Globig-Bleddin

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Globig - Bleddin is a district of the city Kemberg in Wittenberg district of the state of Saxony- Anhalt.

1292 Globig was first mentioned as Globik and 1376 Bleddin documented as Bledin. In October 1965 both towns were merged into the municipality Globig - Bleddin.

The approximately 12 km southeast of Wittenberg located municipality belonged to since 2005 the administrative community spa region Elbe heathland. On 1 January 2009 Globig - Bleddin was incorporated into the city Kemberg. Since March 2010 Globig and Bleddin independent districts of Kemberg.

Infrastructure

Globig ( district ) has a modern telecommunications network, a central water supply and a sewage system for the recording of all wastewater. There is a bus both to the neighboring villages as well as to the city center ( Kemberg ) and to the city of Wittenberg. For other compounds, there is a bus system call. In Globig there is a hairdresser. Doctors and schools and shops are located in the neighboring villages or in Wittenberg.

Historical

Globig has always been a rural community with sometimes up to 1000 inhabitants, about 25 farmers large and small farms, a dairy farm, a mill and two forges, where not only the horses got new horseshoes, but also tractors and other things through were repaired bicycles.

In addition, there were two shoemakers, a tailor's operation, a carpentry shop, a wheelwright and two restaurants, and a kindergarten, a primary school with eight classes and teaching staff, a volunteer fire department, a church along with Pastor, a post office with an adjoining telegraph office, a mayor and a hairdresser with first-aid station.

For the everyday necessities were at point two grocery shops, a bakery and a butcher. A messenger wife took over all the jobs that had to be done in the nearby town of Wittenberg. And for poor families was a community center for free Housing available.

Globig had a railway station with freight office and an attached peasant demand action. In short: Globig was a thriving, fully self-sufficient community where the non-fiction author Karl -Heinz copper was born in 1935 and the Second World War had left little trace.