Werbelin

This article describes a deserted area in Saxony, for a place with a similar name in Brandenburg see Werbellin .

Werbelin is a modern deserted village , the south-west from Delitzsch found and with its neighboring Kattersnaundorf the lignite mining by open pit Delitzsch Southwest fell victim. Today only reminds Werbeliner See to the former village whose east of the lake situated hallway to the municipality Rackwitz in Nordsachsen (Free State of Saxony is one).

Geographical location

Werbelin was in the Leipzig lowland bay between Delitzsch in the north and Leipzig in the south. The corridor of the former village is on the eastern edge of the Werbeliner See (former main remaining hole of the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine). Today it is recognizable as a bulge in the lake. Neighboring towns of Werbelin were in the north of the devastated city also Kattersnaundorf , east Brodenaundorf and Lemsel , south Wolteritz and west Zwochau (district Flemsdorf).

history

Werbelin was first mentioned in 1349 as "Werblin" in the loan book of the Margrave of Meißen, Frederick the Strict . The place name goes back to the Old Sorbian word "Verba" (meaning: "pasture"). The village was laid out as a round with a single entrance from the south. A dirt road led around the place. The 14 farmsteads were grouped in a fan shape around the central village square. From the 16th century to 1840 Werbelin belonged to the Neuhaus manor near Paupitzsch . The place has always been in the “care Delitzsch”, which later belonged to the electorate or kingdom of Saxony as the Delitzsch office .

As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , Werbelin came to Prussia in 1815 and was assigned to the Delitzsch district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony in 1816, to which it belonged until 1952. In the agricultural village in 1850 about 150 people lived, in 1875 there were 194 inhabitants. In the course of the district reform in the GDR in 1952, Werbelin was assigned to the newly tailored Delitzsch district in the Leipzig district. On January 1, 1957, it was incorporated into the neighboring village of Kattersnaundorf .

Due to the decision taken at the 8th SED party conference in 1971 to "expand the energetic base" in the GDR , the rural district of Delitzsch, which had previously been dominated by agriculture, was declared a mining area. For the extraction of lignite in the area around Delitzsch the opening of five opencast mines was planned. As a result, Werbelin was declared a mining reserve, i. This means that no new buildings were allowed to be built in the place, no more extensive repairs were carried out and no more burials were carried out in the place. With the opening of the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine in 1976, large-scale mining of lignite began in the immediate vicinity north of Werbelin. As a result, the 185 residents of Kattersnaundorf had to leave their homes in 1981. The devastated corridor of Kattersnaundorf and the town of Werbelin have been managed from Zschortau since 1981 . The opencast mine, pivoting counterclockwise around a point north of Werbelin, reached the site in the late 1980s. For this reason, the 130 residents were relocated in 1990/91. Since the early shutdown of the Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine was decided with the German reunification in 1989/90, the devastation of the place took place in 1992 amid massive protests by the population. The open-cast mine was closed just one year later, so that the actual site of Werbelin was no longer dredged.

Werbelin today

After the devastation of the place, the corridor of Werbelin still belonged to Zschortau. With its incorporation on March 1, 2004, it came to the municipality of Rackwitz .

During the renaturation of the main remaining hole of the former Delitzsch-Südwest opencast mine, the location of Werbelin was shaped as a headland in the northeastern section. A memorial commemorates the demolished community. At the annual Werbelin meeting in 1999, the former residents planted an oak tree in the former village square. Every year since then, on the Sunday after Pentecost, the "Eichel-Kirmes", the meeting of the advertising liners, takes place. In 1998, the main remaining hole began to be flooded, creating the Werbeliner Lake named after Werbelin. The lake, which has been completely flooded since 2010, is the largest in the former Delitzsch / Breitenfeld open-cast mining area with its 440 hectares.

literature

• Manfred Wilde : The Lost Places of the Delitzsch District. On the settlement and social history of the villages of Grabschütz , Kattersnaundorf , Kömmlitz , Lössen , Paupitzsch , Schladitz , Seelhausen , Werbelin and Wolteritz . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1999

Web links

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

• Private page about Werbelin with the story and many local views
• Werbelin on gov.genealogy.net
• Werbelin in the historical directory of Saxony
• History of the Delitzsch-Südwest / Breitenfeld opencast mine and the devastated sites on the LMBV website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
2. ^ The district of Delitzsch in the municipality register 1900
3. ↑ Werbelin on gov.genealogy.net
4. ↑ Kattersnaundorf and Werbelin on www.devastiert.de ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.