Fienerode

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Fienerode
City of Genthin
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 55 ″  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 36 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 62  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 39307
Area code : 03933

Fienerode is a village in the city of Genthin in the district of Jerichower Land . The local mayor is Ottmar Rostkovius

geography

The city of Genthin is north of Fienerode. In the west, outside the village, the federal road 107 runs from Genthin to Ziesar . The closest motorway junction is the Schopsdorf / Ziesar exit on the A 2.

history

Fienerode was founded in 1776 as a royal estate. The early colonists included many dismissed soldiers. Peat mining was one of the main sources of income in the early days. In addition to peat mining, the residents mainly operated the peat shipping. The peat was brought with hand barges on the 7.5 km long peat shipping canal to the peat deposit in Genthin. There he was loaded onto ships on the Plauer Canal and taken to the saltworks in Schönebeck . More than 70 hydraulic structures were built in Fiener for peat navigation, of which the Sandforth lock near Mützel can now be regarded as a technical monument. The peat extraction ended around 1890. Extensive amelioration made the Fiener Bruch a cultural landscape on which the moorland culture was introduced in 1862. Intensive livestock farming is still practiced on the lush pastures.

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