Immekath

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Immekath
City blocks
Immekath coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 55"  E
Height : 54 m
Area : 21.34 km²
Residents : 570  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 27 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 38486
Area code : 03909
Immekath (Saxony-Anhalt)
Immekath
Immekath
Location of Immekath in Saxony-Anhalt

Immekath is a town and part of the town of Klötze in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark church village of Immekath is located on the eastern bank of the Jeetze River in a valley between the Klötzer and Melliner Forest. The place, at an altitude of 50 meters, is flanked by the 110 meter high Zißberg and the 95 meter high Heidberg in the east and the 95 meter high Schwertelberg in the west. The city of Klötze is five kilometers away. The district town of Salzwedel is 36 kilometers north. The border with Lower Saxony is seven kilometers to the west. The locality lies geologically on the Calvörder plaice.

Local division

The village consists only of the district Immekath. Official living spaces in the district are Hoppenmühle , Neulingsmühle and Siebenruthen. The district also includes Kahlenberg in the southwest and Kunzenberg in the north.

history

Immekath was first mentioned in 1289 as ymmekote . In a document of the monastery Dambeck is Martin, plebanus in ymmekote called as a witness.

In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg from 1375 the village ( villa ) is listed as Ymmekote and Immekote . There are two mills. The vassals Druͤmeling and Otto Flucke have their farms by the von der Schulenburg to fief .

In 2006 Immekath won first place in the competition “ Our village has a future ” for the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel area.

Incorporations

After the Prussian district reform of 1815, Immekath was incorporated into the Salzwedel district. On July 1, 1950, the community came to the new district of Gardelegen . On July 25, 1952, she was assigned to the Klötze district . After its dissolution, it came to the newly formed Altmarkkreis Salzwedel on July 1, 1994 .

On January 8th, 2009, the municipality council of Immekath decided that the municipality of Immekath should be incorporated into the town of Klötze. This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

After the previously independent municipality of Immekath was incorporated, Immekath became part of the city of Klötze. The local constitution was introduced for the incorporated municipality in accordance with §§ 86 ff. Municipality code of Saxony-Anhalt . The incorporated municipality of Immekath and future district of Immekath became the locality of the receiving city of Klötze. In the incorporated municipality and now Immekath, a local council with five members, including the local mayor, was formed.

Population development

year Residents
1734 156
1774 240
1789 190
1798 258
1801 269
1818 271
year Residents
1840 458
1864 633
1871 625
1885 649
1905 704
1910 731
year Residents
1925 775
1939 713
1946 998
1964 717
1971 682
1981 643
year Residents
1993 621
2006 618
2017 549
2018 570

religion

The evangelical Christians in Immekath belong to the parish and parish of Immekath. Today you are looked after by the parish of Steimke-Kusey in the parish of Salzwedel in the Provostspengel Stendal-Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

The parish of Immekath used to belong to the parish of Immekath (with Dönitz), Köbbelitz and Wenze, and as mater vagans Neuferchau with Lupitz, Altferchau and Schwarzendamm.

The oldest surviving church records for Immekath date from 1644.

politics

mayor

Local mayor is Peter Fee.

From 1998 to 2015 Hans-Jürgen Zeitz worked on an honorary basis for Immekath, first as mayor of the community and later as local mayor for the town.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on November 17, 2009.

Blazon : "In green, a golden beehive surmounted by two flying golden bees with silver wings."

The main colors of the coat of arms are gold (yellow) - green.

flag

The flag is yellow - green (1: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, longitudinal shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Church ruin Dannenfeld
Immekath village church

Buildings

  • The Protestant church was built between 1858 and 1865. It lies at the end of the elongated village square and is surrounded by a stone wall. The neo-Gothic nave and the square, 30 meter high west tower were built from field stones. The basement of the tower is from the previous church, the upper floor is made of brick . The interior of the nave is closed off by a boarded roof truss, and a gallery was attached to the west wall . The organ was built in 1868 by the organ builder August Troch from Neuhaldensleben . The pulpit , the baptismal font and the pews all date from the time the church was built.
  • To the west of the village at the cemetery are the ruins of the church of the former village of Dannenfeld . It was destroyed in 1343 in the war between Emperor Ludwig and the Duke of Brunswick. Remains of the foundation walls of the Romanesque church tower are still standing .
  • One and a half kilometers south of the town center is the Hoppenmühle, first mentioned in 1375, a water mill that is still intact today.
  • About two to three kilometers north-west of Immekath, two large stone graves, some of which are poorly preserved, document the settlement of the region in the Neolithic Age .

leisure

Numerous festivals take place in the village every year, including a carnival session, a carnival parade, an Easter bonfire and several dance events.

societies

The largest association is the Immekather Carnevals Club (ICC), in which almost two thirds of the residents are members. Other registered clubs are the sports club Eintracht 1921 Immekath e. V., a "mixed choir Immekath" e. V. and the senior citizens' association e. V. Immekath.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Immekath there was a factory of the large-scale bakery Fricopan (a subsidiary of the Swiss Aryzta group), which mainly produced frozen bakery products. With around 500 employees, it was one of the largest employers in the region. The plant was closed in August 2016 because, according to statements by the group management, the necessary investments would no longer be worthwhile due to a lack of profitability and poor transport connections. An agricultural cooperative and several small businesses and craftsmen are based in Immekath.

Web links

Commons : Immekath  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Klötze, residents' registration office: population on December 31, 2018 . January 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
  3. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Klötze.Retrieved on April 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ District directory of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality), territorial status January 2014, State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), 2016
  5. ↑ Top50 -CD Sachsen-Anhalt, 1.50000, State Office for Land Surveying and Geoinformation, Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy 2003
  6. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 25 . Berlin 1863, p. 178 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Johannes Schultze : The land book of the Mark Brandenburg from 1375 (=  Brandenburg land books . Volume 2 ). Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, p. 408-409 ( uni-potsdam.de ).
  8. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 358, 363 .
  9. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 2/2009 Pages 36–38 ( Memento of November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 397 kB)
  10. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  11. ^ A b parish almanac or the evangelical clergy and churches of the province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 51 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed January 2, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Steimke-Kusey. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Ernst Machholz: The church books of the Protestant churches in the province of Saxony (=  communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History . 30th issue). Leipzig 1925, p. 9 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed January 2, 2019]).
  14. ^ Ratsinformationssystem Stadt Klötze. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Nadin Hänsch, Siegmar Riedel: Immekath needs a new local manager . In: Volksstimme Magdeburg, Klötze . June 27, 2015 ( Immekath needs a new site manager ( Memento from January 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on January 2, 2019]).
  16. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 12/2009 page 303 ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991.
  18. ↑ Report on mdr.de ( Memento from June 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )