Sennewitz

Sennewitz Municipality Petersberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 4"  E
Height :	84 m
Area :	4.3 km²
Residents :	1575  (March 7, 2019)
Population density :	366 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 2006
Incorporated into:	Götschetal
Postal code :	06193
Area code :	034606
Location of Sennewitz in Petersberg

Sennewitz is a village in the municipality of Petersberg in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The formerly independent municipality had been part of the municipality of Götschetal since July 1, 2006 . Since January 1st 2010, Sennewitz has been part of the Petersberg community . On June 30, 2005, 1718 people lived in Sennewitz.

geography

location

St. Nicolai Church

Sennewitz is located north of Halle (Saale) at the foot of the Petersberg .

Districts

The following districts belong to the village:

• Doeckritz
• Dirty duck
• Ferdinande pit
• Sennewitz
• Benemann settlement
• Lehmbergfeld settlement

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1182 . Sennewitz belonged to the Giebichenstein office in the hall circle of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . With its annexation to Prussia, the place belonged to the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg from 1680 .

With the Treaty of Tilsit , Sennewitz and the "Dreckente" inn, built in 1780, were incorporated into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and assigned to the Halle district in the Saale department. Sennewitz and Duck belonged to the canton of Neumarkt . After Napoleon's defeat and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Napoleon's allied opponents liberated the Saalkreis in early October 1813. During the political reorganization after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Sennewitz was attached to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816 and assigned to the Saalkreis.

The Ferdinande mine was opened in 1845 and closed in 1932.

politics

mayor

The last honorary mayor was Hans-Joachim Niehle (June 27, 2004 - June 30, 2006). Since then he has been working as the mayor of the Sennewitz district. Between 2011 and 2014, Sven Heger was the mayor of Sennewitz.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided in gold over green obliquely left; black grooved at the top, an oblique left silver wavy bar at the bottom. "

The colors of Sennewitz - derived from the coat of arms - are gold (yellow) - green.

The brick wall stands for a former brickworks on the Lehmberg between Teicha and Sennewitz, the silver wavy bar for the Götsche running across a meadow near the Lehmberg.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Sennewitz is the headquarters of Mitteldeutsche Baustoffe GmbH , which emerged from the Halle natural stone combine and operates gravel works, hard stone works and sand pits in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia.

traffic

The village is on the connecting road from Halle (Saale) to Köthen . The A 14 motorway, which runs from Leipzig to Magdeburg , is 3 km north of Sennewitz. The former federal highway 6 from Halle (Saale) to Aschersleben now touches the western local area as highway 50 .

Web links

Commons : Sennewitz  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website about the village

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
3. ^ History of the Duck Settlement
4. ↑ Mention of the place in the book "Geography for all Stands", p. 125
5. ^ History of the Duck Settlement
6. ^ Description of the Saale Department
7. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900
8. ↑ History of the Ferdinande mine