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Wuitz was a village west of Meuselwitz that fell victim to lignite mining from the Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine between 1954 and 1956 . His corridor now belongs to the village of Rehmsdorf in the municipality of Elsteraue in the Burgenland district ( Saxony-Anhalt ).

Geographical location

Wuitz was on the southwestern edge of the Leipzig lowland bay between Rehmsdorf in the west and Meuselwitz in the east. The former location was south of the now disused Zeitz – Altenburg railway line . The Wuitz- Mumsdorf train station was north of Wuitz and was the only building in the town to survive the dredging.

The devastated location of Wuitz is today in the remaining hole Zipsendorf . Wuitz was in the west of the Meuselwitz-Altenburger lignite mining area , about 3.5 km northwest of Meuselwitz.

history

12th to 18th centuries

The place Wuitz was mentioned for the first time on April 13, 1147. This document is a letter from Bishop Udo zu Naumburg to the canon of Zeitz, in which he gives him a few villages. The neighboring towns of Wuitz, Zipsendorf and Falkenhain , which are today in Thuringia , have a similar date when they were first mentioned and also belonged to Zeitz for centuries. The spelling of the place name changed frequently: Wza (1147), Wozh, (1154), Wucz (15th century), Wuecz (16th century) and Wuitzcsch zu Wuitz. The town's estate was temporarily owned by the Lords of Bünau zu Breitenhain .

Wuitz was in the Zeitz office until 1815 , which as part of the Naumburg-Zeitz bishopric had been under Electoral Saxon sovereignty since 1561 and belonged to the secondary school- principality of Saxony-Zeitz between 1656/57 and 1718 . Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to Prussia in 1815 and was assigned to the Zeitz district in the administrative district of Merseburg of the province of Saxony in 1816. In 1825 there were 25 houses with a total of 157 inhabitants in Wuitz.

19th century

In the 19th century, lignite mining in the Wuitz area gained great importance. The area was the westernmost branch of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite mining area . Lignite mining experienced a rise around Meuselwitz in the 1870s. After numerous coal mines were built in the vicinity of the city, the mining area soon expanded westwards towards Zeitz. To open up new sales markets, the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line was opened in 1872 , on which the Prussian Wuitz and Mumsdorf, a ducal Saxon-Altenburg, shared a train station. Since it was known from technological maps that there were also abundant coal deposits in the Wuitz corridor, the railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter , based in Berlin , acquired the first coal fields in Wuitz in 1899. The Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Eisenbahn-AG, which operated the railway line from Wuitz-Mumsdorf to Gera-Pforten , which opened in 1901, was founded with the substantial contribution of the railway construction company Vering & Waechter . Furthermore, the Vering & Waechter company built the "Leonhard I" briquette factory north of Wuitz in 1901 . It was in operation until 1968.

First half of the 20th century

In Wuitz, the coal was first extracted in civil engineering . Due to the favorable deposit conditions, open-cast mining was started in 1909 . Around Wuitz, these were initially the smaller opencast mines Leonhard I (1909-1919) and Leonhard II (1918-1926). The first electrically powered coal shovel excavator in the entire Meuselwitz-Rositzer lignite district was used in Wuitz in 1911. With the onset of industrialization, the place changed from a farming community to a mining community. In 1925 three quarters of the population belonged, i. H. 743 residents, miners families.

The "Leonhardwerke" in Wuitz were merged in 1917 with the lignite company "Vereinsglück" from Oelsen . Already at this time, Wuitz's first house had to give way to lignite mining in the Leonhard II opencast mine. It was the station restaurant located south of the station, which was called the "plasterboard". After mining in the opencast mine in the "Leonhard II" pit was stopped in autumn 1926, the coal required for the "Leonhard-Werke" briquette factory was brought in from the former "Fürst Bismarck" mine in Rusendorf . Between 1938 and 1952 the "Zipsendorf-West opencast mine" (Leonhard III) destroyed the area north of the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line. The hamlet of Oberhaide (district of Rehmsdorf ) located in the area was relocated in 1938 and dredged over around 1940. Most of the (still) 30 residents moved to Wuitz.

History from 1950

With the district reform in the GDR on July 1, 1950, Wuitz and its neighboring town Mumsdorf belonged together for a short time to the Zeitz district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and, from 1952, to the Zeitz district in the Halle district , until Mumsdorf on December 4, 1952 Kreis Altenburg in the district of Leipzig was assigned.

The fate of Wuitz was sealed when, in 1951, coal mining began again at the same point south of the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line, where the Leonhard II opencast mine had stopped in 1926. From 1954 to 1956, the relocation of Wuitz affected by the Zipsendorf-Süd opencast mine affected 55 built-up properties and 644 residents. At around the same time, the town of Sabissa, southwest of Wuitz, had to give way to the open-cast mine. Only the Wuitz-Mumsdorf train station and the briquette factory north of the village were not dredged. The residents of Wuitz were offered replacement properties or apartments in Zeitz, Tröglitz , Zipsendorf or Meuselwitz. The area of ​​the meanwhile uninhabited community was incorporated into the community of Rehmsdorf on July 1, 1961 .

In 1968 the Leonhard I briquette factory was shut down. One year later, rail traffic on the Gera-Pforten-Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway ended partially, and in 1970 completely. Passenger traffic on the section between Zeitz and Meuselwitz had been suspended since September 28, 2002, which meant that the Wuitz-Mumsdorf station lost its importance. In 2007 the Zeitz-Altenburg railway line was shut down.

21st century

With the formation of the Elsteraue community, the Wuitz corridor has belonged to the Rehmsdorf community of Elsteraue in the Burgenland district since July 1, 2003.

traffic

The Wuitz-Mumsdorf station was on the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line and the Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf railway line .

See also

literature

Herbert Böttger: Chronicle of Wuitz . VEB brown coal works, Zipsendorf 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wuitz in the book "Germania Sacra, p. 572
  2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , p. 86 f.
  3. ^ The Zeitz district in the municipal directory 1900
  4. ^ The coal works Leonhard on www.schnaudertal.de
  5. ↑ Meßtischblatt 2875, Saxon No. 57: Meuselwitz, 1928; Open pit south of the station is shown
  6. ^ History of Oberhaide
  7. ↑ Mumsdorf on gov.genealogy.net
  8. ↑ Wuitz on gov.genealogy.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 31 ″  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 41 ″  E