Hedersleben

This article deals with the municipality of Hedersleben in the Harz district, for the district of Eisleben with the same name, see Hedersleben (Eisleben)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '  N , 11 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	resin
Association municipality :	Pre-resin
Height :	101 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.47 km 2
Residents:	1320 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06458
Area code :	039481
License plate :	HZ, HBS, QLB, WR
Community key :	15 0 85 160
Address of the municipal administration:	Magdeburger Strasse 3 06458 Hedersleben
Website :	www.vorharz.net
Mayor :	Michael Schmidt
Location of the community Hedersleben in the Harz district

Hedersleben is a municipality in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Vorharz community , which has its administrative headquarters in Wegeleben .

geography

The community is located on the Selke River just before it flows into the Bode . In the east of the municipality, which is otherwise mainly used for agriculture, are the western foothills of the large Hakel forest area, which is under nature protection . The Bode-Selke-Aue begins at the confluence of the Selke and Bode rivers.

history

The place was first mentioned in 978 in a document from Otto II .

religion

Catholic St. Gertrud Church

The Cistercian monastery of St. Maria and Gertrud was built in 1253, and nuns from the Helfta monastery were added in 1262 . The older Marienkirche was used as a simultaneous church after the Reformation . In 1713 a Protestant parish church was built on the site of the monastery, while the Catholic community inaugurated a new baroque church in 1717 . The Romanesque church tower of the previous church, which has been preserved to this day, was integrated into the new Catholic church. In 1810 the monastery was closed by the Westphalian government after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . Ultimately, a Catholic parish could be rebuilt in 1841, and in 1845 the reconstruction of the now partially disused and dilapidated church began. It was inaugurated in 1846 and still exists today as St. Gertrud's Church. In 2003 a memorial stone was erected to mark the 750th anniversary of the founding of the monastery. In 2005 a comprehensive renovation of the St. Gertrud Church was completed.

Today (2016) the Catholic parish of St. Gertrud, which has around 200 members, today belongs to the parish of St. Mathilde , based in Quedlinburg, with the parish Herz-Jesu in Thale and the parish of St. Mathilde in Quedlinburg.

The community is predominantly Protestant. Today the Protestant church belongs to the parish of Bode-Selke-Aue with its seat in Hausneindorf and to the parish of Halberstadt.

politics

mayor

The honorary mayor Kornelia Bodenstein was elected for the first time on May 10, 1998 and confirmed on April 24, 2005. Ms. Bodenstein was re-elected in 2012 as well.

Michael Schmidt has been the mayor since June 1, 2019.

Municipal council

In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the 12 seats in the local council were allocated to the following parties and groups of voters . The turnout in 2019 was 55.97%.

• CDU : 36.82%, 4 seats
• SPD : 31.68%, 4 seats
• Voting group Community Voluntary Fire Brigade Hedersleben: 12.68%, 2 seats
• The left : 8.83%, 1 seat
• FDP : 6.66%, 1 seat

3.33% of the vote fell on two individual applicants who could not get a seat on the municipal council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Karl-Heinz Fritze from Niederorschel.

Culture and sights

The cultural monuments of the municipality are registered in the local register of monuments.

Buildings

The former monastery of St. Gertrudis was secularized and acquired in 1811 by the chief bailiff and manor owner Johann Matthias Heyne and remained in the hands of his descendants, who were also the founders of the Heyne, Heyer & Co. company and who were last until expropriation in 1945 as part of the land reform , in addition to the Hedersleben sugar factory, which is still partially built, cultivated 4500 hectares of arable land. The Heyne / Heine family were descendants of the first bailiff at Schneidlingen Castle , Michel Heyne, who had previously worked at the Gröninger court of Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig- Wolfenbüttel. Branches of the family also acquired property in Gröningen , the Vorwerk Heynburg with Dalldorf and Günthersdorf, as well as Hakeborn and the St. Burchardi monastery (Halberstadt) , and the Hadmersleben monastery. Lieutenant General Hans-Walter Heyne came from the Hedersleben branch .

