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15-711: During the construction of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway, a route running further south in Vogtland through Lengenfeld and Auerbach was discussed. In 1856 proposals were developed for a branch line of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway towards Bohemia. In November 1856, a railway committee of Oelsnitz proposed a railway link through the Elster valley from Gera via Plauen , Adorf , Elster and Asch to Eger. A committee established in Auerbach, however, later proposed

30-631: A forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in the town in Zwickau , and a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . About 1,000 prisoners, half of whom were deported from German-occupied Poland , a quarter from the Soviet Union , and larger groups among the remainder comprising French, Italian, Czech, and Hungarian Jews, were imprisoned as forced labour in the latter. 246 prisoners died in

45-634: A while. Later the town of Eger withdrew its financial commitment for the construction of the line. To minimise the cost it was ultimately decided to build a common route with the Hof–Eger line in Bohemia. On 1 June 1863, construction began on the line with pre-construction work. On 25 November 1863, the foundation stone was laid for the Eger Viaduct. Finally, in June 1864 about 9,000 workers were employed on

60-607: The Holy Roman Empire under king Conrad III in the 12th century. In 1209, the minister dynasty administrating the area was split into three areas, Weida, Greiz and Gera-Plauen. When centralized power over the area decreased, county leaders, local administrators, called in Latin advocatus or in German Vögte , were appointed, giving the area its current name. The Vogtland war (1354-1357) ended this administration and

75-646: The Vogtland , which was so called because it was governed by Vogts. Located in the Ore Mountains it contains a lot of forests. The main river is the White Elster . The mountain of Bezelberg (638 m) lies within the district. The district council of the Vogtland district was elected in the local elections on 9 June 2024. The 86 seats in the district council are distributed among the individual parties as follows: The first German cosmonaut , Sigmund Jähn

90-675: The Saxon government for the construction of this line. On 7 May 1868, the Plauen–Oelsnitz line was approved by the parliament of Saxony. On 1 November 1874 the line was opened. Lengenfeld Lengenfeld is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany . The town is situated 19 km southwest of Zwickau , and 18 km northeast of Plauen . During World War II , Germany operated

105-632: The Saxon parliament approved construction of the Voigtland State Railway via Auerbach. Shortly afterwards, surveying began on the new line. Major problems were experienced on the route through the Bohemian area, where the communities of Fleißen and Wildstein opposed the construction of the line. The necessary land was so overpriced that the route eventually chosen ran south of the Kapellenberg (mountain) returning to Saxony for

120-448: The area changed ownership to Bohemia . In 1546 Henry IV, Burgrave of Plauen got the area from the Bohemian king and later emperor Ferdinand I . His children inherited not only the land, but also crippling debts, so to pay these 1563 the area was bought by Saxony from Henry VI, and when in 1569 Henry VI finally ceased to claim ownership the new leadership created the first Vogtland district ( Voigtländischen Creiß ). 1657-1718 Saxony

135-507: The borders of Thuringia , Bavaria , and the Czech Republic . Neighbouring districts are (from south clockwise) Hof , Saale-Orla , Greiz , Zwickau , and Erzgebirgskreis . It is the southernmost district in the state. Plauen is the administrative centre and largest city of the district. Other major cities ( Große Kreisstädte ) are Reichenbach im Vogtland , Auerbach , and Oelsnitz im Vogtland . The Vogtland became part of

150-776: The connection of the Voithersreuth–Cheb line with the Waldsassen-Eger line built by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company . On 1 November 1865, the line opened at the same time as the Hof–Eger line. The cost of the construction of the Voigtland State Railway was later given as a total of 6.1 million Vereinsthalers . Especially in Plauen and Oelsnitz there were demands for more from a direct line from Plauen, as had been agreed in 1856. The Plauen city council on several occasions made petitions to

165-535: The new districts Klingenthal and Reichenbach by decreasing the size of the previous ones. After the German Reunification the changes of the 1952 reform were mostly undone, and in 1996 the 5 districts were merged to form the Vogtlandkreis. In the district reform of August 1, 2008 the city of Plauen was included into the district. The Vogtlandkreis is named after the geographic area it covers,

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180-611: The project. For the construction and operation of the section of the railway located in the territory of the Austrian Empire between Voithersreuth ( Vojtanov ) and Eger and financed by the Royal Saxon Government, a treaty was signed between Austria and Saxony in Vienna on 30 November 1864 (which was ratified four weeks later), providing for a connecting with the Bohemian railway network. The treaty provided for

195-438: The subcamp, and were mostly cremated in nearby Reichenbach im Vogtland , and the remaining were evacuated in a death march , during which many also died. This Vogtlandkreis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vogtlandkreis The Vogtlandkreis ( German pronunciation: [ˈfoːktlantˌkʁaɪs] ) is a Landkreis ( rural district ) in the southwest of Saxony , Germany , at

210-652: The variation as built from Herlasgrün. In the autumn of 1858 the engineering work began on a railway from Plauen, which were interrupted during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859. Only when it was known in Saxony that another project, the Hof–Eger line was being developed in Bavaria , did interest return to the project. Now, however, the link from Herlasgrün via Auerbach and Falkenstein was favoured. On 21 June 1861,

225-598: Was split into parts, the Vogtland belonged to Saxe-Zeitz . In 1835 the new constitutional monarchy changed the administration and abolished the old district, and instead the Amtshauptmannschaft Plauen was created, and in 1867 those of Auerbach and Oelsnitz. 1907 the city of Plauen left the district and became district-free city. 1952 the East German government with the big administrative reform renamed them to Kreise (districts), and created

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