Wolfgang measurements

Wolfgangmaßen is part of the municipality of the mountain town of Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains District . It belongs to the formerly independent mountain town of Neustädtel . The Wolfgangmaassen treasure trove , from which ore has been mined since the 16th century, is eponymous and significant in the development of the part of the settlement .

Geographical location

The prefabricated buildings of the mountain settlement Wolfgangmaßen and the former hunter barracks are on the other side of the B 169 on the Hohe Gebirge . From Wolfgangmaßen there is a very nice panorama over the cities of Neustädtel and Schneeberg and the Neustädtler Grubenfeld.

The buildings of the protected treasure trove Wolfgangmaßen 1 (Alt-Wolfgangmaßen) with stamping works building including clock, two rod shafts, wheel room with opening and drainage tube, mouth hole of the opening tube, artificial and driving shafts, wall remains of the driving and boiler house as well as the dump including all the pile retaining walls are located on the Filzbach on federal highway 169 to Hundshübel .

etymology

In mining, a measure denoted the pit fields adjacent to a treasure trove in the extension of the ore vein. The pit name Wolfgang is dedicated to St. Wolfgang .

history

Wolfgangmaassen mine

In 1555 the St. Wolfgang treasure trove on the Neustädtler Flur (parcels 727/7, 727/2, 727/5, 727/9, 727/11, 727/8, 701/2)) was built on the Wolfgang Spat awarded. The first silver discovery was made in 1572 . From 1609 cobalt ores were specifically mined. The first written evidence of the amount of cobalt extracted is available from 1620. The Wolfgang Maaßen mine encompassed the entire mine field from the lower 3rd dimension to the upper 8th dimension. The shaft of the upper 6. Maaß was developed as a drive shaft.

The now defunct horse peg was built in 1790. 1816–1818 the construction of a stamping mill for ore processing followed. In the second half of the 19th century, a turbine and later a steam cap were built on Wolfgang Maaßen. During this time the cobalt, bismuth and silver mining experienced its last heyday. The tonnage shaft reached a deeper depth of 378 m. In the first quarter of the 20th century, mining on the mine was completely stopped.

Stamp mill building of the Wolfgangmaassen mine

Wolfgangmaßen settlement and the barracks

From 1946, uranium mining by SDAG Wismut began in the Schneeberg district . In addition to the miners' settlement , a bismuth settlement for around 1,500 people with accommodation and administration buildings was built between the Wolfgangmaßen and Priester pits . A Bismut country warehouse and the cultural center, which was inaugurated in October 1953, belonged to the settlement. On March 16, 1952, a small wooden chapel , the house of the church, was inaugurated in the settlement after a year of construction. This was located below the restaurant Zum Schützenhaus , on the parcel of today's Hundshübler Strasse 3. After the end of uranium mining in Neustädtel, the barracked people's police moved into the settlement. The church was dismantled and the Auer district Auerhammer implemented where it was re-opened on February 6, 1959th From 1963 the National People's Army used the barracks in Wolfgangmaßen. In the 1970s, two prefabricated buildings were built next to the barracks on Priesterstraße. In 1984 the existing residential area was expanded to include the Hohes Gebirge residential area with three further blocks of flats, the Paul-Blechschmidt-Oberschule and a kindergarten with an attached crèche.

since 2010 uninhabited prefabricated housing estate Hohes Gebirge in Wolfgangmaßen

Development after 1990

On April 1, 1991, the Bundeswehr took over the barracks and renamed them Jägerkaserne . After an initially averted closure of the barracks, the Mountain Infantry Battalion 571 and the supply company 370 stationed there were decommissioned on September 14, 2007 and on March 31, 2008 the Jäger barracks were finally closed despite protests. From 2009, parts of the barracks accommodation served as a home for asylum seekers for Macedonian Roma . The barracks, which have been renovated since 1990 for around 65 million euros , consisting of around 40 hectares of land and 40 buildings, were sold to the Bavarian entrepreneur Gustav Struck in 2009 for two million euros.

