Profen

This article describes the district of the Elsteraue community. For the Polish village of the same name, see Mściwojów .

Profen Municipality Elsteraue Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 32 "  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 41"  E
Height :	139 m
Residents :	1200
Incorporation :	July 1, 2003
Postal code :	06729
Area code :	034424

Profen is a village in the municipality of Elsteraue on the White Elster in the Burgenland district . It is located in the southern tip of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , near the borders with Saxony and Thuringia .

Market and church in Profen

The districts of Lützkewitz and Beersdorf belong to Profen .

history

In 1079 Profens was first mentioned in a document. In the 12th century by the monks of the monastery Pegau the Profener Elster mill race created.

The establishment of the Profen briquette factory began in 1911, as a result of which the village, which had previously been dominated by agriculture, was transformed into a mining community.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Beersdorf and Lützkewitz were incorporated. On July 1, 2003, the municipality of Elsteraue was formed from the previously independent municipality, merging with Bornitz, Draschwitz, Göbitz, Könderitz, Langendorf, Rehmsdorf, Reuden, Spora and Tröglitz.

Economy and Infrastructure

Profen opencast mine

Exploration began in 1941 and coal production began in 1944 from the upper seam of the Profen opencast mine . In 1951 coal mining began from the underfloor. The Predeler Kippe was created between 1951 and 1954.

In 1971 exploration work began on the south construction site and in 1972 the overburden conveyor bridge F 34 No. 26 in the north construction site went into operation .

In 1979 the overburden conveyor bridge No. 16 began to be driven in and coupled to the overburden conveyor bridge 26. In 1982, the inside tilting began with the new build spreader 1112. From 1985, the Pirkau residual hole was tilted.

In 1990 the bridge association was stopped and blown up. From 1993 to 1995 the coal mixing and stacking area was built. In 1999 inside tipping was resumed in the Profen opencast mine. In 2004 the first spoil was moved in the Schwerzau construction site. On May 4, 2004, an excavator was exchanged on the Schwerzau construction site, which was connected with a sensational crossing of 3 large open-cast mining equipment via the Green Mainline .

The Profen opencast mine with its Schwerzau and Profen-Domsen construction fields is expected to be in operation until 2035.

Planned coal-fired power station Profen

Since 2006, the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft (MIBRAG) has been planning to build a new lignite power plant with an electrical output of 660 megawatts at the Profen location . It is intended to replace the old industrial power plant in Deuben and the power plant in Mumsdorf , which went offline in 2013. The start of construction was planned for 2015 and commissioning for 2019/20. The prerequisite for construction is the opening of a new open-cast mine near Lützen , which is to supply the coal for firing the power plant. In April 2015, MIBRAG announced that the power plant project was on hold. The reason for this is the climate tax planned by Federal Minister of Economics Gabriel for CO ₂ -intensive power plants, which puts the company in financial distress.

The power plant is to have a fuel efficiency of 43 percent and be designed for combined heat and power , but not for CO ₂ separation (CCS). Mibrag cannot handle the total investment of 1.3 billion euros on its own and is therefore still looking for an investor. The search for investors has been difficult for years. In March 2007, the southern German energy group EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg withdrew from the project due to changes in the political framework for lignite. The opportunity for municipal utilities to participate from autumn 2008 onwards was also not very popular. So far, only the Stadtwerke Leipzig have promised to cover ten percent of the costs.

The Profen power plant is anchored in the Halle regional development plan and in the Saxony-Anhalt state development plan. According to its own information, MIBRAG is preparing for the official approval procedure. An investment and construction decision will only be made once the power plant has legal certainty and economic viability. The construction time is about five years.

The new power plant is exposed to criticism from civil society and political circles. Environmental groups complain that the new power plant has a much higher output than the power plants that were shut down for it and therefore, from the point of view of climate protection, worsening the environmental situation despite more efficient technology. The state association of Saxony-Anhalt from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen considers the power plant in Profen to be unnecessary and harmful to the climate, as the state's energy needs are already met.

In addition to the construction of the new power plant, citizens' initiatives are particularly critical of the planned opening of the Lützen opencast mine, which would destroy the villages of Schweßwitz, Michlitz, Röcken , Sössen , Bothfeld, Gostau , Kölzen, Stößwitz and Ellerbach. A total of 1000 people would have to be resettled. The open-cast mine would also threaten the cultural and historical heritage - the birthplace and grave of Friedrich Nietzsche in Röcken and the Gustav Adolf Memorial in Lützen.

traffic

In Profen there is a train station on the Leipzig – Probstzella railway line . The federal road 2 runs through Profen.

Sights / tourism

The center of Profen consists of numerous half-timbered buildings that are listed as historical monuments, some of which have been considerably renovated in the course of the village renewal. A special attraction is the church, built in 1495, with its late Gothic tower that can be seen from afar . It was important as the deanery church in one of the oldest parishes of the Zeitz-Naumburg diocese , which had market rights in the late Middle Ages , and is therefore unusually complex in terms of design and execution for a village church.

The war memorial erected in the village in 1875 was designed from the former Kursächsische post distance column of the Pegauer Obertor . On the old trunk road 2 (F 2) in the district of Beersdorf , a royal-Saxon border crossing stone and a royal-Prussian half- milestone (large bell) mark the former border between Saxony and Prussia from 1815, the state border between Saxony and Saxony runs at the same point today -Stop .

The Elster cycle path leads through Profen.

Personalities

• Johann Friedrich Hütter (1774–1840), lawyer and mayor of Zeitz; was born in Profen.

• The classical philologist Florian Lobeck (1816–1869) was born in Profen .

gallery

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  Profen-Süd opencast mine with Lippendorf power plant

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  Village street in Profen in June 2006

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  The White Elster at Profen

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2003
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} PROFEN coal-fired power station. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
3. ↑ NO to the planned coal-fired power plant and opencast mine in Profen / Lützen. ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2016 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. Website of the BUND Leipzig. Retrieved September 17, 2014. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} The power plant project: More energy from less coal. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2015 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. MIBRAG website. Retrieved September 17, 2014. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} State Development Plan 2010 of the State of Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 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. , Z 136 X. Retrieved September 17, 2014. 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Uwe Freitag: Coal giant Mibrag is planning a new power plant . In: Bild-Zeitung, October 12, 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
7. ↑ Birger Zentner and Steffen Höhne: Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft Mibrag stops new power plant construction in Profen. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 23, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
8. ^ After the coal dispute: Mibrag puts new lignite power station on hold. RP Online, April 24, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
9. ↑ Birger Zentner and Heike Riedel: Buschhaus power plant should secure sales . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 20, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
10. ↑ Questions and Answers. - power plant project. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2015 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. MIBRAG website. Retrieved September 17, 2014. 
11. ↑ planned power plant. - MIBRAG info page. ( Memento of the original from August 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Greenpeace Leipzig website. Retrieved September 17, 2014. 
12. ↑ FUTURE WITHOUT BROWN COAL - A new coal power plant is unnecessary and harmful to the climate.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sachsen-Anhalt, January 23, 2012. Accessed on September 17, 2014.