Zealand (Saxony-Anhalt)

Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Salzlandkreis
Height :	130 m above sea level NHN
Area :	78.86 km 2
Residents:	7903 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	06449 (Friedrichsaue, Schadeleben) , ; 06464 (Frose) , ; 06466 (Gatersleben) , ; 06467 (Hoym) , ; 06469 (Nachterstedt)
Primaries :	034741, 039482
License plate :	SLK, ASL, BBG, SBK, SFT
Community key :	15 0 89 307
; City administration address :	Lindenstrasse 1 ; 06469 Seeland
Website :	stadt-seeland.de
Mayoress :	Heidrun Meyer
Location of the city of Zealand in the Salzlandkreis

Seeland is a city in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The city of Zealand is located in the far west of the Salzlandkreis. The city is traversed by the Selke, which flows further downstream into the Bode .

As districts are Friedrichsaue , Frose , Gatersleben , City Hoym , Nachterstedt and Schadeleben to the community.

On July 1, 2014, the new municipal constitutional law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt came into force. In its § 14 (2) the municipalities are given the opportunity to assign this designation to the districts that were towns before the incorporation. The city of Zealand has made use of this regulation. Their new main statutes came into force on September 8, 2015. In § 1 (2) the districts are listed with their official names.

history

Matthäus Seutter : Historical map from 1734 with the districts of Zealand

Parts of today's urban area of Seeland were part of the great historical Aschersleber lake until the drainage from 1703 by the King of Prussia . When it was reclaimed as an agricultural land, for example, the district of Friedrichsaue was created. In the early 19th century, the discovery of brown coal was the reason for renewed changes due to open-cast mining. With the cessation of lignite mining, the landscape of the city of Zealand will be revised again in the course of recultivation .

The merger of the city of Hoym and the communities Friedrichsaue , Frose , Nachterstedt and Schadeleben on July 15, 2009 took place against the background of the municipal reform in Saxony-Anhalt and the associated dissolution of the Seeland administrative community in favor of a unified community . The municipality of Gatersleben , which also belongs to the administrative community , was co-administered by the city of Zealand until September 1, 2010, when it was incorporated into the municipality.

Nachterstedt disaster

Lake Concordia is located in the districts of Nachterstedt and Schadeleben . In the early morning of July 18, 2009, in the Nachterstedt area, an approximately 350-meter-wide strip of land in the southern foothills of the emerging water broke off. A two-story single-family house, part of an apartment building as well as a section of street and a viewing platform were swept away.

politics

City council

In the local elections on May 25, 2014, 20 city councilors were elected. The choice led to the following result:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	34.0%0	7th
left	9.6%	2
SPD	5.3%	1
Groups of voters	48.3%0	100
other	2.7%	-
total	100%	20th

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Salzlandkreis on February 18, 2015.

Blazon : "Divided, above in silver a growing black red armored bear, in the upper corners of the shield three right and left three blue five-pointed stars, below in blue a silver fish."

Reasons for the coat of arms: The bear in the coat of arms is intended to refer to the historical affiliation to Anhalt and to tie in with the Hoym coat of arms. The six stars should represent the merged communities in the form of a number symbolism. The fish as a symbol for the lake that is being re-created and the improvement of the environment, takes up the Nachterstedter and Froser coat of arms. The previous coat of arms, with approval from September 8, 2009, was identical except for the 5 stars.

flag

The flag is black and white (1: 1) striped and centered with the coat of arms of the city of Zealand. In the case of the longitudinal shape of the flag (hoisting flag) the stripes run vertically, in the case of the cross shape of the flag (cross flag) the stripes run horizontally.

Town twinning

The city of Seeland maintains partnership relationships with the community of Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, some districts have their own partnership relationships: Hoym to Hatten in Lower Saxony, Nachterstedt to Boffzen in Lower Saxony, Frose to Holzappel in Rhineland-Palatinate and Gatersleben to Delligsen in Lower Saxony.

traffic

Street

The national road 6 ( Bernburg - Aschersleben ) used to lead through the urban area. It is now a four-lane " yellow motorway " that crosses Seeland between the districts of Hoym and Nachterstedt. A stitch of the Romanesque Road leads from Falkenstein / Harz to Frose.

railroad

Zealand has three train stations. The stations of Nachterstedt-Hoym, Gatersleben and Frose are on the Halle – Halberstadt railway line . From this branched off at Frose until 2003, the railway line via Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg ( railway line Frose – Quedlinburg ).

Culture and sights

The community's cultural monuments are listed in the local register of monuments.

Regular events

Seeland Festival at Lake Concordia in mid-August

Attractions

Hoym Castle

Lake Concordia
Evangelical Church Nachterstedt, built in 1957
Friedrichsaue village church
Hoym Castle

Historical monuments

Kiesberg in Nachterstedt (resting place for war victims of the former USSR )
Memorial stone from 1946/47 on Froser Platz under the linden tree (Louis-Riekehr-Platz during the GDR era) in memory of the communist Nazi opponent Louis Riekehr, who was murdered in the Ballenstedt police station in October 1933
Soviet honor grove with a memorial by the sculptor Rudolf Herbst in memory of Soviet prisoners of war who were victims of forced labor
Memorial stone from 1978 in the city cemetery for people from several countries who were abducted to Germany during the Second World War and who fell victim to forced labor
Collective grave and memorial stone in the local cemetery in Hoym for 18 concentration camp prisoners who were shot and buried in April 1945 during a death march from the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , as well as an Italian military internee who also perished as a victim of forced labor

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873), councilor mason and politician, born in Hoym
Erich Klapproth (1894–1945), “Feme judgment executor” of the “Black Reichswehr”, later NSDAP functionary and landowner in Poland, born in Schadeleben
Walter Halbritter (1927–2003), State Secretary and Head of the Office for Prizes of the GDR in the ministerial rank, born in Hoym
Karl Wilhelm Fricke (* 1929), publicist, honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin , born in Hoym
Günter Schneidewind (* 1953), radio presenter (DT 64, Südwestrundfunk), born in Hoym