Zahna Magpie

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Wittenberg
Area :	148.58 km 2
Residents:	9222 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06895
Primaries :	034924, 034922, 035383, 035387
License plate :	WB, GHC, JE
Community key :	15 0 91 391
City administration address :	Am Rathaus 1 06895 Zahna-Elster
Website :	www.stadt-zahna-elster.de
Mayor :	Peter Müller (Free Voters)
Location of the city of Zahna-Elster in the district of Wittenberg

Zahna-Elster is a town and community in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Zahna-Elster is located in the north of the Wittenberg district and extends between Fläming and Elbe .

City structure

According to the main statute of the city, Zahna-Elster consists of nine localities with a total of 20 districts. The localities of the statutes largely represent the previously independent municipalities.

1. Dietrichsdorf with Külso
2. Elster (Elbe) with Gielsdorf, Iserbegka and Meltendorf
3. Gadegast
4. Leetza with Raßdorf and Zallmsdorf
5. Listerfehrda
6. Mühlanger with Gallin
7. Zahna with Bülzig, Klebitz, Rahnsdorf and Woltersdorf
8. Zemnick
9. Zörnigall

The village of Zörnigall consists of an older village and the newer settlement , which is a little off the beaten track in the north-west of Zörnigall-Dorf .

The locations of Zörnigall and the hamlets of Ottmannsdorf and Wolfswinkel are no longer expressly mentioned in the statutes. The same applies to the districts of Hohndorf and Prühlitz, from whose merger the town of Mühlanger was created on April 1, 1939.

Location of all districts of the city of Zahna-Elster (clickable map)

District boundaries of Zahna-Elster

	Rahnsdorf ,  Klebitz , Woltersdorf ,  Zahna , Bülzig	(Ottmannsdorf), Zallmsdorf , Leetza , Rassdorf
Zörnigall Külso , Dietrichsdorf		Gadegast (Wolfswinkel), Zemnick
Mühlanger , (Hohndorf), (Prühlitz), Gallin	Meltendorf , Gielsdorf , Iserbegka ,  Elster (Elbe)	Listerfehrda

history

Origin of the city

Zahna-Elster was created on January 1st, 2011 from the amalgamation of municipalities of the Elbaue-Fläming administrative community .

Incorporations

Before the city of Zahna-Elster was formed, there were a number of incorporations into the city's founding communities in its current area. The incorporation into Zahna took place in 1992, 2003 and 2008. There were further incorporations in 1950 and 1974.

Due to a formal error, the incorporation of Mühlanger from January 1, 2011 on May 29, 2013 was declared invalid by the state constitutional court, which came into force again on January 1, 2014.

Former parish	date	annotation
Bülzig	July 1, 2008	Incorporation after Zahna
Dietrichsdorf	January 1, 2011
Elster (Elbe)	January 1, 2011
Gadegast	January 1, 2011
Gallin	May 1st 1974	Incorporation to Mühlanger
Gielsdorf	July 1, 1950	Incorporation to Elster (Elbe)
Hohndorf	April 1, 1939	Merger with Prühlitz to Mühlanger
Iserbegka	July 1, 1950	Incorporation to Elster (Elbe)
Klebitz	January 1, 1992	Incorporation after Zahna
Leetza	January 1, 2011
Listerfehrda	January 1, 2011
Meltendorf	1st January 1974	Incorporation to Elster (Elbe)
Mühlanger	January 1, 2011 May 29, 2013 January 1, 2014	Restoration of the community again incorporation
Prühlitz	April 1, 1939	Merger with Hohndorf zu Mühlanger
Rahnsdorf	July 1, 2003	Incorporation after Zahna
Woltersdorf	July 1, 1950	Incorporation to Bülzig
Zahna, city	January 1, 2011
Zallmsdorf	July 1, 1950	Incorporation to Leetza
Zemnick	January 1, 2011
Zörnigall	January 1, 2011

politics

City council

The city ​​council of Zahna-Elster consists of 19 city councilors in the 2019-2024 electoral period and has been composed as follows since the local elections on May 26, 2019 :

Party / group of voters	Share of votes	Seats	+/-
CDU	29.2%0	6th	± 0
AfD	9.5%	1	+ 1
The left	7.4%	1	- 1
SPD	7.1%	1	- 1
Free voters	38.2%0	8th	+ 1
Agriculture, Environment and Nature (LUN)	8.5%	2	± 0
total	100%	19th
Turnout: 62.4%

The mayor is an additional member.

mayor

Peter Müller (Free Voters) was elected Mayor of Zahna-Elster on November 7, 2010 with 54.9 percent of the valid votes. He was confirmed in office for another seven years on September 24, 2017 with 79.3 percent of the valid votes.

Local councils

The urban area is divided into nine localities, each represented by a local council and local mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on May 10, 2011 by the Wittenberg district.

Blazon : “Diagonally square of silver and blue, at the top a blue carp swimming to the left, in front and behind a golden ear of wheat with stalk leaves at the bottom a blue pike. A three-towered red castle with an open archway grows in the golden central shield of a wavy blue shield base; the towers with black windows and bellied red pointed roofs; the middle tower is raised, with ledges and stronger than the others. "

The coat of arms designed by the local heraldist Jörg Mantzsch combines elements of the coats of arms of the eponymous districts of Zahna and Elster (Elbe) as well as the previous administrative community. While the middle shield refers to Zahna with reduced symbolism and changed tinctures, the fish refer to the earlier fishing, the ears of wheat to the agricultural tradition of the villages.

The city's colors are blue and white.

flag

The flag is blue and white (1: 1) striped (cross shape: stripes running horizontally; lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.

Sankt-Marien-Kirche Zahna

Church Elster

Attractions

• Zahna: Sankt-Marien-Kirche , Romanesque cruciform church from the 12th century
• Zahna: Hospital to the Holy Spirit
• Elster: Church from 1867
• Elster: Post mill

traffic

The federal road B 187 between Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Jessen (Elster) and the state road L 126 between Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Klebitz run across the city.

The city is served by the Berlin – Halle railway line (Zahna, Bülzig, Zörnigall railway stations) and the Roßlau – Falkenberg / Elster railway line (Mühlanger and Elster [Elbe] railway stations). The Klebitz station on the Berlin – Halle line has not been served since December 14, 2014.

The Berlin-Leipzig cycle path leads through the districts of Zörnigall, Bülzig, Zahna and the hamlet of Ottmannsdorf.

Web links

Commons : Zahna-Elster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ^ Main statute of the city of Zahna-Elster from August 14, 2014
3. ↑ Mühlanger, Chronicle of our home. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014 ; Retrieved April 10, 2014 . 
4. ↑ GemNeuglG WB
5. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 1992
6. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
7. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2008
8. ↑ 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 .
9. ↑ State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt: Result of the 2019 local elections in Zahna-Elster , accessed on June 19, 2020
10. ^ Result of the election on November 7, 2010
11. ^ City of Zahna-Elster. Mayor renews oath of office. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 29, 2017
12. ↑ ^{a b} Official Gazette of the District No. 10/2011 page 2 (PDF; 2.3 MB)
13. ↑ Jörg Mantzsch : The coat of arms of the city of Zahna-Elster, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the district of Wittenberg 2011 (report: State main archive Magdeburg)
14. ^ The decommissioned Klebitz station. Retrieved April 10, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Local traffic in Klebitz: Train rushes through. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .