Vahldorf
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Vahldorf
Community Niedere Börde
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| Height : | 51 m |
| Area : | 5.03 km² |
| Residents : | 494 (Dec. 31, 2007) |
| Population density : | 98 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2004 |
| Postal code : | 39345 |
| Area code : | 039202 |
 
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Location of Vahldorf in Saxony-Anhalt |
Vahldorf is a part of the community of Niedere Börde in the district of Börde in Saxony-Anhalt .
geography
The village of Vahldorf is on the B 71 between Haldensleben and Magdeburg . Vahldorf is a stop on the Oebisfelde - Magdeburg railway line and is in close proximity to the Mittelland Canal ( Vahldorf port ).
history
The oldest documentary mention is found in 937 in a deed of donation from King Otto I - later Emperor Otto the Great - in which the Moritz monastery he founded in Magdeburg received four Hufen of land here.
Field names such as "Thorenfeld" and "Wotanshöhe" indicate Germanic settlement. On the other hand, Pastor Peter Behrends, author of the Kreischronik Haldensleben from 1824, suspects that the place name "ualedorp" was a village of Saxon origin. If in 1920 finds of the »Schönfeld ceramics« from the younger Stone Age came to light in a nearby gravel pit , archaeological excavations in connection with the future Wedringen-Vahldorf bypass of the B 71 north of Vahldorf in 2018/19 brought sensational evidence of the most northerly proven settlement to date the " Linear Ceramics" , a rural settlement culture of the Neolithic (New Stone Age) in the 5th millennium BC d. Z.
In documents from 1197, Klein Vahldorf and Groß Vahldorf are mentioned for the first time. At the same time, one of these documents contains the earliest mention of a church in Groß Vahldorf that was owned by the Ammensleben monastery. Until 1339 the church patronage lay with the Ammensleben monastery . In exchange for the church patronage to Niederndodeleben , the Althaldensleben monastery took over sovereignty over the Vahldorf church in 1339 .
The manorial rule over the place was before 1339 with the Counts of Grieben-Hillersleben or with the monastery Groß Ammensleben founded by them , then until 1810 with the monastery Althaldensleben and some basic interest with the Magdeburg cathedral chapter and with the monastery Hillersleben.
With the secularization of the Cistercian nunnery in Althaldensleben in 1810, all monastery property was sold to the family of the entrepreneur Johann Gottlob Nathusius , while the Prussian state took over the church patronage, later the province of Saxony.
For centuries, Vahldorf kept a purely rural structure in its unity. In 1419 the place was plundered three times. The looters were soldiers and servants of the Counts of Alvensleben who wanted to punish the place because it felt that it belonged to the Margrave of Brandenburg.
In 1521, the Ammensleben monastery interest registers named seven farms subject to interest. The place professed the Lutheran faith in 1562. Vahldorf suffered looting and devastation during the Thirty Years' War. Especially after the siege and destruction of the nearby city of Magdeburg in 1631 by imperial troops under Tilly and Pappenheim, it is said: "The village was very ruined ."
For the year 1673, the files show "5 farm men, 8 half-spouses and 13 Kossathen" , a total of 26 housekeeping, so that the size and ownership are comparable to other villages at the time. In 1785 the place had 50 fire places and 250 residents.
A Prussian customs escort served to secure trade on the Lüneburg Heerstrasse , which ran from Leipzig via Halle (Saale), Magdeburg, Vahldorf, Haldensleben, Calvörde, Uelzen to Lüneburg. Here travelers, especially merchants who wanted to drive north with their carts, received escort protection and Prussian letters of conduct for a customs fee. They were thus under the protection of the Prussian king and were exempt from further Prussian customs controls on their onward journey. The street name "An der Heerstrasse" still bears witness to this today.
The "Espe" , a wooded area of about 10 hectares, was bought in 1327 by the Groß Ammensleben monastery. In 1811 the entrepreneur Johann Gottlob Nathusius from Althaldensleben bought it from the French general Michel Ney (at that time Ney was the owner of the domain Groß Ammensleben, which he had received as a donation from Napoleon Bonaparte). Nathusius cut down the trees and experimented with the cultivation of sugar beet on the parcel - but was unsuccessful at the time. He then sold it in 1818 to farmers from Vahldorf, who mainly grew rye there.
The village, originally laid out as a round village, finally changed its face in the 19th century, when industry and mobility brought new families to Vahldorf as well. In 1877 there were over 117 schoolchildren, which is why a second schoolhouse was built in 1879 in addition to the previous cantorate and school building from the 16th century - today's parish hall.
