Waldau (Bernburg)
Waldau is a district of Bernburg (Saale) in the Salzlandkreis in the Magdeburger Börde in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
Waldau, as a district of Bernburg, is located directly on the L 50 and A 14 in the direction of Magdeburg on the left bank of the Saale , opposite the Bernburg mountain town.
Origin of name
Recorded forms of name include 806 Waladala , 1049 Waladal and 1207 Waledalen . This name is probably composed of the Old Saxon words wal (also: wel ) for 'Sumpfloch, Wasserloch, Kolk, Pfuhl' and dal for 'valley'. The transition to the Saale floodplain began in Waldau, which was then a very wide, swampy river valley.
history
Waldau is probably the oldest populated part of today's city of Bernburg. In 782 there was a Frankish royal court here. Another documentary mention comes from the year 806, in which Waldau is referred to as Waladala in the chronicle of the Moissac monastery (today in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris). There is reported in the manuscript of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH SS II p. 257 ff.):
- Quote: “Emperor Karl celebrated Easter in Nijmegen, and sent his son King Karl to Thuringia to a place called Waladala, and there he held his army show. And from there he sent his hosts across the Elbe; he himself moved across the Saale to Guerenaveldo. And then the proud King Milito, who ruled the Sorbian territory, was killed; and later he returned to the Elbe; and he devastated those regions and destroyed their castles. And the rest of the kings of these came to him, promising to serve the Lord and godly emperor, and taking hostages according to his will. And King Karl ordered them to build two castles, one north of the Elbe across from Magdeburg, the other east of the Saale in a place called Halle; then he returned to his father. "
In 964 a church in Waldau is mentioned for the first time, which at that time belonged to the Gernrode Memorial Foundation founded by Gero in 959 .
A bridge across the Saale was first mentioned in 1239. This was destroyed in 1408 by ice and floods and therefore rebuilt at a more suitable location. This was again destroyed by a flood in 1595 and rebuilt. The Waldau wooden bridge, which crossed the Saale and was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1644, was rebuilt as a stone bridge in 1787. Waldau was incorporated into Bernburg in 1871.
Sights and recreation
Several sights of the city of Bernburg are located in the Waldau area:
- Monastery,
- Waldauer flood bridge ,
- Kessler Tower,
- Waldau village church " St. Stephan " dates from the end of the 12th century and is thus the oldest Romanesque church of this type in Saxony-Anhalt. It has a semicircular apse and a square choir with a rectangular nave and a square tower. Two early Romanesque tombstones are in the door jambs of the tower. The church is a station on the Romanesque Road
In addition, the neo-Gothic Waldau Church , which was built in 1893 but is now derelict, is located in Waldau .
Waldau borders the local recreation areas Krumbholz and Saale Aue in the Lower Saale Valley Nature Park .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerd Villwock, Haik Thomas Porada: The lower Saale valley: a regional study between Halle and Bernburg. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2016, p. 92.
- ↑ Otto Schlüter, Oskar August (ed.) With the participation of numerous experts: Atlas of the Saale and central Elbe region. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1958–1960, supplement (part 2), p. 151: "Here was a Franconian royal court named 782."
- ↑ 1200 years of Waldau ( memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://blaues-band.de/saale/index.htm?bernburg.htm
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ' N , 11 ° 44' E
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