Eggersdorf (Bördeland)

Eggersdorf Bördeland municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 37"  E
Height :	58 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.55 km²
Residents :	1240  (Dec. 31, 2006)
Population density :	223 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 29, 2007
Postal code :	39221
Area code :	03928
Location of Eggersdorf in Bördeland

Eggersdorf is a part of the municipality Bördeland in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . Until December 28, 2007 Eggersdorf was an independent municipality.

Eggersdorf (Bördeland), aerial photo (2015)

geography

Eggersdorf is located in the southeast of the Magdeburg Börde and south of the town of Schönebeck (Elbe) , 4.2 kilometers as the crow flies. The place is surrounded by agricultural areas of the highest soil quality. The built-up area drops from south to north from 59 to 56 meters. At 77.8 meters, the highest point is in the northwestern local area. In a south-eastern semicircle, the four-kilometer-long Murtzgraben surrounds the village from the watered brown coal shaft to the southwest to the center, where it ends.

history

middle Ages

The first written mention of the place comes from Pope Innocent III. , who on February 28, 1205 confirmed the possession of three Hufen land at Ekkehardestorp to Nienburg Monastery . Various sources point to the existence of the place as early as the 10th century AD. At the time of the documentary mention, Eggersdorf was under the control of the Diocese of Halberstadt and belonged to the County of Mühlingen , a fiefdom of the Counts of Dornburg . In 1240 the fiefdom passed to the Counts of Arnstein-Barby . After the Arnstein-Barby dynasty died out, the rulership rights passed to the Duchy of Magdeburg in 1659 .

In 1540 the Counts of Arnstein-Barby introduced the Reformation in the county of Mühlingen. The first Protestant pastor in Eggersdorf was Nikolaus Frischmuth from 1556. During the Thirty Years War , imperial, Swedish and Electoral Saxon troops marched through the town, plundered and pillaged. The church visit of 1651 found only fourteen of the 39 landlords counted in 1616. In 1632 a fire disaster destroyed half of the village. Most residents were to salts fled.

18th to 19th century

In 1705 38 people worked in agriculture, 561 head of livestock were counted. Around 1750 about 250 people lived in Eggersdorf. During the Napoleonic Wars , Eggersdorf was occupied by French troops from 1806, which was accompanied by billeting, war taxes and other compulsory levies. Until 1813 the place belonged to the French Kingdom of Westphalia and was assigned to the Canton Groß-Salze. When Prussia reorganized its territorial administration after the victory over Napoleon, Eggersdorf was incorporated into the Calbe district from 1816 .

In the middle of the 19th century the village structure of Eggersdorf changed due to the industrial revolution . In 1853, lignite mining began in the Eggersdorf-Mühlinger Mulde. On May 12, 1857, the Eggersdorf train station opened on the Schönebeck – Staßfurt section . The roads to Schönebeck , Großmühlingen and beers were expanded. While Eggersdorf was previously purely agricultural, numerous industrial workers settled here, so that the number of inhabitants doubled to 1002 from the middle to the end of the 19th century. In 1885 the place was connected to the telephone network, in 1910 gas and electricity reached the place.

Eggersdorf in the 20th century

During the First World War , 30 prisoners of war were used on the Eggersdorf farms. At the end of the war the village had 43 casualties. Although the lignite mining near Eggersdorf was stopped in 1922, the number of inhabitants continued to rise and amounted to 1258 in 1939. Between 1925 and 1928 the “Neue Heimat” settlement association built six semi-detached houses. In 1934 the unemployed founded the small settlement cooperative “Eigen Scholle” and built another five semi-detached houses. During the Second World War there was a satellite camp of the Altengrabow prison camp in Eggersdorf , whose inmates had to work in agriculture and in households. 65 Eggersdorf soldiers died during the war.

On April 12, 1945 Eggersdorf was occupied by the US Army, which British troops followed two weeks later. From June 1, 1945 the village belonged to the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) . In the course of the land reform ordered by the occupying power , two farms were expropriated and then relocated to seven new farms. After the Soviet Zone had been replaced by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1949 , Eggersdorf came to the Schönebeck district as part of a territorial reorganization . In 1953, the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) "Salzfeld" was founded in fulfillment of the socialization of agriculture . Between 1955 and 1959, the LPG built eleven single-family houses for its members. In 1964 Eggersdorf had 1,394 inhabitants, the number increased until 1978, when numerous families were relocated from the endangered old mining areas of the surrounding area to a new block of flats with 20 apartments. In 1979 Eggersdorf was connected to the central drinking water supply and in 1982 another 16 terraced houses were built for LPG members.

From 1990 until he lost his independence

After German reunification , the LPG was dissolved in 1990 and replaced by three private farms. The town was expanded further in 1994 with the construction of ten single-family houses. After 300 years, the Eggersdorfer school was closed in 2000. In 2005 the new development area “Rötheweg” was built, on which 31 single-family houses were built. In the course of the district reform of 2007 , Eggersdorf was initially incorporated into the newly formed Salzlandkreis on July 1, 2007 and assigned to the new municipality of Bördeland with 1275 inhabitants with effect from December 29, 2007 .

Attractions

• In Eggersdorf there is one of the oldest church buildings in the district, the village church of St. Martin .
• In the Eggersdorf local cemetery there are graves of two Polish forced laborers and a pilot from the United States Army Air Forces who crashed his plane near Eggersdorf from the time of the Second World War.

Transport links

Eggersdorf is located on the district road 1292, via which the next towns Schönebeck (4 km), Calbe (10 km) and Staßfurt (18 km) can be reached. Junction 7 “Schönebeck” on federal motorway 14 ( Magdeburg - Halle ) is six kilometers away. The railway station on the Schönebeck – Güsten railway line is 1200 meters west of the town center.

Individual evidence

1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007

literature

• History and stories from our hometown Eggersdorf , published by Kultur- und Heimatverein Eggersdorf eV, undated.

Web links

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

• Chronicle at www.heimatverein-eggersdorf.de