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Coat of arms of the city of Egeln
Leeches
Map of Germany, position of the city of Egeln highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '  N , 11 ° 26'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Salzlandkreis
Association municipality : Egelner Mulde
Height : 70 m above sea level NHN
Area : 29.14 km 2
Residents: 3254 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 112 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 39435
Area code : 039268
License plate : SLK, ASL, BBG, SBK, SFT
Community key : 15 0 89 075

City administration address :
Market 18
39435 Egeln
Website : www.egeln.info
Mayor : Reinhard Luckner (UWGE)
Location of the town of Egeln in the Salzland district
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Egeln is a city in Saxony-Anhalt ( Germany ). It belongs to the Egelner Mulde community .

geography

The small town of Egeln with around 3,500 inhabitants is located at the junction of federal highways 81 and 180 , in the middle of the city triangle of Aschersleben , Halberstadt and Magdeburg . It is located about 20 kilometers southwest of Magdeburg halfway to Halberstadt in the Salzlandkreis in the Egelner Mulde an der Bode .

history

The fertile lowland around Egeln was already populated by people in the Paleolithic Age. A Bronze Age circular moat also indicates prehistoric settlement of the area. Egeln was possibly founded by the Germanic Angles tribe . At least the name “leeches” goes back etymologically to the fishing people. It was first in 941 as "Osteregulon" with a new fort by King Otto I notarized. This fort served to protect the ford through the Bodefluss, in front of which the military roads from Erfurt , Quedlinburg and Goslar met and, united in one road, continued to Magdeburg.

In 10./11. In the 19th century, the Askanians built a planned new town northwest of the Bode with a market and church protected by a new castle. These conquered the nobles of Hadmersleben in 1250. They had the place fortified with a strong wall and granted it market, customs and city rights. At the request of his wife, Jutta von Blankenburg , the nobleman Otto von Hadmersleben founded the Marienstuhl Monastery on the site of the old Osteregulon settlement in 1259 , which existed as a Cistercian abbey until 1809 .

The city's first seal can be found on a document from 1317. The city coat of arms of Egeln with the lion in the shield over the wall and the open gate is recorded in 1365, when the city was re-certified that business could be done on the market . This market was of national importance and was only opened after a strict examination by market masters and councilors. In addition to the usual merchandise, hamster skins in particular (150,000 in 1815) were traded here. 84 full citizens with the right to brew beer had the right to brew the famous Egelei beer, which also sold well. As a so-called Immediatstadt , Egeln had been directly subordinate to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg since 1680 and was in the Holzkreis until 1807 . From July 1, 1816, the city was assigned to the Wanzleben district in the Magdeburg administrative district of the province of Saxony .

Until the middle of the 19th century, all long-distance traffic on the post and military roads led directly through Egeln and brought trade and handicrafts to prosperity. With the increasing development of technical traffic, the narrow streets of the small town turned out to be a traffic obstacle and all long-distance traffic was diverted past leeches. Nevertheless, the city retained central functions for the surrounding area. In Egeln there are all types of schools, a doctor's center, pharmacy, childcare, two banks, a district office, a modern sports center with an outdoor pool, football stadium, beach volleyball court and a two-field sports hall as well as three supermarkets. The city ​​has also established itself as a cultural center with events on offer, particularly at the Egeln castle and on the market square.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent community Bleckendorf was incorporated. There he became part of the Egeln-Nord district.

politics

City council

Local election 2014
Voter turnout:
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.3%
35.3%
8.5%
17.5%
6.3%
UWGE

In the legislative period that began in 2014, the city council consists of 17 and no longer 15 council members.

  • CDU 5 seats
  • UWGE / Green 7 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • Non-attached 2 seats

(Status: 2014 local elections)

mayor

The mayor Reinhard Luckner (UWGE) was re-elected on May 26, 2019 for seven years with 52.1% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver, a red castle with a tinned wall and two pointed towers with golden knobs, an open golden gate with raised portcullis, a shield floating between the towers, in it in blue an upright red-tongued golden lion."

The community colors are red - silver (white).

