Plessa-South

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Plessa-South
Plessa municipality
Coordinates : 51 ° 26 '  N , 13 ° 38'  E
Postal code : 04928
Area code : 03533
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Plessa-Süd in the center of Schraden

Plessa-Süd (formerly Grödener Schraden ) is a settlement belonging to the southern Brandenburg municipality of Plessa in the Elbe-Elster district . It is located about four kilometers south of the center of Plessa at the confluence of the direction of Val Gardena upcoming national road 592 in the National Road 591 (Plessa- Hirschfeld ) in the center between Black Elster and Pulsnitz located Schraden -Niederung.

The site, which was founded under difficult conditions as a model settlement shortly after the end of the Second World War , was the model for the book “Das Dorf in der Wildnis” by the writer Klaus Beuchler, which was awarded the FDGB literature prize .

history

The electoral hunting garden around 1658

The electoral hunting garden

In the middle of the 16th century , a so-called electoral sow or hunting garden was created in the center of the Schradenwald in the area where the current Plessa-Süd settlement is located. In the middle of it was a four-story forester's house, which was built as a half-timbered building and at the corners of which were small turrets. In addition, a dam path was laid out from the west in 1650 in order to facilitate access to the hunting garden for the hunters arriving from the west. Presumably it was the present day reissue dam . The forester's house suffered severe damage during the Thirty Years War and was later demolished.

The separations in the middle of the 19th century and the first settlement in Schraden

As a result of the regulation of the Black Elster in the middle of the 19th century, separations became necessary in Schraden , since the groundwater level in the lowland had fallen by about one meter due to the extensive amelioration work and a total of 80,000 acres of swamp was made usable. The municipality of Val Gardena received extensive areas in the Schradenwald north of the Neue Pulsnitz as compensation. As a result of the separations, the reissue dam was also extended beyond the Vorwerk of the same name, which belongs to the Krauschützer domain, to Tettau.

At the beginning of the 20th century, considerations arose to settle the lowlands of the largely uninhabited Schraden. Extensive lignite deposits had been discovered above all to the northeast of the lowland, which led to rapid industrialization in the region with the construction of lignite opencast mines, briquette factories and power plants and, among other things, to an enormous population growth due to the increasing demand for labor. In an article published in the local history supplement Die Schwarze Elster of the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt in 1913, the agricultural district council described this development in the Liebenwerda district and the likely consequences. The fear arose that farmers living in the region, who had to sell their property to the ever-expanding lignite mines, might migrate due to a lack of income opportunities in agriculture. Some of these had already been offered land for resettlement in Falkenberg and Theisa . For a larger agricultural settlement, however, only the Schraden came into question.

The First World War began a year later . For the time being, it brought an abrupt end to the region’s further growth. The Reich Settlement Act , which came into force shortly after the war on August 11, 1919 , ensured that the earlier considerations were taken up again, and in August 1924 extensive forest, arable and meadow areas were sold in the eastern Schradenniederung Settlement building should serve and on which from 1929 the community Schraden arose. In September 1924, the district council of the then Liebenwerda district, under the leadership of District Administrator Max Vogl, decided to purchase the remaining areas of the royal Schradenwald in order to sell it on to the surrounding farmers. The areas in the area of ​​the Val Gardena Schraden settlement , which consisted of five farms and the sheep stables of the electoral hunting estate located in Val Gardena and belonged to the six kilometers south-west of the municipality of Val Gardena, were, however, reserved for a sample property proposed here.

The Val Gardena Schraden

Settlers Street
Children's playground
Crossing Reissdamm / L 591

Shortly after the end of the Second World War , there was a major fire in Schraden, which killed around 300 hectares of forest, which were not reforested in the following period. The burned-down areas were to be converted into arable land by clearing the remaining stumps . When the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) issued Order 209 on September 9, 1947 , which contained measures to be taken to create new farms, the Bad Liebenwerda District Council decided to build a model settlement in the Val Gardena Schraden . A special cooperative was founded in Bad Liebenwerda for this purpose. The first symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 7th, 1947 in the presence of the then District Administrator Paul Paulick. Of the more than 200 families who took part in the application process, only 21 could be considered, the majority of which were displaced from the former East German regions . The settlers were each assigned a yard between 1.02 and 1.5 hectares in size. In addition, there were 10 hectares of land for agricultural cultivation. The families were housed in a barrack on site until the residential buildings were completed. The buildings were to be built using the clay construction method, as the building material for this was abundantly available in the immediate vicinity. For this purpose, finely chopped heather from the surrounding forests was mixed in. The aim was for half of the houses to be ready for occupancy by autumn 1948, and so the first topping-out ceremony took place on April 30, 1948.

As already became clear in the summer, the construction soon proved to be unsuitable. A thunderstorm with heavy rain and gusts of wind that passed through on the night of August 12th to 13th 1948 left the settlement severely damaged. Of the buildings that had already been erected, seven still unfinished and uncovered houses and stables collapsed. On the same day, the Soviet commander appeared on site and instructed the continuation of the brick construction work. The building material came by means of tugs from the brickworks in Mückenberg (today Lauchhammer-West), the required timber from the sawmill in the neighboring village of Schraden. Due to the extensive help from the area for the settlers, the construction work progressed rapidly, and on October 30, 1948, the last building for the time being was completed. Further improvements to the infrastructure were the construction of a transformer station, which provided the settlement with electricity, and the road expansion approved by the district council. The construction work on the settlement was largely completed in 1952.

In the following year, on January 9, 1953, the agricultural production cooperative Neue Heimat was founded in the settlement by four new farmer families. The LPG, which initially farmed a total of 48 hectares, was initially Type I, which meant that the farmers initially only had to make their land available. The cooperative was later converted into Type III, in which the entire agricultural operation with cattle, machines and buildings had to be brought in.

