Annaburg

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Annaburg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 13 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Wittenberg
Height : 75 m above sea level NHN
Area : 224.27 km 2
Residents: 6629 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 30 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 06925
Primaries : 035385, 035386
License plate : WB, GHC, JE
Community key : 15 0 91 010
LOCODE : DE 7AR
Association administration address: Torgauer Strasse 52
06925 Annaburg
Website : www.annaburg.de
Mayor : Klaus-Rüdiger Neubauer (independent)
Location of the city of Annaburg in the district of Wittenberg
Brandenburg Sachsen Dessau-Roßlau Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld Annaburg Bad Schmiedeberg Coswig (Anhalt) Gräfenhainichen Jessen (Elster) Kemberg Oranienbaum-Wörlitz Lutherstadt Wittenberg Zahna-Elster Zahna-Elstermap
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Annaburg ( pronunciation ? / I ) is a town in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), located on the Annaburg Heath . Audio file / audio sample

geography

Geographical location

Annaburg is about 35 km southeast of Lutherstadt Wittenberg .

City structure

The urban area includes the city of Annaburg as well as 10 villages with 14 districts:

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colony

On July 1, 2014, the new municipal constitutional law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt came into force. In its §14 (2) the municipalities are given the opportunity to assign this designation to the districts that were towns before the incorporation. The city of Annaburg has made use of this regulation. Its main statute in the current constitution came into force on December 9, 2015. In §3 the districts are listed with their official names.

history

Princess Anna of Denmark and Norway, later Electress of Saxony

In the 13th century, the Ascanians built the Lochau hunting lodge on the current site of Annaburg. However, the castle burned down again in 1422. Albrecht III. was in the hunting lodge at the time of the fire and was initially able to save himself, but died a little later as a result of the injuries sustained in the fire. He died as the last Ascanian duke. The then Lochau was first mentioned in a document on April 4, 1339. Rudolf I, Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg donated Lochaw to the parish church in Prettin .

From around 1500 onwards, Elector Friedrich the Wise expanded the complex into one of the first villas north of the Alps. The hallmark was a large, walled garden with several elaborately designed summer houses directly adjacent to the castle. An extensive zoo was attached to the garden. Friedrich often withdrew to this refuge from his main city residence in neighboring Torgau , and there he died on May 5, 1525.

The mathematician and companion of Luther Michael Stifel , as pastor of Lochau, expected the end of the world that he predicted in 1533. The humanist Georg Spalatin often stayed on the Lochau.

In 1573 the new building of the still existing castle (and thus also the city) was renamed Annaburg after the Saxon Electress Anna of Denmark and Norway (1532–1585) ("Mother Anna") and was the seat of the Office of Annaburg until the final dissolution in 1821 . In 1550, 40 possessed men lived in the small town of Lochau, including eight coaches, a liege judge, nine gardeners and 22 suburbanites.

The first Saxon court pharmacy was also in Annaburg. In July 1754 the malificant, maleficent perpetrator (crook, criminal) Johann Christian Noack was executed and braided on his bike as a deterrent in Annaburg - one of the last executions of this kind. Since 1762 Annaburg Castle has been the seat of a military boys' institute, in which over 500 pupils from 11th . were brought up free of charge by military personnel of Evangelical creed up to the age of 15. A NCO preschool was housed in a newly built barracks .

Since 1780 the public actuary Christian August Seidel has been running a mulberry tree plantation in Annaburg . After the Congress of Vienna , Annaburg became Prussian in 1815 . After Annaburg lost its town charter in the 17th century, the town was given this right again in 1939. During the Second World War, the main camp for Indian prisoners of war in Germany was set up in Annaburg, from whom the Indian Legion of the Wehrmacht was later recruited.

Annaburg has belonged to the Torgau district since 1816 (until 1947 in Prussia , 1947–1952 in Saxony-Anhalt) and from 1952 to the Jessen district in the GDR district of Cottbus , which in 1990 became part of Saxony-Anhalt. Annaburg has been in the Wittenberg district since 1994.

Incorporations

Purzien was incorporated on February 16, 2003. Premsendorf was added on August 3, 2003. Löben has been part of Annaburg since January 1st, 2004. On January 1, 2011, all cities and municipalities of the administrative community Annaburg-Prettin were united to the city of Annaburg. As a result, the urban area increased from 120.61 km² to 224.61 km², and the population rose from 3,533 to 7,611.

politics

City council

The City Council of Annaburg consists of 19 councilors. The mayor is an additional member. Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 (voter turnout 56.8%), the city ​​council has been composed as follows:

Party / group of voters Seats
Free voter community Annaburg (FWG) 8th
Interest group for fire brigade and public welfare 6th
Alternative for Germany (AfD) 2
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 2
The left 1
total 19th

According to its election results, the AfD is entitled to three seats. But she had only nominated two candidates, so one seat on the city council remains vacant.

FWG and Die Linke have formed a joint parliamentary group. The chairman of the city council (Peter Kerz) is provided by the FWG / LINKE parliamentary group.

mayor

Klaus-Rüdiger Neubauer (independent) was elected in a runoff election on June 22, 2014 with 51.6 percent of the valid votes for a term of seven years.

