Altmarkkreis Salzwedel

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Coat of arms of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel Map of Germany, position of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′  N , 11 ° 14 ′  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
Administrative headquarters : Salzwedel
Area : 2,293.03 km 2
Residents: 83,173 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SAW, GA, KLZ
Circle key : 15 0 81
Circle structure: 13 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Karl-Marx-Strasse 32
29410 Salzwedel
Website : www.altmarkkreis-salzwedel.de
District Administrator : Michael Ziche ( CDU )
Location of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt
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The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is a district in the northwest of the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Neighboring districts are the Lower Saxony district of Lüchow-Dannenberg in the north, the district of Stendal in the east, the district of Börde in the south, the district of Gifhorn in the west and the district of Uelzen in the north-west .

geography

Population pyramid for the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (data source: 2011 census)

The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel comprises the west of the Altmark landscape and is located in the northwest of Saxony-Anhalt as part of the North German Plain . Important bodies of water are the Jeetze and Milde rivers and the Arendsee . In the southeast the district has a share in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide .

The landscape was mainly formed in the penultimate ice age, the Saale Ice Age, and thus belongs to the old moraine region . Large parts of the circle are dominated by flat to flat undulating ground moraine surfaces . Large parts of the deep-lying ground moraines were buried by glacial valleys and form almost table-level areas that are mostly muddy today. Today's rather small rivers only imperfectly fill the extensive lowlands. Higher areas of the old ground moraines protrude from the lowlands as island-shaped plates (e.g. Kalbescher Werder). Starting from the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide , a terminal moraine continues in a north-northwest direction . The highest elevations in the district are located there. The Hellberge near Zichtau reach over 160 m, the "Pistolsche Berg" near Bonese 121  m above sea level. NN . The land use is varied and consists of around one third each of forest, meadows and arable land.

The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is the most sparsely populated district in Saxony-Anhalt and the second most sparsely populated district in Germany. Only the Prignitz district in Brandenburg is less populated .

history

The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel emerged from the former districts of Salzwedel , Klötze and Gardelegen and part of the Osterburg district during the 1994 district reform . The places Oebisfelde (district of Klötze) and Calvörde (district of Gardelegen) became part of the then Ohrekreis . The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel remained unchanged during the 2007 district reform .

politics

Election of the district council of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel 2019
Turnout: 55.5% (2014: 45.4%)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
26.8%
17.8%
15.4%
14.7%
11.7%
7.8%
5.7%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-12.2  % p
-4.3  % p
-4.7  % p.p.
+ 14.7  % p.p.
+ 3.2  % p
+ 2.4  % p
+1.2  % p
Allocation of seats in the
district council of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel 2019
       
A total of 42 seats

District Administrator

Michael Ziche (CDU) has been the district administrator of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel since July 2008. He replaced Hans-Jürgen Ostermann (SPD).

District council

(Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019)

Parties and constituencies Percent
2019
Seats
2019
Percent
2014
Seats
2014
Percent
2009
Seats
2009
Percent
2004
Seats
2004
Percent
1999
Seats
1999
Percent
1994
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 26.8 11 39.0 16 39.1 16 44.0 18th 41.0 20th 33.3
THE LEFT. THE LEFT. 17.8 8th 22.1 9 18.7 8th 18.8 8th 17.4 8th 17.3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 15.4 7th 20.1 9 22.7 10 22.3 9 30.1 14th 29.3
AfD Alternative for Germany 14.7 6th - - - - - - - - -
FL Free list 11.7 5 8.5 4th 5.9 2 3.3 1 - - -
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 7.8 3 5.4 2 2.3 1 1.5 1 2.1 1 6.2
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.7 2 4.5 2 11.2 5 8.9 4th 3.6 2 7.5
PIRATES Pirate Party Germany - - 0.3 - - - - - - - -
WG AD Voting group ALTMARK DEMOCRATS - - - - - - - - 3.1 2 2.4
WG DRÖ Voting group Drömling - - - - - - - - 2.4 1 -
future! future! - The young alternative - - - - - - - - 0.2 - -
Others Others - - - - - - - - - - 0.6
EB Individual applicants - - - - - - 1.1 1 0.3 - 1.4
total 100 42 100 42 100 42 100 42 100 48 100
Turnout in percent 55.4 45.4 43.0 45.5 53.8 70.2

  • DIE LINKE took up the position of PDS until 2004 .
  • EB: Individual applicants: 2004–2009: Klaus Ewertowski, 1999: Olaf Ollendorf, 1994: k. A.
  • There is no distribution of seats for the 1994 election.

