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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ' N , 11 ° 10' E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Altmarkkreis Salzwedel | |
| Height : | 60 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 278.29 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9922 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 36 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 38486 | |
| Primaries : | 03909, 039005 (Kusey, Wenze) , 039008 (Dönitz, Jahrstedt, Kunrau, Neuferchau, Steimke) , 039085 (Schwiesau) | |
| License plate : | SAW, GA, KLZ | |
| Community key : | 15 0 81 280 | |
| LOCODE : | DE KTE | |
City administration address : |
Schulplatz 1 38486 Klötze |
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| Mayor : | Uwe Bartels | |
| Location of the town of Klötze in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel | ||
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Klötze is a town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
The town of Klötze is located in the hilly landscape of the southern land ridge , but also has a share of flat areas such as the Drömling , for example near Kunrau , which is about 60 meters above sea level . To the southeast of the city center lies the extensive Klötzer Forest (up to 127 meters above sea level on the Krügersberg). This goes beyond the city limits into the Hellberge (159.9 m above sea level). To the north of Klötze are the lowest areas of the city on the Purnitz at around 45 meters above sea level.
The Purnitz rises south of the city center and crosses it to the north. The Jeetze source is at Altferchau . The Ohre flows through the western towns of the city.
The city is located around 40 kilometers northeast of Wolfsburg , 23 kilometers northwest of Gardelegen and around 30 kilometers south of Salzwedel in the Altmark .
Community structure
The city is divided into 13 localities (former municipalities). They include the same name and other districts with living spaces.
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On July 1, 2019, a new town of Trippigleben with the district of Trippigleben was established. Since then, the village of Wenze has only consisted of the districts of Wenze and Quarnebeck.
history
Klötze was first mentioned in a document as castrum clotz in 1311 as a semi-urban fiefdom owned by the Margraves of Brandenburg . The place was in the immediate vicinity of Klötze Castle . In 1343 the Alvensleben were enfeoffed with blocks. A church in Klötze was first mentioned in 1392. In the 15th century Klötze came to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and developed into the seat of an office . In 1660 the princely office had its own jurisdiction. In the 17th century the district town for Klötze was Gifhorn , the seat of government was Celle . In 1808 the city became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia and, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, became part of the Gardelegen district in the Prussian province of Saxony .
In 1846 Klötze received city rights. In 1855 a first municipal constitution was passed. In 1870 the first newspaper, the Cloetzer Wochenblatt, was published. The Klötzer fire brigade was founded in 1880. With the opening of the Oebisfelde – Salzwedel railway line on November 1, 1889, Klötze was connected to the modern transport network, and the conditions for economic ventures improved considerably. On the same day, the last stagecoach left Klötze. Around 1900 Klötze had 3419 inhabitants in 447 houses. Until 1904 the spelling of the city name was Cloetze . In 1907 a gas works was built on the outskirts in the direction of Immekath. With the cinema in Bahnhofstrasse opened in 1914 the first cinema in the city. In 1910, 3971 inhabitants lived in Klötze. In 1928, the forest bath was inaugurated as a municipal bathing establishment.
The first craft production cooperative was founded in 1948, followed by the establishment of the LPG unit in 1953 . Blocks was in 1952 with the establishment of the district Magdeburg in East Germany to the county seat . In 1966, with the commissioning of the new waterworks, a central water supply was ensured for the entire city for the first time. The strong demand for apartments led to the largest construction site in the district from 1979, when 340 apartments were built in industrial prefabricated panels at An der Wasserfahrt by 1981.
After German reunification , Klötze was a district town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . With the district reform in Saxony-Anhalt in 1994 , the district of Klötze was dissolved and the city lost this status again.
In 1964, Noah's Ark Zoo opened.
From 1993 to 2004 the Klötze administrative community existed with the city of Klötze and the communities of Schwiesau and Neuendorf . The municipal reform led to the establishment of the Jeetze-Ohre-Drömling administrative association on January 1, 2005 as the new Klötze administrative association. This was dissolved on January 1, 2010 with the incorporation of the previous member communities Dönitz , Immekath , Jahrstedt , Kunrau , Kusey , Neuendorf , Neuferchau , Ristedt , Schwiesau, Steimke and Wenze into the city of Klötze.
