Parchau

Parchau City castle Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 19 ″ N , 11 ° 52 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	42 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16 km²
Residents :	930 (Jul 31, 2015)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 1, 2002
Postal code :	39288
Area code :	03921

Parchau Church

Parchau on the Elbe

Parchau is a district of Burg (near Magdeburg) located five kilometers outside the town . The Elbe flows two kilometers to the north and the Elbe-Havel Canal to the south . The delightful landscape is characterized by the “Havelsche Mark” floodplain area facing the Elbe, the pine forests framing the place and the Parchauer See (50 hectares) on the northern outskirts. The western forest area rises to the 54 meter high "Black Mountains". Parchau is located off the main traffic routes on the district road 1208, which leads south directly to Burg and west to the neighboring town of Ihleburg , 2.5 kilometers away .

history

The place name "Parchowe", first mentioned in 1188 in a deed of ownership of the Magdeburg Nikolaistiftes, is of old Slavic origin, so that it can be assumed that the Liutizen belonging to the Slavs settled here as early as the 5th or 6th century . At the instigation of Archbishop Wichmann , the place passed into the possession of the Magdeburg Berge monastery in 1191 . In a document from 1288 a family named after the place is recorded, represented by Borchard de Parchau. The Parchauer See is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1328, 1342 is the first mention of a church as a subsidiary community of Ihleburg. Parchau had been a manor since the middle of the 15th century, and since 1459 it belonged to the von Treskow family. In the 18th century, the von Wulffen were first landlords, in 1785 the von Werder family acquired the estate before it was acquired in front of the local community for 32,000 thalers in 1815, parceled out and taken over by individual farmers.

While the inhabitants of Parchau lived mainly from agriculture and fishing in the Middle Ages, numerous craftsmen such as millers, wheelwrighters, saddlers and blacksmiths came after the Thirty Years' War . A water mill has been in operation near Parchau since the middle of the 18th century. Since the modern traffic routes that arose in the 19th century led far past Parchau, the place remained unaffected by the industry that was developing around this time and retained a predominantly agricultural character.

With the introduction of the Prussian administrative reform of 1815, Parchau was incorporated into the Jerichow I district with the district town of Burg. In the first half of the 20th century the number of inhabitants remained almost constant; in 1910 it was 845 inhabitants, but in 1939 the number had only decreased slightly to 833. When the GDR carried out another territorial reform in 1952, Parchau came to the Burg district. The 1964 census recorded 927 residents. On December 1, 2002 Parchau was incorporated into the town of Burg.

Memorials

Memorial stone in the center of the village in memory of the KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann , who was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944

Memorial plaque at the entrance to the village for the communist youth functionary Conrad Blenkle , who was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1943

Buildings

Parchau village church

Individual evidence

↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002

[1] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002