Steinfeld, Saxony-Anhalt

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Steinfeld is a district of the town Bismark ( Altmark) in the district of Stendal, in the German state of Saxony- Anhalt.

Geography

The Altmark village Steinfeld is about twelve kilometers east of Bismark and ten kilometers west of the Altmark Stendal center. The nearby towns are Schernikau in the east and in the west Kläden. The 1113 km ² large local territory, which includes the three kilometers east preferred settlement Schönfeld heard lies at an average height of 46 meters. The surrounding hilly area belongs to Endmoränenbogen, the north of Secantsgraben and the upper lamp stretches towards Stendal. South of Steinfeld covers a pine forest, east of a deciduous forest forestry. Through the village leads the provincial road 15, which connects to Bismark and Stendal. Steinfeld is on the railway line Magdeburg - Uelzen, the train station is from the town center 1.7 km away.

History

Steinfeld

The place name is derived from the German -born label " Stenfelde ". It is assumed that a reference is north of the village to a passage grave. The megalithic grave dates from the middle Neolithic period (5000-4500 BC) in 1209, the village was first mentioned in a document, which identifies him as a possession of the diocese Havel mountain. At this time the village had already built a fieldstone church, which was built in the second half of the 12th century. 1238 the counts were called by Osterburg as landlords. In the 15th century the city came under Brandenburg's reign and was located in the Upper Saxon kingdom circle. After the Thirty Years' War Steinfeld belonged from 1680 to the Duchy of Magdeburg. Between 1807 and 1813 the place was on the territory of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia in the district of Stendal. After the expulsion of Napoleon Prussia annexed a part of a management reform Steinfeld 1816 in the district of Stendal. 1873 the railway line was Stendal - Uelzen opened with a station in Steinfeld. Beginning of the 20th century the town had 179 residents, the number increased to 1939 to 190 on July 1, 1950, the neighboring village of Schoenfeld was incorporated. After the East German government reform from 1952 Steinfeld was in the area of the district of Magdeburg, but was still the circle Stendal. In the census of 1964 a population of 430 was determined. Since 1990, Steinfeld is located in the north of the federal state of Saxony- Anhalt. As part of a community reorganization in Saxony- Anhalt Steinfeld graduated with its approximately 220 residents with effect from 1 January 2010 the municipality unit newly formed city of Bismark.

Schönfeld

At the end of the 12th century the noble family von Rundstedt in Schönfeld was established. In the middle of the 13th century, which still exists today in the former shape stone church was built. In 1370 the town name was mentioned as " Schonenuelde " for the first time on the occasion of the foundation of a grain harvest for the Church in writing. In the land book Emperor Charles IV in 1376 is mentioned that in the Altmark Stendal farming village citizens Etzel duser, the family of Bismarck, the Cathedral and the Stendal Stendal Hospital St. Gertrud owned and duties had. From the spelling of the name, it was concluded that the name of a Germanic settlement points. Excavations in 1904 and 1910 brought to light finds from the Neolithic period, after which the historical period was named as Schoenfelder culture. From the year 1540 are in documents the place names Schonfelth and Schone Velde and known in 1693, the name Schönefeldt, which was probably derived from Schänfeld meant which field of the damage or barren field. A manor was demonstrably of 1509 ( under Hermann von Ronstedt, died in 1548) to 1945 in the possession of the family von Rundstedt. For the year 1641 reported that there were two knights seats in the then Schone Feldt. In 1840 Otto von Rundstedt began to reforest the site the surrounding moorland. To this end, he has had to buy numerous pieces of land from foreign ownership. Situated in the western outskirts of Rundstedtsche manor in 1872 a separate legal entity to which in 1910 counted 15 inhabitants. In the village of Schoenfeld lived at the same time 132 people. 1873 Otto von Rundstedt issued the order, to the west of the old manor house to build a representative castle. Nine years later, his wife Elisabeth von Rundstedt prompted the construction of a new Gutskirche close to the old village church. 1885 a large-area park was created by the landscape gardener Hermann Riemann English style on lock. 1927 lifted the Prussian state on the independence of the estate districts, the manor of Rundstedt was incorporated into the rural community Schönfeld. This was later 1939 241 inhabitants. In 1945 the estate was expropriated in the course of audits initiated by the Soviet occupation forces land reform and the 434 -acre estate of urban sprawl by lending to new farmers. While the manor house was demolished, the Gutskirche the protestant church of Schonfeld was handed over. On July 1, 1950 Schönfeld was annexed to the neighboring Steinfeld. After German reunification, the landscape architect Hubertus von Rundstedt acquired back in 1993, the Gutsgelände and founded in Schönfeld a Ökohof, a forestry operation and a planning office for garden and landscape architecture. The Schoenfeld castle was sold in 1996 at an East Frisian family who remodeled the building into a hotel, which existed until 2007. On August 2, 2010, founded the Friends of the Gutskirche Schonfeld, who strives to preserve the Gutskirche.

Traffic

The breakpoint Steinfeld ( b Stendal ) is located on the railway line Stendal - Uelzen. In addition, buses and call buses of the regional transport companies Westsachsen run ( RVW ) stendalbus under the brand name.

Local Politics

In the local elections in 2005 and 2009, the CDU had received in Steinfeld, 32.1 or 33.6 percent, the highest number of votes. The last mayor of the non-party Jochen Schulz was elected in 2008 with 96.36 percent of the vote.

Culture and sights

• Castle Schönfeld, located in the district of the same name designed in the shapes of the Renaissance and Baroque complex with a large English-style castle park
• Feldsteinkirche inSchönfeld from the 13th century with baroque ceiling painting of 1725
• Former Gutskirche Schönfeld in the same district, built as a large brick hall church (1883-1885) by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and decorative paintings in the choir of Hermann Schaper.
• The largest at 50 meters megalithic grave in the Altmark (about 5000 years old ) - the dirt road towards Darnewitz