Kursdorf (Schkeuditz)

Kursdorf Large district town of Schkeuditz Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 7 ″  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	135 m
Residents :	0  (2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Postal code :	04435
Area code :	034204
Location of Kursdorf in Saxony

Vacancy and demolition: village views 2010 and 2011

Kursdorf is a district of the Saxon town of Schkeuditz in the northern Saxony district . Due to the expansion of the Leipzig / Halle Airport and its location, the place has developed into a ghost village in the last few decades .

geography

location

Kursdorf is about 13.5 kilometers north-west of Leipzig, near the state border between Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. The location is completely enclosed by the Leipzig / Halle airport facilities. The A14 and the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line run in the immediate vicinity of the town .

Neighboring places

Werlitzsch	Glesien	Gerbisdorf
Beuditz		Freiroda
	Schkeuditz

history

Church, behind it the airport tower

Vacancy and demolition: village views 2010 and 2011

Vacancy and demolition: village views 2010 and 2011

Leipzig / Halle Airport, view towards Kursdorf (2018)

The first documentary mention dates from 1497 as Kunsstorf . Kursdorf (also common spelling until 1815: Cursdorf) belonged to the Hochstift-Merseburgischen office of Schkeuditz until 1815 , which had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school- principality of Saxony-Merseburg between 1656/57 and 1738 . Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Kursdorf and the western part of the Schkeuditz office were ceded to Prussia in 1815. In the new political order of Prussia, the village was in 1816 the county Merseburg in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1,952th August Schumann mentions Kursdorf in the State Lexicon of Saxony in 1818, among others:

“It has 26 houses, 150 residents and a parish church, at which the deacon zu Schkeuditz is also pastor. The local parish had its own pastor in earlier times, of which the parish apartment is still left. "

During the district reform in the GDR in 1952, Kursdorf was assigned to the Leipzig-Land district in the Leipzig district, which became part of the Leipziger Land district in 1994 . In the same year it was incorporated into Schkeuditz, with which the place became part of the Delitzsch district in 1999 and the Northern Saxony district in 2008.

The last wave of emigration began at the end of the 1990s; Kursdorf has had no residents since 2017. The reasons for moving are the high levels of pollution and noise. At the airport surrounding the town, which is the second largest cargo airport in Germany, only a partial night flight ban applies.

Population development

year population 1568 19 possessed men , 24 ½ hooves 1716 24 possessed men, 13 ½ hooves 1764 23 possessed men, 2 cottagers , 47 hooves 1818 181 1880 190 1895 299 1910 398

year population 1925 439 1939 433 1946 527 1950 537 1964 407 1990 271 2001 202

year population 2002 197 2006 119 2007 60 2009 37 2011 23 2013 12 2015 10 2017 0

Trivia

Location of Kursdorf in the middle of the Leipzig / Halle airport

The geographical location of the place in the middle of an airport area and the resulting living conditions served as a template for the play Start- und Landebahn by the playwright and native Schkeuditzer Dirk Laucke (co-author David Richter). The world premiere took place on May 16, 2010 in the Osnabrück Theater.

Web links

Commons : Kursdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kursdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Internet presence of the village
• Kursdorf Church
• LVZ report: The ghost village
• A village takes off : DIE ZEIT of June 3, 2004, No. 24

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The city of Schkeuditz in numbers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2017 ; accessed on September 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Kursdorf in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 84 f.
4. ^ The district of Merseburg in the municipal directory 1900
5. ↑ See Kursdorf, * Cursdorf, in Urk. Kürsdorf . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, p. 270.
6. ↑ (unofficial) website of the village
7. ^ "Runway" in Osnabrück. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . May 25, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .