Geestgottberg

Geestgottberg Hanseatic City of Seehausen (Altmark) Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 18 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	21 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.14 km²
Residents :	337  (2014)
Population density :	20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39615
Area code :	039397
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Place-name sign at the eastern entrance to the village

Geestgottberg is a district of the Hanseatic town of Seehausen (Altmark) in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The row village Geestgottberg is located in the glacial valley of the Elbe between the rivers Elbe and Aland in the extreme north of the district or the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in the Middle Elbe biosphere reserve . In Geestgottberg the federal highway 189 and the railway line Magdeburg – Wittenberge crosses the Elbe. The Brandenburg town of Wittenberge is on the opposite, northern side of the Elbe .

climate

The climate in Geestgottberg is temperate. This is influenced from the east by the continental climate and from the west by the Atlantic maritime climate . The average annual rainfall for Geestgottberg is 552 mm. The driest month is February with a rainfall of 32 mm, whereas the most rainfall falls in June with an average of 63 mm. The average annual temperature is 8.8  ° C . The statistically warmest month is July with an average of 17.8 ° C. The month of January, the coldest month of the year, has an average temperature of 0 ° C.

Geestgottberg
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     41   2 -2     32   3 -2     36   7th 0     40   12 3     51   18th 8th     63   21st 11     58   23 13     60   22nd 13     45   19th 10     38   13 6th     43   7th 2     45   4th -1 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Climate-Data.org

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Geestgottberg Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.4 3.2 7.4 12.4 17.8 21.1 22.6 22.4 18.6 13 7.2 3.8 O 12.7 Min. Temperature (° C) -2.4 -2.4 -0.1 3.4 7.5 11.2 13.1 12.7 9.6 6th 2.3 -0.7 O 5.1 Temperature (° C) 0 0.4 3.6 7.9 12.6 16.1 17.8 17.5 14.1 9.5 4.7 1.5 O 8.9 Precipitation ( mm ) 41 32 36 40 51 63 58 60 45 38 43 45 Σ 552 Source: Climate-Data.org

Subdivision breakdown

The district includes:

• Am Aland, living space on the river Aland, in the south of the district
• Diebeskamp , living space
• Eickhof , former manor
• Gottberg , former manor
• Hohe Geest , formerly Freilut Geesterhof , in the east of the district
• Marches, in the extreme north of the district
• Krug, Burgkrug or Burghof ,, former living space on an old Aland arm on the southern Aland dike

history

The region was settled by Dutch colonists after the Elbe was dyed. Gottberg was mentioned in 1305 as the village of Gotberg .

In 1541 the ghest was called Gotbergk , in 1600 it was called Ufm Geist zu Gottberge . 1686 then Das Dorff Geist Gottberg, also called by Bauscherege, Sengepels and the Alintschen. Further mentions are 1720 Büschewehr, Sengebeltz and 1722 Geist-Gottberg . In 1804 Geest-Gottberg or Geist-Gottberg is a village and an estate with a jug and two windmills on the Elbe. They stood in today's living space marches.

Marches and meadows in the foreland of the Elbe dike have names such as "Sengepeck" or "Witches' marches". There have witch hunts occurred.

In 1982 the youth station Geestgottberg of the Deutsche Reichsbahn was inaugurated with a roll call . At that time, the Stendal – Wittenberge railway line was electrified and the superstructure was renewed. For this purpose, the Magdeburg Railway Directorate specifically selected young people who had a good name for their economic and social work in the entire Reichsbahn area.

Agriculture

During the land reform in 1945 it was determined: 30 properties under 100 hectares had a total of 941 hectares, 2 church properties had a total of 38 hectares, and a parish had 3 hectares. Three estates with a total of 585 hectares were administered and cultivated by the SMAD . 3 businesses were expropriated: a farm, probably the castle courtyard, the Gottberg and Eickhof manors. In 1948, 55 full settlers each acquired over 5 hectares and 16 small settlers each less than 5 hectares from the land reform. In 1953 the first agricultural production cooperative, LPG Type III "New Germany", was established. In 1959 the second, an LPG Type I “New Life” and a third, the LPG Type I “Progress” were created. In 1960 the LPG type III "New Germany" had 130 members, LPG type I "New Life", "Progress" and "Aland" had 29 members. In 1961 the three LPGs of type I were connected to the LPG type III and in 1970 these were connected to the LPG type III "Thomas Müntzer" Krüden. The LPG "Lenin" was created through further mergers. In 1986 she had a young cattle facility and a dairy cattle facility in the village. In 1990 the LPG was transformed into the "Agriculture, Producer, Purchase and Sales Cooperative Geestgottberg" (LEBAG), the liquidation of which lasted from 1991 to 2004.

Many farmers were forced to enter the LPG in the early 1950s. In June 1953 preparations were made for the expropriation and deportation of large farmers . The decree was repealed by the government due to the events surrounding the uprising of June 17, 1953 . Karsten Dittmer reported from that time in Geestgottberg in 2008 about the arrest of farmers for industrial espionage .

