Kerkau

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Kerkau
Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 59 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 37 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.09 km²
Residents : 145  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 39619
Area code : 039034
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Kerkau (Saxony-Anhalt)
Kerkau
Kerkau
Location of Kerkau in Saxony-Anhalt

Kerkau is a village and part of the town of Arendsee (Altmark) in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark Kerkau, a village with a church, is located 20 kilometers southeast of the district town of Salzwedel . The Markgraben Kerkau flows to the west, the Kerkauer Graben to the east, both of which flow into the Augraben. In the northeast lies the Ruhm-Heide forest. To the southwest of the village stands the approximately 46 meter high Mühlenberg.

Local division

The districts of Kerkau and Lübbars belong to the village of Kerkau .

history

Kerkau was first mentioned as Kerkow on March 15, 1366 when Hans v. Chartow leaves the lifts from Ladekath, Kerkau and other villages from Schulenburg . In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg from 1375 the place is listed as Kerkowe .

Kerkau was the ancestral seat of a Kerkow family, the oldest of which was named Alverich in 1225.

The village chronicle reports on difficult times in the years 1583 to 1598, when Kerkau was repeatedly ravaged by the plague. After the Thirty Years War , surviving farmers settled in the devastated village. The original form of the four-sided courtyard can still be seen today on some courtyards . Enclosed on four sides, it formed a closed “whole”. Typical for the Altmark are bricked, roofed gate entrances decorated with inscriptions.

To the southwest of the village, on the right of the path to Lübbars am Mühlenberg, was a windmill. The brick factory on the Ruhm-Heide is still available as a place to live.

In the northern part of the village, single-family houses and a machine rental station were built in 1952 , later a machine-tractor station . A few years later the headquarters of the agricultural production cooperative "Altmark" was there. Today these buildings are used by the agricultural cooperative.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Kerkau was incorporated into the district of Salzwedel by the district of Osterburg . Also on July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Lübbars was incorporated into the municipality of Kerkau. Lübbars was first mentioned in 1375.

By means of an area change agreement, the council of the municipality of Kerkau decided on May 29, 2009 that the municipality of Kerkau should be incorporated into the city of Arendsee (Altmark). 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 Kerkau was incorporated, Kerkau and Lübbars became districts of the city of Arendsee (Altmark). The local constitution was introduced for the incorporated municipality in accordance with §§ 86 ff. Municipality code of Saxony-Anhalt . The incorporated municipality of Kerkau and future districts of Kerkau and Lübbars became the locality of the receiving city of Arendsee (Altmark). A local council with five members including the local mayor was formed in the incorporated municipality and now Kerkau.

population

year Residents
1801 085
1818 070
1840 075
1885 116
1892 113
1900 134
year Residents
1910 124
1925 141
1939 156
1946 451
2011 172
2012 164
year Residents
2013 160
2014 157
2015 147
2016 146
2017 145

As of 2011 as of December 31 of the respective year

Culture and sights

  • In the middle of the village stands the village church, newly built in 1644 from field and sandstone. The old church had been destroyed at the beginning of the Thirty Years War . The tower was erected in 1911.
  • In the churchyard is a cemetery planted with evergreen conifers and hedges, surrounded by a wall of field stones.

religion

The Protestant parish of Kerkau belongs to the parish Fleetmark in the parish Fleetmark-Jeetze of the parish of Salzwedel in the provost district of Stendal-Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Originally, Kerkau was an independent parish, which was only assigned to the Kallehne parish in 1810, whose name was changed to Fleetmark after 1945.

politics

mayor

The last mayor of the community was Jürgen Pajewski. Michael Wrana is the current local mayor.

Others

  • Along the village street made of natural stones ( cobblestones ) there are massive linden trees to the left and right.
  • The former kindergarten is used as a village community center.

literature

  • Wilhelm Zahn: Local history of the Altmark . Edited by Martin Ehlies based on the bequests of the author. 2nd Edition. Verlag Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, Graphische Anstalt, GmbH, Salzwedel 1928, p. 180 .
  • JAF Hermes, MJ Weigelt: Historical-geographical-statistical-topographical handbook from the administrative districts of Magdeburg . Topographical part. Ed .: Verlag Heinrichshofen. tape 2 , 1842, p. 374 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DHB4_AAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA374~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  • Official directory of municipalities for the German Reich . In: Statistisches Reichsamt (Hrsg.): Statistics of the German Reich . 2nd Edition. tape 550 . Publishing house for social policy, economy and statistics, Paul Schmidt, 1941, ZDB -ID 223601-1 , p. 99 .
  • Government of the German Democratic Republic, Central Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Systematic and alphabetical directory of the municipalities of the German Democratic Republic (territorial status January 1, 1952) . Berlin 1952, p. 30 .
  • Unified municipality of the city of Arendsee (Altmark): Population data for the years 2011 to 2017 . January 12, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Main statute of the city of Arendsee (Altmark) . September 2, 2014, § 1 (4), p. 1 ( stadt-arendsee.eu [PDF; 45 kB ; accessed on February 3, 2017]).
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 5 . Berlin 1845, p. 341 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 6 . Berlin 1846, p. 399 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b c City of Arendsee. Districts of Kerkau / Lübbars. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  5. ^ Map of the German Empire, 1: 100,000, Part II / IV: Sheet 240: Wittenberge. Prussian State Statistical Office, 1906, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 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. 359, 362 .
  7. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 8/2009 Pages 220–222 ( Memento from October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  9. ↑ Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 247 .
  10. ^ Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony e. V. (Ed.): Pastor's Book of the Church Province of Saxony (=  Series Pastorum . Volume 10 ). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0 , p. 224 .