Tharandt

Tharandt is a small town in Saxony District Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains. It was established in its current expansion by the merger of the municipalities spa town Hartha, Pohrsdorf and the city Tharandt during the Saxon municipal reform on 1 January 1999, is the seat of the administrative community Tharandt and lies on the Wilde Weißeritz or on Tharandter Forest, southwest of Freital (5 km) and Dresden (13 km ) east of Freiberg (18 km ) south of Meissen (22 km ) and north-west of Dippoldiswalde (12 km).

2.1 City Council
2.2 mayor and mayor
2.3 Coat of Arms

3.1 History
3.2 Town twinning
3.3 memorials
3.4 Culture and sights
3.5 Education
3.6 traffic
3.7 personalities 3.7.1 sons and daughters of the town
3.7.2 personalities with a connection to the city

Geography

Neighboring communities

Adjacent municipalities in Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains are Dorfhain, the city Freital, Klingenberg and the city Wilsdruff. West, in the district of Central Saxony border on Bobritzsch - Hilber village and neck bridge.

Boroughs

The city Tharandt consists of 7 districts and 4 localities:

Health resort Hartha Foerdergersdorf
Grillenburg
Spechthausen

Health resort Hartha, Foerdergersdorf, Grillenburg, Pohrsdorf and Spechthausen are nationally recognized resorts.

Policy

City council

Since the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the 18 seats of the City Council are distributed as follows among the various parties and groups:

Mayor and mayor

Since the year 2006, Silvio Ziesemer (independent) Mayor of Tharandt. He was elected on 25 June 2006 with a voter turnout of 48.28 % with 71.59 % of votes cast. The previous incumbent did not compete again. At the election on April 21, 2013 he was confirmed with 54.6 % of the votes cast in office after the preliminary election results at a turnout of 62.7 %. Mayor of Tharandt is Otto Vienna home, mayor of the spa town of Hartha ( with Foerdergersdorf, Grillenburg and Spechthausen ) is André Kaiser, mayor of Pohrsdorf Uwe Stoll and mayor of Great Opitz is Frank Dittrich.

Coat of arms

The Tharandter city arms replaced since January 2002, the coat of arms of the United Saxonian municipal reform three municipalities spa town Hartha, Pohrsdorf and Tharandt.

Blazon: "In Green a toppled been swept red top with downward tapering silver board, in a stylized symmetrical silver ruin, consisting of free-standing Romanesque arched portal with threshold and double-sided half-wall remains front and back, each one outwardly facing erect eight -ended silver deer bar. "

The sign trichotomy illustrates the city formation from the three former independent municipalities, all put together the color green of the forest Tharandter and its location in the V-shaped valley, which is shown by the deposed tip. The stag antlers symbolize the abundance of game of Tharandter forest, its health benefits and the attachment to the forest educational institution in Tharandt. The stylized silver walls in the top is for historical buildings such as the ruins of Tharandt and others in the region.

Place Tharandt

The settlement Tharandt is a town and a district of the city and is situated on the homonymous district, and a part of the district United Opitz. In the district Tharandt, which includes the former teaching Forstrevier Tharandt in Tharandter forest, lies the deserted village warning.

History

Tharandt was first indirectly mentioned in a document from 1216, when a Margrave - meißnischer vassal named Boriwo de Tarant called after the local military installation. This man came from probably the Wettin Döbelner Castle crew and took in the former power structure obviously a fairly prominent place. Anyway, he is then detectable to 1242 five more times. A relative was called in 1242 by Lauenstein. The first castle Tharandt Margrave Dietrich let the oppressed obviously built to repel the Siedelzug the viscount of Dohna in Weißeritz and Müglitzgebiet. In this context, obviously part of the foundation (or a conversion ) the Castle Lauenstein to 1240.

The succession to the Tharandter castle, probably a plant from the environment of Arnold of Westphalia, was a widow seat of the Duchess Sidonie ( Zdenka, † 1510). After a severe destruction by lightning in the 16th century was Elector August the castle to abort free.

Especially during the early modern period was for the city's name grenades (sometimes: [ Official ] Little Town grenades under Tharandt ) used, but the city name ' Tharandt ' never disappeared entirely in the written sources, such as tax lists of this period.

1609 Advanced Elector Christian II, the existing lead at least since the mid-16th century city prerogatives, which unambiguously expressed for example in the presence of a council constitution by granting the right, a city seal and a fair hold may be.

End of the 18th century, the Age of Sensibility, slowly began tourism. Friedrich Schiller ( plaque at the inn Schillereck on the market ), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist and other celebrities stayed there.

