Rätzlingen (Oebisfelde-Weferlingen)

Rätzlingen City of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 59 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	74 m
Area :	14.74 km²
Residents :	691  (December 31, 2011)
Population density :	47 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39359
Area code :	039057

Village street

Rätzlingen village church

Rätzlingen is a district of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Rätzlingen is around nine kilometers southeast of Oebisfelde on the edge of the Drömling Nature Park .

history

From 1994 to January 1, 2005, Rätzlingen was part of the Oebisfelde administrative association , and from 2005 to December 31, 2009, it belonged to the Oebisfelde-Calvörde administrative association .

By means of a territorial change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities of Oebisfelde (on May 27, 2009), Bösdorf (on May 26, 2009), Eickendorf (on May 28, 2009), Etingen (on May 26, 2009), Kathendorf (on May 19 , 2009) May 2009), Rätzlingen (on: May 27, 2009), Eschenrode (on May 28, 2009), Döhren (on May 28, 2009), Hödingen (on May 20, 2009), Hörsingen (on May 27, 2009), Schwanefeld (on May 25, 2009), Seggerde (on June 26, 2009), Siestedt (on May 28, 2009), Walbeck (on May 28, 2009) and the Flecken Weferlingen (on May 19, 2009) that their communities dissolved and united to a new town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

After implementing the unification agreement of the previously independent municipality of Rätzlingen, Rätzlingen became part of the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. For the included municipality, the local constitution according to §§ 86 ff. Municipality code of Saxony-Anhalt was introduced. The incorporated community of Rätzlingen and future district of Rätzlingen became the locality of the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. A local council with ten members including the local mayor was formed in the incorporated municipality and now the village of Rätzlingen.

politics

The honorary mayor Wilhelm Behrens was in office from September 5, 2004 to December 31, 2009 and has been the local mayor since then.

Local council

According to the last local election on June 7, 2009, the council had ten members. Due to the founding of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen, the local council automatically became a local council. The turnout was 44.1%. The choice brought the following result:

	Groups of voters	7 seats	(66.0%)
	FDP	2 seats	(22.2%)
	Individual applicants	1 seat0	(11.8%)

In 2014, a local council with seven members was elected. The local mayor is also a member of the local council as chairman.

badges and flags

The coat of arms was approved on April 1, 1997 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : "A silver eagle in black."

The colors of Rätzlingen are silver (white) - black.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg heraldist Erika Fiedler .

The flag is white and black striped with an applied coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

To the federal highway 188 , which connects Wolfsburg with Stendal , it is about seven kilometers in the north. The station Rätzlingen is located on the railway line Oebisfelde-Magdeburg .

Personalities

The writer Caroline Behrends (1801–?) And the lawyer and district administrator Johannes Rohne (1899–1987) were born in Rätzlingen .

literature

• Kurt Bartels: Family book Rätzlingen with Kathendorf, Lockstedt and Zillbeck (district Börde), 1678 - 1800. Leipzig: AMF 2009 (= Central German local family books of AMF 50)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Gazette of the District No. 45/2009 page 1-5 (PDF; 3.5 MB)
2. ↑ 2014 election results (PDF), accessed on June 27, 2018