Axia

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Axia
City of Annaburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 73 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.57 km²
Residents : 559  (Dec. 31, 2009)
Population density : 25 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2011
Postal code : 06925
Area code : 035386

Axien is a district of the city of Annaburg in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . Until December 31, 2010, Axien was an independent municipality with the districts of Axien, Gehmen and Kähnitzsch .

geography

The place is about 35 km southeast of Wittenberg and about 20 km north of Torgau in the lowlands on the east bank of the Elbe on an old Elbarm. In the south the place borders on Saxony .

history

Axien is first mentioned in 965 as Uazgrini. The place itself is likely to be older. A castle guard under the name Wazgrini was mentioned in Axien as early as 865 . It served as a fortified bridgehead on an Elbe ford.

On January 1, 2011, Axien was incorporated into the city of Annaburg.

Attractions

  • The brick church with ceiling paintings from the 13th century is well known
  • Atonement cross in Kähnitzsch
  • Gravestone in the local cemetery for a Serbian slave laborer known by name who died in 1941
  • Church Axien 1.jpg
  • Church Axien 2.jpg

societies

  • Axiener ESV e. V. (Axiener Elbaue Sportverein): The Axiener ESV was founded in 1990, it emerged from the former association "Traktor Axien". Until 1999 there were two sections, soccer and bowling.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

The B 182 runs west of the village and the B 187 runs north . It is located on Mitteldeutsche Kirchenstrasse .

Personalities

  • Georg Schönfelder (1911–1996), chess trainer and organizer of chess tournaments. Labruner "Georg-Schönefelder-Landopen" is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
  2. ↑ Dr. Rüdiger Horn: Georg Schönfelder - Not just a chess legend . In: Jörg Wolfslast (Ed.): Heimatkalender Jessen 2013 . Jessen 2013, p. 123 ff .
  3. ↑ H.-Dieter Kunze: 20 board players in the chess stronghold . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2008.

Web links

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