Groß Schwechten
52.68527777777811.80805555555634Koordinaten: 52 ° 41 '7 "N, 11 ° 48' 29" O
Great Schwechten is a district of the county town of Stendal in Saxony -Anhalt ( Germany ).
- 4.1 Station Peulingen
Geography
Great Schwechten in the Altmark is located 2 km west of the lamp and about 15 km north of the Hanseatic City of Stendal.
History
With large Schwechten connects directly the so-called " Krepe ", of which there is evidence, traditions and a legend. The Krepe was close to the lamp, nearly a mile north of Stendal between Borstel and Eichstedt, close to the influence of the bacon in the lamp. She was a castle in the middle of an oak forest. Beckmann testified ( 1742), that it excluded insignificant ruins, only the Castle Hill and the Castle Wall were obtained on the latter stood three mighty oaks. The oaks are now like; take the place of the forest came a bruchige meadow. Castle Wall and Castle Hill are still available today. They were told in 1986 to the floor monument.
The place name " Krepe " may be connected with the word " Count " or " secular judges "; Low German is called the same " Greve ", " Grebe ". This combines with the tradition that the Krepe is formerly been an old courthouse square. The old site is reminiscent of the old German judiciary in the period before the 13th century. At that time the rulers exercised itself from the administration of justice and the court fees considered as an important part of their princely income. Later, pledged or sold often the rulers jurisdiction the cities in order to cover their lack of money thereby.
A legend says: " Deep beneath the ruins of the castle " Krepe " lived a great band of robbers before times. For a long time this was the terror of the whole neighborhood, because they attacked not only the passing cars and hikers, but extended their raids on neighboring villages. As a repository for the stolen money to the robbers used a cradle, which she had hidden deep down in the cave. Today is the same at the bottom of the Krepe buried and still awaits the lucky finder. " ( From the local chronicle )
Until December 31, 2009 United Schwechten was an independent municipality with the associated hamlets Neuendorf on bacon and Peulingen.
Due to a change in the contract area, the municipal council of the municipality Great Schwechten decided on 19 May 2009, that the town of Gross Schwechten is incorporated into the town of Stendal. This agreement was approved by the county as a lower municipal supervisory authority and entered into force on 1 January 2010.
After the incorporation of the previously autonomous municipality Great Schwechten United Schwechten, Neuendorf were the bacon and Peulingen districts of the city of Stendal. For powered finished my community the village constitution according to § § 86 et seq of the Municipal Code of Saxony -Anhalt was introduced. The inserted end to my community and the United Schwechten neighborhoods United Schwechten, Neuendorf on bacon and Peulingen been to the village of the host city of Stendal. In the eingemeindeten community and village nunmehrigen United Schwechten a Ortschaftsrat was formed with seven members including a mayor.
Policy
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 22 February 2000 by the regional council of Magdeburg.
Blazon: "In a green sloping left golden cradle, beseitet top right of a gold ring with silver stone, bottom left of an obliquely left golden oak leaf. "
It is a resolution of the Municipality Great Schwechten, symbolically take the tradition of the Krepe in the local coat of arms. To make the cradle and the ring on to the above Sage; the oak leaf in the oak trees, which helped to earlier, the houses were built with eichernem truss.
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch.
Green - The color wholesale Schwechten Yellow apply.
Flag
The flag is green - yellow - green ( 1:4:1 ) striped and centrally occupied with the municipal coat of arms.
Traffic
Federal highway 189 leads as a bypass road west past the district of Stendal United Schwechten.
There buses stop and call buses of the regional transport company West Saxons ( RVW ) stendalbus under the brand name. In the nearby community of Goldbeck is the nearest railway station of the route Magdeburg- Wittenberg.
Station Peulingen
In Peulingen there were 1908 to 1985 a railway station Stendal's light railway on the route from Stendal to Arend. Originally, the station system from a platform on the village road and a south-east which are situated further loading track with charging road. With the construction of the track direction Bismark connection station in 1916 originated in Peulingen a wedge Station. The platform was moved to the triangle between the two routes south of the road charging. There was also the reception building, which still stands and is used as a residence. In the course of the expansion, the tracks have been extended. It created three more tracks south of the loading point, one of which was broken but again very soon. Operationally was Peulingen since a separation station. With decommissioning and dismantling of the track after Bismark terminal station, which had meanwhile been renamed to Hohenwulsch, Peulingen was again a through station. On May 26, 1979 ended the passenger. After setting the freight in 1985, the railway facilities have been removed. Today the remains of the subgrade are only to recognize only few can still be remains of sleepers and ballast.