Colbitz
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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ N , 11 ° 37 ′ E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Börde | |
| Association municipality : | Elbe Heath | |
| Height : | 67 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 71.87 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3251 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 45 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 39326 | |
| Area code : | 039207 | |
| License plate : | BK , BÖ, HDL, OC, OK, WMS, WZL | |
| Community key : | 15 0 83 130 | |
| LOCODE : | DE CQO | |
| Community structure: | 3 districts | |
| Association administration address: | Magdeburger Strasse 40 39326 Rogätz |
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| Mayor : | Eckhard Liebrecht | |
| Location of the municipality of Colbitz in the Börde district | ||
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Colbitz is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is a member community of the Elbe-Heide community with its seat in the community of Rogätz .
geography
Colbitz is located at the southeast end of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide . To the west of the village is the Colbitzer Lindenwald , the largest closed linden forest in Europe.
The following districts are identified:
- Ellersell
- Lindhorst
The following are designated as living spaces in the municipality:
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history
The Slavic place name (in German "place in the meadows") indicates a settlement as early as 750-800. Colbitz was first mentioned in 1197, when Ludolf von Colbitz appeared as a witness at the Ebendorf district court. The state sovereignty changed from Alten Mark to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in the 14th century . Territorially, the area belonged to the County of Billingshoch. This was a part of the Nordmark, in which Albrecht the Bear from the house of Askanien had been the margrave since 1134. From there he operated the colonization in the east and thus made the North Mark the starting point of the Mark Brandenburg. Therefore, from the 14th century, the name Altmark became common for this area. But when the Ascanian margraves died out in 1320 and the Altmark came to Duke Otto of Braunschweig through the marriage of the widow of the last margrave and all kinds of quarrels ensued, these parts were finally acquired by the archbishopric in 1336. Further documented reports about Colbitz come from this time.
Lindhorst was forcibly incorporated on July 1, 1950. From 1994 to 2009, Lindhorst was a town according to Section 86 of the municipal code.
politics
Municipal council
The local election on May 25, 2014, with a turnout of 58.0%, led to the following result for the composition of the local council:
| Party / list | Seats |
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| CDU | 4th |
| The left | 3 |
| SPD | 1 |
| Green | 1 |
| Citizens for Lindhorst | 2 |
| Individual applicants | 2 |
| total | 15th |
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on October 27, 1994 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.
Blazon : “Three silver stalked linden leaves in red, held together by a silver clasp; A silver stem with three (1: 2) round fruits growing out of the middle straight stem on the right and left. "
The church colors are silver (white) - red.
The coat of arms is a talking coat of arms for the Lindhorst district. It refers to the well-known linden forest. The colors are those of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg.
flag
The flag of the municipality of Colbitz shows the colors silver (white) - red with the municipality's coat of arms.
Town twinning
Colbitz's twin town has been Altdorf near Nuremberg in Bavaria since 2003 .
Culture and sights
The remains of the Odenburg are located in the district of Colbitz .
The community's cultural monuments are listed in the local register of monuments.
In Colbitz itself is the Evangelical St. Paul Church, built in 1869/70 . Also in Loitscher Weg is the Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus von der Flüe , built from 1959 to 1962 from a former barn and supplemented by a bell tower in 1965, which is rarely used for church services today. The closest Catholic church with regular services is located in Wolmirstedt, about six kilometers away .
There is also a museum courtyard at Ortstraße 10 about life on the farm in the past. The Lindhorst post mill , operated and restored by the Mühlenverein Lindhorst e. V.
The Colbitz waterworks with Germany's only "waterworks crocodile" is also remarkable.
Regular events
Every year on the first full weekend in September, the Heath Festival is celebrated and the “ Heath Queen of the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heath” is crowned.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Colbitz is located on the Bundesstrasse 189 ( Magdeburg - Stendal ), about seven kilometers north of Wolmirstedt , 18 km east of the district town of Haldensleben and 18 km north of the state capital Magdeburg. There are bus connections to Wolmirstedt and Cröchern. Since the closure of the Wolmirstedt – Colbitz small railway , the next train station is in the neighboring municipality of Zielitz.
The (as of January 2020) isolated section Wolmirstedt – Colbitz, which bypasses the town of Colbitz to the east, of the federal motorway 14 was opened to traffic on October 29, 2014. The Colbitz exit is located in the north-east of the village on Kreisstraße 1174n.
Established businesses
- Colbitzer Heide Brewery
- KANN building material works
- Silka / Xella (sand-lime brick production)
- TWM drinking water supply Magdeburg with the waterworks Colbitz
- Stump (civil engineering)
- Porr Equipment Service Deutschland GmbH
- Work || (Car workshop)
- Colbitz car wash (operated by factory ||)
North of the community is an industrial and commercial area where some of the companies are based.
Personalities
- Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744) discovered the sensitivity of silver salts to light
- Otto von Mülmann (1813–1868), Prussian civil servant and author
- Friedrich Schulze (1843–1912), architect in the Prussian civil service
- Emil Braemer (1860–1939), lawyer and member of the Prussian manor house
- Philip Wiegratz (* 1993) (Lindhorst), actor
- Helmut Strumpf (* 1951), wrestler
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt State Statistical Office, 2014 municipal elections, Colbitz municipality, final result
- ↑ St. Nikolaus von der Flüe in Colbitz. In: All-Ohre St. Christophorus Municipal Association. Parish of St. Christophorus - Haldensleben, accessed on November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Büscher: The crocodile in the waterworks. In: welt.de . May 5, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.wasser-twm.de/besichtigungen-veranstaltungen/
- ↑ On October 29th, a section of the A14 will be released. ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Volksstimme. September 15, 2014, accessed August 30, 2015.
