Gerbstedt
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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ' N , 11 ° 38' E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Mansfeld-Südharz | |
| Height : | 155 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 102.31 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7072 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 69 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 06347 | |
| Primaries : | 03476, 034773, 034783 | |
| License plate : | MSH, EIL, HET, ML, SGH | |
| Community key : | 15 0 87 165 | |
| LOCODE : | DE G5S | |
| City structure: | Core city and 11 villages with 25 districts | |
City administration address : |
Markt 1, 06347 Gerbstedt | |
| Website : | ||
| Mayor : | Bernd Hartwig (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Gerbstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz | ||
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Gerbstedt is a small town in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
landscape
Gerbstedt is located in the northeastern district of Mansfeld-Südharz on the Mansfelder Platte , a landscape with many flat hills in the Harz foreland . This slopes gently to the north. There are two main cuts in the municipality: the valley of the Schlenze and that of the Fleischbach. The latter is particularly steep at Bösenburg. Both valleys flow into the Saale valley west of Friedeburg. The landscape there with its steep slopes is impressive. At 72 m above sea level, the deepest point in the municipality is in the Saale breakthrough near Rothenburg . In addition, these cuts are still divided into sub-cuts, at least after rainy storms, rivulets flow through most of them. The highest point is on the 241 meter high hill Sickberg west of Thondorf . Other hills are called z. B. Sehringsberg (near Helmsdorf ), Langer Hu (between Ihlewitz and Gerbstedt), Warthe (near Gerbstedt), Lauschhügel (south of Welfesholz) and Kuhberg (near Adendorf ). Some hills are also named after types of water, such as the Seeberg and the Teichberg near Zabenstedt. But there are also hills with the same name, such as Goldberg, which is represented three times (once near Rottelsdorf and twice near Lochwitz ).
Waters
The largest body of water in the municipality is the Saale , which flows through the municipality over a length of 3 kilometers. Because of a breakthrough in the Saale, a small area beyond the Saale also belongs to the municipality. There are several streams in the municipality. Most of them are drained by the Schlenze . The Griftbach Rüsterbach , Grift , Apfelborn and Wickengraben near Siersleben in the west of the unified municipality (see Griftbach ) should be mentioned . There is also the Fleischbach near Freist with its several short, water-rich spring streams near Bösenburg , for example the Fleischgraben from Rottelsdorf . There is also the Lobach between Gerbstedt and Zabenstedt and the Pfeiffhausener Bach. There are also several periodically drying rivulets in the area of the municipality. These include, for example, the Alte Wipper between Thondorf and Klostermansfeld , which is also often called Regenbeck , the Sohlbach near Helmsdorf , which has not been flowing continuously since 1826, and the brook in the village of Welfesholz that drains to Hettstedt. Some rivulets can also be found at Freist.
There are very few swamps and lakes to be found in the municipality. But there are several man-made pools. The few natural ones were mostly filled in (for example the Lochwitz sea holes). The largest standing water is an oxbow lake of the Saale with a size of five hectares east of Friedeburg on the border to the Saalekreis . The second largest standing body of water is a rectangular, approx. 200 by 30 meter large artificial basin in the Schlenze valley near Heiligenthal. To the northwest of Gerbstedt are the Lodderstedter ponds. A small swamp is located on the southern outskirts of Augsdorf.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are Arnstein , Hettstedt and Mansfeld in the west, Könnern ( Salzlandkreis ) in the north, Salzatal and Wettin-Löbejün (both Saalekreis ) in the east; and the lake area Mansfelder Land and the Lutherstadt Eisleben in the south.
