Breitenfeld (Leipzig)

Breitenfeld is a village that belongs to the city of Leipzig today . The village is located in the north of the trade fair city near the old road to Landsberg. To the south is the Gohlis district, to the west is Lindenthal , to the east, Wiederitzsch .

Demolition of the estate (autumn 1948)

New mansion

The Leipzig animal shelter has had its headquarters in Breitenfeld since 2002. The Hotel Breitenfelder Hof can now be found on the site of the former manor . The basic structure of the manor park can still be recognized.

history

Breitenfeld was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1271, when Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg transferred the Breitenfeld estate to the Merseburg monastery . In addition to Breitenfeld, the estate also includes Wiederitzsch and Lindenthal. Like Wiederitzsch and Lindenthal, until 1815 Breitenfeld belonged to the Schkeuditz office of the Merseburg estates , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . After the Reformation , Breitenfeld was owned by various Saxon noble families for over 300 years from the middle of the 16th century. Its owners were counted among the writers among the Saxon estates.

In 1631 an important battle of the Thirty Years' War was fought near Breitenfeld . King Gustav Adolf of Sweden fought an imperial army here under the direction of Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly . In 1642 there was another fighting at Breitenfeld . Again the Swedes triumphed over the emperor's troops. During the Leipzig Battle of Nations in 1813, Blücher had his command post in the Breitenfelder Mühle, from where he directed the attack on the French troops stationed in Möckern and Gohlis.

Through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the western part of the Schkeuditz office was ceded to Prussia in 1815. Breitenfeld remained with the eastern part of the Kingdom of Saxony and was incorporated into the Leipzig district office. From 1856 the place belonged to the court office Leipzig II and from 1875 to the administrative authority Leipzig . In 1856 the patrimonial jurisdiction of the landlords was lifted and Breitenfeld got a local council. In 1923 the place became part of the municipality of Lindenthal, which was incorporated into Leipzig in 1999.

The open- cast mine in Breitenfeld , opened in 1982 north of the town, was supposed to become a "superlative opencast mine". It was planned for a term of 30 years. During this time he would have mined coal, which was intended for the chemical combines Buna and Leuna as well as for processing plants and power plants in the Bitterfeld area, to the northern edge of Leipzig. This would have made it necessary to relocate the A14 . Coal mining began in the Breitenfeld open-cast mine in 1986. The change in economic policy associated with German reunification in 1989/90 led to the end of the Breitenfeld open-cast mine as early as 1991. With the cessation of the open-cast mine, the huge excavator association, which was put into operation in 1989 and was considered one of the largest and most powerful excavators in the world, went out of operation after just two years. The Schladitzer See was created as a result of the renaturation of the remaining open pit .

Memorial stone

Gustav Adolf Monument

To the east of the town, the Gustav-Adolf-Monument commemorates the Battle of Breitenfeld on September 7th ^July / September 17, 1631 ^greg. . It was built in 1831 on the 200th anniversary of the battle and bears the following inscription on the east, south, west and north sides:

"Freedom of faith / for the world / saved / at Breitenfeld / Gustav Adolf / Christ and Held
on / September 7, 1631 / - / 1831"

The monument was donated by the Breitenfeld landowner Ferdinand Gruner and erected on the site of the manor. The verdict comes from the Leipzig city judge Werner Konrad Ernst Heimbach. In 1881 the monument was given a wrought iron fence.

In the course of the land reform in 1946, the land on which the monument stands was transferred to a fund in Gothenburg . It has been in Swedish ownership since then.

Furthermore, Gustav-Adolf-Allee, which runs through Breitenfeld, is a reminder of the Swedish king, while Gustav-Adolf-Straße is close to the center in Leipzig's Waldstrasse district.

Personalities

• Ernst Friedrich Gelpke (1807–1871), Protestant clergyman and professor at the University of Bern

literature

• Breitenfeld (Leipzig) in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Thomas Nabert (ed.): Lindenthal and Breitenfeld. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig e. V., Leipzig 1999.
• Markus Cottin et al .: Leipzig monuments. Volume 2 published by the Leipziger Geschichtsverein e. V., Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-036-4 , p. 15.
• Cornelius Gurlitt : Breitenfeld. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 16. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig (Leipzig Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1894, p. 6.

Web links

Commons : Breitenfeld (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information website My district of the city of Leipzig for Lindenthal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 84 f.
2. ↑ The Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig in the municipal register 1900

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E