Gerbstedt

Gerbstedt is a small town in the district of Mansfeld- South Harz in Saxony- Anhalt.

4.1 churches

5.1 Coat of Arms
5.2 City Council
5.3 Town twinning

6.1 traffic 6.1.1 Major Roads
6.1.2 Public transport

7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Landscape

Gerbstedt located in the northeastern district of Mansfeld - Suedharz on the Mansfeld plate, a landscape with many low hills in the Harz mountains. This falls to the north from flat. In the municipality there are two main cuts, the valley of Schlenze and the meat of the creek, the latter being particularly steep in evil castle. Both valleys open west of peace castle in the valley of the Saale, the local landscape with its steep slopes is impressive. In Saale breakthrough in Rothenburg, the deepest at 72 m above sea level agency is located at the municipality. In addition, these cuts still divided into sub- cuts, at least according rainy storms pass through, most of them rivulets. The highest peak is located at 241 meters high hill Sickenberg west of Thondorf. Other hills are called, for example, Sehringsberg ( at Helmsdorf ), Long Hu ( between Ihlewitz and Gerbstedt ), Warta ( at Gerbstedt ), eavesdropping hill (south of Welfesholz ) and Cow Mountain ( in Adendorf ). Some hills are named after types of water, such as the Seeberg and Teichberg in Zabenstedt. But there are also hill with the same name as the Goldberg, who is represented three times ( once in Rottelsdorf and two times at Lochwitz ).

Waters

There are several rivers in the municipality, most of them are drained by the Schlenze. Mention may be made, inter alia, Griftbäche elm creek, Grift, apple Born and vetch ditch at Siersleben the west of the uniform community, (see Griftbach ); the Fleischbachstrasse at Freist with its several short, water-rich spring-fed streams with evil castle, such as the meat digging out Rottelsdorf. There is also the Lobach between Gerbstedt and Zabenstedt and Pfeiffhausener Bach. There also exist several periodically autrocknende rivulets in the area of the municipality, such as the often rain Beck called Old Wipper between Thondorf and Klostermansfeld that. Since 1826 no longer continuously flowing Sohlbach at Helmsdorf and the effluent after Hettstedt creek in the village Welfesholz Some rivulets are to be found in Freist.

Swamps and lakes are found in the municipality very little, but there are several man-made ponds, the few natural were largely filled ( such as the hole witzer Seelöcher ). The largest standing waters is an oxbow lake of the river Saale with a size of five acres east of peace castle on the border of Saalekreis. The second largest standing waters is an artificial, rectangular, about 200 by 30 meters large artificial Basin in the Valley of Schlenze at Holy Thal. Also to mention are the Lodderstedter ponds northwest of Gerbstedt; A small swamp is located on the southern outskirts of Augsdorf.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Arnstein, Hettstedt and Mansfeld in the West, rounders ( Salzlandkreis ) in the north, and Salzatal Wettin - Löbejün (both Saalekreis ) to the east; and sea area Mansfeld and Eisleben in the south.

Expansion and use of the urban area

Gerbstedt is a medium sized community, it comprises a total of 102.02 km ² with an east-west extent of 16 and a north-south stretch of 8 kilometers. The land use is shown in the table below, one must note that the roads and waters were assigned to the area that it encloses. This is also true for smaller wood.

Source: web atlas of the geoportal Rhineland -Palatinate, the information is freely nachmessbar.

History

The area of the city Gerbstedt has been inhabited for a long time, this witness many finds. South of Siersleben there was even a grave circle system. In addition, grave mound or entire cemeteries have been excavated. Such exists on the northern slope of the Schlenze between Helmsdorf and Polleben, here a lot of stone cist graves were found, the dead were all buried with the head to the south. Some tombs have been reconstructed, they are hidden on Sehringsberg, ten feet from the top edge of the field away. Moreover existed on Brosowski - bay royal grave of Unetice culture that was discovered in 1906 by the historian Hermann Größler.

