Rasephas

Rasephas City of Altenburg Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 31 ″  N , 12 ° 26 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	170-193 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.21 km²
Residents :	570  (December 31, 2009)
Population density :	258 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1922
Postal code :	04600
Area code :	03447
Location of Rasephas in the city of Altenburg

Rasephas is a district of the Thuringian district town Altenburg . It is located northeast of the city center a little north of the train station . The district is shaped by the historic railway settlement and village structures. The place gained fame through the arms company HASAG, which was based here from 1937 to 1945 .

geography

Rasephas is the northernmost part of the city that merges directly into the urban area. In the West, still includes Zschernitzsch to, on the north lie the districts Knau and Unterzetzscha , the district is located in the east Posch joke and borders in the south Kauer village and bottom mountains on. The blue tide flows through the district.

history

Historic listed four-sided courtyard from 1836

An inn in Rasephas was first mentioned in 1722. In 1945 the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the building and continued to run it as the cultural center of the railway workers until 1992 , in addition to the restaurant and clubs. This building, known as the railway workers' home, now houses a kind of gym. Politically, Rasephas belonged to the Wettin office of Altenburg , which from the 16th century onwards was under the sovereignty of the following Ernestine duchies due to several divisions in the course of its existence : Duchy of Saxony (1554 to 1572), Duchy of Saxony-Weimar (1572 to 1603), Duchy of Saxony- Altenburg (1603 to 1672), Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1672 to 1826). When the Ernestine duchies were reorganized in 1826, the place came back to the duchy of Saxony-Altenburg. After the administrative reform in the duchy, it belonged to the eastern district (until 1900) and to the Altenburg district office (from 1900). From 1918 the village belonged to the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg , which was added to the State of Thuringia in 1920.

Rasephas, like Drescha , Kauerndorf and Zschernitzsch , was incorporated into Altenburg on October 1, 1922. Similar to Zschernitzsch, the place had a railway stop called Altenburg-Rasephas on the railway line to Zeitz , which was abandoned on December 14, 2002. Due to this fact, the armaments group HASAG settled in 1937 and 1938 , which produced ammunition here and was an external command of the Buchenwald concentration camp . An outdoor pool was even built for their employees, but it was closed in 2009 for financial reasons. The Altenburg / Nord part of the company became the largest of the group, employing 8,736 people in 1944, including many forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners. The plant was to be bombed on October 7, 1944, but the bombs missed it and hit the site, killing seven people. The area is located between Zschernitzsch and Rasephas and was bombed on March 17, 1945, the place remained intact. On April 12, 1945, 2,943 prisoners began a death march in the direction of Waldenburg; the plan was to transport them from Karlsbad to the extermination camp. Two days later the camp was liberated by US troops. Today the Poststrasse industrial estate is located on this site, directly on the B180.

With the first district reform of the GDR in 1950, Rasephas came to the Altenburg district as a district of Altenburg . During the second district reform in the GDR in 1952, the existing states were dissolved and the districts were redesigned. Thus Rasephas came with the district Altenburg at the Leipzig district , since 1990 as a county belonged to Altenburg Thuringia and opened in 1994 Altenburger in the district of the country.

Population development

Population development
year	Residents
1922	1200 1
2000	686
2004	595
2009	570

Every December 31st, except 1, on the day of incorporation

Railway settlement

A house of the railroad settlement

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The historical growth of the place took place in the years 1922 to 1926, when the railway settlement was established, it comprises a total of 32 buildings. The settlement was created in the year of incorporation into the city of Altenburg and became necessary because the local train traffic became more and more important, as the four signal boxes on the Rasephas district prove. Historically particularly valuable because it is Thuringia's only preserved garden city complex, the gardens were also used for self-sufficiency. That is the reason why there was a political issue in 2011. The State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology forbids using the gardens for parking purposes, which is why there is a shortage of parking spaces. The authority wants to increase the current number from 65 to 86, but according to the city administration at least 151 parking spaces are required.

traffic

The former B 93 and B 7 ran through the district until the Altenburg bypass built for this purpose was inaugurated. The B 180 still runs through the district today. Rasephas owned a railway stop on the Zeitz – Altenburg line between 1940 and 2002 .

church

The Saint Catherine Church

Rasephas owns one of seven parish churches in the Altenburg city area, which was built around 1450 and is also a cultural monument. Remains of a Romanesque predecessor building from the 12th century are present, but the upper part of the tower was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 17th century. The furnishings include a baptismal font from 1416, a pulpit from 1650 and a wooden figure of Saint Catherine from around 1500.

Other individual features

In the Rasephas district, in addition to the Eisenbahnersiedlung monument ensemble and the church, there are other cultural monuments, such as an Altenburg four-sided courtyard from 1836, the rectory, the Rasephas / Knau water tower and various signal boxes on the railway premises: signal box W1 Rasephas / Unterzetzscha, signal box B2 Rasephas depot, signal box W3 shunting yard Rasephas and signal box W4 Rasephas marshalling yard.

Sons and daughters

• Arthur Müller (1904–1983), motorcycle racer

Web links

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

• History of the former Eisenbahnerheim inn with pictures on the website of the Center for Movement

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Altenburg Office in the book "Geography for all Stands", from p. 201
2. ^ The locations of the Altenburg district from p.83
3. ↑ The eastern district of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg in the municipal directory 1900
4. ^ The Altenburg district office in the municipality register 1900
5. ^ Altenburg contemporary witness from November 2011
6. ↑ D. Blaas, C. Brumme, F. Otto HASAG in Altenburg Forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners of the Buchenwald subcamp in the armaments company S. Sell Heimatverlag Altenburg 2009
7. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the city of Altenburg
8. ^ Ostthüringer Zeitung (OTZ) of November 23, 2011
9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: TV Altenburg from November 17, 2011
10. ^ Website of the parish, accessed on February 5, 2016