Selva (Ore Mountains)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '  N , 13 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Height :	553 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.51 km 2
Residents:	3899 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	128 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	09429
Area code :	037369
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 670
City structure:	10 districts
City administration address :	Market 13 09429 Selva
Website :	www.stadt-wolkenstein.de
Mayor :	Wolfram Liebing (independent)
Location of the city of Selva in the Erzgebirge district

Selva from Wiesenbader Strasse

Wolkenstein is a town in the Erzgebirge in Saxony . The oldest and warmest thermal spring in Saxony is located in the Warmbad district .

geography

Geographical location

The city of Selva is located on a rock spur above the Zschopau valley near the confluence with the Preßnitz . Selva Castle , which gave the place its name, is located 70 m above the Zschopau valley. “The castle stands on a stone that seems to rise up into the clouds.” The Falkenbach district to the southwest is a one-sided forest hoof village . To the northeast of Selva are the Waldhufendörfer Gehringswalde and Hilmersdorf. The Heinzebank is located in the far north-east at the intersection of federal highways 101 and 174 . The spa town of Warmbad is located north of Selva.

City structure

Three roses Falkenbach Raft place Gehringswalde

Heinz bank Hilmersdorf Huth Kohlau

Niederau Schönbrunn Warm bath

history

Selva with raft place

Wolkenstein Castle above the Zschopau valley from the southwest

Selva

In 1262 a Hugen von Motzen from the line of the Burgraves of Leißnig is named as the owner of the Selva Lordship . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1293. In 1312 the place is the seat of an archpriest's office and is subordinate to the Benedictine monastery of Chemnitz . In 1323 the place is referred to as "oppidum" (city), and in 1385 a city school is mentioned. The Waldenburgers sat at Wolkenstein Castle as ministerials on behalf of the German king. From 1378, Wolkenstein was the headquarters of the Waldenburg family. After the death of the last Waldenburg resident, the property fell to the sovereigns, the Wettins, as a settled fief in 1473. At the same time, mining in the area around Selva resumed. In 1536/37 the Reformation was introduced by Heinrich the Pious . Selva becomes an independent parish .

In 1573 a covered wooden bridge was built over the Zschopau. The largest office in the Ore Mountains emerged from 1596 through the merger of the Wolkenstein office with the Rauenstein office.

Around 1622 there were 67 mines in operation. In 1689 the church, which was destroyed by the fire in 1687, is consecrated again. According to the plans of Daniel Pöppelmann , a stone bridge was built in 1769 instead of the wooden bridge. In 1835, the Falkenhorst cotton spinning mill was built on Raftplatz. In 1880 production is switched to paper and cardboard. In the summer of 2003, the entire site was sold to an entrepreneur from Großolbersdorf, and since then turned parts for automobiles and fittings as well as medical and electrical engineering have been manufactured there. In 1866 the city is connected to the Zschopautalbahn with the train station located on Schönbrunner Flur. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1876. A new school building was built in 1885. The city's sewer system was completed in 1890. In 1904 mining in the Selva district ceased. A high pressure water pipe is completed in 1908. A cinema is set up in 1919. In 1925, Wolkenstein is connected to the Annaberg gas works and at the same time closes its own gas works. In 1926 the city bought the Warmbad in order to continue operating it. Construction work on the bypass began in 1929. A bridge over the Zschopau and the Zschopautalbahn must be built in the Floßplatz district . The completion is 1931. The new building of the town hall is inaugurated in 1929. On the night of February 14th to 15th, 1945, six people were killed in an air raid and over 200 buildings were destroyed or damaged. Wolkenstein has a sponsorship with the 6th Company of the 371 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Marienberg.

On January 1, 1999, Falkenbach, Gehringswalde, Hilmersdorf and Schönbrunn were incorporated.

Population development

The following population figures refer to December 31 of the previous year with the territory January 2007:

1982 to 1988 1982: 4,843 1983: 4,850 1984: 4,843 1985: 4,873 1986: 4,891 1987: 5,008 1988: 4,976

1989 to 1995 1989: 4,864 1990: 4,719 1991: 4,674 1992: 4,635 1993: 4,631 1994: 4,614 1995: 4,617

1996 to 2002 1996: 4,528 1997: 4,459 1998: 4,415 1999: 4,400 2000: 4,358 2001: 4,302 2002: 4,309

2003 to 2012 2003: 4,335 2004: 4,331 2005: 4,325 2006: 4,272 2007: 4,217 2009: 4.134 2012: 4,001

from 2013 2013: 3,941

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

politics

City council election 2019

Turnout: 66.2% (2014: 52.6%)

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55.5%

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11.6%

4.7%

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Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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DWV

CDU

SPD

Green

FDP

Allocation of seats from 2019 in the City Council of Selva     A total of 16 seats DWV : 9 CDU : 5th SPD : 2

Town hall, in front of the post mile column

City council

Since the municipal council election on May 26, 2019 , the 16 seats of the city council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• Democratic voter association Selva (DWV): 9 seats
• CDU : 5 seats
• SPD : 2 seats

mayor

Wolfram Liebing was elected the new mayor in June 2013 in the second ballot with 45.9% of the vote. Competitors were Martin Wittig and Jens Martin. The predecessor in office was Guntram Petzold (independent), he held the office for 14 years.

