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municipality Erxleben
Uhrsleben coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 125 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.02 km²
Residents : 397  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 2010
Postal code : 39343
Area code : 039052

Uhrsleben is a district of the municipality Erxleben in the district of Börde in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

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Uhrsleben is about 14 km southwest of Haldensleben . In the arrangement of its farmsteads, the village clearly shows the former Rundling, in which the cemetery with the church formed the center. Now one road leads eastwards from the former core to Alvensleben , a second to Erxleben in the north; both streets are initially bordered by houses. Two village ponds lie in front of the place in the east and south. A country road leads south to Hakenstedt . Seelsche Bruch extends west of Uhrsleben .

history

Sankt-Petri-Kirche in Uhrsleben
Saint Peter's Church

Uhrsleben is listed in documents of the two Saxon emperors Otto I and Otto II in the 10th century as "Urleba" among the localities of the North Thühringgau and was transferred in 949 after the Wende uprising . In a document Uhrsleben is oppidum, ie city, The founding of the Uhrsleben settlement as a market with city and trade privileges on the former military and trade route between Helmstedt and Magdeburg can be dated to the beginning of the 11th century.

Conveniently located on the old military road from Magdeburg to Braunschweig, this place was a good trading center. The cities of Magdeburg and Helmstedt did not tolerate any trading center between them. So the Heerstraße was moved via Erxleben, and Uhrsleben fell back into a village-like state. During this time, there was a market settlement in the area where the Gatze and Kirchstraße are today. This market settlement was dominated by the manor complex of the Uhrsleben manor and the church.

On March 19, 1051, King Heinrich III. "At the instigation and request and the services rendered loyally to Dankwards , Bishop of Brandenburg, for the sake of him and his successors the market and customs law and the district in the place" Ursleve "in the north Thuringia in the county of Count Lothar, along with all accessories, Interest on free property that cannot be hindered by any duke, earl or margrave. "

In 1187 the feudal rule over Uhrsleben passed to Otto von Uhrsleben. The construction of the manor of Uhrsleben began in 1270. The village church of St. Petri is mentioned for the first time in 1311. Due to a walled up arched window in the Romanesque field stone masonry of the north wall of the nave , it is assumed that part of the building probably dates from the end of the 10th century. The Lords of Alvensleben acquired the place in 1372. The church patronage lay with the Alvensleben at Schloss Erxleben II until 1945. In the St. Petrikirche, old tombstones and coat of arms windows donated around 1910 remind of the family. In 1454, another church is mentioned, the so-called Easter Church. In 1644, during the Thirty Years War , the parish, school and 13 houses were destroyed. The jurisdiction of the place and its inhabitants went about 1650 Erxleben.

In a fire in 1774 7 farms and 20 farms were destroyed in another in 1825. The reconstruction after the fire of 1825 took place partly on the road to Erxleben, which resulted in Kirchstrasse. In 1837 the Uhrsleben post mill was built northeast of the town. A fire in 1854 destroyed the stables of the manor. In 1899 the local volunteer fire brigade was founded. The manor district Uhrsleben was united on September 30, 1928 with the rural community Uhrsleben. In 1945 an old memorial stone was found at the cemetery east of the village. This memorial stone is known as the Murder Cross and is a listed building .

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities Uhrsleben, Bartensleben , Bregenstedt (December 31, 2009) and Hakenstedt were incorporated into Erxleben.

Naming

The syllable "lebe" or "leve" is derived from the word "leiba", which means something like estate or inheritance and is attributed to the migration of the fishing rods. These left their seats on the Lower Elbe around 200 AD and migrated to the Magdeburg Börde and the adjacent areas west of the Elbe.

Myths

The clock of Uhrsleben

The legend of the sunken city of Sela is also reminiscent of the popular belief that a large bell was found on the spot where Lake Seli once stood.
This now hangs on the church tower in the village of Uhrsleben near Erxleben.

The following poem can be found in Kantor Bock (1920, p. 234):

From the deep, deep bottom of the lake,
evening bells rang dull and dull,
and they gave wonderful tidings of
the beautiful old village.

Suddenly it perished in the lake, but
the rubble remained below,
and at many, many hours one saw
Selschen's lovely picture there.

And the fisherman, who
often saw the magic shimmer in the bright sunset,
He always tells warning about the village,
Because it is godless, it was punished by God.

The Ochsenberg near Uhrsleben

From Grimm's fairy tale :

In the Alte Mark, not far from the ruined Alvensleben Castle , there is a large, brave and funny village called Ursleben. A rifle shot behind the village is a large lake, called Brock (Bruch), on the site of which there used to be a beautiful castle, which then went under, and since then the great water had come up. Namely, all the people are supposed to be sunk inside, with the exception of a single maiden who was warned shortly beforehand by a dream. When the cattle and the chickens were making particularly sad signs of an impending great misfortune, this maiden sat on an ox and rode away. With extreme distress she reached a nearby hill, behind her the castle collapsed, and as she looked around from the hill, sitting on the ox, the water had risen everywhere. The hill is still called Ossenberg to this day.

Memorials

politics

mayor

The last mayor of the Uhrsleben community was Klaus-Dieter Rzejak (FDP).

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on March 30, 1999 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : "In blue a golden key separated from two six-pointed golden stars with a cloverleaf-shaped, openwork lock plate and with a beard turned down to the left, a golden disc under the key shaft."

The colors of the parish were gold (yellow) - blue.

The design is based on the image seal awarded to the community in 1995, the origin of which was a much older image seal (baptismal font of the church in Uhrsleben). It showed a peculiarly shaped key, surrounded by two six-pointed stars. The shape of the key was taken from an engraving on the baptismal font of the Uhrsleber church.

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg heraldist Ernst Albrecht Fiedler .

flag

The flag is striped yellow and blue (cross flag: stripes from left to right, hoisting flag: stripes running from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of the municipality.

traffic

To the federal highway 245 , which connects Eilsleben with Haldensleben , it is about 500 m in an easterly direction. The federal motorway 2 (junction 65 Eilsleben) is reached after 800 m. Landesstraße 25, which connects Weteritz with Uhrsleben, ends here. The station Erxleben Uhrsleben was on the railway line Haldensleben-Eilsleben which is shut down.

literature

  • Kurt Bartels: Family book Uhrsleben (district Börde), 1644 to 1850. Leipzig: AMF 2010, 2nd edition (= Central German local family books of AMF 31)

Web links

Commons : Uhrsleben  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b On the history of Uhrsleben. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Government of Magdeburg, 1928, p. 226
  3. Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt . Retrieved April 12, 2015 .
  4. StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
  5. StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  6. ^ Brothers Grimm: The Ochsenberg. In: German legends. 1816 .;
  7. The coat of arms of the municipality of Uhrsleben, documentation on the approval process , deposited in 1999 in the Magdeburg State Archives