Mountains of wind

Mountains of wind City of Tangerhütte
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	47 m
Area :	32.41 km²
Residents :	301  (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	9 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 31, 2010
Postal code :	39517
Area code :	039361
Location in Saxony-Anhalt
Windberge village church

Windberge is a village and part of the town of Tangerhütte in the southwest of the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Windberge lies between Stendal and the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide in the south of the Altmark . The upper Tanger , a tributary of the Elbe , which rises in the neighboring town of Wittenmoor, flows through the municipality . The area is slightly hilly, towards the southwest the wooded area rises to 128 m above sea level. NN at (Bauernheide) . The village of Windberge is laid out as a typical street village.

The districts of Brunkau , Ottersburg and Schleuss also belong to the former municipality and current village of Windberge .

history

Windberge was originally a parish village and manor in the district of Stendal that was eligible for state assembly . The first written mention comes from the year 1168. The village church Windberge was built around the middle of the 13th century.

On September 30, 1928, the Windberge manor district was merged with the rural community of Windberge.

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality Schleuß was incorporated.

From July 25, 1952, the municipality of Windberge belonged to the Tangerhütte district and, from January 1, 1988, back to the then Stendal district. On June 1, 1950, the Schleuß community was incorporated into Windberge, and on January 1, 1974, the Ottersburg community.

On May 31, 2010, Windberge merged with the other municipalities of the Tangerhütte-Land administrative community to form the new town of Tangerhütte.

Population development

• 1990: 303
• 1995: 304
• 2000: 317
• 2001: 330
• 2002: 322
• 2003: 320
• 2004: 316
• 2008: 301

politics

Local mayor

Local mayor is Kay Sturm.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on May 21, 2010.

Blazon : “In red like a slightly lowered drawbar, a confluence of two streams, the two upper, undulating streams tapering towards the edge of the shield are double-banded in blue and silver, the silver-bordered blue stream flowing towards the base of the shield is also wavy, in the corner of the upper streams a continuous black grooved silver Wall with four battlements, the confluence in the lower part accompanied by a lowered golden scythe leaf at the front and a golden oak leaf at the back. "

The colors of the place are - derived from the main coat of arms (wall) and the shield color - white and red.

A forerunner coat of arms already existed in Windberge, which was developed by the municipality in the course of the village renewal in 1996 and has not been approved. From a heraldic point of view, this own creation cannot be approved, but the basic ideas were mostly used and adopted.

Windberge lies in the Altmark. Along with Mittelmark and Neumark, this is one of the ancestral lands of the Mark Brandenburg. The coat of arms of Brandenburg shows the red Brandenburg eagle in silver and the colors of the state are red - silver. For this reason, the shield color red was chosen and the castle tinged silver.

The two blue-silver wavy bars that flow together from the edge of the shield to the center and flow down to the base of the shield as a wider wavy bar, symbolize the many Tangier springs and reflect the geographical situation that they unite here to form the Tangier River.

The golden scythe leaf is symbolic of agriculture, which historically was the main source of income for the population living here. Even today the place is characterized by agriculture.

The golden oak leaf goes into the large forest areas of the district. These stretch far into the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide area. In addition, the leaf symbolizes the natural surroundings of the village.

The silver tinned wall that grows out of the confluence of the springs stands for the Ottersburg. This is a former Niederungsburg in the Tangier landscape exactly at the confluence of the source streams. Of this castle, only the former castle hill, also called Schlossberg by the locals, can be seen today. Archaeological excavations took place there in 2007. The four battlements of the wall stand as numerical symbols for the four districts of Brunkau, Ottersburg, Schleuß and Windberge.

The coat of arms was designed by Thomas Rystau from Hundisburg.

flag

The district flag is red - white - red (1: 4: 1) striped (landscape format: stripes running horizontally, lengthwise format: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

Regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .

Web links

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

• Windberge, Brunkau, Ottersburg and Schleuß villages. In: Pages of the unified municipality of the city of Tangerhütte. Retrieved May 7, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ JAF Hermes, MJ Weigelt: Historical-geographical-statistical-topographical manual from the administrative districts of Magdeburg . Topographical part. Verlag Heinrichshofen, 1842, Volume 2, p. 306
2. ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 209 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 344 .
4. ↑ Official Journal for the district of Stendal , May 30, 2010 (PDF; 2.0 MB)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Official Journal of the District , No. 13/2010, p. 182 (PDF; 2.0 MB)