Kalbe

Kalbe (Milde ) is a city in the Altmark Salzwedel in Saxony- Anhalt. By 1952 the spelling calbe was used at the mildness.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 churches

Geography

Kalbe is centrally located about six kilometers east of the main road in the Altmark the river Milde 71

Boroughs

The city is divided into the following areas (but postal code and suburbs):

• Kalbe (Milde ) with the districts Kalbe (Milde ), stage and Vahrholz
• Altmersleben with the districts Altmersleben and butter Horst
• Badel and the district Thüritz
• Brunaupark with the districts Brunaupark and Plathe
• Engersen with the hamlets and small Engersen Engersen
• Güssefeld with the district Güssefeld
• Jeetze with the districts Jeetze and Siepe
• Jeggeleben with the districts Mösenthin, Sallenthin and Zierau
• Kahrstedt with the districts Kahrstedt and Vietzen
• Kakerbeck with the districts Kakerbeck, Brüchau and Jemmeritz
• Neuendorf am Damm with the districts Neuendorf am Damm and Karritz
• Packebusch with the districts Packebusch and Haguenau
• Vienau with the districts Vienau, Beese, Dolchau and Mehrin
• Wernstedt with the district Wernstedt
• Winkelstedt with the districts Winkelstedt, lazy Horst and Wustrewe
• Zethlingen with the district Cheinitz

History

Already at the end of the last ice age left spätpaläolithische and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers numerous artifacts of stone, bone and antler in the Moor of Kalbe.

For the first time Kalbe (Milde ) was documented in the year 983. In the chronicle of the bishop and historian Thietmar of Merseburg, the village was mentioned in the description of the destruction of the monastery by Lawrence rebellious Slavs.

Kalbe (Milde ) belonged until 1952 to the district Salzwedel, but became a district town in the newly founded in the course of administrative reform in the GDR district of Magdeburg. To distinguish calbe (Saale ) Kalbe has since been written with a "K". The circle calving was dissolved in late 1987 and re- allocated the city to the county Gardelegen.

Incorporations

Through a field change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities town Kalbe (Milde ) decided ( May 8, 2008 ), Altmersleben ( 14 May 2008 ), Güssefeld ( 6 May 2008 ), Kahrstedt ( 7 May 2008 ), Neuendorf am dam and Karritz ( 2 May 2008 ), Wernstedt ( 13 May 2008 ) and Winkelstedt ( 13 May 2008 ) that their communities dissolved and a new town Kalbe (Milde ) were combined. This agreement was approved by the county as a lower municipal supervisory authority and entered into force on 1 January 2009.

The city area was increased by the fact of 30.44 km ² 113.44 km ².

Through a field change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities town Kalbe (Milde ) decided ( 25 June 2009 ), Brunaupark ( 12 May 2009 ), Engersen ( 2 June 2009 ), Jeetze ( 3 June 2009 ), Kakerbeck ( on June 25, 2009), Packebusch ( (Milde ) are combined on 4 June 2009) and Vienau on May 14, 2009) that their communities dissolved and a new town Kalbe (. This agreement was approved by the county as a lower municipal supervisory authority and entered into force on 1 January 2010.

After implementation of the association agreement between the previously independent city Kalbe (Milde ) were stage, Kalbe (Milde ) and Vahrholz districts of the new town Kalbe (Milde ). For the community, the village has flowed Constitution according to § § 86 et seq of the Rules of Procedure of the State of Saxony- Anhalt is introduced. The recorded community Kalbe (Milde ) and future districts Stage, Kalbe (Milde ) and Vahrholz been to the village of the new town Kalbe (Milde ). In the charge included community and nunmehrigen town Kalbe (Milde ) a Ortschaftsrat was formed with seven members including a mayor.

The urban area grew to 222.91 km ².

On 1 January 2011 the municipalities were finally Badel, Jeggeleben and Zethlingen districts of Kalbe (Milde ). As a result, the city area has almost nine times within two years.

Policy

City ​​council

The municipal election held on 6 December 2009 led to the following composition of the City Council in Kalbe:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 7 June 2010 by the county.

