Ruppersdorf (Meuselwitz)

Ruppersdorf City of Meuselwitz Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 1 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	162–171 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.86 km²
Residents :	15th
Population density :	5 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1957
Incorporated into:	Winter village
Postal code :	04610
Area code :	03448
Location of Ruppersdorf in Thuringia
View into Neue Strasse with four houses

Ruppersdorf is a village that was largely excavated by the Ruppersdorf opencast mine (1944–1957), which today belongs to the Wintersdorf district of the city of Meuselwitz in Altenburger Land in eastern Thuringia . The place belongs to the Meuselwitz-Rositzer brown coal area .

geography

Ruppersdorf is a lane village with a wedge-shaped corridor between the Kammerforst and the Luckaer Forst . The Schnauder and Kreisstraße 125 (Wintersdorf-Ramsdorf) run east of the village . Haselbacher See (bathing lake) is one kilometer to the northeast . Adjacent towns are Hagenest, Ramsdorf and Wildenhain as districts of the small Saxon town of Regis-Breitingen in the Leipzig district, starting clockwise in the north, Gröba and Bosengröba in the south , which, like Ruppersdorf, belong to the district of Wintersdorf and to the southwest, Wintersdorf itself, which is part of the city of Meuselwitz in District Altenburger Land belongs. Closest cities are Lucka (7 km) in the northwest, Meuselwitz (8 km) in the southwest, Regis-Breitingen (10 km) in the northeast and the district town of Altenburg (13 km) in the southeast.

history

State division of the Altenburger Land until 1920

Ruppersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1350. The place emerged as a German settlement in the course of the eastern colonization in the 12th and 13th centuries.

From 1548 to 1696 the place was the manor Breitenhain (in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg ) subject to interest, then the manor Wildenhain (in the Electorate of Saxony / Duchy of Saxony-Zeitz ). Ruppersdorf is one of the few places in today's Altenburger Land district that historically did not belong to Saxony-Altenburg. Together with its neighboring village Bosengröba, Ruppersdorf formed the southwestern tip of the Electoral Saxon or royal Saxon district of Borna , which protruded into the Altenburger Land. In 1580 a village church was built, in which Bosengröba was also a parish. A tower was built in 1896. In 1924 the church became a branch church of Ramsdorf . On January 16, 1835, a village fire broke out due to arson, only the church and a farm survived the fire unscathed, the school, five houses and 12 estates burned down.

From 1856 Ruppersdorf belonged to the Borna court office and from 1875 to the Borna district administration . In the second half of the 19th century, lignite mining began in the vicinity of Ruppersdorf. Lignite mining began in the middle of the 20th century in the immediate vicinity of the place, which lay between the Borna mining district in the north and the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining district in the south. The opening of the Marie III opencast mine , also known as the Ruppersdorf opencast mine, lasted from August 1946 to March 1948 . The Marie I and II opencast mines near Waltersdorf were exhausted and were filled with material from the Haselbach opencast mine (1955–1977) until 1956 . At the beginning of 1947, coal mining of the 6–8 meter thick Thuringian main seam at a depth of 22 to 32 meters began in Ruppersdorf. The yield in normal operation from 1949 to 1956 was 1.3 to 2 million tons of raw lignite. In July 1957 the production was stopped, the opencast mine belonged to VEB Braunkohlenwerke Rositz .

With the district reform in the GDR, Ruppersdorf and its district Bosengröba were assigned to the Borna district in the Leipzig district in 1952 . The resettlement of the residents of Ruppersdorf took place in three stages, but mainly from 1954 to 1956. 79 apartments were built for the former residents in the city of Lucka. Others moved to the neighboring villages of Wintersdorf, Neubraunshain and Lehma or to Altenburg or Borna. The devastation took place from 1955 to 1957. In this context, the municipality of Ruppersdorf was dissolved. The Ruppersdorfer Flur with the few houses remaining on the "Neue Straße" was incorporated into Wintersdorf on January 1, 1957, together with the Bosengröba district, which had not been dismantled, and thus became part of the Altenburg district in the Leipzig district. The recultivation of the Ruppersdorf opencast mine began in 1962, the remaining holes, like Marie I and II, were filled with material from the Haselbach opencast mine, creating a dump.

With the reintroduction of the federal states on the territory of the former GDR in 1990, Ruppersdorf came to Thuringia for the first time in its history with the Altenburg district. Since 1994 the place has been in the Altenburger Land district. With the incorporation of Wintersdorf to Meuselwitz on September 1, 2007, the place has belonged to this city since then. Today Ruppersdorf consists of five inhabited buildings on "Neue Straße", four of them from 1951, which were outside of the mining area. A boulder with a memorial plaque erected in 1990 reminds of the former farming village.

Population development

In 1552 14 occupied farms and another 13 inhabitants were mentioned, in 1764 there were 17 occupied farms and 7 other inhabitants.

Development of the population from 1834 to 1957:

1834: 218 1871: 201 1890: 251 1910: 294 1925: 321

1933: 292 1939: 298 1946: 369 1957: 321

Data source: Digital historical place directory of Saxony

Web links

• Ruppersdorf in the Historical Directory of Saxony
• Ruppersdorf on www.genealogy.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ The loan book of Friedrichs des Strengen, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia 1349/1350 Ed. By Woldemar Lippert and Hans Beschorner , Leipzig 1903. Pages 73 and 257
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 62 f.
3. ^ The Altenburger Land (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 23). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973, p. 38.
4. ^ The Borna District Administration in the municipal directory 1900
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. borna.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Digital historical place directory of Saxony

literature

• Hans-Joachim Müller: Chronicle of Ruppersdorf , Gröba 1956
• Florus Thurm The Saupenhof - A novel from the Altenburg brown coal area Evangelische Verlagsgesellschaft Berlin, Berlin 1974
• Altenburg contemporary witness from November 2012, page 6f
• Altenburg contemporary witness from December 2012, page 6ff