Wolkenburg / Mulde

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Wolkenburg / Mulde
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 8 ″  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 24 ″  E
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Incorporated into: Wolkenburg-Kaufungen
Postal code : 09212
Area code : 037609
Wolkenburg / Mulde (Saxony)
Wolkenburg / Mulde

Location of Wolkenburg / Mulde in Saxony

Wolkenburg is a town in the district of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna in the district of Zwickau , Saxony . The municipality of Wolkenburg / Mulde with its districts Dürrengerbisdorf , Herrnsdorf and Uhlsdorf with Mühlwiese merged with the municipality of Kaufungen on January 1, 1994 to form the new municipality of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen, which was incorporated into the large district town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on January 1, 2000 .

geography

Geographical location

View from Hauboldfelsen to Wolkenburg
Wolkenburg suspension bridge

Wolkenburg is located in the west of the Wolkenburg-Kaufungen district of the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna. The place is on the Zwickauer Mulde . While the larger part of Wolkenburg with the ensemble of Wolkenburg Castle and the two churches, the former school, the mill and the "Neue Heimat" settlement and the former Biensdorf sheep farm lies north or west of the river, the smaller part is located with the Railway station, the municipal office and the Hauboldfelsen south and east of the river. The corridor of Wolkenburg borders in the west on Wolperndorf in Altenburger Land , the easternmost place in Thuringia . The Luther Trail in Saxony runs through Wolkenburg .

In the vicinity of the Ulrichsberg (Ullersberg), which is located south of Wolkenburg and belongs to the Wolkenburger Revier , mining was carried out until the 19th century. Geographically, Wolkenburg is located on the southwest tip of the Saxon Granulite Mountains .

Neighboring places

Dürrengerbisdorf Pewter mountain
Wolperndorf Neighboring communities Kaufungen
Punch joke Herrnsdorf

history

12th to 14th centuries

Wolkenburg Castle, exterior view
Old Church of Wolkenburg

The Wolkenburg settlement was founded around 1103 by Wiprecht von Groitzsch . The place name was first mentioned in a document from the Margrave of Meißen , Heinrich III. , in which Hugo von Wolkenburg appears as a witness. In the following time these representatives of the lords of Wolkenburg were named: Hugo von Wolkenburg (1262), Heinrich von Wolkenburg (1274), Heinrich the Younger von Colditz called von Wolkenburg (1277, son of Ulricus) and Heinrich and Otto von Wolkenburg called by Colditz (1278). In a document from the Burgrave of Altenburg from 1283, a "Johannes de Buiendorf" was mentioned in addition to Heinrich von Wolkenburg. This is considered the first indication of the village of Biensdorf northwest of Wolkenburg. After 1286 these members of the Colditz-Wolkenburg family were named as owners of Wolkenburg: the brothers Heinrich III., Volrad IV., Otto II., Heinrich IV. And Grambert (also Gumpert). In 1308 a church in Wolkenburg was first mentioned. During this time, the later Wolkenburg Castle was built as a castle complex .

With the start of ore mining on the Ulrichsberg (Ullersberg) south of Wolkenburg in 1345, mining began in the Wolkenburg district, which continued into the 19th century . As the last representative of the Colditz-Wolkenburg family, Volrad and Busso were named in 1371.

15th to 18th century

St. Mauritiuskirche Wolkenburg (New Church)

In the years 1405 and 1409 Claus and Heinrich von Einsiedel were named as the owners of Wolkenburg. During the Hussite Wars in 1430 the village of Biensdorf and the upper village of Wolkenburg with the old church were destroyed. In the 19th century, Biensdorf was only mentioned as a single property (sheep farm).

The von Kauffungen family became the owners of the Wolkenburg estate through purchase in 1443 . Their headquarters were in the neighboring town of Kaufungen on the Kaufungen manor . Although the sales contract was signed between the brothers Conrad and Heinrich von Kauffungen, the first owner from 1443 was Jost von Kauffungen. He was followed by Hans von Kauffungen from 1449 to 1455. After the failed prince robbery in Altenburg on July 7, 1455, Kunz von Kauffungen , the owner of the Wolkenburg mill and the Kaufungen manor, was beheaded. The von Kauffungen family had to leave their rule, which fell to the Elector of Saxony .

In 1472 Hans von Maltitz bought the Wolkenburg mill from the heirs of Kunz von Kauffungen. This is the first documentary evidence of the mill. In 1485, Wolkenburg came to the Lords of End . The Reformation was introduced in Wolkenburg in 1529. At the same time a village school was set up. The first bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde was built in 1585. Before that there was only one ford through the river.

