Bartensleben

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Bartensleben is a municipality in the district of Borde Erxleben in Saxony -Anhalt.

Geography

Case Bartensleben are approximately 1,500 m apart. The sites are located east of Helmstedt on the east side of Lappwaldes. Wholesale Bartensleben is dominated by the former manor of the noble family of Veltheim with numerous buildings that are today captivated part. At the time of the German Democratic Republic here a LPG was operated. After the fall of the estate buildings have been sold to individual owners.

As districts of the municipality were reported:

• Great Bartensleben
• Small Bartensleben

History

On 1 January 2010, the formerly independent communities Bartensleben, Bregenstedt ( 31 December 2009), Hakenstedt and Uhrsleben were incorporated into the municipality Erxleben.

Castle Bart life

In the United Bartensleben is the castle Bartensleben that emerged in the mid -18th century on the foundations of a former moated castle with three baileys. The baroque palace is surrounded by a wide moat on a castle island ( locked 2005, as private property ) only via a bridge is accessible. Since about 1400, there was on the original castle and the later castle of the noble family Veltheim. After the expropriation of the castle after the Second World War in 1945 the noble family of Veltheim fled to the West. After that, use the Soviet occupation forces and the NVA, only to serve as women's Sanatorium under the name of Clara Zetkin and until 1991 as a retirement home. After the closure of the nursing home and the turn of 1989, the castle increasingly neglected. Since the acquisition of a private owner's extensive remedial measures are carried out to stem the decline of the vacant building. Adjacent to the castle there are larger ponds and a former English landscape park, which has recently (2008) been restructured. It was probably built in the 18th century from an earlier Baroque garden.

Dynasty of Bartensleben

Predecessor of the noble family of Veltheim as lords of the village Bartensleben was the dynasty of Bartensleben. They had their origin on the moated castle Bartensleben, which they left in the 13th century to go in today Wolfsburg room. There they ruled until their extinction in 1742 for centuries on the fortress-like developed Wasserburg Wolfsburg, they built around 1300.

Church

Near the castle is the Romanesque church patronage of the family of Veltheim, which was first mentioned in 1120. It was enlarged in 1530 and 1620. Inside several epitaphs of the family of Veltheim are available, including Achim von Veltheim, Agnes of Veltheim, née von Trotha and her son Christopher. The Holzschnitzaltar was created in 1676 by ​​Helmstedter Mathias Hermann. In the crypt, the burial place of those is Veltheim with 35 coffins.

Population Development

Coat of arms and flag

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Heraldikerin Erika Fiedler and approved on September 11, 1996, by the Regional Council of Magdeburg.

Blazon: " Divided half and split front top in gold, a black bar covered with two silver bars, forward and downward in an upright silver gestümmelter red tree branch with a red leaf on each side, back in green three golden ears side by side. "

The flag is yellow - green striped with applied crest.

Transport links

Bartensleben is accessible via the few kilometers to the south lies the Federal Highway 2 and on the federal road 1.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fritz Fröhlich (1887-1962), politician ( NSDAP)