Karow (Jerichow)

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Karow
Unified municipality of the city of Jerichow
Karow Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 37 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 39 m above sea level NHN
Area : 31.93 km²
Residents : 453  (December 31, 2008)
Population density : 14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 39307
Area code : 039347
Karow (Saxony-Anhalt)
Karow
Karow
Location in Saxony-Anhalt

Karow is a village in the unified municipality of Jerichow in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The village is located on the northern edge of the Ice Age lowland landscape of Fiener Bruch and on the southern slope of the Karower Platte , which is also named after the place, in the far east of the Jerichower Land district. It is surrounded by agricultural land. The Gollwitzer Forest extends from the northern outskirts over the plateaus to Brandenburg. The western slope of the Gollwitzer Berg forms the highest point of the place. Natural flowing water is the Steinbach flowing past the northern edge of Karow . This flows over the Karower Landgraben and the Fiener main receiving water to the Elbe-Havel Canal . Karow is located on the district road 1203, via which the next town of Genthin is reached after eleven kilometers . The district town of Burg is 26 kilometers away. It is 13 kilometers south to the Ziesar motorway junction. The Elisenau district is 800 meters north of the town center and has only a few properties.

history

The place name is of Slavic origin, so that the settlement should have existed as early as the 9th century AD. The settlement of the region by Germanic immigrants took place in the 12th century, for which time a Bartholomäus de Chare is named as the founder of the place. As usual, the Germanic settlements were established in the vicinity of existing Slavic places that grew together over time. The village was first mentioned as Kare in 1191 (1193?), And in the 15th and 16th centuries the place names Carov (1459), Chare (1600) or Kara (1562) also appeared. Since the 14th century at the latest, Karow belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg , whose list of fiefdoms from 1370 lists it as belonging to Burgward Plaue. Karow was referred to as a parish village as early as the Middle Ages, and the existence of a manor was mentioned.

Karow manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The first landlord known by name was Friedrich von Caro at the beginning of the 13th century. The von Alvensleben family later managed the estate, followed in 1455 by the von Bardeleben family and by Joachim von Byern in 1574. In 1690, the later Brandenburg minister Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow became joint owners of the estate. He is considered to be the initiator of the new construction of the Karow Church, which began in 1703. 1708 acquired the Oberhofmarschall und Geheime Rat Freiherr Marquard Ludwig von Printzen (1675-1725) the Karow estate. The Prussian King Friedrich I gave him patronage over the Karow Church. Von Printzen completed the construction of the new church; it was completed in 1712. In 1708 the landlord began building a two-storey manor house in the Baroque style, the Karow manor . A 15 hectare park was added to the three-winged building, initially in the form of a French garden. Then the son of the Oberhofmarschall Friedrich Wilhelm von Printzen inherited . In 1774 his only daughter Elisabeth Luise Sophie (* 1742 in Karow, † 1811 in Potsdam) inherited the estate. She married the court marshal Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Graf von Wartensleben (* 1740, † 1776), whose family owned the estate until 1945. The subsequent squires were

With the draining of the Fiener Bruch, initiated by the Prussian King Friedrich II , the construction of the Plauer Canal and the associated settlement program, farmers and craftsmen settled in Karow as new residents in the first half of the 18th century. The village has belonged to the Brandenburg Duchy of Magdeburg since the secularization of the Magdeburg Archdiocese in 1680 and was subordinate to the Jerichower District. With the Prussian administrative reform of 1815 Karow came to the district of Jerichow II with the district town of Genthin. Count Hermann Wilhelm von Wartensleben, who lived in Karow, was the district administrator in Genthin from 1872 to 1901. During the 19th century, Karow's infrastructure improved. With the brandy distillery, which went into operation in 1840, new jobs were created and the Genthin-Karow-Zitz road, completed around 1890, improved traffic conditions. On September 30, 1928, the Karow manor was united with the Karow rural community. In 1910 it had 117 inhabitants, while 814 people lived in the rural community of Karow. The united place had 849 inhabitants in 1939. From 1912 to 1951 Karow had a railway connection on the Rogäsen – Karow railway line.

