Striegistal

Striegistal
Striegistal
Location of Striegistal within Mittelsachsen district
Coordinates	50°59′30″N 13°11′10″E / 50.99167°N 13.18611°E / 50.99167; 13.18611Coordinates: 50°59′30″N 13°11′10″E / 50.99167°N 13.18611°E / 50.99167; 13.18611
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Saxony
Admin. region	Chemnitz
District	Mittelsachsen
Municipal assoc.	Striegistal
Local subdivisions	6
Mayor	Bernd Wagner
Basic statistics
Area	77.04 km2 (29.75 sq mi)
Elevation	240-373 m
Population	5,266 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	68 /km2 (177 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	FG
Postal code	09661
Area codes	037207, 034322
Website	www.striegistal.de

Striegistal is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. In 1994, the unification of the communities of Berbersdorf, Schmalbach, Goßberg, Mobendorf and Pappendorf with Kaltofen im Rahmen in the community regional reform, created the Community of Striegistal. It received its name from the two rivers that flow through the community, the Little Striegis and the Big Striegis.

Two of the skirmishes of the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–1779) occurred at the hamlet of Berbersdorf. In the first, on 7 August, Major Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf and two squadrons of the Wurmser Hussars, surprised a Prussian convoy, which surrendered 240 wagons of flour and 13 transport wagons. Nauendorf's Hussars also took as prisoners all the officers and 110 men, and captured 476 horses. While the parties negotiated at their differences at Teschen, on 3 March 1779, Nauendorf raided Berbersdorf again with a larger force of infantry and hussars and captured the entire Prussian garrison. Following this action, Joseph awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa (19 May 1779).^[2]

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen jeweils am Monatsende ausgewählter Berichtsmonate nach Gemeinden" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.sachsen.de/download/010_GB-Bev/Bev_Gemeinde.pdf. 
2. ^ (German)Jens-Florian Ebert. "Nauendorf, Friedrich August, Graf." Die Österreichischen Generäle 1792–1815. Accessed 15 October 2009.