Leubnitzer forest settlement
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The Leubnitzer Waldsiedlung belongs to the Werdau district of Leubnitz in the district of Zwickau in Saxony .
geography
The forest settlement is located in the immediate vicinity of the local recreation and landscape protection area of Werzeit-Greizer Wald between fields, meadows and wooded areas, the Leubnitzer Waldsiedlung in the west of the Free State, around 80 km south of Leipzig , and west of Chemnitz . The settlement can be reached from the Werzeit Valley of the Pleiße on the Dreiflügel road, an old forest path from Werdau to the Tischberg (400 m above sea level).
The nature reserve forests around Greiz and Werdau, which has existed in parts since 1961, has a size of over 2255 ha on the Saxon side (this area was only placed under protection in 1968) and extends west of the city of Werdau to Thuringia .
history
Founded as a new farmer's village , the forest settlement near Leubnitz stands on former forest soil that was cut down on the orders of the Soviet military administration and made into boards for the boxes for packing the reparations goods. Many sawmills in the area, including the former Müller sawmill in Leubnitz, had to cut boards from the felled trees exclusively for the Soviet occupying forces. The boards should be "as free of knots as possible". For example, the large spinning machines were expanded in rows in many textile factories in the area in order to transport them to the Soviet Union as reparations. The order for deforestation was given by the Soviet occupying power on the basis of the map, so that all areas, including the conservation area, were cut down just to comply with the order.
The deforested area was not settled for "humane reasons", but because the state of Saxony did not have any plants available for reforestation of the large area. At first the area intended for settlement was larger and began at the Leubnitzer forestry department.
At the beginning there were around 50 to 60 settlers from various German provinces who wanted to establish new farmer positions there, including many expellees from East Prussia , Lower Silesia , Upper Silesia , Western Pomerania , and the Sudetenland , but also some from Saxony. It was a thrown together people that had to get along so right and bad.
The beginning of the establishment of an agriculture was far from possible, because the tree sticks were still stuck in the ground and all areas were full of branches. The latter, however, disappeared very quickly, as the Werdau population, due to the lack of coal, used handcarts to pull them into these areas every day and brought the branches home.
After the new farmer sites had already been parceled out in planning and awarded by raffle, the state government decided not to move everything, but to provide a large part for allotment gardens in order to give the population of Leubnitz and Werdau the opportunity to acquire a small plot of land . The first gardens were created from the two villas (Päsler-Villa etc.) to the Stiefelknecht and then beyond to the Meiselwiese in the direction of Langenbernsdorf , in which the new owners built small and medium-sized houses. Then the gardens were created from the Leubnitz forestry department to the railway line. These plots of land, which are still on the Wergau corridor, are generally not counted as part of the Leubnitzer Waldsiedlung due to the spatial distance. Many of the landowners are now organized in the Werzeit Waldsiedlung association which, among other things, takes care of the electricity supply and sewage disposal of the settlement.
At a gathering of the settlers, people willing to settle were offered new farmer positions in Mecklenburg, where good soil was available and did not have to be cleared by clearing etc. The decision was made on a voluntary basis and it happened that so many settlers wanted to go to Mecklenburg that the number of those remaining coincided with the revised settlement plan. The settlement sites for the 13 settlers were finally raffled and the Leubnitz forest settlement was created.
Initially, all settlers were asked to build a temporary living space because it would take a few years to build the half-timbered houses. So many built a wooden house for themselves. Later four larger solid houses were built, then the next types became smaller due to lack of money and one of them was built using clay.
The areas around the settlement have become fields and meadows that are intended for reforestation. In the village there are a dozen of houses built in the last few years and a good dozen houses from the period after 1945: simple farmhouses, half-timbered buildings, mud houses, now mostly renovated and preserved from decay, some of them listed.
These include some half-timbered buildings, typical Neubauer houses of the time, in good original condition, in which humans and animals lived together under one roof. With simple, often primitive means, houses were built here after 1945 that were able to combine living and agricultural work.
The settlement is popularly known as the "Negro village". The origin of this name is unclear. It may be due to the primitive construction of the first houses and the resulting living conditions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The northern Vogtland around Greiz . A geographical inventory in the area of Greiz, Weida, Berga, Triebes, Hohenleuben, Elsterberg, Mylau and Netzschkau. In: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Ed.): Landscapes in Germany . tape 68 . Böhlau Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4 , D3 LSG Forests around Greiz and Werdau, p. 236 .
- ↑ Information on the website of the association "Werzeit Waldsiedlung eV"
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ' N , 12 ° 20' E