Tornitz
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Location of Tornitz ( Barby ) in Barby
Tornitz is a district of the town Barby in Salzlandkreis in Saxony- Anhalt.
Geography
Tornitz is located on a river loop of the hall, just before their confluence with the Elbe. Situated at the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve community is about 4 km from calbe (Saale ) and about 6 km from Barby (Elbe ) away.
For the former municipality Tornitz belonged to the district Werkleitz and the settlement " pit Alfred".
In Tornitz is the geographic center of the state of Saxony -Anhalt.
History
1382 emerges originally Slavic populated place as Tornicz first time in a document on, the current district Werkleitz 1494 as Wercklitzke. Arranged as a fortified churches of worship in both places ( including Katharina von Bora Church ( Werkleitz ) ) already exist since the beginning of the 10th century.
Tornitz and Werkleitz were in the past because of its location near the Saale confluence with the Elbe often devastating floods (especially after dike breaches ) exposed (1651, 1670, 1752, 1760, 1784, 1830, 1926, 1939 and 1988).
Since 1620 there are regular ferry services across the hall from Werkleitz to Great Roseburg.
The former county of Barby belonging places were from 1807 to 1815 part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, after the Congress of Vienna in the area came to Prussia ( county calbe / p in the " province of Saxony ").
From the middle of the 19th century originated in Tornitz new job opportunities. So windmills and a steam brick were built. The streets were paved and a dairy began operations. In 1911 electric power in the communities. The lignite mine Alfred was after a few years in 1915 due to unprofitability closed again ( this time to remember the lakes in the area that emerged after water ingress into the pit - Alder Pond, Green Pond, officials pond, Pappelteich ).
After formation of the county Beautiful Beck in 1950 Werkleitz was incorporated into Tornitz. In the same year came close the first low-shaft furnace plant in the world in calbe (Saale ), which many Tornitzern new jobs offered ( until 1970). From 1975 to 1978 Tornitz received a central drinking water supply. In 1984, the municipality " most beautiful village of the district of Magdeburg ". In the period until 1989 the community was dominated by agriculture. The LPG Tornitz - Werkleitz went in 1991 in a Agrar GmbH, a dairy farm and a sow unit on. In 1991, a gravel plant in place the tape on, 1995, the local metal company has been expanded. In the 1990s, households were connected to it central sewer. Special attention enjoyed in recent years, the restoration and stabilization of dikes.
On 22 May 1993, the inaugural meeting of the Werkleitz was in the restaurant "Zur Post" in Tornitz held eV. On the constitution of the Center for Art and Visual Media in Saxony -Anhalt participated 23 people from all over Germany. Prior to the first annual presentation of the Company ( Werkleitz Biennale) was performed called change of scenery with 41 participating artists on the private land Brickyard 3 in Werkleitz.
On January 1, 2010, the formerly independent communities Tornitz, Breitenhagen, Glindemann, United Roseburg, Lödderitz, Pömmelte, Saxony village, wasps and Zuchau and the city Barby (Elbe ) merged to form the new town of Barby. At the same time the management of Community Elbe- Saale, was among the Tornitz was dissolved.
Memorials
- Burial in the local cemetery for an unknown Poland, deported to Germany during the Second World War and a victim of forced labor was
Population Development
Transport links
From Tornitz in the Elbe -Saale- angle there are road links to calbe (Saale ) and Barby on the Elbe. Yaw cable ferry across the river Saale connects with Tornitz Groß Rosenburg. The nearest railway station is located in the nearby city of calbe (Saale ) at the track Magdeburg - Halle ( Saale).