Queisau

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Location Queisau and the surrounding area around 1893

Queisau was a former municipality in what is now Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The place was about five kilometers southeast of Hohenmölsen . Between 1979 and 1980, 187 residents were relocated as a result of the lignite mining , the community was devastated and then completely overdrawn. It was deleted from the municipal register in 1981.

destruction

After the founding of the GDR , the opening up of open-cast mines in the Central German lignite mining area reached a new dimension and, specifically, changed the landscape in the Hohenmölsen - Profen - Zeitz area lastingly. Between 1953 and 1955, a works railway was laid between Profen and Deuben , via which the raw lignite extracted from the Profen opencast mine could be transported to the Deuben lignite power station for further processing .

Directly next to the Profen opencast mine was the Pirkau opencast mine , the charring of which was completed in 1969. The villages of Pirkau (1951), Streckau (1954), Mutschau (1957), Köttichau (1960) and Döbris (1967) fell victim to this opencast mine . The first place that was dredged over between 1962 and 1965 in the so-called Sachsenfeld of the Profen opencast mine was Stöntzsch . This was followed by some farms in Elstertrebnitz and Pegau , which were located in mining field 2b.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the decision was made to expand the Profen open-cast mine in a southerly direction and to devastate the towns of Queisau, Steingrimma and Dobergast . The 187 inhabitants of Queisau were mainly relocated to the newly created Hohenmölsen-Nord prefabricated housing estate in 1979/80 , together with the around 420 inhabitants of Steingrimma (1980) and Dobergast (1983/84).

The former municipal areas of Queisau and Steingrimma were initially assigned to Dobergast in 1981 under cadastral law . Again, the corridor of the Dobergast community, which was devastated in 1984, was transferred to Großgrimma on January 1, 1985 . At the end of the 20th century, the decision was made to dig over this place as well, so that on July 1, 1998 the corridor from Großgrimma was incorporated into the town of Hohenmölsen.

The extent to which the people living in the region continue to identify with the destroyed villages in their area and how important it is to come to terms with the mining past is testimony to the walkways on Mondsee that were built in 2014 . They are dedicated to the people who had to leave their ancestral home due to lignite mining and who often still suffer from the loss of their old homeland. The walkways symbolically lead to 15 villages destroyed by the Pirkau and Profen opencast mines. Each village is identified by a stone slab with the name of the place and the outline of the village. The stone slabs are arranged to scale according to the map before the start of the devastation and connected to one another by a circumferential path. The area within the circumferential path is designed as a labyrinth of hornbeam hedges . Since September 2017 there are 15 metal steles next to the stone slabs . With a height of 2.20 meters, church towers protrude from the labyrinth and can be seen from a viewing platform and from a great distance.

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  1. ↑ Industrial railways in central German lignite mining. (PDF 7.3 MB) LMBV (Ed.), Senftenberg, 2016, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Mitteldeutsches Braunkohlenrevier, Wandlungen und Perspektiven, issue 19, Profen, p. 10. LMBV, accessed on March 12, 2019
  3. ^ Carsten Drebenstedt: Recultivation in mining. TU Freiberg, 2010, p. 136.
  4. ↑ Student project Neue Heimat Hohenmölsen Kulturstiftung Hohenmölsen, accessed on March 11, 2019
  5. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, 1995.
  6. ↑ Area changes 1998 Federal Statistical Office , accessed on March 12, 2019
  7. ^ Zeitz / Weißenfels. In: Central German Brown Coal District - Changes and Perspectives. Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft (LMBV) , December 2015, p. 13 , accessed on February 7, 2019 (Volume 18 of the series). ( Digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.lmbv.de%2Findex.php%2FWandlungen_Perspektiven_Mideu.html%3Ffile%3Dfiles%2FLMBV%2FPublikationen%2FPublikationen%2520Mitteldeutschland20%2FWundand%2520Mitteldeutschland20%2FWundandand% 2Fdoku% 252018_Zeitz-Weissenfels.pdf ~ GB% 3D ~ IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D )
  8. ^ The walkways at the Mondsee Kulturstiftung Hohenmölsen, accessed on February 13, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′  N , 12 ° 11 ′  E