On the much more numerous before the construction of the tunnel key streams and rivulets, there were many old villages. Most of these are only found as a deserted villages, just about the core city there are ten. These hot: Thanks to village, Derlingen, Drese joke Lodderstedt, Mummendorf, Nienstedt, Nisselsdorf, Polingen, Reinsdorf and Red Wave. From another deserted village north east of the main town of the name is unknown. Another desert town called Dörlitz located at Freist

Based on a field modification agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities Augsdorf have ( 8 June 2009 ), Friedeburgerhütte ( on: May 18, 2009), Hübitz ( 20 May 2009 ), City Gerbstedt ( 19 May 2009 ), Ihlewitz ( at 14 May 2009), Rottelsdorf ( 9 June 2009 ), Siersleben ( 10 June 2009 ), Welfesholz ( 3 June 2009 ) and Zabenstedt ( 23 June 2009 ) decided that their communities dissolved and a new unified community with the name of the city Gerbstedt are combined. This agreement was approved by the municipal supervision and entered into force on 1 January 2010. On 24 January 2010, the municipalities Freist, peace Castle (Saale ) and Heiligenthal were incorporated.

Boroughs

The municipality Gerbstedt divided into 12 villages ( community- like units ), these can be divided into 25 districts, the actual places under different subheadings. Of these, 23 belong to the villages and two to the settlements. There is also the industrial area apple Born, an area south of the village Hübitz to find.

Culture and sights

Churches

In most districts of the municipality is a church, there is rarely even a second in place. Most churches in the community have a strong tower with clear rectangular floor plan. In Gerbstedt and Siersleben that is the case, in these places there beside the old Protestant church building nor a younger Catholic. The following churches exist in the community:

St.Moritz in Adendorf
St. Annen in Augsdorf
St. Michael in evil castle
St. John in same
Holy Cross Church in Freist
St. Boniface in peace Castle

St. John in Gerbstedt
The Catholic Church of Gerbstedt
St. Andrew in Heiligenthal
St. Stephen in Ihlewitz
San Pancrazio in Lochwitz
St. Simon and Jude in Rottelsdorf

St. Andrew in Siersleben
The Catholic Church of Siersleben
St. Wenceslas in Thaldorf
St. George in Thondorf
The Lady Chapel of Welfesholz
The village church of Zabenstedt

There was in the past even more churches such as the monastery church of Gerbstedt, some deserted villages had small churches.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 7 December 1998 by the regional council hall. The new city Gerbstedt requested the continuation and the takeover of the coat of arms of the old city Gerbstedt, it was approved on 17 June 2010 by the county.

Blazon: " Argent, St. Stephen with black hair, blue dress and green palm frond in her right hand, growing behind two adjacent half round shields, the right golden with linear black hexagram - divided in a green shamrock, the left red over silver. "

The coat of arms refers to seal depictions from the 16th century. The oldest seal of 1404 hl. Stephan still presented with praying hands raised while the presentation with the martyr's palm ( palm, palm fronds ) is known since the 16th century. St. Stephen is one of the seven deacons of the early Christian community in Jerusalem, and the first martyr of the Christian Church (stoning ). The hl. Stephen is the patron saint of the Bishopric of Halberstadt and at the same time also the patron saint of women's pin and the town church Gerbstedts. The hexagram in the right plate is probably the old town sign, a hall mark and the green shamrock is a symbol of Benedictine monks who worshiped the Stephen. The left shield is the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, whose archbishop Günther the stains Gerbstedt awarded market rights and that city and convent Gerbstedt only sold in 1541 to the Counts of Mansfeld.

The colors of the city are blue and white.

The coat of arms was designed by Lutz Döring heraldist from Erdeborn.

City council

In the fall of 2009, the first city council of the new municipality Gerbstedt unit was chosen with a voter turnout of 47%. The CDU is represented here with 9 of 20 seats by far the strongest. It is followed by the Free Voters (4 seats), the Social Democrats and the Left (both 3 seats ) and the FDP ( 1 seat).

Twinning

Since 1991, there is a ring - twinning with the partnered since 1966 Grefrath communities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Frévent (North of France ). The contacts are especially cared for by the " Association of Friends of Frévent and Gerbstedt " at Pentecost take place annually mutual visits between the partner cities.

Infrastructure

Traffic

Major Roads

Road routes in the municipality are:

State Road 180, which, however, extends only 500 meters to the south of the municipality
The country roads ( only the course in the community, or the first location outside is called when the roads is to go [ ... ] written ) 72 ( intersection Thalmann shaft - Siersleben - Welfesholz - Sander life - [ ...])
151 ([... ] - Belleben - Gerbstedt - Helmsdorf - Polleben - [ ...])
154 ( Siersleben - Helmsdorf - Holy Thal - Zabenstedt - Friedeburgerhütte - Pfeiffhausen - valley village - Zellewitz - [ ...])
158 (peace Castle - Adendorf - Friedeburgerhütte - Zabenstedt - Gerbstedt - Welfesholz - Hettstedt - [ ...])

Public transport

Throughout the village there is no station of the Deutsche Bahn, which is in operation. The HHE, which was with the routes Halle- Hettstedt ( the stations Rottelsdorf, Heiligenthal, Gerbstedt and Welfesholz in today's municipality ) and Gerbstedt - Peace Castle ( the stations Gerbstedt, Zabenstedt, Friedeburgerhütte, Zabitz and peace Castle in the church today ) opened up the area shut down gradually from 1962 to 2002, first in 1962 the route Gerbstedt - peace castle, then in 1968 the section between Saint- Thal and Schochwitz, 1998, the section Gerbstedt - Heiligenthal and 2002, finally, the last section in the district of Mansfeld- Suedharz between Hettstedt and Gerbstedt. At the station of Siersleben, which is on the railway line from Magdeburg to Erfurt, since 1993 no trains depart more. Only on the narrow gauge line of the Mansfeld mining railway ride occasionally tracks the breakpoints Thondorf and reversing triangle Siersleben to. The main public transportation within the municipality are the buses of the VGS Suedharz. The nearest railway stations with trains are in Hettstedt, Klostermansfeld (both distance Magdeburg- Erfurt), Sander life ( routes Magdeburg to Erfurt and Halle- Vienenburg ) and Eisleben ( railway Halle- Kassel).

Personalities

Rikdag, Margrave of Meissen
Thimo of Wettin (11th century), bailiff of the convent Gerbstedt together with his brothers Frederick I, Bishop of Münster; Dedo II, Margrave of Lusatia; Gero von Landsberg and Konrad von Camburg
Peter Legge (1882-1951), Roman Catholic. Bishop, worked as a curate in Gerbstedt from 1907-1911
Julius Kurth (1870-1949), German teacher, pastor, independent scholar and author, died in Gerbstedt
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet, spent his youth in peace Castle
I. Hoyer of Mansfeld, was field marshal of Emperor Henry V, died in the Battle of the Welfesholz

Sons and daughters of the town

Place Gerbstedt

Valentin Haussmann ( about 1560 - about 1614 ), German composer of the Renaissance, organist and councilor in Gerbstedt.
Karl Seidenstücker (1876-1936), Indologist, pioneer of Buddhism in Germany
Otto Brosowski (1885-1947) miners, iconic member of the KPD; see Krivoy Rog flag of
Eugen Ray (1957-1986), athlete and Olympian

Place Siersleben

Marie Ahlers (1898-1968), communist politician, member of parliament
Wilhelm Brunner (1899-1944), local politicians
God Help Heinrich Schnee (1761-1830), pastor, belletristic and agricultural writer, inaugurator the Wittenberg Luther Memorial

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