Burgkemnitz
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Burgkemnitz
Community Muldestausee
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| Height : | 91 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 14.77 km² |
| Residents : | 816 (Dec. 31, 2007) |
| Population density : | 55 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 06774 |
| Area code : | 034955 |
Burgkemnitz is a district of the community Muldestausee in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
Burgkemnitz lies between Dessau-Roßlau and Bitterfeld on the edge of the Düben Heath .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1456. Until 1815 he belonged to the Electoral Office of Bitterfeld . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th
During the Thirty Years War in 1637, Burgkemnitz was plundered and heavily destroyed by the troops of the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér .
Until the new formation of the unified community Muldestausee on January 1, 2010, Burgkemnitz was an independent community in the administrative community Muldestausee-Painbach . Andreas Boy has been the (local) mayor of Burgkemnitz since 2012.
badges and flags
Blazon : "In gold a black lock with openwork windows and blue roof, in the blue base of the shield three black wavy lines."
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .
The flag of Burgkemnitz is striped blue, yellow and black with a coat of arms placed in the middle.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The baroque church Burgkemnitz, a monument of architecture, shines in a new splendor after its holistic restoration (from 1867 to 1880). It was built in 1722. The "Burgkemnitzer Church Concerts" have become a tradition and are popular beyond the borders of the region.
"The Burgkemnitz manor house is built in the Renaissance style and looks very stately with its ancient corner towers, facades and gables in the middle of the large, graceful park, in which there are also several expansive ponds". (Emil Obst, 1887) The last owner of this mansion after the Second World War was the Landrat Kraft Freiherr von Bodenhausen, who was expropriated by the land reform . The manor was last used as a children's home. After the construction of new buildings on the estate (sponsor: Caritas ), the mansion fell into disrepair.
Transport links
Bundesstraße 100 runs east of the village .
Burgkemnitz has a train station on the Berlin – Halle railway line , which is served hourly by the S2 and S8 lines of the Central German S-Bahn .
Personalities
- Bodo von Bodenhausen (1633–1700), manor owner in Burg- and Neukemnitz
- Hans Bodo Freiherr von Bodenhausen (1875–1904), officer in the Schutztruppe of German South West Africa , was born in Burgkemnitz.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Burgkemnitz - ... in the middle of a well-tended English park ..., in: Quiet and full of dry beauty ... Castles and their gardens in the Dübener Heide, Bad Düben 2006, pp. 35–46, ISBN 978 -3-00-020880-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
