Großpaschleben

Großpaschleben Municipality of Osterienburger Land
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 58"  E
Height :	75 m
Area :	9.6 km²
Residents :	834  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density :	87 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	06386
Area code :	03496

Großpaschleben is a district of the municipality Osternienburger Land in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Großpaschleben is located between Bernburg (Saale) and Köthen (Anhalt) on the edge of the Middle Elbe river landscape biosphere reserve . Frenz was designated as a district of the former municipality.

history

Baroque manor house Großpaschleben

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1159. A noble family that died out towards the end of the 14th century was named after the village. From 1602 Großpaschleben was owned by the von Wuthenau family , who built a castle here surrounded by a pond in 1706/07. The now listed moated castle and the former estate and land owned by von Wuthenau were acquired by the Burchard Führer Group and converted into a senior citizens' home.

On 15 April 1945 there was heavy shelling by US - Artillery of the town and fighting in which 26 largely young soldiers of the Infantry Division Potsdam and an unknown number of American soldiers were killed. The German fallen soldiers were buried at the cemetery at Wülknitzer Str. 2 in a collective grave measuring approx. 5 × 15 m, where the von Wuthenau family had a tombstone placed for them. The stone bears the names of the dead and the inscription: Fell in the place 15.4.45 Remember you!

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Großpaschleben, Chörau , Diebzig , Dornbock , Drosa , Elsnigk , Zabitz , Kleinpaschleben , Libbesdorf , Micheln , Osternienburg , Reppichau , Trinum and Wulfen merged to form a unified community of Osternienburger Land. At the same time, the administrative community Osternienburg , to which these communities belonged, was dissolved.

badges and flags

The coat of arms was approved on June 14, 2007 by the district of Köthen.

Blazon : “Square of blue and silver; Field 2 a soaring red lion with a knocked out tongue, field 3 a black crow. "

The coat of arms symbols are based on the coat of arms of the family von Paschleben, who died out in the 15th century and who were wealthy in the village from 1244 onwards. They featured a soaring lion with a knocked out tongue in their coat of arms. The second coat of arms symbol, the crow, refers to the Slavic root of the district Frenz = crow, which is part of Großpaschleben. Both contents are based on the resolution of the municipal meeting on September 18, 2006.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

The colors of the district are: white-blue.

The flag carried by the district of Großpaschleben has two stripes 1: 1 in the colors white and blue with the coat of arms attached.

Culture and sights

Großpaschleben moated castle

Großpaschleben grave

• At the rear right of the cemetery there is a communal grave (location) for 26 German dead from April 15, 1945.
• Graves in the local cemetery for four women and men known by name as well as a prisoner of war from the Soviet Union who fell victim to forced labor during the Second World War .
• Medieval peasant stone on the village square , which was rededicated in 1959 as a memorial stone for Ernst Thälmann , the KPD chairman who was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Köthen – Aschersleben railway line ( Frenz stop ) and federal highway 185 ( Bernburg (Saale) - Köthen (Anhalt) ) run right through the district .

Personalities

• Hermann Waschke , author of the Paschlewwer Jeschichten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Amalienhof Pflegezentrum GmbH Dessau: Wasserschloss Großpaschleben. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Möller: Final battle on the Mulde in 1945 . 2012. p. 78
3. ↑ Ute Hartling-Lieblang: The 87-year-old has been loving a soldier's grave for years . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . Koethen. November 13, 2009.
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
5. ↑ Jürgen Möller: Final battle on the Mulde . Rockstuhl-Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2012. ISBN 978-3-86777-334-8 . P. 319

literature

• Kurt Brandt u. Siegried Schenner: Paschlewwer Waiter Book . Dessau: Anhaltische Landesbücherei 2005 (communications from the Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde, vol. 14). ISSN  1430-3647
• Hermann Laundry : Paschlewwer Jeschichten . 6 Vols. Köthen: Schettler 1900–1911 (Anhalter village stories, Vol. 1–2, 5–8)
• Hermann Laundry: De Miehme Wewern her cotton skirt . Köthen: Schettler 1901 (Anhalt village stories, vol. 4)
• Hermann Laundry : Small bottle and his notebook . Köthen: Schettler 1902 (Anhalt village stories, vol. 5)

Web links

Commons : Großpaschleben  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information and picture gallery about the place