Grabow (Möckern)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grabow
City of Möckern
Grabow coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 55 "  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 43"  E
Height : 52 m above sea level NHN
Area : 32.01 km²
Residents : 651  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 20 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 39291
Primaries : 03921, 039223
Old castle in Grabow
Old castle in Grabow

Grabow is a village and a district of Möckern in the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Agricultural areas in the north and forest areas in the west and south on the edge of the Möckern-Magdeburgerfoth nature reserve determine the area around the village. It lies on the western edge of the Fläming on the banks of the Ihle River . The district town of Burg (near Magdeburg) is 8.7 kilometers away and can be reached via state road 52. This road also leads to the next motorway junction, Theeßen, which is 7.2 kilometers away.

history

Since the place name Grabow ( Grabawa - Weißbuchendorf) is of Slavic origin, the first settlements in the 5th and 6th centuries can be concluded. In the first document about the place he is still called "Grabauua". It is Otto I's deed of donation, created between 940 and 946 for the Magdeburg Mauritius Monastery . In the 12th century, when Germans settled the region, new settlements were often established in the vicinity of existing Slavic settlements, so the Slavic Lüttgen-Grabow and the German Groß-Grabow coexisted for a certain period of time .

Around 1150, a ministerial family named after Grabow is mentioned. Also in the 12th century a moated castle was built near the place . At the same time the first church was built. In 1306 the castle and village were sold to the diocese of Brandenburg . The diocese enfeoffed the Counts of Lindau with Grabow between 1319 and 1323 , who strove to expand their sphere of influence to the south. They did not appear on site, but left their fiefs in a sub-relationship to the noble families Iwan von Wulffen and Henning von Barby. When, after the Counts of Lindau died out, the fiefdom passed to the Brandenburg Elector Joachim I in 1524 , only the von Wulffen family was mentioned as the so-called after-loan recipient . In 1545 Wichmann von Wulffen sold Gut Grabow to the von Plotho family , who remained landlords until the 19th century . The castle grounds remained in the possession of the von Wulffen family. Hans-Christoph von Wulffen had a new stately mansion built there in 1713.

Administrative Grabow was until 1773 the Brandenburg Zaucheschen circle belong, then it moved to the to the Duchy of Magdeburg belonging Ziesarschen circle . In a new district reform, the Jerichow I district became responsible, from which the Jerichow I district later developed with the district town of Burg, which existed until 1952.

In 1806, Carl von Wulffen, the von Wulffen family, was once again mentioned as the owners of the manor in Grabow, in 1901 the manor was sold to Olof von Lindequist , who rebuilt the manor house to its present form. The 50 acre park he created with over 50 species of trees, some of which are rare, is overgrown today (as of 2007).

On September 30, 1928, the Grabow I estate with the Grabow rural community and the Grabow II estate with the Pietzpuhl estate were merged into a Pietzpuhl rural community.

Since Grabow was never touched by important traffic routes, it always remained a community characterized by agriculture and forestry. The population increased from 701 in 1910 to 719 in 1939 to 931 in 1964, including residents from the incorporated towns of Kähnert and Ziegelsdorf . On May 5, 1945 the Red Army marched into Grabow and the last tenant Hans-Olof von Rohr , a grandson of Lindequist, fled to Lower Saxony. The Soviet soldiers confiscated the cattle and the machinery and left the mansion devastated. With the land reform ordered in 1945, the property was split up and distributed to new farmers.

On June 12, 1989, the place caused a sensation in the region when the local church was destroyed to the ground by an arson attack by a non-commissioned officer of the National People's Army .

Until December 31, 2009 Grabow was an independent municipality with the associated districts Kähnert and Ziegelsdorf, and the last mayor was Karola Pöschl. On January 1, 2010 Grabow was incorporated into the city of Möckern .

politics

Local mayor is Thomas Lindemann.

coat of arms

In 2001 the municipality of Grabow decided to use a coat of arms as a sign of the communal identity and the solidarity of the population with their hometown. The Magdeburg heraldist Jörg Mantzsch was commissioned to do this. The symbolism he depicts goes back a long way in history and takes into account the place name, the location of his settlement and the emblem of the von Wulffen family .

