Graefenhainichen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ' N , 12 ° 27' E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Wittenberg | |
| Height : | 90 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 158.94 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 11,540 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 73 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 06772, 06773 | |
| Area code : | 034953 | |
| License plate : | WB, GHC, JE | |
| Community key : | 15 0 91 110 | |
| LOCODE : | DE EFE | |
City administration address : |
Markt 1 06773 Graefenhainichen |
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| Mayor : | Enrico Schilling ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Graefenhainichen in the district of Wittenberg | ||
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Graefenhainichen is a town in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
The city of Graefenhainichen is located approx. 20 km south-west of Wittenberg , south-east of Dessau and north-east of Bitterfeld on the edge of the Dübener Heide .
Near the transformation was the former lignite mine in the course Golpa North of Lake Gremmin created the industrial monument on the banks of Ferropolis is. On the southern edge of the city there is also the Gröberner See , which was also created from a former opencast mine.
City structure
The following districts are identified:
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history
Graefenhainichen was mentioned for the first time in 1285 as a fiefdom of Count Albrecht II of Anhalt . The place was called initially to the Hayne , then Gravenalbrechtshayn , from which the current name emerged. In 1454 the town charter was confirmed after all documents were destroyed by fire. In 1607 the city's most important son, the Evangelical Lutheran pastor and song writer Paul Gerhardt , was born. In 1637, the effects of the Thirty Years' War also reached Graefenhainichen, which was almost completely destroyed by Swedish troops. The place was until 1815 the main town of the Electoral Saxon Office Graefenhainichen . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th
After the Wittenberg – Bitterfeld railway was inaugurated in 1859 , more and more industrial companies settled there because of its convenient location. The first printing house was founded in 1874 . Up to 1990 there were up to four printing works in Graefenhainichen. Since 1890, lignite was mined near Graefenhainichen, initially in civil engineering and later in open-cast mining.
At the beginning of the Nazi era was in operation Stoltzenberg direction at the railroad crossing Gröbern by the SA one of the early concentration camps set up to help members and officials of labor organizations were terrorized. In August 1933 the prisoners were transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp. During the Second World War , numerous prisoners of war as well as women and men from the countries occupied by Germany had to do forced labor in the Elektrowerke AG and in the Golpa mine .
In 1952, Graefenhainichen became the district town of the former Graefenhainichen district in the Halle district for three cities and 27 municipalities (from 1982 only 26, since the municipality of Gremmin fell victim to lignite mining).
After the end of the GDR, the dissolution of the Halle district and the re-establishment of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Graefenhainichen district was preserved until June 30, 1994. In the course of the district reform in 1994, Graefenhainichen lost the status of a district town. Until 2010, the city was the seat of the administrative office of the administrative community Tor zur Dübener Heide .
Incorporations
On July 1, 1950, Mescheide was incorporated into Graefenhainichen . On January 1, 2007, the Jüdenberg community was added. Möhlau, Schköna, Tornau and Zschornewitz were incorporated into the state of Saxony-Anhalt by the law on the reorganization of the municipalities.
politics
City council
The city council of Graefenhainichen consists of 24 (2014: 28) city councilors in the 2019-2024 electoral period and has been composed as follows since the local elections on May 26, 2019 with a turnout of 53.3% (2014: 45.0%)
| Party / group of voters | Share of votes | Seats | +/- |
| CDU | 39.9% | 11 | - 2nd |
| The left | 20.3% | 6th | - 3 |
| AfD | 17.9% | 1 | + 1 |
| SPD | 7.6% | 2 | ± 0 |
| Green | 2.9% | 1 | ± 0 |
| Voting Community Möhlau (WGM) | 4.9% | 1 | - 1 |
| Free voters | 4.3% | 1 | + 1 |
| Individual applicants | 2.3% | 1 | + 1 |
| Total (after correcting the rounding errors) | 100% | 24 |
The mayor is an additional member of the city council.
mayor
Harry Rüßbält (Die Linke) was Mayor of Graefenhainichen from 2001 to 2015. Enrico Schilling (CDU) was elected as his successor for a term of seven years in the mayoral election on April 12, 2015 with 66.9 percent of the valid votes.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on December 17, 1993 by the Dessau Regional Council.
Blazon : "In silver, two red towers with black joints, connected by a wall, with black roofs, growing from a golden shield with a black lion, framed by two green laurel branches."
The towers symbolize the two Graefenhainich city towers in a stylized form, the wall in between the city wall. The Meissnian lion as an old Wettin national emblem marks the approximately 450-year membership of the city under the Markmeissnian sovereignty or Electoral Saxony . The laurel tendrils go back to the original damascene.
