Kressow

Kressow City of Gommern Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	71 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	23  (Dec. 31, 2017)

Residential houses in Kressow

Kressow is a district of the city of Gommern in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt . Kressow has 20 inhabitants (2014).

geography

The small village is located immediately south of the federal highway 184 between Dannigkow and Leitzkau .

In terms of natural space , the place belongs to the Zerbster Land , an arable, open cultural landscape and 536 km² main unit of the superordinate main unit group of the Fläming in the north German lowlands . The Zerbster Land forms the southwestern roof of the Fläming to the Elbe and belongs to the catchment area of ​​this river.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1158 as Crussowe . However, the place became deserted . Settlement was later resumed as a Vorwerk . At the end of the 19th century, a railway line with a gauge of 750 mm was built north of the village, parallel to today's federal road, leading from Loburg to Gommern. In 1960 this line was closed.

Ruin on the north side of the village

On January 1, 2005, Dannigkow and with it the district of Kressow became part of the unified community of Gommern.

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Gommern - residents' registration office (ed.): Population figures for the unit municipality of Gommern - as of December 31, 2017 . January 28, 2019.
2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
3. ^ Inge Bily, book of local names in the Middle Elbe region , 1996, ISBN 3-050-02505-0 , page 232
4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005