Micheln

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Micheln
Municipality of Osterienburger Land
Former municipal coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 65 m above sea level NN
Area : 16.58 km²
Residents : 733  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06386
Area code : 034973

Micheln is a district of the municipality of Osternienburger Land in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

On September 30, 1928, the Klietzen manor was merged with the Micheln rural community and thus became part of the community. On July 1, 1950, the community Trebbichau was incorporated into Micheln. The district of Trebbichau was first mentioned in 1484.

Micheln was severely damaged on June 23, 2004 by a tornado of magnitude F3 with wind speeds of up to about 300 km / h over a width of 200 m. 70% of the 250 buildings in town suffered massive damage, some of them massive. There was also severe damage in Trebbichau. Although the tornado was one of the strongest tornadoes in the last 30 years, no people died.

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities Micheln, Chörau , Diebzig , Dornbock , Drosa , Elsnigk , Großpaschleben , Kleinpaschleben , Libbesdorf , Zabitz , Osternienburg , Reppichau , Trinum and Wulfen merged to form a unified community of Osternienburger Land. At the same time, the administrative community Osternienburg , to which these communities belonged, was dissolved.

Evangelical Church in Trebbichau

religion

The evangelical church in Micheln belongs to the parish association Aken in the parish of Egeln , which belongs to the provost parish Stendal-Magdeburg of the evangelical church in central Germany . The Protestant parish of Trebbichau, on the other hand, belongs to the Easterienburg parish in the Köthen parish of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt .

The few Catholics in Micheln, Klietzen and Trebbichau belong to the parish of St. Maria in Köthen , whose next branch church is the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Osternienburg.

badges and flags

Blazon : “Square of gold and blue; Fields 1 and 4: a blue miner's lamp with a golden flame, Fields 2 and 3: a golden ear of corn and sickle crossed. "

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

The town's flag is striped blue and yellow (hoisted flag: stripes running vertically, cross flag: stripes running horizontally). The coat of arms is placed in the middle of the flag.

memorial

Burial in the church cemetery of the local part Trebbichau for an individual known Poland , which during the Second World War deported to Germany and a victim of forced labor was

traffic

With the Köthen – Aken railway line there was a connection to Köthen and Aken via the Trebbichau station until 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 212 .
  2. ↑ 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. 332 .
  3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

Web links

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