Roxförde

Roxförde City of Gardelegen
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	67 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.61 km²
Residents :	213  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39638
Area code :	039056
Location of the village of Roxförde in Gardelegen

Roxförde Church

Roxförde is a village and part of the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen in the Altmark district of Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark church village of Roxförde is about twelve kilometers east of Calvörde in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide on the Wanneweh and about ten kilometers south of the old town of Gardelegen.

history

Roxförde was originally a circular village . The village was first mentioned in 1400 as Rockesvorde . The previously assumed first mention of usque in paludem, que dicitur Rokesford from the year 786 has now turned out to be a forgery.

In 1986 the 1200th anniversary of Roxfördes took place. The 1225th anniversary celebration originally planned in 2011 was canceled after the forgery of the documents had been discussed in the local council.

Incorporations

On 1 January 1974, the municipality Roxförde was out of the loop Gardelegen to Wannefeld incorporated. From July 1, 1989, Roxförde was independent again due to the spin-off from Wannefeld. On May 12, 2009, the local council of the municipality of Roxförde decided that the municipality of Roxförde should be incorporated into the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen. This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

After the previously independent municipality of Roxförde was incorporated, Roxförde became part of the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen. For the incorporated municipality, the local constitution was introduced according to §§ 86 ff. Of the municipality code of Saxony-Anhalt . The incorporated municipality of Roxförde and future district of Roxförde became the locality of the receiving Hanseatic city of Gardelegen. In the incorporated municipality and now Roxförde, a local council with eight members including the local mayor was formed.

Population development

year Residents 1734 093 1772 051 1790 125 1798 138 1801 124 1818 124

year Residents 1840 264 1864 320 1871 318 1885 294 1895 296 1905 326

year Residents 1925 346 1939 320 1946 485 1964 303 1971 275 1993 253

year Residents 2006 222 2016 213

Religions

The Protestant Christians from Roxförde used to belong to the parish of Roxförde. The pastorate had been vacant since 1964 and was canceled in 1999. Today the community belongs to the parish of Letzlingen in the parish of Salzwedel in the Provostspengel Stendal-Magdeburg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

The oldest surviving church registers date from 1603.

politics

mayor

Ulf Müller is the local mayor of Roxförde.

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold, a black jumping boar with red reinforcement in front of a green, rooted oak with black acorns.

In 1986, on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary, the municipality designed a coat of arms, but it had to be reworked in terms of shield shape, coat of arms graphics and tinging. Since this coat of arms had already been established, the municipal council decided that the symbols should be included in the new coat of arms in a heraldically correct manner. Oak and boar were chosen by the municipality because they are characteristic of the fauna and flora of the region to this day. The coat of arms was designed in 1996 by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

Culture and sights

Buildings

The brick church of the village with the oldest bell in Saxony-Anhalt is worth seeing . It bears the year 1505. Thomas Hartwig writes about it: Franz Peter Schilling , master bell founder from Apolda, characterized the bell as important, since German inscriptions on pre-Reformation bells are not common. The perfectly shaped Gothic minuscule can only come from the models of the Dutch bell founder Gerhard van Wou , according to Schilling in his documentation. In 1848 the old church was destroyed by fire. Her tower was renovated in 2008.

memorial

Next to the local cemetery at the south-eastern exit of the village, a memorial complex was set up for the 23 concentration camp prisoners buried in a mass grave, who were shot by a Wehrmacht patrol in April 1945 during a death march from the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Public life

Roxförde has a volunteer fire brigade that has successfully and regularly participated in fire brigade competitions with three teams (men, women and youth) for years.

Sausage singing on the first weekend of the new year is also an annual spectacle.

Personalities

The future inspector of the Navy , Ansgar Bethge , was born in Roxförde.

Web links

• Roxförde on gardelegen.de
• Roxförde in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roxförde. on gardelegen.de. Retrieved November 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
3. ^ ^{A b c} Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical local lexicon for the Altmark (Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part XII) . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-2235-5 , pp. 1833-1835 .
4. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents . Main part 1st volume 22 . Berlin 1862, p. 409 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A10001038_00417~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
5. ^ Arend Mindermann: Document book of the bishops and the cathedral chapter of Verden . From the beginning to 1300. Ed .: Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden. tape 1 . Stade 2001, p. 1 .
6. ↑ Stefan Schmidt: celebration-off because of cheat bishop . Roxförde cancels the 1225-year festival for the next year, because the place is probably only 600 years old. In: Altmark newspaper . July 8, 2010 ( archived on archive.org ( memento of November 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive )).
7. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 360-362 .
8. ↑ Territorial change agreement . Incorporation of the municipality of Roxförde into the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen. In: Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (Hrsg.): Official Journal for the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel . 15th year, no. 10 . Salzwedel October 21, 2009, p. 280–282 ( altmarkkreis-salzwedel.de [PDF; accessed April 20, 2019]). (543 kB)
9. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
10. ↑ Parish Almanac or the Protestant clergy and churches of the Province of Saxony in the counties of Wernigerode, Rossla and Stolberg . 19th year, 1903, ZDB -ID 551010-7 , p. 63 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed November 1, 2018]).
11. ↑ Letzlingen parish area. Retrieved November 1, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Ernst Machholz: The church books of the Protestant churches in the province of Saxony (=  communications from the Central Office for German Personal and Family History . 30th issue). Leipzig 1925, p. 7 ( wiki-de.genealogy.net [accessed November 1, 2018]).
13. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Hartwig: All Altmark churches from A to Z . Elbe-Havel-Verlag, Havelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814039-5-4 , p. 401 ( limited preview in Google Book search).