Salzatal

Salzatal is a unified community in the Saale district, in Saxony -Anhalt.

  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 3.2 flag

Geography

Salzatal located in the northwestern part of the Saalekreis, and borders to the city hall. The municipality was created on 1 January 2010 from the communities Beesenstedt, Bennstedt, Fienstedt, Höhnstedt, Kloschwitz, Lieskau, Salzmünde, Schochwitz and Zappendorf who belonged to the disbanded Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Western Saalkreis.

The official name was derived from the same conservation area, which extends over large parts of the unified community. The eponymous river Salza flows through the town from west to east and flows Salzmünde into the Saale. The hall is almost constantly the northeastern boundary of the municipality.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Wettin - Löbejün in the north, the district-free city of Halle ( Saale ) in the east, Teutschenthal in the south and the sea area Mansfeld and Gerbstedt (both the district of Mansfeld - South Harz ) in the west.

Community structure

The unit community Salzatal consists of the following villages:

The population figures refer to 31 December 2008 incorporation date was for all villages in the 1 January 2010.

Policy

Salzatal ruled since 26 April, 2010 by the Mayor Juliane Sparrow ( CDU), which won the election against the three candidates Andree Schenk ( SPD ), Uwe Müller (ABS ) and Michael Krahmer (EB ) on April 25, 2010.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on May 17, 2010 by the county.

Blazon: "Divided by silver and blue, the top two blue grapes with green leaves and black tendrils below a silver anchor, accompanied by three fan-shaped slanting golden ears. "

The coat of arms was designed by Jörg Kommunalheraldiker Mantzsch and out into the approval process. His symbols anchor Grape spikes were determined by resolution of the General Statutes. While the grapes make reference to their cultivation in the region, the anchor forces the connection to the Saale as a major transport and trade. The ears are linked to farming as their main nutrition branch of the former villages. At its meeting on 3 February 2010, the Council of the municipality Salzatal decided the coat of arms.

The colors of the municipality are: Blue - Silver ( white).

Flag

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

Industrial history

Approximately 700 m south of the hamlet Trebitz the village Kloschwitz is the disused potash mine Johannashall the same mining law union. It was a mine on potash with attached fertilizer factory. From 1902 to 1922 here the potash seam was mined to a depth of 542 m.

Approximately 500 m south of the village Beesenstedt is also the disused mine potash union Wils. The 1000 Kuxe this union were among the union Johanna Hall, she was in fact a subsidiary.

Start of operation was in 1911. After only eleven years promoting the application was made ​​jointly by the unions Wils and Johanna Hall set to decommission the plants. The liquidations of both unions were on 20 September 1926 in the trades meetings decided and the sale of the assets to the potash industry Aktiengesellschaft Berlin, agreed to seat Kassel / Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft.

At the southwestern edge of the village Zappendorf is another potash, potash plant the union Salzmünde. This mine since 1925 level of 868 m level durchschlägig (formerly potash Kruger Hall AG ) and this in turn to the east adjoining pit box Angersdorf (formerly potash union hall and Halle Kaliwerke AG) connected to the located south of her pit box of potash Teutschenthal. After setting the potash in the shaft Salzmünde on July 1, 1924, for example, the shaft tube served for many decades as an escape and a ventilation shaft for the mine field Kruger Hall / Teutschenthal.

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