Expansion and use of the urban area
Gerbstedt is a medium-sized municipality. It covers a total of 102.02 km² with an east-west extension of 16 and a north-south extension of 8 kilometers. The land use is shown in the table below. In it, traffic routes and bodies of water were assigned to the area that encloses them. This also applies to smaller forests.
| Area according to type of use |
Total area in m² | Total area in ha | Share in the area of the municipality |
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| Settlement area | 7,499,550 | 750 | 7.35% |
| Forest and meadows | 6,763,700 | 676.4 | 6.63% |
| Fields and fields | 87,756,750 | 8,775.7 | 86.01% |
Source : Web atlas of the Rhineland-Palatinate Geoportal, the information is freely measurable.
history
The area of the city of Gerbstedt has been settled for a long time, as many finds attest. There was even a circular moat south of Siersleben . In addition, burial mounds or entire grave fields were excavated. One of these exists on the northern slope of the Schlenze between Helmsdorf and Polleben , a large number of stone box graves were found here, the dead were all buried with their heads facing south. Some graves have been reconstructed, they are hidden on the Sehringsberg, ten meters from the upper edge of the field. There was also a princely grave of the Aunjetitz culture at the Brosowski shaft , which was examined in 1906 by the historian Hermann Großler .
Many old villages existed along the streams and rivulets, which were much more numerous before the construction of the key tunnel. Most of them can only be found as desert , there are ten around the core city alone. These are called: Dankendorf , Derlingen , Dresewitz , Lodderstedt , Mummesdorf , Nienstedt , Nisselsdorf , Polingen , Reindorf and Rote Welle . The name of another desert northeast of the city center is unknown. Another desert town called Dörlitz is located near Freist.
On the basis of a territorial change agreement, the municipal councils of the communities Augsdorf (on June 8, 2009), Friedeburgerhütte (on: May 18, 2009), Hübitz (on May 20, 2009), the city of Gerbstedt (on May 19, 2009), Ihlewitz (on May 14, 2009), Rottelsdorf (June 9, 2009), Siersleben (June 10, 2009), Welfesholz (June 3, 2009) and Zabenstedt (June 23, 2009) decided that their communities should be dissolved and become one new community with the name Stadt Gerbstedt are united. This contract was approved by the local authority and came into force on January 1, 2010. On January 24, 2010, the communities of Freist , Friedeburg (Saale) and Heiligenthal were incorporated.
City structure
The municipality of Gerbstedt is divided into 12 localities (municipality-like units), these can be divided into 25 districts, the actual places. Of these, 23 belong to the villages and two to the settlements. There is also the Apfelborn industrial area, which can be found south of the town of Hübitz.
| Locality | Residents | Incorporation | Districts |
The localities of Gerbstedt (clickable map)   |
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| Main town Gerbstedt | 2,885 | January 1, 2010 | Kleingerbstedt, Kloppan, monastery, Marktgerbstedt, Obergerbstedt | |
| Augsdorf | 573 | January 1, 2010 | Augsdorf | |
| Free | 323 | January 24, 2010 | Elben , Freist, Oeste and Zabitz | |
| Friedeburg | 462 | January 24, 2010 | Friedeburg, Neue Siedlung and Thomas-Müntzer-Siedlung | |
| Friedeburgerhütte | 255 | January 1, 2010 | Friedeburgerhütte and Adendorf | |
| Heiligenthal | 766 | January 24, 2010 | Heiligenthal, Helmsdorf and Lochwitz | |
| Huebitz | 336 | January 1, 2010 | Huebitz | |
| Ihlewitz | 310 | January 1, 2010 | Ihlewitz, Pfeiffhausen, Strausshof and Thaldorf | |
| Rottelsdorf | 324 | January 1, 2010 | Rottelsdorf and Bösenburg | |
| Siersleben | 1426 | January 1, 2010 | Siersleben and Thondorf | |
| Welfesholz | 215 | January 1, 2010 | Welfesholz | |
| Zabenstedt | 215 | January 1, 2010 | Zabenstedt |
(As of December 31, 2009)
politics
City Councilor and Mayor
The city council of Gerbstedt has consisted of 20 members and the separately elected mayor since the municipal elections on May 26, 2019. The seats are distributed among the individual lists and parties as follows:
| Party / list | Seats |
| CDU | 9 |
| left | 4th |
| SPD | 2 |
| FBM | 2 |
| NPD | 1 |
| Individual applicants | 2 |
mayor
From 1994 to 2019 Siegfried Schwarz was the mayor of Gerbstedt, until 2010 of the smaller municipality and from 2010 of the unified municipality. For health reasons, he resigned from office in November 2019.
