Apollensdorf
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ' N , 12 ° 33' E
 
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Location of Apollensdorf in Saxony-Anhalt |
Apollensdorf is a village in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . It includes the districts of Apollensdorf and Apollensdorf-Nord.
geography
Apollensdorf consists of the actual village south of the federal highway 187 , the settlement north of the Roßlau – Falkenberg / Elster railway line and the Apollensdorf-Nord industrial and commercial area established in 1994.
The village lies between the wooded slopes of the Fläming in the north and the central Elbe , which flows past Apollensdorf immediately to the south. Apollensdorf is surrounded by the Wittenberg district Griebo in the west, the Coswig district Möllensdorf in the north and the Wittenberg district Piesteritz in the east. On the opposite southern side of the Elbe is Seegrehna, which is also part of Wittenberg . The terrain on the Elbe is mostly flat. An exception is the 127 m high Apollensberg , which is well connected to the network of hiking trails and from whose summit you can see far over the Elbe meadows to the Dübener Heide .
history
Apollensdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1293 as Boldenstorff . Martin Luther often stayed for prayer in the church of the former farming village . A Marienkapelle on the Apollensberg already mentioned in 1376 and built several years earlier by Rudolf I and incorporated into the Wittenberg All Saints' Monastery no longer exists. Elector Johann Friedrich I had the chapel torn down in 1542 because the stones were needed for the construction of the city walls of Wittenberg. An eight-meter-high stainless steel ecumenical cross was erected on the site of the Lady Chapel in 2000 . It is the station of the church path that was laid out in the Bitterfeld-Dessau-Wittenberg correspondence region of the Expo 2000 . The Apollensberg was used from the 1950s to 1994 as a radio and radar station for the Soviet Army .
In 1974 Apollensdorf was incorporated into Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
Attractions
On the south-eastern edge of the village stands the stone church , built between 1200 and 1230, which was the only stone building in the village until the 17th century. The three-part building in Romanesque style is equipped with a stepped round arch portal , the nave , a retracted choir and retracted apse . The original windows were enlarged in the 17th century. The baptismal font comes from the Baroque period , around 1660. From 1991 to 1994, the Romanesque field stone church with its baroque furnishings and the striking wooden bell tower was restored.
Personalities
- August Buchner (1591–1661), classical philologist and literary theorist of the Baroque era, died in Apollensdorf
- Wilhelm Ludwig Nitzsch (1703–1758), Lutheran theologian, at times pastor in Apollensdorf
- Erhard Peschke (1907–1996), Protestant theologian and professor of church history, at times pastor in Apollensdorf
- Peter-Hugo Scholz (1954–2019), radio and television journalist, born in Apollensdorf