Espenhain
Aspen grove is a municipality in the district of Leipzig in Saxony. It is part of the joint management Rötha.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 Local Partnerships
- 4.1 Sport
- 4.2 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
- 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical Location
Aspen grove is located about 20 km south of Leipzig and 8 km north of Borna in Leipzig lowlands, in the newly opened Leipzig New.
Neighboring communities
In the immediate vicinity of aspen groves are the villages Rötha, Borna, Kitzscher and Dreiskau - bigots.
Local structure
The municipality aspen grove is divided essentially in the old town center, called " the village ", the employees of the VEB BKK aspen grove served as housing in the settlement, the development area, the early 60s, and the districts Mölbis, Oelzschau and Pötzschau.
History
History of the districts see there.
After the founding of the village altsorbisches Miertzsch by 800 the town was after 1150, promoted by Wiprecht of Groitzsch, founded as a village square and received in 1350 the name " aspen grove ". The small village is 1813/1814 heavily involved in the fighting of the Battle of the Nations. 1896 begins the mining of brown coal. A railway line to Bohlen is opened in 1913. 1937, the open pit is open, 1940, the first coal is delivered.
Aspen grove reached as the dirtiest place in the GDR notoriety due to the lignite -based power plant VEB BV aspen grove. A method for purifying exhaust gas at this time were deliberately neglected by, for example, the flue gas filter are switched off, or Modern Filtration was not sufficiently available. The quality of the lignite used was also inferior, which caused toxic combustion residues. Was always a cloud of phenols, sulfur, soot and ash over the town and its surroundings. The high emissions made it necessary to return every morning streets and sidewalks, as a thick layer of ash had settled. Some residents have reported that occasionally the sun disappeared behind clouds of ash and that cars had daytime running lights. The health effects on the residents of the city were devastating. The life expectancy as a result, some years less than the national average. Children in particular suffered heavily from the appearing skin and respiratory diseases, such as eczema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD). Even today, many residents are affected by long-term consequences.
Incorporations
Policy
Local partnerships
The municipality maintains aspen grove with the Swabian village of Wolfschlugen a local partnership.
Culture and sights
Sports
In 1990 was in aspen grove of FSV Kitzscher. This association emerged from the Sports Association " activist aspen grove ". The footballers of BSG played 1975-81 in the DDR -Liga, the then second division, the bowlers of the association even in the top division of the German Democratic Republic, the special league. Presented with Manfred Uhlmann " BSG activist aspen grove " a world champion in bowling.
Regular events
On the site of the industrial and commercial area is the old main workshop of VEB BKK aspen grove. This workshop is now used by TDE ( Technical Services aspen grove ) used as a workshop and production facility. In this workshop takes place annually among others in the region acclaimed Christmas concert instead.
Economy and infrastructure
On the territory of the former VEB BV aspen grove in GDR times, one of the largest brown coal processing plants in the GDR, now is an industrial and commercial area.
On September 8, 2004 in aspen grove that time the largest solar power plant in the world ( solar power plant aspen grove peak power: 5 MW ) commissioned.
In the neighboring Thierenbach the lignite power plant Thierenbach was with an installed gross capacity of 840 MW. It was from 1969 to September 1999. The 300 m high chimney was blown up in March 2006 in October 2002 and the four 93 -meter high cooling towers.
Traffic
The Federal Highway 95 leads to four lanes through the community. The Federal Highway 38 is about 12 km away.
The municipality is located in the network area of the regional public transport network; Aspen grove with the towns Rötha, Bohlen and Zwenkau in the tariff zone 152 A connection to the rail network existed until 1993 when railway line Bohlen - aspen grove. Today the railway line serves only to freight between Bohlen and the goods station aspen grove. The station building of the railway station aspen grove has remained unused.
By LeoBus GmbH, a subsidiary of LVB Group, aspen grove is connected by lines 101, 141 and 144 in directions Bohlen, Kitzscher, Zwenkau and Leipzig- Probstheida. The lines 101 and 144 are aligned with the Bohlen station on the MRB2 and MRB70 and the RE8 and the RB130. By Thüsac passenger mbH aspen grove is additionally connected to the regional bus line 276 direction Borna about Kitzscher and the village Mölbis. The central station of all four bus lines aspen grove, Subway.
Education
In aspen grove, there is a primary school. It is housed in the building of the former polytechnic high school " Hugo - Joachim".
On the territory of the former VEB BV aspen grove, there is the Vocational School aspen grove.
Also located in the " IGP - Industrial and Commercial Park aspen grove " with the TDE Personal Service GmbH an inter-organizational training and educational center, especially in the industrial and technical occupations (focus on metal and electrical industry ) as well as performing in commercial occupations courses.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
Christoph Heinrich Zeibich (1677-1748), Lutheran theologian, born in Mölbis