Grabow is of Slavic origin. Thirty-two archaeological sites show that Slavs settled here in the course of the second migration and that they had settlements along the Ihle, from which a community developed. In Old Slavonic, Grabow means something like white beech, which can be derived from the botanical conditions. This is symbolized by the beech branch in the local coat of arms, while the Ihle is represented by a sloping bar.

For centuries Grabow was the seat of the von Wulffen family, who shaped the place and its social structure significantly. In their coat of arms they had a soaring wolf, which was also adopted in parts.

Thus, the coat of arms elements are: A part of the Wulfenschen Wappenwolfes, a beech branch, a blue bar.

The colors of Grabow are blue - silver (white).

Blazon : "In silver a blue oblique left-hand bar, accompanied above by a blue soaring wolf at the crack, below by a blue beech branch."

flag

The flag is blue and white striped (1: 1) (hoisted flag: stripes running vertically, cross flag: stripes running horizontally) with the coat of arms placed in the middle.

Buildings

  • St. Jacobi Church

  • Church interior to the east

The St. Jakobi Church is a late Romanesque field stone building with a strikingly large nave, to which a square choir and a semicircular apse , each with a smaller floor plan, are added to the east . The choir and apse belong to the original building, which was built in the 12th century, while the nave was probably built a hundred years later. Originally a transverse rectangular west tower the width of a ship was planned, it was apparently not completed and its east wall was later broken off again. The saddle roof of the nave is therefore drawn up to the west wall, and a square roof tower in half-timbered construction rises above the west gable with a slated eight-sided pointed spire. A striking feature of the building are its small, high-rise windows that are slightly ogival in shape. The painted winged altar from 1595, the pulpit from the early 17th century and a baroque baptismal angel were destroyed, as was the entire interior, by the arson attack in 1989. After the restoration of the interior, the nave has a wooden flat ceiling boarded alongside, which is provided with wooden supports. On the west side, the wooden gallery was modeled on the original in a simplified form. It bears the most valuable inventory item today, an organ from the Friedrich Ladegast company from 1866, which was initially intended for the church in Mutschau . Tombstones from 1325 and 1356 survived the fire, the latter is a double tombstone belonging to the von Wulffen family.

  • Manor house, south front

  • Castle ruins

The former manor house of the von Wulffen family, Grabow Castle , stands in the south of the village on the site of the old moated castle. The original building from 1713 was significantly changed in its appearance in 1901. It is a stately two-storey baroque building, structured by twelve window axes. Two window sections are separated by pilasters . The south facade is provided with an outside staircase. The east gable is about five meters beyond the south facade, so that it forms a separate wing. The main building and east wing are each covered with a mansard hipped roof. Remains of the field stone ring wall of the medieval moated castle are still present on the castle grounds. In 1998 Stanislaus von Eichborn acquired the facility, which had been used as a school and communal center. Even during the extensive renovation that has taken place from private funds, the facility can now be viewed on request.

Personalities

Literature and digital media

  • Handbook of Historic Places - Province of Saxony Anhalt. Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 .
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
  • Dietmar Möschner (edit.): Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming. Evang. Elbe-Fläming church district, Burg 2003, ISBN 3-9809011-0-6 .
  • CD Saxony-Anhalt - Official topographic maps. State Office for Land Surveying and Geoinformation, 2003.

Web links

Commons : Grabow (Möckern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The localities of the city of Möckern. City of Möckern, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ City of Möckern - Main Office (ed.): Development of the inhabitants in the districts and localities of the city of Möckern - Basis: City residents' registration file - as of December 31, 2018 . January 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Möckern in the version of September 25, 2014 - including 1st and 2nd amendment . June 1, 2018 ( full text [PDF; 115 kB ; accessed on December 28, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 202 .
  5. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  6. ↑ local mayor. City of Möckern, accessed on September 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Information on the explanation of the coat of arms received from the heraldist Jörg Mantzsch