Horstdorf
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Horstdorf
City of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '8 " N , 12 ° 25' 44" E
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| Height : | 61 m | |
| Area : | 3.51 km² | |
| Residents : | 607 (Dec. 31, 2009) | |
| Population density : | 173 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2011 | |
| Postal code : | 06785 | |
| Area code : | 034904 | |
Location in Saxony-Anhalt |
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Horstdorf is a district of the city of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
Horstdorf is located south of the Elbe bank in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve . Only a few kilometers away is the Wörlitzer Park in the middle of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm , which was founded in the second half of the 18th century under the reign of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau was created. The area around Horstdorf is flat and is traversed by numerous ditches and streams.
With its more than five kilometers long street, Horstdorf is one of the longest villages in Europe that has been preserved in its kind.
history
The official establishment of the place took place on June 21, 1706 with the issue of an inheritance letter by Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau. This was preceded by the draining of the extensive mire around the Münsterberg in the Kapen wood brand by expanding the Kapengraben (1706 to the Leiner See, 1707 to Kakau and 1708 to the Prussian border). The inheritance certificate was issued in 1747 by the son of Prince Leopold I to Prince Leopold II , and in 1758 by Leopold III. and confirmed by Leopold IV in 1817 .
In 1711 the cemetery was consecrated on the 15th after Trinitas and the church on March 4th, 1714 after several years of construction. During the Napoleonic Wars against Prussia and Saxony , troops passed through the town several times. In 1806 Pastor Lippold reported that the church had been robbed by French troops. Around May 2, 1809, troops of the Prussian officer Ferdinand Baptista von Schill (1776–1809) moved from the Prussian Wittenberg to Dessau through the town.
After the houses of Anhalt-Zerbst, Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg died out, Horstdorf belonged to the Duchy of Anhalt from 1863 to 1918 .
In 1872 the community built a new brick church in the center of the village after the bell tower collapsed when the Whitsun festival began in 1835. In 1878 a rectory was built next to the cemetery.
According to a report by Friedrich Graf , the community celebrated the 200th anniversary of the place on June 21, 1908 in beautiful weather. The schoolhouse for classes was also inaugurated this year. The war memorial between church and school was inaugurated around 1920.
With the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 a so-called Hitler Reich was planted in Horstdorf , at whose roots the names of the local members of the NSDAP are buried. According to a report from Mayor Seidig dated November 13, 1945 to the Koethen District Office, the oak was removed and the names found were sent to the Russian headquarters of Oranienbaum (Major Tschagen). At the end of the Second World War, American troops first arrived in the village on April 21, 1945. The invasion of the Russian troops then took place around May 5, 1945. As a result, several residents were arrested and deported to Soviet prison camps.
After the founding of the GDR, the place was assigned to the Köthen district on June 9, 1950 . In the course of the centralization and liquidation of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, it was assigned to the Graefenhainichen district in the Halle district on July 25, 1952. In 1971 the local school closed.
After a long break, in June 1995 the tradition of an annual village festival with a horse show was revived. In 1995/96 the church was restored in the village and has been used as a church and community center since then.
Due to a district reform , Horstdorf was incorporated into the Wittenberg district on July 1, 2007 after the Anhalt-Zerbst district was dissolved . For a long time there was a dispute about membership in the district. In a first referendum on November 26, 2006, a narrow majority voted for incorporation into the city of Dessau-Roßlau . In another referendum on October 7, 2007, there was a large majority in favor of remaining in the Wittenberg district.
On January 1, 2011, Horstdorf was incorporated into the new town of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz.
Swell:
- Pinkert, Ines and Schulze, Dorit; Horstdorf community (ed.): 300 years of Horstdorf 1708–2008 - The history of the Horstdorf community
- Dittmer, Dr. Frank; AGORA-Arbeitskreis Geschichte Oranienbaums eV (Ed.): War and Peace in Oranienmbaum - Oranienbaumer Hefte No. 9
- detailed history of the community
War memorial
The war memorial is a stele on a field stone foundation with a plaque on which the names and dates of death of the fallen inhabitants of the place from the First World War are immortalized. This was probably inaugurated between 1921 and 1925 with a festival service by Pastor Wohlhaupt. On October 31, 1994, two more plaques were placed on the right and left with the names and the years of birth and death of those who fell in Horstdorf during World War II and those who died as a direct result of it. There are a total of 68 names on the monument, 49 names and dates for the period from 1939 to 1949 alone are noted.
Transport links
- Horstdorf is touched in the west by the L 133 to Dessau-Roßlau via Vockerode (formerly Bundesstraße 107 ). The eastern part of the community is on the L131 state road from Oranienbaum to Wittenberg . The Vockerode and Dessau-Ost motorway connections to the A 9 are both 9 km away.
- The next train stations are in Dessau-Roßlau ( Dessau Hbf ) or in Coswig (Anhalt) . The Wörlitz station on the Dessau – Wörlitz railway line is only served in the summer season. The former halt in the west of Horstdorf has been used as a residential building since 1973.
