Prester

This article covers the district of Magdeburg. For the German visual artist, see Anselm Prester .

Prester district of Magdeburg
Basic data
Surface:	5.1586  km²
Residents :	2103
Population density :	408 inhabitants per km²
(Information as of December 31, 2016)
Coordinates :	52 ° 6 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '13 "  N , 11 ° 40' 30"  E
Districts / Districts:	Prester Pestersee
Postal code :	39114
Bus routes :	56

Old Prester

Prester lake

Immanuel Church

Residential tower

"Mouse Tower"

Prester is a 5.1586 km² district of the Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg with 2,103 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016) on the eastern bank of the Elbe .

geography

The district has a natural western border with the river Elbe and Alter Elbe, which extends from the northern edge of the Kreuzhorst forest area (river kilometer 322) to the height of Seestrasse. The northern district of Cracau is initially delimited by the Elbdeich, then by Leuschnerstrasse and Thomas-Mann-Strasse. In the east, the almost uninhabited district of Zipkeleben and Pechau adjoin . Prester lies on an almost flat surface between 45 and 47 meters above sea level. Large areas in the west and south are agricultural or fallow land. An old Elbarm extends to the east with Lake Prester.

Infrastructure

Only about ten percent of the district belong to the densely populated western town center, which stretches along the Alt Prester street. There are several housing estates in the north and west, only on Thomas-Mann-Straße there are three prefabricated buildings from the GDR era. The city center of Magdeburg is about four kilometers away and can be reached by a tram line, the terminus of which is on the northern border of the district. The southern area is accessed by a bus line. In addition to a few medium-sized businesses, Prester is also the seat of the state riot police.

history

Archaeological finds were discovered in the north of Perster in 1958, indicating that this area was settled in the Neolithic Age (around 2000 BC). During the Roman Empire (around 300 AD), Slavs settled here , who gave the place the name Pressitz, later Brezderi. At the beginning of the 10th century the village belonged to the Margrave of the Nordmark Gero , but in the course of the 937 foundation of the Magdeburg Moritzkloster , Otto I donated the village to the monastery. The Archbishop of Magdeburg Adelgot enfeoffed the Berge monastery with the village and a forest called Dubrize in 1110. In the document referring to it, the place is evidently mentioned for the first time under the name Brezden. The Berge monastery set up a large dairy farm in Prester, from which a monastery courtyard with around 7 km² of land developed, which was usually leased to farmers. Next to the monastery courtyard, Benedictine monks probably built the first Presters church in the 12th century. Because of the constant risk of flooding through the Elbe, a dike was built early on, which was mentioned as early as the 16th century. During the siege of Magdeburg by the imperial general Wallenstein , he had entrenchments built in the Prester area in June 1629.

After the Thirty Years' War Prester came under the rule of Brandenburg-Prussia . With the Prussian administrative reform of 1815, the place was incorporated into the Jerichow I district. When six Magdeburg suburbs were incorporated on April 1, 1910, Prester, the smallest town with 944 inhabitants, was one of them. Until then, the rural community of Prester was part of the Jerichow I district.

In 1928, the Magdeburg tram network reached Prester with the terminus right on the district boundary.

Even after the Second World War , the district received its agricultural character. The Prester estate, which emerged from the monastery in 1953 and cultivated up to 814 hectares of land, played a major role. In the northern part of the city, the Soviet Army built an extensive barracks complex, which they used until they withdrew in the 1990s. Around 2000, an extensive residential estate was built north of the Klusdamm on inexpensive building land.

Buildings

The cultural monuments in Prester are listed in the local register of monuments.

• The Immanuelkirche is located on the western edge of the district, directly on the Elbe dike . It was built in 1832 in place of the dilapidated medieval church according to plans by the Prussian building deputation in Berlin with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The result was a neo-Gothic building with a single-nave hall, which ends in the east with a narrower multi-sided chancel and to which a tower with a square floor plan is added in the west. Quarry stones from the Plötzky quarry were used as building material . The tower has an octagonal bell-shaped storey, on which a solidly bricked pointed helmet studded with crabs was attached. The church was secularized in the 1980s and used as a building yard by the Evangelical Church District of Magdeburg until 1990. In 1997 it was sold and has served as a restaurant ever since.
• At the southern end of the building zone, on the Altprester 104 property , is the Prester residential tower , which bears a coat of arms with the year 1520. The tower formerly belonged to the Rode merchant family, who owned extensive property near Magdeburg in the 16th century.
• The pumping station near Prester , the so-called “mouse tower”, is located directly on the banks of the Elbe and was built in 1905 as a pumping station for the Buckau waterworks on the other bank of the Elbe. Despite its small size and remote location, the construction was elaborately designed in the neoclassical style using red bricks. The pumping station supplied the Buckau waterworks with the cleaner water flowing on the eastern bank of the Elbe.
• The Prester transformer station from around 1920 is also a listed building.

Personalities

• Bertha Hoffmann (1816–1892), writer
• Johann Adam Steinmetz (born September 24, 1689 in Großkniegnitz, † July 10, 1762 in Prester), Protestant theologian, pietist and educator.

literature

• Magdeburg and its surroundings (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 19). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
• Magdeburg - architecture and urban development, Janos Stekovics publishing house, 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 .
• Puhle / Petsch, Magdeburg 805 - 2005, Verlag Janos Stekovics, 2005, ISBN 3-89923-105-8 .
• CD Saxony-Anhalt - Official Topographic Maps, State Office for Land Surveying and Geoinformation, 2003.

Web links

Commons : Prester  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District catalog of the Office for Statistics
2. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1910, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 163 .