Calbe (Saale)

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Coat of arms of the city of Calbe (Saale)
Calbe (Saale)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Calbe (Saale) highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Salzlandkreis
Height : 60 m above sea level NHN
Area : 56.66 km 2
Residents: 8450 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 149 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 39240
Area code : 039291
License plate : SLK, ASL, BBG, SBK, SFT
Community key : 15 0 89 055
City structure: Core city and 2 districts

City administration address : 		Markt 18
39240 Calbe (Saale)
Website : www.calbe.de
Mayor : Sven home (Alternative list Calbe ALC)
Location of the city of Calbe (Saale) in the Salzlandkreis
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Calbe (Saale) is a town in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).

geography

Calbe lies on the edge of a terminal moraine on the left bank of the Saale , which has been developed for European ships as far as Calbe . The small town is located near the geographical center of Saxony-Anhalt, which is 5 km away in Tornitz .

Calbe (Saale) is surrounded by a number of protected biotopes: in the north are the reed-covered Gribehner ponds , to the east the lowlands of the Saale arch and in the west the terminal moraine hills of the wooded Wartenberg .

Calbe (Saale), aerial photo (2019)

City structure

The districts belong to Calbe (Saale)

Dialect border

Calbe (Saale) is located immediately south of the Benrath line and thus at the transition from the High German - more precisely: the East Central German dialects to the Low German language .

history

Roland statue in the market square

The city of Calbe (Saale) was first mentioned under the name of Calvo according to a document from King Otto I of September 13, 936 . Today, however, it is assumed that Calbe is older: there was probably a settlement as early as the 8th or the beginning of the 9th century. As a focal point of the market town of Ottonian, maybe even Carolingian applies royal court (curtis regia) or the castle .

Calbe Castle around 1700
View from the east over the Saale (on the left the "Hexenturm", on the right the Stephani Church)
Loewestrasse

Due to the good traffic situation in the eastern part of what was then Germany as a starting point for trade with the colonized Slavic areas, Calbe was granted market rights around 1160 . The existence of a council constitution can be assumed in the late Middle Ages. From 968 to 1680 Calbe belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg ; the Magdeburg archbishops had their summer and second seat at Calbe Castle . The jurisprudence of the Calber jury in the 14th century (almost exclusively concerning private law) is still tangible today in Calbe's wet book. Martin Luther sent letters to the Archbishop of Magdeburg Albrecht IV in 1517 and 1520 explaining his 95 theses .

In 1634 the hospital nurse Ursula Wurm was burned as a witch in Calbe. The guard and prison tower behind the town hall has been called the witch tower since the time of the witch hunts.

In 1680, as a so-called Immediatstadt , Calbe was placed under the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg and was in the Holzkreis until 1807 . As a result, the city experienced a second economic, political and cultural heyday as a cloth manufacture and later as a cloth industry center. From 1816 to 1950 Calbe was the district town and the administrative seat of the Prussian district of Calbe a./S . The end of the boom came with the First World War .

In the last days of the Second World War , Calbe Castle burned down during fighting and the ruins were removed in 1951.

A third economic and social boom, which lasted only a few years, brought Calbe's time as an industrial city in the GDR : in 1950, the first and only low- shaft furnace in the world was built in Calbe . The company was stopped in 1968 due to unprofitability.

politics

City council

The council consists of 20 honorary council members and the mayor in accordance with the municipal regulations. He is elected for a term of five years.

  • CDU : 7 seats
  • The left : 2 seats
  • SPD : 2 seats
  • FDP : 1 seats
  • Groups of voters: 8 seats

( Local election on May 25, 2014)

coat of arms

Blazon : “In blue, a silver castle with a pinned, black grooved wall and two pointed and kneaded towers connected by a battlement, each with a black arched window opening; the battlements with hipped roof padded on the gables, crowned in the middle with a patted turret (lantern) with three black arched window openings. Between the towers in gold, a red calf with black hooves standing on the battlements, looking forward. "

Town twinning

Burgdorf (Hanover region) has been a twin town of Calbe since 1990.

