Aken (Elbe)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ' N , 12 ° 3' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
County : | Anhalt-Bitterfeld | |
Height : | 60 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 59.91 km 2 | |
Residents: | 7494 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 125 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postcodes : | 06385, 06386 ( small autumn ) |
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Area code : | 034909 | |
License plate : | ABI, AZE, BTF, KÖT, ZE | |
Community key : | 15 0 82 005 | |
City administration address : |
Markt 11 06385 Aken (Elbe) |
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Mayor : | Jan-Hendrik Bahn (independent) | |
Location of the city of Aken (Elbe) in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district | ||
The town of Aken (Elbe) [ ˈaːkn̩ ] is located in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
geography
Aken on the south bank of the Middle Elbe is about eight kilometers west of Dessau-Roßlau in an extensive lowland area within the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve . About 15 km west of Aken the Saale flows into the Elbe , which has only a slight gradient in this section. East of the port entrance, the course of the river changes (east-west direction) towards northwest.
Outline of the city
The following localities belong to the city of Aken:
- Small autumn
- Cooling
- Mennewitz
- Susigke with the residential areas Forsthaus Olberg, Heidehof and Obselau.
history
Early history
In today's district of Kleinzerbst, a Germanic burial ground from the early Roman Empire was excavated between the world wars and in the years 1964 to 1969 and 1979 to 1981. The Aken castle Gloworp was first mentioned in the 12th century. The city was first mentioned in a document in 1162 in a document from Archbishop Wichmann of Magdeburg . The founder of the city is Albrecht the Bear , who brought Flemish settlers to the area around 1150 . During the French-ruled Kingdom of Westphalia , Aken was the administrative seat of the canton of the same name.
19th to 21st century
From the 19th century onwards, Aken developed into an important industrial location in the region.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities of Kühren, Mennewitz and Susigke were incorporated.
Population development
year | Residents | year | Residents | |
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1875 | 5,092 | 1970 | 12,154 | |
1880 | 5,284 | 1990 | 10,223 | |
1890 | 6.109 | 1995 | 10.186 | |
1933 | 10.151 | 2000 | 9,777 | |
1939 | 11,490 | 2005 | 9,017 | |
2011 | 8,197 | |||
2015 | 7,799 |
politics
City council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 in Aken led to the results shown in the adjacent diagrams.
mayor
In the mayoral election on March 22, 2015, the two non-party members Jan-Hendrik Bahn and Michael Kiel achieved 49.3% and 22.7% of the votes, respectively, and ran in the runoff on April 12, 2015. Jan-Hendrik Bahn won the election with 53.8 percent of the valid votes and is thus elected mayor.
Local councils
In the localities of Kleinzerbst, Kühren, Mennewitz and Susigke, the local constitution is introduced in accordance with §§ 86 ff. Of the Saxony-Anhalt municipal code. The number of members in the local councils is set at five .
Official seal
The city of Aken (Elbe) has a colored official seal . The official seal shows the following image seal: “Under a high Gothic arch, between two tinned round towers with a pointed roof, standing on a square base, a bishop with raised right hand and fingers extended in an oath, who holds the bishop's staff in his left hand. The towers are each topped by a small floating red-and-white coat of arms with the head of St. Mauritius . "
The seal bears the inscription Signetum Burgensium Urbis Aquensis Fidelis Filiae Ecclesiae Magdeburgensis (seal of the citizens of the city of Aken, the faithful daughter of the Magdeburg Church) on a yellow background.
City flag
The flag of the city shows the colors red and white. The colored seal of the city is on the flag.
Town twinning
Culture and sights
- Historic town hall, from 1490, begun in late Gothic style, overall Renaissance, expanded in 1606.
- Medieval city churches:
- St. Nikolai , Romanesque-Gothic pillar basilica
- St. Marien , built in Romanesque style in 1188, Gothicized after 1485, secularized in 1992
- “Steinerne Kemenate”: Freihaus from the 13th century with a cross barrel vault .
- City fortifications from the Middle Ages with three preserved gate towers.
- Passenger shipping on the Elbe
- Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve
- Historical monument
- Memorial stone from 1948 at Thälmannpark - today Bismarckplatz - for the local victims of fascism , with eight named Nazi opponents and nine named Jewish victims of the Shoah
fauna
- Due to the western route chosen by white storks via Spain (cf. eastern route via Turkey) to Africa, this species of bird flies to the city particularly early. Another reason is the location in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve "Middle Elbe", which contributes to a rich food supply.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The station Aken is nurmehr served by freight trains, which has since rail passenger services between the county town Köthen (Anhalt) and Aken was hired as a terminus for the timetable change on 9 December of 2007.
Aken is on the B 187a from Zerbst / Anhalt to Köthen, the only direct road connection between these two cities, which is interrupted by a yaw ferry between Aken and Steutz . There are also road connections to Calbe (Saale) and Dessau-Roßlau via the L 63. From the south-eastern outskirts you can get to the districts of Susigke and Kleinzerbst and then to Elsnigk on the B 185 .
