Beucha
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Beucha
City of Brandis
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 33 ′ 43 ″ E
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| Height : | 131 m | |
| Area : | 9.12 km² | |
| Residents : | 3036 (Dec. 31, 2013) | |
| Population density : | 333 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1999 | |
| Postal code : | 04824 | |
| Area code : | 034292 | |
Location of Beucha in Saxony |
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Beucha is a district of the Saxon town of Brandis in the Leipzig district . The villages of Kleinsteinberg and Wolfshain, which were incorporated in 1938, belong to Beucha.
geography
Beucha is located in the Leipzig lowland bay , approx. 16 km east of Leipzig on the upper reaches of the Parthe . To the west of Beucha, the Todgraben and the Mittelgraben flow into the Parthe.
The neighboring districts of Brandis are Wolfshain in the west, Waldsteinberg in the east and Kleinsteinberg in the south. In the south, directly behind the A 14, is the Naunhof district of Albrechtshain .
history
The existence of the place was first recorded as Bichow in 1378 . The mountain church, originally a fortified church , was first mentioned in a document as early as 1280. Today it stands 53 m above the quarry floor on a granite dome. Quarries were operated in Beucha since 1477. In the Thirty Years' War the population was almost completely destroyed. In 1621 there was the so-called beer war between Brandis / Beucha and Wolfshain, which was about the "good Wurzner beer". The dispute was later ended peacefully. In 1813 some of Napoleon's troops had a camp in and around Beucha. All roofed houses and stables were confiscated and all cattle slaughtered.
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Until 1856, Beucha and Kleinsteinberg were in the Electoral Saxon and Royal Saxon inheritance of Grimma , while Wolfshain belonged to the Leipzig district office . From 1856 the three places belonged to the Brandis court office and from 1875 to the Grimma district administration .
In 1873 Beucha received a station on the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line , from which a branch via Brandis to Trebsen an der Mulde was built in 1898 . In 2006, passenger traffic on that branch line was stopped. Large parts of the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal were built from Beucha microsyenogranite from 1898 to 1913 . On March 5, 1945, 19 people died in an Anglo-American bomb attack.
There has been a school in Beucha since 1534, it went up in flames in 1710 and was later generously rebuilt in 1955. In 1938 Kleinsteinberg and Wolfshain were incorporated into Beucha. Wolfshain has belonged to the five university villages since 1544 and was therefore their property. They thus owned the manor and the higher judiciary. Since 1391 this village has also been owned by the Thomaskloster of Leipzig.
Wolfshain and Kleinsteinberg were incorporated into Beucha in 1938. On January 1, 1999, Beucha was incorporated into Brandis.
Development of the population
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1 : As of December 31
Attractions
A striking ensemble in the center of the village is the Kirchberg ( 147 m above sea level ) with the Beucha mountain church - with the Panitzsch and Hohen Thekla churches one of the so-called "three high priests" in the Leipziger Land - the old cemetery and the water tower above one end of the 1950s abandoned and flooded quarry , the church quarry . The Protestant church was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1945. The cemetery was originally on the east side of the church, but was moved to the west as the quarry was demolished.
The small St. Ludwig Chapel is the only Catholic sacred building in the Leipzig region - it was donated by the Bavarian king in 1911, as many Bavarians worked as stone cutters in Beucha's quarries.
Other former and partially flooded quarries are the Tollertsbruch, the Spittelbruch and the Hausbruch. The Albrechtshainer See , an abandoned gravel pit with bathing facilities, a climbing forest and a campsite , is a destination for local recreation . The autobahn lake has existed since the construction of the A 14 autobahn in 1937 and it was enlarged in 1969 when it was continued.
Beucha granite porphyry
The extensive industrial use of the Beucha granite porphyry began in 1884, after Lower Bavarian stonemasons had proven that the broken stone from Beucha can be processed very well as stone . Stone workers from Bavaria, Poland and Italy came to Beucha to work there. This phase of intensive mining largely came to a standstill with the Second World War .
Beucha had seven quarries in the heyday of rock mining: These were the Kirchbruch, the “Sorge” quarry, the Tollertbruch, the Hausbruch, the Spittelbruch, the Westbruch and the Ostbruch. For the construction of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal 1911–1913, around 80 percent of the stone for the exterior and interior cladding of the concrete structure came from the “Sorge” quarry; the origin of the remaining 20 percent is not yet known.
During the construction of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal and the production of its monumental figures, the granite porphyry became known as Beucha stone . For the construction project, 26,500 stone blocks were extracted, processed and brought to Leipzig in Beucha.
Today in Beucha granite porphyry is still mined by the Hans-Werner Ruppert company in the "Sorge" quarry - a boiler quarry that is sunk into a flat elevation. The excavation area is currently around 6–7 hectares. In the future, mining can only expand to the southeast.
Today's use of the church quarry
Leipzig climbers have opened up a bouldering area below the Bergkirche . The "Kirchwand" was climbed by boat, the tour "Via su chiesa montagna" (6+) has to be secured yourself. The residents use the quarry for swimming and ice skating.
Transport / economy
Beucha is on the regional train RB110 (Leipzig – Borsdorf – Grimma – Großbothen – Döbeln – Nossen (- Meißen)). Bus routes 277 and 611 stop in Beucha.
The discounter company Aldi- Nord is based with one of its regional branches, plus a large central warehouse.
Personalities
Born in the place
- Christian Ludwig Nitzsch (1782–1837), biologist
- Ludolf Stephani (1816–1887), classical archaeologist
- Eduard Stephani (1817–1885), politician and Vice Mayor of Leipzig.
- Wolfgang Dehler (1936–2003), actor and singer .
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Beucha. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1897, p. 17.
- Lutz Heydick: Leipzig eastwards. Parthian villages, quarries, motorway lakes. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1997, ISBN 3930076470 .
- Lothar Eißmann u. a .: Beucha - village of stones. Sax-Verlag, Beucha and Markkleeberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86729-115-6 .
- Eckhard Klöthe: Beucha with Kleinsteinberg and Wolfshain in postcards . Sax-Verlag, Beucha and Markkleeberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86729-143-9 .
Web links
- Beucha on the City of Brandis website
- Beucha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
- ↑ The administrative authority Grimma in the municipal register 1900
- ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1999
- ↑ cf. Beucha in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- ↑ The fact that stonemasons from Bavaria worked in Beucha for many years meant that a Catholic chapel was built for these people with a Catholic faith in the Protestant town, which still exists today (2017).
- ↑ Source: Information board at the quarry memorial at Beuchas exit towards Brandis, recorded on September 23, 2017
- ↑ Flyer from Sax-Verlag from 2017 with information on the book "Beucha - Dorf der Steine", Sax-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86729-115-6