Origin of the place name

There are two explanations for Geest : Geest means in the Dutch spirit . A geest is a higher, non-fertile land (accumulation of drifting sand). Since there is a heavier, more fertile soil , the second interpretation seems inappropriate.

Gottberg can be understood as a sky god or as a proper name. In 1246 a Bolde de Gotberge in Wittenberge was named as a witness. The village of Gottberg could be named after a family of the same name or vice versa.

The place name Geest-Gottberg and later Geestgottberg arose from both names.

prehistory

The medieval castle wall has been removed. This wall was probably near the castle jug. A male candlestick from the 14th century had been found near Geestgottberg, which was in the Altmark Museum in Stendal at the beginning of the 20th century.

Incorporations

On September 30, 1928, part of the Eickhof estate was combined with the rural community of Geestgottberg, the other part, the land of the innkeeper Schatz, was combined with the rural community of Losenrade.

The community originally belonged to the Osterburg district and came to the newly formed Seehausen district on July 25, 1952 . On July 2, 1965, this district was dissolved again and Geestgottberg was reclassified to the Osterburg district . From July 1, 1994, the municipality belonged to the district of Stendal. Until December 31, 2009 Geestgottberg was an independent municipality with the residential areas Eickhof, Hohe Geest and Märsche and belonged to the dissolved administrative community Seehausen (Altmark) .

The municipal councils of the municipalities of Beuster (on June 8, 2009), Geestgottberg (on June 9, 2009), Losenrade (on June 22, 2009) and the Hanseatic City of Seehausen (Altmark) (on June 29, 2009) decided that their communities are dissolved and merged into a new community with the name Hanseatic City of Seehausen (Altmark) . This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

Population development

year Residents 1734 239 1775 257 1789 198 1798 249

year Residents 1801 214 1818 265 1840 411 1864 541

year Residents 1871 458 1885 386 1892 467 1895 399

year Residents 1900 : 360 1905 348 1910 354 1925 518

year Residents 1939 517 1946 894 1964 516 1971 552

year Residents 1981 501 1993 493 2006 395 2008 382

year Residents 2011 350 2012 335 2014 337

Source if not stated:

religion

The Protestant Christians from Geestgottberg used to belong to the parish of Groß Beuster and thus to the parish of Groß Beuster in the Altmark . Today they belong to the parish Beuster and are managed by the parish area Beuster the church district Stendal in Propst Sprengel Stendal Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

The oldest surviving church records for Groß Beuster with information on Geestgottberg date from 1673.

politics

mayor

The last mayor of the Geestgottberg community was Karlheinz Kallmeter.

Culture and sights

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Seehausen (Altmark)

• The Geestgottberger Schöpfwerk, a pump house, is a technical monument on the Geestgottberger Polder in the west of the district.
• The Eickhof estate is a listed building.
• The local cemetery is located in the east of the district on the road to Beuster.
• In Geestgottberg there is a memorial made of granite blocks for the fallen of the First World War.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Geestgottberg stop is on the Magdeburg – Stendal – Wittenberge railway line and is served every hour by the S1 (Schönebeck-Salzelmen – Magdeburg – Stendal – Wittenberge S-Bahn ) of the Mittelelbe S-Bahn . In addition, a branch line branches off in Geestgottberg to Salzwedel , which was closed in 2004.

The municipality is located on the north-south main connection through northern Saxony-Anhalt ( Bundesstrasse 189 ).

Trivia

In 1994 Hanns HF Schmidt recounted the following legend under the name The Burning Lance . Where the old military road from Krüden to Geestgottberg crosses the Aland (today's Alandstraße), there is said to have been an old castle site, which the castle jug reminded of until the 20th century. The teacher Siebert told the legend in 1901 so on. The castle was surrounded by swamps and was inhabited by the von Kracht family of knights. Heinrich von Kracht had participated in the crusade under Emperor Rotbart and returned after an absence of several years. Shortly before the castle a long fiery lance appeared to the knight on his way home in the night , which kindled a fire on the way, which he tried in vain to put out. When he came to the fire the next morning worried, the ashes of the burned wood had turned to gold.

literature

• Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical Gazetteer for Altmark (Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg, Part XII) - Volume 1 - A-K . In: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3743-4 , p. 815 ff .
• JAF Hermes, MJ Weigelt: Historical-geographical-statistical-topographical handbook from the administrative districts of Magdeburg . Topographical part. Ed .: Verlag Heinrichshofen. tape 2 , 1842, p. 370 , 43. Geestgottberg ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DHB4_AAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA370~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
• Wilhelm Zahn : Local history of the Altmark . Edited by Martin Ehlies based on the bequests of the author. 2nd Edition. Verlag Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, Graphische Anstalt, GmbH, Salzwedel 1928, DNB  578458357 , p. 174-175 .