After laying his private forest establishment in the year 1811 by Zillbach in Thuringia to Tharandt (from 1816 the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry ) by Heinrich Cotta Tharandt became a scholar and student city. Bakers and butchers, tailors and shoemakers, not least the hosts benefited from this development. Students also compounds formed in Tharandt, especially academic Hunting corporations. Between 1929 and 1941, the Forestry College Tharandt was integrated into the Technical University Dresden.

After laying, the previous leader of the post station in Herzogswalde stagecoach line Dresden - Freiberg ( - Nuremberg ) from 1832/33 to the new post office in Tharandt (now inter alia medical center) in 1855 the railway connection with the Private Albert train to Dresden, which was continued in 1862 to Freiberg and now is part of Sachsen- Franken- Magistrale.

The owner of the Castle Mill, Friedrich Ernst Schmieder, took advantage of the water power of the savages Weißeritz, and produced with two DC - dynamo machines from Siemens & Halske in 1893, nine per kilowatt of electricity at a voltage of 110 volts. Four overshot water wheels drove the dynamo at a speed of 1300 rpm, for which a multiple gear and belt translation was necessary. Since the Klingenberg dam did not exist, the precipitating at low water and ice water power had to be replaced. Schmieder, who was also the machine manufacturer, made do with a storage battery with 65 elements for 112 Ah and a petroleum engine, which turned out frequently. The power received the connected houses in the neighborhood and the city Tharandt for street lighting. The overhead lines were made of bare copper wires and had wrapped for insulation with jute tape and repeatedly smeared with tar at the behest of regulators. The current network of Friedrich Ernst Schmieder was. According to the light and power plant of the brothers Karl and Wilhelm Unicorn in Olbernhau, the second of its kind in Saxony and the first, which was the total resident population available

On July 12, 1912, the motor bus line Tharandt opened - health resort Hartha the Saxon automobile pioneer Emil Nacke ( 1843-1933 ), which replaced one since at least 1903 runs regularly trains running horse-drawn omnibus of Harthaer haulier Hugo Opitz. After several times of changing ownership and temporary extension, over Spechthausen and Pohrsdorf to Foerdergersdorf, it still exists today as a line 345 and oldest operating bus of the Regional Transport Dresden ( RVD ).

In the communist period, the city was a center of the environmental movement in the later environmental education center locust height.

During the flood of the century 2002, four houses were destroyed in the right of the castle located Weißeritztal and damaged the library of the Faculty of Forestry.

Twinning

Sister City of the village Tharandt since 1990 Blaubeuren. An ongoing partnership was again activated with Piennes in France since 1963. 2013 partnership agreements with the city Tharandt Cheb ( Eger) and Poděbrady ( Podiebrad ) in the Czech Republic were closed.

Memorials

A memorial stone from the 1952 to the local cemetery commemorates seven, predominantly French concentration camp prisoners on death marches to Annaberg -Buchholz or to the Theresienstadt concentration camp from the satellite camps Neustaßfurt and Markham of the Buchenwald concentration camp, during the stay in the spa town of Hartha ( 20 -22 April. , 1945 ) were murdered by SS men or in Tharandt ( died 23 April to 9 May 1945). They were initially buried in the cemetery in Foerdergersdorf and in the city park Tharandt and later reburied together with fallen soldiers from the region where the current mass grave. In addition, since 1992 explained a blackboard with French text the course of events.

Culture and sights

Castle and Postmeilensäule

City-and Mountain Church Holy Cross

Castle ruin with city and mountain church of the Holy Cross
City Palace on the market
Electorate of Saxony Postmeilensäule on the market
Royal Saxon milestones in the market and at the intersection Talmühlenstraße / Roßmäßlerstraße / Wilsdruffer Street / Opitzer way
Former Royal Saxon postal station ( later City Hall, today: medical center)
Old building of the Academy of Forestry in the Pienner road, created 1847-1849 after a design by architect Karl Moritz Haenel Oberland
Sanatorium Sanitas (now Town Hall)
Cemetery Chapel (1908 ) and Tomb of Eger Family ( 1910) on the local cemetery after designs by Rudolf Kolbe
Forestry Botanical Garden with extension forestry park in the spa town of Hartha
Cotta's grave at Mauerhammerweg and Cotta house on the street Pienner
Meiler place in popular reason
Hydroelectric plant on the base widths
Sekundenweg Tharandt Spechthausen
Geological Open-Air Museum and Geological trail between Mohorn basic and Tharandt
Steepest standard gauge railway line in East Germany ( maximum of 1:40 to 1:39, without gear ) between Tharandt and Klingenberg as part of the Sachsen- Franken- Magistrale
After the flood of 2002 restored railway keeper's house with cafe
Conservation area Tharandter forest - the most beautiful forest in Saxony

Education

In Tharandt is a primary school, a health resort in more Hartha. On the Schulberg a school building was erected in 1910, which is operated as a Protestant school since 2006.

