Geringswalde

Geringswalde is a small town in Saxony in the midst of the city triangle Leipzig, Chemnitz and Dresden.

  • 2.1 origin
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Structures
  • 3.2 Regular events
  • 4.1 roads
  • 4.2 Rail transport
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 5.2 personalities who were active in the city

Geography

Location

The city is located northeast of Rochlitz, right on the main road 175 The highest point of the low forest lies on a ridge of the Saxon Granulite in the vicinity of the observation tower in the north of the city at 305 m above sea level. NN. The King -Friedrich- August-Turm was inaugurated on 31 August 1907 after the then last Saxon King King Friedrich August III. named. From here is a clear day the view up to the Ore Mountains, to Augustus Castle and the Battle of the Nations Monument in Leipzig possible.

Boroughs

To Geringswalde include the districts:

  • Aitzendorf
  • Altgeringswalde
  • Arras
  • Dittmannsdorf
  • Geringswalde
  • Hilmsdorf
  • Holzhausen
  • Hoyersdorf
  • Neuwallwitz

History

Origin

Is first mentioned in 1233 as the place name Gerungeswalde in the foundation charter of the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria on January 2, 1233 and again, this time as Gerung forest, in the protection and confirmation bull of Pope Gregory IX. 29 October 1237th

Incorporations

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Electorate of Saxony postal Distance column ( in large part a copy ), the original crest piece is exhibited in 1727 at the Museum Schloss Rochlitz. Today's location is the Bahnhofstrasse. Originally it was on the market and later large pond, in the amount of the former dam - mill (now Park ).
  • The former manor dates back to a monastery of Benedictines. The manor house was destroyed in 1945 after the war.
  • In the listed city center are the cobbled market and representative buildings that were built mainly around the turn of the century.
  • The neo-Gothic Martin Luther Church dating back to 1890, the town hall was inaugurated in 1905 and the school building from 1894 have witnessed urban prosperity in the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • In the village church at the cemetery in Altgeringswalde of 1510 created and carefully restored in 1994, brightly painted altar is worth seeing.
  • On a hill north of the city opened in 1907, the King Frederick Augustus Tower, an observation tower.
  • From a castle in the nearby forest Prince, which was destroyed again in the Middle Ages, tiny basement residues can only be obtained.

Regular events

  • Low Walder pond and plant festival the first weekend in September, around the large pond.

Traffic

Through the village leads the federal highway 175 heading west leads it through the city Rochlitz the junction of Rochlitz under construction Federal Highway 72 (Chemnitz -Leipzig ). From the east Geringswalde can also be reached via the B 175 via the interchanges chub East and Leisnig the motorway A14 (Leipzig- Dresden).

Rail transport

Since the opening of the railway line Waldheim Rochlitz on December 7, 1893 Geringswalde was connected to the railway network. With the political changes in Eastern Germany the route rapidly lost importance. On 1 June 1997, the travel has been set.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Oswald Ahnert (1843-1920), lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament ( Kingdom of Saxony )
  • Wilfried hostler ( b. 1928 ), architect
  • Roselore Sunday ( born 1934 ), Olympic athlete in Rome in 1960 as a gymnast
  • Wolfgang Bloch joke (1941-2005), 19 times the national football team of the GDR
  • Rolf Münzner ( b. 1942 ), artist ( drawing, lithography, graphics, illustration) and professor at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

Personalities who were active in the city

  • Paul Trenckmann (1676-1747), cartographer, worked in Geringswalde as juror and was interested in part-time for Cartography and Geodesy
  • Gottfried Cundisius (1599-1651), Lutheran theologian, worked here as a pastor
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