After the end of the Second World War, the von Wartensleben family was expropriated in 1945 with the land reform ordered by the Soviet occupying power . The land was settled and divided among new farmers . The manor house was transferred to communal use and served as a school until 1999. Its rich furnishings, well-known nationwide, including paintings by Antoine Pesne and the Berlin School of Painting, were lost shortly after the end of the war. Some of the pictures and parts of the household items were later found in the Genthiner Heimatmuseum. Only the Wartenleben family coat of arms above the entrance area reminds of the builder of the house, who had to endure value-reducing alterations in the GDR era. The manor park, which was redesigned in the English style at the beginning of the 19th century, was no longer maintained, part of the site was used for a sports field in the immediate vicinity of the manor house. The completely devastated hereditary burials of the family, the crypt under the church and the so-called quiet garden behind the cemetery, were restored to a dignified condition after the fall of the Wall in 1990.

Until December 31, 2009 Karow was an independent municipality with the associated district of Elisenau. The last mayor of Karow was Bernd Franke. On May 28, 2009, the Karow municipal council decided to dissolve through a change of territory agreement and to unite with 11 other municipalities to form 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” .

buildings

Church in Karow

The Evangelical Church of Karow, located in the south of the village, replaced an earlier half-timbered building in 1703. The new church building was built as a carefully proportioned, clearly structured baroque building over a nine-year period. It is a plastered building with a cross-shaped floor plan, with the side wings as risalit- shaped entrance halls only protruding slightly over the nave. The facades are adorned with raised Tuscan double pilasters and provided with high arched windows. The tower erected above the west gable was initially made of wood and was not rebuilt until 1752, also with baroque decorative elements. A wooden lantern sits enthroned above a curved flat roof.

The furnishing of the flat-roofed interior is from the time the church was built. The gallery running around the western part rests on Tuscan columns, the parapet divided into longest fields is decorated with verses from the Bible. The pulpit altar consists of the concave curved pulpit, flanking Corinthian double columns and a canopy-shaped sound cover. A bronze bell from 1583 and two tombstones of the von Byern family (1670, 1686) come from the previous building. The classicistic font bears the year 1843. Under the east side there is a barrel-vaulted crypt with coffins of the estate families from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Karow manor to the south to the park

The castle-like manor house Karow is located on the southern edge of the village. The building, which was built in 1708, was designed in a horseshoe shape, two-story and with a seven-axis central wing. The longest facades of the central wing were each provided with a central projection, the gables of which were decorated with decorative elements. Inside was a hall decorated with Delft tiles . The tiling and the art collection of the house are no longer available.

Protected areas

Since the Fiener Bruch 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 was established in 1979 in the area of ​​the municipalities of Tucheim , Karow and Paplitz in what was then the Magdeburg district . 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.

badges and flags

Coat of arms Karow.svg The coat of arms was designed in 2002 by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch . The colors of Karow are silver (white) - green. Blazon : "Split of green and silver, 3 silver organ pipes in front, 2 green rhombuses at the back, each with a silver ear."

Karow carries a flag in the colors white-green striped (lengthways shape: stripes running vertically; transverse shape: stripes running horizontally) and covered with the Karow coat of arms placed in the middle.

Historical coat of arms

Old seal of the Karow community

The municipality of Karow already had a seal image similar to a coat of arms in its municipality seal. This was used in the period after the Second World War until the introduction of the districts and counties in the GDR (1945–1952).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Saxony-Anhalt I - Magdeburg district . Arranged by Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer u. a. In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 466 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main statute of the unified municipality of the city of Jerichow . March 12, 2015, § 14 Local Constitution, p. 4th f . ( Full text [PDF; 87 kB ; accessed on May 18, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 223 .
  3. ↑ District Jerichower Land (Ed.): Official Journal . 3rd year, no. 16 . Burg August 21, 2009, p. 688 ff . ( PDF; 6.8 MB [accessed on January 2, 2019]).
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ^ Museum . Accessed May 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Another source is the County Home Museum in Genthin.