Schwanebeck

Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	resin
Association municipality :	Pre-resin
Height :	109 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.66 km 2
Residents:	2424 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	39397 (Nienhagen, Schwanebeck)
Primaries :	039424, 039403
License plate :	HZ, HBS, QLB, WR
Community key :	15 0 85 285
LOCODE :	DE XWB
Association administration address:	Markt 7 ; 38828 Wegeleben
Website :	www.vorharz.net
Honorary Mayor:	Benno Liebner ( CDU )
Location of the city of Schwanebeck in the Harz district

Schwanebeck is a small town that belongs to the Vorharz association in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt .

Geographical location

The place is in the northern Harz foreland, northeast of the district town of Halberstadt . The federal highway 245 leads through the village from Halberstadt to Hamersleben . Schwanebeck is located on the Jerxheim – Nienhagen railway line, which was closed in 2001 .

history

The first settlement of the surrounding area took place around 200–400. The first written mention is to the year 1062. In 1270 Schwanebeck was granted city rights for the first time. Schwanebeck belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt until 1648 and then came to the Principality of Halberstadt. The place was directly under the authority of Gröningen and in 1815 came to the administrative district of Magdeburg of the Prussian province of Saxony .

On January 1, 2010, the municipality of Nienhagen became a district of Schwanebeck.

politics

City council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 52.03%

%

40

30th

20th

10

0

39.17%

20.41%

7.53%

32.89%

CDU

left

Flat share N

EB

In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the 14 seats in the city council were allocated to the following parties and groups of voters . The turnout in 2019 was 52.03%.

CDU : 39.17%, 5 seats
The left : 20.41%, 3 seats
Voting community Nienhagen: 7.53%, 1 seat
Individual applicants: 32.89%, 5 seats

mayor

In 2001 Hans-Richard Wegner (CDU) was elected mayor. In 2008 Christina Brehmer (Die Linke) became the new mayor. Benno Liebner (CDU) prevailed against incumbent Brehmer in March 2015 with a turnout of 46.3% and 66.7% of the votes.

badges and flags

Blazon : "In blue, a silver swan standing upright in the water with red armor and spread wings, looking to the left."

The flag shows the colors blue and white.

Religions

Saint Peter's Church

The Protestant churches Saint Peter from the 17th century on the market and St. Johannis at the Johannisstraße belong to the parish Schwanebeck and thus to the parish of Halberstadt .

The Catholic Church of the Sacrament of the Holy Sacrament , south of Kapellenstrasse, has existed since 1334 and serves as a parish and pilgrimage church. It belongs to the parish of St. Benedict with its seat on the Huysburg . A little south of the church is the pilgrimage linden tree, a several centuries old linden tree.

The New Apostolic Church in Kapellenstrasse 39 was built from 1983 to 1987 and consecrated in 1987. The layout of the church is the capital letter Omega (Ω) is, in Christianity a symbol of Jesus Christ . The last church service took place in December 2007 and the building was sold. The nearest New Apostolic churches are now 11 km away in Halberstadt and Oschersleben .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Memorials

Grave site in the local cemetery for the communist functionary Kurt Schmuhl , who was murdered in Brandenburg-Görden in 1944
Tombs in the same cemetery for five unknown Poland , during the Second World War deported to Germany and victims of forced labor were
Schubert-Stein in the city park
Memorial to the fallen of the two world wars

Museums

Museum of war & art

Personalities

The theologian and local researcher Stephan Kunze (1772-1851), the agricultural chemist Otto Nolte (1887-1934), the sinologist Helmut Peters (* 1930) and the GDR soccer player Detlef Enge (* 1952) were born in Schwanebeck .

The pedagogue and theologian Heinrich Friedrich Franz Sickel (1794–1842) was the rector of Schwanebeck from 1817 to the 1820s. Friedrich Maurach (1811–1873) served from Schwanebeck as provisional district administrator for the district of Oschersleben from 1848 to 1850 . The Protestant theologian Julius Richter (1862-1940) was a pastor in Schwanebeck from 1896 to 1912. Gerhard Dittmar (1900–1972), teacher and painter, worked as a teacher in Schwanebeck from 1946 to 1950.

literature

Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , pp. 431-432.
Willi Nehrig: Chronicle of the city of Schwanebeck , Schwanebeck 1958