Ehrenfriedersdorf
Ehrenfriedersdorf is a town in Erzgebirge District in Saxony ( Germany ). Through the city leads the Silver Route.
- 2.1 Settlement and Mining
- 2.2 Population development
- 4.1 City Council
- 4.2 Mayor
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 4.4 Town twinning
- 5.1 Church of St. Nicholas
- 5.2 Museums
- 5.3 Music
- 5.4 theater
- 5.5 Regular events
- 7.1 freeman
- 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Ehrenfriedersdorf is located on the upper reaches of the valley of the river Wilisch at an altitude of around 600 m. In the West the heights of Greifensteine and east of the Sauberg and the Cold Muff are with Franzenshöhe (703 m).
Neighboring communities
The following municipalities border on Ehrenfriedersdorf ( clockwise starting from the north ): Thum, Drebach, thermal Wiesenbad, Tannenberg, Geyer and Zwoenitz.
Greifensteine
The Greifensteine are a rock formation in the Ore Mountains in the forest area between the villages Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Jahnsbach and Thum in the field of city Ehrenfriedersdorf. They reach a height of 732 m above sea level and are considered the highest point on Ehrenfriedersdorfer hallway. The rock group with the natural stage are known as a natural monument nationwide.
Franzenshöhe
The Franzenshöhe is one of the highest points of the city. It is located in a forest ( the so-called Huuf - Buhsch ) and is therefore not visible from various vantage points. Particularly striking are the impressive rock formations at the summit.
History
Colonization and mining
Ehrenfriedersdorf as colonized the remaining area of the central Erzgebirge in the 12th century. In the 13th century it came by finds of tin to recovery. 1339 the settlement was first mentioned in documents as Erinfritstorf. Middle of the 15th century, the city had received full city rights and was considered one of the richest in the Erzgebirge. He had a savings bank and a district court.
Population Development
On 3 October 1990 Ehrenfriedersdorfer village had 6263 inhabitants. The following population figures refer to 31 December of each year:
1993-1997
1998-2002
2003-2007
- 2003: 5442
- 2004: 5368
- 2005: 5310
- 2006: 5238
- 2007: 5179
From 2009
- 2009: 5094
- 2011: 4991
Memorials
- Memorial stone near the sports ground in memory of six opponents of the Nazi regime who were murdered in prisons and concentration camps: Max Niklas, Kurt Leupold, Paul Weber ( resistance fighters ), Max Neubert ( resistance fighters ), Richard Bock ( resistance fighters ) and Milda Schreyer.
Policy
City council
- CDU: 9 seats
- CDU - Public Forum: 4 seats
- SPD: 3 seats
- LEFT: 1 seat
- FDP: 1 seat
Chairman of the city council is the mayor.
Mayor
Coat of arms
Blazon: " red -gold left diagonally divided; up a golden ring with blue stone, blue crossed below hammer and chisel. "
The coat of arms shows the signet ring of Waldburger rule to the Ehrenfriedersdorf once belonged. Hammer and mallet are the well-known symbol for the mining industry, who coined the city for centuries.
Twinning
- Burgkunstadt in the district of Lichtenfels, Bavaria
- Podbořany, Czech Republic
Sights, culture, and regular events
Church of St. Nicholas
The most precious work of art of St. Nicholas Church is the established here in 1507 to 1512 and completed late Gothic winged altar, the (closed) can be converted twice. The effects caused by the mining wealth of the city is visible, among other things, that the Church could afford it, the great master HW ( Hans Witten ) to commit to make the altar. The material he used basswood. Until the very tips of the conversation Narrow the altar is made of wood.
Sunday page
Festive page
Museums
On the Sauberg located in the former tin mine a visitor mine with mineralogical museum. There it is shown how to 1990 industrial tin was mined. The nature of the tunnel corresponds to the former stand
The mining area Ehrenfriedersdorf is a selected site for the intended candidacy for UNESCO World Heritage mining region Erzgebirge.
Music
In 1973, the Erzgebirgsgruppe Ehrenfriedersdorf was founded, an ensemble dedicated to the care of the Ore Mountain dialect and with one of the most popular vocal formations of the region. Several radio and television appearances made the group already nationally known in GDR times. After the political change of tours followed in the United States.
Theater
In the early 1990s the dialect theater at Greifenstein was founded eV in Ehrenfriedersdorf. This theater group took over the tradition of the game at the Mette Mette layer, which was until then, in the buildings of the former Zinner Zberg Sauberg work carried out by the relatives of the Mountain Brotherhood. The Ehrenfriedersdorfer Mettenschicht characterized not only by the memory of the unfortunate miners by the popular stage play, which is performed by the dialect theater, from.
Regular events
Since about 1991 there are the annual festivals for Maypole reacting and a witch's fire on April 30 on the ski slopes at the chicken farm, also take place on 1 May, a mountain elevation of the mountain grave brotherhood Ehrenfriedersdorf eV instead. During the Christmas season the Pyramidenanschieben is celebrated solemnly by the inhabitants and guests.
Economy and infrastructure
From the mid-13th century to 1990, tin was mined in Ehrenfriedersdorf. After German reunification, a cost-effectiveness was no longer given. In the following period the mine for visitors was rebuilt. An integrated and scientifically researched healing gallery offers numerous therapies, including for respiratory diseases.
Personalities
Freeman
Sons and daughters of the town
- Carl Ludwig Glaeser Traugott (1747-1797), composer and cantor at the City Church in White Rock
- Christian Friedrich Schubert (1808-1874), German politician
- Johann August Scheibner (1810-1888), German politician, Member of Parliament ( Kingdom of Saxony )
- Julius Theodor Zenker (1811-1884), orientalist, translator and private tutor
- Georg Fritz White (1822-1893), opera singer, translator and actor
- Max Wenceslas (1879-1946), dialect poet of the Ore Mountains
- Hans Weber (1941-1969), racing driver
- Günter Deckert (1950-2005), a Nordic Combined