Amesdorf
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Amesdorf
City of Güsten
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| Height : | 84 m |
| Area : | 11.91 km² |
| Residents : | 785 (Dec. 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 66 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 39439 |
| Area code : | 039262 |
Amesdorf is a district of the town of Güsten in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The place is on the northern edge of the northern Harz foreland on the right bank of the Wipper . West of Amesdorf, the Liethe branches off to the left of the Wipper and flows into the Bode at Staßfurt . The district of Warmsdorf , which is on the other side of the Wipper , belonged to the former municipality of Amesdorf .
history
Amesdorf was first mentioned in 1339 under the name Amelungsdorf.
The district of Warmsdorf, which was named as Warmeresthorpe as early as 1018, is much older. A moated castle on the Wipper is documented from 1268. In the course of the (hereditary) division of the country in 1546, the castles Warmsdorf, Plötzkau, Harzgerode and Güntersberge fell to the reformer Prince Georg the Pious or God-blessed (Georg III of Anhalt-Dessau) . The founding of the town's first Lutheran parish in the 16th century goes back to him. In 1547 he made Warmsdorf Castle his residence. The castle complex was converted into Warmsdorf Castle during this time . In the period up to 1552, Georg III. the north wing of the castle. During the Dessau plague epidemic in 1552, Prince Joachim moved the Anhalt royal court here. On March 27, 1623, a meeting of princes took place in Warmsdorf.
Warmsdorf and the surrounding area were converted into an exclave of the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen within the State of Anhalt-Bernburg when the Anhalt inheritance was again divided in 1606 . The first regent of the new country was Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen . 1619–20 he had the well-known educator Wolfgang Ratke imprisoned in the castle tower.
From 1716 until the death of his brother and predecessor in office, the Bach patron Leopold in 1728, the future Prince August Ludwig spent 12 years in Warmsdorf Castle.
There were and still are various ideas about the subsequent use of the castle, but they were never implemented due to a lack of money.
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Wermsdorf was incorporated.
A curiosity today is the former Protestant church of Warmsdorf, which escaped demolition planned since 1985 only due to a lack of financial means. In 1990 it went into private ownership and was then converted into a three-story residential building in around eight years of construction.
The largest employer in Amesdorf today is the Amesdorf agricultural cooperative.
On January 1, 2010, the previously independent municipality of Amesdorf was incorporated into the city of Güsten. At the same time, the Staßfurt administrative community , to which Amesdorf had belonged since 2005, was dissolved.
politics
mayor
The last mayor of the municipality of Amesdorf was Wolf Beinroth (2008–2009), his predecessor Ernst-Hermann Brink (Die Linke, 2001–2008).
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on November 16, 1992 by the Minister of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt and registered under no. 20/1992 in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
Blazon : "In blue two golden diagonal bars."
As a municipality, Amesdorf did not have its own coat of arms and decided to use the coat of arms of the County of Warmsdorf, which appeared in 1540. The redesign and documentation for the approval process was then implemented in 1992 by the Magdeburg local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch . The coat of arms of the County of Warmsdorf is still part (field 9) of the coat of arms of the House of Anhalt .
