Halsbrücke is a municipality and village in the district of

Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen ("Central Saxony") 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 ...

, in

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. It is situated just north of

Freiberg Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage c ...

, on the banks of the Freiberger Mulde 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. 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 (1158–1195), Margrave of Meißen * Wilhelm August Lampadius (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 and died in Freiberg. He was color blind, or could only see in whites a ...

(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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