Zschorlau

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 12 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony
County :	Erzgebirgskreis
Management Community :	Zschorlau
Height :	548 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.92 km 2
Residents:	5235 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	239 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	08321
Area code :	03771
License plate :	ERZ, ANA, ASZ, AU, MAB, MEK, STL, SZB, ZP
Community key :	14 5 21 700
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	August-Bebel-Str. 78
Website :	www.zschorlau.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Leonhardt ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Zschorlau in the Erzgebirge district

Zschorlau is a municipality in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis . The municipality and Bockau form the Zschorlau administrative community .

geography

Zschorlau is located in West Erzgebirge about 5 km south of Aue and is dominated in the south by Steinberg (732.8 m). Like many former Waldhufendörfer in the Ore Mountains , the place was created on a stream, the Zschorlaubach . This rises to the southwest of the community on an extensive moorland plateau, the Hohen Forst , known locally as "Dr Forst". Before the brook reaches its location, its water feeds the felt pond , which is the center of a popular local recreation area. At the end of the village there is a narrow valley, the Gößnitzgrund, through which the Zschorlauer Talstraße was only built in 1907.

According to the natural space map of Saxony, Zschorlau is located in the mesogeochore "Auer valley basin with ridge" and belongs to the microgeochore "Zschorlaubach valley" and "Zschorlauer ridge", the lower part of Zschorlau oriented towards Aue, on the other hand, belongs to the microgeochore "Auer valley basin".

geology

Headframe of the Türk Fundgrube

The community is located on the south-east flank of the "Schneeberger Lagerstätte", which extends to the edge of the town. Externally, this is noticeable through the winding tower of the Türkschachts , which is only a few meters behind the houses on a hill between Zschorlau and Neustädtel . This tower is the only preserved steel headframe of the old Western Ore Mountains and is a listed building.

The area of ​​the St. Anna am Freudenstein mine is a specialty . Geologically it belongs to the Schneeberger deposit, but is to be viewed as a separate sub-deposit.

In addition, the wolframite deposits discovered and mined on the communal corridor are an interesting geological phenomenon.

Local division

The districts of Albernau (with Schindlerswerk) and Burkhardtsgrün belong to the municipality of Zschorlau .

history

Like the neighboring towns of Neustädtel , Griesbach and Lindenau, Zschorlau was founded around 1200. According to Robert Immisch (The Slavic place names in the Ore Mountains; 1866) the place name meant Quellenwiese (meadow on the Zschorle, cf. Upper Sorbian žórło source ). Unlike its districts, it did not belong to the Schwarzenberg rule , but to the Wiesenburg rule and its successor, the Wiesenburg office . In Zschorlauer district Albernau there since the 17th century Blue Color Works , which after its first owner Erasmus Schindler " Schindler MOORISH Blue Color Works " and after the generated blue color ultramarine and Saxon US Blue Color Works Ltd. (Schindler factory no. 9) is called. In the brief self-description of the work it is said that the hut is “probably the oldest paint factory in the world”. After the Nazis came to power between April and July 1933, an old factory building at Albernauer Strasse 2 was converted into a " protective custody camp " by the local Nazis . 207 political opponents, including a Jew , were imprisoned and tortured there. Paul Korb was one of the inmates known by name . Many of the abused died shortly afterwards from the torture. After the camp was closed, the prisoners were transferred to the Zwickau- Oststein prison and the Sachsenburg concentration camp . A plaque commemorates the victims.

Burkhardtsgrün was incorporated into Zschorlau on January 1, 1996, and Albernau on January 1, 1998.

politics

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City council election 2014

Turnout: 60.2%

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20th

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65.4%

16.7%

2.8%

3.6%

7.6%

4.0%

CDU

SPD

FDP

NPD

AA

WGZ

A total of 16 seats SPD : 3 AA : 1 CDU : 12

Municipal council

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 12 seats
• SPD : 3 seats
• Albernauer Alternative (AA): 1 seat

Community partnerships

There is a community partnership with the community of Dietenhofen in the district of Ansbach.

Culture and sights

• see also: List of cultural monuments in Zschorlau
• The St. Anna am Freudenstein mine is located at the lower end of the municipality of Zschorlau on the connecting road to Aue . In the quartz cave there, a wandering puppet theater shows performances in summer and public Mettenschichten are held at Christmas time.
• Erasmus Schindler's blue paint factory has been one of the 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Erzgebirge mining region since 2019 .
• A Passion Play has been taking place in Zschorlau every five years since 2000 : around 140 participants from the Evangelical Lutheran Lutheran Lutheran community want this special form of preaching the Christian message. and Ev.-Meth. Church and the regional church community bring the biblical reports of the Passion events closer to the visitors through playful presentation.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Zschorlau has the Zschorlau Oberschule and the Zschorlau Elementary School.

Personalities

• Julius Bochmann (1832-1918), builder and conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament ( Kingdom of Saxony )
• Edmut Kluge (1933–2019), dialect author
• Lothar Kolditz (* 1929), chemist
• Carl Eduard Mannsfeld (1822–1874), lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Martin Päßler (1586–1651), entrepreneur
• Siegfried Pausch (1941–2004), politician (CDU), MdL
• Stefanie Rehm (* 1950), politician (CDU), state minister in Saxony
• Erasmus Schindler (1608–1673), tradesman and entrepreneur, founder of the Schindler blue paint factory
• Andreas Schramm (* 1951), politician (CDU) and district administrator
• Helmut Unger (1923–2016), local history researcher
• Gotthard Voigt (1928–1991), politician (DSU)
• Christine Weber (* 1948), politician (CDU), state minister in Saxony

Honorary citizen

• Dietmar Zimpel (1933–2017), motor sportsman, car dealership owner, founder of the Dietmar and Evelyn Zimpel Foundation

literature

• Richard Steche : Zschorlau. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 66.
• Karl Friedrich Helbig: History of the church trip Zschorlau , near Roßberg, Frankenberg 1896, 61 p., 5 p. Ill.
• The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 84–89.
• Zschorlau municipal administration (ed.): Festschrift 800 Jahre Zschorlau , Zschorlau 2012. ISBN 978-3-9811372-9-3

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Zschorlau
• Zschorlau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Literature about Zschorlau in the Saxon Bibliography
• Short chronicle of the place from 1900 to the Second World War ( Memento from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural space map service of the Landschaftsforschungszentrum eV Dresden ( information )
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1996 and 1998
4. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
5. ↑ year support program 2020, the German Foundation for Monument Protection: Zschorlau, Schindler'sches Blue Color Works, Saxony , In: Monuments , issue 2/2020, p. 24
6. ↑ Zschorlau Passion Play