Braunichswalde

Braunichswalde is a municipality in the Thuringian district of Greiz. Administratively it belongs to the administrative community Wünschendorf / Elster.

2.1 religions
2.2 Amalgamations
2.3 Population development

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms

4.1 Regular events

5.1 traffic
5.2 Established businesses
5.3 Public bodies

Geography

Geographical location

Braunichswalde belongs to Ronneburger agricultural and mining area and is located at Fox creek, a small tributary of the White Elster. The nearest towns are Berga / Elster (7 km southwest), Ronneburg (8 km north) and Crimmitschau (12 km east).

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities are Gauern, Linda b. Weida, Rücker village and Seelingstädt district Greiz and the city Crimmitschau Saxon district Zwickau. The latter city borders only indirectly to the Location United Pillingsdorf the village Blank grove.

Community structure

The only borough of Braunichswalde is birdsong.

History

Braunichswalde was first mentioned in 1307 as "Villa Brunswick Forest". Until 1918, belonged to the Angersdorf Saxe-Altenburg and was since 1900 the District Office Ronneburg belonging. 1922, went to the county Gera. From 1950 to 1990, the city was dominated by the Uranium Mining Wismut, but after extensive measures were carried out, which made the village more attractive and 1998 for the award of the Silver Plaque in the national competition Our village is led be nice. On December 4, 1952, to the circle Schmölln belonging to the circle place Werdau, on July 1, 1958, however, came then to the circle Gera country, just like birds singing, which belonged to the circle Werdau since 25 July 1952. The present district was incorporated on January 1, 1960.

Religions

Braunichswalde belongs to the Diocese of Dresden - Meissen.

In Braunichswalde there are a Lutheran Church, a United Methodist Church and an Adventist church.

Incorporations

In 1958, Birdsong was incorporated into Braunichswalde.

Population Development

1933 Braunichswalde 674 and birdsong 129 inhabitants. For the year 1939 there were 669 or 143 inhabitants. From 1995 to 2001 Braunichswalde could follow the general trend of population migration to rural areas and thus increase its number of inhabitants. A significant proportion of this was the re-definition of a residential estate ( land of the sun ) and the filling of existing vacant lots. In recent years, increasing again the rural exodus.

Development of the population (as of December 31):

2000: 714
2001: 715
2002: 712
2003: 708
2004: 708
2005: 689

2006: 676
2007: 678
2008: 665
2009: 645
2010: 625
2011: 630

Of the 665 residents at the end of 2008 were 343 male and 322 female.

Policy

Parish council

In the election period 1994-1999 six seats were held ( 74.2 %) and one seat respectively of the FDP (13.6% ) and the PDS ( 12.2% ) of the CDU. In the election period 1999-2004 this seat ratio was 78.8 % for the CDU, retained 15.8% for the PDS and 5.4% for the FDP.

After the local elections of 27 June 2004, the council was made up as follows:

CDU - 6 seats ( 69.3 %)
The Left - 1 seat ( 11.5%)
FFWVeV - 1 seat ( 14.1% )

The FDP won 5.1% no seat in the municipal council.

After the municipal elections in 2009, all eight available seats by the CDU (99.5 %) were occupied. The turnout was 74.6 %.

Mayor

In the mayoral election in 2004 Heinz Klügel of the CDU received 57.1 % of votes, his rival candidate Mathias Kretzschmar (independent) 42.9 %. The re-election took place on 6 June 2010, 96.1 % of the votes with a turnout of 58.6 %.

Coat of arms

The tree on the top right is the former two -stemmed beech of the district Braunichswalde, the bird on the bottom left for the district birdsong. The walls in the other two quarters show the typical local use of greenstone.

Culture and sights

Regular events

Braunichswalde distinguished by its lively club life. This shows among other things that most parties are organized and held in Braunichswalde by the clubs. The following festivals are conducted annually by the clubs:

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through the district birdsong the road L leads 1081 of Ronneburg to Werdau. The municipality has two bus stops, which are weekdays from regional transport Gera ( RVG) and operated by the private bus operators Piehler over the lines 212 Gera - Friedmann village and 213 Gera - Werdau -Zwickau. Since setting the travel rail traffic on the connection Wünschendorf - Werdau the nearest passenger station is in Ronneburg eight kilometers away. By Braunichswalde leads the industrial railway of bismuth, which is still daily drive on sand trains. At the time of the uranium ore traffic Braunichswalde work station train station to the processing plant 102 in Seelingstädt and transfer station of the bismuth - industrial railway was to Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Established businesses

The town's economy is dominated by small to medium-sized businesses. Early 1990s were created in the south of the municipality with the 6.3 -hectare industrial park new morning sun commercial space.

Public institutions

The daycare " Anne Frank" was built in 1958, renovated the building in 1995.

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