Population development
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As of December 31, 2018, 10,298 citizens had their main residence in the unitary municipality and 598 had their secondary residence. The core city had 4,748 inhabitants on the same date, and 260 people lived there.
politics
City council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following composition of the city council in Klötze with a turnout of 57.9%:
| Party / list | Share of votes | Seats | +/- |
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| CDU | 26.9% | 8th | - 1 |
| SPD | 23.2% | 6th | ± 0 |
| The left | 11.4% | 3 | ± 0 |
| AfD | 10.5% | 3 | + 3 |
| UWG JOD * | 28.1% | 8th | - 2nd |
| total | 100% ** | 28 |
* Independent voting community “Jeetze - Ohre - Drömling”
** After correcting the rounding inaccuracies
mayor
On September 25, 2016, Uwe Bartels (UWG) was elected mayor.
badges and flags
Blazon : "In silver, a green, rooted oak stump with stumped branches from which green leaves are sprouting."
In 2001 the city of Klötze changed its coat of arms, which until then had been used in common law in the unheraldic tincture brown, to green. The Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch realized the coat of arms drawing and documentation for the approval process .
The name Klötze - formerly Clotz, Clod, Clotzecke - comes from the Slavic word clada, "tree stump", which was taken up as a symbol of the city according to the custom of making the city's coat of arms speak . The Klötze coat of arms has existed in its current form since 1861.
The flag of the city of Klötze shows the colors green and silver (white).
Town twinning
Miłomłyn in Poland has been Klötze's twin town since August 2005.
economy
- Klötze has been a state-approved resort since 2002 .
- A microalgae production plant has been in operation in Klötze since 2000 , Roquette Klötze GmbH & Co. KG (formerly Prof. Steinberg's organic products) . The company uses the site of a former sheep farm and uses a patented technology to produce algae on a large scale. The 1.2 hectare greenhouse-like building houses a reactor consisting of a 500-kilometer-long glass tube system in which the algae grow in a targeted manner instead of in open ponds. The largest bioreactor in the world is controlled by computers that monitor temperature, pH value and CO 2 content, among other things . This is followed by a drying system from which chlorella dust comes out. This product is compressed in tablet form and was first launched in 2004 as the Algomed dietary supplement . There is now a worldwide interest in the technology and the products. The plant has belonged to the French group Roquette since 2008 . He invested heavily and launched the Algohub research program . Meanwhile (as of August 2013) 13 business partners from France are involved, developing new active ingredients for medicine, cosmetics and food and marketing them worldwide.
- Karl-Hermann Steinberg , the last environment minister in the GDR, had developed the reactor for Preussag AG and, after its conversion into a tourism group, selected the location in Klötze.
- During the GDR era, there was an operating part of the Teltow Electronic Components Combine in Klötze , which manufactured capacitors . After the fall of the Wall , the combine and its works were wound up. Three former employees from the Klötze factory continued production on a small scale. They founded the new company WIKO Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH , added special resistors to their range and soon began supplying their products primarily to car companies. Since then, WIKO has employed 25 people and has established itself on the German market in the following decades. The focus is on interference suppression resistors and tailor-made components that are produced using our own tool department. Customers also include rail vehicle construction, manufacturers of welding technology, measuring equipment manufacturers, general mechanical engineering and shipyards.
traffic
Street
The state road L 19, which leads from Beetzendorf to Wiepke on the B 71 , and the L 20, which leads from Weferlingen to the B 71 near Brüchau , meet in Klötze .
railroad
Klötze lies on the disused railway lines Oebisfelde – Salzwedel and Klötze – Wernstedt ; the line to Wernstedt has been dismantled.
Bus transport
The public transport system is, among other things by the PLUSBUS of the country's network of Saxony-Anhalt provided. The following connections lead through blocks:
- Line 100: Salzwedel ↔ Klötze ↔ Gardelegen ↔ Haldensleben ↔ Magdeburg
- Line 300: Salzwedel ↔ Kuhfelde ↔ Beetzendorf ↔ Klötze ↔ Oebisfelde
The passenger transport company Altmarkkreis Salzwedel mbH (PVGS) operates the bus traffic in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.
Sports
- In 2006, the city hosted the 2006 Football World Cup for people with intellectual disabilities .
- The VfB 07 Klötze offers numerous sports, its weightlifters are among Germany's best. The association was founded in 1907.
- The Altmark Hiking Club was founded in Klötze on September 7, 2007 and is also based there. The city itself is one of the Altmark hiking nests that are organized in this association.
