Godnitz
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Godnitz
City of Zerbst / Anhalt
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| Height : | 58 m |
| Area : | 10.8 km² |
| Residents : | 241 (December 31, 2008) |
| Population density : | 22 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 |
| Postal code : | 39264 |
| Area code : | 039247 |
 
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Location in Saxony-Anhalt
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Gödnitz is a district of the city of Zerbst / Anhalt in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
geography
The places Gödnitz and Flötz between Zerbst and Barby are on Gödnitzer lake, oxbow lake of the same . Both places are on the eastern edge or on the eastern terminal moraine , the glacial valley of the Elbe. The western district of Gödnitz / Flötz is part of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve . The Nuthe flows into the Elbe northwest of Gödnitz .
history
During excavations in Flötz in 1929, a vessel belonging to the Altmark group of the funnel beaker culture was found from Nordic deep-engraving ceramics from the time of the Walternienburg-Bernburg culture . This allows the settlement of the places Gödnitz and Flötz to be proven up to the Neolithic period.
The somewhat elevated location on the edge of the Elbe glacial valley with its natural protection against flooding and flooding represented a preferred habitat and led to early settlement.
Already in the Iron Age , long before the Slavic settlement of the East Elbe region in the 5th and 6th centuries, the places were already inhabited by Germanic tribes . (Proof?)
The history of the farming villages of Gödnitz and Flötz has been closely linked to the East Elbe outposts of the Teutonic Order since the German colonization of the Slavic territories . From the first attempts at reconquering Charlemagne around 805 to the final victory of the Teutonic Order in the 11th century, Gödnitz and Flötz were under Slavic and German-Christian rule several times.
The foundation walls of the village church in Flötz may well go back to that time. The church was once laid out as a fortified church and equipped with thick, defensive walls to withstand the attacks of the pagan Slavs. After the founding of the Leitzkau mission base in 1114, the Christianization of the once pagan area , which lasted over 300 years, was completed.
In 974, the Walternienburg office was donated by Emperor Otto II, together with Barby, to the Quedlinburg Abbey . The abbey lent Barby with the Amt Walternienburg to the dukes of Saxony, who passed the places on to the Counts of Barby as a fief . After the Barby princes died out in 1659, the office, to which the villages of Flötz and Gödnitz belonged as well as other localities, was taken over by Anhalt-Zerbst . When the Anhalt-Zerbster line died out without heirs in 1793, Anhalt-Zerbst, and thus also Gödnitz and Flötz, came to Anhalt-Dessau where Prince Leopold III. , Grandson of the old man from Dessauer , resided.
After the end of Napoleonic rule and the Congress of Vienna in 1816, the places with the exception of Gödnitz and Dornburg were added to the newly founded province of Saxony in the Kingdom of Prussia , where they belonged to the district of Jerichow I from then on . However, Gödnitz remained an enclave in its own right with its boundary . The village still belonged to Anhalt-Zerbst, but was completely enclosed by Prussian territory.
Due to the different administrative and nationalities, the two places could not grow together. In the 19th century Flötz and Gödnitz each had their own school, their own mayor and parishes of the respective regional churches ( Evangelical Church of Anhalt , Evangelical Church of the older provinces of Prussia ).
The table moat flowing into Lake Gödnitz near Flötz marked the boundary between the Anhalt enclave of Gödnitz and the Kingdom of Prussia. Even today massive boundary stones with the inscriptions HA (Duchy of Anhalt) and KP (Kingdom of Prussia) can be found on the table moat. The Gödnitz enclave was finally placed under the administration of the Prussian district of Jerichow I in 1939; state law, however, Gödnitz was still subject to the Anhalt-Zerbst district.
After the Second World War , the area of the Free State of Anhalt was combined with areas of the former Province of Saxony, first to form the Province of Saxony-Anhalt and then in 1947 to form the State of Saxony-Anhalt . In 1946 the (Prussian) communities Flötz, Gehrden , Güterglück , Kämeritz, Lübs , Moritz , Schora, Töppel, Prödel and Walternienburg were reclassified from the district of Jerichow I to the district of Zerbst. This also ended the supervision of the Jerichow district, which had existed since 1939, over the former Anhalt enclave of Gödnitz. In 1952 the state of Saxony-Anhalt was dissolved; and the community Gödnitz / Flötz has now been with the county Zerbst part of the GDR - district Magdeburg .
With reunification and the district reforms that followed, membership of the district had not changed for the time being. The municipality of Gödnitz was previously part of the Anhalt-Zerbst district and part of the Elbe-Ehle-Nuthe administrative community based in the city of Zerbst / Anhalt . In 2007, due to the resolution of the district of Anhalt-Zerbst, the municipality of Gödnitz was incorporated into the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld .
