Weferlingen
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The patch Weferlingen is a district of the city Oebisfelde - Weferlingen district Borde in Saxony -Anhalt.
- 6.1 traffic
- 6.2 Education
Geography
Weferlingen is located on the River Aller and on the northeast edge of the Lappwalds. There is a neighbor of grass lives in the Lower Saxony district of Helmstedt. More Saxony-Anhalt neighboring towns are Seggerde, Siestedt, Doehren, Walbeck, Hödingen and Eschenrode.
Approximately one mile from the town center, just over 500 meters from the building edge direction Grasleben lay west since 1945, the zone boundary between Soviet and British occupation zone or, since 1949, the inner German border.
As living spaces of the community were reported:
- Försterberg
- New Mill
- Pumping mill
History
At the time of first documentary mention in 1239 as Bleck, the village was in its residential development already relatively far advanced. She was from the 14th century to 1648 within the jurisdiction of the Halberstadt pin, however, was contested by Brunswick, Brandenburg and Magdeburg. The Wefer Linger castle and other goods in the place belonged in 1241 to the family of Honlage. After the castle was conquered in 1316 by Duke Albrecht of Brunswick, she is later shown to be the fief of Honlage and reached the beginning of the 16th century in the self-administration of Halberstadt bishop. As wonderful country office they frequently awarded as a pledge, so from 1650 to 1662 the Swedish general of Königsmarck. Soon joined Prince Frederick II of Hesse -Homburg, a noted cavalry general, on the back of the comprehensive reconstruction of the castle Wefer Linger In place of the Swedish General.
It was not until 1701 Weferlingen was a wonderful country Domänenamt again after the mortgage had been repaid. Five years later King Frederick I was under the Schönberger contract the village to the Margrave Christian Heinrich von Bayreuth - Kulmbach, who came from a Hohenzollern branch line, in return for giving up the relative at this point vague hereditary claim to the Margravate Brandenburg- Bayreuth. The contract raised the sons of the late Marquis, with the support of the Frankish empire circle already in 1722, in agreement with Frederick William I on again. 1716 was on Georg Friedrich Karl von Bayreuth Weferlingen as Residenzort, which then came to the state of self-administration again. 1751-1861 it was managed as a sovereign domain of the family Wahnschaffe and went after 1861 the property of the mirror in Seggerde.
Weferlingen was long considered a patch that did not have its own mounting and a more pronounced self-administration. By the end of the 19th century began potash Weferlingen gained in importance. 1877 sugar factory was built and in 1895 it came to be connected to a branch line to Helmstedt. The population was 3,600 in 1910 and rose to 1946 to around 4800.
In 1903, the Freiherr- vom-Stein -Gymnasium was founded as a preparatory school in Weferlingen.
From 1994 to January 1, 2005 was Weferlingen office of the Management Community Weferlingen, from 2005 to 31 December 2009, a branch of the administrative community Flechtingen.
Through a field change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities decided Oebisfelde City ( 27 May 2009 ), Bösdorf ( 26 May 2009 ), Eickendorf ( 28 May 2009 ), Etingen ( 26 May 2009 ), Kathendorf ( 19 May 2009), Rätzlingen ( 27 May 2009 ), Eschenrode ( 28 May 2009 ), Doehren ( 28 May 2009 ), Hödingen ( 20 May 2009 ), Hörsingen ( 27 May 2009 ), Schwanefeld ( 25 May 2009 ), Seggerde ( 26 June 2009 ), Siestedt ( 28 May 2009 ), and the spots Walbeck Weferlingen ( 19 May 2009 ) that resolved their communities ( 28 May 2009 ) and are combined to form a new city Oebisfelde - Weferlingen. This agreement was approved by the county as a lower municipal supervisory authority and entered into force on 1 January 2010.
After implementation of the association agreement of previously independent patch Weferlingen was Weferlingen district of the new city Oebisfelde - Weferlingen. For the community, the village has flowed Constitution according to § § 86 et seq of the Municipal Code of Saxony -Anhalt has been introduced. The patch Weferlingen village was the new city Oebisfelde - Weferlingen. In the village of spots Weferlingen a Ortschaftsrat with 14 members, including the mayor was formed.
Policy
In the town hall of the place is a branch of the city government.
The honorary mayor Hans -Werner Freestyle (CDU ) was on May 6, 2001 to December 31, 2009 in office and has since become mayor.
Ortschaftsrat
According to the last municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the congregation had 14 members Trat. Due to the city's founding by Oebisfelde - Weferlingen the council was automatically Ortschaftsrat. The turnout was 44.9 %. The choice was as follows:
Another member of the Ortschaftsrates and is chaired by the mayor.
Coat of arms and flag
The coat of arms was approved on 19 July 1996 by the regional council of Magdeburg.
Blazon: " Azure, a rooted golden oak with silver and golden fruit capsules. "
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Heraldikerin Erika Fiedler.
By 1996 Weferlingen led another coat of arms, a green oak tree on a silver shield.
The flag is yellow - striped blue ( 1:1) and in the center is the coat of arms.
Twinning
Weferlingen is twinned with the Bulgarian Svilengrad since 2000.
Religion
The Protestant Church " St. Lamberti " is named after Lambert of Liege. It is located on the church square. The organ of the St. Lamberti church was built by master organ builder August Troch (1817-1890) built from Neuhaldensleben. The Protestant church belongs to the parish of Haldensleben - Wolmirstedt.
The Catholic Church " St. Joseph and St. Theresa of the Child Jesus " is named after Joseph of Nazareth and Therese of Lisieux. It is located on the corner of Frederick Place / Thälmannstraße 1929 found her consecration instead. Since 2010, the church belongs to the parish of St. Christopher, headquartered in Haldensleben.
Memorials
In the local cemetery tombs to remember two unknown concentration camp inmates on a death march from the outer bearing "Gazelle" of Buchenwald, who were murdered in April 1945 by SS men.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
For the Federal Highway 1, which connects Brunswick with Berlin, it is in the south about 12.5 km. The connection point Helmstedt -West ( 61) of the Federal Highway 2 is achieved after 9.5 km. The L20, L42 and L43, the cross in the place.
Weferlingen was on the railway line opened in 1895 Helmstedt - Oebisfelde. The railway line Haldensleben - Weferlingen was opened in 1907. The inner German border changed the situation. The traffic to Helmstedt and Oebisfelde was set in 1945, the line was only used for Lokfahrten. Rail connection there was only towards Haldensleben. In 1995, the route direction Helmstedt was rebuilt, since it serves only to freight. The route to Haldensleben is now used only by the Lappwaldbahn for freight. Passenger trains were here until May 29, 1999 they had from 1945 to 1961 even connected via Weferlingen out on the railroad track direction Oebisfelde the Doehren station on the inner German border.
Education
- Primary school Weferlingen
- Freiherr- vom-Stein -Gymnasium
Sons and daughters of the town
- Casimir William of Hesse -Homburg (1690-1726), Prince of Hesse -Homburg
- Christian Friedrich (1708-1769), Margrave of Brandenburg -Bayreuth
- Sophie Christine Louise of Brandenburg -Bayreuth (1710-1739), Princess of Thurn and Taxis
- Friedrich III. (1711-1763), Margrave of Brandenburg -Bayreuth
- Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Hildebrandt (pseudonym: Carl North, 1796 -? ), Theologian and writer
- Reinhold von Werner (1825-1909), vice-admiral and military writer
- Angela Voigt (1951-2013), athlete and Olympic champion
- Rüdiger Barton (born 1954 ), keyboardist and composer of the German rock band Silly