Kleinwittenberg
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Kleinwittenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 58 " N , 12 ° 36 ′ 33" E
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| Height : | 72 m | |
| Area : | 1.15 km² | |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 | |
| Postal code : | 06886 | |
| Area code : | 03491 | |
Location of Kleinwittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt |
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Kleinwittenberg is a district of Lutherstadt Wittenberg . It is located about two kilometers west of the city center directly on the banks of the Elbe .
history
Kleinwittenberg was founded in 1817. In the Wars of Liberation in 1813 the suburbs of Wittenberg were destroyed and burned down when the fortress occupied by the French was shelled by Prussian troops. In order to create a new home for the people who were evacuated there, new building sites were created in the Wittenberg suburbs.
A contemporary newspaper states: “The new suburb is to be named Kleinwittenberg. It is located on the left bank of the Elbe, 1,800 paces from the city, the beautiful oak forest that surrounds our Rothemark, some distance to the south, extends north to the Anhalt Poststrasse, and is bordered on the evening side by the Pistritz stream. "
A main street and several cross streets were delimited by ditches and poplar plantings, and 63 construction sites with courtyards and gardens were created. A place for a school for the new suburb and the nearby village of Piesteritz was determined.
During the First World War, there was a prisoner-of-war camp in Kleinwittenberg , which consisted of 55 barracks, a hospital and farm buildings on 12 hectares. 16,000 Russian, French, English and Italian prisoners were housed here. The camp was located between Dessauer Strasse and the railway line.
For decades, Kleinwittenberg was a suburb of Wittenberg mainly inhabited by fishermen and Elbe boaters. Due to the decreasing importance of shipping on the Elbe, most of the former port facilities were no longer needed and fell into disrepair. Today only the protective harbor and two piers for passenger ships are in operation.
Kleinwittenberg was an independent municipality in the district of Wittenberg . On July 1, 1950, it was incorporated into Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
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Swell:
Attractions
- Christ Church , consecrated in 1908
- Obelisk in the cemetery in memory of the British soldiers of the First World War who died in the POW camp
traffic
- The federal road B187 between Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Roßlau leads through Kleinwittenberg.
- The place is on the Falkenberg / Elster – Dessau railway line . The Kleinwittenberg halt (after the incorporation of Lutherstadt Wittenberg West in 1950) was put into operation in 1859 as "guard station 5". Here the Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Straach railway branched off , on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 1959.
- In 2015, the new Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Piesteritz station was built between the Lutherstadt Wittenberg West and Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Piesteritz Werkbf stops, so that the original stop in Kleinwittenberg was abandoned.
- In Kleinwittenberg there is a landing stage for river cruise ships of the Viking shipping company .
- Kleinwittenberg lies on the Elbe Cycle Path .
Sons and daughters of Kleinwittenberg
- Wilhelm Elfe (1843–1931), city councilor and honorary citizen of Wittenberg
- Hans Lorbeer (1901–1973), writer
- Karl Jüngel (1943–2014), local history researcher
literature
- Karl Jüngel: Kleinwittenberg: a historical review. Drei Kastanien Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942005-41-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ National newspaper of the Germans. Born in 1816. Becker, Gotha 1816, p. 633.
- ^ Heinrich Kühne: From the prisoner of war camp 1914-18 in Kleinwittenberg. In: Heimatkalender 1998. Drei Kastanien Verlag, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1997, pp. 100–101.
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Kleinwittenberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Statistical information service. No. 12/2004 (PDF), p. 26.
- ^ Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Statistical information service. No. 14/2006 (PDF), p. 14.
- ↑ Trend reversal? Wittenberg is happy about more residents again. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Kleinwittenberg. Schoolchildren commemorate victims of the First World War. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. November 12, 2014.
- ↑ Kleinwittenberg district celebrates its 200th birthday on Sunday. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. March 31, 2017.
- ↑ New stop in Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Piesteritz. In: Saxony-Anhalt station program .
- ↑ End of the Wittenberg West stop. Once upon a time in West. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 3rd August 2015.
- ↑ Ship landing stage in Kleinwittenberg. On to new shores. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 17th October 2016.
- ↑ Obituary. His heart belongs to the Elbe. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 3rd February 2014.