Places on the bicycle route: Water-village Wolfsgrün

Wolfsgrün is situated at an altitude of around 480 m asl in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde River, on the former railway line: Chemnitz-Aue-Adorf.

The founding of this place dates back, like Blauenthal, to Andreas Blau, who built a hammer mill here in 1536. It was at that time often referred to as the hammer mill in upper Blauenthal, and later shortened to “The Red Hammer”. In 1730 the hammer mill consisted of a blast furnace, two refineries and sheet-metal refineries, a tinplate/whitesmith workshop, a flour and saw mill, a brewery, a tavern, a small forge, coal buildings, ore stamp mills and the residential houses, a “Herrenhaus” (baroque mansion), gardens, stables and ponds. The old “Hammerherrenhaus” manor in the center of the village still attests to that prosperous time in history.

The convenient location in this valley, with plenty of water, was also decisive in the following period of the development of Wolfsgrün. In 1829, Christian Gottlieb Bretschneider founded the Bretschneider pulp mill and paper factory in this place. In the facilities of this same traditional company, paper or cardboard products are still being produced.

In a small park on a hill, the little “Wolfsgrün Castle” towers above the town. The building, which was built in 1904, was the former home of the industrialist Bretschneider family.

On 01.01.1994, the water-village Wolfsgrün was incorporated into Eibenstock.