On February 2, 2020, Bernd Hartwig, who was not part of the party, was elected as the new mayor with 56.09% of the vote in the first ballot. According to media reports, the uncertain future of the three primary schools in the urban area was the most important issue in the election campaign.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on December 7, 1998 by the regional council of Halle . The new town of Gerbstedt applied for the continuation or takeover of the coat of arms of the old town of Gerbstedt, this was approved by the district on June 17, 2010.
Blazon : "In silver a black-haired saint in natural colors in a blue robe with a green palm frond in his right hand, below covered with two pole-like semicircular shields, the right one in gold a black hexagram with a green clover leaf, the left one divided by red and silver, the left hand rests on the upper left corner. "
The coat of arms refers to seal representations from the 16th century. In the oldest seal from 1404, St. Stephan is still depicted with his hands raised in prayer, while the depiction of the martyr's palm (palm branch, palm frond) has been known since the 16th century. St. Stephen is one of the seven deacons of the early Christian community in Jerusalem and the first martyr of the Christian church (stoning). St. Stephan is the patron saint of the Halberstadt monastery and at the same time the patron saint of the women's monastery and the city church of Gerbstedt. The hexagram in the right shield is probably the old place symbol, a hall mark and the green shamrock a symbol of the Benedictine monks who venerated Stephen. The left shield is the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , whose Archbishop Günther granted the town of Gerbstedt market rights and which Gerbstedt town and monastery only sold to the Counts of Mansfeld in 1541 .
The city's colors are blue and white.
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Lutz Döring from Erdeborn.
Town twinning
A ring town partnership has existed since 1991 with the municipalities of Grefrath in North Rhine-Westphalia and Frévent (Northern France), which have been partnered since 1966 . The contacts are cultivated in particular by the "Association of Friends of Frévent and Gerbstedt". Every year at Whitsun, mutual visits between the partner cities take place.
Culture and sights
Friedeburg Castle
In the Friedeburg district is the Friedeburg Castle , a former castle of the Counts of Mansfeld that was converted into a castle .
Churches
In most parts of the community there is a church, and there is rarely a second one in the village. This is the case in Gerbstedt and Siersleben; in these places there is a younger Catholic church in addition to the old Protestant church building. Most of the churches in the parish have a sturdy tower with a clearly rectangular floor plan. The following churches exist in the parish:
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There were other churches in the past, such as the monastery church of Gerbstedt, and some of the deserted areas had small churches.
Museums
In Gerbstedt there is a city museum with various exhibits from the older and more recent past. On request, it is possible to visit a medieval underground cellar under the market square.
In summer, the steam-powered museum trains of the Mansfeld mining railway run through the districts of Siersleben and Thondorf .
Infrastructure
traffic
Major roads
Road routes in the municipality are:
- the federal highway 180 , which only runs 500 meters to the south on the municipal area
- the state roads (only the course in the community, or the first location outside is called when the roads is to continue [...] written)
- 72 (crossing Thälmannschacht - Siersleben - Welfesholz - Sandersleben - [...])
- 151 ([...] - Belleben - Gerbstedt - Helmsdorf - Polleben - [...])
- 154 (Siersleben - Helmsdorf - Heiligenthal - Zabenstedt - Friedeburgerhütte - Pfeiffhausen - Thaldorf - Zellwitz - [...])
- 157 ([...] - Rumpin - Friedeburg - Brucke)
- 158 (Friedeburg - Adendorf - Friedeburgerhütte - Zabenstedt - Gerbstedt - Welfesholz - Hettstedt - [...])
