Böhlitz-Ehrenberg

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Coat of arms of Leipzig
Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
district of Leipzig
Coordinates 51 ° 21 '30 "  N , 12 ° 17' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '30 "  N , 12 ° 17' 35"  E.
surface 8.63 km²
Residents 10,170 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density 1178 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1999
Post Code 04178
prefix 0341
Borough Old West
Transport links
Federal road B181
tram 7th
bus 62
Source: statistik.leipzig.de
Parish hall of the Evangelical Church

Böhlitz-Ehrenberg is a part of the city district Alt-West of Leipzig . The district includes the two districts Böhlitz-Ehrenberg (with the localities Böhlitz, Ehrenberg and Barneck ) and Gundorf (with the old town center of Gundorf). It was created on January 1, 1999 when the previous municipality of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg was incorporated into the city of Leipzig as a result of the city-surrounding area law. This means that Böhlitz-Ehrenberg is also considered a district of Leipzig. The community claimed to have been the largest industrial community in the GDR .

location

Schkeuditz Lützschena-Stahmeln
Dölzig Neighboring communities Leutzsch
Burghausen , Rückmarsdorf
New Luppe with a view of the water tower and the tower of the former Ludwig Hupfeld AG

Böhlitz-Ehrenberg is located on the western outskirts of Leipzig and extends in a north-south direction between Merseburger Straße ( B 181 ) and the northern floodplain forest . The Leipzig districts of Burghausen and Rückmarsdorf join in the south, Leutzsch inward , and Lützschena-Stahmeln in the north, separated by the floodplain forest . In the west, the Gundorf district borders on Dölzig , part of Schkeuditz , a large district town in the northern Saxony district .

The old town centers of the villages Böhlitz and Ehrenberg lay south of the current Alte Luppe ; Böhlitz further west in the area of ​​today's road Zur Sägemühle , Ehrenberg east of it along Auenstraße east of today's Südstraße. Barneck was on the road between Ehrenberg and Leutzsch, roughly in the middle, level with the new Leipzig-Leutzsch train station .

history

The earliest known mention of the village of Beliz can be found in a document from the Peter-Paul Monastery in Merseburg from 1091. This document gave the abbot of the monastery the rights to Beliz, Gunthorp and Zscherneddel. The place names of Böhlitz itself and the places in the vicinity, z. B. Leutzsch, Lützschena or Barneck indicate a Slavic settlement. Ehrenberg, on the other hand, was probably founded by German settlers who often cleared nearby Slavic settlements and founded their own places.

In 1269 the Bailiwick (see point 1 under Bailiwick ) over Guntdorf, Belic, Irrenberg and other places by Margrave Heinrich III. of Meißen left to the Merseburg Bishop Friedrich . During the Schmalkaldic War , troops of the Ernestine Elector Johann Friedrich Böhlitz burned down in 1547 . The Peter and Paul Monastery of Merseburg finally fell to the Elector August of Saxony in 1562 . In 1631, Böhlitz was cremated again by Tilly's troops during the Thirty Years' War .

Böhlitz and Ehrenberg belonged to the four abbey villages in the Hochstift-Merseburg office of Schkeuditz , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . Through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the western part of the Schkeuditz office was ceded to Prussia in 1815. Böhlitz and Ehrenberg remained with the eastern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and were incorporated into the Leipzig district office.

The unification of the two places to form the municipality of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg was decided in January 1839. On April 22, 1839, the first local council was elected in the Böhlitzer Schenkwirtschaft. In addition, the name Böhlitz-Ehrenberg was determined, and the community seal determined.

Franz Schlobach

The place retained its rural character until the end of the 19th century. In 1846, Franz Schlobach took over the Böhlitz grain and oil mill in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, which had existed since the 13th century, and converted it into a saw and veneer plant , which he soon equipped with steam turbines. His company was an early harbinger of later industrial developments. With the construction and commissioning of the Thuringian Railway in 1849, industrialization was given a boost. As early as 1860, the Schlobach sawmill was one of the largest in Germany, producing the best-cut veneers. Franz Schlobach was the community leader in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg from 1878 to 1883.

In 1877 a steam brick factory was founded in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg. In 1900 Carl Hinné acquired an area and founded a grinding wheel factory. This was followed in 1903 by Otto Schaaf opening a fittings and metal goods factory and in 1908 by Koch & Schilling, which manufactured shoe parts. In 1906, the relocation of the Reform Motoren-Fabrik, founded five years earlier in Plagwitz , to Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, which in 1948 became the VEB Dieselmotorenwerk Leipzig . In 1910/11, the piano factory was built in what is now Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße, in which Ludwig Hupfeld AG built pianos and piano players. Aircraft components were manufactured here during the Second World War . Expropriated after the end of the war, the factory was called VEB Leipziger Pianofortefabrik, later Deutsche Pianounion Leipzig .

