Wohlhausen

Wohlhausen City of Markneukirchen Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 11 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 48 ″  E
Height :	579 m
Residents :	453  (1990)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	08258
Area code :	037422
Location of Wohlhausen in Saxony

Wohlhausen has been part of the town of Markneukirchen in the Vogtland in Saxony since January 1st, 1994 .

geography

Wohlhausen lies at an altitude between 520 m and 600 m in the valley of the Kreilbach, which flows into the Schwarzbach in the neighboring Markneukirchen . In the south-west, the development of the place goes directly into that of the town of Markneukirchen. In the northeast, the corridor from Wohlhausen extends almost to the Zwota and also includes the Hoher Brand summit ( 802.8  m above sea  level ). The village is the historical south of the Saxon part Vogtland and Upper Vogtland , however, is with regard to the natural environment at the transition from Westerzgebirge to Elstergebirge .

Other neighboring towns are in the northwest, Breitenfeld with Bernitzgrün , which also belongs to Markneukirchen , in the northeast Zwota , in the east Gopplasgrün and in the southeast Erlbach . In the northeast, also on the federal highway 283 , is the Friebus settlement belonging to Wohlhausen .

history

Wohlhausen manor around 1859

Wohlhausen is first mentioned as a Walhusin in 1378. The settlement was laid out as a typical Waldhufendorf . The manor of Wohlhausen, first mentioned in 1606, as well as the manor of Erlbach owned manorial rights. The manor was owned by the von Römer family from 1823 to 1945 .

The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office Voigtsberg until 1856 . After 1856 Wohlhausen belonged to the Markneukirchen court office and from 1875 to the Oelsnitz administration . From that time on, the northeastern settlement of Friebus also belonged to Wohlhausen. In 1945 the possessions of the manor were divided up among new farmers . As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , Wohlhausen came to the Klingenthal district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ), which was continued as the Saxon district of Klingenthal in 1990 and became part of the Vogtland district in 1996.

On January 1, 1994, Wohlhausen was incorporated into Markneukirchen.

Development of the population

year population 1583 21 possessed men , 1 cottage owner 1764 21 possessed men, 5 2/3 hooves 1834 369 1871 405

year population 1890 602 1910 727 1925 739 1939 636

year population 1946 688 1950 594 1964 514 1990 453

Attractions

• Hüttels Musikwerk exhibition - collection of mechanical music automatons

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wolfgang Uebel (born November 21, 1932), violin maker in the 10th generation
• Ursula Kulscher (born July 18, 1936), photographer and politician (CDU) and former member of the Saxon state parliament

Web links

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

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

• Wohlhausen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

literature

• The Upper Vogtland (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 26). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Rittergut Wohlhausen at www.sachsens-schloesser.de
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 74 f.
3. ↑ The Oelsnitz District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
4. ^ Friebus in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
5. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office.
6. ↑ See Wohlhausen in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony