Pfaffroda

Pfaffroda is a municipality in the Erzgebirge District in Saxony.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Natural Monuments
  • 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Structure

Besides Pfaffroda include the following districts of the municipality:

  • Dittmannsdorf
  • Dörnthal
  • Hallbach
  • Haselbach
  • Hutha
  • Schönfeld

History

Beginning of the 13th century laid the priests of the monastery Ossegg the village Pfaffroda to. 1445 were first mentioned as a possession of the reign of Schoenberg Purschenstein documented Pfaffroda and Schonfeld. For the construction of the church a letter of indulgence was issued by Pope Sixtus IV. With the Reformation became an independent parish in 1539 Pfaffroda. From 1575 to 1578 the Castle of Caspar von Schönberg was rebuilt. From 1651 Bohemian exiles settlement land was assigned. It emerged that places Upper, Lower and Kleinneuschönberg, iron mine and Hutha. 1715 organ of Gottfried Silbermann was installed in the St. George's Church. The passage of the Napoleonic troops in August 1813 Joachim Murat stayed at the castle Pfaffroda. A new school was opened in 1854. 1883 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. Pfaffroda 1912 is connected to the central power supply. The cemetery chapel was consecrated in 1919. 1938 street lighting was put into operation in Pfaffroda.

Population Development

The following population figures refer to 31 December of the preceding year, with area as of January 2007:

1982-1988

1989-1995

1996-2002

2003-2009

  • 2003 - 3240
  • 2004 - 3169
  • 2005 - 3056
  • 2006 - 3018
  • 2007 - 2960
  • 2009 - 2862

Incorporations

Schonfeld was incorporated on 1 July 1950 in the community Pfaffroda at Sidon. On 1 January 1994 Dittmannsdorf followed at Sidon. Dörnthal and Hallbach are since January 1, 1999 to Pfaffroda districts.

Culture and sights

Natural Monuments

In Bärenbachtal is the 1929 ornament scale planting " ADVS 1929 ".

Personalities

  • Hans extinguisher (1881-1946), educational reformer and writer who grew up in Pfaffroda.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Moritz fire (1844-1927), Saxon country executioner
  • Oskar Trinks (1873-1952), born in Dörnthal, politician ( SPD), Baden Landtag, a member of the Weimar National Assembly
  • Karl Ewald Fritzsch (1894-1974), folklorist and educator
  • Siegfried Schönherr ( born 1915 in Haselbach ), Vet, Member of the Berlin House of Representatives
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