Culture and sights

  • Sights on a city tour

Buildings

town hall
  • Calbe lock
  • Town hall Calbe with Roland statue
  • Bismarck Tower
  • The Hexenturm was a watchtower of the earlier city fortifications, the remains of which can still be seen. It served as a council archive and prison for serious criminals. Today it is used as the city archive and, in addition to documents from the city's history, also houses writings by Johann Heinrich Hävecker and Friedrich Schiller .
  • The Blue Tower , originally covered with blue slate, was also once part of the fortification of the city. It was rebuilt in its current form in the 19th century in the garden of the district administration's apartment.
  • Stone cross on Nienburger Strasse
  • The paper mill to the east behind the houses of the market square on the weir

Commemoration

  • Bismarck tower on the Wartenberg near Calbe, built in grateful memory of the unifier of the German Empire and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The tower was at the birthday on March 22, 1904 I. Kaiser Wilhelm , inaugurated.
  • War memorial to commemorate the people of Calben who fell in World War I with a surrounding, semicircular pergola , unveiled on June 24, 1929 in the presence of numerous warrior and veteran associations. The Magdeburgische Zeitung reported in detail on the celebrations in its edition of June 25, 1929.
    More recently, the memorial has also been rededicated for the fallen and victims of the Second World War.
  • Memorial wall at the entrance to the municipal cemetery for 24 women, men and a toddler from different nations who were victims of forced labor during the Second World War , as well as a memorial wall for the German OdF committees and anti-fascists who died after 1945
  • Grave site in the cemetery in the district of Trabitz for an unknown Pole who was abducted to Germany during the Second World War and a victim of forced labor
  • Memorial stone on the disused Karl Schröter shaft on the farm of the agricultural cooperative in memory of the miner and communist city ​​councilor Karl Schröter, who died in 1940 as a result of his prison sentence

Churches

Heger sports hall

Sports

Economy and Infrastructure

Due to the very good arable land, agriculture has always been practiced in Calbe. Onion cultivation was first mentioned in 1591 and is still in use today. This earned the city the nickname Bollencalbe (Bolle = onion). Sheep was also kept pasture at the time . The wool obtained laid the foundation for a flourishing cloth-making trade that later supplied the Prussian army, among other things.

By the First World War , among other things, brickworks , lignite mines , cloth factories , the Rudolf Imroth soap factory and the Brückner paper factory were developed or founded . The metal processing industry is the second largest economic factor in the city after agriculture.

The most powerful German vegetable oil power plant with an output of 10 megawatts is located near Calbe .

Lower shaft furnace

Calbe achieved an industrial boom with the commissioning of the world's first low - shaft furnace in 1951. So-called poor ores ( siderite and hematite ) from the Harz mines Büchenberg and Braunesumpf were smelted here .

traffic

Rail transport

Calbe (Saale) Ost train station

Calbe has the Calbe (Saale) Ost station on the double-track, electrified Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line . The single-track connection of the Bernburg – Calbe (Saale) railway to Bernburg via the Calbe (Saale) West train station and the Calbe (Saale) Stadt stop also branches off there. These stops are also on the Berlin – Blankenheim railway line, which has been partially closed since 2005 .

Road traffic

Calbe is located directly on the L 65, which leads from Magdeburg to Bernburg . The city is also on the L 63, which runs from Förderstedt via Calbe to Dessau . Then the L 68 leads from Calbe to Barby .

shipping

Calbe is located on the navigable part of the Saale (up to class IV ). There is a sluice by God's grace.

education

Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium
Elementary school Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The city of Calbe made national headlines when it closed the city library, founded in 1911 and on the Culture Red List , at the end of 2012.

schools

  • Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium (open all-day high school)
  • Heinrich Heine School (formerly)
  • Herder School (Real, Secondary and Hauptschule)
  • Gotthold-Ephraim-Lessing-School (primary school)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with Calbe

Trivia

  • A Mars crater with a diameter of 13.3 km was named after the city of Calbe.
  • The city of Kalbe (Milde) in the north of Saxony-Anhalt was also written Calbe until 1952 . The spelling was changed to avoid confusion with Calbe (Saale).

Web links

Commons : Calbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ↑ RI II No. 57
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 31, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de
  4. ↑ Dieter H. Steinmetz: In search of historical traces - city tour through Calbe an der Saale (accessed October 24, 2019)
  5. ↑ German Cultural Council: Red List of Threatened Cultural Institutions , List of September 3, 2012 ( Memento of the original of October 6, 2014 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 September 30, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturrat.de