Web links

Commons : Geestgottberg  - Collection of Images

• Geestgottberg in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
• Geestgottberg on seehausen-altmark.de. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Landkreis Stendal - The District Administrator: District Development Concept Landkreis Stendal 2025. October 30, 2015, p. 296 , accessed on August 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Main statute of the Hanseatic city of Seehausen (Altmark) . September 17, 2019, § 1 Name, designation, p. 2 ( seehausen-altmark.de [PDF; 3.9 MB ; accessed on November 9, 2019]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
4. ↑ Climate-Data.org calculated from the data from 1982 to 2012
5. ^ Directory of municipalities and parts of municipalities . Area as of 1 April 2013 (= Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt [Ed.]: Directories / 003 . No. 2013 ). Halle (Saale) May 2013, p. 117 ( destatis.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on August 24, 2019]).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} measuring table sheet 40: Wittenberge. Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, 1873, accessed on November 30, 2019 . 
7. ^ Carl von Seydlitz: The government district of Magdeburg . Geographical, statistical and topographical manual. Magdeburg 1820, p. 367 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10000901~SZ%3D00383~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Kurt Block and Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark (ed.): Geestgottberg community (=  knowledge of the region . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Edition Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark, Kremkau 2008, DNB  994253249 , p. 144 .
9. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 1 . Berlin 1838, p. 298 ( digitized version ).
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical local lexicon for the Altmark (Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part XII) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-2235-5 , pp. 815-818 .
11. ↑ quoted from Rohrlach: LHASA , Rep. Da Dambeck, L 2, No. 2, fol 10
12. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg . For statisticians, businessmen, especially for camera operators. tape 1 . Berlin 1804, p. 315 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10000735~SZ%3D00337~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
13. ^ Horst Pecher: Geestgottberg youth station . Ed .: Helmut Kurt Block and Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark (=  knowledge of the region . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Edition Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark, Kremkau 2008, DNB  994253249 , p. 155-157 .
14. ↑ Karsten Dittmer: From the life of the farmer Heinrich Dittmer . Ed .: Helmut Kurt Block and Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark (=  knowledge of the region . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Edition Kulturförderverein Östliche Altmark, Kremkau 2008, DNB  994253249 , p. 144-148 .
15. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Haetge: The circle Osterburg (=  The art monuments of the Province of Saxony . Band 4 ). Hopfer, Burg near Magdeburg 1938, DNB  361451652 , p. 106 .
16. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 1 . Berlin 1838, p. 242 ( digitized version ).
17. ↑ Barbara Fritsch: Cities - Villages - Cemeteries. Archeology in the Altmark. Volume 2. From the high Middle Ages to modern times . Castle ramparts, stone crosses and large stone graves. Ed .: Hartmut Bock (=  contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas . Volume 8 ). dr. ziehten Verlag, Oschersleben 2002, ISBN 978-3-935358-36-1 , p. 507 .
18. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 213 .
19. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 342, 347 .
20. ↑ Landkreis Stendal (ed.): Official Journal . 19th year, no. 17 . Stendal August 12, 2009, p. 183 ff . ( landkreis-stendal.de [PDF]).
21. ^ ^{A b c} Wilhelm Zahn : Local history of the Altmark . Edited by Martin Ehlies based on the bequests of the author. 2nd Edition. Verlag Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, Graphische Anstalt, GmbH, Salzwedel 1928, DNB  578458357 , p. 174-175 .
22. ↑ Population of the municipalities by districts (= State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt [Hrsg.]: Statistical Reports / A / I / A / II / A / III / 102 ). ZDB ID 2921504-3 ( destatis.de ). (Click year)
23. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Puls: Places lose 122 inhabitants in 12 months . In: Volksstimme Magdeburg, local edition Osterburg . February 21, 2013 ( volksstimme.de [accessed June 19, 2019]).
24. ↑ Parish Almanac or the Protestant clergy and churches of the Province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 106 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed November 30, 2019]).
25. ↑ Beuster parish. Retrieved November 30, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Ernst Machholz: The church books of the Protestant churches in the province of Saxony (=  communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History . 30th issue). Leipzig 1925, p. 15 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed October 6, 2019]).
27. ^ State statistical office Saxony-Anhalt - area and elections, mayoral election on February 17, 2008 - Geestgottberg community - Stendal district. March 17, 2008, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Online project monuments to the likes. In: Geestgottberg on www.denkmalprojekt.org. August 1, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
29. ^ Hanns HF Schmidt : The great book of legends of the Altmark . Part 1 from A for Abbendorf to K for Kläden. dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1994, ISBN 3-928703-38-2 , p. 84 .
30. ^ Teacher Siebert: Altmärkischer Sagenschatz . 4. Gesstgottberg (= teachers' association of the Altmark [Hrsg.]: Contributions to folklore and local history of the Altmark . Volume 2 ). Klinkhardt, 1908, ZDB -ID 1198714-5 , p. 172-173 .