Hupfeld factory in 1911

The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1890 and moved into its new fire station on Schönauer Landstrasse in December 2007 .

Lively construction activity developed due to the high personnel requirements of the newly emerging companies. By restricting the height of the building to two floors (to which the roof structure, sometimes also provided with apartments, was added) the emergence of gloomy “ tenement barracks ” was prevented. The stream called Biela separating Böhlitz and Ehrenberg was piped. In the 1930s, the so-called “Randsiedlung” was built in the south of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, on whose paths, named after different species of birds, double houses were built.

Böhlitz-Ehrenberg received a tram connection to Leipzig in May 1907 after landowners had donated over 60,000  marks for the construction of a line. In contrast to the lines of letters and numbers that circulated in Leipzig, the wagons of Leipziger Außenbahn Aktiengesellschaft (LAAG) were marked with symbolic headers. The line leading from Leipzig (Fleischerplatz) via Böhlitz-Ehrenberg to Gundorf had a triangle pointing upwards, which earned the railway the nickname "Meierkelle".

The construction of a Protestant church had been planned in the 1920s, but did not materialize. Instead, a community center with a free-standing campanile was built in 1926/1927. In the meantime, the area intended for the church next to the parish hall on Johannes-Weyrauch-Platz has been developed elsewhere.

In 1931 the place was connected to the Merseburg – Leipzig railway line . From 1933 to 1943, the unfinished Elster-Saale Canal was built on the southern edge of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg . In 1934, the neighboring community of Gundorf was incorporated, which from then on was officially called Böhlitz-Ehrenberg-West. The Böhlitz-Ehrenberg area had thus expanded to the Saxon-Prussian border. The Catholic St. Hedwig Church in Pestalozzistraße was built in 1953/54.

Administration building in the new town center

In the 1990s, many of the local businesses had to close, including the diesel engine plant in 1998. Areas formerly belonging to industrial companies were turned into residential estates (formerly a wood processing plant between Kastanienallee and Schönauer Landstrasse) or were used to create shopping opportunities (e.g. at Lessingplatz). From 1993 onwards, a new town center with residential buildings, shops and a new building for the administration was built on former fields.

With the incorporation to Leipzig, the independence of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg ended on January 1st, 1999.

Memorials

  • FIR memorial plaque in the Bielagarten for all victims of fascism
  • Tombs and memorial stone on the local cemetery for seven persons known by name from the Soviet Union and from Poland who deported during the Second World War to Germany and victims of forced labor were

Buildings

school

Pestalozzi School

In 1903 a new school building was built after the previous building, which was later used as a municipal office, could no longer cope with the growing number of students despite several additions. The new school was consecrated in October 1903, and the decision to build an additional wing was taken as early as 1912. This could be opened in April 1914. The auditorium originally on the second floor was later converted into two classrooms.

Parish hall

The parish hall with the campanile next to it goes back to plans by the architect Walter Born, who was preferred by the church council after it had done equally well with Albin Kurt Günther in a competition. The building fits into the reform style typical of the time and borrows from the incipient homeland security movement .

The two-story building is slightly bent after the first third. In the back part of the first floor it contains the prayer room that extends over the width of the building with a barrel vault with longitudinal structures. The interior of the prayer room was designed by the Leipzig sculptor Max Alfred Brumme . From the interstices between the windows, pillars imitating protrusions grow halfway up, which are closed off by expressionist stucco elements. The front sides are decorated with figurative representations, on the side of the altar a pietà , flanked by angels, and on the door side a Jesus rising to heaven above a group of people. In the supraports on the side of the altar there are figures of Saints Peter and Paul with draperies typical of Art Deco . The altar table is supported by two carved figures. A grand piano replaces the organ.

Water tower

Water tower

The increasing population made a central water supply necessary at the beginning of the 20th century, within the framework of which the water tower was built in 1911/12 . With its height of 54.60 m today, it is the landmark of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg that can be seen from afar and also one of the highest water towers in Germany. The clock of the tower with three dials was donated by Carl Hinné. The elevated tank holds up to 500 m³ of water and, after the connection of the local water supply to a main water pipe, serves to compensate for consumption peaks and to maintain an even water pressure . The originally higher spire fell victim to a brief bombardment of the tower by American troops towards the end of the Second World War. Traces of the bombardment could also be seen on the outer walls up to the start of the ongoing renovation. The new tip has a lower height than the original one. The spire was rebuilt at the end of October 2006. At the end of December 2006, the renovation of the external facade of the water tower was completed.

