Burgstall (District of Börde)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Burgstall
Burgstall (District of Börde)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Börde
Association municipality : Elbe Heath
Height : 45 m above sea level NHN
Area : 116.45 km 2
Residents: 1506 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 13 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 39517 (Burgstall, Cröchern, Dolle, Sandbeiendorf)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Area code : 039364
License plate : BK , BÖ, HDL, OC, OK, WMS, WZL
Community key : 15 0 83 120
Community structure: 5 districts
Association administration address: Magdeburger Str. 40
39326 Rogätz
Website : www.elbe-heide.de
Mayor : Carsten Miehe
Location of the municipality of Burgstall in the Börde district
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Burgstall is a municipality in the northeast of the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). It is a member community of the Elbe-Heide community with its seat in the community of Rogätz .

geography

The municipality of Burgstall in the eastern area of ​​the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide is crossed by the Dollgraben , one of the numerous Tanger source streams. Its official name is Colbitzer Landbach , popularly it is called Bäcke . The beaver has returned to this area for several years . The wooded area north of Burgstall rises to the northwest and reaches 117  m above sea level. NHN and borders on the eastern part of the large Altmark military training area . The town of Tangerhütte is about 9 km away. The district borders on the district of Stendal in the north and east . Burgstall is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Tangerhütte in the north, Angern in the southeast, Colbitz in the south, Westheide in the southwest and Gardelegen in the west.

Community structure

Districts of the municipality are

The following are designated as living spaces in the municipality:

  • Brown Gate
  • Forestry settlement
  • settlement
  • Stone mountains

history

The family of Bismarck was in 1345 by the Bavarian elector of Brandenburg because of special services of the Nicolaus von Bismarck in administration, with the castle Postal invested . In 1562 she had to exchange Burgstall for Krevese and the East Elbe estates of Schönhausen and Fischbeck, and Burgstall was the seat of the Burgstall domain office until 1860 . In the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813) Burgstall was the main town ( chef-lieu ) of the canton of Burgstall . After that, the old administrative structure was first restored. In the district reform of 1816, Burgstall came to the Wolmirstedt district .

The community's cultural monuments are listed in the local register of monuments.

GDR (1949–1990)

Until 1990, the district administration of Magdeburg of the Ministry for State Security ( MfS ) of the GDR maintained a training facility for the handling of firearms in Burgstall.

Incorporations

On January 1, 2010, Cröchern, Dolle and Sandbeiendorf were incorporated into Burgstall.

politics

mayor

In March 2016 Carsten Miehe was elected mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on April 22, 2010.

Blazon : “Fourth of silver and red; Field 1: a red hip horn with a golden mouthpiece, bell and fittings on a red strap hanging from a dry red branch with golden cut surfaces, field 2: crossed a golden scythe and a golden flail, field 3: an inclined natural six-ended silver deer rod, the prongs turned to the top left, the rose below covered with a golden shamrock, field 4: a red stag with golden antlers striding on a black grooved red battlement wall. "

The coat of arms was designed by the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch and included in the approval process. It combines elements of the coats of arms of the four districts of Burgstall, Cröchern, Dolle and Sandbeiendorf. The Hifthorn comes from Burgstall, the scythe and flail from Sandbeiendorf, the stag pole from Cröchern and the stag on the wall from Dolle.

Coat of arms of the Burgstall district

Coat of arms from the Burgstall district

The coat of arms was approved on March 29, 1996 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : "In silver in the base of the shield a red tin wall, behind it on the right a red tin tower, on the left accompanied by a golden ornate red post horn hanging on the red branch."

The colors red - silver (white) are derived from the coat of arms.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Günther Gembalski.

flag

The flag is red and white (1: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

Burgstall is home to one of the 25 forest offices of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the federal forest administration, which will move to Mahlwinkel in the following years . The community's cultural monuments are listed in the local register of monuments.

From the village of Burgstall, country roads lead to Dolle on federal road 189 ( Magdeburg - Stendal ), to Tangerhütte and to Angern / Rogätz . The nearest train station is in Mahlwinkel, 7 kilometers away on the Magdeburg – Wittenberge line . The Altmark motorway from Magdeburg to Schwerin (under construction) will pass near Burgstall and will have its own junction between Dolle and Burgstall.

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Lüders (1805–1857), writer and newspaper editor in Hamburg, Leipzig, Stettin and Berlin; persecuted as a democrat and died in misery
  • Gunhild Erika Schröder , née Lauterbach (1913–2012), mother of Gerhard Schröder and Lothar Vosseler
  • Christian Höpfner (1939–2014), sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and university professor

literature

  • Peggy Badelt and Anja Rau: Family book Burgstall with Dolle, Blätz, Mixdorf and Salchau (district Börde), Saxony-Anhalt, 1645 to 1814. Leipzig: AMF 2012 (= Central German local family books of the AMF 68)

Web links

Commons : Burgstall  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ^ Georg Schmidt : The von Bismarck family , Berlin 1908.
  3. ^ Document collection of von Bismarck in the Secret State Archives in Berlin , with Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , I, XVII, 499
  4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  5. ↑ http://www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/bm16/erg/gem/bm.15083120.20160313.ergtab.dr.html
  6. ↑ a b Official Journal of the District No. 31/2010 (PDF; 355 kB)
  7. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The coat of arms of the municipality of Burgstall, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the district of Börde 2010 (report: State Main Archives Magdeburg)