Blazon: " Split of silver and gold, the front of the gap a half red eagle with golden arms, the back of the plate boundary breaking forth a red calf. "

The coat of arms is based on a seal dating from the 17th century with the inscription SIGILLVM OPIDI CALBENSIS. It already showed the half eagle of Brandenburg with a rose among them that are part of the coat of arms of the family of Alvensleben, the former owner of the castle was, but accounted for the rose later. While the eagle refers to the affiliation of the town of Brandenburg, the calf is a pun on the name of the city.

Memorials

• Graves in the local cemetery for a particular well-known women from Ukraine and three Poles, including a ten year old boy abducted during the Second World War to Germany and here victims of forced labor were

Culture and sights

The castle Kalbe, formerly Castle calbe, was built in the 9th and 10th centuries. Its ruins dominate the eastern edge of the cityscape today. She was from 1324 to 1945 in the family of Alvensleben.

The House Market Street 9 was built in 1775 and is the oldest commercial building in the city. After an extensive renovation, it is now used by several companies and a hotel.

Churches

The Nicolai Church, built in 1170 as a Romanesque basilica of boulders at the highest point of the city, extended to 1575 and rebuilt in 1755 in baroque style. It is named after Saint Nicholas and belongs to the parish church in the area calving Kakerbeck Salzwedel of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany.

The Catholic Church of St. Peter is named after the apostle Simon Peter. 1946 Kuratie Kalbe was established initially under the patronage of St. Hedwig. In 1963, the Church of St. Peter, built at great personal contribution of community members, it was consecrated on 22 December 1963. A structural feature is the transparent roof tiles above the chancel. The church is located at the Ostpromenade, it now belongs to the parish of St. Hildegard based in Gardelegen.

The New Apostolic congregation Kalbe / Milde existed until 2012 it belonged to the church district of Stendal. Their church was located in the northern part of the Ostpromenade.

Traffic

The train station of calving was for decades the resources point of its approximately 127 km route network Altmark railway AG and its predecessor companies. In June 2001, the connection was discontinued after Hohenwulsch on the railway line Stendal - Salzwedel as the last track.

Since around 2008 Kalbe is integrated into the new concept of public transport Altmark circle Salzwedel. This consists among other things of the Landesbus 100 ( Salzwedel - calving Gardelegen -Magdeburg ) and take bus 500 ( calving Brunaupark - Salzwedel ). The small villages are mostly served by call buses whose schedules are tailored to the bus lines. Basic clock on weekdays every two hours, on weekends, there are mainly in the morning gaps in the timetable.

VLF transmitter Goliath

On a 263 -acre site northeast of calbe to the mildness of the Navy from 1943 to 1945 for operation the VLF transmitter Goliath for the transmission of commands to submerged submarines. The antenna used for this transmitter, which must have been with a transmission power of 1000 kilowatts of the then most powerful station in the world, consisted of a screen antenna guyed at 15, hung grounded lattice towers of 170 meters above sea level and at three insulated against ground pipe masts of 204 meters above had. After 1945, the system served initially as a POW camp before it was dismantled in 1946. The foundation of mast number 8 is still standing. After dismantling the long -wave transmitter was built as first station of its kind in the Soviet Union near Nizhny Novgorod in the settlement Druschny again. He is still (2010) in operation.

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

• Busso V of Alvensleben ( Urk 1393-1433 ), Lord Master of the Order of St. John and the Commendatore to Advertise (Elbe )
• Busso VII of Alvensleben ( Urk 1441-1495 ), Governor and Kurbrandenburgischer Obermarschall
• Busso VIII of Alvensleben († 1493 ), bishop of Havel mountain
• Busso von Alvensleben X. (1468-1548), bishop of Havel mountain
• Gebhard XVII. of Alvensleben († 1541), Governor
• Johann Friedrich Danneil (1783-1868), pre-historian and educator
• Johann Ludwig Gebhard von Alvensleben (1816-1895), landowner and musicians
• Ludolf Hermann Müller (1882-1959), bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony
• Wilhelm Stapel (1882-1954), publicist
• Frank Schauer ( * 1989), Athlete, long distance runner, German champion in the marathon in 2013

Personalities who have worked on site

• Andreas I von Alvensleben (1495-1565) was lord of the castle at Castle Calvörde and Lord of the Manor of Castle Eichenbarleben and lock Randau.