Public transport
There is no Deutsche Bahn station in operation in the entire municipality . The HHE , which opened up the area with the lines Halle – Hettstedt (in today's municipality the stations Rottelsdorf, Heiligenthal, Gerbstedt and Welfesholz) and Gerbstedt – Friedeburg (in today's municipality the stations Gerbstedt, Zabenstedt, Friedeburgerhütte, Zabitz and Friedeburg) Gradually closed from 1962 to 2002, first the Gerbstedt – Friedeburg line in 1962, then the section between Heiligenthal and Schochwitz in 1968 , then the Gerbstedt-Heiligenthal section in 1998 and finally the last section in the Mansfeld-Südharz district between Hettstedt and Gerbstedt in 2002. An association is trying to reactivate the route. Since 1993, no trains have left the Siersleben train station, which is on the railway line from Magdeburg to Erfurt . Only on the narrow-gauge line of the Mansfeld mine railway occasionally do trains to the Thondorf and Gleisdreieck Siersleben stops. The main public transport within the community are the buses of VGS Südharz . The nearest train stations are in Hettstedt, Klostermansfeld (both Berlin – Blankenheim line ), Sandersleben (Anh) (Berlin – Blankenheim line and Halle – Vienenburg line ) and Eisleben ( Halle – Hann. Münden line ).
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
Gerbstedt locality
- Valentin Haussmann (around 1560 – around 1614), German Renaissance composer, organist and councilor in Gerbstedt.
- Ernst Haase (1871–1959), educator and mineralogist
- Karl Seidenstücker (1876–1936), Indologist, pioneer of Buddhism in Germany
- Otto Brosowski (1885–1947) miner, iconic KPD member; see flag of Krivoy Rog
- Johanna Jura (1923–1994), sculptor and ceramicist
- Eugen Ray (1957–1986), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Siersleben village
- Marie Ahlers (1898–1968), communist politician, 1930–1933 member of the Reichstag
- Wilhelm Brunner (1899–1944), local politician
- Gotthilf Heinrich Schnee (1761–1830), pastor, aesthetic and agricultural writer, inaugurator of the Wittenberg Luther Monument
Other personalities associated with Gerbstedt
- Rikdag , Margrave of Meissen
- Thimo von Wettin (11th century), Vogt of the Gerbstedt Monastery together with his brothers Friedrich I , Bishop of Münster; Dedo II , Margrave of Lusatia; Gero von Brehna and Konrad von Camburg
- Petrus Legge (1882–1951), Roman Catholic. Bishop, worked as vicar in Gerbstedt from 1907 to 1911
- Julius Kurth (1870–1949), German teacher, pastor, private scholar and author, died in Gerbstedt
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), poet, spent his youth in Friedeburg
- Hoyer I. von Mansfeld , was field marshal of Emperor Heinrich V , died in the battle of the Welfesholz
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ a b c State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Saxony-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt Viewer . Available online at: https://lvermgeo.sachsen-anhalt.de , accessed on April 22, 2019.
- ↑ My GeoPortal.rlp . GeoPortal.rlp. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
- ↑ Hermann Großler : The prince's grave in the great gallows hill on Paulsschachte near Helmsdorf (in the Mansfeld lake district). In: Annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries. Volume 6, 1907, pp. 1-87 ( online ).
- ↑ Erich Neuss : "Hikes through the Grafschaft Mansfeld"; Volume 3: In the Heart of the County . Fly head publishing house, Halle (Saale) 2001.
- ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 8/2009 special edition, pages 1–10 ( Memento of the original dated November 26, 2015 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
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: Election results for the 2019 municipal council elections (online) , accessed on September 12, 2019.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: Election results for the 2019 municipal council elections (online) , accessed on September 12, 2019.
- ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung : Mayor must be an appointment Siegfried Schwarz says goodbye after 25 years. Published online at https://mz-web.de on October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Tina Edler: Election in Gerbstedt "I am aware that the work is only really beginning now." Published online at https://mz-web.de on February 3, 2020.
- ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 7/2010 Page 13 ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.9 MB)
- ↑ grefrath.de: Information on the Association of Friends of Frevent and Gerbstedt on the city of Grefrath's website, accessed on April 22, 2019.
- ^ Wladimir Kleschtschow: Heimatmuseum Gerbstedt "Torture Tool" from the hairdresser . Published online at https://mz-web.de on April 10, 2016.
- ^ Jörg Müller: Halle-Hettstedter Eisenbahn Rail dispute escalated: Bridge and tracks dismantled . Published online at https://mz-web.de on April 27, 2018.
- ↑ Timetable of the Mansfeld Mining Railways Summer 2011 ( Memento from November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 127 kB)
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