Anna-Mathilde (Senftenberg)
Anna-Mathilde was a district of Sedlitz with about 685 inhabitants in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in Brandenburg . Anna-Mathilde was a classic mining settlement. The district existed until 1988 and was devastated in favor of the Meuro lignite mine .
Location and surroundings
Anna-Mathilde was about 2.6 kilometers northwest of Sedlitz and 3.2 kilometers south of Großräschen on the Senftenberg - Lübbenau railway line .
history
The area around Anna-Mathilde was settled in earlier times, as urn finds in the Roickmühle area prove. The reason for this was probably the brooks rising from the edge of the Rauno plateau, which drove four mills, and the once fertile soil.
In 1900 the first three houses were built for employees of the Anna-Mathilde mine and briquette factory. In 1903, Ilse Bergbau AG began building the Anna-Mathilde colony. By 1906 7 civil servants 'houses with 17 apartments and 17 workers' houses with 97 apartments were built. The population grew to over 500, so that a department store, a post office, an inn and a bakery were built for supplies. In 1919 a large bathhouse was added, which could be used by the entire population of the village. Later social facilities such as a kindergarten (1935) and an ambulance were created. On June 29, 1930 the Catholic Church "St. Bonifatius" was inaugurated, which mainly served the religious services of the new citizens who often relocated from Poland or the area around Posen after the First World War.
After the Second World War , the houses of the settlement as well as the briquette factory and power station became public property. In 1952 the house of culture was put into operation.
In 1986, with the approach of the Meuro opencast mine, the resettlement of the inhabitants began, especially in prefabricated housing estates in Großräschen and Senftenberg, which was completed in 1988.
Today only a memorial stone on the western edge of Sedlitz reminds of the place that existed for 88 years.
Attractions
The so-called bunker bridge built in 1928/1929, a reinforced concrete viaduct that spanned parts of the village, was characteristic of the municipality. On it, trains loaded with raw lignite drove straight into the bunker of the briquette factory. Its construction was often quoted in professional circles and repeated a few years later when the motorway bridge over the Teufelstal was built.
literature
- Farewell without return - memories of Sedlitz-West (Anna-Mathilde) 1900–1988, publisher: Sedlitz community