Steinfeld (Altmark)

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Steinfeld (Altmark)
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 46 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.13 km²
Residents : 328  (Feb 11, 2017)
Population density : 29 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 39599
Area code : 039324
Steinfeld (Altmark) (Saxony-Anhalt)
Steinfeld (Altmark)

Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Schönfeld Castle
Schönfeld Castle

Steinfeld (Altmark) is a village and part of the town of Bismark (Altmark) in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The Altmark village of Steinfeld is about twelve kilometers east of Bismark and ten kilometers west of the Altmarkzentrum Stendal . The neighboring towns are Schernikau in the east and Kläden in the west. The 11.13 km² local territory, which also includes the village of Schönfeld located three kilometers to the east , is at an average altitude of 46 meters. The surrounding hilly area is part of the terminal moraine arc that extends north of the Secantsgraben and the upper Uchte towards Stendal. A pine forest area extends south of Steinfeld and a deciduous forest to the east. Landesstraße 15, which connects to Bismark and Stendal, runs through the village. Steinfeld is on the Magdeburg - Uelzen railway line, the train station is 1.7 km from the town center.

history

In 1209 the place was first mentioned in a document as Stenfelde , which identifies it as the property of the diocese of Havelberg . It is assumed that there is a reference to a barrow north of the village. The large stone grave dates from the Middle Neolithic (3500–2800 BC) and with a length of 47 m it has the longest megalithic bed in Saxony-Anhalt.

In the second half of the 12th century, the village church was built from field stones. In 1238 the Counts of Osterburg were named as landlords. In the 15th century the place came under Brandenburg rule and was in the Upper Saxon Empire .

Steinfeld belonged to the Stendal district of the Mark Brandenburg in the Altmark . Between 1807 and 1813 the place was in the Stendal district on the territory of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia . After Napoleon's expulsion, Prussia incorporated Steinfeld into the district of Stendal in 1816 as part of an administrative reform . In 1873 the Stendal - Uelzen railway line was opened with a train station in Steinfeld. At the beginning of the 20th century the place had 179 inhabitants, the number increased to 190 by 1939.

On July 1, 1950, the neighboring community of Schönfeld was incorporated. For the first time the community is referred to as Steinfeld (Altmark) . After the GDR territorial reform of 1952, Steinfeld was in the newly created Stendal district in the Magdeburg district . In the 1964 census, the population was 430. Steinfeld has been located in the north of the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 1990.

As part of a reorganization of the community in Saxony-Anhalt, Steinfeld, with around 220 inhabitants, joined the newly formed community of Bismark with effect from January 1, 2010. The districts Steinfeld and Schönfeld belong to the newly formed village of Steinfeld in the town of Bismark (Altmark) .

traffic

The Steinfeld stop (near Stendal) is on the Stendal – Uelzen railway line . In addition, regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .

Local politics

In the local elections in 2005 and 2009, the CDU in Steinfeld received the most votes with 32.1 and 33.6 percent respectively. The last mayor, Jochen Schulz, was elected in 2008 with 96.36 percent of the vote. The current local mayor Kordula Stephan took office in 2015.

Culture and sights

  • The farmers' market, which takes place in September, invites thousands of visitors every year who are interested in the culture and topics related to rural life.
  • annual Klingstein run for young and old
  • Schönfeld Castle , located in the district of the same name, designed in the forms of the Renaissance and Baroque with a large castle park laid out in the English style
  • Field stone church in Steinfeld from the end of the 12th century with a Gothic winged altar
  • Field stone church in Schönfeld from the 13th century with a baroque ceiling painting from 1725
  • former Gutskirche Schönfeld in the district of the same name, built as a large brick hall church (1883–1885) by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and with paintings in the choir by Hermann Schaper .
  • the largest stone grave in the Altmark with a length of 50 meters (approx. 5000 years old) - on the dirt road towards Darnewitz

economy

To the south of the village there is a laying hen facility with at least 40,000 hen places today. It emerged from the “Intermediate Cooperative Egg Production Steinfeld”. At the beginning of the 1970s, Hall I was built with around 5000 chickens.

Gravel and sand are mined in the south and south-east of the village .

literature

  • Handbook of the historical sites of Germany - Province of Saxony Anhalt . Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 .
  • Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments - Saxony-Anhalt I . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
  • Wilhelm Zahn: Local history of the Altmark . Edited by Martin Ehlies based on the bequests of the author. 2nd Edition. Verlag Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, Graphische Anstalt, GmbH, Salzwedel 1928, p. 107 .

Web links

Commons : Steinfeld (Altmark)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Bock , Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Großsteingraves der Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2091-3 , pp. 148–151.
  2. ↑ Ulf Frommhagen: The church of Steinfeld and its Romanesque font . In: Annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History in Salzwedel , vol. 82 (2012), pp. 5–30.
  3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010