Haubold von Ende sold the Wolkenburg estate to Heinrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel in 1627 . After Detlev Carl von Einsiedel came into possession of the Lauchhammerwerke in 1776 , the first artificial casts were made in the Wolkenburger Park in the following years. The foundation stone of the new St. Mauritius Church near the castle was laid in 1794 by Detlev Carl Graf von Einsiedel. It was consecrated in 1804. A sheep's wool spinning mill was built in 1799 on the site of the saltpeter mill built in 1794.

The ownership of the neighboring castles of Wolkenburg and Kaufungen has been under joint court administration since 1766. The rule of Wolkenburg, which was subordinate to Wolkenburg, belonged as an exclave in the Schoenburg dominions to the Electoral Saxon Office of Borna . It existed until the middle of the 19th century.

19th century

With the introduction of the Saxon rural community code of 1838 , a new community council was elected in 1839. In this context, the Frohne were replaced. In 1851, Wolkenburg came to the royal Saxon court of Limbach as part of the rule of Wolkenburg and in 1856 to the Penig court office , which was merged into the Rochlitz district administration in 1875 .

Wolkenburg received a new school in 1854. The Wolkenburg station on the Glauchau – Wurzen (Muldentalbahn) line was opened on May 10, 1875. The station was in operation until the railway line was closed in 2002.

20th century to the present

Municipal office of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen in Wolkenburg

The first American tanks arrived in Wolkenburg on April 13, 1945. Between June 12 and 26, 1945, the Zwickauer Mulde in Wolkenburg was the demarcation line, i.e. H. the area to the left of the Zwickau Mulde was American, to the right of the Mulde was occupied by the Soviets. In this context, the swing bridge, the predecessor of the suspension bridge built in 2016, was destroyed to better control the site. Only when the American troops withdrew to the western border of Thuringia did this state of affairs end on June 27, 1945. The family branch of those von Einsiedel who was raised to the rank of count owned the Wolkenburg castle and the associated property until it was expropriated by the land reform in the Soviet Zone in 1945. In As a result, Wolkenburg created 18 new farmer sites , which, with one exception, were created in the “Neue Heimat” district. This district is located east of the Biensdorf desert .

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the municipality of Wolkenburg / Mulde came from the Rochlitz district to the Glauchau district in the Chemnitz district in 1952 (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953 ). On March 1, 1965, the communities Dürrengerbisdorf and Uhlsdorf with the settlement Mühlwiese and the district of Herrnsdorf were incorporated into Wolkenburg / Mulde.

The municipality of Wolkenburg / Mulde has belonged to the Saxon district of Glauchau since 1990 , which was incorporated into the district of Chemnitzer Land in 1994 and in 2008 in the district of Zwickau. On January 1, 1994 the communities of Wolkenburg / Mulde and Kaufungen merged to form the community of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen. On January 1, 2000, the municipality of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen was incorporated into the city of Limbach-Oberfrohna after a failed administrative partnership with Waldenburg . As a result, Wolkenburg has also been part of the Wolkenburg-Kaufungen district since then.

traffic

Wolkenburg railway station

The national highway 175 runs west of the settlement "New home". Both banks of Wolkenburg are connected by a road bridge and a suspension bridge for pedestrians. On the east bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, the route of the Glauchau – Wurzen (Muldentalbahn) railway line , which was shut down in 2002 and on which the town had a train station, runs over Wolkenburger Flur . The Luther Trail in Saxony runs through Wolkenburg .

Attractions

Hauboldfelsen near Wolkenburg
  • Wolkenburg Castle with castle garden
  • St. Mauritius Church (New Church)
  • Church of St. Georgen and St. Moritz (Old Church)
  • Suspension bridge and Haubold rocks in Wolkenburg / Mulde
  • St. Anna treasure trove and mining office building with a smithy in the neighboring village of Herrnsdorf

Personalities

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Kranichfeld: In memory of Wolkenburg - Wolkenburg in its past and present. Dresden 1843 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Wolkenburg / Mulde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biensdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. ^ The Rittergut Wolkenburg with Kaufungen in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
  4. ^ The rule of Wolkenburg in the archive of the Free State of Saxony
  5. ^ The Rochlitz district administration in the municipal register 1900
  6. ↑ Dürrengerbisdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  7. ^ Uhlsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Wolkenburg-Kaufungen on gov.genealogy.net
  9. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2000
  10. ↑ The Hauboldfelsen on the website of Wolkenburg-Kaufungen
  11. ^ Website of the Fundgrube St. Anna