Breitenrode

Breitenrode City of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	449  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 14, 1994
Incorporated into:	Oebisfelde
Postal code :	39646
Area code :	039002

Breitenrode

Location of Breitenrode in Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenrode is a district of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Breitenrode is a one kilometer long street village with around 450 inhabitants. It is located on the edge of the nature park and within the Drömling fen area . The place is mainly surrounded by pastureland and is located around one kilometer north of Oebisfelde north of the B 188 . The western town of Grafhorst in Lower Saxony is less than a kilometer from the western end of Breitenrode. The Oebisfelde-Weferlinger district of Wassensdorf is two kilometers east of Breitenrode .

history

Town center, view in east direction

Former daycare center with a stork's nest

Breitenrode was founded in 1715. It is the only Drömlingsdorf with the ending -rode . In 1939 the place had 644 inhabitants. From 1945 the inner-German border was established and expanded. From 1954 until the fall of the Wall , Breitenrode was in the 5 km exclusion zone , which could only be entered by authorized GDR citizens.

Until 1952, Breitenrode belonged to the district of Gardelegen ; then it came to the newly formed Klötze district . Breitenrode was incorporated into Oebisfelde in 1994 and thus lost its political independence. On December 23, 1989, the border crossing between Breitenrode and Grafhorst was opened. From 1994 to January 1, 2005 the place belonged to the administrative community Oebisfelde, then from 2005 to 31 December 2009 the administrative community Oebisfelde-Calvörde in the Ohrekreis and from 2007 in the district of Börde . On January 1, 2010, the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen was founded due to a municipal reform in Saxony-Anhalt. Breitenrode, as a district of the former city of Oebisfelde, became a district of the new city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen.

In 2017 the day care center “Storchennest” was closed.

Infrastructure

The place has a hotel as well as some smaller businesses. The width Roder Heimatstube shows from May to September once a month exhibits from the past of the town.

The state road L 24 leads from Grafhorst through Breitenrode to Oebisfelde. A district road leads to Wassensdorf. Breitenrode is served by buses of the OhreBus Verkehrsgesellschaft (line 630) and the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel passenger transport company (PVGS, line 311) Monday to Friday, mainly for school trips. Until 1945, together with Grafhorst, Breitenrode owned the Grafhorst station on the Wittingen – Oebisfelde railway line . It was on the eastern side of the border. On July 1, 1945, operations between Rüben and Oebisfelde ceased.

Others

In the center of the village there is an eyrie on the roof of the day-care center where white storks regularly breed.

literature

• Karsten Hoth, Günter Bruhn (eds.): Breitenrode. History and stories. Self-published, Breitenrode 2015.

Web links

• Map of Drömlingsdörfern with Breitenrode (PDF file; 2.53 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 300 years of Breitenrode. Volksstimme from June 14, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2015
2. ↑ History of the district of Gardelegen ( Memento from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010