Genthin
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ' N , 12 ° 9' E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Jerichower Land | |
| Height : | 35 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 230.73 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,761 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 60 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 39291 (Ringelsdorf, Schopsdorf) , 39307 (Genthin, Gladau, Mützel, Paplitz, Parchen, Tucheim) |
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| Primaries : | 03933, 039342, 039346 | |
| License plate : | JL, BRG, GNT | |
| Community key : | 15 0 86 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE GNT | |
| NUTS : | DEE06 | |
City administration address : |
Marktplatz 3 39307 Genthin |
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| Mayor : | Matthias Günther (independent) | |
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Genthin is a unified municipality and small town in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
location
Genthin is located east of the Elbe between Berlin and Magdeburg on the Elbe-Havel Canal . The city was originally on the Stremme , the upper course of which merged into the Plauer Canal , built between 1743 and 1745 .
Localities and districts
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- The population figures refer to December 31, 2016.
- The number of inhabitants entered in the village does not include the inhabitants of the districts.
Living spaces
- Triple
- Genthin Forest
- Mollenberg
- Königsrode
climate
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The average air temperature in Genthin is 8.6 ° C, the annual rainfall 524 millimeters.
history
middle Ages
In 1144 a castle was first mentioned in a document. From this castle, the noble family von Plotho administered the surrounding area. Genthin was first mentioned in a document in 1171, but was subsequently an insignificant place, because it was not mentioned as an oppidum (city-like settlement) until 1459 .
Modern times
The city obtained market rights in 1539. The city levied a toll on its four gates, the Mill, Parchen, Berg and Brandenburger Tor. After the administrator of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg , August von Sachsen-Weißenfels, died in 1680, a provision of the Peace of Westphalia from 1648 came into effect and the area fell to the Elector of Brandenburg . The city thus belonged to the Duchy of Magdeburg and was in what was then the Jerichower District .
In 1682 and 1683, a plague epidemic raged in the city, killing 147 residents, and in 1704 a fire destroyed large parts of Genthin. From 1707 to 1722 the three-aisled, baroque parish church was built according to a design by Georg Preußer from Magdeburg. In 1720 the post office opened with the commissioning of the Magdeburg – Genthin postal service. In 1727 Genthin became a garrison town with the entry of a company of the Yellow Riders under the command of the Rittmeister von Schmeling .
The Plauer Canal was built between 1743 and 1745 . This was the first part of today's Elbe-Havel Canal and initially connected the lower Havel near Plaue over a distance of 15 km with the Stremme and the Ihle . Both rivers were also expanded for shipping. This construction project gave the city a boost in development. The canal shortened the route from Berlin to Magdeburg by 150 kilometers. In addition to the construction of the canal, further extensive development work was carried out, which made it possible to settle the area around the city. A seven-kilometer-long canal was created on which peat from Genthin's peat cuttings could be brought to the Plauer Canal. This channel was later forgotten. Remnants of it can be seen today in the Mühlgraben.
In 1808 a chicory factory was built in Altenplathow .
Until 1808 Genthin was under the royal office of Altenplathow. Only after reforms in Prussia did Genthin become an independent city and elected a city council for the first time in 1809. In 1816 Genthin became the administrative seat of the Jerichow II district . In 1853 the "Genthiner Wochenblatt" appeared for the first time. In 1888 the municipality of Berg-Genthin was incorporated.
industrialization
The age of industrialization began in Genthin with the establishment of a factory for processing agricultural products by the Magdeburg merchant Pieschel. He built his factory in 1808 on a site in Altenplathow and had a 14-hectare estate park laid out based on suggestions from Peter Joseph Lenné . He was by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. later elevated to the nobility for his services. The infrastructure was adapted to the economic requirements by creating traffic routes. There were roads and roads. 1837–1846 the Berlin - Potsdam - Magdeburg railway line was built, which was later extended to Hanover . In 1898 Kleinbahn AG was founded . Numerous industrial companies emerged, such as brickworks , woodworking factories and shipyards that operated shipbuilding or ship repairs. Large operations were the sugar refinery, commissioned in 1902, and the detergent plant of the Henkel Group , which was built from 1921 to 1923 on the initiative of former Mayor Struss.
With industrialization, Catholics came to Genthin again, and a Catholic church was consecrated for them in 1902. In 1923 Altenplathow was incorporated, in 1928 Hagen became a suburb of Genthin. In 1935 the 48 m high water tower was put into operation.
Second World War
On December 22nd, 1939, the Genthin railway accident occurred in the area of the train station , the worst railway accident in Germany to date . 278 people died and 453 others were injured.
