Wansleben am See
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Wansleben am See
Lake district Mansfelder Land municipality
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| Height : | 101 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 7.84 km² |
| Residents : | 1741 (Dec. 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 222 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 06317 |
| Area code : | 034601 |
  Location of Wansleben am See in the Mansfelder Land lake area
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Wansleben am See is a district of the lake district Mansfelder Land in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
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Wansleben is a good 15 km west of Halle (Saale) .
history
In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , which was created between 881 and 899, Wansleben is mentioned in a document as the place of Wenzesleba in Friesenfeld, which is subject to a tenancy requirement . The salty lake has currently disappeared.
Potash was mined in the area around Wansleben . To the east of Wansleben are the Georgi (1898) and Neumansfeld (1910) shafts, which have now been filled , see United Ernsthall potash works . During the Great Depression , the extraction of most of the potash mines in the area was stopped in exchange for a premium.
In the time of National Socialism , from 1944 onwards, the potash mines had a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , the Wansleben concentration camp , with the code names Mansfeld , Biber II , A 6 and Wilhelm . The 2,024 prisoners had to build underground halls for war production and work in the production of engines for Junkers aircraft for the Air Force , parts of the V1 and V2 and pumps for Messerschmitt aircraft, as well as in the manufacture of grenade detonators.
From October 1943 to spring 1945, works of art were stored in the underground facilities, including 500 boxes from the library and archive holdings of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) .
On April 12, 1945 at 5 a.m., the death march began for the inmates in rows of five towards Dessau and Schönebeck . At around 8 o'clock the first prisoners who could no longer walk were shot on this march. On April 14, 1945 the camp was liberated by a small unit of the 104th Infantry Division (called Timberwolf , under General Terry Allen ). The prisoners who remained in the camp were found sick or dead.
Post-war salt mining ceased in the 1960s. The development company Seengebiet Mansfelder Land is endeavoring to restore the lake.
On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Wansleben am See, Amsdorf , Aseleben , Erdeborn , Hornburg , Lüttchendorf , Neehausen , Röblingen am See , Seeburg and Stedten merged to form the lake district of Mansfelder Land. At the same time, the administrative community Seegebiet Mansfelder Land , to which Wansleben am See belonged, was dissolved.
traffic
The Wansleben am See stop is on the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . Regional trains run on the RB 75 (Kupfer-Express) Halle (Saale) –Lutherstadt Eisleben (–Nordhausen) line.
Sights and memorials
The late Gothic village church of St. Andreas and Stephan (1509) contains wall frescoes from the time it was built. It was restored in 2006–2015. In the local cemetery , at least 23 graves of unknown people and 13 graves of named people remember the victims of forced labor . There is also a memorial by the Halle sculptor Richard Horn , which was inaugurated in 1946 in the presence of GDR President Wilhelm Pieck . In autumn 2012, thanks to an initiative by Andreas Tautrim, a memorial was opened to commemorate the former camp.
literature
- Sven Röbel, Nico Wingert: The forgotten secret . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2005, p. 46-50 ( online ).
- Christoph Pauly, Nico Wingert: Secret underground concentration camp . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 2006, pp. 70-71 ( online ).
- Hendrik Lasch: A single-handed memorial . In: Neues Deutschland , November 10, 2012
Web links
- The forgotten concentration camp
- List of concentration camps and their external commandos in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG