Klein-Zabrze

House of the sand colony with half-timbered elements

House with half-timbered elements

Klein-Zabrze was a place in Upper Silesia . Klein-Zabrze was one of several places from which the rural community of Zabrze emerged in 1905 , which was renamed Hindenburg OS in 1915 and received town charter in 1922 .

history

The colony was founded in 1776 on the Beuthener Wasser in the course of the Frederician colonization with 12 places and had 30 inhabitants. Initially, the place was called a sand colony or castle colony . The place was later named Klein-Sabrze (from the middle of the 19th century, Klein-Zabrze), based on the (old) Zabrze to the west.

With the establishment of a coal mine in Zaborze (later Queen Luise mine ) in 1790, its workers were settled in Klein-Zabrze. Klein-Zabrze developed into an ever larger and more important industrial location. At the beginning of the 19th century, the (Klein-) Zabrze district was created by mining . In 1853 Heinrich Kötz built a boiler factory on the railway line. While in 1861 the village of Klein-Zabrze had 166 buildings, Klein-Zabrze had 47 mines. With the establishment of the Zabrze district in 1873, Klein-Zabrze came from the Beuthen district to the Zabrze district. While the Catholic cemetery was located in Alt-Zabrze, a Protestant and a Jewish cemetery were established in Klein-Zabrze.

Old seal of the community

In 1879 a district court was established in Klein-Zabrze. In 1894 the district court moved into its new building on the corner of Dorotheenstrasse and Parisiusstrasse. In January 1897 the community of Klein-Zabrze signed a contract with the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft , which allowed AEG to use all streets and places for laying and routing cables for a period of 50 years. On October 1, 1900, the community opened a public library. On December 1st, Assessor Schröder became the head of the community.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Donnersmarckhütte in Klein-Zabrze built a residential colony based on the plans of the architect Arnold Hartmann (1861-1919). The houses were mostly massive and partly designed in a half-timbered style. The new residential colony was generally called the sand colony, probably based on the earlier name of Klein-Zabrze, but was also called Donnersmarcksiedlung. This building complex was built mainly for the employees, civil servants and workers of the hut and had a kindergarten, a library and a fire department.

With effect from April 1, 1905, the municipality of Klein-Zabrze was merged with the municipalities of Alt-Zabrze and Dorotheendorf and the manor district of Zabrze and the colony C (from the municipality of Zaborze ) to form the new municipality of Zabrze (renamed Hindenburg OS in 1915 ). When Hindenburg became a town on October 1, 1922, Klein-Zabrze was absorbed into the city center and from then on belonged to Hindenburg-Nord. Today it is in the Centrum Północ (Center-North) district, while the Sand Colony ( Zandka ) was later declared a separate district.

coat of arms

Old seal mark

Old seals and stamps of the place heraldically show a spruce on the right and a man turned to the right on the left, carrying an ax on his right shoulder.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2: [1]
2. ↑ General geographical ephemeris: [2]
3. ↑ Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 13: [3]
4. ^ History of Silesian Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 1
5. ^ Prussian statistics, issues 17-19
6. ^ History of the city of Hindenburg O / S., Josef Knossalla, 1929
7. ^ [Deutsche Bau-Zeitung, Volume 44]