Beetle grove

Käferhain was a village south of Groitzsch that fell victim to lignite mining in 1985/86 by the Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mine . Its corridor is now part of the Methewitz district of the city of Groitzsch in the Leipzig district ( Free State of Saxony ).

location

Käferhain was located in the Leipzig lowland bay not far from the border triangle of Saxony-Saxony-Anhalt-Thuringia between Groitzsch in the northwest and the Thuringian city of Lucka in the southeast.

The devastated location is today on the northwestern bank of the Groitzscher See, east of the Groitzsch district of Methewitz.

history

Käferhain was mentioned in 1399 as "Kefernhain". As an official village, the place belonged to the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Pegau until 1856 . In 1856 Käferhain came to the Pegau court office and in 1875 to the Borna district administration .

The railway Gaschwitz-Meuselwitz led since 1874 east passing beetle grove. However, the place only received a stop on the route on October 15, 1879. On October 1, 1948, Käferhain was incorporated into the neighboring town of Methewitz to the west . At that time, Käferhain still had 177 inhabitants (as of 1946). In 1952, the municipality of Methewitz with its two districts was assigned to the Borna district in the Leipzig district . On July 1, 1973 Methewitz was again incorporated into Auligk , which also made Käferhain a district of Auligk.

In 1974/75 the Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mine was opened southeast of Käferhain. As a result, on September 27, 1976, passenger train traffic on the Groitzsch – Meuselwitz section of the Gaschwitz – Meuselwitz railway was stopped and the Käferhain stop was taken out of service. The disused track of the Groitzsch – Käferhain section served as a connecting line for the excavator assembly area at Groitzscher Dreieck until it was finally closed in 1992.

In preparation for the devastation , the 74 residents of Käferhain and the 50 residents of Neukäferhain had to evacuate their houses in 1985 and 1986. They were relocated to a settlement on "Käferhainer Straße" in the Groitzsch district of Großpriesligk .

Due to the early closure of the Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mine in 1991, the Käferhain corridor was only partially excavated. The deferred part is to be reopened in 2030 as a mining field for the United Schleenhain opencast mine . To the south of the mining edge on which the Käferhainer Flur lies, the Groitzscher See was created in the remaining hole, on the northwestern bank of which the former location of Käferhain is today. With the incorporation of Auligk into Groitzsch on January 1, 1996, the Käferhain corridor now belongs to the town of Groitzsch in the Saxon district of Leipzig.

Places of remembrance

Flursteinlapidarium on the Wiprechtsburg Groitzsch

In the Groitzsch district of Großpriesligk, the “Käferhainer Straße” reminds of the place.

The imminent demolition of Käferhain in 1982 marked the beginning of the Flurstein lapidarium at Wiprechtsburg Groitzsch . The first exhibits were a royal Saxon milestone on the Poststrasse from Groitzsch to Lucka and a sandstone signpost with the Saxon coat of arms at the Käferhain – Methewitz fork in the road.