Aken (Elbe)

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Aken (Elbe)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '  N , 12 ° 3'  E

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 )Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Area code : 034909
License plate : ABI, AZE, BTF, KÖT, ZE
Community key : 15 0 82 005

City administration address : 		Markt 11
06385 Aken (Elbe)
Website : www.aken.de
Mayor : Jan-Hendrik Bahn (independent)
Location of the city of Aken (Elbe) in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district
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Romanesque-Gothic Church of St. Nikolai

The town of Aken (Elbe)  [ ˈaːkn̩ ] is located in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). Please click to listen!Play

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.

Aken (Elbe), aerial photo (2019)

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
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

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 55.4%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
19.1%
9.4%
9.0%
8.9%
6.4%
47.2%
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Remarks:
f Free & Fair for Aken
City Council Aken - distribution of seats from 2019
      
A total of 20 seats

City council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 in Aken led to the results shown in the adjacent diagrams.

City Hall Aken

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

City seal of Aken

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

St. Mary's Church
  • Historic town hall, from 1490, begun in late Gothic style, overall Renaissance, expanded in 1606.
  • Medieval city churches:
  • “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
Aken water tower, aerial photo (2019)

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

railway station
Giers cable ferry
Entering the port

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

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

Other personalities associated with the city

Web links

Commons : Aken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ↑ Sources from 1970: City of Aken (Elbe)
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, City Council Elections 2019 - City of Aken (Elbe) , accessed on May 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 12, 2015: Runoff election in Aken - Jan-Hendrik Bahn becomes mayor , accessed on May 13, 2020
  7. ↑ http://www.aken.de/de/altstadt/historisches-rathaus.html
  8. ↑ http://www.aken.de/de/altstadt/tuerme.html
  9. ↑ 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 .
  10. ↑ European White Stork Fact Sheet - National Zoo. In: nationalzoo.si.edu. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 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
  12. ^ Obituary in the Akener Nachrichtenblatt ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)