Birkholz (Tangerhütte)

Birch wood City of Tangerhütte
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.18 km²
Residents :	398  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	25 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 31, 2010
Postal code :	39517
Area code :	03935
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Birkholz post mill, taken in 1974

Birkholz is a district of the town of Tangerhütte in the south of the German district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The place on the southeast edge of the Altmark lies in a flat, undulating, wooded area between the rivers Tangier and Elbe . The Börde district borders on the west of the Birkholz district . Tangerhütte is around three kilometers away.

The districts Scheeren and Sophienhof belonged to the former municipality of Birkholz. Today these are parts of the village of Birkholz.

history

The place appears for the first time in a deed of ownership in 1345, a knight Dietherich von Berkholdt was mentioned in documents in the area as early as 1249. In the 16th century the manor belonged to the family of the Schulenburg on Angern that here on the desert Feldmark a Vorwerk built with apartments, cattle farms and sheep farms on the territory of the former moated castle. The knight's seat, which was ruined in the Thirty Years' War and still heavily devastated in 1690, came into the possession of the von Bismarck family in 1739 . The new owner Levin-Friedrich von Bismarck from neighboring Briest had a settlement built for the servants of the estate in the second half of the 18th century and named the new outbuilding after his wife Sophie Sophienhof (now the Sophienhof district).

On September 30, 1928, the Scheeren manor with the rural communities Scheeren and Birkholz and part of the Birkholz manor were merged to form a rural community Birkholz. On January 1, 1929, the remaining manor district of Birkholz was merged with the rural community of Birkholz to form the new rural community of Birkholz, with the exception of some parcels of the manor district, which were combined with Tangerhütte.

On May 31, 2010, Birkholz merged with the other municipalities of the Tangerhütte-Land administrative community to form the new town of Tangerhütte.

As part of the village renewal, the village community center with community office, community room and fire station has been built and the village square and the fountain have been redesigned. The streets and paths were also renovated.

The volunteer fire brigade shapes village life, it is the sponsor of the village and Christmas festivals, Easter and May fires.

Population development

• 1990: 408
• 1995: 383
• 2000: 412
• 2001: 416
• 2002: 415
• 2003: 431
• 2004: 425
• 2008: 398

politics

Local mayor

The local mayor is Steffen Volkstedt.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on November 6, 2009.

Blazon : “Square of red and gold; Fields 1 and 4: a left-facing, rising silver hound with a red tongue, Fields 2 and 3: a green wreath of leaves open at the top. "

The coat of arms was designed by the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch from a template from the municipality and included in the approval process.

Culture and sights

In addition to the half-timbered church from 1690, the manor house is a Birkholz landmark. The elongated, two-storey plastered building of 15 axes with a half-hipped roof and hipped ornamental dormers was built around 1770 at the time of Georg Wilhelm von Bismarck , as was the square manor. Around 1850 a slightly protruding three-axis central projection with arched windows, divided by four pilasters with Ionic capitals, and an entrance porch was added to the manor house. Emil Ballerstedt bought the estate in 1856 and his family owned it until it was expropriated in 1945.

The former manor house then housed the state forestry office Tangerhütte and a kindergarten until the village community center was built. In 2008 the couple from Gehren bought the house and park. In the years from 2009 to 2011 they completely renovated it.

Economy and Infrastructure

The commercial settlements in Birkholz include assembly and metal construction companies, a garden center and a broiler company.

traffic

Birkholz lies at the fork in the country roads from Tangerhütte to Ringfurth and the Elbe ferry to Grieben . The next train station is in the nearby Tangerhütte on the Magdeburg – Wittenberge line . Regular buses and dial-a-bus services run by Regionalverkehr Westsachsen (RVW) in Scheeren under the brand name stendalbus . Birkholz is only served in school bus services.

literature

• Brita von Götz-Mohr: The manor house Birkholz and the Vorwerk Sophienhof (castles and gardens in Saxony-Anhalt, issue 16). German Society in Saxony-Anhalt e. V., Stendal 2018, ISBN 978-3-941675-88-9 .

Web links

Commons : Birkholz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 209 .
2. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1929, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 6 . : "With the exception of the parcels on map sheet 1, 136/23, 24, 25, 26, 152/28, 153/27, 154/27, 151/28, 150/27, which will be united with the municipality of Tangerhütte"
3. ↑ Official Gazette for the district of Stendal dated May 30, 2010 (PDF; 2.0 MB)
4. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 25/2009, p. 337 (PDF; 3.2 MB)
5. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt 1st German Art Publishing House , Munich 2002.
6. ^ Website of the Birkholz manor house
7. ↑ Carolin Werner: In conversation with project sponsors ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .