Leaf bush
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Leaf bush
City of Lauta
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 19 ″ N , 14 ° 8 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Height : | 115 m above sea level NN |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2001 |
| Postal code : | 02991 |
| Area code : | 035722 |
Laubusch ( Upper Sorbian Lubuš ) is a workers' colony belonging to Ilse Bergbau AG , which has been part of the town of Lauta in Saxony since January 1, 2001 . Her original name is Erika Colony . After the demolition of the old Sorbian village of Laubusch in the course of lignite mining, the place name was transferred to the workers' colony.
Economic basis
The lignite deposits near the village of Laubusch were already known before 1914 . However, the outbreak was prevented by the beginning of the First World War. When a location for an aluminum smelter was sought at the beginning of the war , the choice fell on the construction site of the Lautawerk, not least because of the proximity to the coal fields in Laubusch . Because this location was able to guarantee a long-term supply of the aluminum smelter with brown coal in addition to a favorable transport connection. This was imperative because aluminum is extracted from bauxite in an electrochemical process that requires a lot of energy. Therefore, with the start of construction of the Lautawerk, the excavation of the Erika pit near Laubusch began. The lignite that was extracted from the Erika mine also supplied the Lauta power plant of Elektrowerke AG and the Erika briquette factory of Ilse-Bergbau AG.
The settlement
The Erika colony was started according to plans by Ilse-Werk architect Ewald Kleffel at the beginning of the 1920s. The extension through the district Heimstätten extended until the beginning of the Second World War.
In solving the immense construction task, Kleffel is based on the example of the garden city of Marga in Brieske. The execution of the original planning was not completely stopped by the economic development in the 1920s, but a simplified solution was found.
Noteworthy buildings are in particular the buildings on the market with an inn, office building, school and church. The school building, which now looks very oversized, dominates the market due to its broad impact. The Protestant church, a massive clinker brick building, was only completed shortly before the start of the Second World War.
Behind the church and spatially separated from the market by it, there is a large, green square that takes up the motif of a village Angers. In contrast to the urban image of the market with its seemingly closed fronts, the buildings of the Angers are gable and arranged at large distances from one another.
Decline
After the end of the GDR and parallel to the economic decline of the lignite industry in Lusatia, the decline of the Erika colony began. The formerly well-inhabited settlement lost a large part of its inhabitants, vacancy dominated the townscape for many years. Large parts of the older and high-quality settlement substance were demolished.
Personalities
- Günther Usemann (1925-2016), football player
- Walter Ibscher (1926–2011), sculptor, graphic artist, medalist, restorer and art educator, lived and worked in Nuremberg since 1951
- Klaus Siebold (1930–1995), politician (SED), GDR Minister for Coal and Energy
- Wolfgang Torge (* 1931), geodesist, President of the International Association for Geodesy
- Lothar Wagner (* 1941), football player
- Werner Grun (* 1942), football player
- Arno Schmidt (* 1945), politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag
See also
literature
- Margarete Donath: Erika pit near Laubusch. In: Lětopis C 28 (1985), pp. 95-110.
- Alfred Eckert: Wind under the wings. Life and work of the sculptor and graphic artist Walter Ibscher. Publishing house Dr. Herbert Winter, Fürth 2006, ISBN 3-939490-00-8 . (with detailed biography)
Web links
- Laubusch in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- www.heimatverein-laubusch.de
- Extensive appreciation of Walter Ibscher
- Detailed biography of Walter Ibscher