Hecklingen

This article is about a city in Saxony-Anhalt. For the district of the same name in Kenzingen , see ibid.

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '  N , 11 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Salzlandkreis
Height :	75 m above sea level NHN
Area :	95.34 km 2
Residents:	6981 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	39444
Primaries :	03925, 039267 (Cochstedt, Schneidlingen)
License plate :	SLK, ASL, BBG, SBK, SFT
Community key :	15 0 89 175
City administration address :	Hermann-Danz-Str. 46 39444 Hecklingen, Germany
Website :	www.stadt-hecklingen.de
Mayor :	Uwe Epperlein (WGH)
Location of the city of Hecklingen in the Salzlandkreis

Hecklingen is a town and community in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Geographical location

Hecklingen is located in the Harz foreland on the edge of the Magdeburg Börde , south of Magdeburg , west of Staßfurt and northeast of Aschersleben , on the southern slope of the Bode in a rural location. The history of the city can be traced over 1,500 years.

climate

Precipitation diagram

The annual precipitation is 481 mm. The amount is extremely low and falls in the lower twentieth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 1% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in August. In August there is 2.2 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 41% of the measuring stations.

Neighboring communities

Hecklingen's neighboring communities include:

• Staßfurt
• Aschersleben
• Leeches

Districts

The districts of Hecklingen, Cochstedt , Groß Börnecke , Gänsefurth and Schneidlingen belong to the unified municipality "Stadt Hecklingen" . They were independent until March 1, 2004 and combined in the Bördeblick administrative association . The community of Winningen did not join the newly established unified community "City of Hecklingen", but joined Aschersleben.

Locality	Residents	The villages of Hecklingen (clickable map)
Hecklingen	2852
Cochstedt	1433
Groß Börnecke	1850
Cutters	1300

history

The place was first mentioned in history in 944 . A monastery founded around 1070 in the desert of Kakelingen near Hecklingen came under the Ascanian bailiff in 1147 and was relocated to the Ascanian court in Hecklingen around 1160 . Since the end of the 13th century it has housed a convent of Augustinian women . The bailiwick rights passed to the princes of Anhalt after 1319.

Hecklingen Castle

In 1559 the monastery was secularized and converted into a manor , to which the lordship over the place was due. In 1571 it came to the von Trotha family , who had already acquired the neighboring Gänsefurth Castle in 1461 . Around the time the Thirty Years War began, Wolf Friedrich von Trotha built his residence on the foundation walls of a farm building belonging to the monastery. This is the older, the renaissance part of the castle, the baroque part of which was built in 1720 by Thilo Lebrecht von Trotha. When he died in 1755, at the then old age of almost 80, he owned four of the five properties still in family hands at the time, namely Gänsefurth, Hecklingen, Schkopau Castle and Würdenburg Castle in Teutschenthal. Since four of his six sons were still alive, he left one of the goods to each.

In 1830 Hecklingen already had 1268 inhabitants. In the area of ​​Staßfurt's potash industry, it has developed from an agricultural farming village to an industrial location with several medium-sized and larger companies since around 1870. Hecklingen was only declared a town in 1928.

At the beginning of the Nazi era in February 1933, an SA storm had terrorized the place and shot an uninvolved citizen. In legal proceedings against political opponents, Nazi courts imposed two death sentences and several prison sentences. During the Second World War a camp was set up for prisoners of war of the Red Army , some of whom died as a result of inhumane living conditions.

The castle and estate of the von Trotha family in Hecklingen were expropriated without compensation in September 1945. Fritz von Trotha was arrested and died in the Soviet Buchenwald special camp in 1947 . His wife with three children was able to flee to the western zones before being arrested.

politics

City council

Since the local elections on May 26, 2019, the city council has been composed as follows:

year	WGH	CDU	left	FDP	SPD	NPD	Other	total
2019	9 seats	3 seats	2 seats	2 seats	2 seats	-	2 seats **	20 seats
2014	9	5	3	1	1	1	-	20 seats
2009	5	5	1	7th	-	1	1*	20 seats

** 1 seat Bürger-Bündnis-Hecklingen eV, 1 seat action alliance city of Hecklingen

* 1 seat single applicant Gregor Butscher

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green, four golden ears of corn above a golden three-mountain."

The municipality's coat of arms was derived in 2004 by the Magdeburg local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch from the coat of arms of the administrative association Bördeblick previously designed by him and brought into the approval process.

Coat of arms

The Hecklinger local coat of arms emerges from the seal from 1618. It was taken over when it became a town in 1928.

Town twinning

Nisko in Poland is twin town of Hecklingen.

Culture and sights

Former Hecklingen monastery church

Schneidlingen Castle from the south

Monastery church of St. Georg and Pankratius

The church of the former Hecklingen monastery from the 12th / 13th centuries Century in the Romanesque style is one of the most important sacred buildings in the Harz region and impresses with its Romanesque stucco sculpture of European standing.

More buildings

• Hecklingen City Palace
• Gänsefurth Castle near Hecklingen
• Schneidlingen Castle

The city's cultural monuments are listed in the local register of monuments.

traffic

The station Hecklingen is situated on the railway line Stassfurt Blumenberg . Passenger traffic was stopped on September 28, 2002. Since then, the city can no longer be reached by train. The Staßfurt tram connected Hecklingen with Staßfurt and Löderburg from 1900 to 1957.

Sons of the city

• Friedrich von Trotha (1812–1868), general
• Ludwig Hosch (1859–1930), Protestant theologian and superintendent
• Otto Heuer (chemist) (1877–1960), chemist and industrialist in the cement industry; belonged to the " Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS "
• Johannes HE Koch (1918–2013), composer and church musician
• Eckhard Schneider (* 1952), politician (CDU)
• Frank Emmelmann (* 1961), athlete (sprinter)

Web links

Commons : Hecklingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ↑ Michael Krecher: Excavations in the desert of Kakelingen near Staßfurt, district Aschersleben-Staßfurt , in: Archaeological reports from Saxony-Anhalt 1996, Halle 1997, ed. v. Siegfried Fröhlich, pp. 47–59
3. ↑ The history of the Trothas in Hecklingen and Gänsefurth
4. ↑ Allocation of seats to the nominees for the election of the City Council on May 26, 2019. June 4, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Distribution of the seats among the nominees - elected representatives -. May 27, 2014, accessed July 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Allocation of seats to the nominees - elected representatives. June 10, 2009, accessed July 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Coat of arms ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 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.