Bebel Liebknecht House Borsdorf

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The Bebel-Liebknecht-Haus in Borsdorf (2013) - the memorial plaque in the center left of the facade

The Bebel-Liebknecht House Borsdorf was from 1881 to 1890 the residence of the then high-ranking SPD functionaries August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht in Borsdorf on the eastern outskirts of Leipzig . Today it is a private residence; A plaque on the facade commemorates this particular episode in the history of this house.

history

Historical commemorative plaque for the two SPD leaders at the Bebel-Liebknecht-Haus in Borsdorf

Socialist Law and Small State of Siege

Due to the Socialist Law of 1878 and the Little State of Siege in Leipzig, Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht and 31 other Social Democrats were expelled from Leipzig in 1881 with the aim of taking the lead from the illegally operating Social Democrats.

One arrived in Borsdorf on foot. The first rental from a master tailor was short-lived until the landlord found out who his tenants actually were. On this August Bebel in 1900: “Liebknecht got a single-windowed room in another house, in which he temporarily lived with his family until the autumn of the next year, where I made quarters in Borsdorf and now discovered a house in which we both could comfortably , even if poorly equipped rooms could be rented. Liebknecht lived there until he moved to Berlin in September 1890. "

Bebel found this quarter for himself and Liebknecht in the same place at Leipziger Strasse 1: in the villa of Miss Rosine Ehrentraut (author Wohlgemuth, on the other hand, speaks of "a wealthy Miss Richter" as the owner).

Natalie Liebknecht stayed in Leipzig because of the children who should continue to go to school there. The Liebknecht family regularly visited the "Villa Liebknecht" in Borsdorf on weekends and during the holidays, a country house that had fallen into disrepair at the time: the Liebknecht family of seven had to live in two rooms and four beds; the house was cold and damp and plagued by mice. In the nearby wood, the children collected sticks as heating material.

Despite the shortcomings, the time in Borsdorf is said to have been associated with the “loveliest childhood memories” for the Liebknecht children; here her father made her familiar with German and world literature as well as with nature, flora and fauna. Natalie Liebknecht: “Park and forest, both across from our apartment, belong to us, so to speak, because apart from Sundays, nobody gets lost until then, and so we are our own masters in it. We read, write and work, the children play, nobody bothers us ”.

At the same time the Bebel and Liebknecht politically imposed village residence developed into the center of illegal social-democratic party work. August Bebel reported that social democrats from Leipzig came to Borsdorf every Sunday and public holiday to meet Liebknecht and him: “We often held secret meetings in the open air, where we had to put the police off our necks by setting up posts hold."

Decades later, the SPD inaugurated the memorial plaque for Bebel and Liebknecht at the house in Borsdorf with a big party on March 30, 1930 - one day after Wilhelm Liebknecht's (* 1826) birthday . According to the police, at least 6,000 Social Democrats and Reichsbanner people took part in the march (the Leipziger Volkszeitung named as many as 10,000 participants on March 31, 1930). During the Nazi era, the plaque was hidden and on May 1, 1946 it was put back on the house gable, where it is to this day.

Due to the memorial plaque, the house later became a kind of “pilgrim place”, initially for social democrats and then, during the GDR era, for SED members, trade unionists, schoolchildren and students; Karl Liebknecht, who was stylized as a "pillar saint" by the GDR government, played robbers and gendarmes there as a boy with his brothers and companions of the same age in the nearby woods and on the Parthe .

Since 1990

The traditional house in Borsdorf, where August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht were at home - on the right the bridge leading over the Parthe to Leipzig (photo from 2013)

Neither the municipality of Borsdorf nor the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung saw themselves in a position to acquire and renovate the now dilapidated listed building. It is thanks to the private commitment of an art and antiques dealer with his own shop in Leipzig that it has been preserved and renovated in accordance with all the rules of monument protection: He acquired it in 2005 from the then owner Borsdorf Housing Cooperative.

Today the house, on which the memorial plaque can still be seen, serves as the residence of the rescuer and his family.

literature

  • Hansdieter Hoyer: Banished from Leipzig - August Bebel died a hundred years ago. A villa in Borsdorf reminds us that he found refuge here. In: Leipziger Blätter , Heft 63 (2013), from p. 56
  • Haig Latchinian : love at first sight. 100 years after August Bebel's death: “Asylheim” on the Parthe is now a gem. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, October 25, 2013, p. 27
  • Wolfgang Schröder : Focus on Borsdorf: August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht's Asylum 1881–1884 . Published by the “Bebel-Liebknecht-Haus Borsdorf” working group in the Heimatverein Borsdorf und Zweenfurt eV, Borsdorf 2003, 52 pages, DNB 96917022X

Web links

Commons : Bebel-Liebknecht-Haus Borsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. P. 19-20 in: Heinz Wohlgemuth: Karl Liebknecht - A Biography. Berlin 1975, 2nd edition, without ISBN
  2. S. 20 in: Heinz Wohlgemuth: Karl Liebknecht - A biography. Berlin 1975, 2nd edition, without ISBN
  3. S. 20 in: Heinz Wohlgemuth: Karl Liebknecht - A biography. Berlin 1975, 2nd edition, without ISBN
  4. P. 21 in: Heinz Wohlgemuth: Karl Liebknecht - A biography. Berlin 1975, 2nd edition, without ISBN
  5. P. 87-88 in: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Büro Leipzig and Hans-Rainer Baum (ed.): History of social democracy in the Wurzen area - Grimma - Oschatz - a contribution to the social democratic regional history. Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86077-071-3
  6. Haig Latchinian: Love at first sight. 100 years after August Bebel's death: “Asylheim” on the Parthe is now a gem , published in the Muldental regional section (p. 27) of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 25, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 44.6 "  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 53.3"  E