Local representation

Together with the local elections on May 26, 2019, the local council for Annaburg was elected. In the course of this, 7 local councils (5 FWG and 2 CDU) represent the interests of the citizens. In the constituent meeting of this council on July 4, 2019, Stefan Schmidt (FWG) was re-elected as local mayor and Justus Kott (also FWG) as deputy local mayor of Annaburg.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 7, 1993 by the Dessau Regional Council and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 59/1993.

Blazon : "In silver on a green lawn, a natural rose bush with five red (3: 2) roses."

Annaburg has had its own city coat of arms since 1678. The coat of arms with its red roses is reminiscent of the old Lochau root word gloln = dog rose. The rose coat of arms is relatively young and comes from a time when Lochau was already called Annaburg. It can be assumed that the rose was chosen because there were plenty of dog roses around the place. It is assumed that the five roses refer to the five districts. When Annaburg lost its town charter after the Thirty Years War, it continued to carry the coat of arms.

flag

The flag of the city of Annaburg is green and white striped with the city coat of arms placed in the middle.

Town twinning

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Annaburg and the municipality of Verl in North Rhine-Westphalia became friends. At the beginning there were contacts between the then Hegerings chairman from Annaburg and his counterpart in Verl, which resulted in further contacts from other institutions and the administrations of both municipalities, which ultimately led to the decision to form an official friendship between the cities.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Entrance to the front lock

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Annaburg

  • Annaburg Castle . The former hunting lodge Lochau (later Annaburg ) with extensive gardens and parks was built by Elector August I of Saxony and his wife Princess Anna of Denmark and Norway between 1572 and 1575. It was both a destination for the hunt in the Lochauer Heide, which was very popular with the elector, and the residence of the elector Anna, who pursued many activities here. In her honor, the city was renamed Annaburg in 1573. Between 1762 and 1921 the castle was used as an educational institute for military boys.
  • Office building Annaburg . The former office building of Annaburg was built in 1578 and today houses the city history museum.
  • NCO's preschool. Used between 1881 and 1921, the building is now operated as a nursing home.
  • Evangelical church on the market
  • "Pfarrer Stifel" market fountain made of bronze and sandstone by Vinzenz Wanitschke , installed in 1997

  • Front lock

  • Back lock

  • Office building

  • Market with avenue

  • Porcelain museum

  • primary school

  • Secondary school

  • NCO's preschool

Museums

  • City history museum. In the former office building on the market, information is provided about the history of the city of Annaburg.
  • The museum in the back castle provides information about the development of the castle:
    • the history of construction and use with the people who were important for Annaburg, Friedrich III. (the wise), Elector August I of Saxony, Electress Anna Auguste of Denmark (wife of August I),
    • the use as a military boy education institute from 1762 to 1921,
    • the electoral hunt in the Lochauer / Annaburger Heide.
    • Another focus is the importance of the flat ceiling, one of the first “wallpapers” in Europe, published in 1987 by the Verein für Heimatgeschichte und Denkmalpflege e. V. was uncovered.
  • Porcelain museum. It gives insights into the history of Annaburg porcelain production , which began in 1874 and existed until 2015.

Parks

Zoo

The Thiergarten in the immediate vicinity of the castle with centuries-old oaks, maples and other trees, which is designated as a landscape protection area, was laid out in 1498 by Friedrich the Wise, Elector of Saxony. Deer and roe deer were kept there and in the 18th century also aurochs and reindeer. Today there is a nature trail and a tea house there.

Landscapes

The Annaburger Heide stretches from the north, east to south around the city and extends beyond the state borders with Brandenburg and Saxony. Most of it is used as a military training area and for forestry purposes.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

traffic

The station Annaburg is located on the railway line (Węgliniec-) Falkenberg (Elster) -Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Roßlau and is supported by the regional train lines RE14 and RB51 ( Dessau - Wittenberg - Falkenberg (Elster) ) of the DB Regio approached timetable default. From 1902 to 1996 the Annaburg – Prettin railway connected Annaburg with today's district of Prettin on the Elbe .

Annaburg is connected to the federal road 187 in Jessen (Elster) via the state roads L 113 and L 116.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

  • Friedrich the Wise (1463–1525), Elector of Saxony, resided in Lochau from around 1500 and died here in 1525
  • Michael Stifel (around 1487–1567), theologian and mathematician, pastor in Lochau
  • August von Sachsen (1526–1586), Elector of Saxony, had the castle demolished in 1571 and rebuilt in 1572–1575
  • Anna of Denmark (1532–1585), Electress of Saxony, named after the city, resided in the newly built Annaburg Castle
  • Justus Christian Thorschmidt (1688–1750), pastor and local historian in Annaburg
  • Reinhard Bortfeld (1927–2019), geophysicist, grew up in Annaburg

Web links

Commons : Annaburg  - collection of pictures, 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. ^ Main statute of the city of Annaburg
  3. ↑ Local constitution law of the state in the version of July 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Main statutes in the version dated December 9, 2015 ( Memento from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  5. ↑ a b StBA: Area changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2003
  6. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2004
  7. ↑ Composition of the city council from July 1st, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  8. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 22, 2014