Sandau (Elbe)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '  N , 12 ° 3'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Stendal
Association municipality :	Elbe-Havel-Land
Height :	27 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.58 km 2
Residents:	838 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	39524
Area code :	039383
License plate :	SDL, HV, OBG
Community key :	15 0 90 445
Association administration address:	Fontanestraße 6 39524 Schönhausen (Elbe)
Website :	www.sandau.de
Mayor :	Henry Wagner (Free Association of Voters)
Location of the town of Sandau (Elbe) in the Stendal district

Sandau (Elbe) is a town in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt and belongs to the Elbe-Havel-Land association. With 890 inhabitants, Sandau is the smallest town in Saxony-Anhalt and one of the smallest towns in Germany .

The church tower after the reconstruction

history

Sandau (as the village of Sandowe ) is mentioned for the first time in a document issued no later than 1192 . In 1272 the place was given city rights.

The construction of the very well-fortified late Romanesque church of St. Laurentius and St. Nicholas as a three-aisled pillar basilica in brick construction began around 1200 . The broad tower had a hipped roof. The church was destroyed in a big fire in 1695 except for the surrounding walls. In 1858/59 the baroque interior alterations were removed during a restoration.

From 1680 Sandau was directly subordinate to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg as an immediate city and was in the Jerichow district until 1807 . It was the northernmost city in the duchy.

In April 1945, the city was almost completely destroyed after a unit of the Waffen SS stationed nearby prevented the surrender and shot a US MP. After twelve days of artillery bombardment by US troops stationed on the left bank of the Elbe, they occupied the small town on the right bank of the Elbe on April 25, 1945.

The church of St. Laurentius and St. Nicholas was largely destroyed in the fighting. The nave was restored in the 1950s and 1970s, the massive tower remained in ruins. Reconstruction began in 2002: in 2008 it was restored to the third floor, above which it was still in ruins; In 2013 it was finally completed with a roof turret.

politics

coat of arms

→ Main article : Coat of arms of the city of Sandau (Elbe)

Blazon : “In gold, a black-jointed, red castle, consisting of a tinned wall and two towers with kneaded pointed roofs and a window opening each; the towers connected by a flattened roof with a kneaded cone on top; underneath is a blue clad Saint Mauritius with breastplate and belted silver sword, in the left a shield divided by red and silver, in the right holding a blue lance with a silver flag with red crosses. "

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  Sandauer coat of arms 1979

The coat of arms in its current form was designed and documented by the municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch in 1996 as part of the approval process .

flag

The city of Sandau (Elbe) has a red and gold (yellow) stripe flag with an applied coat of arms.

traffic

Sandau is on the Romanesque Road , which runs along federal highway 107 here . The Sandau ferry crosses the Elbe on Landesstrasse 9 .

The Schönhausen – Sandau railway line was closed in 1997. The route to the south is now part of the Elbe Cycle Route . In local passenger transport, regular buses run by Regionalverkehr Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus.

Religions

The Evangelical Church of St. Nicholas and St. Laurentius is located on the highest point of the city. Your parish belongs to the Stendal parish in the Stendal-Magdeburg provost of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . A regional church community has its seat on Triftstrasse.

In 1945, three nuns from the Rhineland were evacuated with orphans to the castle, which dates back to the 14th century and was once the summer residence of the bishops of Magdeburg . During a bombing raid, the owner promised to leave the castle to the Catholic Church if she survived it. In 1947 the castle was given to the Catholic Church as a children's home, in 1957 it had to be closed due to pressure from the GDR authorities. A nursing home for the elderly was then set up in the building, which still exists today as the Caritas nursing home for the elderly in St. Marien and which is run by a Caritas company and offers 58 places to live. In 1999 the foundation stone was laid for an extension, and in 2000 the building was occupied. In 2001 the old building was renovated. In the castle there is a Catholic chapel, in which the parish of St. Elisabeth ( Tangermünde ) holds services.

The 2011 census in the European Union showed that of the 945 inhabitants of the city of Sandau (Elbe) around 22% belonged to the Protestant and around 3% to the Catholic Church.

sons and daughters of the town

• Johannes Knipstro (1497–1556), Lutheran theologian and reformer
• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schmettau (1734–1798), Prussian lieutenant general
• Samuel Christoph Wagener (1763–1845 in Potsdam), Lutheran theologian and writer
• Adolph von Koerber (1817–1895) general landscape director and politician
• Hermann Jordan (1878–1922), Protestant clergyman and university professor at the University of Erlangen

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  View of Sandau with Elbe ferry (2011)

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  Church and monument (state 2007)

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  Monument to the
  1st Polish Army

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  Sandau Castle

literature

• Sandau City Council (ed.): 800 years of Sandau. 1190-1990. Local group Kulturbund Sandau, Sandau 1990 (without ISBN).

Web links

Commons : Sandau (Elbe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city of Sandau (Elbe)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ^ Hermann Krabbo : Regest of the Margraves of Brandenburg ..., No. 476.
3. ^ Website on church tower construction , accessed on May 15, 2014.
4. ↑ Main Statute § 2, Paragraph 1 ( Memento of the original of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Database census 2011, Sandau (Elbe), Stadt, Religion