Wust (Wust-Fischbeck)
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Wust-Fischbeck municipality
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| Height : | 31 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 47.52 km² | |
| Residents : | 866 (December 31, 2008) | |
| Population density : | 18 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2010 | |
| Postal code : | 39524 | |
| Area code : | 039323 | |
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Wust is a district of the municipality of Wust-Fischbeck in the Stendal district in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
geography
Wust is located in a sandy flatland with numerous ditches and brooks and mostly pine trees in the so-called Kattewinkel between the Elbe , the Land Schollene and the Jerichower Land , the eponym of the eponymous district to the south . The cities of Stendal and Rathenow are around 18 kilometers from Wust.
history
The Slavic pre-settlement of the area of Wust is documented by a Slavic castle wall , which is located about two kilometers northwest of the village and probably from the 9th / 10th. Century. Its contours are still clearly visible in the landscape today. The diameter of the system is about 90 meters and the wall is four to five meters high.
Heinrich Katt , who appears in documents from 1380 to 1392, was already the landlord of Wust, as well as Zollchow and Redekin . From then until the expropriation in 1945, Wust belonged to members of the Kattesche family.
Hans Hermann Katt, now known as Hans Hermann v. Katte , the son of the then owner of Wust, Hans Heinrich Katt , was aware of the planned escape of the Prussian Crown Prince and later King Frederick II in 1730 , by means of which he wanted to flee from his father's tyranny. The Crown Prince failed to escape and it was subsequently announced that Hans Herrmann Katt had covered this escape plan. Hans Herrmann was sentenced to life imprisonment by the military court. The king, Friedrich Wilhelm I , however, sharpened this judgment and ordered the execution. On November 6th, 1730, Hans Herrmann was executed in front of the Crown Prince in Küstrin . The bones of Hans Herrmann rest in the Kattegruft built in 1706/07 at the behest of his father Hans Heinrich Katt , which adjoins the Romanesque village church. Theodor Fontane visited Wust about this local peculiarity and described it in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg .
On September 30, 1928, the Wust manor was united with the rural community of Wust.
On July 1, 1950, the municipality of Melkow was incorporated and on July 25, 1952, after the dissolution of the district of Jerichow II, the municipality of Wust was incorporated into the newly formed district of Havelberg . In addition, on February 15, 1974, the municipality of Sydow with its district Briest was incorporated into Wust.
Until December 31, 2009, Wust was an independent municipality with the associated districts Briest, Melkow and Sydow and the residential areas Wust Siedlung and Wusterdamm.
The municipal councils of the municipalities Fischbeck (on June 4, 2009) and Wust (on February 17, 2009) decided by means of a territorial change agreement that their municipalities should be dissolved and merged into a new municipality called Wust-Fischbeck . This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on January 1, 2010.
politics
mayor
The last mayor of the community was Gerhard Faller-Walzer.
coat of arms
The coat of arms designed by Ernst Albrecht Fiedler, a graduate designer from Magdeburg, was approved by the Stendal district on September 17, 2007.
Blazon : "A red rafter in gold, covered with five six-pointed gold stars, in the corner of the rafter a sitting black cat with an erect tail."
The colors of the former municipality are derived from the color of the main motif and the tincture of the shield: red - gold (yellow).
The rafter stands for the union, the "common roof", of the five districts - Briest, Melkow, Sydow, Wusterdamm and Wust Siedlung - which are symbolized by the stars. At the same time it is reminiscent of the landscape of the “Kattewinkel”. The sitting black cat, a "talking" symbol, is reminiscent of the previously common (unofficial) Wuster coat of arms on the school building; further to the family von Katte, whose burial place is in the Wuster church.
Historical coat of arms
Wust already had a coat of arms-like seal image in the former municipal seal. This was used in the period after the Second World War until about the introduction of the districts and counties in the GDR (1945–1952). Another source is the County Home Museum in Genthin.
flag
The flag is striped red and yellow (1: 1) (landscape format: stripes running horizontally, lengthwise format: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.
Culture and sights
Buildings
After the previous building was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , Hans Heinrich Katt - known today as Hans Heinrich v. Katte - built the manor house in 1726/27 as the new seat of the Katte family. The simple two-storey baroque building with two side wings forms a kind of courtyard towards the church, in which loot cannons from the battle of Ramillies were set up. After the expropriation in 1945, the mansion was used as a school from 1948. Today it houses the primary school of the municipality of Wust and in summer the Wust summer school .