Forest pool

In the years 1937/38, the forest pool was built in the north of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg on the edge of the alluvial forest, which was soon very popular. In 1959 it was closed due to damage caused by the high groundwater level and renovated from 1963 to 1966. Towards the end of the 1980s, cracks appeared again in the basins, and it would have required renewed renovation, but funding was not guaranteed. In 1990 the pool was closed and in 1992/93 it was removed and the basins filled. A new building project at the same location was not implemented. The area is now a lawn and partly planted with trees.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

traffic

For rail travelers, the center of the town can be reached cheaply from Leipzig main station by tram line 7 , which runs every 10 minutes during rush hour. The travel time from the main train station to the town center is around 25 minutes. The bus line 62 connects the district with Lausen .

On the branch line Leipzig-Leutzsch-Merseburg , Böhlitz-Ehrenberg had a stop in the Gundorf district until it was closed in 1998 . This was right on the border with Burghausen. Since then, Böhlitz-Ehrenberg can only be reached by train via the Leipzig-Leutzsch train station in the east and the Rückmarsdorf stop in the south (on the Leipzig – Großkorbetha railway line ). All three stations have a peripheral location.

Since the traffic station at the old Leutzsch train station near Rathenaustraße was replaced by a new Leutzsch stop on Georg-Schwarz-Straße in 2012 , the way to the station has been shortened for most residents. In addition, there is now a direct transfer option to the tram.

The S1 line of the S-Bahn Central Germany runs every 30 minutes, the regional train to Weißenfels , Naumburg (Saale) and Erfurt every hour.

For private traffic, Böhlitz-Ehrenberg can be reached via the A 9 , Leipzig-West exit, and from there via the B 181 (Leipzig – Merseburg).

schools

The middle school is located in the building that is over 100 years old , and an extension was completed in 2014 for the multi-level elementary school. There is also a traditional primary school in Gundorf . The closest grammar schools are the Max Klinger School in Grünau and the Robert Schumann Grammar School in Lindenau .

Healthcare

Several resident doctors work in the medical center, but also in other places. The early intervention center therapaedica was put into operation in 2012.

Böhlitz-Ehrenberger impressions

  • View from the Rückmarsdorfer water tower to Böhlitz-Ehrenberg

  • Barneck manor

  • Schlobach Villa on Auenstrasse

  • Archway of the Johannishospital in Auenstrasse

  • Catholic Church

  • Reconstructed residential buildings on Leipziger Strasse

  • House on Leipziger Strasse

  • Medical center

  • Early intervention center "therapaedica"

  • Shared apartment and assisted living "Herbstzauber"

  • Home of Help in Life

  • Guild sign

Sons and daughters of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg

Others

Roller hockey stadium

The Rollhockey Club Aufbau Böhlitz-Ehrenberg e. V. has its venue at the end of Ludwig-Jahn-Straße. The club was multiple GDR champions and plays in the 2nd Bundesliga.

The twin town of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg is Buchen in Baden-Württemberg .

literature

  • Förderverein f. Local history Böhlitz-Ehrenberg: The streets of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg. Böhlitz-Ehrenberg 2006.
  • Municipal administration Böhlitz-Ehrenberg: Information for the citizen. Böhlitz-Ehrenberg 1996.
  • Förderverein f. Local history of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg: The industrial history of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg. Böhlitz-Ehrenberg undated [2002].
  • 900 years of Böhlitz-Ehrenberg 1091–1991.
  • Denis Achtner / advertising agency Kolb GmbH: Böhlitzer Hefte - volume 1: All about Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, advertising agency Kolb, Leipzig, 2008.
  • Denis Achtner / Advertising Agency Kolb GmbH: Böhlitzer Hefte - Volume 2: The Elster-Saale Canal, Advertising Agency Kolb, Leipzig, 2008.
  • Denis Achtner / Advertising Agency Kolb GmbH: Böhlitzer Hefte - Volume 3: The Waldbad Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, Advertising Agency Kolb, Leipzig, 2008.
  • Johannes Hohlfeld: Franz Schlobach - sawmill and veneer works 1846–1921. The story of a company. Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary. Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, 1921

Web links

Commons : Böhlitz-Ehrenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ortschronik
  2. ↑ The Abbey Villages in the Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
  4. ↑ New fire station for the Böhlitz-Ehrenberg volunteer fire brigade ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipzig.de
  5. ↑ Central Journal of Engineering Administration: . tape 1925 , 1925 ( zlb.de [accessed April 12, 2019]).
  6. ^ Testimony to Art Déco in Leipzig. In: parish website. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Press releases from the Leipzig municipal waterworks from October 23, 2006 and December 20, 2006.