Breitenhagen (Barby)

Breitenhagen City of Barby Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	52 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.06 km²
Residents :	492  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39240
Area code :	039294
Location of Breitenhagen in Barby

Breitenhagen is a district of the town of Barby in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

Marie-Gerda ship restaurant

geography

The district Breitenhagen is located in the UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe , directly on the Elbe and close to the Saale estuary .

The Alt Tochheim district belonged to the former municipality of Breitenhagen.

Elbe flood 2013

At Breitenhagen, the dam broke in June 2013 about 150 m behind the pumping station over a length of about 100 m. As a result, the flood penetrated to Aken . An area about the size of Lake Constance was flooded and the amount of water was equal to the capacity of the Rappbodetalsperre . The places Breitenhagen, Klein Rosenburg , Groß Rosenburg , Lödderitz , Rajoch , Kühren , Diebzig , Susigke and parts of Sachsendorf and Aken were badly hit. Some residents could only return to their uninhabitable houses after 3 weeks. In July 2013, the THW tried to enlarge the fracture point in order to relieve the flooded areas and to channel the water back into the Elbe. This could only be achieved by using an excavator.

history

The place Breitenhagen is over 750 years old. An altar plate in the village church of St. Christophoros, which is over a thousand years old, probably comes from the Sorbian Orthodox Church of the early 10th century, which was also used after the violent Catholicization of the Serimunt district from 927.

The village church of St. Christophorus was built from rubble stones in 1625 and was given its present form in 1725.

Until 1914 there was a shipyard in Breitenhagen where Elbe barges were built. The last of its kind, the Marie-Gerda , is now a ship restaurant on the banks of the Elbe.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Breitenhagen, Glinde , Groß Rosenburg , Lödderitz , Pömmelte , Sachsendorf , Tornitz , Wespen and Zuchau and the city of Barby (Elbe) merged to form the new city of Barby. At the same time, the Elbe-Saale administrative community , to which Breitenhagen belonged, was dissolved.

Attractions

Ev. Church of St. Christopher

Breitenhagen ferry

Signpost of the 3-ferry tour

• Village church with half-timbered tower
• Wooden windmill
• Restaurant in the Elbe barge Marie-Gerda
• The two Elbe ferries in Barby and Breitenbach are connected to the Saale ferry in Groß Rosenburg by the 3-ferry tour, a 24 km long circular route.

Transport links

Breitenhagen is connected to the surrounding towns of Calbe (Saale) and Aken (Elbe) via a country road . In the district of Old Tochheim the crossing ferry Breitenhagen , one of the few still existing greed rope ferry , the Elbe and connects to Zerbst ago. The next train stations are in Sachsendorf (approx. 10 km) and Zerbst.

Sons and daughters

• August Willi Knopf (1908–1988), Mayor from 1946 to 1974
• Rudolf Karl Krause (* 1946), politician (CDU, REP)
• Matthias Buszkowiak (* 1992), footballer (RB Leipzig II)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Aken-Rosenburg church on the Breitenhagen church ( memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 22, 2015) 
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

Web links

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