Zwickauer Land

The district of Zwickau country was a county in the southwest of the Free State of Saxony. Neighboring districts were in the north of the Thuringian district Altenburger Land, Chemnitz in the northeast of the county land to the east of the county Stollberg, in the south of the district of Aue - Schwarzenberg, in the southwest of the Vogtland district and west of the Thuringian district of Greiz. The independent city of Zwickau was almost completely surrounded by the district of Zwickau country. The district of Zwickau country has risen with effect from 1 August 2008 at the district Zwickau.

Geography

The district of Zwickau land lay to the southwest of the Free State of Saxony. Southwest was the Vogtland region, in the south and southwest of the Ore Mountains. Was by flippers the circle area of the Mulde and the splices.

A dense network of paths opened up the hilly region in which meadows and fields with wooded boundary ridges and small forests alternate.

Economy

The region has traditionally been dominated by mining, automotive, textile, tool and machine. Thus, the district possessed by the more than 100 years of industrial development over a wide range of potential labor force. In addition to large companies such as VW Sachsen and GKN ( in Zwickau- Mosel), Buderus, Saxas especially the middle class shaped the economic strength of the region. In the district of tourism has been developed by him led the Silver Route. The county was a member of the economic region Chemnitz- Zwickau.

Traffic

The county has been cut from the highways 4 and 72 as well as the federal highways 93, 173 and 175. From Central Station Zwickau consisted of a train connection to Dresden and Nuremberg. There were direct flights to Hof, Plauen, Chemnitz, Aue, Johann George Town, Kraslice, Altenburg, Leipzig, Gera and Göttingen. The transport entertained the Regional Public Transportation West Saxons, a company in the traffic group means Saxony. The nearest regional airport was the Leipzig -Altenburg Airport, where, inter alia, Ryanair flew to London Stansted.

History

The regional government of Saxony was in 1835 a new structure. In place of the district captains were the four county divisions of Dresden, Leipzig, Bautzen and Zwickau. To Zwickau District Directorate of the Office captains were in Zwickau, Chemnitz, Selva, Plauen and the Beautiful Freiburgische Rezessherrschaften. The Office of Captain of Zwickau in turn were under the posts in Zwickau, Kirchberg, Werdau, Schwarzenberg and yew floor, where the beautiful Freiburgische Rezessherrschaften the offices Hartenstein, Lichtenstein, stone, Waldenburg and Glauchau.

With the establishment of new judicial and administrative bodies - the court offices - in 1856 an important step in the direction of "modern management " done. The old division offices in their complexity could thus be overcome.

1873 Justice and management were separated; the court offices were responsible only for the judiciary, while the main office newly formed teams took over the administration tasks. As an immediate organs of the Saxon State Government's four main district teams have been set up in place of the old district directorates. The Zwickau district main team consisted of the main office teams Annaberg, Auerbach / Vogtl., Chemnitz, Floeha, Marienberg, Oelsnitz / Erzgeb., Plauen, Schwarzenberg and Zwickau.

In 1878 the Saxon State took over the judicial and administrative jurisdiction in the beautiful Freiburgische Rezessherrschaften and formed the Amtshauptmannschaft Glauchau. An official at all mannschaftliches branch office Werdau 1919 created in 1920 into an independent Amtshauptmannschaft was, but 1933 fell to Zwickau.

The church constitution of 1946 and the Saxon Constitution of 1947 created in Saxony again democracy, as they had existed before the beginning of the Hitler dictatorship.

The administrative reform of 1952 liquidated the state of Saxony. At the same time the district was divided into the districts of Zwickau and Werdau country. Part of the circulating area also went to the new circle Reichenbach. In contrast, the Mülsengrund from the district Glauchau was removed and added to the Zwickau - country.

As part of the turn it was on 9 November 1989 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the elections for the Saxon state parliament on 14 October 1990 Saxony finally emerged after 38 years.

After reunification, the districts of Zwickau and could Werdau partnership relations with Hesse Darmstadt- Dieburg, record the Bavarian district of Kulmbach and later to the district of Landshut.

On May 6, 1990 municipal elections were held. At the inaugural meeting of the county council Christian Otto was elected District. In Werdau county citizens voted for George Hamburg District.

