Wasps (barby)

Wasps City of Barby
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 38"  E
Height :	51 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.68 km²
Residents :	229  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density :	85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2010
Postal code :	39249
Area code :	039298
Location of Wasps in Barby

Schrotholzkirche wasps

Wasps is a district of the town of Barby in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

The district of Wespens on the southeastern edge of the Magdeburg Börde is near the confluence of the Saale and the Elbe . The city of Barby is approx. 4 km, Magdeburg approx. 30 km away. The flat, productive arable land merges east of Wespen into the floodplain of the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve .

history

Wasps appears for the first time in 1494 in a loan book of the County of Barby as the desolate place "Worspe". On October 29, 1669, the desert field marrow wasps was assigned to Bohemian exiles by the Electorate of Saxony, Duke August . After the site was rebuilt, the local scrap wood church was built in 1680 . To this day it is the only shingle-roofed scrap wood church in Germany. On March 2, 1784, the entire town was flooded after the Elbe dam at Tornitz broke . After Prussia lost the battle near Jena and Auerstedt in the war against Napoleon in 1806 , French troops invaded Wasps on October 22, 1806 and plundered the village. From 1807 to 1813 Wespen belonged to the French-ruled Kingdom of Westphalia and was administered by the Canton of Barby in the Magdeburg district.

After the end of the French occupation, Wespen came back to Prussia. Due to the administrative reform of 1815, Wespen was part of the district of Calbe a./S. incorporated. At that time the place had about 180 inhabitants. In 1837 a one-class school was built. When the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line opened in 1839, the nearest train station was built in Gnadau . Ring riding , which is still a tradition of wasps , was held for the first time in 1855. In 1880 the population had increased to 359. While that number had increased to 488 in 1910, only 355 people were still living in wasps when World War II broke out .

On August 13, 1941, a British air mine hit courtyard number 22, destroyed the property leaving behind a huge crater, killed the two adult residents and seriously injured a girl. The residential and stable buildings were also devastated within a radius of 200 meters. The place was in shock. It was the first mine bomb that Anhalt had hit. Since the village was previously illuminated by two light bombs , the air war historian Olaf Groehler assumes that it was a test bombing.

Wasps was captured by the US Army in April 1945 and handed over to the Red Army in June . With the support of the Soviet military administration , an agricultural machine rental station (MAS) was founded in 1948 in Wespen, as everywhere in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) , which was later renamed Machine-Tractor-Stations (MTS). After the GDR was founded in the Soviet Zone in 1949 , it carried out its first administrative reform in 1950, with which the Calbe district was renamed the Schönebeck district . A more far-reaching administrative reform took place in 1952, with which the states on the territory of the GDR were abolished and replaced by districts. As a result, wasps were reclassified from the state of Saxony-Anhalt to the Magdeburg district .

On April 1, 1955, the agricultural production cooperative (LPG) "Mitschurin" was founded by some farmers in Wespen , which later changed its name to "1. May ”changed. It took until December 1959 for all farms to join the LPG. In January 1960 the LPG Wespen joined the LPG in Tornitz . In 1967 Wespen got a new kindergarten, but two years later the school was closed and all children had to go to Barby to attend classes. In 1969 the scrap wood church was extensively renovated. From 1972 the local administrative tasks were performed by the Barby community association. A new department store was opened in 1972 in the center of Wespen. Only 17 years after its renovation, the scrap wood church had to be closed by the building authorities in 1986.

The reunification of Germany brought both advantages and disadvantages to wasps' infrastructure. In 1990 the laying of a sewer pipe began, but the community nurses' station also closed. In 1992 the only restaurant closed, but the road to Mühlingen was given a new pavement. In 1994 the consumer department store was closed, and in 1996 the day-care center was closed. In 1997 the Schrotholzkirche was inaugurated again after four years of renovation, and underground cables for energy and telecommunications were laid. In 2009 the construction of a multi-purpose hall started. From 1991 to 2010, the number of inhabitants fell from 267 to 240. With the district reform in Saxony-Anhalt in 2007 , Wespen was incorporated into the newly created Salzlandkreis .

On January 1, 2010, the previously independent communities of Wespen, Breitenhagen , Glinde , Groß Rosenburg , Lödderitz , Pömmelte , Sachsendorf , Tornitz and Zuchau and the city of Barby (Elbe) merged to form the new city of Barby. At the same time, the Elbe-Saale administrative community , to which wasps belonged, was dissolved.

politics

The last mayor of the Wespen community was Gudrun Tulinski. Denis Funk is the local mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on January 8, 2008.

Blazon : "In red, two gold wasps turned upside down with black markings."

Community partnerships

The community maintains partnership relationships with the following locations:

• Grendave in Lithuania
• Jaroslaw in Poland
• Ivano Franko in Ukraine

Memorials

In the local cemetery , a grave commemorates an unknown Pole who was abducted to Germany during the Second World War and a victim of forced labor .

In front of the church there is a war memorial in memory of the citizens of Wasps who died in the world wars.

Transport links

Wasps lies between the country roads from Barby to Calbe (Saale) and from Barby via Gnadau to Schönebeck (Elbe) . The nearest train station is in the neighboring community of Gnadau ( Magdeburg - Halle route ).

References

1. ^ Olaf Groehler : Anhalt in the air war . Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, Dessau 1993. ISBN 3-910192-05-X . Pp. 27-28
2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
3. ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 1/2008 Page 5/6 ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Wasps (Börde)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.wespen.eu