In 1871/72 the Magdeburg-Oebisfelde railway connection was built, but it was not until 1895 that Vahldorf received a stop. In 1897 rock or potash salt was drilled in Vahldorf; at a depth of 384 m they found what they were looking for. However, the shaft was later built further east near Zielitz .
The place had 742 inhabitants in 1910 and around 1925 it had essentially reached its present size. There were post offices, general stores, three inns and there were bakers, shoemakers and hairdressers as well as various craft businesses, of which only a few well-known companies exist today. The metal construction company, for example, as a descendant of the old village blacksmith's shop, can refer to a blacksmith's law from the 17th century. The two farms that have been preserved can look back on a long history: from before 1521 and 1776. Various house panels recall old farming families: Fehlhauer, Fehse, Fruth, Pauls, Sperbeck, Westphal. Vahldorfer Bördekäse is widely known. From January 1, 1934, the municipality of Vahldorf was a new, independent registry office district.
There are as yet no historical reports on the nearby gypsum hut, which was first mentioned in the chronicles of the Ammensleben monastery in 1323, and on the brickworks removed by the construction of the railway in 1871/72 and the construction of the Mittelland Canal in 1938.
Presumably not least because of its geographical location, the place was largely spared from outside influences, even if the population had left the place for a few years during the Thirty Years' War in 1635 and suffered some hardships during the French war invasion in 1806. The damp valleys of the ears must have kept many intruders away.
Vahldorf has always had a distant geographic location. This also applies to the traffic connections. The B71 federal road, the railway and the Mittelland Canal with a mooring point pass close to the village, but without affecting life in the village. On the other hand, even the industrial area that was created after the political turnaround in 1990 is away from all transport links from the village. In this way, Vahldorf has preserved its village unity even in times of upheaval.
On January 1, 2004, Vahldorf was incorporated into the newly formed community of Niedere Börde through a voluntary merger with seven other communities .
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on June 11, 2001 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.
Blazon : "In blue three golden bells (2: 1)."
The colors of the parish are gold (yellow) - blue.
The reason is u. a. executed:
The three bells from Vahldorf are among the oldest in Saxony-Anhalt. The middle bell was cast as early as 1478 by the founder of the Magdeburg foundry, Hans Bedding. The oldest bell carries u. a. a Latin inscription. Their diameter is 98 cm.
The small bell, 62 cm in diameter, bears the inscription “Oh King of Glory. Christ come with peace. In the year of the Lord 1501 ”. On the bell mantle of the big bell the Mother of God is depicted with the baby Jesus. The diameter of this bell is 117 cm. Its inscription reads: “O King of Glory Christ, come in peace; with you Maria, Johannes. In the year of the Lord 1502 ”.
It is noticeable that the people of Vahldorf document the longing for peace. No wonder, because in the 15th century the place was looted four times. It is amazing that there was still money for three bells. During the Second World War, the bells were brought to Hamburg to melt down. Fortunately, it didn't come to that and the community got it back after the war.
traffic
The Vahldorf stop is on the Oebisfelde – Magdeburg railway line . For Mittellandkanal exists since 1994 on port Vahldorf a link for cargo handling ship / road and a mooring facilities for passenger shipping .
Buildings
Church of St. John
The village church of Vahldorf goes back to the Romanesque period.
- originally rectangular Romanesque quarry stone building with west transverse tower
- various changes: in 1621 and 1710 rebuilding in the baroque style in the eastern part of the church and new construction of the upper tower floor
- 1781 Enlargement of the west gallery for the installation of the organ
- 1903 Addition of the apse, sacristy and northern porch
- End of the 20th century. Restoration of the wooden barrel ceiling.
Oldest rural three-way bell in the administrative district of Magdeburg: 1478, 1501 and 1502.
Oldest bell 1478: Magdeburg bell founder Hans Bedding; it is the middle bell of the three-ring bell, 98 cm Ø, 750 kg
Together with two other bells (1501 and 1502) from the workshop of the Magdeburg bell caster Clawes Backmester (also: Klaus Backmeister), it forms the triple ring:
- Small bell (1501): 62 cm Ø, 200 kg; Big bell (1502): 117 cm Ø, 1,150 kg.
- The two younger bells were removed in the Second World War to be melted down for war purposes and transported to the central Reichsammellager in Hamburg's free port. Fortunately, they returned to Vahldorf in 1950 unharmed.
