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19-529: Located in the Ore Mountain Basin , the village of Falkenau stands on the shores of the river Flöha . Falkenau and its sole district Hetzdorf is located north of Augustusburg , east of Flöha and west of Oederan . Until the middle of the 12th century, the region lay in the primeval forest known as the Miriquidi , which covered large parts of what is now southern Saxony and stretched across

38-641: A historically important industrial region, not least because of the Zwickau Field which contained most of East Germany's very minor reserves of coal and included the biggest former hard coal mining region in Saxony. Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen ("Central Saxony") is a district ( Kreis ) in the Free State of Saxony , Germany . The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln , Freiberg and Mittweida as part of

57-499: A new coat of arms. Six proposals in total were put to the district council. The district council eventually chose the current design on 10 June 2009. The coat of arms shows the lion of Meißen, representing the Margravate of Meissen , and a hammer and pick representing the local mining heritage. The blue waves are derived from the coat of arms of Mittweida, and the three black lozenges from the former arms of Döbeln. The elections for

76-609: A post horn, the year of manufacture and, on the narrow side the odd row number "25". The school, built 1913, was designed by the Saxonian architect Curt Herfurth . This Ore Mountains article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Mittelsachsen location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ore Mountain Basin The Ore Mountain Basin or Erzgebirge Basin ( German : Erzgebirgsbecken )

95-735: Is a natural region in the German federal state of Saxony , that is part of the Saxon Lowland . To the north it borders on the Mulde Loess Hills and to the south on several natural regions in the Saxon Highlands and Uplands . The basin is a structural depression running from northeast to southwest in the Ore Mountain peneplain that is filled with Devonian and Carboniferous sediments. The main communications from

114-783: Is also integrated into the Dresden S-Bahn network. Burgstädt , Mittweida , Frankenberg and Hainichen are integrated into the Chemnitz model and served by the City-Bahn Chemnitz. The once dense rail network had already been severely thinned out by Deutsche Bahn before the district reform in 2008. Entire junctions such as Rochlitz with the Glauchau-Rochlitz-Wurzen, Rochlitz-Penig and Waldheim-Rochlitz lines were closed. Other junctions such as Nossen and Freiberg lost considerable importance. Today,

133-529: The Franken-Sachsen-Express , was interrupted at Hof in order to be able to run between Dresden, Freiberg, Flöha and Hof with electric traction and barrier-free vehicles in the future. In addition to the mainline stations mentioned above, regional centres such as Chemnitz , Zwickau , Plauen and Hof, but also regional destinations such as Olbernhau , Annaberg-Buchholz and Grimma can be reached by local trains. The district town of Freiberg

152-630: The Ore Mountains follow the valleys downhill and are collected by a major routeway to the north that follows this furrow and passes through the cities of Zwickau and Chemnitz . According to current categorisation the Upper Pleißeland ( Obere Pleißeland ), immediately to the east of the towns of Werdau and Crimmitschau , is also counted as part of the basin. The Ore Mountain Basin is an important centre of population in Saxony and

171-821: The Zwickauer and Freiberger Mulde , and the Zschopau river. Other notable rivers include Bobritzsch, Striegis, Gimmlitz and Flöha. The district also contains the reservoirs Kriebstein, Lichtenberg and Rauschenbach. Part of the Erzgebirge/ Vogtland national park is located in the southern part of Mittelsachsen. In 2008, upon the creation of the Mittelsachsen district, the heraldic society "Schwarzer Löwe" in Leipzig, in collaboration with graphics studio Eberhard Heinicker, put forward several proposals for

190-698: The Mittelsachsen district happened on 7 June 2015. The former mayor of Mittweida, Matthias Damm ( CDU ), won with an absolute majority (65.74% of votes). The district is served by three motorways, the A4 being the main east-west route, with the A14 branching off to the north-west. In the far west, the A72 runs through the district. The district is also served by the B7, B101, B107, B169, B171, B173, B175, B176, and B180 federal roads and major state roads. Four main railway lines run through

