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Aspen grove
City of Rötha
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 30 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 10 ″ E
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| Height : | 164 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 28.16 km² |
| Residents : | 2328 (December 31, 2014) |
| Population density : | 83 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | August 1, 2015 |
| Postal code : | 04571 |
| Area code : | 034206, 034347 |
Espenhain is a district of the city of Rötha in the Leipzig district in Saxony . Until July 31, 2015 Espenhain was an independent municipality in the Rötha administrative community , which was also dissolved at that time.
geography
Geographical location
Espenhain is located in the Leipzig lowland bay about 20 km south of Leipzig and 8 km north of Borna , in the middle of the newly developed Leipzig New Lakeland .
Neighboring communities
In the immediate vicinity of Espenhain are the places Rötha , Borna , Kitzscher and Dreiskau-Muckern .
Local division
The community Espenhain is essentially divided into the old town center, called “the village”, into the settlement, the new building area, which served as living space for the employees of VEB BKK Espenhain in the early 1960s, and the districts Mölbis , Oelzschau and Pötzschau .
history
For the history of the districts, see there.
After it was founded as the Old Sorbian village of Miertzsch around 800, the place was founded as a square village after 1150, promoted by Wiprecht von Groitzsch, and around 1350 was given the name "Espenhain". The small farming village was heavily involved in the battles of the Battle of Nations in 1813/1814. Until 1856, Espenhain was part of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon District Office in Leipzig . From 1856 the place belonged to the Rötha court office and from 1875 to the Borna district administration . Lignite mining began in 1896. A railway line to Böhlen was opened in 1913. In 1937 the Espenhain opencast mine was opened up , and in 1940 the first coal was delivered.
Espenhain achieved notoriety as the dirtiest place in the GDR due to the resident VEB BV Espenhain . In the 1960s, in connection with the economic focus on petrochemicals, the plants were subjected to massive wear and tear. When coal chemistry regained importance in the early 1970s , production in the worn out facilities was increased to maximum output. As a result, and due to the lack of investment in environmental protection, the pollutant emissions in air and water rose sharply. There was always a cloud of phenols, sulfur, soot and ash over the place and its surroundings. The high emissions made it necessary to sweep streets and sidewalks every morning as a thick layer of ash had settled. Some residents report that occasionally the sun would disappear behind clouds of ash and that cars had to run with lights on during the day. The health effects on the city's residents were devastating. As a result, life expectancy was several years below the national average. Children in particular suffered greatly from the occurring skin and respiratory diseases, such as B. Eczema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ). Even today, many residents are affected by long-term effects.
On August 1, 2015 Espenhain was incorporated into the city of Rötha.
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Dahlitzsch | April 1, 1934 | Merger with Großpötzschau zu Pötzschau |
| Grosspötzschau | April 1, 1934 | Merger with Dahlitzsch zu Pötzschau |
| Kleinpötzschau | before 1880 | Incorporation to Dahlitzsch |
| Kommlitz | October 1, 1948 | Incorporation to Oelzschau |
| Mölbis | January 1, 1999 | |
| Oelzschau | April 1, 1996 | |
| Pötzschau | January 1, 1995 |
politics
Municipal council
After the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 16 seats of the municipal council were distributed among the individual groups as follows:
- Dorfentwicklungsgesellschaft Mölbis (DEG): 6 seats
- SV Espenhain 91 e. V. (SVE): 4 seats
- Comrades of the FFW Oelzschau (FwOe): 4 seats
- Friends of FFW Pötzschau (FwP): 1 seat
- LEFT : 1 seat
After the incorporation in Rötha on August 1, 2015, 12 of these were taken over into the Rötha City Council.
Local partnerships
The community Espenhain maintained a local partnership with the Swabian community Wolfschlugen .
Culture and sights
Sports
In 1990 the FSV Kitzscher was established in Espenhain . This club emerged from the company sports community "Aktivist Espenhain". The BSG footballers played 1975-81 in the GDR league , which was the second highest division at the time, and the club's bowlers even in the GDR's top division, the special league. With Manfred Uhlmann the "BSG Aktivist Espenhain" provided a world champion in bowling.
Regular events
The old main workshop of VEB BKK Espenhain is located on the grounds of the industrial and commercial area. This workshop is used today by the TDE Mitteldeutsche Bergbau Service GmbH (in which the former TDE - Technical Services Espenhain is integrated) as a workshop and production facility in mechanical engineering and steel construction. In this workshop, among other things, a Christmas concert takes place annually, which is recognized in the region.
Economy and Infrastructure
On the territory of the former VEB BV Espenhain, one of the largest lignite processing companies in the GDR during the GDR era , there is now an industrial and commercial area.
On September 8, 2004, what was then the largest solar power plant in the world ( Espenhain solar power plant, peak output: 5 megawatts) went into operation in Espenhain .
The Thierbach lignite power plant with an installed gross output of 840 MW was located in the neighboring town of Thierbach . It was in operation from 1969 to September 1999. The 300 m high chimney was blown up in October 2002 and the four 93 m high cooling towers in March 2006.
traffic
The A 72 runs southwest of Espenhain and can be reached via the Espenhain and Espenhain-Nord junctions. The completion of the approximately 7 km long section of the A 72 to the federal motorway 38, which is currently under construction, is planned for the end of 2026 . The federal road 95 leads through the district in four lanes, but is to be reduced to two lanes with a cycle path by 2021 and to become a state road.
Espenhain is located in the network area of the Central German Transport Association and, like the entire city of Rötha as well as Böhlen and Zwenkau, belongs to tariff zone 152. A connection in local rail passenger transport existed until 1993 through the Böhlen – Espenhain railway line . Today the railway line is only used for freight traffic between Böhlen and the Espenhain freight station. The station building of the Espenhain station has remained unused to this day.
Espenhain is connected with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes through the Leipzig regional bus and the THÜSAC local passenger transport company . The central stop for all bus lines is Espenhain, pedestrian tunnel .
education
There is a primary school in Espenhain. It is located in the building of the former "Hugo-Joachim" polytechnic school .
In the area of the former VEB BV Espenhain was the vocational high school of the Leipziger Land vocational school (formerly: vocational high school Espenhain) until it moved to the main school in Böhlen.
Furthermore, in the "IGP - Industrie- und Gewerbepark Espenhain" there is a training and further education center with TDE Personal Service GmbH, in which there is basic in the industrial-technical professions of the metal, plastics and electrical industry as well as in commercial and logistic professions - and specialist courses for vocational training, retraining and advanced training are carried out. TDE Personal Service GmbH also offers its services in the placement of workers and skilled workers.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
Christoph Heinrich Zeibich (1677–1748), Lutheran theologian, born in Mölbis
literature
- Richard Steche : Espenhain. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 15. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Borna . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1891, p. 23.
- Aspen grove . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 2nd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1815, p. 567 f.
- Matthias Donath : Palaces in Leipzig and the surrounding area . edition Sächsische Zeitung Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH, Meißen 2013, S. Kömmlitz p. 110, Oelzschau p. 111
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 60 f.
- ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
- ↑ Leipziger Neuseenland tourism portal ( memento of the original from September 29, 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.
- ↑ Brochure Espenhain (PDF; 19.2 MB) from the LMBV
- ↑ http://www.lungenaerzte-im-netz.de/lin/linaktuell/show.php3?id=298&nodeid=18
- ↑ http://www.sachsen-gesetze.de/shop/saechsabl/2015/29/read_pdf
- ↑ StBA: Area changes in 2015
- ↑ a b c The Saxony Book, Kommunal-Verlag Sachsen KG, Dresden, 1943
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Lists of the municipalities incorporated since May 1945 and evidence of the breakdown of the independent manor districts and state forest districts, 1952, published by the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony
- ↑ a b c State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony: Area changes
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
- ↑ itz./FAZ, dpa: The world's largest solar power plant goes online near Leipzig. In: FAZ.net . September 8, 2004, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ A 72, Borna - Rötha (Section 5.1). (PDF; 692 kB) In: medienservice.sachsen.de. State Office for Road Construction and Transport, July 2019, accessed on February 26, 2020 .
Web links
- Kulturbüro Espenhain / Christian Environmental Seminar Rötha eV
- Espenhain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony