Jerichow

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Jerichow
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Jerichower Land
Height : 37 m above sea level NHN
Area : 269.93 km 2
Residents: 6773 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 39307 (Brettin, Demsin, Kade, Karow, Klitsche, Roßdorf, Schlagenthin, Zabakuck) ,
39319 (Jerichow, Nielebock, Redekin, Wulkow)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / zip code contains text
Primaries : 03933, 039341, 039343, 039347, 039348
License plate : JL, BRG, GNT
Community key : 15 0 86 080
LOCODE : DE JCW

City administration address : 		Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 10 39319 Jerichow
Website : stadt-jerichow.de
Mayor : Harald Bothe
Location of the city of Jerichow in the district of Jerichower Land
Biederitz Burg Elbe-Parey Genthin Gommern Jerichow Möckern Möser Möckern Möckern Sachsen-Anhaltmap
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Jerichow [ ˈjeʁɪçoː ] is a unified municipality and city in the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt . With almost 270 km² Jerichow is one of the largest municipalities in Germany in terms of area .

geography

The city of Jerichow is located on an old Elbarm between Stendal and Genthin . The Elbe-Havel Canal runs through the urban area .

The area of ​​the unified municipality extends from the core city to the east along the northern border of the district of Jerichower Land to the state border to Brandenburg and from there in a strip further south. The southern areas are partly on the ice age plateau of the Karower Platte , partly in the Fiener Bruch lowland . The highest point is the western slope of the Gollwitzer Mountain in Brandenburg . The only natural flowing water of the Karower Platte is the Steinbach . This flows the Havel over the Karower Landgraben and the Fiener main receiving water to the Elbe-Havel Canal.

City structure

The unified municipality of the city of Jerichow includes 12 localities, 33 districts and 15 smaller settlements (in brackets):

climate

Precipitation diagram

The annual precipitation is 530 mm and thus in the lower tenth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at seven percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is twice more rainfall than in February.

history

Castle stable of Jerichow Castle
Jerichow Monastery

The place name is of Slavic origin - "Castle of the Brave" - ​​so not biblical. Even the Slavs put the castle Jerichow in defense of its western border. Jerichow was first mentioned in a document at the end of 1144. The occasion was the foundation of the monastery Jerichow by Norbertine - Canons of possessions of the counts of Stade (confirmation by the Roman-German king Conrad III. ). In the following year, Premonstratensian Canons from the monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg settled in the center of the village. In 1148 the Premonstratensian Canons moved the location to its present location because of the disruptive market activity. From 1149 to 1172 they built the collegiate church as a three-aisled basilica and the east wing of the enclosure. The buildings are considered important works of brick Romanesque .

In the 13th century Jerichow received city rights. In 1336 the city was almost completely destroyed by a flood of the Elbe . Around 1530, with the Reformation, Lutheran teachings were introduced and in 1552 the monastery was secularized by Hans von Krusemark; part of the monastery building was used as an electoral domain. During the Thirty Years War in 1631 the city was destroyed and looted. Since 1680 the city has belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg and was in what was then the Jerichower District . In 1684/85 the monastery church was repaired for a new Reformed parish by the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . The new town was founded in the 18th century.

From 1853 to 1856, Ferdinand von Quast restored the monastery church at the request of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Around 1870 the monastery buildings were used as a brewery, fuel and brandy distillery. During the same period, the monastery church was extensively restored, largely restoring its Romanesque state.

In 1902 a special psychiatric hospital was inaugurated, initially as a branch of the hospital in Uchtspringe . Today it operates as an AWO specialist hospital. In 1964 a Catholic chapel was inaugurated on Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse and was given up again in 2006.

By means of a territorial change agreement, the municipal councils of the following municipalities have decided that their municipalities will be dissolved and merged into a new unified municipality called the City of Jerichow :

This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

At the same time, the Elbe-Stremme-Fiener administrative community ceased to exist, as all former member communities merged to form the new unified community “City of Jerichow” .

Incorporations

On November 1, 1928, the manor district of Jerichow was united with the municipality of Jerichow.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Klietznick and Steinitz were incorporated.

On August 6, 2002 Mangelsdorf was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

In the local elections on May 25, 2014, various groups of voters received a total of 85.5% of the valid votes and 17 seats in the local council. Die Linke received one additional seat each with 6.8%, the SPD with 5.8% and one individual applicant with 1.8% of the votes. The turnout was 51.2%.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the unified municipality of the city of Jerichow was approved on May 11, 2011 by the district of Jerichower Land.

Blazon : “In blue two silver church towers with a pebbled golden pointed roof, arched windows, sound holes and ledges, in between a silver nave, roofed in gold, with windows and ledges. The towers are accompanied by two ears of gold. The golden shield base is covered with a blue wave bar. "

The coat of arms was designed by the local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch and presents the stylized collegiate church of the Jerichow monastery in the center on a shield base covered with a wavy bar. The wavy bar symbolizes the Elbe, which was of major importance for the settlement in early and prehistory. Two accompanying ears of wheat with twelve grains each form the reference to the twelve of the formerly independent and now united to form the new unitary community “City of Jerichow” , whose main economic branch has been agriculture for many centuries.

The colors of the city are: white-blue.

Coat of arms of the Jerichow district

Coat of arms of the Jerichow district

Blazon: "In blue St. George in silver armor, in the right a silver cross lance, the left supported on a red and silver divided shield with a silver double-towered church in the upper field, on the right a golden dragon."

Jerichow did not have an officially approved coat of arms until 1999, but has been displaying the image of Saint George in armor with a lance and dragon for centuries in a temporarily changing form.

Old archive documents from 1779

Numerous depictions of St. George have come down to us from Christian iconography. In the early depictions he is dressed in simple robes, often standing on the stabbed dragon; only in the late Middle Ages and then again at the end of the 19th century these images changed into warlike appearances, that is, armed with helmet, armor, shield and other things. It can be assumed that the Jerichow coat of arms also experienced such a change, because in 1779 the image was described differently. In the archive of the Jerichow monastery there is a file with the title “News from the City of Jerichow de Anno 1779”. In it, the mayor answers various questions about the city. Question 31 is: "What does the city have in its coat of arms?" The answer: "The knight St. George who stabs the lindworm."

In Jerichow the city church is dedicated to St. George; this explains the connection to the coat of arms. The first pictorial evidence of the Jerichow coat of arms shows a very naturalistic representation with accessories and in false tinctures.

The municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch took over the redesign of the coat of arms in 1999 .

Historical coat of arms

Former Jerichower coat of arms

Blazon (former coat of arms): “In blue on green ground a knight in silver armor, in the right a silver cross lance, in the left holding a red and silver divided shield with black double crenellated bars, on the right a hissing brown dragon, on both sides green plants with red flowers. "

The coat of arms of Jerichow was carried out in common law. There is no reliable knowledge about the relationship between the contents of the coat of arms. The battlements in the small shield are interpreted as a symbol for the Premonstratensian Abbey Church.

flag

The flag of the unified municipality of the city of Jerichow is striped in blue, white and blue (1: 4: 1) (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, longitudinal shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the coat of arms of the unified municipality.

Flag of the district

The flag is blue-white-blue striped flag with the applied coat of arms of the city of Jerichow.

Protected areas

Since the Fiener Bruch in the south of the urban area is one of only three breeding areas of the Great Bustard , the heaviest bird capable of flying, which is threatened with extinction in Germany , the Karow Great Bustard Sanctuary in the then Magdeburg district was already one size in 1979 in the area of ​​the municipalities of Tucheim, Karow and Paplitz established by 5,780 hectares. In the 1990s, the lowland was designated as an EU bird sanctuary Fiener Bruch as part of the Natura 2000 network . In 1997, the 143 hectare nature reserve Fiener Bruch was designated within the Saxony-Anhalt sub-area . In the middle of the Fiener Bruch is the ornithological station , the observation tower Königsroder Hof , at the Vorwerk Königsrode belonging to Tucheim . In the Königsroder Hof the Förderverein Großtrappenschutz e. V. an information center in which regular events about the protection of the great bustard take place.

Memorials

  • Memorial in the local cemetery in memory of the founder of the KPD local group Fritz Schulenburg , who was locked up with a hundred others in a cellar of the Tangermünde town hall at the beginning of the Nazi era and who died in 1933 as a result of the abuse he suffered there
  • Memorial plaque in the center of the village for the victims of fascism
  • Memorial stone ensemble for the around 930 victims of NS - Action T4 on the grounds of the AWO specialist hospital, at that time the state hospital

Attractions

The Karow manor to the south to the park

A list of all the designated cultural monuments of the community can be found in the article List of cultural monuments in Jerichow .

  • Monastery church and monastery museum (with town church part of the " Romanesque Road ")
  • Romanesque town church
  • Holländermühle on the Mühlenberg, near the former train station. The technical interior structure is completely preserved. In 1936 the mill was converted to a motor drive. Around 1960 the wings and the rotating tower rim had to be dismantled due to the dilapidation. After a restoration, the mill received new wings in May 2005.

The Karow manor is a baroque mansion . Other buildings belonging to the historic manor were placed under monument protection. An extensive manor park extends to the south.

  • City Church Jerichow

  • Water tower and former hospital

  • Windmill

  • View from Tangermünde to Jerichow

traffic

Until 1999, Jerichow was the center of a branch line network . The lines to Schönhausen, Genthin and Güsen were built by the Kleinbahn-AG in Genthin . At the same time Jerichow owned a depot for the maintenance of rail buses of the series DR series VT 2.09 and its successor series.

Today Jerichow is directly connected to the Genthin and Tangermünde train stations by the 742 regional bus operated by the Jerichower Land local transport company .

sons and daughters of the town

The local history researcher Albert Eiteljörge (1864-1941) lived in Jerichow since 1902 and published works on the history of Jerichow, the monastery and the surrounding area.

On April 20, 2008 René Leudesdorff was awarded honorary citizenship.

Trivia

The launched in 2009 movie Jerichow by Christian Petzold plays in this city, but was not here, but among other things, in the Prignitz and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern rotated.

The place of action called Jerichow in several of Uwe Johnson's works has nothing to do with this city. The model for Johnson's works is probably the small Mecklenburg town of Klütz .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Main statute of the unified municipality of the city of Jerichow. (PDF) March 12, 2015, accessed June 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Top50 CD, Official Topographical Map, Saxony-Anhalt, 2003
  5. ↑ Jerichow monastery town: History - how it all began
  6. ↑ City administration Jerichow (ed.): 850 years of monastery and city history Jerichow , Jerichow 1994, page 18
  7. ^ Report of the AWO on the 110th anniversary ( memento of January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 7, 2012
  8. ↑ Catholic chapel on the website of the parish Genthin , accessed on March 11, 2016
  9. ↑ District Jerichower Land (Ed.): Official Journal . 3rd year, no. 16 . Burg August 21, 2009, p. 688 ff . ( lkjl.de [PDF; 6.8 MB ; accessed on January 2, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 253 .
  11. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  12. ↑ Municipal council elections in Saxony-Anhalt 2014 - City of Jerichow, final result - District of Jerichower Land
  13. ↑ a b Official Journal of the District No. 10/2011, page 454
  14. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The coat of arms of the city of Jerichow, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the district of Jerichower Land 2010 (report: Landeshauptarchiv Magdeburg)
  15. ↑ Kerstin Mammen, Ubbo Mammen, Gunthard Dornbusch, Stefan Fischer: EU SPA bird sanctuary Fiener Bruch , in: The European bird sanctuaries of Saxony-Anhalt . State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt. October 2013. ISSN  0941-7281 .
  16. ^ Museum . Accessed May 13, 2015.
  17. ↑ Biography on www.uni-magdeburg.de