In 1943, a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp was set up in Genthin . Its female prisoners as well as prisoners of war and forced laborers (a total of 1,000) were deployed to work in the Silva-Metallwerke GmbH ammunition factory and had to manufacture anti-aircraft ammunition. 68 women alleged to have revolted against their miserable working conditions were shot by the SS . Another 1,000 people deported to Germany, including numerous Polish children, had to toil in a branch of the Henkel factory under particularly unhealthy conditions. In April 1945, an SS labor and education camp was also set up in the Genthin forest. In the last days of the war in 1945 there were isolated fighting in the vicinity of the city. The Elbe was the target of the German army coming from Berlin. By crossing the river one wanted to achieve capture by the US Army.
After the war, the city's population grew due to the influx of many displaced people.
After 1945
From 1950 to 1994 Genthin was the seat of the district or district Genthin as the successor to the district Jerichow II formed in 1816. The district became part of the district Jerichower Land, the district seat went to the city of Burg
Incorporations
On June 1, 1909, the manor district of Fienerode was united with the rural community of Fienerode. In 1923 Altenplathow was forcibly incorporated (against the will of the people of Altenplathow). On November 1, 1928, the manor district of Hagen was combined with the municipality of Genthin. Fienerode, Mützel, Brettin and Roßdorf were incorporated into Genthin on July 1, 1950. On January 1, 1957, Mützel, Brettin and Roßdorf regained their independence. Parchen was incorporated on April 30, 2002. On July 1, 2009, the previously independent communities of Gladau, Paplitz and Tucheim were incorporated into Genthin. Associated with this was the dissolution of the Genthin administrative community . Since then, Genthin has been a unified church . On July 1, 2012 Schopsdorf was incorporated with the districts Gottesforth and Sandforth.
politics
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City council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result for the composition of the city council with a turnout of 47.4%:
| Party / list | Share of votes | +/-% p | Seats | +/- |
| CDU | 29.4% | - 7.4 | 8th | - 2nd |
| THE LEFT | 11.9% | - 9.1 | 3 | - 3 |
| SPD | 12.2% | + 3.8 | 3 | + 1 |
| GREEN | 8.7% | + 3.0 | 3 | + 1 |
| FDP | 4.6% | + 1.0 | 1 | ± 0 |
| Pro Genthin | 12.3% | + 3.3 | 4th | + 3 |
| LWG Fiener | 6.5% | 2 | ||
| WG Mützel | 5.4% | 2 | ||
| WG Altenplathow | 4.7% | 1 | ||
| FFW Parchen | 3.5% | 1 | ||
| Individual applicants | 0.9% | + 0.9 | 0 | - |
* In the state statistics, voter communities are only listed collectively. The individual elections do not necessarily have to be the same groupings.
mayor
On May 13, 2018, Matthias Günther was elected mayor to succeed Thomas Barz.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on September 15, 1995 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.
Blazon : "In the red gold-bordered shield the gold-crowned Mother of God in a golden robe with the child on her right arm."
The oldest known representation of the coat of arms is in the seal on a document from 1690 and shows the Virgin Mary with child in a tunic-like garment without a halo. The coat of arms is of medieval religious origin. Presumably the oldest seals and thus the heraldic symbols were determined by the Archbishop in Magdeburg, because all cities that previously belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg have saints in their arms. The coat of arms was confirmed in its current form on July 29, 1971 by the city council.
- Historical coat of arms
The former municipality of Mützel already had a seal image similar to a coat of arms in its municipality seal. This was used from 1882 at the latest until the introduction of the districts and counties in the GDR (1945–1952). Another source is the County Home Museum in Genthin.
flag
The flag was approved on March 23, 1998 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.
The city's flag is striped red and yellow with the city coat of arms.
Town twinning
The city of Datteln (North Rhine-Westphalia) has been the twin city of Genthin since 1990 . The city council of Genthin decided on September 18, 2008 to submit an offer to the Silesian city of Radlin to agree on a town twinning agreement after the Genthiner Bismarck-Gymnasium and a Radliner Lyceum have been working together for a long time. The partnership agreement was signed in the same year.
Culture and sights
Museums
The district museum Jerichower Land in Genthin is a local history museum with more than 25,000 exhibits and a large prehistoric and early historical collection, mainly of pieces from the region between the Havel and Elbe . The centerpiece of this collection is a private collection of the Wusterwitz doctor Richard Stimming , which was bought in 1929 .
Buildings
Churches, architectural monuments and monuments
The Protestant town church St. Trinitatis was built from 1707 to 1722 instead of a Romanesque predecessor building according to plans by Georg Preußer as a three-aisled hall church in the Baroque style. The west tower with a curved hood designed by Gottfried Meinicke was not completed until 1772 due to lack of money. The organ was installed in 1798.
The 48 m high, octagonal water tower Genthin , built in 1934/35, is one of the city's landmarks. A little south of the water tower is the Catholic Church of St. Mary , built in 1902/03 . At Genthin Central Station there is a memorial to the railway accident of December 22, 1939 .
The church in Altenplathow was built in 1903/04 on the site of a Romanesque church and painted with Art Nouveau ornamentation. Inside the church is the grave slab of Hermann von Plote , an ancestor of Elisabeth von Plotho . The tombstone placed in 1170 was found when the old church was demolished. Therefore, the church is now a sight on the Romanesque Road .
In Parchen, the Parchen village church is an evangelical church built from field stones at the end of the 1820s. It stands on the foundation walls of an originally from the 12th century and burned down church. Moreover, in Parchen with the castle Parchen worth the 1830-31 rebuilt the castle manor house of the village.
From 1956-58 the house of the working people was built on the premises of the detergent factory, today it is called Stadtkulturhaus .
The Lady in white Persiluhr, which was set up on the market square in 1994, is a reminder of the long tradition of detergent production.
Memorial sites to the time of National Socialism
- Graves at cemetery A for 68 murdered female concentration camp prisoners
- Soviet honor grove for 88 named victims of forced labor as well as twelve concentration camp prisoners murdered on a death march
- VVN memorial by the sculptor Ursula Schneider-Schulz from 1971 in the Linsenwald . This bronze statue, which weighs more than a ton, was separated from the base by unknown metal thieves and transported away in February 2013 . Parts of the Soviet memorial were also stolen.
- Memorial corner in the schoolyard of the Diesterweg School in Jägerstrasse in memory of the women of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Memorial complex with memorial plaque on the former Jewish cemetery , which was removed under the Nazi regime
Sports
- The Spee Cup in cycling is held in Genthin every year. The route leads from Genthin on the B 1 towards Bensdorf (near Brandenburg an der Havel ) and back.
- The Genthiner volleyball club (GVV for short) is one of the most successful sports clubs in the city thanks to its national title wins. He is the organizer of the annual Quattro Mix Beach Tournament.
music
- Probably the best known music groups from Genthin were the now defunct metalcore formation Fall of a Season and the band Sa.vita .
- Other well-known Genthiner bands are and were u. a. Sense never Came , A Tear as Memory , The Pax , Black Flame and Himmelfahrtskommando .
Parks and protected areas
The Fiener Bruch is one of only three breeding areas left for the Great Bustard , the heaviest bird capable of flying, which is threatened with extinction in Germany . As early as 1979, the Karow Great Bustard Sanctuary was established in the area of the municipalities of Tucheim, Karow and Paplitz in what was then the Magdeburg district with a size of 5,780 hectares. In the 1990s the lowland was designated as an EU bird sanctuary at Fiener Bruch as part of the Natura 2000 network . In 1997, the 143 hectare nature reserve Fiener Bruch was designated within the Saxony-Anhalt sub-area . In the middle of the Fiener Bruch is the ornithological station , the observation tower Königsroder Hof , at the Vorwerk Königsrode belonging to Tucheim . In the Königsroder Hof the Förderverein Großtrappenschutz e. V. an information center in which regular events about the protection of the great bustard take place.
The Volkspark in Altenplathow was planned by Lenné in 1839 as an estate park for the entrepreneur Pieschel .
Economy and Infrastructure
Transport links
In Genthin, the B 1 Magdeburg - Brandenburg an der Havel - Berlin and the B 107 Pritzwalk - Havelberg - Wiesenburg / Mark - Coswig (Anhalt) cross . The next autobahn connections exist with the junctions “Burg-Zentrum”, “Ziesar” and “Brandenburg” on the A2 Berlin - Magdeburg - Hanover.
The city lies on the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line . Genthin is served hourly by regional express trains on the Magdeburg - Brandenburg an der Havel - Potsdam - Berlin - Frankfurt (Oder) - ( Eisenhüttenstadt - Cottbus ) route. There are also a few regional trains to and from Magdeburg every day. Genthin is also a stop on the Harz-Berlin-Express Goslar / Thale - Halberstadt - Magdeburg - Potsdam - Berlin, which is a long-distance train between Genthin and Berlin.
The Genthin – Schönhausen railway , which was part of the Kleinbahn AG network in Genthin , began at the Genthiner Kleinbahnhof, which was located immediately north of today's main station and was demolished in 2012 . At the sugar factory junction, the Genthin – Milow railway branched off from this line . However, these lines have now been shut down, with the former small railway line to Jerichow still being operated as the station track of Genthin station as far as the Henkel detergent plant and used for freight traffic.
Local passenger traffic to Jerichow is maintained by the state bus 742 , which is operated by the Jerichower Land local transport company.
