pictures from vanquished
villages in the Central German lignite mining area around Leipzig
in 1900 were in the area of Leipzig's first coal mines open, which should cover the increasing energy demand of the factories. This created jobs and attracted many people from far away places. Quickly, the area developed into the Central German area, the first villages were victims. Already in 1931 the demolition of Gaumnitz was near Zeitz. From that time, no consideration was taken more to the needs of residents, other villages followed immediately. Thousands of people have been displaced from their ancestral land.
Gaumnitz, resignation of the church tower on 29 June 1931 The obtained brown coal for energy should be used in large power plants. Thus, from 1925, taken from the middle of a river flood plains, meadows and forests dominated landscape, the power plant into operation Böhlen. Here was the brown coal are processed immediately. 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. With the founding of the GDR was the situation even more radical. Cleared has now been included in an area which is part of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
Heuersdorf, former site of mining United Schleenhain to excavation. In the background, the cooling towers of the power plant Lippendorf, May 2009 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. The leaders of the GDR did not care what was on this land. They traded a dictator, and the people had to their commands . Bend Whether large forests, floodplains and 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. In the cities they were 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.
Neukieritzsch, viewpoint, overlooking the open pit United Schleenhain, February 2009 changed after the turn of the situation is comparatively quite positive. The state governments promised many affected people a right to stay and the preservation of the home. This was sometimes because these people took to the streets and protested loudly. In this day and age that's no longer a problem, because settlements can be and how umbaggert are a kind of island stay. Certainly, this has many years of exposure to dust and noise result. But this time is limited, and by protective measures, a good life in such places is still possible. Priority, of course, is dispensed equal to the reduction and favors clean energy.
undisputed there were successes. Settlements that were occupied for decades with a ban on the construction, could expand again and remove the dirt of the pit. Was then carried out a major project that the rest of charred holes helps to life. The flooding and restoration of mining areas created the new lake Leipzig. Here, the entire infrastructure is created so that people can again feel comfortable and relax. Beaches, hiking and biking trails, as well as ports, promenades and tourist villages arise.
Zitzschen, viewpoint, overlooking the former coal mining Zwenkau, now flooding them around Zwenkauer Lake, July 2009 Where Perspectives on the one hand, there is the other part all the more regrettable that have been dredged since the nineties still isolated villages. This applies, for example in the former mining Eythra Zwenkau. The residents have been resettled while already in GDR times, but only after the turn of the village was demolished. As it was found during excavation, it was one of the oldest settlements in Saxony, where already thousands of years people lived. Also for the mine Profen lost thousands their homes. The largest surface mining area is located on the borders of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
Eythra, settlement houses, 1933, be dredged from the open pit Zwenkau for the expansion of the mine Schleenhain had to go last, the inhabitants of the village and Heuer Grand Hermsdorf. A forced annexation by Regis Breitingen 1 October 2004 was given a long wave of protests and actions of the attention from all over Germany was. Legal complaints were of no avail. Much media attention, in 2007, at least the Heuersdorf church to be saved by the reaction to Borna. 2009 had the last people to leave their homes. Archaeologists secured by the summer of 2010, the recent findings about the Tabor United Church in Hermsdorf. Process, they discovered even on centuries-old tombs with inventory.
Cospuden at Leipzig, 1903, be dredged from the open pit Cospuden 
Eythra, magpie bridge, 1911, be dredged from the open pit Zwenkau 
grove at Kieritzsch, parish - Church - School, 1907, be dredged from the opencast United Schleenhain 
United Hermsdorf, entrance, October 2008, be dredged from the opencast United Schleenhain 
Heuer village entrance, October 2008 be dredged by opencast mining United Schleenhain 
Prödel (Markham), old location, September 2010, formerly of dredged from the open pit Cospuden 
Stöntzsch at Pegau, old site, January 2009, formerly of dredged from the mine Profen 
Störmthaler Lake, March 2010, the former location of the villages Dechwitz, Göhren, Göltzsch, Gruna, Kötzschwitz, Magdeborn, Sestewitz, dancing mountain, all parish Magdeborn, formerly of dredged from the open pit Espenhain 
Trachenau at Rötha, Manor House - School - Friedrich-pin, 1907 be dredged from the open pit Witznitz 
Zeschwitz in Leipzig, Inn Zeschwitz, Owner: Louis Hedrich, sent on 05/16/1921, been dredged from the open pit Zwenkau 
Zobigker-Gauthier (Markham), Forest Café to the mill, in 1923, only partially excavated by open pit Cospuden 
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