Rietzel

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Location of Rietzel in Saxony-Anhalt

Rietzel is a district of the city Möckern district Jerichower Land in Saxony -Anhalt.

Geography

The place is located in the center of the district Jerichower Land on the north western edge of the High Flämings. It is embedded in the landscape conservation area Möckern - Magdeburgerforth and surrounded by agricultural land, bounded on the north by the fire Forst. Northeast of the village are the Glad Auersberg ( 53.8 m ) and the Gallows ( 61.7 m), the highest elevations of the western Flämings. Rietzel is framed by two arms of the middle trench mouth, which flows in a westerly direction into the Pareyer wetland. In the town the county road 1211, which ends after four kilometers into the country road 52, about 15 kilometers away county town castle can be reached ( near Magdeburg ) ends. The motorway connection Theeßen the A 2 is eight kilometers away.

History

The place name is of Slavic origin and means something like " in the waters ." He first appeared in 1335 as Recel on and developed over Recele (1340 ), Retzle ( 1345 ), pinion ( 1459 ) and Reitzel (1562) to today's place name. The Slavic name indicates that the village was already in the 8th century at the latest. The village belonged to the Official Grabow, which was owned by the Gutsfamilie of Wulffen since the beginning of the 14th century. 1540 went Rietzel in part to the family of Plotho over. Until 1773 Rietzel was subordinate to the Brandenburg Zauchekreis, and came after the Ziesarschen circle in the Duchy of Magdeburg. With a further structural change in the district Jerichow I was responsible, from which later the county Jerichow I developed with the county town of Castle, which existed until 1952. 1910 Rietzel had 294 inhabitants, whose number decreased to 1939 to 259 in 1964 264 people lived in the village.

Rietzel belonged until 2009 to manage Community Möckern - Loburg -flaming. Until December 31, 2009 Rietzel was an independent municipality. January 1, 2010 Rietzel was incorporated into the city Möckern.

Religion

The Protestant Church of Rietzel was built in the mid-13th century fieldstone in the late Romanesque style. The nave a narrower square choir was added. The small arched windows still retain some of their original shape. The semicircular apse was renewed in 1704 in the framework construction. The Western brick gable and also built truss tower are derived from the 19th century Veränderungsbauten. The nave is the inside surfaces spanned by a wooden ceiling, decorated with stencil paintings. On the west wall of a gallery is attached. The framed by pillars made ​​of wood in ear style altarpiece comes from 1694th It is decorated with two paintings ( the Lord's Supper and the Crucifixion ) and bears the arms of the founding family of Wulffen. The octagonal baptismal font was made ​​in the classical style of cast iron. The organ was built by the organ builder Neuhaldensleber August Tesch and was used in 1881 in the Church of Rietzel.

The Lutheran church is now looked after by the parish Grabow, church district Elbe -Flaming, provost Sprengel Stendal Magdeburg the Evangelical Church in Central Germany.

Policy

Mayor

The last mayor of the municipality Rietzel was Horst Pötter.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 25 February 2008 by the county.

Blazon: " Azure, a bent- gold top, front three golden ears of corn, behind a golden oak branch with leaves and two acorns, the top covered with a studs up the recurring blue horseshoe with square nail holes. "

The colors are Rietzel: blue-yellow.

The coat of arms symbols in the coat of arms shown here combines three essential conditions: Agriculture and forestry, economic factors over the centuries to the present day as well as the cavalry. Used to be the horse important for agriculture as a means of transport, it also plays today for horseback riding is a role, as has Rietzel riding arenas and stables. These conditions are referred to by the ears, the oak branch and fallen horseshoe symbolizes the coat of arms.

The place name is of Slavic origin and means something like " in the waters ." He first appeared in 1335 as Recel on and developed over Recele (1340 ), Retzle ( 1345 ), pinion ( 1459 ) and Reitzel (1562) to today's place name. Following on from the place name Blue was chosen in connection with water as a sign color.

The coat of arms was designed by Jörg Kommunalheraldiker Mantzsch.

Flag

The flag is blue - yellow - blue ( 1:4:1 ) striped ( cross- shape: strips horizontally extending, longitudinal shape: strip running vertically ) and centrally occupied with the arms.