Celebrations and events
In the city several festivals are celebrated traditionally, like the carnival in November and in February with big tulips Sunday procession in blocks and the Carnival parade in Immekath. The palace and park festival in Kunrau, the dahlia festival in Immekath, the asparagus and broom- making festival in Klötze, the museum festival in Böckwitz and the shooting festival in the districts of Klötze are also part of it. In October, the Klötze eV theater group performs a play on three consecutive days (Friday to Sunday). Every year at the end of October there is the Martinimarkt , the largest downtown festival in Altmark , which extends over five days. The Klötzer Christmas market takes place on a December day.
Religions
Ev. City Church of St. Aegidien in Klötze
According to the 2011 census in the European Union , around 32% of the 10,558 inhabitants of the town of Klötze belonged to the Protestant and around 2% to the Catholic Church.
The Evangelical Egidius Church, a half-timbered church located on Kirchstrasse, is named after St. Egidius . It was built in 1759, its parish belongs to the parish of Salzwedel in the provost district of Stendal-Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . There are other Protestant churches in the villages of the Klötzer districts.
The Catholic Church of St. Joseph , located south of the cemetery on Kapellenberg, is named after Joseph of Nazareth . It was consecrated in 1930 and today belongs to the parish of St. Hildegard, based in Gardelegen.
Until around 1880 there was a Jewish prayer house in the garden of today's Klötze City and District Library (where Adolph Frank was born ).
Buildings and monuments
There is a Dutch windmill next to the two church buildings . In the Klötzer Forest there is the Iron Cross, a war memorial in the middle of the forest.
education
There are three primary schools and one secondary school in the town of Klötze :
- Elementary school Purnitz school
- Theodor Hermann Rimpau primary school in Kunrau
- Elementary School Dr. Schultz-Lupitz in Kusey
- Secondary school Dr. Salvador Allende
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Adolph Frank (1834–1916), chemist, engineer and entrepreneur
- Martin Meißner (* 1943), writer, born in Lockstedt
- Manfred Schwerin (* 1950), biologist and university professor
- Jürgen Barth (* 1955), SPD politician
- Sigrid Ulbricht (* 1958), long jumper
- Kerstin Helmecke (* 1960), DVU politician
- Uwe Harms (* 1963), CDU politician
People associated with blocks
- Francesco Maria Capellini (1640–1694), was from 1675 to 1682 the pledge holder of the office of Clötze
- Rudolf Wassermann (1925–2008), lawyer, went to school in Klötze between 1931 and 1943
Honorary citizen
- 1895: Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
- 1897: Albert Schultz-Lupitz , farmer
literature
- Heinzgeorg Oette, Ludwig Schumann: "Sachsen-Anhalt", 1st edition 2016, Trescher Verlag , Berlin, ISBN 978-3-89794-325-4 , p. 315
- Blocks . In: Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , pp. 241f.
- Ernst Schulze: Chronicle of the city of Cloetze. News from the area around Cloetze and the Drömling along with a story of the former Hanoverian office of Cloetze . Cloetze 1900, ( digitized version )
- Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical local lexicon for the Altmark (Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part XII) . In: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-2235-5 , pp. 1204-1212 .
- 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. 196-197 .
Web links
- Literature on Klötze in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Klötze from July 1, 2014. Accessed on March 31, 2019
- ↑ 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
- ^ Kurier, Official Gazette of the City of Klötze, Edition 1/2019. Official notices. January 7, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Municipal directory from 1910
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
- ^ City of Klötze, residents' registration office: population on December 31, 2018 . January 9, 2019.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: City Council Election 2019 - City of Klötze , accessed on May 12, 2020
- ↑ result in wahl-regional.de, accessed on February 4, 2017
- ↑ Kathrin Schrader: The Green Steak , In: Berliner Zeitung , July 11, 2013; Retrieved August 27, 2013
- ↑ http://www.wanderverband.de/conpresso/_data/Altmaerkischer.pdf
- ↑ Database 2011 census, Klötze, Stadt, Religion
- ↑ Dutch Windmill Klötze , accessed on November 9, 2015.
Localities and districts: Altferchau | Böckwitz | Doenitz | Hohenhenningen | Immekath | Jahrstedt | Blocks | Kunrau | Kusey | Lockstedt | Nesenitz | Neuendorf | Neuferchau | Neu-Ristedt | Quarnebeck | Rappin | Ristedt | Röwitz | Schwarzendamm | Schwiesau | Siedentramm | Steimke | Trippigleben | Wenze - living spaces : Belfort , Döllnitz , Germenau , Hahnenberg , Hasselbusch , Hoppenmühle , Colony I, Colony II, Klötze Nord , Pansau , Zartau