Magdeburgerforth

Magdeburgerforth City of Möckern
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.27 km²
Residents :	217  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	9 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 2, 2009
Postal code :	39291
Area code :	039225
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Village church

Magdeburgerforth is a village and a district of Möckern in the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The place is on the state border with Brandenburg in the northern area of ​​the High Fläming . The Möckern-Magdeburgerforth conservation area extends southwest of the village.

history

In 1555 the place appeared for the first time in a document. The name suggests a ford along the Heerstraße Brandenburg – Magdeburg over the Gloine , which flows north to the Fiener Bruch . The area around Magdeburgerforth is very wooded and until a hundred years ago it was one of the most remote corners of Prussia. During the Thirty Years' War the area was deserted and was only repopulated under Frederick the Great .

In 1847 Magdeburgerforth was listed in the "Topographical-Statistical Handbook of the Prussian State". The village had a forest ranger's office , a water mill, 32 houses and 285 souls.

In 1896, three narrow-gauge small train lines (gauge 750 mm) were built around Magdeburgerforth, which met at Magdeburgerforth station . The first train from Burg reached Magdeburgerforth on April 4, 1896. The lines of the small railways of the Jerichow I (KJI) district ran west to Burg (via Grabow ), northeast to Ziesar and south to Gommern via Groß Lübars and Altengrabow . Traffic on these routes was discontinued between 1960 and 1965, the last train left Magdeburgerforth on September 25, 1965. The traditional association KJI e. V. plans to rebuild the dismantled line from Altengrabow to Magdeburgerforth. On May 7, 2011 the museum was opened on the 800 m long route between Magdeburgerforth and the Hp. Lumpenbahnhof.

A few kilometers south of the village is the approximately 80 km² military training area Altengrabow .

On September 30, 1928, the Magdeburgerfort manor district was united with the municipality of Magdeburgerforth, with the exception of the forestry farms , which were combined with the neighboring communities of the same name.

In the course of the municipal reorganization of Saxony-Anhalt, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Möckern with effect from July 2, 2009. The last mayor before the incorporation was Christiane Werner.

politics

The local mayor is Rüdiger Claus.

Since July 2, 2009, the village has been managed as a district by the local council and the local mayor.
Current distribution of seats in the local council:
four seats, community of voters for the Magdeburgerforth volunteer fire brigade,
three seats of community of voters, Heimatverein “Gloinetal”.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split of gold and green with a grafted silver tip, in front a green oak branch with two leaves, behind a golden post horn placed after the split with the bell pointing upwards to the left, the tip covered with a blue wavy bar."

The colors of the place are: green - gold (yellow).

The coat of arms symbolism in the coat of arms shown here refers to the following conditions:

• on the location of the community in Hohen Fläming and on the edge of the Möckern-Magdeburgerforth nature reserve. The natural surroundings were once formed by dense forests and forestry was an important source of income for the population. This is what the oak leaves suggest.
• to the fact that the region with its rich game population was once an electoral hunting ground and the historically significant Poststrasse between Potsdam and Magdeburg affected the place and influenced its development. This symbolizes the post horn.
• and the Gloine brook, where the place is located and which was previously important for water extraction, irrigation, etc. In the coat of arms, the gloine is expressed by the blue wavy bar in the base of the shield.

On April 22, 2008 the local council decided to use these elements in the new coat of arms of the community. The coat of arms was designed by the local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch and approved by the district on July 4th, 2008.

flag

The flag is green - yellow (1: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the coat of arms.

Culture and sights

The narrow-gauge railway station

The Otto spring is located north of Magdeburgerforth in the forest in the direction of Buschhäuser / Reesdorf. The water of the spring is very ferrous and the entire area of ​​the spring is colored red. In the Eichberge mountains east of the town center there is an old dead oak, the Friedrichseiche. It is named after Frederick the Great , who is said to have stopped below the oak on the way to Magdeburg.

The neo-Gothic village church Magdeburgerforth , also called the forest church , was built by 1901 . The narrow-gauge train station Magdeburgerforth is a monument and is back in tourist operation.

Regular events

The Lindenfest is a cultural event organized annually by the hunting horn group since 1995. It has now become a cultural highlight in the Jerichower Land district and is also known nationwide.

The main street of the village, Friedensstraße, is named after the International Peace Tour, which has been held several times in Magdeburgerforth , and whose most famous participants were Steffen Wesemann and Täve Schur .

societies

In September 1986 a working group of children from the second to eighth grade was founded in the secondary school Magdeburgerforth, who from then on devoted themselves to blowing the hunting horn. Two years later the school made its first appearance at the opening of the fair. The hunting horn group currently consists of 16 members - eight of them women.

The traditional association Kleinbahn des Kreis Jerichow I e. V. active in the station. The aim of his work is to rebuild part of the route from Altengrabow to Magdeburgerforth.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Magdeburgerforth is on the state road 52, which leads from the federal road 246 via Burg (near Magdeburg) and Magdeburgerforth to the state border to Brandenburg and from there as the L 96 via Ziesar . The A 2 ( Berlin - Magdeburg ) touches the north of the district , the Ziesar junction is five kilometers away. The closest railway stations in regular operation are in Güsen , Genthin , Wusterwitz and Burg.

Volunteer firefighter

The Magdeburgerforth volunteer fire brigade was founded on June 19, 1934 at a community meeting in the Hotel "Drei Linden". It consists of about thirty members.

Web links

Commons : Magdeburgerforth  - Collection of Images

• Magdeburgerforth in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
• Magdeburgerforth locality on the website of the city of Möckern

Individual evidence

1. ^ The localities of the city of Möckern. City of Möckern, accessed on January 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ City of Möckern - Main Office (ed.): Development of the inhabitants in the districts and localities of the city of Möckern - Basis: City residents' registration file - as of December 31, 2018 . January 25, 2019.
3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Möckern in the version of September 25, 2014 - including 1st and 2nd amendment . June 1, 2018 ( full text [PDF; 115 kB ; accessed on December 28, 2018]).
4. ^ Eduard Messow : Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Second volume: L – Z. Publishing house by Emil Baensch, Magdeburg 1847, p. 54 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed on January 23, 2019]).
5. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 202 .
6. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
7. ↑ local mayor. City of Möckern, accessed on September 30, 2019 .