Etingen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Etingen is also a historical name for the former Swiss municipality of Aetingen in the canton of Solothurn.

Etingen City of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 36 ″  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	84 m
Area :	16.93 km²
Residents :	498  (December 31, 2011)
Population density :	29 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39359
Area code :	039059

Etinger Church

Etingen is a district of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Etingen is about 9 km west of Calvörde on the edge of the Drömling Nature Park .

Local division

The districts of Etingen, Keindorf, Maschenhorst and Zillbeck belong to the village of Etingen .

history

Etingen is located in the Spetzeniederung , a prehistoric living space that was directly in front of the large central German prehistoric living space from Haldensleben to Eilenburg and Altenburg. Both areas were only separated by the Flechtinger ridge and connected to each other by the Aller. In the north of Etingen the Drömling formed a natural settlement-free barrier. This protected border location has offered itself as a settlement area since early history. Finds from the Stone and Bronze Ages testify to this.

Near Etingen, between Ohre and Mittelland Canal, Irmgard Kapps from Etingen found a Stone Age hand ax while lifting beets in autumn 1938 .

During the construction of a silo pit, Reinhold Gerloff found a full-hilted bronze sword 60 cm long on his farm "Auf dem Berg" , which dates from the Middle Bronze Age (around 1300 to 1000 BC).

The ending " -ingen " indicates that the place belongs to the 2nd settlement period of the older place name group from around 300 to 531. From the 4th century onwards, Germanic society in Central Germany became more differentiated than ever before and brought about clear class differences, which can be seen in sumptuously decorated body graves . According to the find, there was possibly a center south of the Bodeknick near Oschersleben with rich burials like in Emersleben .

After the Battle of the Unstrut in 531 and the fall of the Kingdom of Thuringia , Etingen became one of the retreats of the Thuringian nobility due to its border location .

In the oldest historically transmitted and cartographically tangible regional division, Etingen belonged to the northern Thuringia and, according to the current sources, was its northernmost place. Only the current desolation of Palnitz between Angern and Zibberick was nearly as north.

Etingen was first mentioned in a document in 961. A Rundling , known in Etingen as "The Sack", is the oldest preserved district . In a Rundling, a predominantly Slavic population was settled or recombined in a planned process by a local landlord in the early days of the country's expansion under German law . Although it is located far west of the Elbe-Saale line, this round shape indicates that Etingen belonged to the medieval contact zone between Germans and Slavs, the Germania Slavica .

Due to the progressive Germanization, the Slavs had to leave their courts in Etingen in the 12th century. They were assigned as a Wendish settlement in the direction of Keindorf on the Drömling, not far from the town, where their settlement "Tscharn-Etingen" (from Wendish cerny = black) was built. There was a similar development very close by in Flechtingen with the emergence of Wendisch-Flechtingen. Since the Wends were granted neither property nor inheritance rights, this settlement died out again in the 13th century, because the descendants of the first settlers moved to the areas east of the Elbe. In 1843 only the former village pond reminded of "Tscharn-Etingen".

A stone church was built in 1019 on the highest elevation near the Rundling. It was probably preceded by a wooden church which, according to local tradition, was founded during the time of the Kingdom of Thuringia. According to another local legend, there was a pagan cult site here in pre-Christian times.

In 1280 the von Schenk was enfeoffed by the Margrave of Brandenburg with Etingen and Scharnetingen. This noble family first called itself Schencken zu Diepen after a castle that is said to have been located near Etingen in the depth (Low German Deepe) of the Drömling. This castle may have stood on a patch of meadow in Drömling near Etingen, which was called "The Castle" and later became the property of the church, which leased this land to local farmers.

During the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the residents had to flee to the Drömling. Werner von Schenk then issued a new village order in 1653. It was not until 1782 that the clearing of the Drömling began by order of Friedrich II. In 1845 a separation agreement was signed between Baron von Schenk and Etinger farmers.

