Walbeck (Oebisfelde-Weferlingen)

Walbeck City of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	96 m
Area :	14.61 km²
Residents :	690  (December 31, 2011)
Population density :	47 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39356
Area code :	039061

Walbeck is a district of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Walbeck is around four kilometers south of Weferlingen on the northeastern edge of the Lappwald forest . Remains of a mammal and bird fauna from the Middle Paleocene around 60 million years ago come from a former karst fissure north of the village ( Walbeck fossil deposit ).

Local division

The Walbeck and Drachenberg districts and the Barriere Rehm residential area belong to the locality of Walbeck.

history

Walbeck was first mentioned in a document in 929.

Quarrying and processing quartz sands have shaped the region since 1925 .

During the Second World War , around 3,000 men, women and children who had been deported to Germany had to do forced labor in engine production at a depth of around 500 meters in the Burbach Group's shafts . Towards the end of the war from August 23, 1944 to April 12, 1945, there was also a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Walbeck with 450 to 500 prisoners, some of whom had to spend the night in the depths of the “Gerhard” shaft.

During the GDR era, Walbeck was just under a kilometer from the inner-German border, as can be seen in the former accommodations for members of the GDR border troops and the MfS , some of which were converted into condominiums in the 1990s .

From 1994 to January 1, 2005, Walbeck belonged to the administrative community of Weferlingen , from 2005 to December 31, 2009 to the administrative community of Flechtingen .

The Walbeck community center has been named after the actor Ulrich Mühe, who died in 2007, since 2008 .

By means of a territorial change agreement, the municipal councils of the municipalities of Oebisfelde (on May 27, 2009), Bösdorf (on May 26, 2009), Eickendorf (on May 28, 2009), Etingen (on May 26, 2009), Kathendorf (on May 19 , 2009) May 2009), Rätzlingen (on May 27, 2009), Eschenrode (on May 28, 2009), Döhren (on May 28, 2009), Hödingen (on May 20, 2009), Hörsingen (on May 27, 2009), Schwanefeld (on May 25, 2009), Seggerde (on June 26, 2009), Siestedt (on May 28, 2009), Walbeck (on May 28, 2009), and the Flecken Weferlingen (on May 19, 2009) that their communities dissolved and united to a new town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen . This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.

After implementation of the unification agreement of the previously independent municipality of Walbeck, Walbeck and Drachenberg will become districts of the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. For the included municipality, the local constitution according to §§ 86 ff. Of the rules of procedure of the state of Saxony-Anhalt is introduced. The recorded community of Walbeck and the future districts of Walbeck and Drachenberg will be part of the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. A local council with ten members including the local mayor is formed in the incorporated municipality and now the village of Walbeck.

religion

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Michaelis Church was built from 1888 to 1892 in the neo-Romanesque style, it replaced a previous building at the same place. Your parish is part of the parish area Beendorf, in the region West of the church district Haldensleben Wolmirstedt-the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . A memorial room in the basement of the church named after Archangel Michael commemorates the victims from the Buchenwald concentration camp who had to work underground in the salt mine. The "Förderverein Kirchhof Walbeck eV" supports the preservation of the church premises, a former cemetery.

As a result of the Second World War due to the influx of expellees from the eastern territories of the German Reich Catholics in since the re- reformation had settled Protestant Walbeck, in 1951 one in the loft of a barn decorated chapel inaugurated. In 1985 this chapel , located on the Bergstrasse 18 property, was abandoned because the number of Catholics had decreased again and no material was available for the necessary repair of the roof. In the meantime, the attic, in which the chapel was located, has been demolished. Today the church " St. Joseph and St. Theresa of the Child Jesus " in Weferlingen, about four kilometers away, is the closest Catholic church.

politics

The non-party politician Brunhilde Fucke was honorary mayor from 1994 to 2008. Her successor is Martin Herrmann, who was elected on February 24, 2008 and was in office until December 31, 2009, and has been the local mayor since then.

Local council

According to the last local election on June 7, 2009, the council had ten members. Due to the founding of the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen, the local council automatically became a local council. The turnout was 45.6%. The choice brought the following result:

	Individual applicants	7 seats	(75.1%)
	Groups of voters	2 seats	(11.3%)
	SPD	1 seat0	(13.6%)

In 2014, a local council with seven members was elected. The local mayor is also a member of the local council as chairman.

badges and flags

The coat of arms was approved on July 7, 1997 by the Magdeburg Regional Council.

Blazon : "In over arched red, silver sign foot, covered with a blue wave bar, a silver monastery ruins with open archway, accompanied by rising 9 silver lime leaves."

The colors of the parish were silver (white) - red.

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

The flag is white - red (1: 1) striped and centered with the local coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Ruin of the collegiate church

• The ruins of the former Walbeck collegiate church stand on the Walbeck Domberg.
• In the neo-Romanesque village church there is a remarkable grave slab (epitaph) of Count Lothar II von Walbeck , which comes from the collegiate church.
• To the west, in the Lappwald forest, remains of the Helmstedter Landwehr can be found .
• Two watchtowers from the 13th century, known as the 1st and 2nd Walbeck Watch Tower, are still preserved.
• In the local cemetery eight graves commemorate the prisoners, among whom were two children, as well as a memorial stone of the events during the Second World War.

Infrastructure

education

The secondary school Walbeck was closed in 2005 by resolution of the district council of the then Ohrekreis . The former school catchment area was divided and assigned to the secondary school Brothers Grimm Calvörde and the secondary school Albert Niemann Erxleben .

traffic

It is around eight kilometers to the south to Bundesstrasse 1, which connects Braunschweig with Berlin . The Bundesautobahn 2 junction Alleringersleben (64) is reached after eleven kilometers.

Walbeck is also located on the Haldensleben – Weferlingen railway line, which is used exclusively for freight traffic .

Personalities

Ulrich Mühe's summer house

• Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), German film and theater actor, died in Walbeck

literature

• Kurt Bartels: Familienbuch Walbeck, Aller (district Börde) Saxony-Anhalt, 1643 to 1814. Leipzig: AMF 2011, 2nd edition (= Central German local family books of the AMF 25)

Web links

Commons : Walbeck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Gazette of the District No. 45/2009 page 1-5 (PDF; 3.5 MB)
2. ↑ http://www.kirchenkreis-haldensleben-wolmirstedt.de/kirchenkreis/pfarrbereich-und-gemeinden/beendorf/
3. ^ Alfred Hanus: Development of the Catholic parish in Weferlingen. Weferlingen 2005, pp. 24, 25, 34, 57
4. ↑ 2014 election results (PDF), accessed on June 27, 2018