Wildbach (Aue-Bad Schlema)

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Torrent
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 407 m
Area : 5.68 km²
Residents : 602  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 106 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Bad Schlema
Postal code : 08301
Area code : 03772
Wildbach (Saxony)
Torrent

Location of Wildbach in Saxony

Church and rectory in Wildbach

Wildbach has been part of the large district town of Aue-Bad Schlema in the Ore Mountains region since 2019 .

location

Wildbach lies in the upper Western Ore Mountains. The torrent flows through the village and flows into the Zwickauer Mulde in the east of the village . The lowest point of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg was in Wildbach .

Neighboring towns are the municipality of Langenweißbach and the town of Hartenstein in the district of Zwickau . In the Erzgebirge district , the place borders on Bad Schlema and the mountain town of Schneeberg .

history

overview

Isenburg ruins near Wildbach

Although the founding of Wildbach is hidden in the dark of history, the basis for the local jubilees, but without documentary evidence, is the time around 1157 for the establishment of the village. The founders of the Waldhufendorf Wildbach were Franconian and Thuringian farmers. After 1170 the Isenburg near Wildbach was built as a fortification. The builders are the bailiffs from Weida and the gentlemen from Wiesenburg . After 1320 the castle was destroyed and has been in ruins ever since.

The years 1446 and 1478 are known as the first documentary mentions of Wildbach. Like the neighboring village of Langenbach, Wildbach belonged to the Schönburg rule of Stein and formed a parish with the neighboring village. In 1542 the Reformation took hold in the place; the first written evidence of a Protestant pastor, Matthias Gering, dates back to 1559. A village school was built in 1727.

The last bear in the region was shot in the Bärenschlucht near Wildbach in 1747. Due to the dilapidation of the old church, a new building was carried out from 1804. Both demolition material from the old church and building materials from the ruins of the Isenburg were used. Blasting had already been carried out there in 1751 and large quantities of stones were brought to Wildbach. However, the new building was delayed by more than 50 years. The current church was consecrated in 1806. In 1814, an organ by Johann Andreas Hesse from Lunzenau was installed, but in 1909 it was rebuilt and expanded by the Dresden organ building company Julius Jahn & Sohn .

In the state and postal encyclopedia of Saxony, August Schumann on Wildbach explains among others: “ Wildbach has around 60 houses (...) and around 400 residents. (…) Most of the houses are provided with field goods, and in 1819 the sowing was given as 148 Schfl. Korn, 22 Schfl. Weitzen, 57 bed. Barley, 255 Schfl. Oats, but the Erdäpferärndte to 1915 Schfl. In the south the place has quite a bit of wood. He is also wealthy on the whole, although the fields are rocky and mountainous, has beautiful grazing, and also does some lace-making . "

In 1875, Wildbach and Langenbach belonged to the Schönburg dominions and were only integrated into the Zwickau administration in 1885 . Industrialization in the village began in 1883 when the Poppenwald wood grinding shop opened. The local volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1895 as a "fire extinguishing association".

With the construction of the Muldentalstraße from Niederschlema to Hartenstein in the 1920s, Wildbach got a better local connection. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Wildbach, like the then Zwickau district, was initially occupied by the Americans. It was not until the district and land reform in 1952 that Wildbach came to what was then the Aue district and was torn from its centuries-long historical relationship with Hartenstein and Langenbach.

In 1973 the Wildbacher Schule was closed due to insufficient student numbers. Since then, the children have been taught in Bad Schlema. In 1994 Wildbach was incorporated into the municipality of Schlema and changed its postcode from 08289 ( Schneeberg ) to 08301 (Bad Schlema). With the formation of the parish of Bad Schlema-Wildbach in 2006, the centuries-old church connection with the neighboring town of Langenbach also ended.

On January 1, 2019, Aue and Bad Schlema merged to form the town of Aue-Bad Schlema. Wildbach received the status of an official district of the newly founded large district town . All civil affairs can be dealt with both in the Bad Schlema town hall and in the Aue town hall .

