Reppichau

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Reppichau
Municipality of Osterienburger Land
Reppichau coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 33 "  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 37"  E
Height : 64 m
Area : 10.96 km²
Residents : 478  (Dec 31, 2008)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 06386
Area code : 034909
Information center Spegel der Sassen
Village church
Eike von Repgow memorial

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

geography

Reppichau lies between Dessau-Roßlau and the district town of Köthen (Anhalt) on the edge of the Middle Elbe biosphere reserve .

history

First mention

The community was first mentioned in 1156. As with almost all places in the area, the original place name Repgow is of Slavic origin.

Eike von Repgow

The Ministeriale Eike von Repgow , who probably came from Reppichau, wrote the first medieval legal book , the Sachsenspiegel , on behalf of Count Hoyer von Falkenstein - a collection of mainly Saxon legal principles of customary law that had not been codified until then .

Note from heraldist Jörg Mantzsch : It is pure speculation that Reppichau is the birthplace of Eike von Repgows. Historiographically, it cannot even be proven that the von Repgow family, who lived there (as in Altjeßnitz , where a von Repgow family was also wealthy), was related to the author of the Sachsenspiegel. This is proven by the studies of well-known historians from Prof. Carl Gustav Homeyer to Prof. Guido Kisch, among many others. In terms of personal references from Eike von Repgow, there are only the few documents attested by him and the rhyming prefaces of the Sachsenspiegel. Any additional documentary evidence of the person is missing. The fact is that the place Ripechove is mentioned as early as 1159 with the brothers Marquard, Eico and Arnold of the same name. Whether Eico is to be understood as the author of the Sachsenspiegel has been confirmed by a number of local researchers, but this legend was discovered by such important scholars in legal history as Prof. Gärtner, Prof. Homeyer, Prof. Brunner, Dr. Fucker u. a. m. refuted. So it can only be assumed - and this is very likely, but not provable - that Eike von Repgow was related to the family based in Reppichau at all.

Association with other communities

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

Population development

In 1844 there were 433 people in Reppichau.

politics

mayor

The last mayor of the community was Erich Reichert (CDU) and was first elected on April 28, 1992.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green a black contoured silver partridge, the right leg stretched out, with the left standing on an open golden book."

In 1999 the local council commissioned the local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch to develop a coat of arms typical of the area. Reppichau, however, does not have any outstanding historical significance. In earlier centuries it was a rural community with a manor, whose inhabitants lived mainly from agriculture, in addition to less common handicrafts. The place is also not associated with legends and myths, unless you make a connection to Eike von Repgow, the author of the "Sachsenspiegel". However, this connection is based solely on the same name.

The von Repgow family wore the partridge in their coat of arms, as it appears in the coat of arms of the old Dessau-Köthen district from 1937. And since Eike was a lay judge from Anhalt, the municipality decided to symbolize Eike in the coat of arms. Since the depiction of real people (except borrowed from iconography) is heraldically inadmissible, it was based on the Repgow coat of arms and the "Sachsenspiegel". The brown partridge of the extinct von Repgow family was represented by Mantzsch tingistically correctly in silver on a green shield. It is written on an open golden book, the Sachsenspiegel, which originated in the Diocese of Halberstadt (later Anhalt ).

flag

The flag of the former municipality of Reppichau has white and green stripes (cross flag: horizontal stripes, hoisted flag: vertical stripes). The coat of arms is placed in the middle of the flag.

Mill Museum

Culture and sights

museum

Open-air museum “Kunstprojekt Sachsenspiegel” on the street of the German language ; Spegel der Sassen information center , mill museum

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal road 185 ( Dessau - Köthen ) runs south of Reppichau . Reppichau is on the R1 European Cycle Route , which runs from Saint Petersburg ( Russia ) via Berlin to Calais ( France ).

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mirror of the Saxons . 1295-1363. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  3. ↑ Günther Hoppe, Domains, Drescher and Kossaten , Köthen 1983, p. 30