Jugel is a division of the town of

Johanngeorgenstadt Johanngeorgenstadt (, ) is a mining town in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary. It lies in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, on the border with the Czech Republic, is a state-recognized hea ...

in the German district of

Erzgebirgskreis Erzgebirgskreis is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the Ore Mountains (German: ''Erzgebirge''), a mountain range in the southern part of the district which forms part of the Germany–Czech Republi ...

. This

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is surrounded by woods, is divided into Ober- and Unterjugel ("Upper and Lower Jugel") and runs along the German-Czech border from the ''Lehmergrund'' (708 m) to the crest of the

Western Ore Mountains The Western Ore Mountains () is a natural region that forms the westernmost part of the Ore Mountains in the German state of Saxony. It is also part of the major landscape unit known as the Saxon Highlands and Uplands. It extends eastwards to inc ...

(873 m). In the vicinity lies the 980 metre-high Scheffelsberg. Jugel is a tourist destination for hikers and winter sportsmen. The village may be reached by

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on the

Zwickau Zwickau (; ) is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants,. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ''Zwickauer Mulde''; progression: ), ...

– Aue– Schwarzenberg–Johanngeorgenstadt line and by car along '' Staatsstraße'' 272 which runs from Schwarzenberg via Johanngeorgenstadt to Wildenthal.

History

The founding of the village goes back to the days of the mining industry in the 16th century. In 1561, the phrase ''an der Gugell'' appears in the records. In 1571, Sebastian Preißler built a

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with eight houses in what later became Oberjugel, where sheet glass, glasses and beakers were manufactured for the

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court in

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. This glassworks closed in the early 18th century. Today the territory of Oberjugel incorporates the houses of Henneberg, including a popular pub not far from the Kleiner Kranichsee (928 m), and a

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, which is protected as a nature reserve. Oberjugel-Blick

In Unterjugel, a timber mill (''Brettmühle'') and a paint mill, belonging to Johann Gabriel Lobel a grandson of Preißler, were operated using the

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of the Pechhöfer Bach stream for the manufacture of cobalt blue paint. Löbel's mill, the Unterjugel Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Unterjugel''), to which six houses for the paint workers belonged, passed in 1668 into the possession of the Elector of Saxony and, in 1677, merged with the Oberschlema Blue Colour Works (''Blaufarbenwerk Oberschlema''). Today, a pub, ''Gasthof Farbmühle'' ("The Paintmill"), stands on what is believed to be the site of the former paint mill. In 1935 Jugel was incorporated into

together with Wittigsthal.

Tourism

There is a border crossing at the ''Farbenleithe'' which may be used in winter by ski tourists in order to reach the Ore Mountain/Krušné hory Ski Trail heading towards

Horní Blatná Horní Blatná () is a town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. The town is historically associated with tin mining and is located in the Ore Mountain Mining Region, which is a UN ...

or Jelení. In addition to the ''Wanderheim'' and the ''Erbgericht'' there are several other private landlords offering accommodation.

Literature

* * Siegfried Sieber: ''Um Aue, Schwarzenberg und Johanngeorgenstadt.'' Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1972, pp. 158–165.

References

External links

* {{authority control Erzgebirgskreis Villages in the Ore Mountains Former municipalities in Saxony