Danstedt

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Danstedt
North Harz municipality
Danstedt coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 45 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 160 m above sea level NN
Area : 14.1 km²
Residents : 541  (December 31, 2009)
Population density : 38 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 38855
Area code : 039458

Danstedt is a district of the municipality of Nordharz in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany.

geography

Danstedt is located in the Langel Plain between the Harz and the Huy in the Harz foreland about ten kilometers west of Halberstadt. The Rottebach flows through it. More than 90% of the area of ​​the municipality is used for arable farming, there are only some fruit stocks in the area surrounding the village.

Danstedt, aerial photo (2019)

history

On August 1, 1004, Danstedt was first mentioned as Dannenstedi in a deed of gift from King Heinrich II to the Drübeck Abbey.

Danstedt belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt from 1599 to 1648 and then came to the Principality of Halberstadt. The place was directly under the authority of Derenburg and in 1815 came to the administrative district of Magdeburg of the Prussian province of Saxony .

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities Danstedt, Abbenrode , Heudeber , Langeln , Schmatzfeld , Stapelburg , Veckenstedt and Wasserleben merged to form the unitary community of North Harz .

The historical part of the municipal archive of Danstedt is in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt in Wernigerode .

politics

mayor

The last mayor of the Danstedt community was Armin Lidke.

coat of arms

Danstedt coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on November 3, 1995 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : “A black post mill in gold on a green mountain. The mountain is covered with a silver label with a red, four-ended antler stick inside. "

The windmill represents a local feature and at the same time symbolizes the rural character of Danstedt. The little plate with the red antler is the coat of arms of the County of Regenstein, to which the place formerly belonged.

The Heraldische Gesellschaft “Schwarzer Löwe” Leipzig designed the coat of arms and registered it in the Quedlinburg coat of arms under QWR II / 88017 on May 1st, 1988.

flag

The flag was approved by the county on December 30, 2009.

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

traffic

Street

The place is located in the northern Harz foreland on the connecting road that branches off from Bundesstraße 79 in Athenstedt and continues south to Derenburg or south-west to Wernigerode . The Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe operates on this and connects the place with Wernigerode and Halberstadt .

railroad

West of the Danstedt Heudeber- Danstedt station , the Halberstadt – Wasserleben – Vienenburg , Heudeber-Danstedt – Wernigerode – Vienenburg and Heudeber-Danstedt – Mattierzoll routes separated . Since December 2018, Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland has been serving the station every two hours with connections in the direction of Halberstadt and via Wernigerode to Goslar .

Culture and sights

Danstedt, post mill, aerial photo (2015)

Web links

Commons : Danstedt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danstedt on www.harzvorland-huy.de ( Memento from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. UB Drübeck No. 6
  3. StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  4. Harzer Kreisblatt 14/2009. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  5. http://www.kreis-hz.de/media/artikel/hkb_1_2010_internet.pdf (link not available)
  6. Evangelical Baroque Church of St. Udalrici