former cultural center of the bismuth

After reunification , the infrastructure in the district deteriorated increasingly. In 1992 the existing Paul-Blechschmidt-Oberschule was closed and, like the neighboring kindergarten, torn down. Two department stores in the district, the HO between the old and new building area and the consumer center at the barracks entrance also closed in the early 1990s. The Zum Schützenhaus restaurant on Hundshübler Strasse , also known as De Ratt , also closed at the end of the 1990s. Some new blocks in the residential area were pulled empty in 2010. The city of Schneeberg planned to demolish these houses in the early 2010s. In October 2013, the upper block of flats in the High Mountains with house numbers 2–18 was demolished after the lower block of flats had to give way to a green area.

The buildings of the Wolfgangmaßen mine have been renovated and reconstructed by the Schneeberger Bergbauverein since 1999 . In addition to the stamp mill, the hut house, the Steiger's house, the smithy and the stamp mill's house belong to the ensemble of the treasure trove. a. can be visited on the Schneeberger Bergstreittag on July 22nd of each year.

On October 19, 2013, around 1,500 people demonstrated against the accommodation of asylum seekers in the empty barracks. The demonstration was organized by Stefan Hartung, chairman of the Erzgebirge district association of the right-wing extremist NPD .

religion

House of the church in the Auer district Auerhammer , used in Wolfgangmaßen until 1959

Wolfgangmaßen always belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Neustädtel with the church To our dear women . At the time of the Reformation , the Chapel of St. Anna was located on the Hohe Gebirge near the Daniel treasure trove , and in 1518 the region's first Lutheran sermon took place there. The chapel belonged to the miners of the Schneeberg-Neustädtler district.

In 1952 the newly created mining settlement Wolfgangmaßen got a wooden church barrack of the type "House of the Church" from Otto Bartning's emergency church program (so-called "Houses of the Church" ), which was converted to Auerhammer in 1959 when the settlement was converted into barracks . Until the inauguration of the Resurrection Church in 1952, the barrack served as a replacement church for the old church of Oberschlema in the deformation area .

Attractions

Monument to St. Anna

Schneeberg-Neustädtler Mining Trail and a., with the treasure troves Wolfgangmaßen , Daniel , St. Anna and Schindler and the felt pond, which is now used as a lido . The felt pond is one of the oldest dams in Saxony. It was built between 1474 and 1495 as a mining water reservoir and was expanded into a lido in the 1930s.
Mountain monument at the Schindlerschacht : made of three granite blocks with a bronze-cast portrait of a miner, mallets and iron above a niche for the light and a mountain poem.
The St. Anna memorial at Daniel Fundgrube commemorates the 300th anniversary of the proclamation of the Augsburg Confession in 1830. During the Reformation there was a chapel here. H. one year after the theses were posted at the castle church in Wittenberg, the area's first Lutheran sermon was held.
Stamp mill of the Wolfgangmaßen treasure trove

Education and sport

Before 1990 the P. Blechschmidt Polytechnic High School existed in Wolfgangmaßen . From the 1991/1992 school year it was continued as a primary school and closed in the mid-1990s.

Until the closure of the hunter barracks in 2008, u. a. the athletes of the ASV Vorwärts Wolfgangmaßen and the swimmers of the SV Schneeberg the sports facilities of the barracks. After the closure, they were denied access to their training grounds, which is why the successful athletes from ASV Vorwärts Wolfgangmaßen were threatened with extinction.

traffic

The federal highway 169 runs through Wolfgangmaßen from Schneeberg via Stützengrün into Vogtland . The access to the felt pond leads past the site of the former hunter barracks .

literature

The forgotten mountain town , series Our home - Rockstrohs illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains . Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 2002

Lothar Meyer: History and stories about St. Wolfgang , series Our home - Rockstrohs illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains. Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 2002

Small church chronicle "To our dear women" Neustädtel , series Our home - Rockstrohs illustrated sheets on the history of the Western Ore Mountains. Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 2003

Uwe Gering (ed.): Schneeberg , Gering-Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 1994