209-746: The Nossen-Holzhau, Berthelsdorf-Brand-Erbisdorf, Flöha-Marienberg, Pockau-Lengefeld-Neuhausen, Hainichen-Niederwiesa and Hartmannsdorf-Wittgensdorf branch lines in the Ore Mountains are still in operation, although not all sections have regular passenger services. Some of these lines are operated by non-federal railway infrastructure companies. The entire district belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen . The closest airports for commercial travel are Leipzig–Altenburg Airport (15 km), Dresden Airport (28 km), and Leipzig/Halle Airport (58 km). However, there

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228-683: The district of Zwickau . The geography of the district varies considerably, stretching from the northern part which almost reaches the North German Plain , to the southern part in the Ore Mountains region. The lowest point is at 140 metres above sea level, in the valley of the Freiberger Mulde near Leisnig . The highest point is 855 metres above sea level on the Czech border. The most important rivers in Mittelsachsen are

247-539: The district reform of August 2008. The district stretches from the Ore Mountains on the Czech Republic–Germany border to the plains between Leipzig and Dresden . The district borders (from the west and clockwise) the state Thuringia , the districts of Leipzig , Nordsachsen , Meißen , Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge , the Czech Republic , Erzgebirgskreis , the urban district Chemnitz , and

266-422: The district: Dresden-Freiberg-Chemnitz-Werdau, Riesa-Döbeln-Chemnitz, Neukieritzsch-Chemnitz and Borsdorf-Döbeln-Coswig. Long-distance passenger trains do not run through the district and can only be reached by changing trains at Dresden Hbf , Riesa , Elsterwerda or Leipzig Hbf . The interregional Dresden-Nuremberg connection via Freiberg and Flöha , which existed until 2014 and was most recently marketed as

285-455: The mid-16th century, with only 20 more in 1688. Falkenau reached its highest peak of population in the year 1950 with a total of 2921 people. The population has slowly declined since then. 1980 - 1989 1990 - 1999 2000 - 2009 2010 - 2019 Falkenau is connected to the Bundestraße 173 (B173) . Between Hof and Zwickau , the course of this road largely corresponds to

304-533: The northern forests of Falkenau along the Zechengrundbach with a first phase during the late 16th century and a second one from 1674 till 1842. Since the beginning of the 19th century and during the 20th century, the village was a small, but supraregional centre of the textile industry with business connections to major cities in Germany and Europe. Falkenau had a population of around 140 people during

323-539: The old Via Imperii . Further on to Dresden, it follows the historic Frankenstraße , which leads eastwards via Chemnitz, Oederan, and Freiberg, towards Upper Lusatia and on to Silesia . The village has two small train stations and is connected by one bus line to Chemnitz. The upper station Falkenau (Sachs) Süd connects the village to Dresden, Chemnitz, and Freiberg ( Dresden–Werdau railway ). The lower station Falkenau (Sachs) HP connects to Chemnitz and Olbernhau ( Pockau-Lengefeld–Neuhausen railway ). Until 1968,

342-814: The ridge of the Ore Mountains to northern Bohemia. Falkenau was first mentioned in 1378 in a tax register of the socalled "Castrum Schellenberg" district, but the first settlers probably arrived as early as the late 12th century in the course of the Medieval Ostsiedlung . The settlers founded the village as Waldhufendorf with 15 farms arranged along both sides of the river. The oldest family names of these farmers were Richter (1546), Rudolph (1563), Ruttluff (1563), Schubert (1563), Kunz (1564), Teufel (1566), Wächtler (1567), Hartwig (1580), Förster (1583), Aßmann (1586), Ranfeld (1585), Becker (1585), Schnorr (1589), Naumann (1599), Fintzel (1593), and Barthel (1595). Small ore mining endeavours were undertaken in

361-458: The socalled Lößnitz Valley railway branched off to Großwaltersdorf in the neighbouring district of Hetzdorf . In 1722, the post office of Electoral Saxony erected on behalf of Augustus II the Strong a numbered milestone along the historic Frankenstraße . The quarter milestone rests on a low plinth and consists of a rectangular ca 1.7 metres high slab. It only bears the monogram ‘AR’,

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