Wildenfels
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 12 ° 37 ′ E |
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| State : | Saxony | |
| County : | Zwickau | |
| Height : | 335 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 20.69 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3552 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 172 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 08134 | |
| Area code : | 037603 | |
| License plate : | Z, GC, HOT, WDA | |
| Community key : | 14 5 24 310 | |
| City structure: | 5 districts | |
City administration address : |
Poststrasse 26 08134 Wildenfels |
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| Mayor : | Tino Kögler | |
| Location of the city of Wildenfels in the district of Zwickau | ||
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Wildenfels is the smallest town in the Zwickau district . The town of Wildenfels, with its districts of Wildenfels, Härtensdorf, Schönau, Wiesenburg and Wiesen, is already embedded in a mountainous landscape, framed by greenery and the mountain ranges of the Ore Mountains . The West Ore Mountains dialect is spoken by the local population .
geography
geology
As a result of several abandoned quarries, a limestone flora that is rare in Saxony has developed, which is characteristic of the Wildenfelser Zwischengebirge , a gem for geologists and nature lovers.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the cities of Kirchberg and Hartenstein , Langenweißbach , Mülsen , Reinsdorf and the city of Wilkau-Haßlau .
City structure
In addition to the core town of Wildenfels, the districts of Wiesenburg , Schönau, Wiesen and Härtensdorf belong to the municipality.
history
Archaeological finds indicate that there must have been a very early settlement in the Wildenfels area. Excavations carried out in 1958/59 in the area of the so-called “Schönauer Ringwall”, as well as finds of ceramic objects on the old Grünauer Strasse, suggest that people were temporarily settled in the area as early as 1200 BC.
The documented history of Wildenfels begins in 1233 when it was first mentioned in a document, but the emergence of a permanent settlement is suspected much earlier. A chapel to the Three Marys on the Bohemian Steig in today's district of Härtensdorf was consecrated as early as 1150 . On a rock spur lies the old Wildenfels Castle , the seat of the Wildenfels rulership , whose owners were the Lords of Wildenfels and the Counts of Solms-Wildenfels from 1602 to 1945 . In 1235 Burgmannen are mentioned here . The Wiesenburg is first mentioned in a document in 1251 . The Ersterwähnungen the districts Schonau and Härtensdorf follow in 1238 and 1322. In the year 1321 one will Castrum mentioned, and in 1445 after a manor house , a manor . This manor also exercises the manorial rule in Wildenfels. The place belongs to the care Zwickau .
From the 15th century Wildenfels has town charter and its own jurisdiction . Lime extraction, first mentioned in 1533, can still be seen in a preserved blast furnace for lime burning in the Schönau district. Wildenfels was parish in Härtensdorf until March 31, 1866 and received its first little church in 1580 (burnt down again in 1589), a “prayer room” without a tower. During the Reformation the places became Evangelical Lutheran . In November 1606 the first baptism took place in the 2nd Wildenfels church. This church did not exist for long either and burned down on March 16, 1636. The new building was consecrated for Christmas. At that time Wildenfels was part of the Zwickau office .
The district of Friedrichsthal is incorporated in 1836 or 1837. In 1858 Wiesenburg is connected to the railway network. In 1866, the Wildenfels church was demolished due to its dilapidation and in 1869 the new Romanesque building that existed today was consecrated. Between 1856 and 1875 Wildenfels had its own court office, after which the city was part of the Zwickau administration . With all districts, the Wildenfelser district has a size of 445 hectares . In 1925 there were 2,299 Protestant and 15 Catholic citizens and 99 non-denominational citizens for every 2,413 inhabitants. In the course of the GDR district reform in 1952 , Wildenfels becomes part of the Zwickau district, which was formed from the administrative governing body. In 1974 Schönau was incorporated into Wiesenburg. On March 21, 1994, the Wildenfelser Zwischengebirge is declared a landscape protection area and in the same year Wildenfels becomes part of the newly formed Zwickauer Land district .
On June 13, 1995, the local council of Härtensdorf and the Wildenfels city council passed the resolution on the incorporation of Härtensdorf. This resolution was implemented on October 1, 1995. The union of the municipalities with Wiesenburg and its districts of Wiesen and Schönau did not go quite as smoothly . On May 14, 1998, the mayors of Wiesenburg and the neighboring community of Silberstrasse signed an agreement to merge the two communities. This was countered by the specifications from the draft of the municipal area reform of the Saxon state government, which was sued. On August 25, 1999, the Constitutional Court of the Free State of Saxony dismissed Wiesenburg's action, which made the community merger with Wildenfels legally binding. In 2006 a merger with the city of Hartenstein was prevented by a referendum. In 2010 the company celebrated its 777th anniversary.