Town twinning

Wolkenstein has twinned cities with the city of Bad Bentheim in Lower Saxony (since 1991), with Ruppertshofen (Ostalbkreis) in Baden-Württemberg (since 1992) and with Postoloprty (since 2012).

There is a sponsorship relationship with the 6th Company of the 371 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in neighboring Marienberg .

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Selva

Buildings

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  Wolkenstein Castle from the outer bailey from the southwest
  Wolkenstein Castle is a Renaissance-era castle complex on a mountain spur above the Zschopau valley, which goes back to a high medieval castle of the Lords of Waldenburg.
• The Evangelical Lutheran St. Bartholomew Church goes back to a medieval chapel belonging to the castle and was built in its current form after the town fire of 1687.
• The mill gate in Selva is said to be one of only four medieval city gates preserved in Saxony.
• The town hall with the Ratskeller is located on the historic market square and the reconstructed Saxon post office column from the Rossmarkt on the market square . a. are exhibited in the castle museum or the castle restaurant. An original Saxon quarter milestone stands on Annaberger Straße to the historic Zschopautalbrücke with the Saxon coat of arms. There are numerous other historical buildings in Selva.

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  Wolkenstein Castle

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  St. Bartholomew's Church in Selva

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  West gallery of St. Bartholomew's Church

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  Mill gate

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wolkenstein train station, reception building and residential building (2016)

railroad

Wolkenstein received its rail connection in 1866 with the opening of the Zschopautalbahn . The line leading from Flöha or Chemnitz main station via Annaberg-Buchholz to Vejprty (Weipert) is operated today by the Erzgebirgsbahn , a regional network of Deutsche Bahn .

Since 1892, the Wolkenstein train station has also been the starting point of the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt (also called the Preßnitztalbahn), which led from here to Jöhstadt . The line was finally closed at the end of 1986. Technically remarkable was the use of a three-rail track , which the Preßnitztalbahn (gauge 750 mm) and the Zschopautalbahn (gauge 1435 mm) used on a distance of 1.9 km from Selva station.

Street

Federal highway 171 runs through the city . The federal highways 101 and 174 cross in the district of Heinzebank .

health

The Knappschafts-Klinik Warmbad is a rehabilitation clinic for orthopedics, internal medicine and neurology.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Andreas von Schönberg (1600–1688), electoral Saxon secretary and councilor of war, general sergeant and supreme commander of the Dresden fortifications and Königstein fortress, city commander of Hanover
• Christian Meltzer (1655–1733), pastor and important chronicler of the Ore Mountains
• Friedrich Wilhelm Köhler (1740–1798), pastor and chronicler of the Ore Mountains
• Christian Carl Kanne (1744–1806), Vice Mayor of Leipzig, friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , husband of Anna Katharina Schönkopf , Goethe's first lover ("Käthchen")
• Guido Barthol (1870–1932), responsible for the planning and construction of Leipzig Central Station as a construction advisor for the city of Leipzig , later head of the arts department for the city of Leipzig
• Karl Trinks (1891–1981), educator
• Max Dietrich (1896–1977), Protestant pastor and journalist born in the Schönbrunn district
• Wolfgang Gerhard Pollmer (1926–2013), agricultural scientist and plant breeder

People connected to the place

Kaspar Eberhard 1575, painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger

• Kaspar Eberhard (1523–1575), Lutheran theologian and educator
• Christoph Schindler (1596–1669), German lawyer and clergyman, local pastor
• Christoph von Bärenstein , governor
• Wolf Rudolph von Schönberg (1668–1735), governor
• Christian Friedrich Glumann (1788–1868), Mayor of Annaberg , MdL

literature

• Between Wolkenstein, Marienberg and Jöhstadt (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 41). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985.
• The parish of Selva. In: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, pp. 733-782. (Digitized version)
• Max Grohmann : The Upper Ore Mountains and its cities. Verlag Graser, Annaberg 1903.
• Carl Gottfried Heinsse: Description of the Wolkenstein bath, for use by bathers there, and lessons for everyone who wants a spa treatment . Craz & Gerlach, Freiberg 1808 ( digitized version )
• Friedrich Wilhelm Köhler: Historical news from the old Freyen mountain town of Selva in Chursächsische Obererzgebürge in Meissen . Schneeberg 1781. (digitized version)
• Selva (city) . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 298-307.
• Anja Riedel, Guntram Petzold: Castle and City of Selva. Publishing house Monumente & Menschen, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 96846486486 .
• Andreas Schmied, Christoph Haase: Wolkenstein - old mountain town rediscovered. Bildverlag Böttger, 1992, ISBN 3-9806125-1-1 .
• Ingrid Wernecke: How old is Wolkenstein? - A study on the history of the rule and city of Selva. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . 5/1980, ISSN  0232-6078 , pp. 110-113.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999
3. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council elections

Web links

Commons : Wolkenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Selva in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Literature about Selva in the Saxon Bibliography
• Wolkenstein in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Huth in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Kohlau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony