Bernsdorf, Zwickau
Bern village is a municipality in the district of Zwickau. It is part of the joint management around the Auersberg based in Lichtenstein.
- 2.1 Ecclesiastical History
- 2.2 Population development
Geography and transport
Bern village is located in the Erzgebirge, which reaches heights of 300 meters in the municipality. Bern village lies on the B173 between Lichtenstein and Oberlungwitz and about 14 km east of the county town of Zwickau.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages of Bern village, Hermsdorf and Rüsdorf.
History
Bern village is in the fragment of the Naumburg Bistumsmatrikel that arose immediately after 1470, as Bernstorff mentioned. At home, historical research, however, is the indication common that these matriculation was already in 1286 and so this year is wrongly given as Ersterwähnungjahr.
Bern village was created as Waldhufendorf.
Bern village was in 1656 affected by witch hunts. The gardener Johann Schulze was caught in a witch trial.
Church History
Lie on the origins of the seasoned under princely patronage reign of Schoenburg - Waldenburg church as well as no prior information. It stands in the center of town, on a hill. Their high and pointed tower is 46 m high. After the construction of its parts, the construction is to be found in the Middle Ages. The church has three volume bells, which are hung in the tower above the other and one belonging to the clock strike the bell.
The great sound bell dates from the year 1521. Casting your place in the workshop of the Freiberger bells and cannon caster Martin Hillig ( 1484-1544 ). The mean volume bell has its origins in the period around 1400 and is regarded as thunder and storm bell. You had to be re-cast in 1941, since 1941 was a crack across the entire bell. The surrounding cast resulted from the company Franz Schilling and Sons from Apolda. In parallel, the Neuguss a small bell sound. It was commissioned by local manufacturers Horst Pfotenhauer same company private in order. This happened because the little bell, made in 1817, cast by Johann Gottlieb Hellmuth from Zwickau, on 10 December 1941 came to the smelter on behalf of the Reich Office for metals in Berlin, to shipping. Miraculously, she remained unscathed by the melting and was found again in 1949 in the bell camp near Hamburg. On Christmas Day 1949, the parish with the whole town celebrated their return. Now that said producer in the meantime had a new sound bell Pour the homecoming bell found near the clock a new place and to this day serves as a striking bell. All the bells were cast in bronze.
Two treasures are inside the church. On the one hand the altar with the representation of the Last Supper. This is a valuable wood carved, made by Christian Spohr from Loessnitz. Another treasure is a life-size crucifix from the most important late Gothic sculptor Saxony, Peter Breuer ( 1472/73-1541 ). This work is dated from around 1520. A first organ existed hundred years later since 1743rd About, in 1856, the organ builder Jehmlich from Zwickau won the contract to build a completely new organ. It was completed in 1859. A major overhaul began on January 2, 1995 the company owl organ building in Bautzen and ended with the re-inauguration on December 10 ( Advent 1 ) 1995.
Population Development
On 3 October 1990 Bern village had 2474 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to 31 December of the preceding year:
1998-2002
2003-2008
- 2003: 2594
- 2004: 2564
- 2005: 2544
- 2006: 2536
- 2007: 2505
- 2008: 2479
Sons and daughters of the town
- Delitsch Otto (1821-1882), theologian, geographer
- Wilhelm Bahner (1854-1919), entrepreneur in Hermsdorf (from Wilhelm Friedrich workers) and Conservative politician, Member of Parliament
- Max Ernst Opitz (1890-1982), 1949-1951 Mayor of Leipzig
- Gerhard Thieme ( born 1928 ), sculptor
- Volker Bigl (1942-2005), German physician and neuroscientist, recipient of the Order of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Gottfried Klimbt (* 1943), Athlete