Letzlingen

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Position of the settlement Letzlingen in Gardelegen

Letzlingen is a town and a district of the Hanseatic City Guard Insert in the Altmark Salzwedel in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geography

Letzlingen lies in the vast forest and heath area of ​​Colbitz - Letzlinger Heath about 50 km north of Magdeburg directly on the main road 71 to district of the village are also big parts of the eastern military training area Altmark, including also the former local situation of the deserted village Salchau.

History

In 1910, 1378 residents lived in Letzlingen.

Policy

Last Mayor of the municipality was Letzlingen Regina Lessing.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Split of green and silver, front gezinnter a silver tower with two pale -arranged window openings, rear -ended a five red antlers. "

Letzlingen was once an insignificant little village of Heath, which was 300 years desolate, until it re- emerged in 1701 as colonists village. Previously, " Old Forester ", then the hunting lodge of the Brandenburg electors was called. The hunt has been maintained by several owners and rulers over many centuries. Builds on these historical roots of the Letzlinger crest on with tower and deer rod.

The coat of arms was designed in 1996 by the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch.

Attractions

Cultural Tourist Center is the hunting lodge Letzlingen with cavalier and Steward. The castle was built in the period from 1559 to 1562 on behalf of the later Elector of Brandenburg, Johann Georg. 1843 to 1868 it was thoroughly renovated. It is since 1996 owned by the Foundation domes and palaces of Saxony- Anhalt and is the last Hohenzollern Castle in Saxony- Anhalt.

The hunting lodge across the street is the built in Tudor style castle church. It was inaugurated in 1861 by King William I and today is used by the protestant church Letzlingen.

Festivals

Beginning of June, the asparagus festival with the crowning of a queen and an asparagus asparagus peeling competition.

Memorials

• Graves in the local cemetery for 25 KZ - prisoners who were murdered during transport from the camps Wieda, Nixel, Mackenrode and Osterode am Harz the concentration camp Dora -Mittelbau in spring 1945 by SS men, as well as the graves of each of Soviet prisoners of war and a forced laborer as well as five U.S. pilots.