end of April 2007, I marched, I'm walking through Leipizig, have photos and I shot it made my thoughts. The links to the photos and a select series of photographs with comments are at the end of the article.
On 22 and 23 Of May, a warm wind through the German media landscape, one can but also as a "fart" (I apologize) call. The Federal Statistical Office had published once forecasts of population growth by 2050, with a focus Ost-/Westproblematik. The mass media the forecasts are totally unreflective, inflated and garishly-packed - just as "F. .." - Re: "The East depopulated ... 2050 ...!" decline of 31% only a few small publications in the east rose a little deeper into the topic
For example, the SVZ-Online - Schwerin People's Daily.: "" The country is dying life, "Frank Wulff, clerk says the building department of the municipality Arendsee. Some places in the Altmark, a spoiled on the nature of land north of Magdeburg on the Elbe would give it no more soon: "There are then only signs - deserted villages called this" Wulff knows whereof he speaks. ... The vacated space would offer then today there room for extinct animals: "After the man is the wolf," the title of their chapter to a study by the Berlin Institute for Population and Development (BI). ... From Arendsee according Wulff especially the young and well educated disappeared. "The what was on it, are gone - There is nothing more to come," he says.
Elvira Freyse few kilometers from the southern city Bismark knows this only too well. None of their three daughters remained in the region. They found work in Berlin, Hanover and Magdeburg. Similarly, it is the children of friends and acquaintances: "Of around 100 90 to go." Because the younger ones are missing, fall into the place more and more. "Over 2,000 schools in the east since reunification have been tight," said Reiner Klingholz, head of the BI.
"old" figures from the Statistical Office of Ontario: The population of the district of Osterode fell between 1995 and 2004 7.1 percent, which the district Holzminden by 5.5 percent. This individual local authorities are still considerably higher than the average. The town of Bad Grund (District Osterode) as a lost around 18 percent of its residents, the town in the former Marienthal zone boundary area of the district Helmstedt even comes to a minus of 23.4 percent. How has the past three years to develop, one can imagine. fit on this subject my Impressions and experiences I have made recently in Leipzig. A
n Wednesday, 25 April 2007 I had about 2 hours for sightseeing in Leipzig. Franz-Listplatz I then starts around 10:00 clock on foot. Particularly impressive is the main train station - you see where the "Soli" is out flowed! But Leipzig is, like many other places in the former GDR full of contrasts. Therefore, I call the series of pictures (link below) and "Leipziger Allerlei".
can be from the same point of view, the super-restored station building, the skyscraper at the Willy-Brandt-Platz (formerly named the Walter Ulbricht Square?) And see totally neglected and abandoned buildings. Before the tower the MDR to be demolished house - the "Soli" continues to flow.
Leipzig had before the collapse of more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Today, there are still about 10,000 - and that despite BMW, Porsche, source / Karstadt and Amazon. Amazon, for example, predicts that only 400 (in words "four hundred") permanent jobs, the plant produced in the huge logistics center! For the other listed companies, it does not look much different. The able-bodied part of the population that is flexible, has the "flourishing country," left long ago. Backwardness are old, sick and resin-IV receiver.
The Nikolai Church and column, the starting point the protests and demonstrations that eventually led to the collapse of the entire communist system. My respect and appreciation for all the "brave of the first hour." The cross in the window of the church in December 2006, recalls the GI Dustin R. from Texas, who was killed in Baghdad. "Give peace a chance", the title - has brought the cause of peace in the world forward? The interior of the church very impressive - impressive white, the brightness and openness, supported by the predominant color. Outside the church, a poster bearing the words: "How much work do we need?" In addition, the accordionist might answer it. Compared to the "Forum of Contemporary History" comprehensive documentation of recent German history on the subject division, dictatorship, resistance and unity. A visit is highly recommended, but why we should not shoot me, no one could really explain it.
addition to the old trading exchange on the market is proud to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and not far away from it, again a very nice renovated old building with a roof terrace. But directly opposite, the view through a beautiful old wrought iron gate - fall ... . A great idea, the colorful buildings in the area of the Forum of Fine Arts. On the way back to the starting point nor the need of renovation "Bayerischer Hof" and the absolute contrast between high-tech and ruin is just around the corner at the Franz-List-Platz.
depressing is the extreme difference, in addition to the development of Eastern and hopelessness resulting from it in part, the frustration of the remaining inhabitants. "Leipziger Internet Zeitung" of 22 May 2007: "69% of Volkmarsdorf have to make do with less than 800 € / month comparison:.. The Leipzig average is 38% to 40% of people living on Mars villages ALG II '
takes in some regions, however, the vacancy rate of buildings frightening forms. In Saxony-Anhalt to 230 000 homes are unoccupied, one-sixth of the total stock. I know the situation as in the small district town of Zeitz from personal experience. The population in Zeitz has halved since the fall, where she had been enlarged by incorporations after the turn yet. Thus there are well over 40% of empty houses and crumble and are mostly already uninhabitable.
The scenario of the statistics for 2050 is not worth the paper on which it was printed, as the real world has in part become obsolete a long way. Because in the first place the well-educated young people between 18 and 35 - and thus the population of child-bearing age - have migrated and continue to the east - and to some extent Germany - turn their backs, the "depopulation" further accelerated. Lothar Eichhorn of the State Statistical Office of Lower Saxony: "The problem is that this suffering and infrastructure. Eventually, the school or the swimming pool is simply no longer hold. ... "This has advantages, too. Then we give just a little more natural space. ... Is this a strategy for the future?
When I hear something I think about the above-mentioned terms and quotes: "deserted villages", "After the man is a wolf" ... it can not well be! In my opinion it needs a radical change in the support framework. The massive investments in infrastructure have a short-term jobs created during the construction phase. There are now modern communication technology (Glasfasenetz ...) and transport systems no one needs. My suggestion is that any business that creates long-term, compulsory social insurance full-time job, it is exempt from tax.
If it is not, again significant job creation, the "flower land" in the foreseeable future, and not until 2050, "deserted land" to be - it would be a shame! http://picasaweb.google.de/Lothar.Reeg
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