With the district reform on 1 August 1994 was the district of Zwickau country with the county seat in Werdau. As he clasped a collar at this time the county-level city of Zwickau. With the completion of the municipal reform on 1 January 1999, the county changed its geographic face one more time. The places Cainsdorf, Moselle, Oberrothenbach and Schlunzig were incorporated into the city of Zwickau. Any action in court were unsuccessful. In previous years, the places Crossen, Schneppendorf and Hartmann village had joined on a voluntary basis Zwickau. The so-called collar circle was broken. The city of Zwickau limited now in its northern area directly to the district Chemnitz country.

The district of Zwickau country has risen with effect from 1 August 2008 in the new district of Zwickau.

Cities and Towns

( Population figures from December 31, 2006)

Management Communities

Communities

Others

The county had a rich archaeological and built heritage of the centuries of settlement history.

Especially characteristic were the elongated Waldhufen villages that had spread in the side valleys of the rivers. The castle- like closed three -and four gave them distinctive character. The variety of early German fortifications was unique in its density in the Free State. Bauzeugen from nearly all eras were to be found. Also Umgebindehäuser were present in the county in typical regional architecture. The villages and small towns had largely unadulterated Market places and centers and were sporadically seen the traces of the High Middle Ages.

Unique sacral interiors in many churches, mostly located in the town centers, testified to high culture. Altars and altar pieces by Peter Breuer, for example, in Culitzsch, Muelsen St. Jacob and Thurm, Hartmann Village, Härtensdorf, Rod Green, White Stream, the Silbermann organ in Frauenreuth or Schlunziger Baroque organ by JJ Donati Elder. attracted visitors from far away. It was also known that the Cistercian nunnery in Crimmitschau / Frankenhausen. Villas in various architectural styles, half-timbered houses, castles and palaces hid interesting stories from the past.

In Zwickau country nearly all the castles, palaces and manors were obtained. Important witnesses were the Castle Blank grove that housed a museum, castle Leubnitz, castle pig castle, castle Steinpleis, Castle Meadow, Castle Wild Rock, Castle Wolf Brunn, castle Schönfels and castle stone. The Steinpleis castle was built in 1858 in the style of English Tudor Gothic. Castle Lauterbach in Neukirchen / Splices in 1884, built in a Neo -Renaissance style, as a manor house of the manor Lauterbach. In the years 1907 to 1909, the interior underwent its greatest and most meaningful transformation by Henry van de Velde, who lifts the lock from the class historicist manors to the rank of national remarkable cultural monument.

The most visited castle was serving as the agricultural and open-air museum Blankenhain Castle - a unique complex in Saxony. The manor Blank grove burned down in 1661. By 1700, it was rebuilt and modernized in 1784. Lastly, the beautiful plant still showed with their characteristic mansard roofs and baroque tower hoods on the two squared Renaissance towers. The Manor was rescued from demolition in 1975 and was since 1981 the agricultural museum with many valuable devices from the peasant economy and the past.

The " Silver Street ", now known as Holiday Road, began in Zwickau, and in its course to Dresden certificates of mining took place from its heyday to decline.

Architecture and technical progress were also reflected in the built bridges at different times. The railway bridges and viaducts of the routes Leipzig -Hof and Werdau -Zwickau originated from 1843 to 1851 and were mainly built as brick buildings with arched structure made ​​from local bricks of the Leubnitzer and Werdauer brickworks. The Leubnitzer, the Steinpleiser and Roman viaduct dollars are referred to as " little sisters " of the known Göltzschtalbrücke at Netzschkau. These bridges are admirable testimonies of technical development in the 19th century. A separate chapter wrote the roads and highway bridges. The highway bridge at Wilkau- Haßlau spanned 45 meters in height, the Mulde on a length of 700 meters.

With the expansion of A 72, the building received a new superstructure, which connects to the slender, 60 -year-old pillars, visible from afar, the Talschultern. With the expansion of remote connection from Frankfurt am Main to Dresden for six-lane A4, the new building of the bridge over the Pleißental to Crimmitschau - Frankenhausen was completed in the 1990s.