Silberstraße (Wilkau-Haßlau)

Silver Street is a formerly independent municipality since 1999 and part of the city Wilkau- Haßlau, district Zwickau, Saxony. It has around 2,000 inhabitants and is located 340 m above sea level. NN. The hamlet next village buildings include a newly erected residential area with modern units, large industrial plants in textile production and farms.

Geography

Geographical location

The former village and today's district is located at the foot of the Erzgebirge, in a valley, about 10 km south of Zwickau and is divided by the river Mulde.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent community is Reinsdorf with the districts Vielau and Frederick Green, and the cities of Kirchberg and wild rock in the district of Zwickau.

History

Origin of Silver Street was a former Gutsweiler with Gutsblockflur in the valley of the Mulde, the manor and village is mentioned in records under the name Ruh arms before the year 1251. The name Ruh arms referred to in this case the low land of the manor, not the economic situation.

In the course of the developing silver mining in southern Ore early led a trade route through the town, which was named the Silver Route. According to tradition already existed in 1470 before place a bridge over the trough, which zugutekam the development of the town. Probably for this reason, asked the then lord of Uttenhofen Kunz (old Frankish noble family ) 1470-1479 the Prince to the renaming of the manor and village in Silver Street. After 1480 Silver Street belonged to the parish of Schönau, one of the larger parishes of the area at this time.

While Silver Street and Haara belonged to the 19th century to the offices Zwickau and meadow Castle, Upper Haßlau was under the administration of the beautiful burg Office Hartenstein.

From the mid 19th century, the increasing economic development reached, the region around Zwickau in the German Reich. In May 1858, the railway line Zwickau -Schwarzenberg Obererzgebirgischen the railway was opened, which led by Silver Street and had a great importance for the growing commuter traffic in the Mulde Valley. 1907 also received Silver Street at the now double-track its own breakpoint.

Larger businesses held but only towards the end of the 19th century, moving into Silver Street. 1892, the brothers operated a Blätterlein embroidery, 1893 enamelling and stamping followed. The production of the work was discontinued in 1972. With the worsted spinning mill developed in the 1920s, another important industry. The resulting resultant Zwickau worsted GmbH is today considered one of the most advanced spinning mills.

The economic upswing of the town was also reflected in a rapid growth of population. Lived about 1820 just 60 people in Silver Street, it was in 1934 (also by incorporations ) already 1,287 inhabitants. In 2000, the population was 1,991 inhabitants.

The manor in Silver Street

The first mention of the manor dates from the years before 1251 under the name Ruh arms.

Around 1470 a bridge was built over the trough for the silver mines of the Ore Mountains, it took advantage of the then landlord Kunz of Uttenhofen (old Frankish noble family ) 1470-1479 to ask the Prince for a renaming of the manor and village in Silver Street.

In the following centuries were several ownership changes and structural changes to the manor complex.

Known changes of construction date from the year 1899. The building of the manor was demolished by the then owner Ernst Gustav Alfred Dautzenberg. At the same place a mansion, which in turn was expanded several times over the following years and rebuilt to its current view arises.

After the Second World War the estate was community property. It served until the political changes as a home and as an administrative building of the local agricultural cooperative and was sold to an interested American retired couple in September 2011.

Incorporations

The community of Silver Street evolved historically from the three time independent places Haara, Upper Haßlau and Silver Street. The village was founded in 1924 Haara first incorporated in parts by Silver Street, then on July 1, 1934, the merger with the northern Upper Haßlau. Common name was Silver Street, because there the larger commercial operations were available.

The next area of ​​reform achieved in the late 1990s. 1998, a merger with the community Wiesenburg (now part of Wildenfels ) planned way than the municipal reform in Saxony at first, but this compound before the administrative court could not be enforced. On 1 January 1999 it came to the incorporation of a district after Wilkau- Haßlau. The district of Silver Street has today an area of 2.79 km ².

Sons and daughters of the town

• Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff (1700-1774), Oberhof Jägermeister, Director and Inspector top of all rafts and landed gentry
• Curt Lahr (1898-1974), high -Saxon country servant, President of Saxony Savings Bank Association, head of the Saxon State Chancellery and Savings Bank Director