Leegebruch, Brandenburg, Germany

🇩🇪 Leegebruch is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography: Location Leegebruch is located north of Berlin in the natural area of the Zehdenick-Spandauer Havelniederung.

History Excavations go back to a Slavic settlement on the Muhre, which certainly dates back to the middle of the 8th. century until the turn of the 10th century. century can be set. The remains of the Slavic castle wall Leegebruch are still there today.

At the beginning of the First World War, the settlement consisted of a manor surrounded by horse stables, an administrator's house, a jug and a school. It was a branch of the Remontedepot Bärenklau. The Ministry of War operated a facility here to secure the removals. After the November Revolution and the Versailles Treaty, all independent estate districts were abolished. By a decision of the Prussian State Ministry of the 30th November 1928 with effect from 1. In December 1928, the Bärenklau estate district was also dissolved and the land was divided into different municipalities. Bärenklau and Leegebruch received the status of rural communities.

After the official confirmation as a municipality, elections to the municipal parliament were held; on the 8th In March 1929, the People's Representation met for the first time. On the 4th In May 1936, the Reich Ministry of Aviation decided to build the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg near Leegebruch. The required number of workers could not be procured from the area, for this reason workers were recruited throughout Germany. The plant now also had to create housing opportunities to bind the workers, this happened in Leegebruch. The move for the families was free. They came e.g. B. from the Rhineland, Saarland, from Hamburg, but also from Silesia. The families expected a new house with electric stove, electric light and 450 to 1000 m² garden. The houses were planned by the construction staff of Herbert Rimpl, who was also responsible for the Heinkelwerk; the gardens were planted according to the specifications of the garden designer Wilhelm Heintz. During this time, the population increased from 350 to almost 6000. Thus, Leegebruch was considered the "largest village in Germany". Since almost every house looked the same, every second one received a house sign on the gable from 1938. 3] The construction of the houses was financed by the Brandenburgische-Heimstätten-GmbH, the Kurmärkische Kleinsiedlungsgenossenschaft and by the Heinkel-Werk. The houses were offered for sale by the "Kurmärkische" and could be paid monthly with 39.75 RM and 41 RM respectively. First buyers also acquired land, later you could only buy the house. As a result, the descendants of many "first settlers" still live in Leegebruch today. In 1939, the shop line was built in Eichenallee, which still stands today.

During the Second World War, around 60 air raid shelters for 100 people each were created in the cross streets, and the houses received a green-grey coat of paint. This should make the place look like a lake from the plane. During a practice flight, crashed on the 11th. December 1941 at 3:30 p.m. a Thu 215 of the 2. Weather exploration squadron of the commander-in-chief of the Air Force and stuck at the Schuldach.

After the end of the war, many families returned to their homeland, but many also came as displaced persons from the former eastern territories. The new citizens from the North Bohemian village of Nixdorf (Mikulášovice) were formative. Until 1918, the largest steel and knife factories in Nixdorf were Austria-Hungary. Since one of the new citizens had brought a lathe, a whetstone, a drill and small tools from his small locksmith's shop, a production site could be created on the provided site at the entrance to Leegebruch. 16 displaced persons joined forces and founded on the 1st. August 1946 the cooperative of the Messerschmiede Leegebruch (GML). In 1956, the GML became the VEB (K) Messerschmiede Leegebruch with now 320 employees. On the 1st In July 1990, Messerschmiede Leegebruch GmbH became legal successor, later Adler Messer GmbH, in 2003 with three more employees.

Leegebruch belonged to the district of Osthavelland in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the district of Oranienburg in the GDR district of Potsdam since 1817. Since 1993, the municipality has been located in the Brandenburg district of Oberhavel.

Sights In the list of architectural monuments in Leegebruch as well as in the list of soil monuments in Leegebruch are the architectural monuments registered in the monument list of the state of Brandenburg or Ground monuments.

A memorial from 1949 on the edge of the Eichenallee/Birkenallee park commemorates the perished forced laborers who had to perform forced labor in the Heinkel aircraft plants during the Second World War.

Traffic The federal road 96 (Gransee-Kreuz Oranienburg) leads immediately to the east, the state road L 172 (Germendorf-Hennigsdorf) immediately to the west past the municipal area.

From 1951 to 1969, the municipality had a stop on the now dismantled Oranienburg-Velten railway line.

Public transport is operated by bus lines 800 and 824 of the Oberhavel Verkehrsgesellschaft.

Sport The BSG Stahl Leegebruch was one of the best rugby union teams in the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to several 2nd and 3rd The club won the GDR championship in 1972. 18] Furthermore, the team was once in the final for the national cup.