths
Postal code :	09488
Area code :	03733
Location of Wiesa in Saxony

Wiesa is a district of the Saxon community Thermalbad Wiesenbad in the Erzgebirgskreis .

geography

location

Wiesa is located about 3 kilometers north of Annaberg in the Ore Mountains . The location extends on both sides of the Zschopau, which runs almost in a west-east direction .
The state road 261 federal road 95 –Wiesenbad runs through the village , via municipal roads there are also connections to the south running federal road 101 Annaberg– Freiberg as well as to the neighboring villages Schönfeld and Neundorf.

Neighboring places

Schönfeld	Neundorf	Meadow pool
		Plattenthal
	Annaberg

history

View from the west to the St. Trinity Church

Rittergut Wiesa (around 1860)

Close-up of the Church of St. Trinity

St. Trinitatis, Art Nouveau (1904)

The first documentary mention dates from 1452 as zcu der Weßen , as early as 1389 a Henschyl von der Weßen is mentioned.

In the 15th century, Wiesa experienced an enormous increase in population due to silver mining. Relics of this time, in the form of numerous tunnels, are still visible in the place today, for example. B. the Lindenstollen . In 1539 the arithmetic master Adam Ries bought the “Vorwerk bei der Wiesen”, the “Riesenburg”, which today belongs to Annaberg-Buchholz. On January 30th, 1762 the mountain grave brotherhood Wiesa was founded, which still exists today as the traditional association "Bergbrüderschaft Wiesa" eV. In 1825 , August Schumann mentions Wiesa with Wiesenbad in the state, post and newspaper encyclopedia of Saxony:

"Wiesa contains around 125 residents (only 856 consumers were given in 1803, perhaps without a few houses and remote mountain freedoms) [...]. In the village there are 2 mills and a board mill . [...] In spite of the excellent flax cultivation, the gain from farming is not significant, since the moderately large field is partly on steep and stony mountains; Livestock is much more rewarding; In 1801 there were only 268 cows - but now there are far more here, and including the manor there are probably 400. Some farmers, especially in the southwest, have good and deep ponds. As many Halden and Bingen still show, there used to be heavy mining here. The female sex makes a lot of lace and its lace , which is debited in Annaberg; the male works partly in the Annaberg collieries. "

The place belonged to the office of Wolkenstein until 1856 . The Zschopautalbahn , which opened on February 1, 1866, runs through the local area, but Wiesa did not have its own train station at it. It was not until 1908 that the station name of the Schönfeld railway station - from which the narrow-gauge railway branched off to Geyer from 1888 to 1967 - was changed to Schönfeld-Wiesa. The Schönfeld-Wiesa train station was over 1 kilometer west of the center of Wiesa.

Rittergut, former farm building 2017

1902-04 the St. Trinity Church was built. The design of the Art Nouveau building comes from the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner . The organ was supplied by Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden . Wiesa is said to have owned a church before.

In 1936 the Wiesa manor was assigned to the town of Wiesa by the community of Schönfeld.

The local VEB equipment and tool construction Wiesa , to the equipment construction combine Königswartha . From 1979 part of VEB Kombinat Spezialtechnik , manufactured handguns during the GDR era. The “ Wieger ” family of weapons was produced here between 1985 and 1990 . The company with an annual output of approx. 100,000 and a targeted production capacity of 200,000 assault rifles of the Kalashnikov system per year was, in addition to the VEB vehicle and hunting weapons factory in Suhl , where individual weapon parts were manufactured, the sole rifle manufacturer in the GDR and also carried out the testing of Weapons through.

On April 1, 1998, 154.16 hectares of community area with 62 inhabitants were reclassified to the town of Annaberg-Buchholz. On January 1, 1999, the previously independent municipalities Neundorf, Schönfeld, Wiesa and Wiesenbad merged to form the new municipality of Wiesa. On January 1, 2005, the community was renamed Thermalbad Wiesenbad.

On April 1, 2007, the station was abandoned in favor of the "Wiesa (Erzgeb)" stop, which was set up a little later in the town center.

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  Haltpunkt Wiesa (Erzgeb) (2016)

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  Haltpunkt Wiesa (Erzgeb) (2016)

Development of the population

year population 1551 1 89 possessed men and cottagers , 43 residents 1764 1 30 possessed men, 45 cottagers, 17 ¾ hooves 1834 1 1136 1871 1 1722 1890 1 2451

year population 1910 1 2905 1925 1 2979 1939 1 3018 1946 1 3079 1950 2072

year population 1964 2016 1990 1552 1998 1419

¹ Wiesa with meadow pool

Sons and daughters of the place

• Martha Weber (1904–1998), poet from the Ore Mountains
• Christoph Wonneberger (* 1944), Protestant pastor

literature

• Why . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, pp. 813-816.
• Lothar Uhlig: Suffering Times for the Ore Mountains ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 233 kB)
• Richard Steche : Why. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 4th booklet: Official Authority Annaberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 90.

Web links

Commons : Wiesa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Meadow  - sources and full texts

• Why in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
• Forays through the history of the Upper Ore Mountains: Cartographic representation of our homeland - Wiesa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipal journal for the Wiesenbad thermal baths. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Why in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
3. ^ Municipality of Thermalbad Wiesenbad, Wiesa district ( Memento from January 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2011.
4. ↑ cf. Why . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, pp. 813–815.
5. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
6. ↑ cf. Why . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 12th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1825, p. 813.
7. ^ Rainer Karlsch: An overview of the armaments factories of the GDR in: Hans Gotthard Ehlert, Matthias Rogg: Military, State and Society in the GDR: Fields of Research, Results, Perspectives , Ch.links Verlag 2004, 740 pages, page 180
8. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1998 to December 31, 1998 on the website of the Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 2 (PDF; 21 kB), accessed on February 12, 2011.
9. ↑ Area changes from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 on the website of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , p. 2 (PDF; 39 kB), accessed on February 12, 2011.
10. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
11. ↑ Photo gallery for Schönfeld-Wiesa train station , accessed on February 12, 2011.