Until December 31, 2009 Gödnitz was an independent municipality with the associated district Flötz. 241 inhabitants lived on a community area of 11.8 km² (December 31, 2008). On January 1, 2010, Gödnitz and Flötz became part of the Zerbst / Anhalt unified community . The last mayor of Gödnitz was Volker Leps.
politics
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Dessau regional council on August 17, 1995 and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 84/1995.
Blazon : “Square of blue and silver; Fields 1 and 4: a golden fish hook, fields 2 and 3: an oblique red ploughshare. "
The colors of Gödnitz are gold (yellow) blue.
Gödnitz has always been in an area with an agricultural character. This is also symbolically expressed by the two plowshares. The fishhooks stand for the opportunity there for sporting leisure activities, which is also documented by the blue color for the lake. The plowshares are in the colors of the former county of Lindau , to which Gödnitz once belonged.
The coat of arms was designed by the Heraldic Society "Black Lion" Leipzig and registered on May 20, 1989 in the Quedlinburg coat of arms roll under QWR II / 89022.
flag
The flag was approved on April 14, 1998 by the Dessau Regional Council.
The flag is striped yellow and blue. The coat of arms is placed in the middle of the flag.
Culture and sights
Significant structures
The St. Katharinen Church is located in the Flötz district at the end of Seestraße. It is a field stone church , which in its present form with its half-timbered tower dates from the 14th century. The massive foundation walls of the former fortified church are probably of even older origin.
There are three bells in the tower; the oldest is from 1380. Inside there is a late Romanesque font from the 12th century with a Middle High German inscription, an altar with late Gothic carvings and a painting, a pulpit from 1715 and an organ by the Dessau master builder Giese from 1865. The masonry was made Completely renovated from the outside in 2004. The tower was also partially renovated in the following years, so that the sound of a bell can now be heard again on special occasions. However, the masonry has not yet been completely restored.
In 2015, the Flötzer Church received two artistic choir wall windows as part of the glass art project "Lichtungen" of the Evangelical Church in Anhalt, designed by the artist Wilhelm Buschulte (1923–2013). The church of St. Katharina is the last church for which the glass artist created a room-encompassing design. The windows are made of hand-blown real antique glass, some of which has been leaded, painted, sanded and gold-plated. They carry the symbolism of the parable of the mustard seed and the kingdom of God .
The Gödnitz church is more recent and structurally better preserved. In contrast to the Flötzer church, it has a clock tower. The church was donated by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt and built in 1897. The altar carved in wood is remarkable.
Transport links
The shortest road connection to the city of Zerbst is via Güterglück (heading east). From Güterglück via the Moritz district of Schora there is a connection to federal highway 184 . Other roads lead north via Lübs and Prödel to Leitzkau and south to Walternienburg (K 1239). Via Walternienburg and its district Ronney, there is a road connection over the Elbe to Barby via a yaw ferry .
The former Berlin – Blankenheim railway line (former part of the " Kanonenbahn ") runs past the district of Flötz . Due to the special location in the floodplain of the river landscape, the route runs on a railway embankment and crosses the Elbe at Barby. Near Flötz, the tracks were laid on a flood bridge over an otherwise dry area in order to ensure the flow of the water masses during floods . Along the railway tracks, a three-kilometer footpath led over the flood and Elbe bridges to Barby. This path could also be traveled by bike or motorcycle. Until the 1990s, in the absence of a road connection, this short connection route across the Elbe was often used by many Flötzers, Gödnitzers and Walternienburgers to get to the nearby small town of Barby regardless of ferry times or high water levels. The railway line was shut down in December 2004 . In 2015, the route Güterglück - Barby was deedicated as a railway line, and in spring 2016 the dismantling of the tracks was initiated. There are plans for use of the former railway line as a bike path to connect the Elbe cycle path with the Euroroute R1 in Bad Belzig , but has not yet decided on an implementation.
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- ↑ statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de, PDF file ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
- ↑ St. Katharina Flötz: Evangelical Church of Anhalt. In: www.landeskirche-anhalts.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
- ↑ New light in old churches: Evangelical Church of Anhalt. In: www.landeskirche-anhalts.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
- ↑ current. In: www.kanonenbahn.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
Web links
- History of the Jerichower Land ( memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) compiled by the Qualification and Structural Funding Society Genthin mbH
- Website of Heiko Elze: Steel roads / The "Kanonenbahn" section Barby-Wiesenburg ( Memento from September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
