Schenkenhorst

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Position of the settlement Schenkenhorst in Gardelegen

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

Geography

Schenkenhorst located approximately eleven miles north of the old town of Gardelegen and can be reached via the B 71 and County Road 1085.

Policy

Due to a change in the contract area, the municipal council of the municipality Schenkenhorst decided on 11 December 2008 that the church Schenkenhorst is incorporated in the Hanseatic city Gardelegen. This agreement was approved by the county as a lower municipal supervisory authority and entered into force on 1 July 2009.

After incorporation of the previously autonomous municipality Schenkenhorst was Schenkenhorst district of the Hanseatic city Gardelegen. For powered finished my community the village constitution according to § § 86 et seq Municipal Code Saxony -Anhalt has been introduced. The municipality is my finished Schenkenhorst and future district Schenkenhorst was the village of receiving Hanseatic City Guard Set. In the eingemeindeten community and nunmehrigen village Schenkenhorst a Ortschaftsrat was formed with eight members, including mayor.

Mayor

The last mayor of the town was Wolfgang Reboné.

Attractions

• The neo-Romanesque village church consecrated in 1875. Among the most interesting parts of its interior are the remains of a medieval altar shrine, which suggest that it could have been a predecessor beginning of the 16th century here. The church organ was built in 1881 by organ builder August Troch from Neuhaldensleben.

• The manor house of the von Alvensleben from 1705, once a type of water lock.