Berkau (Bismark)

Berkau City of Bismark (Altmark) Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 18 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	37 m
Area :	18.93 km²
Residents :	484 (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density :	26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39629
Area code :	039089
Location of Berkau in Saxony-Anhalt

Berkau is part of the town of Bismark (Altmark) in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).

geography

The village of Berkau is located in the center of the Altmark , west of Stendal and east of Kalbe (Milde) . The flat undulating area around Berkau (up to 47 m above sea level ) slopes slightly to the west to Milde and to the south to the Secantsgraben .

history

The mention of the place Berquide iuxta Calve in the year 1238 is interpreted today as the first written mention of Berkau.

The former parish village Berkau originally belonged to the district of Stendal and was assigned to the district of Kalbe (Milde) on July 25, 1952 . With the dissolution of the district on January 1, 1988 Berkau came to the Gardelegen district . After its dissolution on July 1, 1994, Berkau finally came to the district of Stendal as before.

On December 21, 1973, the municipality of Wartenberg was incorporated into the municipality of Berkau.

Until December 31, 2009 Berkau was an independent municipality with the associated district of Wartenberg and belonged to the now dissolved administrative community Bismark / Kläden .

The municipality council of Berkau decided on June 15, 2009 to approve an area change agreement, which dissolved their municipality and became part of a new unified municipality called the city of Bismark (Altmark) . This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

A local council with five members including the local mayor is formed in the municipality that has been incorporated and is now Berkau.

politics

mayor

The mayor of Berkau is Ines Pagels.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The L 27 and L 21 pass the town. The nearest train station is in the Hohenwulsch municipality, 8 km away ( Stendal - Salzwedel railway line ).

Attractions

The field stone church Berkau was built in the middle of the 13th century.

religion

Originally there was a Protestant parish in Berkau to which the parishes of Wartenberg and Karritz belonged as branches. The Protestant parishes of Berkau with Karritz and Wartenberg have belonged to the Kremkau parish since 1958.

Individual evidence

^ Peter Wilhelm Behrends: Count Siegfried von Osterburg and Altenhausen resigned many villages and properties in the Altmark in 1238 . Annual reports of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History. 4th Annual Report, 1841, p. 48 ( altmark-geschichte.de [PDF]).
↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952. Accessed on May 21, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 345 ff .

↑ Landkreis Stendal (ed.): Official Journal . 19th year, no. 17 . Stendal August 12, 2009, p. 192 ff . ( landkreis-stendal.de [PDF; 6.8 MB ; accessed on December 2, 2015]).

^ Haase, Hilbert: Parish Almanach or the Protestant clergy and churches of the province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 109 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed May 21, 2017]).

^ Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony e. V. (Ed.): Pastor's Book of the Church Province of Saxony (= Series Pastorum . Volume 10 ). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0 , p. 389 .

literature

Block, Helmut Kurt (ed.): The knowledge of the region . Bismark Kläden and the surrounding area. tape 2 . Edition Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark, Altenzaun 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811747-0-0 , p. 18-27 .

Web links

Berkau with the district of Wartenberg. on www.stadt-bismark.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017 .

[1] Peter Wilhelm Behrends: Count Siegfried von Osterburg and Altenhausen resigned many villages and properties in the Altmark in 1238 . Annual reports of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History. 4th Annual Report, 1841, p. 48 ( altmark-geschichte.de [PDF]).

[2] Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952. Accessed on May 21, 2017 .

[Metzler-Poeschel-3] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 345 ff .

[4] Landkreis Stendal (ed.): Official Journal . 19th year, no. 17 . Stendal August 12, 2009, p. 192 ff . ( landkreis-stendal.de [PDF; 6.8 MB ; accessed on December 2, 2015]).

[Almanach1903-5] Haase, Hilbert: Parish Almanach or the Protestant clergy and churches of the province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 109 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed May 21, 2017]).

[6] Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony e. V. (Ed.): Pastor's Book of the Church Province of Saxony (= Series Pastorum . Volume 10 ). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0 , p. 389 .