Helmsdorf (Zwickau)

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Helmsdorf was a village in the former district Zwickau-Land , District Karl-Marx-Stadt in Sachsen . In 1958 the place was forcibly evacuated and then almost completely demolished ( devastated ). Then the Wismut built a basin for residues from uranium production . From this, the industrial tailing plants (IAA) Helmsdorf and Dänkritz emerged .

The corridor of Helmsdorf today belongs to the Oberrothenbach district in the northwest of the city of Zwickau in the district of Zwickau ( Free State of Saxony ).

location

Helmsdorf was northwest of Zwickau, between the towns of Hartmannsdorf in the west and Oberrothenbach in the east , which are now part of Zwickau . The devastated location is now in the area of ​​the Helmsdorf industrial tailing plant, which was renatured and renovated after 1990.

history

Helmsdorf was mentioned in 1421 as "Helwigistorff". In contrast to the neighboring town of Oberrothenbach in Schönburg, the place belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Zwickau until 1856 . The manorial rule over the place was divided between the manors Middle Mosel and Lower Mosel. Ecclesiastically, Helmsdorf was also parish to the Moselle . In 1856 Helmsdorf came to the Zwickau court office and in 1875 to the Zwickau administration . Around 1925 Helmsdorf still had 155 inhabitants.

On April 1, 1938, Helmsdorf was incorporated into the eastern neighboring town of Oberrothenbach . In 1952, Helmsdorf was assigned as a district of Oberrothenbach to the Zwickau-Land district in the Chemnitz district (renamed the Karl-Marx-Stadt district in 1953).

From the end of the 1940s, uranium ores were processed for the USSR by SAG Wismut in the neighboring town of Crossen to the east . The Helmsdorf gravel pit, built around 1890 and used as a prisoner-of-war camp before 1945, was intended to deposit uranium sludge from Crossen. After the activities of the SDAG Wismut began in Helmsdorf in 1956, the place was forcibly evacuated until 1958 and then demolished. The Helmsdorf industrial tailing plant (IAA) was built on the site , into which the liquid process waste from ore processing Crossen was pumped and deposited via a hose conveyor . Between 1951 and 1989, a total of around 77,000 tons of uranium were produced in Crossen from 74.7 million tons of ore, which was delivered to the Soviet Union as war reparations .

A small-scale radioactive accident occurred on April 7, 1961. After a pipe intended for the water return and running vertically in the IAA Helmsdorf was broken in the lower part, it also broke on the outside of the dam due to overpressure . As a result, large amounts of the radioactive sludge flowed through the neighboring town of Oberrothenbach into the Zwickau Mulde. Since the damage could not be repaired immediately, this condition lasted for several days. Ultimately, it was only thanks to the narrow valley location that residential buildings were not contaminated.

In 1989 the uranium processing plant in Crossen was shut down and completely demolished at the end of the 1990s. The rehabilitation program, including the Helmsdorf tailings plant, should be completed by 2018. Only a few buildings in the east of the village survived the demolition of Helmsdorf. a. the former school. This was incorporated with Oberrothenbach on January 1, 1999 to Zwickau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 64 f.
  2. ^ Website of the parish of Zwickau Nord
  3. ↑ The Zwickau administrative authority in the municipal register 1900
  4. ↑ Helmsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  5. ↑ The uranium processing plant in Crossen at www.atommuellreport.de
  6. ↑ Oberrothenbach on gov.genealogy.net

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 52.5 ″  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 55.5 ″  E