Leopoldshall

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Leopoldshall
City of Staßfurt
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 56 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 56"  E
Area : 55.25 km²
Residents : 10,468  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 189 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1946
Postal code : 39418
Area code : 03925
Leopoldshall coat of arms

Leopoldshall has been a district of Staßfurt in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt since 1946 . The Bode flows through Leopoldshall . The A 14 runs east of Leopoldshall, 5 km away .

Leopoldshall (Saxony-Anhalt)
Leopoldshall
Leopoldshall
Location of Leopoldshall in Saxony-Anhalt

history

Anhalt from 1863–1942

With the establishment of the Leopoldshall salt works on the terrain of the so-called Ritterflur in 1855/56, which belonged to the municipality of Neundorf (Anhalt) , a settlement arose on Anhalt territory that was closer to the neighboring Prussian town of Staßfurt than to the Anhalt municipality of Neundorf. Due to its constant growth, this settlement developed an independent community life, so that the majority of the residents demanded independence from the mother community of Neundorf. Duke Leopold von Anhalt gave in to this urge and detached the Leopoldshall settlement from the mother community of Neundorf on December 31, 1872, and declared it an independent community of Leopoldshall with effect from January 1, 1873. At the census in December 1910, the community already had 6,588 inhabitants. On January 29, 1919, Leopoldshall was granted the right to use the designation “city”.

During the Second World War , from December 28, 1944, there was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Leopoldshall. It was evacuated on April 11, 1945 with a death march .

On April 1, 1946, Leopoldshall was forcibly incorporated into Staßfurt.

Mining and salt production

Like the entire area around Staßfurt, Leopoldshall belonged to the mining area for rock salt and potash salts . In the foundation stone certificate of St. Johanniskirche in Leopoldshall it is documented that the salt mining had already taken place since 1855 and 1856 via a vacuum salt salt works , which was named Leopoldshall.

First home of the German Potash Indicator in Bodestrasse in Leopoldshall; after reconstruction from 1929 use as a hospital (1929–1945: hospital of the Halberstädter Knappschaft zu Halberstadt , hence known as the Knappschafts-Krankenhaus ). Photo from April 2019.

In 1890, Leopoldshall became the seat of the first German potash indicator ; 13 potash plants belonged to him. They had come together to "prevent or stop the price drop and squandering of potash salts and to regulate the profit and sale of salts for manufacturing and agricultural purposes according to the needs of the market". In 1910 it was relocated from Leopoldshall to Berlin. The former administration building in Bodestrasse became the Knappschaft's Hospital of the Halberstädter Knappschaft from 1929 after renovation and addition .

The "Herzoglich Anhaltische Salzwerk Leopoldshall" ( Kaliwerk Leopoldshall for short ), which is no longer used today, is considered a type locality for the minerals bischofite and kainite as well as a co-type locality for anhydrite and leonite . In addition to the rock salt former halite , other potash salts such as carnallite , kieserite and sylvine as well as boracite , epsomite , gypsum , caliborite , picromerite , pinnoite and polyhalite were found here.

Infrastructure

  • Strandsolbad Leopoldshall in Staßfurt

Attractions

St. Johannis Church in Staßfurt-Leopoldshall, photo from April 2019
  • St. Johannis Leopoldshall church , built in the Romanesque style and in the shape of a cross, steeple 40.5 meters (with button and cross). First groundbreaking on April 7, 1874, laying of the foundation stone on May 28, 1874, inaugurated on February 6, 1876
  • Jewish cemetery (Staßfurt) -Leopoldshall

"Am Tierpark" residential area

"Am Tierpark" was built in 1968 in the south of Leopoldshall as a typical prefabricated residential area. Since 2000, around one sixth of the apartment blocks have been demolished or reduced in size; the rest of the existing building was extensively renovated.

The residential area has a primary and secondary school as well as a school day care center. It is administered by the housing associations of the housing cooperative zu Staßfurt eG and the housing and construction company Staßfurt , there is also a privatized apartment block.

Subordinate urban areas

The urban areas of Staßfurt-Mitte and Südstaßfurt are administratively assigned to the metropolitan district of Leopoldshall . There is also the “Am Tierpark” residential area and the Friedrichshall residential and commercial area.

