The municipality of Hirtstein in
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
,
Germany
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was formed on 1 January 1994 from the hitherto separate municipalities of
Rübenau,
Reitzenhain,
Kühnhaide and
Satzung
Satzung is a village in the Saxon municipality of Marienberg, which is in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in the German Ore Mountains.
Geography
Satzung lies about 12 kilometres south of Marienberg in the Ore Mountains on the German-Czech ...
.
Its administrative seat was Reitzenhain. The
Hirtstein
Hirtstein is a mountain of Saxony, in southeastern Germany. It is situated near the village Satzung, in the Ore Mountains, about 1.5 km from the border to the Czech Republic. Its elevation is 890 m.
Geology
Hirtstein is a gneiss knoll w ...
mountain near Satzung lent its name to the new municipality. Beginning on 1 January 2000, Hirtstein formed an administrative cooperation with the neighbouring town
Marienberg
Marienberg is a town in Germany. It was the district capital of the Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis (Central Ore Mountains district) in the southern part of Saxony, and since August 2008 it has been part of the new district of Erzgebirgskreis. As of ...
. The merger with Marienberg was agreed upon on 24 June 2002 and became effective on 1 January 2003 when the constituents of Hirtstein became subdivisions of Marienberg.
References
Marienberg
Former municipalities in Saxony
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