In 1892 the church was so dilapidated that it had to be demolished. It was rebuilt in the same place and inaugurated in 1893. In 1905 a new cemetery followed.

The railroad reached Etingen in 1874, electrification in 1910. In 1898 a dairy was built.

From 1994 to January 1, 2005, Etingen belonged to the Oebisfelde administrative association from 2005 to December 31, 2009 to the Oebisfelde-Calvörde administrative association .

By means of a territorial change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities of the city of Oebisfelde (on May 27, 2009), Bösdorf (on May 26, 2009), Eickendorf (on May 28, 2009), Etingen (on May 26, 2009), Kathendorf (on May 19 , 2009) May 2009), Rätzlingen (on May 27, 2009), Eschenrode (on May 28, 2009), Döhren (on May 28, 2009), Hödingen (on May 20, 2009), Hörsingen (on May 27, 2009), Schwanefeld (on May 25, 2009), Seggerde (on June 26, 2009), Siestedt (on May 28, 2009), Walbeck (on May 28, 2009) and the Flecken Weferlingen (on May 19, 2009) that their communities dissolved and to be united to a new city Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

After implementing the unification agreement of the previously independent municipality of Etingen, Etingen became part of the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. For the included municipality, the local constitution according to §§ 86 ff. Municipality code of Saxony-Anhalt was introduced. The recorded community Etingen with the districts Keindorf, Maschenhorst and Zillbeck became the locality of the new town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. A local council with ten members, including the local mayor, was formed in the incorporated municipality and now Etingen.

Historical monuments

• Grave site in the local cemetery for a Soviet prisoner of war known by name , who was a victim of forced labor during World War II .

politics

The honorary mayor Wolfgang Kapps was in office from June 12, 1994 to December 31, 2009 and has been the local mayor.

Local council

According to the last local election on June 7, 2009, the council had ten members. Due to the founding of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen, the local council automatically became a local council. The turnout was 49.4%. The choice brought the following result:

	Individual applicants	8 seats	(81.1%)
	Groups of voters	2 seats	(18.9%)

In 2014, a local council with six members was elected, one seat remained vacant. The local mayor is also a member of the local council as chairman.

badges and flags

The coat of arms was approved on July 18, 1996 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : “Split by silver and green; in it a windmill on a mountain covered with a wave beam, everything in mixed up colors. "

Etingen is free in the landscape, so that because of the favorable wind, six post windmills once formed an important line of business for the residents; one of the mills still exists and was chosen as a coat of arms. Another specific feature of the district is that Etingen is located on the watershed of the Ohre and Spetze. This is symbolized by the splitting of the shield with the confused colors , especially recognizable on the wave bar (river). The curved shield base as "Mühlberg" stands for the vastness of the landscape, the green-silver tinging for the pastureland, forest (Flechtinger mountain range) and water abundance in the Etingen area.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg heraldist Erika Fiedler .

The flag of Etingen is striped green and white with the coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

Etingen is on the Oebisfelde –Calvörde state road . To the federal highway 188 , which connects Wolfsburg with Stendal , it is about 11 km northwards.

The Oebisfelde – Magdeburg railway runs directly past the village without ever having a train station. The nearest train stations are Wegenstedt (3 km) and Rätzlingen (4 km).

The Mittelland Canal also runs through the territory of the municipality, the next transshipment point is in Calvörde (9 km).

literature

• Kurt Bartels: Family book Rätzlingen with Kathendorf, Lockstedt and Zillbeck (district Börde), 1678 - 1800. Leipzig: AMF 2009 (= Central German local family books of AMF 50)
• Rudolf Schwarzmeier, Lutz Barnieck, Friedrich Widdecke, Herbert Zauske, Marianne Riecke, Hans-Günter Kapps, Günter Täger, Ellen Dettmer, Werner Grupe, Horst Kusian and others. a .: 1050 years of Etingen . Etingen 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Gazette of the District No. 45/2009 page 1-5 (PDF; 3.5 MB)
2. ↑ 2014 election results (PDF), accessed on June 27, 2018