East traffic light man
In 1974 the company Schmidt KG (later VEB Signaltechnik) in Wildenfels received the order for the production of the famous east traffic light man and equipped the pedestrian traffic lights with the traffic light man until the turn of the century.
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Friedrichsthal | 1836 | |
| Härtensdorf | October 1, 1995 | |
| Schönau | 1974 | Incorporation to Wiesenburg |
| grasslands | 1961 | Incorporation to Wiesenburg |
| Wiesenburg | January 1, 1999 |
Population development
Development of the population (from 1998 December 31st) :
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- Data source from 1998: State Statistical Office Saxony
Religions
The districts of Wildenfels, Härtensdorf and Schönau each have an Evangelical Lutheran. Parish that have a sister church relationship with the parish in Zschocken .
politics
City council
Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- CDU : 7 seats
- Sport Wildenfels / Wiesenburg / Schönau (Sport): 3 seats
- FDP : 2 seats
- LEFT : 2 seats
- Free voters (FW): 2 seats
Mayor is Tino Kögler.
coat of arms
Blazon : “The coat of arms of the city of Wildenfels shows a growing lion and a rose. The lion in the Wildenfels coat of arms is said to be growing because only its upper body appears. The color of the coat of arms is a golden lion in a blue field and a blue rose in a golden field. ”The coat of arms is based on an older Härtensdorf church seal and was approved in 1902 by the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior in the form still valid today.
Culture and sights
- Church "To the Three Marys" in the district of Härtensdorf with winged altar by Peter Breuer
The former patronage church of the Wildenfels rule was founded around 1150, first mentioned in a document in 1322 (Pastor Fritz von Melrin), is dedicated to Maria Joachim, the mother of Jesus, Maria Cleophas and Maria Salome. The winged altar, carved in 1509/1510 by the Zwickau carver Peter Breuer, was a replacement for an already existing miraculous image of the Three Marys in this local pilgrimage site and parish church. The last Catholic pastor was Jakob Timbler. He concluded a contract with Mrs. Agnese, Schenkin on Wildenfels, according to which "as in the old days" the pastor of Härtensdorf had to look after the rule and the little town of Wildenfels spiritually and to provide half of the material for the castle chaplain in Wildenfels. This was in a modified form until 1866; The pastor from Härtensdorf was the spiritual supervisor for the Wildenfels chaplain or later deacon. This also had to represent the rule of Wildenfels outwardly in the absence of the Count. There are a number of so-called official files in the parish archive of Härtensdorf. After the introduction of the Reformation, the church was the burial place of the last Protestant gentlemen in Wildenfels. It contains epitaphs by Anarg Heinrich von Wildenfels († 1539 in Altenburg), Heinrich von Wildenfels († 1558) and Anarg Friedrich von Wildenfels († 1602). An angel bearing a coat of arms (coat of arms of the Lords of Wildenfels) in the entrance area of the church testifies to its importance as the former court church of the Wildenfels rule. In 1531 Wolfgang Taschner was introduced to his office as the first Protestant pastor for Härtensdorf with Wildenfels, Magister Haase was the first pastor to bear the title of “court preacher of Wildenfels, pastor of Härtensdorf”. In 1865 the last pastor, Dautenhahn, who bore this title, died.
The little town of Wildenfels was a branch of Härtensdorf until 1866 . With effect from April 1, 1866, the municipal shares were spun off from the parish Härtensdorf and the legally independent parish of Wildenfels was founded. That is why many church records relating to both parishes are still archived in Härtensdorf today. Even after the introduction of the Reformation in 1529, the patronage of the Three Marys was retained. The altar adorns the venerable Härtensdorf church (with interruptions from 1698 (?) To 1939) to this day, it was extensively restored in 1939 and 1996-2000 and is liturgically used as a convertible altar (closed Good Friday, open early at Easter). In 1934, the first closed Confessing Congregation in Saxony was founded in the Church of the Three Marys as a countermovement to the German Christians who had infiltrated the Nazis. The organ that exists today in the Church of the Three Marys was built by Urban Kreutzbach from Borna in 1846, inaugurated for the Härtensdorfer Kirchweih (Sunday after St. Gallus) in 1846 and extensively restored in 2010/11, the tower has had a bronze bell again since 2018, including the Marienglocke from 1450. In 2017, two new bronze bells were cast by Grassmayr, Innsbruck, and were consecrated on September 17th, 2017. On Easter Sunday 2018, the Tedeum bells sounded for the first time with the nominal tones f-a-flat-b. The Marienglocke from 1450 has the nominal tone b, it is now the smallest bell. Reports from 1917, 1941 and various reports in the context of the sounding renovation confirm the high cultural and historical value of the Härtensdorf Marienglocke.
