Halsbrücke is a municipality and village in the district of

Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen (, ) is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida as part of the district reform of August 2008. Geog ...

, in

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. It is situated just north of

Freiberg Freiberg () is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants. The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and ...

, on the banks of the

Freiberger Mulde The Freiberger Mulde (also called the ''Östliche Mulde'' or Eastern Mulde; ) is the right-hand, headstream of the river Mulde, whose catchment covers an area of in the Czech Republic and Germany in central Saxony. It has a volumetric flow of ...

river.

Geography

Halsbrücke lies 5 km north of Freiberg on the left bank of the Freiberger Mulde river. The lowest point in the area lies at around 296 metres above sea level, and the highest at 375 metres above sea level.

Districts

Within the Halsbrücke municipality lie the following districts: * Conradsdorf * Erlicht * Falkenberg * Haida * Halsbrücke * Hetzdorf * Krummenhennersdorf * Niederschöna * Oberschaar * Tuttendorf

History

Halsbrücke was originally founded in 1349 as an estate named , belonging to the Altzella monastery in Nossen. The name referred to a ridge on the bend of the river which was said to have a "neck"-like formation (German ). The area belonged to the city of Freiberg from the 16th century onwards. The bridge (German ''Brücke'') was included in later variations of the municipality's name, namely (1441), (1654), and (1706). While the municipality today stretches both sides of the river, Halsbrücke was formerly divided between two administrative regions. On the left bank of the Freiberger Mulde, the areas of ''Hals'' and ''Neu'' belonged to the city of Freiberg, while ''Sand'' and ''Grüneberg'' came under the jurisdiction of

Meissen Meissen ( ), is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden and 75 km (46 mi) west of Bautzen on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, th ...

. Halsbrücke had no church of its own for most of its history, instead coming under the parish of Tuttendorf. The church of St. Lorenz am Schulberg was then constructed between 1985 and 1991, and opened in 1992. The municipality was serviced by a rail connection, namely the Freiberg-Halsbrücke line, from 1890 until the line's closure in 1995. The station still exists, unused.

Mayors

* 1990–2012: Jörg Kiehne (CDU) * since 2012: Andreas Beger

Gallery

File:Fotothek df n-11 0001294.jpg, File:Halsbruecker Esse 001.jpg, Postcard

Notable people

Albert I, Margrave of Meissen Albert I (1158 – 24 June 1195), called the Proud (), a member of the House of Wettin, was the Margrave of Meissen from 1190 until his death. Life Albert was the eldest son of Margrave Otto the Rich (1156–1190) with his consort Hedwig of Br ...

(1158–1195), Margrave of Meißen *

Wilhelm August Lampadius Wilhelm August Lampadius was born in Hehlen, Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, on 8 August 1772 and died on 13 April 1842 in Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony. He was a German pharmacist in Göttingen from 1785 until 1791. Also he was an "extraordinary prof ...

(1777–1842), metallurgical technician, chemist and agronomist, established the first European illuminated gas station in Halsbrücke in 1815 *

Ferdinand Reich Ferdinand Reich (19 February 1799 – 27 April 1882) was a German chemist who co-discovered indium in 1863 with Hieronymous Theodor Richter. Reich was born in Bernburg, Anhalt-Bernburg, Holy Roman Empire and died in Freiberg, Saxony, Freibe ...

(1799–1882), chemist and physicist, researches on the smelting of huts, apparatus for the determination of sulfuric gases in the air

References

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