Leipen (Groitzsch)

Leipen was a village east of Groitzsch that in the years 1965 and 1966 the lignite mining by open pit Peres has fallen victim. His corridor is now part of the Pödelwitz district of the city of Groitzsch in the Leipzig district ( Free State of Saxony ).

location

Leipen was located in the Leipzig lowland bay between Borna in the southeast and Groitzsch in the northwest. It was a kilometer northwest of Pödelwitz. The devastated location is now in the south of the renatured part of the "Peres" mining field of the United Schleenhain opencast mine north of the B176 .

history

Leipen was mentioned in 1079 as "lips". The basic rule over the place was in 1548 at Pegau Monastery , after which Leipen was until 1856 a place of office of the Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon Office of Pegau . From 1856 the place belonged to the judicial office of Pegau and from 1875 to the district administration Borna .

On October 1, 1948, it was incorporated into Pödelwitz, one kilometer south-east. With this, the place came to the Borna district in the Leipzig district in 1952 . In 1960, the systematic study of drilling began in preparation for the digestion of mine Peres to the northern of Leipen place Peres . This sealed the end of Leipen. In 1964, Shaft 1 near Pödelwitz was the first drainage shaft of the future open-cast mine. In preparation for clearing the exploration area, the village of Leipen, which had 82 inhabitants at the time, had to give way to the opencast mine. The place near the starting point of the Peres opencast mine was completely demolished in 1965/66. On April 1, 1966, Pödelwitz was incorporated with the devastated corridor from Leipen to Großstolpen . At the end of the 1960s, Leipen's local corridor was dredged over.

After the temporary closure of the Peres open-cast mine in 1991, the charred part of the open-cast mine was recultivated by the LMBV . Thus the former corridor of Leipen can be used for agriculture today. With the incorporation of Großstolpen into the town of Groitzsch, the corridor of Leipen has belonged to the town located around four kilometers to the west since January 1, 1996.

Web links

• Leipen in the historical directory of Saxony
• The Peres opencast mine on www.devastiert.de
• Description of the Peres opencast mine in a LMBV document

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
2. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
3. ^ Leipen on gov.genealogy.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 59.5 "  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 55.8"  E