Moreover, the Technical University of Dresden maintains the Department of Forest Sciences in Tharandt (formerly Forestry University Tharandt ).

Traffic

S- Bahn (S3 ) at the train station

Stagecoach at the post office

The next motorways are the federal highways 4 (AS Wilsdruff, 10 km) and 17 (AS Dresden- Gorbitz, 9 km). The nearest airport is Dresden Airport (28 km). Tharandt lies on the railway line Dresden- Werdau (part of the Sachsen- Franken- Magistrale ) and is the terminus of the S -Bahn Dresden ( S 3).

Tharandt lies in the transport area Transport Networks Oberelbe (VVO ) and belongs to the tariff zone Freital.

The following lines stop Tharandt:

Bahn: German Railways (DB) S -Bahn Dresden Dresden Hbf S 3 - Tharandt - Freiberg
RB 30 Dresden Hbf - Freiberg - Chemnitz - Zwickau
RE 3 Dresden - Hof - Nuremberg

343 Tharandt Bhf - Klingenberg
344 Freital - Wilsdruff
345 Freital - Tharandt - health resort Hartha
363 Freital - Tharandt - Foerdergersdorf - Pohrsdorf - health resort Hartha - Klingenberg
382 Tharandt Bhf - Dippoldiswalde

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Robert Bernhard (1862-1943), forest scientists
Hermann Krutzsch (* November 26, 1819; † July 18, 1896 ), geologist, mineralogist
Richard Emil August of Oehlschlägel (* May 23, 1834, † May 16 1895 in Upper Langenau ), Member of Parliament from 1871 to 1894, a conservative politician, chairman of the National Cultural Council; Son of the 1st Tharandter Postmaster " First Lieutenant and Adjutant " Carl August von Oehlschlägel ( 1796-1859 ), lords of the manor in Upper Langenau with tomb at the Protestant school in Tharandt
Karl Hermann Rudorf (* June 5, 1823 Tharandt; † July 19, 1880 in Dresden), forest scientists
Friedrich Maximilian Schober (* May 18, 1848 Tharandt, † June 4, 1914 in Schruns / Austria ), Member of Parliament, Conservative politician

Personalities with links to the city

Gregor Heimburg († August 1472 in Tharandt ), German humanist and statesman
Sidonie of Bohemia († February 1, 1510 in Tharandt ), Duchess of Saxony, wife of Duke Albrecht the Courageous (among former Sidonie source or street today and Sidonie pharmacy in Tharandt )
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( born August 28, 1749 Frankfurt am Main, † March 22, 1832 in Weimar), poet, theater manager, scientist, art theorist and statesman; stayed from 1813 several times to visit with Heinrich Cotta and dwelt in the bathhouse hotel (now the location of new cafeteria and library Rossmaessler - construction of the Dresden University of Technology, Department of Forest Sciences, plaque )
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ( born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, † May 9, 1805 in Weimar), poet, playwright, philosopher and historian; stayed from 17 April to May 21, 1787 at the Gasthof zum Hirsch (now Schillereck with plaque ) and completed his Don Carlos. ( Schiller Street in Tharandt and F. von Schiller Street in the spa town Hartha )
Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844), forest scientists, lived since 1811 in Tharandt, where he was director of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry.
Friedrich August Karl Geyer ( born March 12, 1853 in Big Grove, † January 22, 1937 in Tharandt ), Saxon Minister of Finance ( USPD ), MP, editor
Willi Heidenreich († 1967 in Berlin), head of a resistance group in the Third Reich, foresters in Tharandt
Max Friedrich Kunze ( born February 10, 1838 in Wildenthal, † March 9, 1921 in Tharandt ), mathematician, surveyor
Friedrich Christian Schlenkert ( born February 8, 1757 Dresden, † June 16, 1826 in Tharandt ), writer, teacher
Samuel John of Dannenberg (* June 24, 1784 in Viipuri, † December 18, 1838 in Tharandt ) Russ. Quays. Major-General at the General - point, Knight of many high order, with German and Russian tombstone inscription formerly in the city park and today in the cemetery
Emil Freiherr von Milkau (* October 22, 1847, † May 29, 1916 ), promoter of the spas in the city Tharandt, including Sanitas sanatorium of Dr. Haupt (now Town Hall) and Milkau villa ( Nobbe - construction of the TU Dresden, currently Saxony State Foundation for Nature and Environment); Family vault in the cemetery
Arnold Edmund dispute (* May 10 1867 Chemnitz, † June 21, 1940 in Dresden ), lawyer, Privy Councillor (1917 ), 1909-1917 Amtshauptmann the Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden -Altstadt, 1929-1932 President of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Dresden, author of the Saxon municipal Code of 1923, the boys' school of the cantor and teacher Heyne visited (now Heinrich Cotta -Str 11. )

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