Neuheide (Sondershausen)

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Neuheide
City of Sondershausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 276 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 99706
Area code : 03632
Neuheide (Thuringia)
Neuheide

Location of Neuheide in Thuringia

Neuheide is a district of Sondershausen in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .

location

The settlement Neuheide is north of Großfurra and south of the federal highway 4 leading from Sondershausen to Nordhausen .

history

On the outskirts of Großfurra, the first new farmer settlement in Germany was founded in autumn 1945 after the Second World War . On the expropriated grounds of the Großfurra manor, plots were measured and the construction of streets and houses began. The community, made up of land workers, war refugees and displaced persons, was to build and live in a model village.

A memorial with the propaganda slogan “Junkerland in peasant hands. 20 years of democratic land reform 1945–1965. First new farmer's settlement in Germany ”was built in 1965 in the center of the Neuheide settlement. “First new farmer settlement in Germany” does not apply, there have been quite a number of them since the 1920s. The surrounding juniper hedge has become so dense that you have to look for the monument (2015).

The district leadership of Erfurt of the SED was instructed to preserve Neuheide as a monument ensemble for the socialist new beginning in Germany. This had fatal consequences for the residents of the 30 new farmhouses at the time. Every request by the residents to modernize or remodel these houses - including elementary technical improvements - was rejected with reference to the monument status. The settlement was to become an inhabited open-air museum.

The settlement complex, which was essentially built from demolition material and remnants, was designed according to a plan drawn up by Hermann Henselmann , at that time the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar. At the beginning of the 1940s he had designed similar settlements for the Reichsgau Wartheland .

The house type "Thuringia" redesigned by Henselmann in 1945 was used for the construction. In the traditional half-timbered building, the apartment, stable and barn are all under one roof. The living area is on the street front, the ground floor has the eat-in kitchen, the main living room and a hallway with a staircase to the bedrooms in the attic. The stable can be reached through the feed kitchen, it offered a maximum of space for four cattle, young cattle and two pigs. The barn wing has a large gate on the front.

An agricultural livelihood for the settlement residents was thus available. The “Glück Auf” Sondershausen potash plant was located in the immediate vicinity. For the growing children of the former new farmers, this mine offered better paid jobs and later also comfortable company apartments.

With the political turnaround in 1990, understandably, the residents of the Neuheide settlement took action to improve their quality of living. The building boom foreseen in 1990 by the then mayor Hutmacher also occurred. The Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology decided in 2004 to revoke the monument status for the settlement, as the local character of the early 1950s is no longer recognizable.

  • New farmhouse (built after 1945) in Neuheide (2015)

  • New farmhouses in Neuheide (2015)

  • Land reform monument from 1965 in Neuheide (2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Schädlich: The new farmers' settlement Neuheide in Grossfurra . In: Architecture . No. 2 , 1989, ISSN  0323-3413 , pp. 54 .
  2. ↑ Karin Bühner: Life under the bell jar of a political monument . In the new farmer settlement Großfurra-Neuheide one is looking for ways into the future. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . August 9, 1990.
  3. ↑ Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Architecture and urban development in the southern Baltic Sea region from 1970 to the present . Publication of the contributions to the art history conference (Greifswald 2004). Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-85-9 , buildings from the 1960s and 1970s as objects of East German monument preservation.

Web links

Commons : Neuheide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files