Lakoma
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Lakoma (also Lacoma , Łakoma in Lower Sorbian ) was a residential area in the Willmersdorf district of the city of Cottbus in Brandenburg . The place was about six kilometers northeast of the Cottbus city center, its name comes from the Lower Sorbian adjective łakomy (tasty). The village had finally in 2006 the lignite - opencast mine Cottbus-Nord soft. According to official information, a total of 143 residents were resettled.
In 1850 the village had 88 inhabitants, in 1945 about 200 inhabitants and in 1964 180 inhabitants. In 1850 all residents were Sorbs . In 1963 around 63% of the population still spoke Lower Sorbian .
history
Lakoma was first mentioned in a document in 1337 in connection with the "Alte Poststrasse", which was a nationally important carter and trade route and later a post route . Lakoma was in the middle of an area rich in water. In the first half of the 15th century, the Franciscans created the fish ponds and the culturally and historically significant Hammergraben . Turf iron stone was discovered when the ponds were being expanded. This was processed in the hammer mill in Peitz from 1551 , previously in a mill at Maus . During the Thirty Years' War , Lakoma suffered from billeting (1626, 1631 and 1640), looting and famine.
In 1968 the water-rich area around Lakoma was designated as a landscape protection area.
The people of Lakoma were informed in 1983 that their village was to be dredged. The majority of the 150 residents at that time had already been resettled before the reunification in 1989/90 despite protests and some farms were demolished. Subsequently, the village stood largely empty as a desert or " ghost town ".
Lakoma was near the Cottbus – Guben railway line .
Lakoma ponds
Behind the village were the Lakomaer ponds, which in 2003, together with the Hammergraben, were registered as Fauna-Flora-Habitat (FFH) to the EU by the Brandenburg state government . Over 170 endangered animal and plant species have been identified in the 380 hectare area, including occurrences of the hermit beetle (Osmoderma eremita) and one of the largest populations of the fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) in Brandenburg. The hoopoe , bittern and otter were also found here.
After the urgent proceedings of the environmental associations suing against the demolition of the area were rejected and a decision in the main proceedings was only in prospect after the destruction of the FFH area, activists from the environmental protection organization Robin Wood occupied the area. This occupation was violently ended on September 28, 2007 by a security service hired by Vattenfall and the police. Immediately afterwards the deforestation and destruction of the FFH area began.
occupation
In May 1992, vacant buildings were of high school graduates Cottbus and environmental activists occupied . The following year the association Lacoma eV was founded, which among other things endeavored to legalize the occupations and to use the village for non-profit purposes. In 1994 this association received temporary use contracts for Lakoma from the City of Cottbus until 2003. More than twenty people lived in the remaining part of the village at that time.
From 1996, one building was rededicated by the former occupiers as a cultural center and new village center. From then on, numerous concerts (including with Gerhard Gundermann ), readings, lectures and parties took place in the “Kulturscheune” . Until about the year 2000, the occupied village was inhabited by a broad spectrum of people who tried to realize their different ideas of alternative forms of living and living. Many artists and students are drawn to the village. Under the motto “In Cottbus Federal Horticultural Show and all around opencast mining”, activists from Lakoma took up the 1995 Federal Horticultural Show in Cottbus as a contradiction to the destruction of nature by open-cast lignite mining. Everyday life in the village was determined not only by environmental issues, but also by everyday social interaction. A supervised housing project for young people took up a place in the village in the mid-1990s. Later, after a "generation change" towards the end of the 1990s - a large number of the first occupiers had left the village by then - actions and events mostly of an ecological and sociocultural nature took place in the village, including hikes to the Lakomaer ponds, general environmental education work , art workshops and events to promote Sorbian culture. After 2000, development as a "stand Ecovillage Lacoma" at the center. During this period of temporary use, Lakoma became known in particular for its active wood sculptor scene (woodworking workshops with international artists participating) and the Lacoma festival that takes place every year in June at the summer solstice .
As the operator of the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine, the owner of the village land was most recently the energy company Vattenfall (and continues to be as of 2008). After the lease had expired, Vattenfall had the village evacuated at the end of 2003 despite continued resistance from the police and then - in the years 2003 to 2005 - all the houses except two at the entrance to the village in the immediate vicinity of the main road were demolished. The “Wandering House”, which one of the ecovillage activists built and lived in in the Sorbian timber construction tradition, and which had to move several times on the village grounds as a result of the ongoing demolition work , also stands on one of these last edge plots .
After the village had been cleared, Vattenfall also began - in preparation for the future lignite dredging - with the extensive construction of drainage systems to lower the groundwater on the site.
A two-hour documentary film Lacoma and the Group - An energy-political parlor game was shot in 2004 about the disputes surrounding Lakoma . Numerous other documentaries from Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg as well as many articles in the regional press and national daily newspapers have reported on the village since the occupation began in 1992.
Even after the evacuation of Lakoma, privately organized tours through Lakoma and in particular the nearby pond landscape continued to take place. In July 2008 a “memorial hike” took place for the last time on the “Alte Poststrasse” between Willmersdorf and Lakoma in the north, because from 2009 the historic street was closed as part of the Vattenfall company premises.
Devastation for brown coal
In 2008 the village of Lakoma and the associated pond landscape disappeared from the landscape north of Cottbus for good. In 2009 the excavator stood in front of the former old Hammerstrom and thus on the local border of Lakoma. In the spring of 2010 the coal mine reached the town center. The Cottbus-Nord opencast mine was continued until the end of 2015 and is to be flooded from 2019 (after extensive renovation and bank reinforcement work). This means that the former village of Lakoma will become part of the future Cottbus Baltic Sea .
See also
literature
- Ernst Eichler : The place names of Niederlausitz. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1975
- Archive of Disappeared Places (Ed.): Documentation of mining-related resettlements. Forest 2010
Web links
- A precise, freely usable map of Lakoma and its ponds
- Collection of panoramic images of the disappeared village of Lakoma
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Eichler : The place names of Niederlausitz. P. 70
- ↑ a b c d e A chronology of the struggle for the village of Lacoma and the neighboring pond landscape. ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 88 kB) Robin Wood , February 2007.
- ↑ Archive of Disappeared Places (ed.): Documentation of mining-related resettlements . Forst 2010, p. 102f
- ↑ a b c Timeline of the events in and around the village of Lacoma and the adjacent pond landscape ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 60 kB) Robin Wood, February 2007.
- ↑ The Lacoma decision of the Higher Administrative Court commented somewhat unjurally (August 2007) ( Memento from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Lacoma eV (PDF; 10 kB)
- ↑ Comparison ( Memento from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Lacoma eV
- ^ Vattenfall destroys Lacoma. (No longer available online.) Robin Wood, Sep 28, 2007, archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on May 26, 2015 (press release). 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.
- ↑ BlickLicht Magazin 11/2003, p. 4–6 (PDF; 3.1 MB)
- ^ Resistance to Lusatian lignite opencast mining , Indymedia , September 26, 2007
- ↑ Film info: Lacoma and the group ( Memento from December 21, 2005 in the web archive archive.today ) (Author: Vivien Treuleben; Tiamat Filmproduktion / Buchbäcker-Verlagsgesellschaft)
- ↑ www.lacoma.info, as of October 2008 ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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↑ Commemorative hike through Lacoma pond landscape , Green League.
Cottbus stagecoach bids farewell to Lacoma. In: The Tagesspiegel Brandenburg. July 5, 2008.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ' N , 14 ° 23' E