Freezing community
The term freezing community denotes a community of convenience for the common use of a freezing system.
history
After the Second World War , very few private households in Germany, Austria or Switzerland could afford their own freezer ; in rarer cases they were not yet connected to the mains . For this reason, community freezers were built in many places in freezer houses , which consisted of a large freezer with many individual freezer compartments. Some of these systems were free-standing buildings, others were integrated into other public buildings ( school , community center , fire station , etc.). In some regions, the construction of such freezing systems, mostly operated by the municipality or their own cooperative , was financially supported by public authorities.
A comparable variant were the communal freezing systems or public freezing systems , which were maintained by the respective local community . There were freezers or freezers available in a public building that were purchased by the community and rented out individually to local residents.
When home freezers became more affordable in the 1970s and 1980s, many freezer communities were on the verge of collapse, even though the electricity costs of a community facility are often much cheaper. The changed eating habits also played a role: due to the decrease in the number of house slaughterings that were common in the past and the decline in growing vegetables in their own gardens, even in rural areas, only smaller quantities of frozen food were produced in individual households. In addition, many older systems needed refrigerants containing CFCs , which are no longer manufactured today because of their harmful effects on the climate. Other spare parts were also often no longer available. A renewal of the technology then usually did not seem worthwhile because of the lower demand.
Today there are only very few frozen communities left in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the trend is sharply decreasing. Examples of this are or have been until recently in: Achtelsbach , Baasem , Barterode , Beienbach , Horgenzell- Happenweiler, Londorf , Lüxem , Rüddingshausen , Stangenrod , Steinborn , Steinfeld , Uttershausen or Wittinsburg .
Due to the slow disappearance of these systems, which were typical of their time, museums were already aware of this: A community freezing system from 1958 was dismantled by the Franconian Open Air Museum in Fladungen and moved to the museum grounds.
legal form
Legally, these facilities are operated either under public law by the municipality or under private law as a cooperative . Comparable communal facilities are, for example, public or communal washing and baking houses .
Individual evidence
- ^ "The last cold store closes" , article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (online) from December 28, 2005
- ↑ Homepage of the municipality of Wabern ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Submissions and resolutions for the meeting of the municipal council on August 18, 2011, point 4
- ↑ Frozen Community Londorf dissolves ( Memento from July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Article in Gießener Anzeiger (online) from April 3, 2012
- ^ Community News Wittinsburg (online) from October 20, 2011, online as a PDF file
- ↑ Homepage of the local community Allendorf
