Wormsdorf

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Wormsdorf is a municipality in the district of Eilsleben Borde in Saxony- Anhalt.

• 3.1 Coat of Arms
• 3.2 flag

Geography

In the district of Worms village north of Magdeburg are two sources of all. Near the village of Gehringsdorf the wooded ridge reached High Wood in Edelberg 209 m above sea level. NN. The town of Seehausen is about 10 km, town in Lower Saxony Helmstedt removed about 18 km from Wormsdorf.

For the former municipality Wormsdorf belonged to the 3 km south of the district lying Wormsdorf Gehringsdorf.

History

Excavations of 1938, evidence of a settlement of the area already 6000 years ago. 1022 emerged the place the first time in a document of the monastery of St. Godehard in Hildesheim Warmestorp ( = terms of water sources).

The Worms villages church was built around 1200. It is built of sandstone, which was broken in Worms village and surrounding area for many centuries. Many buildings in the cities of Braunschweig, Helmstedt, Magdeburg and Hildesheim emerged from this building material and even Frederick the Great demanded for Schloss Sanssouci Worms villages sandstone on. The workers in the quarries were from Switzerland, Tyrol and from southern Germany.

Also in Wormsdorf are many buildings made ​​of sandstone ( the typical four side courtyards, archways, stables, barns and houses).

In the Worms Strand Church 1832 Field Marshal and military reformer August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was buried - according to which delayed by various circumstances construction of the grave lay with marble monument and guard house in Swiss style, his body in 1841 to his estate Sommerschenburg was transferred.

The temporary tomb in the church villages Worms 1835 target of a break of the famous robber captain rose.

On 1 January 2010, until then independent municipality Wormsdorf was incorporated into Eilsleben.

Population Development

1Einwohnerzahl December 31 respectively. (Sources: Statistical Office of Saxony- Anhalt)

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 5, 1993 the government presidium Magdeburg.

Blazon: "Divided from red to silver, in mistook a dragon in colors. "

The dragon is a " canting element " symbolize the place name. The colors of the former municipality are red and white.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Heraldikerin Erika Fiedler.

Flag

The flag was approved on 15 July 1997 by the regional council of Magdeburg.

The two-lane flag is in red - white striated ( longitudinal Flag / Hissflagge also striated ) to the issued without shield coat of arms symbol ( dragon ) in confused colors.

Transport links

The 2 km away Eilsleben municipality is situated on the national road 245 ( Haldensleben - Halberstadt ), there are more road links to Helmstedt, acting out and Seehausen. The motorway connection Eilsleben (A 2) is about 10 km away from the community. The nearby train station Eilsleben is located on the railway line Magdeburg- Brunswick.