Westewitz (Petersberg)

Westewitz Municipality Petersberg Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 38 ″  E
Residents :	67  (March 7, 2019)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1938
Incorporated into:	Wallwitz
Postal code :	06193
Area code :	034606

Westewitz is a district of the village of Wallwitz in the large community of Petersberg in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Until the formation of the Petersberg unified community on January 1, 2010, Westewitz was a district of the Wallwitz community and since July 1, 2006 a district of the Götschetal community . Westewitz was incorporated into Wallwitz on October 1, 1938.

geography

The place Westewitz is about ten kilometers north of Halle (Saale) southwest of the 250 m high Petersberg . The Götsche separates the village from the local area of ​​Wallwitz.

history

Westewitz belonged as schriftsässiger place to manor Ostrava , which from 1485 to wettinischen Office Delitzsch belonged. The area of ​​the manor Ostrau was spatially separated from the rest of the Delitzsch office. Westewitz and its neighboring village Frößnitz were in turn separated from the Ostrau manor district by the Wettin office of Petersberg .

Since the 1697 completion of the sale of the Office Petersberg at Brandenburg-Prussia Frößnitz and Westewitz formed an electoral Saxon enclave in Saalkreis of belonging to Prussia Duchy of Magdeburg . However, they continued to pay interest to the now Prussian office of Petersberg. Ecclesiastically, both places continued to belong to the Petersberg parish . In 1806, Petersberg and the Prussian Saalkreis were occupied by French troops. As a result, the now royal Saxon exclave Frößnitz / Westewitz was surrounded by the Halle district in the Saale department of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 .

After the defeat of Napoleon and the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Westewitz was again surrounded by Prussia in 1813. As a result of the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna , the exclave towns of Frößnitz and Westewitz, like most of the towns of the Saxon Delitzsch office, became part of Prussia in 1815, whereby their exclave status ended. The two places, like their surrounding area, were assigned to the Saalkreis in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony in 1816.

On October 1, 1938, Westewitz was incorporated into Wallwitz. During the district reform in the GDR , Westewitz came as a district of the Wallwitz community in 1952 to the reduced Saalkreis in the Halle district , which was merged into the Saalekreis during the district reform in 2007.

Since July 1, 2006 Westewitz has belonged to the Wallwitz district of the newly formed Götschetal community . When the unified community Petersberg was formed on January 1, 2010, the community Götschetal was dissolved and its districts became localities of the new large community Petersberg.

politics

Westewitz belongs to the village of Wallwitz, which has its own local council and local mayor.

traffic

The federal motorway 14 , which leads from Leipzig to Magdeburg , is located south of Westewitz. The next exit is " Halle-Trotha ". In the neighboring town of Wallwitz there is a rail connection to the Halle – Halberstadt line .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The manor Ostrau and its locations in the book "Geography for all estates", p. 519
2. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 56 f.
3. ^ The Ostrau estate in the state archives of Saxony-Anhalt
4. ^ Streiflichter from the history of the Petersberg office (1) by Dr. Werner Dietrich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Description of the Saale Department
6. ^ The hall circle in the municipality register 1900
7. ↑ Westewitz on gov.genealogy.net
8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006