Auerbach, Erzgebirgskreis

Auerbach is a municipality in the Erzgebirge District in Saxony ( Germany ). She's since March 21, 2008 Part of the administrative community Burkhardt village.

Geography

The municipality is located in the Ore Mountains, approximately 20 km south of Chemnitz. It is bounded on the northwest by the municipality Gornsdorf (lower district to 471.6 m above sea level. NN ) and to the southeast by the area of ​​the city Thum (upper district altitude of 642.6 m. NN ).

Auerbach was one of the centers of the hosiery industry in the 20th century, whose origins to the early 19th century.

History

For the first time the city in 1447 was named in the Electoral Registry, Saxony. This Auerbach is referred to as the Official Village of Stollberg, under the name Vrbach. According to Blaschke was the first documentary mention in 1446 already as Vwerbach. Auerbach was founded during the colonization of the East in the 12th and 13th centuries. The place is in the territory of the former covering the entire Erzgebirge jungle. The still recognizable form of Waldhufen village shows that there was a fixed predefined schema of the hallway division at that time.

The Shire left and right of the village stream remained excluded from the hooves division. The so-called village green was used as a common pasture for sheep.

Gradually the village green was leased or sold by the municipality to cottagers. Cattle paths or livestock trails on which the livestock community of shepherds were driven into the municipality's own Waldhuten or wooded pastures were sold or leased later, and often served as public roads of the 19th century.

Auerbach was already in 1500 a purely farming village. For the year 1552 29 owners of courtyards, and an unusually high number of 54 residents are given. 54 but does not represent the population, but the number of self-employed persons without commercial real estate dar. This can, for example, miners, charcoal burners, forest workers, Harzer or miller to be. Subsequently, a total resident population of several hundred people is possible. For the year 1605 a population of 300 is specified.

Ecclesiastical Auerbach was for centuries a branch church of Hormersdorf. A private house of God there should have been in the village as early as 1500. This was in 1643 plundered by Swedish troops. On June 4, 1747 renewed church was consecrated.

Like many other Erzgebirgsorte also remained Auerbach not spared from pests and diseases. 1582, 1598 and 1625 was rampant plague in the village. 1711 broke the small-pox, he or year, the Ruhr. After the great famine of 1772 Auerbach was later struck from the 1700 outbreak of scarlet fever, and one year of a measles epidemic. One last great famine was recorded in 1862.

After 1843, the " God Help Kurth company " was founded, Auerbach was connected December 27, 1910 the power grid. The following year the railway line Meinersdorf - Thum of Thumer network was completed. On September 9, 1925, the connection was made to the gas system, the same year the first central water line was put into operation.

At the beginning of the period of National Socialism in 1933, the youth center in the main street was used ( GDR times Karl -Marx -Straße) as adhesion and Folterort the SA to the political opponents and other unwanted people.

The community was until its dissolution office of the Management Community Auerbach.

History of the hosiery industry of the place

In Auerbach began around 1759 with the manufacture of hosiery on a wooden Handkulierstühlen. The production was made up in the second half of the 19th century in the homes and offices of the hosier. 1799 was introduced in place by the born on April 30, 1779 Christian Gottlieb Kurth, the hosiery industry. He founded in 1834 the first sock company in Auerbach. Until 1900 that seven stocking farms and factory buildings, often while maintaining the home production.

The seven companies:

  • God Help Kurth company founded in 1834
  • Company C. Louis Keller founded in 1867
  • Company F. W. Wieland founded, 1876
  • Company F. Theodor Haecker founded in 1881
  • Company F. A. Uhlmann founded in 1882
  • Company Louis Sehm / R. Uhlig founded, 1887
  • Company A. Robert Wieland founded, 1892

Religion

37.5 % of the inhabitants are Lutherans, only 0.5 % Catholics.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish Auerbach with the conservation village church belongs to the church district of Annaberg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony.

Catholics belong to the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Zwoenitz, which maintains a branch church in Thalheim. The municipality is part of the deanery of the diocese of Dresden- Meissen Zwickau.

In addition, the Evangelical Free Church congregation Auerbach exists with about 30 members, belonging to the Association of the Brethren churches in the Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany.

Parish council

Since the local elections the 16 seats of the council are as follows occupied: 9 seats Confederation of Free voter, 3 seats CDU, 4 seats, the Left.

Memorials

  • Plaque at the youth center in the main street for 50 abused persons from the labor movement
  • List of Cultural Monuments in Auerbach (Erzgebirge)
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