Rathmannsdorf (Staßfurt)

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Rathmannsdorf
City of Staßfurt
Rathmannsdorf coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 72 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.74 km²
Residents : 568  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 84 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2004
Postal code : 39418
Area code : 039262
Rathmannsdorf (Saxony-Anhalt)
Rathmannsdorf

Location of Rathmannsdorf in Saxony-Anhalt
Ev. St. Pauli church and castle portal with castle on Friedensplatz
Ev. St. Pauli church and castle portal with castle on Friedensplatz
Seal of the Rathmannsdorf office

Rathmannsdorf is a district of Staßfurt in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . On January 1, 2004, the formerly independent community was incorporated into Staßfurt.

Geography and traffic

The district lies at an altitude of 72 meters is located south of the mouth of the Delta of the cable trench in the ground-level flow Liethe . Its built-up area is 55 hectares. The place is surrounded by agricultural land, to the west is the now wooded former palace park. State road 71 and district road 2304 intersect in Rathmannsdorf. On the L 71 you come in a south-easterly direction after two kilometers to federal road 6 ( Hanover - Leipzig ) and after eleven kilometers to the district center of Bernburg . In a north-easterly direction, the state road leads after six kilometers to the center of Staßfurt. District road 2304 connects Rathmannsdorf with the neighboring towns of Hohenerxleben in the north and Güsten in the south. The nearest train station is in Staßfurt on the Schönebeck – Güsten line.

history

Rathmannsdorf was officially mentioned for the first time in 1195 in a document from Pope Celestine III. that had been exhibited in Rome . At this time Bernhard III, Duke of Saxony , Count of Askanien and Ballenstedt , was also lord of the castle of Bernburg , the later center of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg , under whose rule Rathmannsdorf was until 1863. Already in 1177 there was a Romanesque style church in Rathmannsdorf . The Rathmannsdorfer Rittergut was enfeoffed in 1466 to the von Krosigk family, who finally acquired it in 1522 by Lorenz von Krosigk. After that, the castle was mainly used as the family's widow's residence. During the Thirty Years War the place was devastated in 1653 and the church was destroyed. From 1655 the reconstruction of the village began, which stretched out over ten years. At the beginning of the 18th century, the creation of the castle park began, which was initially created in the French style and was expanded towards the end of the century and redesigned according to the English model.

After Napoleon's victory over the European allies in 1805 and the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine , which was under French influence , the Duchies of Anhalt joined it in 1807, until the confederation was dissolved again after Napoleon's defeat in the Wars of Liberation in 1815. In 1863 the remaining duchies of Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Dessau were combined to form the Duchy of Anhalt , which was divided into newly created districts. The place Rathmannsdorf was assigned to the district of Bernburg . After the Schönebeck – Güsten railway was opened in 1857 , Rathmannsdorf also benefited from the connection to the Germany-wide railway network via Neundorf station, three kilometers away . In 1879 Rathmannsdorf received its own train station on the Berlin – Blankenheim line. In 1883 the construction of a new church began. The population was 1033 in 1910 and changed only marginally to 1048 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

In April 1945 the US Army occupied Rathmannsdorf, but handed the place over to the Red Army in July . In the course of the land reform carried out in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) between 1945 and 1946, the property and the castle in Rathmannsdorf were expropriated. While the agricultural land was parceled out and divided among small farmers, the Red Army initially took over the castle as a hospital. From 1946 it was used as a TBC sanatorium and from 1958 as a rehabilitation center with vocational training. The GDR , which was founded in 1949 on the territory of the Soviet Zone, carried out an extensive administrative reform in 1952, with which the states were abolished and a new district structure was set up. Rathmannsdorf was incorporated into the newly created Staßfurt district, which was subordinate to the Magdeburg district . At the beginning of the 1950s, the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) Rathmannsdorf was founded, which all agricultural businesses in the village had to join by 1960. In 1964 Rathmannsdorf had 1107 inhabitants.

After the German reunification in 1990 , agriculture in Rathmannsdorf was privatized again. In the course of expanding the infrastructure, the village community center was also expanded and modernized. Rathmannsdorf station was closed in 1998 due to the closure of the railway line. On January 1, 2004 Rathmannsdorf was incorporated into the city of Staßfurt. The palace, which was expanded during the GDR era, is now used as a school.

Attractions

The Protestant St. Pauli Church is in the northern section of Kirchgasse, in the immediate vicinity of the castle. In its current form, it was built between 1881 and 1883 in the neo-Romanesque style. It consists of a nave, transept , semicircular apse and the square west tower with an octagonal tip. There is a medieval tympanum in the south portal . The original interior decoration, which was created by the Gustav Kuntzsch Company , Institute for Church Art, Wernigerode , is still preserved. An epitaph dedicated to the von Krosigk family from 1744 and two figural tombstones of the family from 1613 were taken from the previous church.

The Krosigk Castle consists of several interconnected parts of the building with the so-called New House in the center. This was built in 1722 by Johann Ludwig von Krosigk. It is a two-storey plastered building with a three-axis central projection .

The Rathmannsdorf local history museum is located in Friedensplatz 3a. It is the smallest museum in the Museum Association of Saxony-Anhalt.

Personalities

The best-known son of the village is Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk , Reich Finance Minister from 1932 to 1945, who spent his childhood here.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rathmannsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Rathmannsdorf Church , accessed on February 26, 2020.
  2. ↑ Evangelical Church of St. Pauli , accessed on February 25, 2020.
  3. ^ Soproni Múzeum, Sopron ( Hungary ), Inventory No. P. 2425 E 251 (Storno Könyvtár): Gustav Kuntzsch folder , not paged.