The following parliamentary groups have formed in the district council: CDU / FDP (13 members), DIE LINKE. (8 members), SPD (7 members), AfD (6 members), FL (5 members), GRÜNE (3 members).

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Interior Ministry on November 24, 1994.

Blazon : “Split and half-divided by silver, gold and blue; at the front of the gap a red eagle with gold reinforcement, at the top at the back an upright blue lion with a red tongue and reinforcement, at the bottom at the back a golden pre-aldic cross-shaped fitting. "

The red Brandenburg eagle symbolizes the centuries-old affiliation of the Altmark to the Mark Brandenburg , from which it was separated in 1807 by being assigned to the Kingdom of Westphalia and in 1816 to the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony. The Lüneburg lion in gold indicates the former affiliation of the office of Klötze to Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In 1815 the office was ceded to Prussia and assigned to the province of Saxony. The previously aldic cross-shaped fitting was taken from the shield used by Albrecht the Bear in his seals; it should remind of the importance of Albrecht for the Altmark.

Colors of the district: blue / yellow

The coats of arms of the administrative communities, cities and municipalities of the district can be found in the list of coats of arms in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is one of the structurally weaker districts in Saxony-Anhalt. It is mainly shaped by agriculture . There is tourism (especially camping ) around the Arendsee . Several medium-sized companies and service industries are located in the towns of the district in particular.

traffic

Street

Federal roads are the B 71 and B 248 in north-south direction and the B 188 and B 190 in east-west direction . The plan is to build an Altmark motorway ( A14 ) from Magdeburg to Schwerin via Stendal and Osterburg (Altmark) , which is to run directly east of the district border, and to expand federal highway 190 to become federal highway 190n . Furthermore, the federal motorway 39 ( Lüneburg - Wolfsburg - Braunschweig route ) is being built in the neighboring district of Gifhorn and connected to the district via the B 190n.

rail

This area received rail connections very late. The Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft reached today's district town from Stendal in 1870, from which it continued in the direction of Uelzen in 1873. In the meantime, in 1871, Gardelegen was also connected to the Stendal – Hanover line.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Salzwedel developed into an important rail hub. A north-south route of the Prussian State Railway , which connected Dannenberg with Oebisfelde, crossed the Berlin – Bremen long-distance line here; the southern part via Beetzendorf – Klötze to Oebisfelde was opened in 1889, the northern part via Lüchow to Dannenberg followed in 1891.

Two narrow-gauge small railways also started from Salzwedel Neustadt. The trains of the Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen GmbH went to Diesdorf from 1900-1902 and those of the Salzwedeler Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft Südost GmbH to Winterfeld. After their unification in 1921, the conversion to standard gauge followed five years later.

In Winterfeld, this small railway was connected to the east-west line of Kleinbahn AG Bismark-Calbe-Beetzendorf, which opened in 1899 . After it was extended to Diesdorf in 1903, the end point of a Salzwedel narrow-gauge railway was also reached there. The line continued from 1909 to Wittingen and in 1911 was branched off from Rohrberg to Zasenbeck, both endpoints in the province of Hanover.

The name of the company had been changed several times and, after merging with Kleinbahn AG Gardelegen-Calbe, which opened in 1904, was Kleinbahn AG Bismark-Gardelegen-Wittingen since 1908 .

The oldest small railway in the district was the Altmärkische Kleinbahn-GmbH, which was built between 1897 and 1901 from Klötze via Groß Engersen – Lindstedt in the direction of Vinzelberg on the Magdeburg – Oebisfelde main line.

Until 1921/22 it had a track width of 750 mm, then half of it was re-gauged, but was shut down east of Groß Engersen. In 1927 it was merged with Kleinbahn AG Bismark-Gardelegen-Wittingen , which from then on operated as Altmärkische Kleinbahn AG.

Further sections of small railways reached the district area:

The opening of the Salzwedel – Geestgottberg railway by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1922 marked the end of railway construction in the district. At this time the first shutdowns took place. Nevertheless, the railway network reached a peak of over 400 km of routes. Around three quarters of these have now been hired:

