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Heuersdorf and Great Hermsdorf

The sinking of two villages

"mine is Heimatklau." Decorate a shop window in the community center

Heuersdorf was a very old town in the Leipzig lowlands near Borna. The first mention of a church in Heuersdorf dates from 1297th This is the famous Emmaus Church, which now stands opposite the town of Borna in church. The village itself was mentioned in 1487 as Heynnersdorff first time. However, one can assume that there is already much earlier there was a place to settle. In 1935, the neighboring United Hermsdorf was incorporated into Heuersdorf. The time now Gesamtort had about 500 inhabitants.

houses on the road to Lucka

The initial designation of United Hermsdorf Hermann Dorff came even as a majority of 1378th It is likely that the origins of the local church also Tabor in the 13 Century were. Because the church needed a new organ, built in 1866 by the Leipzig architect Ernst Wilhelm Zocher, a new building, which started, however, many elements from the previous with.

This former mansion of the manor United Hermsdorf, after school and town hall

Both towns grew together, not only structurally, but also the residents. They had common associations, the children went into a common school and there was a country flair. There were many farms, usually created as a half-timbered buildings and later listed building. The village was open, and so joined to the Second World War, many new residents added.

Beautiful cottage garden in May 2009

While 1900 was already coal mines in the area of Heuersdorf, the situation changed radically with the founding of the GDR. Starting in 1949, about the village of Schleenhain receptive to reduce lignite, which was to serve for large power plants to produce energy. At that time no one knew alternative energy such as solar and hydropower, but relies entirely on what appeared just modern. In the future you thought yet, it was assumed that resources are unlimited, and environmental degradation and overexploitation no one had heard anything.

country estate in the United Hermsdorf, Fall 2008

lignite pit mines are a particularly fatal and destructive way to take revenge on the environment. Large-area, the landscape is removed so that a huge hole created and the underlying coal can be removed. In the time of the GDR while no attention was paid to what was on that country. Whether large forests, floodplains or sleepy villages, everything has been razed to the ground. The people who settled for many generations in this country had nothing to say and were often simply expropriated. They had to look elsewhere for a new home, it emerged in the cities for huge residential complexes, which not only look ugly, but by no means be compared with the previous life were that led these people. Here it was too anonymous, and with the years, lost the community as more and more easily moved away.

Only a desert: The area around the village road from Heuersdorf to United Hermsdorf

The Schleenhain called for its victims: There were others of the same village and Droßdorf, Zölsdorf and beetles grove to excavation. A huge conveyor belt system transports up today Brown coal power plant in the village Böhlen-lip, where the smoke rises from chimneys colossal and far beyond is visible through Leipzig.

village square with a monument to the depletion

changed after the turn of the situation initially quite positive, and the Saxon state government promised in 1993 that the site will remain Heuersdorf. In today's no problem, because either would be Heuersdorf umbaggert and stands still as an island, or we would have forgone the same on the further reduction and environmentally preferable energy.

The last Mail box in the United Hermsdorf, in October 2008, collected letters

was a year later broke that promise, and it came in 1995 at a Heuersdorf Treaty, which supported the resettlement. The town was Heuersdorf do not agree. It was subsequently decided in 1998 to integrate the site for the purpose of rapid expropriation by Regis Breitingen. This law became effective on 1 January 1999. Because the community Heuersdorf continually resisted, was on 1 October 2000 but again the independence can be achieved. Here began the lawsuit, the village lost wages but in the end. On 1 October 2004, the city was incorporated again, and all legal complaints had no sense, even if the process dragged on very long. With numerous activities, events on which said well-known artists, requests to the government tried to include the residents, but still bring about the change. It did not matter.

The Heuersdorf Emmaus Church in Borna, November 2008

In May 2006, demolished the first houses in October 2007, the famous Emmaus Church with great attention and coverage in Germany-wide and international media to Borna implemented. To secure the building they are transported as a whole and installed it back over to its new location the town church. For residents, there was an offer to move to new houses in the residential area "Am Park" in Regis-Breitingen. There went their many Heuersdorf, with many distributed to other surrounding communities.

Tabor The ancient church was used until its desecration nor

Until 2008, all houses in the old district Heuersdorf demolished, only large Hermsdorf was still with the Tabor Church. On 23 November 2008, the last service held here since the day the church would be desecrated. The surrounding cemetery was cleared during 2008 and 2009 an archaeological team was to any findings to back up yet.

timber splendor that no longer exists

Was Great Hermsdorf in the fall of 2008 still in excellent condition, was distinguished in May 2009 from a shocking image: The name signs were removed, the houses were deserted and the windows smashed. Most buildings had been demolished. If you looked from the UK to Hermsdorf Heuer village, opened a desert. Large debris piles everywhere, torn between basement and nondescript corridors where roads once were.

dilapidated old farmhouse next to the Tabor Church in May 2009

A cruel picture, no stone left upon another, nothing remains, not even a landscape with meadows and trees, as they were here 1,000 years ago, maybe once. In May 2009 there were still a few of the old farmsteads. More than 40 buildings were protected monument, it also took no account of it. Heuersdorf with Great Hermsdorf was an example for rural areas to Borna and architecturally very interesting with his field work. Now, almost without exception, all the inhabitants had to leave their homeland and their homes, leave their familiar surroundings.

An old half-timbered house, forever lost

The people who had left the village, can you feel sorry for. Who knows how long, how they lived many centuries their ancestors had at this place and were happy. Now it's over, and only because of a few square meters of land and pointless because no one understanding of the residents had. It would have been no problem to umbaggern the village, it could have stayed well stand as an island, as is evident from some examples in other brown coal fields. But now you can not really do anything. The country will never be the same, can never be seen again as it once was. Life will go elsewhere, while only question is how long the community and sense of belonging with each other continues. Let's hope the best that the Heuersdorf demolish the contact can not. Only memories remain of the former residents.

lived here people whose home was torn: Heuersdorf / United Hermsdorf