Mechau

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Mechau City of Arendsee (Altmark)
Coordinates: 52 ° 52 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 51 ″  E
Height :	23 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.93 km²
Residents :	265  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	18 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2011
Postal code :	39619
Area code :	039036
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Mechau

Location of Mechau in Saxony-Anhalt

Mechau is a village and part of the town of Arendsee (Altmark) in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark church village is on the border with Lower Saxony . The Flötgraben flows to the east.

traffic

The Mechau stop is on the Salzwedel – Geestgottberg railway line, which was closed in 2004 .

history

Mechau was probably first mentioned in a document in 1268 as Mechowe when Margrave Otto presented the St. Georg Hospital in Salzwedel with properties in Riebow, Mechau and Thüritz.

In the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg from 1375 the place is also listed as Mechowe . The von Jagow , the Hospital zu St. Georg in Salzwedel and the Clüden owned here.

The name Mechowe was also used in the 18th century . Fabri reports in 1796: Except for a blacksmith, a wheel maker and a linen weaver there are no craftsmen here. Agriculture and animal husbandry are the main branches of food. In a fire at the beginning of the 18th century, all the old local news was lost.

Zahn tells of a song in a legend about a battle near Mechau during the Thirty Years' War.

There was a windmill south of the village . There was a water mill in the village.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1950, the municipality Mechau was from the district Osterburg in Salzwedel reclassified.

On January 1, 2011, the municipality of Mechau was incorporated into the city of Arendsee (Altmark) and thus became the village of Mechau with the district of Mechau.

Population development

year Residents 1801 285 1818 280 1840 342 1885 367 1892 369 1900 334

year Residents 1910 335 1925 357 1939 322 1946 455 2009 273 2011 281

year Residents 2012 285 2013 282 2014 276 2015 269 2016 270 2017 265

As of 2009 as of December 31 of the respective year

religion

The Protestant parish and parish Mechau belong to the parish area Fleetmark-Jeetze of the parish of Salzwedel in the Provostspengel Stendal-Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

In 1903 the parish Mechau belonged to the parish of Mechau bei Binde (Altmark) in the district of Osterburg and the parish of Ritzleben in the district of Salzwedel. The church patronage in Mechau was with Major a. D. von Jagow auf Pollitz and manor owner von Jagow auf Aulosen, the patronage in Ritzleben was with the Imperial Baron von dem Knesebeck-Milenbonck.

politics

Hartmut Baier was the last mayor of the community. He is the incumbent mayor and a member of the Arendsee city council.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In green a silver church (front) with a pointed black gate opening and two round arched black window openings; the tower with a round black opening, ledge and pebbled round roof. At the top left a rising, three-leaved, golden linden branch, at the top right a golden wheel with 6 spokes. "

flag

The flag is striped green - white - green with the coat of arms on the wider white central stripe.

societies

The soccer section of the local sports club SG Eintracht Mechau e. V. plays its games in the SG Eintracht Mechau sports park .

Culture and sights

• The church in Mechau is a new brick building from the years 1897 and 1898 which was attached to the field stone tower of the old church from the 13th century. The roofs are covered with slate.

Foundling with the inscription "Be worthy of the fathers."

• In the central square of the village with oaks protected as natural monuments, a large boulder with the inscription "Be worth the fathers" commemorates the war victims of 1813.

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Arendsee (Altmark)

literature

• 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. 79 .
• JAF Hermes, MJ Weigelt: Historical-geographical-statistical-topographical handbook from the administrative districts of Magdeburg . Topographical part. Ed .: Verlag Heinrichshofen. tape 2 , 1842, p. 377-378 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DHB4_AAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA377~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
• Official directory of municipalities for the German Reich . In: Statistisches Reichsamt (Hrsg.): Statistics of the German Reich . 2nd Edition. tape 550 . Publishing house for social policy, economy and statistics, Paul Schmidt, 1941, ZDB -ID 223601-1 , p. 99 .
• Government of the German Democratic Republic, Central Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Systematic and alphabetical directory of the municipalities of the German Democratic Republic (territorial status January 1, 1952) . Berlin 1952, p. 29 .
• Unified municipality of the city of Arendsee (Altmark): Population data for the years 2011 to 2017 . January 12, 2018.

Web links

• Mechau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Main statute of the city of Arendsee (Altmark) . September 2, 2014, § 1 (4), p. 1 ( stadt-arendsee.eu [PDF; 45 kB ; accessed on February 3, 2017]).
2. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
3. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 14 . Berlin 1857, p. 11 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Ernst Fidicin: Emperor Karl IV. Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg (1375) . according to the handwritten sources. Ed .: Berlin. Guttentag, 1855, p. 186 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10000810_00202~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
5. ^ Johann Ernst Fabri: Contributions to geography, history and national studies . Ed .: Nuremberg. Schneider and Weigel, 1796, p. 500 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10429204_00536~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
6. ^ Map of the German Empire, 1: 100,000, Part II / IV: Sheet 240: Wittenberge. Prussian State Statistical Office, 1906, accessed on January 12, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 359-363 .
8. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2011
9. ^ Parish area Fleetmark-Jeetze. Retrieved January 12, 2018 . 
10. ^ Haase, Hilbert: Parish Almanach or the Protestant clergy and churches of the province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 27 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed January 6, 2018]).
11. ↑ Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 315 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
12. ^ Mechau, City of Arendsee, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt , online project fallen memorials, accessed on May 21, 2016