1921 Faulenhorst – Groß Engersen – Vinzelberg 30 km ( track width 750 mm)
1926 Jeggeleben – Winterfeld 4 km (track width 1000 mm)
1945 Salzwedel – Bürgerholz – Wustrow 06 km
Diesdorf – Waddekath-Rade – Wittingen 06 km
Hanum-Zasenbeck 01 km
1951 Letzlingen – Roxförde – Haldensleben 06 km
1961 Rohrberg – Hanum 14 km
1967 Wernstedt – Groß Engersen – Gardelegen 17 km
1968 Kleinau – German Pretzier 17 km
1970 Kalbe – Wernstedt 04 km
Wernstedt – Faulenhorst – Klötze 18 km
1971 Gardelegen – Letzlingen 13 km
1973 Beetzendorf – Diesdorf 17 km
1975 Osterburg – Kleinau 22 km
1978 Stendal – Neulingen – Arendsee 07 km
1980 Salzwedel Altperver Tor – Jeggeleben – Badel 18 km
1991 Kalbe – Badel – Winterfeld – Beetzendorf 27 km
1993 Dehre – Bonese – Diesdorf 14 km
1995 Salzwedel – Dehre 22 km
2001 Hohenwulsch – Neuendorf-Karritz – Kalbe (Milde) 16 km
2002 Oebisfelde – Kunrau – Beetzendorf – Salzwedel 46 km

Important railway lines today are:

Communities

Apenburg-Winterfeld Arendsee (Altmark) Beetzendorf Dähre Diesdorf Gardelegen Jübar Kalbe (Milde) Klötze Kuhfelde Rohrberg Salzwedel WallstaweMunicipalities in SAW.png
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Municipalities of the district of Salzwedel

Unified municipalities
(cities arehighlighted in bold )
(* seat of the district)

coat of arms local community Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Arendsee.png
Arendsee (Altmark) 6750 269.68
Coat of arms Gardelegen.png
Hanseatic city of Gardelegen 22,251 632.43
Coat of arms Kalbe (Milde) .png
Calf (mildness) 7580 272.7
Coat of arms Kloetze.png
Blocks 9922 278.29
Coat of arms Salzwedel.png
Hanseatic City of Salzwedel * 23,453 304.58

Association communities with their member communities
(* seat of the association community)

Verbandsgemeinde Beetzendorf-Diesdorf
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Does not have a coat of arms
Flecken Apenburg-Winterfeld 1715 59.31
CoA - coat of arms Beetzendorf.svg
Beetzendorf * 3140 97.97
Does not have a coat of arms
There 1464 78.72
Coat of arms Diesdorf.png
Spots Diesdorf 2295 100.51
Coat of arms Juebar.png
Jübar 1574 70.89
Does not have a coat of arms
Kuhfelde 1090 45.59
Does not have a coat of arms
Rohrberg 1060 38.27
Wallstawe coat of arms.png
Wallstawe 879 44.09

Territory changes

In the years since 1990, extensive changes have taken place in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel as in the entire state of Saxony-Anhalt. The district remained unaffected by the Saxony-Anhalt district reform in 2007 .

On December 31, 2008, six of the original twelve administrative associations still existed. The number of parishes decreased from 125 to 119.

Administrative communities

Incorporations

Church planting

Protected areas

There are nine designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).

Others

The Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum is located in Salzwedel , named after the first archaeologist in the Altmark. A branch of the museum is the Longobard workshop in Zethlingen. Together with the Diesdorf open-air museum in the west of the Altmarkkreis, these form the Museums community in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.

In the spring of 1945, today's district area became the end of several evacuation transports and death marches from National Socialist concentration camps in northern and central Germany. Today the internationally recognized memorial Feldscheune Isenschnibbe Gardelegen in Gardelegen commemorates them .

In the district area, East Low German Platt is occasionally spoken.

On September 23, 2008 the district received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the Federal Government .

License Plate

On July 1, 1994, the district was assigned the SAW , which has been valid since January 1, 1991 for the Salzwedel district. It is still issued today.

Until about the year 2000, vehicles from the sub-circles were given special identification numbers:

area Letters numbers
Salzwedel district A to Z 1 to 999
AA to KY
Gardelegen district LA to TZ
Part circle blocks UA to ZZ

Since November 29, 2012, the distinctive signs GA (Gardelegen) and KLZ (Klötze) have been available in connection with the license plate liberalization .

literature

  • Hartmut Bock, Ingelore Fischer, Peter Fischer, Folker Rattey: The north-western Altmark - a cultural landscape . Sparkasse, Gifhorn-Wolfsburg 1991.

Web links

Commons : Altmarkkreis Salzwedel  - 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. census database
  3. ^ Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - preliminary result
  4. [1] Results of the district council elections 2004 to 2014
  5. [2] Results of the district elections 2009
  6. [3] Results of the 2004 district council elections
  7. [4] Results of the district elections in 1994 and 1999
  8. a b State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  9. a b regionalstatistik.de regional database of the Federal Statistical Office (as of December 31, 2016)
  10. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt