Lostau
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Lostau is a district of the municipality Moser unit in the district Jerichower Land in Saxony- Anhalt ( Germany ).
Geography
The village Lostau lies in the catchment area of the state capital Magdeburg, which is achieved both via motorway A 2 as well as on the federal road 1 after 15 kilometers. The county town of Burg is a similar distance away. West of the town flows the river Elbe, to immediately come close the backwaters to the district of Alt- Lostau. Here ends also the coming of the South " Umflutkanal " into the Elbe, Magdeburg protects against flooding. North of the village is the 76 meter high " vineyard ", from which a wide view over the Elbe valley, the flange and the flaming is possible rises. The district Lostau is part of the landscape the nature reserve " growth - Külzauer forest ".
History
Archaeological finds have revealed that have settled to the Iron Age Germanic tribes in the Lost Auer area. They have been replaced from the 5th century by Slavs. The first train of Henry I. against the Slavs 927-929, the area came under German influence. 973 confirmed the German Emperor Otto II in a document that his father Otto I have the place paid Loztoue the archbishopric of Magdeburg. In this document, a Castle Ward is mentioned, its location, however, until today could not be identified. In a parish villages Directory of 1459 we find the place name Lostov.
While the residents Lostaus mainly fed from fishing in the Middle Ages, after agriculture and animal husbandry increased in importance. This was also a result of Elbregulierung at the end of the 18th century, with the Lostau lost his immediate vicinity of rivers. With this measure, the flood risk to the site should be banned, but this only partly succeeded, because very high water levels threatened to be the inhabitants. Many of them therefore gave the mid-19th century on their homes and moved a few hundred meters to the east, where a ridge offered better protection. Since that time Lostau consists of two districts, the settlement Alt originally Lostau and at the level of small Lostau today New Lostau, which developed as the main town in the further course.
For some time it seemed as Lostau could benefit from early in the 19th century industrialization. There emerged two brickworks processed the silt of the River Elbe. In 1846 the railway line was Magdeburg - Potsdam completed, the routing is also Lostau touched. However, it soon became apparent that the embankment was not flood-proof, so they were transferred in 1870, the route to the East, so Lostau lost its rail connection. The two brickyards had the early 20th century its operation set again.
On the other hand, opened on July 1, 1902 tuberculosis sanatorium, the village was important. She received in 1909 as the first hospital in an X-ray machine and in 1928 expanded to include two large bed houses. At a special treatment focus is the care of pregnant women from tuberculosis began to emerge, which was continued until the 1960s. Formerly founded by a Magdeburg club, the hospital was later operated for several years by a railway pension fund, before it was acquired by the city of Magdeburg, 1939. From 1966 to the Hospital of the legal ownership of the district of Magdeburg was assumed, and it was taken over by the Protestant Pfeiffer's Foundation Magdeburg 1996.
At this time the population of Lostau over the 1980s has increased significantly. 1993 had been opened in the district of New Lostau a new residential area, built on more than 200 homes. In 2002, became Old Lostau in great danger, as the hundred-year flood inundated the district. All residents had to be evacuated.
Lostau belonged from 2005 to 2009 to manage Community Biederitz - Moser. Until December 31, 2009 Hohenwarthe was an independent municipality with the associated district Old Lostau. Last Mayor of Lostaus was Helmer Frommholz. January 1, 2010 Lostau was incorporated into the unified community Moser.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 16 January 1992, the Ministry of the Interior.
Old church Seal
Seal from 1952
Structures
The village church Lostau, located in the district of Old Lostau, was built 1150-1200 from quartzite rubble of Pretziener quarries as fortified church. It is a three-piece staggered late Romanesque building with a broad west tower, nave and chancel. Altar, pulpit and gallery are from 1650. Decorated with four lions The baptismal font from the 12th century is believed to be a gift of Henry the Lion to the Margrave of Brandenburg Albert the Bear. The tower bells date from the year 1715.
North of the village is located since 1984 the windmill Hohenwarthe.
Personalities
- Peter Hesse (1944-2004), German chess player and composer