page_title: Jugel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Jugel / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Oberjugel-Südost
context_page_description: Jugel is a municipality in the borough of Johanngeorgenstadt in the German district of Erzgebirgskreis. This dispersed settlement is surrounded by woods, is divided into Ober- and Unterjugel and runs along the German-Czech border from the Lehmergrund to the crest of the Western Ore Mountains. 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 railway on the Zwickau–Aue–Schwarzenberg–Johanngeorgenstadt line and by car along Staatsstraße 272 which runs from Schwarzenberg via Johanngeorgenstadt to Wildenthal.
context_section_description: 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 glassworks with eight houses in what later became Oberjugel, where sheet glass, glasses and beakers were manufactured for the electoral Saxon court in Dresden. 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 raised bog, which is protected as a nature reserve.
  In Unterjugel, a timber mill (Brettmühle) and a paint mill, belonging to Johann Gabriel Lobel a grandson of Preißler, were operated using the hydropower 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 Johanngeorgenstadt together with Wittigsthal.
caption: At the southeast edge of Oberjugel
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