Aken has had an inland port since 1891 (construction started in 1889) . After the political change in 1989, the company was initially managed by the Treuhandanstalt until the city of Aken took over the company in 1993. She founded Hafenbetrieb Aken GmbH , and by 2008 around 15.5 million euros had been invested in a trimodal container terminal and a heavy lift terminal, among other things .
Local businesses
- Port Authority Aken GmbH
- PILKINGTON Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Aken plant (formerly Aken flat glass plant )
- RHI Refractories Didier-Werke AG , Aken plant (formerly Aken magnesite plant )
- Shipyard Georg Placke GmbH
- Woodward Governor Germany GmbH (formerly Ein Injektgerätewerk Aken)
- Stahlbau GmbH Heenemann & Son
- Siebert Fuel Trading GmbH
- Lothringer Verlag for stage and music
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1839: Leopold Olberg (1770–1854), Königl. Government and Forestry Council; on the occasion of the 50th service anniversary in December 1839
- 1848: Franz Gustav Geiss, pharmacy owner, in recognition of his work in the acquisition of the “royal. Domaine "(today's secondary school )
- 1863: Friedrich Wilhelm Steinbrecht (1796–1881), lieutenant in Lützow's Freikorps , teacher and sexton; on the occasion of the 50th service anniversary in November 1863
- 1873: Daniel Heinrich Gottfried Cuhrt, teacher and cantor; on the occasion of the 50th service anniversary in November 1873
- 1915: Georg Placke , timber merchant, shipbuilding owner, dike captain, major a. D .; in March 1915
- 2001: Otto Benecke (1926–2010), teacher and director of the local history museum
- 2009: Friedrich Dickmann, ev. Pastor i. R. and City Council a. D.
- 2015: Hansjochen Müller, engineer for power engineering (1971–1990), retired mayor D. (1990-2015)
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Christian Koch (1680–1742), court medalist
- Christian Gottlieb Scheidler (1747–1829), lutenist, guitarist and composer
- August Ludwig Hülsen (1765–1809), philosopher of early romanticism
- Theodor von Sickel (1826–1908), German-Austrian historian
- Adolf Brecher (1836–1901), educator and historian
- Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951), architect
- Willi Klemm (1892–1934), SA leader and one of the victims of the so-called Röhm Putsch
- Otto Karl Emil Witte (1893–1966), bishop in Hamburg
- Karl Raapitz (1894–1944), NSDAP politician, mayor of Bentheim
- Hans Stamms (1902–1947), boxer, 1922 German flyweight champion
- Karl Bischoff (1905–1983), Germanist and university professor
- Ernst Krüger (1907 – after 1967), foreman, trade unionist and politician
- Dirk Thiele (* 1943), sports reporter
- Carl Ludwig Fuchs (1945–2019), art historian
- Bernd Dießner (* 1946), track and field athlete
Other personalities associated with the city
- Bernhard von Beauvryé (1690–1750), builder of the Palais Beauvryé in Berlin, Prussian general, 1747 governor of Aken
- Franz Thuro von Großkreutz (1712–1769), Prussian colonel and knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword, died in Aken
- Friedrich Ernst Arnold Werner Nolopp (1835–1903), teacher, conductor, composer
Web links
- Website of the city of Aken
- Aken regional
- Aken in blue ribbon through Saxony-Anhalt
- Storks Dessau Gate Tower
- Web presence of the Association of Railway Friends with a wide range of sub-pages
- Historical station pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Erika Schmidt-Thielbeer: Kleinzerbst: a Germanic burial ground of the late Latène period and the early Roman imperial period from the district of Köthen. Volume 51 of the publications of the State Office for Archeology, State Museum for Prehistory, Saxony-Anhalt, 1998
- ^ Sources 1875–1939: Statistics of the German Empire, Old Series Volume 57; (new) Volumes 150, 240, 401, 450, 451, 552 (Verlag für Sozialpolitik, Wirtschaft und Statistik Berlin)
- ↑ Sources from 1970: City of Aken (Elbe)
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, City Council Elections 2019 - City of Aken (Elbe) , accessed on May 13, 2020
- ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 12, 2015: Runoff election in Aken - Jan-Hendrik Bahn becomes mayor , accessed on May 13, 2020
- ↑ http://www.aken.de/de/altstadt/historisches-rathaus.html
- ↑ http://www.aken.de/de/altstadt/tuerme.html
- ↑ mdr.de: First storks sighted in Saxony-Anhalt | MDR.DE. In: www.mdr.de. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ European White Stork Fact Sheet - National Zoo. In: nationalzoo.si.edu. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung - Köthener Zeitung, positive balance from the banks of the Elbe - 15.5 million euros have been invested here in 15 years , 19 September 2008
- ^ Obituary in the Akener Nachrichtenblatt ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)