City of Hoym
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City of Hoym
City of Zealand
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| Height : | 123 m |
| Area : | 20.27 km² |
| Residents : | 2570 (Dec. 31, 2007) |
| Population density : | 127 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 15, 2009 |
| Postal code : | 06467 |
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City of Hoym / Anhalt is a district of the city of Seeland in the southwestern Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
Geographical location
The city of Hoym is located in the northern Harz foreland , about 12 kilometers west of Aschersleben . It has its own junction with the four-lane federal highway 6 .
history
Hoym was first mentioned in a document in 961 . On November 10, 1195, the knight family resident here with Cuno de Hoym is first mentioned.
Residential city
From 1721 Hoym was the residential town of the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Hoym . Hoym Castle dates from this period . Today it houses the largest facility for the disabled in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
20th and 21st centuries
During the time of National Socialism , at least 260 residents of what was then the State Infirmary in Hoym were murdered in the Bernburg euthanasia center .
Hoym and four other places formed the new parish of Zealand on July 15, 2009 .
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.
On the basis of § 10 i. V. m. §§ 8 and 45 Paragraph 2 No. 1 Local Constitutional Law of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (KVG LSA) of June 17, 2014 (GVBl. LSA p. 288), the City Council of the City of Zealand at its meeting on December 6, 2016, adopted the following 1 Amendment to the main statute decided: The city of Hoym bears the addition "Anhalt". So it is now called "City of Hoym / Anhalt".
Memorial sites / memorial site
- Collective grave and memorial stone in the local cemetery for 18 concentration camp prisoners who were shot and buried in April 1945 during a death march from the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp , a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , as well as an Italian military internee who also perished as a victim of forced labor
- Memorial for the murdered 299 patients of the former Hoym State Hospital in the castle park in today's Schloss Hoym Foundation
politics
Municipal council
The local council from Hoym last consisted of 14 council members.
(Status: local elections on June 13, 2004)
Partnerships
The district of Hoym maintains partnership relationships with the municipality of Hatten (Lower Saxony).
traffic
Hoym has its own connection to the federal motorway 36 ( Braunschweig - Bernburg (Saale) ).
The station Nachterstedt-Hoym is located on the railway line Halle-Vienenburg . Since December 14, 2014 the TaktBus 140 of the state network Saxony-Anhalt has been running from the Salzland roundabout between Aschersleben and Quedlinburg via Hoym.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gottlieb Ephraim Berner (1671–1741), medic
- Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873), councilor mason and politician
- Princess Hermine von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797–1817), Archduchess of Austria and Palatinessa of Hungary
- Princess Adelheid von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800–1820), Hereditary Princess of Lübeck and Princess of Holstein-Oldenburg
- Alfred Bohnagen (1877–?), Craftsman, journalist and writer
- Walter Halbritter (1927–2003), State Secretary and Head of the GDR Prize Office with the rank of minister
- Karl Wilhelm Fricke (* 1929), publicist, honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin
- Günter Schneidewind (* 1953), radio presenter
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main State Archives Dresden
- ↑ Dietmar Schulze: "Euthanasia" in Bernburg. The state sanatorium and nursing home in Bernburg / Anhaltische Nervenklinik in the time of National Socialism. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1999 pp. 141–142
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
- ↑ Local constitution law of the state in the version of July 1, 2014
- ↑ Front page to the statutes
- ↑ Bus routes 140 and 318 between Aschersleben and Quedlinburg inaugurated ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2014 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.
literature
- Sabine Schnierer: Safe, relocated, forgotten: The inclusion of the state infirmary in Hoym in the “euthanasia” program of National Socialism. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-8265-5582-1 .
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