Baroque organ by Adam Heinrich Ritze from 1781.
It is also the first organ in the church.
Organ work: 1 manual: C - d '' '; 1 pedal: C - d '; 10 registers
- 1787 repair by the Magdeburg organ builder Christoph Treutmann the Elder. J.
- 1868 Reconstruction by the Magdeburg organ builder Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Böttcher (1820–1883) with reshaping of some sound registers in the romantic taste of the time
- 1890 Works by the Magdeburg master organ builder Eduard Beyer
- 1917 Removal of the tin pipes from the prospectus for war purposes
- 1938 Installation of the electrical wind turbine
- 2010/11 extensive restoration by organ builder Andreas Gottschald from Schuke Orgelbau GmbH Potsdam
- June 24, 2011: Festive organ concert for the inauguration of the restored instrument.
Organ concerts and devotions are occasionally held. There is a church choir. A historical bench of singers has been preserved. The "singing boys" stood on this raised bench to start the community chants, especially before the organ was installed.
First cantor that can be identified by name (= school teacher and custodian): Johann Christian Güssow (1675–1755); furthermore Johann Gottfried Doebblin [also: Doebbelin, Döblin] (1803), Christian Andreas Mähnz (1847).
Pastor (until 1824)
The Lutheran Reformation was introduced in 1562.
- Andreas Pabst (1561 - † 1582)
- Johann Krüger (1582 - 1627)
- unoccupied
- Sebastian Sartorius (1632 - † 1636)
- Johann [es] Götten (Procurator of Hillersleben Monastery 1637)
- unoccupied (Thirty Years War)
- Henning Kruger (1645)
- Paul Habichorst (1645 - † 1682)
- Wilhelm von Sarrazin (1682 - † 1712)
- Heinrich Ludewig Götten (Substitute 1706 - 1707)
- Gebhard Johann Rölze (1713 - † November 29, 1722)
- Johann Caspar Blümler (1723-1745)
- Gottlieb Leberecht Bake (1745 - † 1783)
- August Heinrich Vorbrodt (1782: 1st adjunct)
- Johann Samuel Kirchhoff (1782: 2nd adjunct, pastor 1782 - † 1794)
- Johann Heinrich Christoph Schulze (1795-1809)
- Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Naue (1810 - after 1824)
Web links
literature
- Erco von Dietze: Vahldorf. In: Rüdiger Pfeiffer, Erco von Dietze, Wilfried Lübeck (eds.): "Connections" in a thousand-year-old cultural landscape between Magdeburg and the Altmark. On the history, culture, music and way of life in the Niedere Börde, (= contributions to Central German cultural history, volume 1), Peter Lang European Science Publishing House, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-631-51376-3 , pp. 103-109.
- Rüdiger Pfeiffer, Erco von Dietze, Wilfried Lübeck (Hrsg.): The Vahldorfer Gesangbuchstreit. On the history, culture, music and way of life in the »Niedere Börde« (= contributions to Central German cultural history. Volume 3). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58637-2 .
- Erco von Dietze, The Vahldorfer rural three-way bell. Vahldorf 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Government of Magdeburg . No. 814 . Magdeburg 1933, p. 256 .
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2004
- ↑ The coat of arms of the municipality of Vahldorf, documentation on the approval process , deposited at the State Main Archives Magdeburg
- ↑ Erco von Dietze: The Vahldorfer rural three- ring bell . Vahldorf 2009.
- ↑ Rüdiger Pfeiffer: The bells of the Church of St. Peter and Paul Groß Ammensleben - "A well-preserved medieval bell, therefore very valuable" . Ed .: Evelyn Kasper, Rüdiger Pfeiffer, Peter Zülicke. Friends of the historic monastery church in Groß Ammensleben on the Romanesque Road e. V., Groß ammensleben 2019, p. 17 .
- ↑ Rüdiger Pfeiffer: The Vahldorf Baroque Organ by Adam Heinrich Ritze 1781 . In: Pfeiffer, Rüdiger, Erco von Dietze, Wilfried Lübeck (eds.): The Vahldorfer Gesangbuchstreit, on the history, culture, music and way of life in the "Lower Börde" . tape 3 . Lang, Frankfurt, M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58637-2 , p. 45-53 .
- ^ Rüdiger Pfeiffer: The Vahldorfer Kantorat . In: Pfeiffer, Rüdiger, Erco von Dietze, Wilfried Lübeck (Eds.): The Vahldorfer Gesangbuchstreit . S. 29-43 .