The Elbe-Havel Canal runs through the city, which will be expanded for use by large motor ships by 2017 as part of VDE 17 and was completed in the Genthin area in summer 2015. The two federal highways lead over the canal, there is also the Henkel bridge as a pedestrian bridge and the Hagen bridge spanning the Altenplathoer Altkanal . The Altenplathoer Altkanal is an old canal of the Plauer Canal , the predecessor of the Elbe-Havel Canal, the Roßdorfer Altkanal as another remnant part of the Plauer Canal flows into the Elbe-Havel Canal in the east of Genthin.
Established businesses
A traditional company in Genthen is the detergent factory (“ Spee ”), which belonged to the Henkel Group until 2009 and operated under the name VEB Persil -Werk in the early 1950s . At the end of 2009, the Henkel plant in Genthin was closed due to the company's restructuring plan. Large parts were from the Hansa Group belonging Genthin GmbH Waschmittelwerk taken.
In addition, there are small and medium-sized companies in mechanical engineering, building communication, communications technology, domestic air conditioning and the manufacture of windows in the city, in addition to craft firms from various industries. A branch of a North Rhine-Westphalian accounting company is also located in Genthin, in the former administration building of the sugar factory, which - after being taken over by Südzucker AG in 1990 - was closed in 1992.
A recycling company for mixed plastics of the Cabka Group provides u. a. Feet for construction site fences (in the hall of the former sugar factory).
Other notable companies are animal body recycling - Secanim GmbH and Feuerverzinkung Genthin GmbH & Co. KG (part of the Seppeler Group ).
hospital
The Johanniter Hospital in Genthin , which opened in 1868, ceased operations prematurely in September 2017. Originally, this should only take place with the opening of the extension to the hospital in Stendal. Despite its need for care, the hospital was closed in accordance with the G-BA rules on security surcharges.
education
In Genthin there is the Bismarck-Gymnasium, a secondary school, four elementary schools (one in the Tucheim district) and the special needs school for people with learning disabilities in the Parchen district.
The main building of the grammar school was opened in 1893 as a seminar for elementary school teachers, since 1922 it functioned as a secondary school, was named Bismarck School in 1926 , was renamed EOS Theodor Neubauer during the GDR era and was given its original name back in 1991.
media
- The Genthiner (weekly paper)
- Genthiner Volksstimme
tourism
The Elbe-Havel-Radweg has been connecting Magdeburg with Berlin since 2017 and runs along the Elbe-Havel Canal in Genthin. The city has designated eight other bike tours as circular tours.
Personalities
gallery
Church in Altenplathow , landmark of the Romanesque Road
Water tower
Elbe-Havel Canal in Genthin to the east
Henkelbrücke and Stadtkulturhaus
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literature
- Kurt Ahland u. a .: An unusual history book. From the history of the city of Genthin . Self-published by the City of Genthin, Genthin 1995.
- Johann August Christoph von Eine: Brief description of the city of Genthin . Franzen and Grosse, Stendal 1803.
- Antje Kreutzmann u. a .: Resistance of young liberals at the Genthin high school 1947–1949. Contribution to the “German History” school competition for the Federal President's Prize on the subject of “Rebellion, Action, Change. Protest in History ” . State representative for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg 1999.
- John Kreutzmann: Genthin as it used to be . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1998. ISBN 3-86134-522-6 .
- John Kreutzmann: Genthin . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2004. ISBN 3-89702-774-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ^ German Weather Service, normal period 1961–1990
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1909, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 139 .
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 253 .
- ↑ a b Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1st, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
- ↑ Official Journal No. 12/2019 of May 31, 2019 - result of the local election of May 26, 2019 for the City Council of the City of Genthin and State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt - City of Genthin accessed on November 6, 2019
- ^ Regional Returning Officer : Mayor election on May 13, 2018 in the city of Genthin. Saxony-Anhalt State Statistical Office, accessed on July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ www.qsg-genthin.de
- ↑ Town hall with market square and historical Persiluhr
- ↑ Kerstin Mammen, Ubbo Mammen, Gunthard Dornbusch, Stefan Fischer: EU SPA bird sanctuary Fiener Bruch , in: The European bird sanctuaries of Saxony-Anhalt . State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt. October 2013. ISSN 0941-7281 .
- ^ Museum . Accessed May 13, 2015.
- ↑ Simone Pötschke: The old small train station will create space for an extended bus station in the future . In: Volksstimme . December 15, 2012.
- ↑ Volksstimme Online: Platz für die Großstimme , 6 June 2015, accessed on 13 December 2015.
- ↑ Waschmittelwerk Genthin GmbH - About us
- ↑ MDR: The hospital in Genthin closes ( Memento from October 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ H. English: State theater in the country? Inconsistencies in hospital planning for rural structures. IMPLICONplus 09 | 2018
- ↑ School directory of the city
- ^ Houses of the Bismarck-Gymnasium
- ↑ www.sachsen-anhalt-tourismus.de
- ↑ Genthin Tourist Information
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