Uetz

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Uetz City of Tangerhütte
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.85 km²
Residents :	188  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 31, 2010
Postal code :	39517
Area code :	039366
Location in Saxony-Anhalt

Uetz (also Ütz in many maps ) is a district of the town of Tangerhütte in the south of the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The place is located in a wooded area near the left bank of the Elbe , ten kilometers south of Tangerhütte. In the west, the Börde district borders on the Uetz district.

history

When the village was first mentioned in the Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg from 1375, it was said that it had been desolate for 30 years . As a manor, Uetz was part of the Kehnert manor until 1852 . Uetz is later listed as a rural community, but lost its independence after 1873. The rural community of Uetz was formed on April 1, 1907 from land with a total area of ​​583.5754 hectares, which were separated from the rural community of Kehnert "by the highest decree of June 28, 1906".

The church was built in 1725 on the initiative of Joachim Ludolff von der Schulenburg .

Before German reunification which belonged to the village to district Tangerhuette , Magdeburg district of the German Democratic Republic and had a consumption and a small library .

As part of the village renewal, the sidewalks and driveways have been rebuilt, the athletes' home, many houses and the nave have been renovated.

On May 31, 2010, Uetz merged with the other municipalities of the Tangerhütte-Land administrative community to form the new town of Tangerhütte.

Uetz is the primary school location. Volunteer fire brigade, as well as a sports club and Uetzer carnival club, shape village life. Setting the maypole is one of the traditions in Uetz .

politics

Local Mayor

The local mayor is Stefanie Schubert.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Fourth of silver and red; Field 1: two red spades crossed diagonally with the blade down, field 4: a red plane. "

The coat of arms was designed in 2000 by heraldist Jörg Mantzsch .

Uetz has no outstanding historical events of importance. It had been a small rural community for centuries, the inhabitants of which lived mainly as small farmers and farm workers from agriculture. The place has no particular architectural monuments or is associated with legends and myths.

The village never belonged to the Altmark, but belonged to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, later to the third district of the Holzkreis, then to the Wolmirstedt district, and after the administrative reform of 1952 to the Tangerhütte district.

In 1951 the place had its own seal showing a spade and a planer. While the spade referred to the small farmers of Uetz, the planer symbolized the woodworking industry that settled here in the 19th century. In addition to two coffin factories, there was a sawmill powered by a steam mill.

With the color representation, the colors red - silver (white) refer to the colors of the ore monastery Magdeburg to which the village once belonged.

The colors of the place are - derived from the tincture of the shield -: red - silver (white).

flag

The district flag is striped red - white - red (1: 3: 1) (hoisting flag: stripes vertical, cross flag stripes running horizontally) with the applied coat of arms of the municipality.

Economy and Infrastructure

Uetz is located on the country road between Kehnert and Tangerhütte , from the federal road 189 you can reach Uetz via Mahlwinkel . In Mahlwinkel, eight kilometers away, there are rail connections to Magdeburg and Stendal . Regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehr Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .

Web links

Commons : Uetz  - Collection of Images

• Uetz on the website of the unified municipality of the city of Tangerhütte

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Schultze (Hrsg.): Das Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg von 1375 (= Brandenburg Land Books . Volume 2; Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Imperial Capital Berlin . Volume VIII, 2). Commission publisher von Gsellius, Berlin 1940, Antiqua marchia. [Tangermünde Circle]. Vsas, p. 374 ( digitized version in Potsdam University Library ).
2. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1906, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 401 .
3. ↑ Official Gazette for the district of Stendal dated May 30, 2010 (PDF; 2.0 MB)
4. ↑ information on the crest explanation from heraldist Jörg Mantzsch get