Zechenbach

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City of Klingenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 6 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 54 ″  E
Postal code : 08267
Area code : 037467
Zechenbach (Saxony)
Zechenbach

Location of Zechenbach in Saxony

Zechenbach , today known as Zwota-Zechenbach , is a part of the municipality of Klingenthal in the Saxon Vogtland district belonging to the village of Zwota . The place came with the municipality of Zwota on January 1, 2013 to the city of Klingenthal.

geography

location

Zechenbach is located in the southeast of the Saxon part of the historic Vogtland in the central part of the Klingenthal district of Zwota. The place is bordered in the north by the Ore Mountains and in the south by the Elster Mountains . The highest mountain in the vicinity is 805 m above sea level. NN the high fire to the west . The houses are located in the valley of the eponymous Zechenbach up to its mouth and mainly north of the Zwota . In terms of natural space , the place is on the western edge of the Western Ore Mountains . Zechenbach is part of the Erzgebirge / Vogtland Nature Park .

Neighboring places

Kottenheide
Oberzwota Neighboring communities Zwota
State municipality

history

Zwota-Zechenbach stop

The valley of the Zwota and with it also Zechenbach was settled in the 16th century. In connection with the mining activities, the upper Zwotenhammer in Oberzwota and the lower Zwotenhammer in Zwota were built at this time. The name "Zechenbach" goes back to a northern tributary of the Zwota, which in turn got its name from a former colliery . Copper, tin and silver were probably mined here to a lesser extent. The Zechenbach tunnel is the only one in the Zwota valley whose remains are still there. From the 17th century an industry slowly began to develop in the course of the iron ore discoveries in the valley of the Zwota. Hammer workers from the Ore Mountains and Bohemia settled around the upper and lower hammer , as well as miners and woodcutters. In the 18th century, Protestant religious refugees from Bohemia , so-called exiles , who had immigrated in the previous century, made musical instruments and the like. a. started violin making . As a result, an industry developed throughout the valley in the following years. The entrance of the Zechenbach tunnel was recognizable up to our time, but today it is covered with rubble and slate stones.

Zechenbach, which has always belonged to Zwota, was under the rule of the Zwota forest estate around 1771. Zechenbach belonged as part of Zwota until 1856 to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Voigtsberg . After 1856 the place belonged to the Klingenthal court office and from 1875 to the Auerbach administration . In 1875 Zechenbach had 145 inhabitants.

Since 1875 the Zwotental – Klingenthal railway line has passed through the southern part of Zechenbach without stopping. After the main town of Zwota received a breakpoint in 1880, the "Zwota-Zechenbach breakpoint" followed in 1909.

As a result of the second district reform in the GDR , the community of Zwota and the community part of Zwota-Zechenbach became part of 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 in the Vogtland district in 1996 rose. In 2008 Zechenbach was deleted as part of the municipality of Zwota. Since the merger of the municipality of Zwota with the city of Klingenthal on January 1, 2013, Zwota has formed a district with Oberzwota and Zwota-Zechenbach in the sense of a village with its own local council.

education

Zwota-Zechenbach, school

Around 1830 there was a hiking school in Zechenbach. On October 13, 1879, the first school building in town was inaugurated. It is therefore older than the Zwota school, which opened in 1890. While one teacher taught 120 children in 1840, around 1900 two teachers taught 247 students. In 1925 the two school districts of Zwota were united. Modifications and additions took place in 1926, 1939 and 1991/92. After the school in Zwota was closed in 1993 due to a decrease in the number of pupils, the school in Zwota-Zechenbach remained the only school in the town until it closed in 2000. The harmonica museum moved into the rooms of the Zwota school.

traffic

Zwota-Zechenbach is affected by the B 283 in the south . The "Zwota-Zechenbach stop" is located on the Zwotental – Klingenthal railway , which is served by the Vogtland Railway.

Web links

Commons : Zwota-Zechenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Zechenbach tunnel on a geocaching set
  2. ↑ The Zwota Forest Estate in a historical document from the 19th century
  3. ↑ Zwota in the "Handbook of Geography"; P. 449
  4. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 74 f.
  5. ^ The Auerbach administration in the municipality register 1900
  6. ^ Zechenbach in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ^ The Harmonikamuseim Zwota on the website of the place