Beerwalde (Löbichau)

Beerwalde Community of Löbichau Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 46 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 10 ″ E
Height :	285 (284-317) m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	04626
Area code :	036602
Location of Beerwalde in Thuringia
	Beerwalde village church

Beerwalde is a district of the municipality of Löbichau in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia .

location

The village is located in the Ronneburg arable and mining area in the catchment area of the Großensteiner Sprat . The district is located southwest of Löbichau. The federal highway 7 , which runs past the site to the east, and the federal freeway 4 , which runs past the site, cross in the south of Beerwalde at the "Ronneburg junction". There is a connection to the other districts via district roads .

history

Four-sided half-timbered courtyard

Beerwalde was first mentioned on September 30, 1384. The community speaks of a rural village in 1283. In 1820 the church and 32 farms and houses burned down. A year later, the Beerwalder Sprat was rebuilt to the right and left , including half-timbered buildings. The local boom began with the construction of a brick factory . The brickworks then became a charcoal processing company.

Beerwalde belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies from the 16th century onwards due to several divisions during its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, Beerwalde belonged to the Eastern District (until 1900) and to the Ronneburg District Office (from 1900). From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920. In 1922 it came to the district of Gera .

During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus, the municipality of Beerwalde and the district of Schmölln came to the district of Leipzig , which had belonged to Thuringia since 1990 as the district of Schmölln and which became part of the district of Altenburger Land during the Thuringian district reform in 1994 . On January 1, 1974, it was incorporated into Löbichau.

Halde near Beerwalde

In 1968 the SDAG Wismut came to the area around Ronneburg and its own district, where uranium ore was mined in three shafts of the Drosen deposit . The industrialization began uncontrollably for the residents. Concrete roads, conveyor systems and pollution for humans and animals followed. Between 1977 and 1991 the "Halde Beerwalde" north of the place was made up of masses of the field parts Raitzhain , Beerwalde and Korbußen . The result was a slab heap with three plateaus and around 40 m high. In 1991, the bismuth ceased operations. A commercial area was created on the mining site with the following upswing for the district. Another industrial area was created in the southeast of the town at the motorway entrance. The Beerwalde dump was enlarged in the course of the mining rehabilitation around the year 2000 with material from the drosses and kebabs.

economy

Due to its favorable traffic situation, the place has a large industrial area, for example Dietzel GmbH , a manufacturer of hydraulic products, is located there. In 2012 and 2013, two large companies with more than 100 employees each closed. On the one hand, there was Jünger GmbH in 2012 , which produced trailers for commercial vehicles, and in 2013 the OTZ printing center .

traffic

Beerwalde lies on the Meuselwitz – Ronneburg railway and was the starting point for the Beerwalde – Drosen railway . Both railway lines are closed for passenger traffic. The Wismut factory railway only operates on the section from the Kayna sand pit near Naundorf to Raitzhain . The Gößnitz – Gera railway runs past the village in the south. The closest train station is in Ronneburg, 5 km away . In addition, federal highway 7 and federal highway 4 , to which there is a direct connection , also run to the south . The THÜSAC serves the city with the lines 353 and 355th