Fienstedt

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Fienstedt
Salzatal municipality
Fienstedt coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 132 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.52 km²
Residents : 239  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density : 28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06198
Area code : 034609
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Location of Fienstedt in Salzatal
The village church of Fienstedt

Fienstedt is a village in the unified municipality of Salzatal in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). Until the new formation of the unified municipality of Salzatal on January 1, 2010, Fienstedt was an independent municipality in the administrative community of the Western Saalkreis .

geography

Fienstedt is located about 10 km northwest of Halle (Saale) . To the northeast of the village lies the Weihe desert on the Saale .

history

Fienstedt was first mentioned in a document in 1222. The place belonged to the rule Friedeburg . With the sale of the rule Friedeburg with the castle district Salzmünde to the Counts of Mansfeld in 1422 Fienstedt came to the County of Mansfeld . It belonged to the Oberamt Friedeburg in the Schraplau district . After two inheritance divisions by the Counts of Mansfeld in 1501 and 1563, Fienstedt belonged to the Mansfeld-Vorderort line . Until 1562 Fienstedt was a court capital. Due to the high indebtedness of the Mansfeld Counts, their territory came under the compulsory administration of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Electorate of Saxony in 1579 . Fienstedt came to the Magdeburg administrative area and thus when the county was divided in 1738/80 to the portion of the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg . With the Peace of Tilsit , the place Fienstedt was incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. It was the capital of the canton of Fienstedt . After Napoleon's defeat and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the area in early October 1813. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Fienstedt was attached to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816 and incorporated into the Mansfeld Seekreis .

In the course of the first district reform in the GDR, Fienstedt was reclassified to the Saalkreis on July 1, 1950 . With the second district reform in 1952, Fienstedt came into the newly tailored Saalkreis in the Halle district , which was added to the Saalekreis in 2007. Until the new formation of the unified municipality of Salzatal on January 1, 2010, Fienstedt was an independent municipality in the administrative community of the Western Saalkreis . The last mayor of Fienstedt was Uwe Thomas.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A green linden tree in silver on a curved green lawn, the trunk is surrounded by a hanging red bunch of grapes with green leaves."

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Anger is a grown village ensemble with buildings from the 18th to 20th centuries, which are grouped around a poplar-lined square with a pond. In addition to simple farmhouses, there are the sophisticated former manors of the Wentzel and Boltze families with manor houses and large stables and barns.

The St. Stephanus Church is a single-nave quarry stone building with a three-sided east end and a retracted west tower (around 1500) with a baroque tail hood .

Natural monument

Personalities from Fienstedt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  2. ^ Website about Fienstedt
  3. ^ Description of the Duchy of Magdeburg and the County of Mansfeld Magdeburg part
  4. ^ Description of the Saale Department
  5. ↑ The Mansfelder Seekreis in the municipality register 1900
  6. ↑ Fienstedt and its districts on gov.genealogy.net
  7. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

Web links

Commons : Fienstedt  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • www.fienhof.de - further information including place names and views of places