Schierau

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Schierau
Coat of arms of Schierau
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 65 m
Area : 29.82 km²
Residents : 200  (Jun 30, 2017)
Population density : 7 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06779
Area code : 034906
Church in Schierau

Schierau is a district of the town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Schierau lies between Dessau-Roßlau and Halle (Saale) in the Middle Elbe biosphere reserve on the Mulde .

The following districts of the former municipality were identified:

  • Schierau
  • May
  • Niesau
  • Priorau

history

The places Schierau, Möst and Priorau belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office of Bitterfeld as an exclave in the Principality of Anhalt until 1815 . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna they came to Prussia and were in 1816 the district Bitterfeld in the administrative district of Merseburg of Saxony Province allocated to which they belonged to the 1942nd On April 1, 1942, the Prussian exclave Schierau with Möst and Priorau was incorporated into the Dessau-Köthen district and thus Anhalt.

Niesau, located between Schierau and the Mulde, has always been part of Anhalt and has been part of the (Dessau-) Köthen district since it was founded. On July 1, 1950, the place was incorporated into Schierau.

Möst became a district of Schierau on January 1, 1957. Priorau followed on January 1, 1973.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent municipalities of Schierau, Marke , Retzau , Altjeßnitz , Thurland and Tornau vor der Heide and the cities of Jeßnitz (Anhalt) and Raguhn merged to form the town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz. At the same time, the Raguhn administrative community , to which Schierau belonged, was dissolved.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver a red church tower with side aisles covered with four silver shields (1: 2: 1), accompanied by two green maple leaves, over a wavy blue shield base covered with an open silver book."

Coat of arms elements: The Schierau church has an architectural specialty with its baroque gable, which is visible from afar. Priorau is the birthplace of Philipp von Zesen - an important 17th century writer in both literature and language development; the open book symbolizes it. All four districts are located in the middle of the Muldeaue and embedded in meadows and deciduous forest. The maple is a very common tree species and was represented with the two accompanying leaves in the coat of arms. The blue base of the corrugated shield symbolizes the hollow .

The coat of arms was designed in 1996 by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

Church in Priorau

Culture and sights

Buildings

Regular events

  • May celebration

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

West of the community runs the federal motorway 9 , from Leipzig to Berlin , and the federal road 184 Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Dessau.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Schierau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 22 f.
  2. ↑ The Prussian district of Bitterfeld in the municipality register 1900
  3. ↑ Schierau on gov.genealogy.net
  4. ^ The Anhalt district of Köthen in the municipality register 1900
  5. ↑ Niesau on gov.genealogy.net
  6. ↑ Möst near Schierau on gov.genealogy.net
  7. ^ Priorau on gov.genealogy.net