Lauerskreuz
Lauerskreuz is a district of Neckargerach in the Neckar-Odenwald district in northern Baden-Württemberg .
geography
The place is about two kilometers north of the main town Neckargerach on the right bank of the Neckar on the rise in terrain to the mountain ranges of the Odenwald, which extends to the north .
history
Lauerskreuz is a settlement developed from Neckargerach. The place got its name after an old atonement cross that is located on the road leading from Neckargerach to the settlement. There are various legends about the history of the 16th or 17th century cross, but it has always been referred to as the Lauerskreuz . The cross gave the prize its name and, after clearing a forest, also gave the settlement and the road that opened it up there.
The settlement goes back to the initiative of the Badische Landessiedlung and was laid out from 1936 to 1938 along a gently curved spur road running from west to east. Over a length of about 400 meters, there are six two-storey rural properties of a similar layout with combined residential and farm buildings as well as ancillary buildings to the left and right of the street. The main buildings on the south side of the street face the street on the gable side, the two middle properties on the north side face the eaves.
The settlement was planned as a self-sufficient settlement, the farms were to remain family-owned as hereditary estates . Interested parties first had to apply to move into a house. a. a health certificate, Aryan certificate and marital status. The price for a building with a total of 11.3 hectares was 23,150 Reichsmarks, of which 2,800 Reichsmarks had to be paid in cash, while the rest could be financed in the long term through a loan, the repayment of which in most cases did not occur until after the Second World War . The buildings were handed over as shell structures and had to be partially completed by the residents themselves. By 1939 all twelve farms were occupied by settler families, as well as eleven farmers and a village blacksmith, whose building had been planned from the outset as a forge, with some differences to the eleven agricultural properties. The area belonging to the courtyards was divided into eight to nine parcels in different vats. The total area of the settlement initially included 35 hectares of forest, which the settlers themselves had to clear and convert into arable land.
After the Second World War, six settler positions became vacant, which were occupied by expellees from the Sudetenland and East Prussia. The settlement is still dominated by agriculture, although in 1997 Lauerskreuz was only one full-time farmer in addition to several part-time farmers.
literature
- Peter Kirchesch: 60 years of the "Lauerskreuz" farmers' settlement in Unser Land, home calendar for Neckar Valley, Odenwald, building land and Kraichgau , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung publishing house 1998
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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ' N , 9 ° 4' E