Oberhaide

Oberhaide was a small village between Zeitz in the west and Meuselwitz in the east, which fell victim to lignite mining from the Zipsendorf-West opencast mine between 1938 and 1940 . His corridor now belongs to the village of Rehmsdorf in the municipality of Elsteraue in the Burgenland district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).

Geographical location

Oberhaide was located on the southwestern edge of the Leipzig lowland bay between Rehmsdorf in the west and Mumsdorf in the east, which is now part of the Thuringian Meuselwitz . The former location was north of the now disused Zeitz – Altenburg railway . A few kilometers south of the devastated location of Oberhaide is the remaining hole in Zipsendorf . Oberhaide was in the west of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area , two kilometers east of Rehmsdorf.

history

The corridor of Rehmsdorf, to which Oberhaide belonged as a district, was in the Zeitz office until 1815 . As part of the bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz, it had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school- principality of Saxony-Zeitz between 1656/57 and 1718 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna , the area came in 1815 to Prussia and in 1816 the county Zeitz in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony allocated.

In the 19th century, lignite mining gained great importance east of Oberhaide around Wuitz and Mumsdorf . The area was the westernmost branch of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area . To develop new sales markets, the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line was opened in 1872 , on which the Rehmsdorf and Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway stations, easily accessible from Oberhaide, were built. Since 1901 the railway line to Gera-Pforten has branched off from the Wuitz-Mumsdorf station . The company Vering & Waechter built in 1901 south of Upper heath on the railway line Zeitz-Altenburg the briquette "Leonhard I" . It was in operation until 1968. Due to the favorable deposit conditions south-east of Oberhaide, open-cast mining was started in 1909 . South of Oberhaide and the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line, these were initially the smaller opencast mines Leonhard I (1909–1919) and Leonhard II (1918–1926).

The end of Oberhaide began with the " Zipsendorf-West opencast mine " (Leonhard III), which opened up in 1938 and which, until 1952, dredged the area north of the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line between Rehmsdorf in the west and Mumsdorf in the east. The hamlet of Oberhaide, located in the area and belonging to Rehmsdorf, was relocated in 1938 and dredged over around 1940. Most of the 30 residents moved to Wuitz , which, however, met the same fate between 1954 and 1956 with the Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine . With the formation of the Elsteraue community, the Oberhaide corridor has belonged to the Rehmsdorf community of Elsteraue in the Burgenland district since July 1, 2003.

traffic

The Wuitz-Mumsdorf station was a few kilometers southeast of Oberhaide on the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line and the Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway line . Rehmsdorf station was also on the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.
^ The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900
^ History of Oberhaide

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[1] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.

[2] The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900

[3] History of Oberhaide