- Schneeberg, Saxony
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
Name = Schneeberg
image_photo = Schneeberg panorama from south east (aka).jpg
Wappen = Wappen Schneeberg.png
lat_deg = 50 |lat_min = 35 |lat_sec = 39
lon_deg = 12 |lon_min = 38 |lon_sec = 44
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Sachsen
Regierungsbezirk = Chemnitz
Landkreis = Erzgebirgskreis
Höhe = 470
Fläche = 23.35
Einwohner = 16380
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 08289
Vorwahl = 03772
Kfz = ASZ
Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 1 91 280
Adresse = Markt 1
08289 Schneeberg
Website = [http://www.schneeberg.de/ www.schneeberg.de]
Bürgermeister = Frieder Stimpel
Partei = CDUSchneeberg is a town in
Saxony ’s district ofErzgebirgskreis . It has roughly 16,400 inhabitants and belongs to the Town League of Silberberg ("Städtebund Silberberg"). It lies 4 km west ofAue , and 17 km southeast ofZwickau .Geography
Location
Schneeberg lies on the Silver Road in the upper western
Ore Mountains . Visible from afar is its prominent "St. Wolfgangskirche" (church). The town core lies on the "Schneeberg", which reaches 470 m abovesea level and is also the town’s namesake. Among the surrounding peaks are the Gleesberg (593 m) to the east and the Keilberg (557 m) to the north.History
Schneeberg’s more than 500-year-long history has been shaped by
mining more than anything else, laying the very groundwork for the town’s founding. The originalsilver mining also yieldedcobalt andbismuth mining by the mid 16th century. Whenuranium mining was being undertaken between 1946 and 1958, the town’s population quickly rose, leading to Schneeberg’s status as a district-free town ("kreisfreie Stadt") between 1952 and 1958. Afterwards it once again belonged to the district of Aue.Amalgamations
*
1939 Bergstadt Neustädtel, near which lies the popular outing destinations Gleesberg and Filzteich
*1952 Community of Griesbach, northwest of Schneeberg
*1999 Community of LindenauPopulation development
Development of population figures "(as of 1960 on 31 December)":1 29 October 2 31 August
Culture and sightseeing
The "St. Wolfgangskirche" is one of the biggest and architecturally most mature churches built in the
Late Gothic style, and is an earlier type ofReformation church construction. Inside are found works byLucas Cranach the Elder and the Crodel family of painters, whom the "Krodel-Brunnen" (fountain), demolished in late 2005, commemorated.Among the other sights to be seen are the
neo-Gothic Town Hall, newly built in the mid 19th century, variousBaroque buildings and mining memorials.Economy and infrastructure
Transport
In Schneeberg ends "
Bundesstraße " (Federal Highway) 93 fromLeipzig , which once led further, across the border, to Karlsbad (nowKarlovy Vary in theCzech Republic ). Furthermore, "Bundesstraße" 169 runs through the town fromPlauen toChemnitz .From 1859 to 1952, the town had a
railway connection afforded by a 5-km-long spur leading to Niederschlema on theZwickau -Schwarzenberg-Johanngeorgenstadt -Karlsbad railway line.State institutions
Schneeberg is until 31 March 2008 headquarters of the
Bundeswehr ’s "Gebirgsjägerbataillon" (“Mountain Rangers’ Battalion”) 571 and "Versorgungskompanie" (“Supply Company”) 370.Education
Schneeberg had at its disposal a lyceum, out of which grew a Gymnasium. Moreover, the town was home to a lace tatting school, an
art school , a vocational Gymnasium and a teachers’ college. Schneeberg’s "Johann-Gottfried-Herder Gymnasium" was chosen in 2004-2005 as “Saxony’s best Gymnasium” in the course of a study by the magazine "Capital". It enjoys an outstanding reputation even beyond Germany’s borders.Famous people
Honorary citizens
* 2002 - Werner Unger (b. 1922), "
Heimatforscher " (“homeland researcher”)
* 1992 - Walter Rau (1909-1992), educator
* 1991 - Gerhard Heilfurth (1909-2006), folklorist
* 1985 - Werner Kempf (1925-1999), painter
* 1981 - Karl Schreiter (1903-2001), fireman
* 1965 - Artur Günther (1885-1974), "Heimatforscher" and municipal politicianSons and daughters of the town
* Hans Schenck (about 1500- about 1566), sculptor in Berlin
*Andreas Musculus (1514-1581), professor at the University ofFrankfurt an der Oder and "Generalsuperintendent" of theMargraviate of Brandenburg
* Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515-1585), humanistic writer and translator
* Kaspar Eberhard (1523-1575), Lutheran theologian and educator
* Petrus Albinus (1543-1598), vice chancellor of the University of Wittenberg and Electorate of Saxony historian
* Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1644-1715), ironworker and founder ofCarlsfeld
* Karl Gottlob Hofmann (1703-1774), Lutheran theologian and historian
* Christian Friedrich Brendel (1776-1861), mining engineer
*Heinrich Stölzel (1777-1844), musician
* Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), gardener and botanist
* Christian Friedrich Röder (1827-1900), headmaster, Ore Mountain poet and singer
* Otto Schill (1838-1918), jurist and municipal politician in Leipzig
* Prof. Christian Hermann Walde (1855-1906), vocational school headmaster in Saxony and Silesia, textbook author
* Edwin Bauersachs (1893-1948), Ore Mountain dialect poet
* Armin Günther (1924-2003), footballer with SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
*Egon Günther (* 1927), German film director
*Enrico Kern (b. 1979), German footballer withFC Hansa Rostock Famous people who have worked locally
* Peter Weidenhammer (about 1480–about 1540), alchemist, introduced blue dye making into the Ore Mountains
* Andreas Reinhard (1571–1613), master arithmetician and writer of a textbook for mathematical instruction
* Johann Böhme (1623-1663), sculptor
* Christoph Gottlieb Grundig (1707–1780), clergyman, naturalist, writer
* Ernst August Geitner (1783–1852), chemist, physician and inventor of German silver
* Julius Paufler (1834-1901), town councillor, head of the lace tatting model school, royal lace tatting school inspector for Saxony’s municipal lace tatting schools
* Carl Schumann (1801-1849), book printer and publisher, composerRobert Schumann ’s brother
* Adam Siber (1516-1584), German humanist and educatorPartner towns
Schneeberg’s partner towns are:
*Herten inNorth Rhine-Westphalia
*Veresegyház inHungary External links
* [http://www.schneeberg.de/ Schneeberg’s website]
* [http://www.bergbruederschaft-schneeberg.de/ website of the mining brotherhood "Schneeberger Bergparade" e. V.]
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