Varia

  • A large-format photo of the St. Johannis Church Leopoldshall by Holger Zürch adorns the poster advertising the special exhibition 100 years of Leopoldshall city rights in the Staßfurt City and Mining Museum from January 27 to May 29, 2019.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the former city

Other personalities associated with Leopoldshall

  • Emil Baumecker (born April 27, 1866 in Hayn (Harz) near Stolberg (Harz) , † July 19, 1947 in Ballenstedt ), more than four decades of Evangelical Lutheran pastor at Leopoldshall's St. Johannis Church (1893-1934) and Long-standing, repeatedly elected member of the state parliament of the Free State of Anhalt
  • Carl Ludwig Reimer (born March 12, 1856 in Berlin; † March 6, 1921 in Leopoldshall), factory director at the United Chemical Factories at Leopoldshall AG and later employee of the Kaliforschungsstelle in Leopoldshall.
  • Adolph Frank (born January 20, 1834 in Klötze; † May 30, 1916 in Charlottenburg), first general director of the United Chemical Factories at Leopoldshall AG (from 1871–1875)
  • Georg Borsche (* 1844; February 18, 1926 in Eisenach), General Director of the United Chemical Factories at Leopoldshall AG (from 1876–1907)
  • Wilhelm Feit (born January 24, 1867 in Lippstadt; † June 19, 1956 in Bad Nauheim), General Director of the United Chemical Factories at Leopoldshall AG (from 1908–1921)

literature

  • Ernst Laue: Staßfurt - the cradle of potash mining . Zaltbommel 2010. ISBN 9789028866140
  • Staßfurter Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Staßfurt and its districts - streets and squares tell history . Self-published, Staßfurt 2009 (96 pages).
  • Miners' Association "Staßfurt, cradle of potash mining" eV (Ed.): 150 years of salt mining. 1852-2002. 2 brochures in a slipcase, Staßfurt 2002
  • Ernst Laue: Leopoldshall as it used to be. From the location of a salt works to the Staßfurt district. Wartberg, 2001, ISBN 3-86134-826-8
  • Siegfried Maaß: "You are not lost for me even when you are abroad ..." - Staßfurt - history and stories of a city . Staßfurt 1994. ISBN 3-9804054-1-9
  • Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Published in 1993 as an extended reprint by Hartmut Wiest, Staßfurt-Leopoldshall. ISBN 3-930207-00-1
  • Frank Kowolik: The old Staßfurt. A central German industrial city in old and rare pictures. Oschersleben 1992, ISBN 3-928703-06-4
  • Wolfgangfriedrich Sachse (pastor of the Leopoldshall church ): History of the Leopoldshall community. Commission publisher Oskar Flemming, Staßfurt 1938 (50 pages)

Web links

Commons : Leopoldshall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Keyser: German City Book, Volume II, Central Germany, W. Kohlhammer Verlag / Stuttgart-Berlin 1941, p. 582ff.
  2. ↑ The Staßfurt City and Mining Museum is honoring this anniversary with the special exhibition 100 Years of Leopoldshall City Law from January 27 to May 29, 2019. - Source: https://www.stassfurt.de/de/atei/kunden/id/55296,1065/plakat_sonderausstellung_museum_leopoldshall.pdf - accessed on February 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Adolf Kirchner : The Anhalt Salt Works Leopoldshall and its Influence on the State Budget of Anhalt , FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 39th year, volume 2 (1922), pp. 56-101
  4. ^ Ulrich Lauf: The hospitals of the German Knappschaftsvereine in the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See DRV-KBS. Graphic companies of DRV-KBS, Bochum 2005, p. 12 and 86 of 96, format A5 .
  5. ^ Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Staßfurt-Leopoldshall, Reprint 1993, p. 39 ( ISBN 3-930207-00-1 )
  6. ↑ Frank Kowolik: The old Staßfurt. A central German industrial city in old and rare pictures. Oschersleben 1992, p. 180 ( ISBN 3-928703-06-4 ) and Ulrich Lauf: The hospitals of the German miners' associations in the 19th and 20th centuries. S. 84. Bochum 2005, without ISBN (a publication of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See).
  7. ^ Mineralienatlas: Kaliwerk Leopoldshall
  8. ↑ Mindat - description of the location and mineral list for Leopoldshall, Stassfurt, Germany (English)
  9. ↑ Beach brine bath
  10. ^ Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and significance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Published in 1993 as an extended reprint by Hartmut Wiest, Staßfurt-Leopoldshall. ISBN 3-930207-00-1
  11. ^ Jewish cemetery Staßfurt-Leopoldshall
  12. ↑ https://www.stassfurt.de/de/atei/angebote/id/55296,1065/plakat_sonderausstellung_museum_leopoldshall.pdf - accessed on February 12, 2019
  13. ↑ In the archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Leopoldshall-Staßfurt