Geyer

Geyer is a small town in the Erzgebirge District of the Free State of Saxony with about 4000 inhabitants.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 station area
  • 3.2 Tower Museum
  • 3.3 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 freeman
  • 5.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 5.3 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

The town lies in the valley of the brook Geyer. The place is almost completely surrounded by forest. Belongs to this community and the Geyersche forest. The highest point of the resort is the Geyersche plateau at the TV tower Geyer with about 744 m above sea. NN.

Neighboring communities

In the north east borders Ehrenfriedersdorf, in the southeast Tannenberg, in the south Elterlein, the west and north Zwoenitz to the community.

History

Geyer was first documented in 1381. Already decades earlier had been started with the mining industry. 1407 was the place the small market law and 60 years later, the place was already mentioned as a town. In 1537 came the introduction of the Reformation. 1564 began outside the village, near the present-day Greifenbachstauweiher pond, the production of arsenic. On the site now houses the Youth Hormersdorf.

The Leipzig mayor Hieronymus Lotter settled in 1566 on the Lehnhof on Geyersberg down and died there in 1580. 1704 and 1803, occurred the Bingen falls that brought the undermined by mining underground to collapse. 1730 Electorate of Saxony postal distance column in front of the town hall was built on the market. 1809 came the Welsh Industrial Evan Evans to Geyer and built a spinning mill. 1865, the municipal volunteer fire brigade was founded. 1887 a dynamite factory was built. The first high- pressure water line was put into operation in 1894 and 1897 for the first time the town was supplied with electricity. With the Greifenbach viaduct the largest narrow gauge railway bridge was put into operation.

By lightning burned on July 13, 1914, the Town Hall down on the market square.

Population Development

To 1900

1901-1989

1990-1999

From 2000

  • 2000-4372
  • 2001-4295
  • 2002-4260
  • 2003-4189
  • 2004-4153
  • 2005-4086
  • 2006-4034
  • 2007-3980
  • 2009-3887
  • 2012-3724

Culture and sights

Station area

On the former station site, the steam locomotive of series Saxon IV K 99 1534-9 recalls the story of the Thumer network. At the former engine shed she stands on a short piece of track along with a few cars. In the engine shed there is an exhibition on the narrow gauge railway to visit.

Tower Museum

Before the St. Laurentius church ( in which a featured Mount of Olives of the Master of the Altar of Geyer is ), slightly increased and therefore the cityscape significantly influential, is the 42 -meter high watchtower. Built in 1395 as a fortified tower, he offered as a refuge to the inhabitants once protection in times of war. In the years 1561-1564 the tower got its octagonal. There, the church bells were given their place and a watchman's family found housing. On the initiative of Geyer 's citizens in 1952, this historic building is one of the most beautiful and highest tower in museums in Germany. In seven floors of almost 1000 tangible witnesses of the mountain and the city's history can be visited.

Natural Monuments

Natural Monuments in Geyer and environment are the binge, an old landslide that Greifenbachstauweiher and Greifensteine ​​.

Economy

The German commodity AG presented in recent years large reserves of tin in solid form; a future promotion is disputed.

Personalities

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann (1779-1831), Saxon and Polish Bergrat Captian
  • Hermann Theodor Haustein (1814-1873), German jurist and politician, Member of Parliament ( Kingdom of Saxony )
  • Ottomar flowering (1824-1891), lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament
  • Karl Demmler (1841-1930), politician ( SPD), Member of Parliament
  • Walter Fröbe (1889-1946), local historian
  • Manfred Pollmer (1922-2000), dialect poet and local historian
  • Kuno Klötzer (1922-2011), football coach
  • Karl Thierfelder ( born 1933), athlete

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Adam Ries (1492-1559), Reckoner, worked 1533-1539 as tithables in the mining authority to Geyer
  • Hieronymus Lotter (1497-1580), first master builder of the castle Augustus Castle, passed away on July 22, 1580 Geyer ( " Lotterhof " )
  • Evan Evans (1765-1844), English mechanical engineer who built the spinning Siebenhöfen, MP
  • Eli Evans (1805-1882), businessman and politician in Siebenhöfen, MP, MdNV
  • Zschierlich Gustav (1837-1925), colors factory owners in Geyer and Conservative politician, Member of Parliament *
  • Hermann Lung joke (1845-1927), senior teacher in Geyer and local historian
  • Eric Frenzel (* 1988), Nordic combined
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