- Cemetery chapel by Oskar Menzel , around 1909
- St. Rochus Church in the Schönau district with figures by Peter Breuer
- Wildenfels Castle with u. a. Blue salon, winter garden, castle cellar and castle hall
Museums
- Lower mill in Schönau
- Wildenfels Gingerbread Museum in Wildenfels Castle
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Wildenfels has a connection to the federal motorway 72 as well as to the state roads 277 , 282 and 283 . The Silberstraße ( Bundesstraße 93 ) runs through the districts of Wiesen and Wiesenburg from Zwickau to Schneeberg . In Wiesenburg there is a newly designed stop of the DB Erzgebirgsbahn on the Zwickau – Schwarzenberg line . There is a connection to the Mulderadweg and the Silberstraße cycle path in the Wiesenburg district.
Public facilities
- Asklepios Fachklinikum Wiesen (specialist hospital for psychiatry and psychotherapy)
education
- Foreign language day care center "Rainbow" (day care center)
- Wildenfels primary school
- BFS Wildenfels (located in OT Wiesenburg)
- Branch of the district music school "Clara Wieck"
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The first two Wildenfels honorary citizens were appointed on the occasion of the 777th anniversary celebration in 2010.
- Monika Badock (1940–2018), local chronicle,
- Karl Weiß, Chairman of the Friends of Wildenfels Castle.
On December 15, 2013, on the occasion of the Härtensdorfer Advent Music, the mayor Tino Kögler, in coordination with the city council, made the third honorary citizen
- Frank Mempel, city councilor since 1990.
On June 15, 2014, on the occasion of the inauguration of the small field sports field of the city of Wildenfels, Wildenfels was named the fourth honorary citizen due to his services as an important sports official and as the former mayor of the city of Wildenfels
- Wolfgang Weinhold.
sons and daughters of the town
- Adam Siber (1516–1584), humanist and educator
- Anarg zu Wildenfels (Anarg Heinrich von Wildenfels) (before 1490–1539) Imperial Count, lawyer, electoral Saxon. Bailiff, ev.-luth. Church visitator, owner of the Wildenfels estate, grandfather of Anarg Friedrich von Wildenfels
- Anarg Friedrich von Wildenfels (1555–1602), professor and owner of the Wildenfels estate
- in the district of Wiesenburg: Benno Friedrich Brand von Lindau (1571–1625), member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- Friedrich Christoph Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels (1712–1792), General of the Infantry Elector of Saxony
- Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868), painter
- Alwin Bauer (1856–1928), national liberal politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), entrepreneur in Aue
- Herbert Ebersbach (1902–1984), painter
- Johannes Chemnitzer (* 1929), SED functionary
- Hans Scheibner (* 1939), racing cyclist
- Matthias Creutziger (* 1951), concert and theater photographer
Personalities associated with the city
- Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759–1816), painter and art theorist
- Carl Friedrich Döhnel (1772-1853), one of the founders of the Erzgebirge dialect literature, worked as a lawyer in Wiesenburg
literature
- City administrations of Hartenstein and Wildenfels: Hartenstein and Wildenfels , Schlema 2003
- Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald (= values of our homeland . Volume 31). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1980.
Web links
- official website of the city
- Wildenfels in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Friedrichsthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Härtensdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Meadows in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Schönau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b City of Wilenfels: History
- ↑ a b c Wildenfels in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ City of Wildenfels: 777 years of Wildenfels ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Friedrichsthal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ a b Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
- ↑ A. & J. Großmann, Der Härtensdorfer Peter-Breuer-Altar, Härtensdorf 2002
- ↑ Modern Baufformen , monthly booklets for architecture and spatial art, editor Paul Klopfer, Julius-Hoffmann-Verlag Stuttgart, issue 6 of the year 1910, p. 222 (with two photos)
