Stone Grimma

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Location Steingrimma and the surrounding area around 1893

Steingrimma was a former church village in today's Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The place was about four kilometers southeast of Hohenmölsen . In 1980, 178 residents were relocated as a result of the lignite mining , the community was devastated and then completely dredged over. The deletion from the municipal register took place in 1981. The former location is now part of an arable land .

history

The settlement in a densely wooded valley was of Wendish origin and was first mentioned in a document in 1091. Until the middle of the 20th century, the inhabitants mainly farmed and raised cattle. The parish's fields have been described as extremely fertile. In addition, there were clay pits and a quarry in the immediate vicinity of the village . The place name was derived from this: Stein-Grimma . The Wendish word "grim" means "low-lying terrain surrounded by water and wet meadows".

The Grunau, also called Grunebach, flowed through the village. Evidently since the beginning of the 14th century, very probably even earlier, the von Draschwitz noble family from Meissen owned a farm in Steingrimma. The parish church was destroyed during the Thirty Years War and rebuilt from scratch in 1692. There were two bells in the church tower. The whereabouts of the bells from 1484 and 1733 is unknown. Until the mid-19th century, the church in stone Grimma belonged as a branch church to parish Doberman guest . The rotunda design of the church, otherwise known only in Byzantium , was considered unique in the area. Wiprecht von Groitzsch placed the order for the construction of this round chapel in the 11th century . Around 1824 the place had 21 houses, 80 residents and twelve large farms. The community was considered very wealthy.

Although from 1908 between stone Grimma and Queisau a small pit called Bunge-Nebe in underground mining with the promotion of lignite began, the place remained a popular destination due to its idyllic location in the valley until the mid-20th century. It had been known since 1911 that under Steingrimma there was a seam up to 75 meters thick with very solid coal. However, only after the founding of the GDR did lignite mining reach a new dimension. The GDR almost exclusively used domestic brown coal to generate energy. The maximization of the production volumes led to the use of huge areas. Places that were in the coal fields were consistently dredged. The largest number of demolitions and resettlements in Central Germany therefore occurred in the time of the GDR. Centuries-old manors, churches and cultural monuments were destroyed, cemeteries desecrated, entire forests cleared, rivers and streams relocated, canalized or diked. The mining of lignite took place in the GDR with practically no consideration for people or environmental concerns.

The first neighboring communities to fall victim to the Pirkau open-cast mine were Mutschau in 1957 , Köttichau in 1960 and Döbris in 1967 . The coal mining of this open pit was completed in 1969. At this time the decision was made to expand the Profen opencast mine in a southerly direction and to devastate the towns of Queisau, Steingrimma and Dobergast . A works railway from the Profen opencast mine to the Deuben lignite power station had existed since the mid-1950s. The Profen-Süd / D1 mining field was synonymous with the name Steingrimmaer Kessel because of the abundant seam . The open pit reached the site in the late 1970s. Most of the 178 inhabitants of Steingrimma were resettled in 1980 in the newly created Hohenmölsen-Nord prefabricated housing estate, together with the approximately 430 inhabitants of Queisau (1979/80) and Dobergast (1983/84).

After the carbonization was completed in 1998, the “Steingrimmaer Kessel” was filled with waste material and the bottom of the dump was recultivated . The former municipal areas of Steingrimma and Queisau were initially assigned to Dobergast under cadastral law in 1981 . 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.

In terms of landscape, nothing is reminiscent of the formerly densely forested valley of Steingrimma. The former location is now in the middle of a single-storey arable land. A so-called home stone on the nearby Mondsee commemorates the village together with others.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Edouard Förstemann: Mittheilungen from the field of historical-antiquarian research. Verlag Burger, 1867, p. 319.
  2. ^ Ernst Eichler and Hans Walther : Saxony. All city names and their history , Faber and Faber Verlag, 2007, p. 68f.
  3. ^ Friedrich Adolph Schumann: Complete state, postal and newspaper lexicon of Saxony. Verlag der Gebrüder Schumann, 1824, p. 361.
  4. ^ Herbert Küas, Manfred Kobuch: Round chapels of Wiprecht von Groitzsch. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1977, pp. 108-109.
  5. ^ Gustav H. Heydenreich: Church and School Chronicle of the City and Ephorie Weissenfels since 1539. Leopold Kell, Weissenfels, 1840, pp. 219-223.
  6. ↑ Journal for the extraction and utilization of brown coal: Brown coal. Volume 11. German Brown Coal Industry Association, 1913, p. 54.
  7. ↑ Resettlements: Political and Economic Conditions in the GDR Archive of Disappeared Places, accessed on March 11, 2019
  8. ^ Rolf Dieter Stoll, Christian Niemann-Delius, Carsten Drebenstedt, Klaus Müllensiefen: The lignite opencast mining: Significance, planning, operation, technology, environment. Springer, 2008, p. 442 f.
  9. ^ Carsten Drebenstedt: Recultivation in mining. Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, 2010, p. 130 f.
  10. ↑ Mitteldeutsches Braunkohlenrevier, Wandlungen und Perspektiven, Issue 19, Profen, p. 31. LMBV, accessed on March 11, 2019
  11. ↑ Student project Neue Heimat Hohenmölsen Kulturstiftung Hohenmölsen, accessed on March 11, 2019
  12. ↑ Hohenmölsen zoning plan from February 20, 2003 City of Hohenmölsen, accessed on March 11, 2019
  13. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, 1995.
  14. ↑ Area changes 1998 Federal Statistical Office , accessed on March 11, 2019
  15. ↑ Mitteldeutsches Braunkohlenrevier, Wandlungen und Perspektiven, Issue 19, Profen, p. 31. LMBV, accessed on March 11, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′  N , 12 ° 10 ′  E