The church is hidden on the left, the former mansion on the right
Manor of those of Katte
Wust manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Romanesque village church in Wust
Opposite is the Romanesque village church of Wust , built around 1200 with a single nave - a starting point on the Romanesque Road . It belonged with its mother church Melkow to the Jerichow monastery until 1726 the family von Katte acquired the patronage right . After the Romanesque west building was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , the baroque half-timbered tower with a curved dome was added in the 18th century . The interior is from 1665. This includes the coffered ceiling made of Flemish oil painting on wood and the galleries with portraits of angels and the altar.
To the east of the apse is a brick crypt (with a square base), in which the bones of several kattes rest. It was built in 1706/07 when the first wife Hans Heinrich Katt Dorothea Sophie Countess v. Wartensleben (1684–1707) suddenly died and the tower crypt was already overcrowded. Her coffin is one of a total of ten, including Hans Heinrich's marble coffin and the wooden coffin of the foolish Stiefelkatte . In particular, Hans Hermann Katt was buried there in a simple wooden coffin in 1730, who was executed in Küstrin in 1730 in front of the Crown Prince and later King Frederick II .
At the back of the school, next to the park, is the four-story brick building of the granary , which was built between 1850 and 1867 . This offers space for art exhibitions, artistic workshops and concerts, especially in summer. The existing park was expanded to 25 hectares under Ludolf August Katt (1709–1776) in 1755 and turned into a baroque and landscape park . In 1945 the park was neglected and most of the statues were overturned and broken. The surviving statues (Mars, Diana, Flora and a nymph) were brought to the Mosigkau Park in 1951 .
theatre
The marionette stage in Briest was founded in 1981 as a project by the confirmands of the church district Wulkow / Wust and their catechist . First of all, rehearsals were held in the basement of the rectory in Großwulkow, and a portable stage was created for performances in churches based on traditional templates. In 1985 the parish council of Briest handed over the local church to the puppet stage for maintenance and use, after which a stationary stage was installed.
Others
Near the church in Wust there is a stork's nest on a high post, the number of visitors is documented annually on a small board.
Economy and Infrastructure
Transport links
Wust is on the federal highway 188 from Stendal to Rathenow . The road to Jerichow branches off from the B 188 in Wust . In the neighboring town of Schönhausen (Elbe) there is a rail connection to Stendal, Rathenow and Berlin . Regular buses and on-call buses run by Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen (RVW) under the brand name stendalbus .
education
Summer school Wust
Since 1991 a summer school for English language, literature, theater and music has been held in Wust every year during the holiday season. Students from Great Britain, Ireland and the USA teach participants of all ages from ten years of age in the primary school building in two two-week courses - sometimes also in the school yard when the weather is nice. The courses are staggered according to the previous knowledge of the English language.
In addition to the lessons and workshops for British and US history, literature, art, film and music, as well as the art, music and ceramics courses, numerous cultural events take place: poetry readings, choir singing, concerts, bike tours and, finally, a bilingual theater performance. In addition to the school, which is located in the former manor house, the gym, which has been converted into a clay hall, the old granary and the barracks of the sports field are used as event locations. Some events also take place in the surrounding areas. The participants of the courses mainly camp on the community sports field, but also have the opportunity to stay with families in the village. The summer school was started in 1991 on the initiative of Maria von Katte, Harriett Watts and others. The longstanding patron was Wolfgang Thierse , currently Bernhard Schlink . The summer school has become an established seasonal institution in the Kattewinkel and beyond. The prominent guests included Wolfgang Leonhard and Juli Zeh .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Hans Heinrich von Katte (1681–1741), Prussian Field Marshal General
- Wilhelm Herrmann (1846–1922), Protestant theologian and university professor born in Melkow
literature
- Jochen Reinecke, Maria v. Katte: WUST. In: Palaces and gardens in Saxony-Anhalt. 1st edition. Issue 15, Berlin 1997, DNB 979985021 . (2010, ISBN 978-3-941675-20-6 )
- GuM - history circle and marionette stage in the parish Wulkow / Wust (ed.): Six brick village churches in the Elb-Havel-Winkel and their special features. 5th edition. Großwulkow 2008, OCLC 254938426 .
Web links
- Wust at: Palaces and gardens in Saxony-Anhalt
- Rittergut Wust - Duncker of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 308 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 141-142.
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 225 .
- ↑ 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. 345-346 .
- ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 16/2009, pp. 172–174. (PDF; 4.5 MB)
- ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 20/2007, p. 110. (PDF; 492 kB)
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