In the course of the land reform, the property of the Hedersleben monastery - arable land and the monastery building complex - was transferred to public ownership. The main building of the monastery housed a ten-class school from 1950 until the new Sigmund-Jähn School was built in 1977. Ancillary buildings of the monastery complex were in use by the LPG , which, in addition to keeping livestock, operated storage rooms and a repair center for agricultural machinery. The community also maintained four communal apartments here.

At the time of German reunification , the buildings of the monastery complex were in a badly neglected condition and increasing decay had begun. In the interest of maintaining and using the monastery complex, the International Center for Innovation, Qualification and Business Promotion eV was founded, which, after transfer to communal ownership by the Treuhandanstalt, concluded a 30-year lease agreement with the community. As a result, the monastery was restored to a usable state by the association. The main building was converted into a seminar and event center. A museum area was set up in the outbuildings. The historic orchard meadow - including the pond - has been renatured and a nature trail created. A biological plant-based sewage treatment plant for wastewater treatment was built, as well as cisterns for collecting rainwater. For these activities, the association was awarded in 1998 by the German Federal Environment Foundation in the context of the “Tat-Orte” competition. In 2014 the municipality of Hedersleben sold the monastery to Heyne's descendants together with partners.

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To the east of the monastery is the Protestant St. Trinity Church , built in 1713/14 , to the north of it the Hedersleben monastery forge .

Monuments

In the local cemetery there are gravesites for seven unknown concentration camp prisoners who were murdered and buried in April 1945 on a death march from the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Hedersleben is served by two bus routes (234 and 235) of the Harz transport company. There are connections to and from Quedlinburg and Halberstadt. In addition, trains on the Halberstadt – Gatersleben – Aschersleben regional line stop at the “Hedersleben-Wedderstedt” stop.

media

Super Sunday

Wochenspiegel (Quedlinburg and surroundings)

The regional daily newspaper is the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung .

education

In Hedersleben there was a primary school and a secondary school in the same building complex during the GDR era. The Sigmund-Jähn-Oberschule was later closed due to a lack of students. The primary school, which is now called "Grundschule am Hakel", was retained. On August 6, 2010, a Protestant secondary school was set up.

literature

• Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , p. 203.
• Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 451.

Web links

Commons : Hedersleben  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Hedersleben Monastery
• Entry "Hedersleben" in the Cistopedia, with literature, photos and localization

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ↑ Small congregation celebrated great tradition . 750 years of the Cistercian convent and Catholic community in Hedersleben. In: St. Benno Verlag (ed.): Day of the Lord . tape 43 . St. Benno Buch- und Zeitschriftenverlagsgesellschaft mbH, Leipzig, Magdeburg October 26, 2003 ( tdh-online.de [accessed on February 26, 2010]).
3. ^ Christoph Tretschok: Quedlinburg. Community in the Vorharz. In: Diaspora yearbook 2016/2017. Paderborn 2016, pp. 78–81.
4. ↑ http://www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/bm12/erg/gem/bm.15085160.20120219.ergtab.dr.html
5. ↑ Result of the election for the Hedersleben municipal council on May 26, 2019.pdf. (PDF; 447.12 kB) In: vorharz.net. June 5, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 . 
6. ↑ History - Kloster Hedersleben In: kloster-hedersleben.de , accessed on October 25, 2017.
7. ^ TAT locations: Municipalities in ecological competition In: asg-goe.de , accessed on October 25, 2017.
8. ↑ Hedersleben Monastery: New boss spices everything up In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , accessed on October 25, 2017.
9. ↑ Petra Korn: Refining the concept for a new school - the Friends' Association in Hedersleben is also developing a website. (No longer available online.) Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 17, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 24, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
10. ↑ Glaub-und-heimat.de: Gnadau, Hedersleben, Johannes-Schulstiftung , August 13, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2011