On January 1, 1957, the Grödener Schraden was reclassified from Val Gardena to the Mining Community of Plessa and has been called Plessa-Süd ever since . The LPG Neue Heimat joined the LPG Free Land in Val Gardena in 1970 .

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New farmhouses in Plessa-Süd

Culture and sights

Leisure and Tourism

Fire station

Plessa-Süd is also connected to the sights of the surrounding area via the cycle path network via the Reissdamm, which is designated as the “Tourist Route”. The village community center and the volunteer fire brigade can be found in the center of the settlement . There is also a small children's playground in the immediate vicinity.

The village community center, which is owned by the local authority, was built in the early 1950s through the expansion of a fertilizer storage facility originally built on this site . By furnishing the building with a hall, taproom and school room as well as toilet facilities, it could be used for cultural events and training courses. The Plessa-Süd fire fighting group of the Plessa volunteer fire brigade is based in the fire station.

The village in the wild

Plessa-Süd is the focus of the book "Das Dorf in der Wildnis" , which was published in 1955 by the Berliner Tribüne-Verlag .

The journalist and writer Klaus Beuchler , who grew up in the region, described in the publication the dramatic course of the establishment of the settlement in the middle of the swampy Schraden lowlands after the Second World War. Based on its former name Val Gardena Schraden , the settlement is referred to in the book as Merzfelder Schraden . The story told from the perspective of a reporter is mainly based on real events. The night of August 12-13, 1948, which was marked by a devastating storm, is dealt with in a separate chapter. Reissdammstrasse and Siedlerstrasse are also named and the local peculiarities of the region are shown. The characters in the book were ultimately named by fictitious names.

Klaus Beuchler, who worked as a reporter when the book was written, had already published the book “Schwarzes Land und Rote Fahnen”, which dealt with the Lauchhammer region, as well as the book “Reporter between Spree and Panke” two years earlier . On June 16, 1956, he received the FDGB literary prize for “The Village in the Wilderness” . In the early 1960s, Beuchler once again attracted regional attention as a co-author of the DEFA children's film “Destination Erfurt” , as the main actors in the film were, among others, members of the Elsterwerda sports advertising group . The writer later became known in the GDR primarily for his science fiction novels.

Economy and Transport

Pig fattening facility Plessa-Süd

The Plessa-Süd settlement is located at the confluence of the state road 592 coming from the direction of Val Gardena and the state road 591 (Plessa- Hirschfeld ). The Reissdamm, a connecting route through the lowland from east to west, leads through the locality, which, coming from Elsterwerda, offers a paved connection between the settlement and the approximately eight kilometers to the west and continues as a largely unpaved route in the direction of the Schraden community.

Local public transport offers connections on school days with the 581 bus from VerkehrsManagement Elbe-Elster GmbH towards Plessa and Schraden.

The facilities and agricultural production areas of the former agricultural production cooperative in Plessa-Süd were re-privatized as a result of German reunification after the fall of the Wall. The Hirschfelder Agrar GmbH is currently located on the former premises with a branch. The company from the neighboring Hirschfeld to the south currently cultivates around 2,400 hectares of arable land. Around 13,000 pigs and 180 cattle are fattened annually in production. In Plessa-Süd, the company operates, among other things, a pig fattening facility, poultry houses and a maize silo that was built in 2006 for animal feed production.

literature

  • Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .
  • Klaus Beuchler: The village in the wilderness . Grandstand, Berlin 1955.
  • Klaus Beuchler: A village is looking for its name . In: New Germany . November 15, 1953, p. 4 (short story).

Web links

Commons : Plessa-Süd  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Matthies : The Schraden as an old hunting area. In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda . Ed .: Working groups of friends of nature and home of the German Cultural Association in the Bad Liebenwerda district. Bad Liebenwerda 1959, p. 91 to 95 .
  2. ^ A b Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 132 to 134
  3. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 1128/1129
  4. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , Pp. 174/175
  5. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , P. 136
  6. ↑ a b c d e Willy Thiele: “You did not allow yourself to be discouraged!” In “The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures” . No. 596 . Bad Liebenwerda 1985, p. 4 to 7 .
  7. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , P. 49
  8. ↑ a b Hanspach, p. 176
  9. ↑ Rudolf Mann: The planned transition from type I to type III, illustrated using the example of the LPG “Neue Heimat” Plessa-Süd . In: Finance and Accounting . tape 14 , p. 288 .
  10. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach: Der Schraden. , P. 109
  11. ↑ Use and fee statute for the village community center Plessa-Süd from April 10, 2006 (online as PDF file; 15 kB)
  12. ^ The extinguishing group Plessa-Süd on the Plessa Office homepage , accessed on December 28, 2012
  13. ^ "FDGB Literature Prize awarded" in Neues Deutschland , June 17, 1956, p. 1
  14. ^ M. Karl Fitzkow : Significant people from the Liebenwerda district in the local calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district , 1964, p. 132
  15. ^ Chronicle of the GDR for 1956 at www.ddr-lexikon.de , accessed on December 28, 2012
  16. ^ Destination Erfurt in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  17. ↑ Klaus Beuchler . In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film
  18. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verkehrsmanagement-elbeelster.de
  19. ↑ Internet presence of Hirschfelder Agrar GmbH ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hirschfeld-agrar-gmbh.de
  20. ↑ Wolfgang Kniese: "Save costs and pollute less" in Lausitzer Rundschau , June 3, 2006
  21. ↑ Kai Dietrich: "How the story of Auguste really ends" in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 9, 2006
  22. ↑ Antje Posern: “New moisture silo as a reaction to increased energy costs” in Lausitzer Rundschau, September 29, 2005

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '  N , 13 ° 38'  E