Town twinning

Sister cities are:

Culture and sights

The moated castle in Egeln

Next to the town center around the market square you can find the town hall from 1897, the eagle pharmacy (around 1700), the town church of St. Christophorus (first mentioned in 1206) with the oldest Protestant parsonage in East Germany (1581) and behind it the moated castle from the 13th century with major alterations to the Renaissance castle in the 16th century. In the castle there is a museum for pre- and early history as well as town history, a painting school and an open-air theater. In the foyer of the museum there is the possibility to be civilly married.

The international choir festival “Sine musica nulla vita” takes place in Egeln every two years. It was launched in 2001 on the initiative of the Egeln Chamber Choir Young Voices and its choir director Ralf Schubert. Almost 20 choirs from six countries have participated since it was founded.

Since 1997, the Egelner youth theater group Young Actors under the direction of Ingo Böhlert has organized a stage spectacle in the Egelner Wasserburg every two years .

In the southern part of the town of Egeln is the Marienstuhl Monastery with one of the most beautiful baroque churches in Saxony-Anhalt.

The Egeln-Nord wind farm is home to the prototype of the Enercon E-112 wind turbine with an output of 4.5 MW. At the time of construction, this was the largest wind turbine in the world.

Egeln, water tower, aerial photo (2015)

education

high school

The grammar school was founded in 1925 as an upper secondary school. Due to the large catchment area, a student dormitory was also part of the high school for many years. When many new high schools were built in the early 1990s, the catchment area decreased. This made the dormitory unnecessary. Due to the decreasing number of students, the high school was closed in 2015. Even strong protests by the population could not prevent this.

societies

Modellfluggruppe Stadt Egeln

The association emerged in 1990 from the model flight working group. Model flying has been a tradition in Egeln since 1955. Egeln is known to free flyers around the world. Between 1990 and 2010 the club organized 12 world cups and 2 German youth championships. Members of the club were both GDR champions and German youth champions. The Icarus Cup was also in Egeln for one year (2002). Ernst Herzog had been in charge of the association (or the working group) since the 1980s. At the end of 2015, it was decided to dissolve the association.

Mixed choir leeches

The Mixed Choir Egeln eV was founded in 1959. Since 1964, Mr. Eckart Zeidler has been the artistic director of the orchestra. The choir is a member of the Askanien Choir and the German Choir Association. The Mixed Choir Egeln eV also regularly takes part in the international choir festival “Sine musica nulla vita”.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Anton Ludwig von Wagner (1725–1805), born in Bleckendorf, chamber president in Königsberg and Gumbinnen
  • Friedrich Lücke (1791–1855), Protestant theologian, university professor and abbot of the Bursfelde monastery near Hann. Münden
  • Rudolf von Cramer (1818–1902), Prussian major general born in the Marinestuhl monastery
  • Ernst Pittschau Sr. (1859–1916), born in Egeln, court actor at the Hoftheater (today Burgtheater) in Vienna, second marriage to the Viennese actress Hilda Hofer aka Schützenhofer (1873–1961). The first marriage had 5 children, of which Ernst jun. (1883–1951) and Walther (1889–1946) also actors and from their second marriage Werner (1902–1928) and Hermann (1909–1945), who were film actors. Ernst Pittschau died in Vienna.
  • Minna Faßhauer (1875–1949), born in Bleckendorf, politician, first woman to hold a ministerial office in Germany
  • Willy Habl (1888–1964), painter and graphic artist
  • Herbert Graf (1930–2019), political scientist at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR and author
  • Herwig Paretzke (* 1944 in Bleckendorf), physicist
  • Ruth Fuchs (* 1946), Olympic champion in the javelin throw in 1972 and 1976, member of the People's Chamber, the Bundestag and the Thuringian state parliament

People related to the city

  • Adalbert Cherek (* 1940), author and writer
  • Peter Reisch (1943–1962), victim on the inner-German border
  • Klaus-Rüdiger Mai (* 1963), dramaturge, director and writer

traffic

Egeln is on the Staßfurt – Blumenberg railway line , on which there has been no passenger traffic since 2002.

swell

  1. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ^ City council Egeln
  3. Homepage of the choir festival
  4. ^ Free youth theater group Young Actors Egeln
  5. ^ Gymnasium Egeln
  6. Nadja Bergling, Volksstimme Magdeburg: Everyday life often provides the material for stories. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .

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