Amesdorf

51.7811.59666666666784Koordinaten: 51 ° 46 '48 " N, 11 ° 35' 48" E

Amesdorf is a district of the city Güsten in Salzlandkreis in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical Location

The place is situated on the northern edge of the northern Harz mountains on the right bank of the Wipper. West of Amesdorf branches from the left side of the Wipper Liethe from which opens at Staßfurt in the Bode. For the former municipality Amesdorf belonged to the district Warmsdorf, which lies on the other side Wipper.

History

Amesdorf was first mentioned in 1339 under the name Amelung village.

Much older, however, the district Warmsdorf which is already mentioned as Warmeresthorpe 1018. A water castle on the Wipper already existed in 1268. In the train of ( hereditary ) division of the state fell in 1546 the castles Warmsdorf, Plötzkau, Harzgerode and Guentersberge the Reformer Prince Georg the Pious or God Blessed ( George III. Von Anhalt- Dessau ) to. On him the foundation of the first Lutheran parish of the town in the 16th century goes back. He made 1547 the castle Warmsdorf his residence. The castle and manor houses to be rebuilt at this time. In the period to 1552 George III built. the lock. During the plague epidemic Dessauer 1552 Prince Joachim of Anhalt moved the Fürstenhof here. On March 27, 1623 even a prince meeting was held in Warmsdorf.

Warm village and the surrounding area has been transformed in the re- Anhalt inheritance in 1606 an exclave of the principality of Anhalt- Köthen within the country Anhalt- Bernburg. The first ruler of the new country was Prince Ludwig of Anhalt- Köthen. 1619-20 he was here the famous educationalist Wolfgang Ratke keep trapped in the castle tower.

From 1716 until the death of his brother and predecessor, the Bach patron Leopold in 1728 who later became Prince August Ludwig spent 12 years in the hot villages Castle.

Gave about the future use of the castle and there are various ideas which were never realized due to lack of money.

A curiosity is expected today represent the former evangelical church hot village which escaped a planned demolition since 1985 only by lack of funds. In 1990 it passed into private hands and was subsequently turned into about eight years of construction in a three-storey residential building.

The largest employer Amesdorfs today is the agricultural cooperative Amesdorf.

On 1 January 2010, until then independent municipality Amesdorf was incorporated into the city Güsten. At the same time the management of Community Staßfurt, belonged to the Amesdorf since 2005, was dissolved.

Policy

Mayor

The last mayor of the municipality was Amesdorf Wolf Beinroth (2008-2009), its predecessor Ernst -Hermann Brink (The Left, 2001-2008 ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Azure, two golden diagonally left bar. "

Amesdorf decreed as a community does not have a crest and decided to use the book published in 1540 coat of arms of the county Warmsdorf. The redesign and documentation for the approval process realized then in 1992 the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch. The coat of arms of the county Warmsdorf heard today as part (field 9) the coat of arms of the house of Anhalt.

Swell

Amesdorf | Osmarsleben | Warmsdorf

• Place in Salzlandkreis
• Former municipality ( Salzlandkreis )
• Güsten