Town twinning
Partnerships exist with the cities:
- Laubach in Hessen since 1992
- Élancourt in France since 2003
- Zoersel in Belgium , friendship treaty since August 2005
Culture and sights
→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Graefenhainichen
- Ferropolis : open-air museum and event location, mining and adventure railway. The music festivals Melt! and splash! instead of.
- Paul Gerhardt Chapel: Memorial chapel in honor of Paul Gerhardt , laying of the foundation stone on May 9, 1830, inaugurated on October 21, 1844, reopened in May 1992 as an exhibition and event space
- Paul-Gerhardt-Haus (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 17): built in 1907-09 to commemorate the 300th birthday of Paul Gerhardt as a Christian clubhouse
- Paul Gerhardt Monument (at the Paul Gerhardt House): Created in 1911 by the sculptor Friedrich Johannes Pfannschmidt
- Castle ruins: today an event area
- Churches (Evangelical and Catholic)
- The Saxon post-distance column , reconstructed with the original block of letters from 1728, served - still clearly visible today - as a step in a school for decades
- Art Deco style water and observation tower , 38 m high, inaugurated in 1928
- Upper and lower city towers
- Book Printing Museum
- Market fountain
- Post mill
- Information boards on the devastated village of Gremmin on Lake Gremmin on the history trail
- Sculpture path along the Gremminer See on the art path
- Suburban pond
- Cenotaph on the municipal cemetery for the victims of fascism (redesigned in 1996) with sculpture and plaques, u. a. for 18 Soviet victims of forced labor
- Memorial plaque on the grave of two Jewish pogrom victims from the Jewish agricultural school in Bomsdorf
- Graves in the cemetery in the district of Strohwalde on Schleesener Weg for two Soviet and Polish victims of forced labor from the village of Gremmin who had to give way to open- cast lignite mining
Water tower
Upper city tower
Lower city tower
Post mileage
Market fountain
Post mill
Gremminer Bridge between Graefenhainichen and the Gremminer See
Castle in Schköna
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Street
Graefenhainichen is on the federal road 107 from Oranienbaum to Bad Düben , on the federal road 100 from Wittenberg to Bitterfeld and on the state road 136 to Zschornewitz . The federal motorway 9 ( Munich - Berlin ), junction Dessau-Ost , is approx. 17 km away.
rail
Graefenhainichen station is on the Berlin – Halle railway line and is served every hour by the S2 and S8 lines of the Central German S-Bahn .
bus
Since July 1, 2008 the state bus 310 has been running via Oranienbaum to Dessau , operated by the Vetter bus company .
education
Graefenhainichen owns the Paul-Gerhardt-Gymnasium, the secondary school "Ferropolis", three elementary schools (one each in the city and in the districts of Schköna and Zschornewitz) and two special schools ("An der Lindenallee" for the learning disabled and "Peter Petersen" for the mentally handicapped) ).
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), theologian and hymn poet
- Johann Christian Bucke (1672–1723), Lutheran theologian
- Joachim Gottlob Am Ende (1704–1777), theologian and educator
- Ludwig Leuschner (1824–1889), manufacturer and member of the Reichstag, honorary citizen in 1887
- Hugo Winckler (1863–1913), archaeologist and linguist
- Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1872–1962), politician during the Nazi era and Reichspostminister from 1937 to 1945
- Siegfried Stephan (1883–1948), gynecologist
- Dieter Friede (1938–1982), GDR diplomat
- Rolf Dienewald (* 1941), actor, director and presenter
- Ralf Laass (* 1968), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament 2002–2006
- Torsten Schweiger (* 1968), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag
Personalities related to the city
- Otto Hildebrandt (1924–2015), miner and writer, lived most of his life in Graefenhainichen
- Wolfgang Köppe (1926–2018), artist in the Tornau district
literature
- Graefenhainichen . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 3rd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1816, pp. 381-383.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Graefenhainichen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 690 kB)
- ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
- ^ The district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
- ↑ a b Law on the reorganization of the municipalities in the state of Saxony-Anhalt regarding the district of Wittenberg (GemNeuglG WB)
- ↑ Mescheide on gov.genealogy.net
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
- ↑ State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt, municipal elections 2019: City of Graefenhainichen, final result , accessed on June 19, 2020
- ↑ Result of the mayoral election on April 12, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2017 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.
- ↑ CDU man Enrico Schilling wins . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , April 13, 2015
- ^ Certificate of approval from December 17, 1993 by the Dessau Regional Council
- ↑ State network: Line 331 in the district of Wittenberg links train and bus ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 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.