Development of the population

year Number Residents
1599 032 possessed man
1750 022 possessed men,
026 cottagers
1819 356
1834 467
year Number Residents
1871 584
1890 959
1910 855
1925 911
1939 929
year Number Residents
1946 0985
1950 1159
1964 0856
1990 0595
2011 0602

Religions

Wildbach village church

Since 1406, the Schönburg family had patronage over the villages of Langenbach and Wildbach. The parish Wildbach-Langenbach was created with the introduction of the Reformation in 1549. Today's Wildbach church was built from 1804 and consecrated in 1806. In 1926, Prince Günter zu Schönburg-Waldenburg resigned from the ecclesiastical patronage . The ev.-luth. Parish Wildbach formed a parish with the parish in Langenbach in the parish of Aue until 2005. Since 2006 it has belonged to the newly founded parish of Bad Schlema-Wildbach. Thus the parish was released from its centuries-old historical ties and the newer political boundaries were taken into account. Since then, Langenbach has formed a parish with the parish of Weißbach in the parish of Zwickau.

The regional church community Wildbach meets in the rectory of the parish Wildbach.

Culture, tourism

The Heimatverein Wildbach eV is preparing a combined art project on November 5, 2019 under the name WiKUSAWA - Wildbacher • Art & Saying • Forest and has invited the residents to design the content. The following are planned in the project weeks, which take place several times a year:

  • Forest concerts,
  • Wood carving symposia,
  • Theatrical performances,
  • Fairy tale hours,
  • Say nights as well
  • Painting and carving courses.
Wildbach circular hiking trail, signpost

The relatively untouched nature around the district has been turned into a beautiful circular hiking trail.

literature

  • Torrent . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 27-29.
  • Rudi Päßler: 200 years of the Wildbach Church: 1806–2006. Evangelical Lutheran Parish: Wildbach, 2006.
  • Horst Herbert Schulz: Church book of Wildbach and Langenbach in the Ore Mountains. Register 1588-1661. 1st volume. Copy of the family cards . Hamburg 1970. 637 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 532.
  • Horst Herbert. Schulz: Church book of Wildbach and Langenbach in the Ore Mountains. Register 1662-1733. 2nd volume. Copy of the family cards . Hamburg 1972. 400 families, according to inventory part IV of the German Central Agency for Genealogy , p. 532.
  • Horst Herbert Schulz: Church book of Wildbach and Langenbach in the Ore Mountains. Register 1734-1799. 3rd volume. Copy of the family cards . Hamburg 1974. 850 families, according to the inventory, part IV of the German Central Office for Genealogy , p. 532.
  • Heimatverein Wildbach e. V. (ed.): 850 Years of Wildbach: 1157–2007. Torrent, 2007.
  • Torrent. In: Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 31). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1980, p. 151.

Series of publications: Sources on local and family history for Wildbach (self-published)

Primary sources: ( State Archives )

  • Wildbach Court Book, Hartenstein Office No. 114, 1514–1570
  • Wildbach Court Book, Hartenstein Office No. 115, 1582–1635
  • Wildbach Court Book, Hartenstein Office No. 116, 1628–1687
  • Wildbacher Kauf- & Consensbuch, Amt Hartenstein No. 117, 1687–1738
  • Wildbacher Kauf- & Consensbuch, Amt Hartenstein No. 118, 1738–1764
  • Wildbacher Amtshandelsbuch, Amt Hartenstein No. 119, 1783–1821
  • Wildbacher Kaufbuch, Amt Hartenstein No. 120, 1765–1783
  • Wildbacher Kauf- und Consensusbuch, Amt Hartenstein No. 121, 1821–1847

Web links

Commons : Wildbach (Bad Schlema)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Small-scale municipality sheet for Bad Schlema. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  2. a b torrent . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 27-29.
  3. cf. Wildbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  4. Press release of the city of Aue from October 22, 2019: WiKUSAWA - Wildbacher • Art & say • Forest .