Wittenberg district profile
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Municipal statistics
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- Population: 795 in 2019, on an area of 2,785.53 ha ≙ 0.29 inhabitants/ha
- Population: 777 in 2016, on an area of 2,785.53 ha ≙ 0.28 inhabitants/ha
- Population: 824 in 2013, on an area of 2,785.53 ha ≙ 0.30 inhabitants/ha
Residents with primary residence from the municipal register, reporting date 31 December. The area is the 2019 statistical district area and is used as a fixed denominator for all three density calculations; older district boundaries may differ. Municipal report 2013/2014, table 1, p. 7 (2013) · Statistical Yearbook 2019, p. 12 (area), p. 19 (2016 and 2019).
Historic district figures from the city register. The latest district year available here is 2019.
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Churches and built heritage
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The Church of Seegrehna is a remarkable choir tower church with a rich architectural and historical past. Its origins date back to the 13th century, when it was built as a Romanesque stone building with a nave, a retracted choir and an apse. Over the centuries she underwent numerous renovations, including two extensions of the ship to the west. A special landmark is the half-timbered tower built in 1650, which the villagers built in gratitude for their protection from a Swedish attack. This tower still belongs to the municipality today and is an important symbol of cultural heritage. [1]
The church retains many historical elements, including a Romanesque priest's door in the choir and a bricked-up arched window in the north wall. The interior is simple but impressive: the horseshoe gallery, the altarpiece with an inscription from 1653 and the octagonal pulpit, decorated with paintings of Christ and the Evangelists, are particularly noteworthy. The furnishings are complemented by a late Gothic, goblet-shaped baptismal font and two gravestones from the 18th century. [1]
The ceiling painting of the nave, created between 1730 and 1736, shows scenes such as the Resurrection and the Ascension and is by M. A. Siebenhaar. In the adjacent cemetery there are baroque and classical grave monuments that underline the historical significance of the place. [1]
Seegrehna itself was founded by German settlers between the 12th and 13th centuries and was subject to the Chapel of the Holy Corpse in Wittenberg. The church played an important role during the Reformation: Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt often stayed in the village. The church was built before the Reformation and was extensively repaired in 1720. [1]
M. Müller, who came to Seegrehna in 1785, is particularly worth mentioning. At the age of 16, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the Wittenberg faculty - an extraordinary achievement.
A comprehensive renovation of the church, including the renewal of the half-timbered tower, took place between 1990 and 1992 in order to preserve the historic building for future generations. Seegrehna remains not only a testimony to the past, but also a lively place of faith and community. [1]
1. Pohle, G. (1999). The village churches in the Wittenberg district (pp.75-76). Fläming Verlag. Edited and published online.
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Stories of the district
Segraina is a parish church village in the ducal Saxon Lutherstadt Wittenberg, which was incorporated on October 9, 1993. The place is located southwest of Wittenberg, not far from the Elbe and the Anhalter border in a meadow/full meadow (215-230 F, above sea level, with regard to the church tower at 51° 50'6'' latitude and 30° 14'0'' longitude).
Special features include a strong club life, e.g. B. the sports club Seegrehna 1993 e.V., founded on February 26, 1993, as well as the impact of the Elbe flood in 2002 when a dike burst, which flooded large parts of the town.
A settlement of Grodisti in the area of today's Seegrehna was mentioned as early as 1004.
domain
The manor belonged 300 years ago to those of Globig auf Groswig, in the years 1576 to 1587 to a Friedrich von Leußsch, in 1612 to those of Leußsch and the brothers and in 1754 Wiesigt was the owner.
Burgstall
Of the former built castle or border fortress, which was still habitable in 1510, you can see some ruins on the so-called Burgstall (the Burgstabil or Burgsfelde) of a known Holzmark.
Heinrichswalde
In the forest, however, not far from Crassensee, Prince Friedrich Heiner Eugen von Anhalt, Saxon field marshal and governor of Wittenberg, to whom August II had given Strauben as a hunting ground for life, built a beautiful hunting lodge, called Heinrichswalde.
Dr. Andreas Rudolf Bodenstein from Karlstadt
Dr. Dr. moved to Seegrehna from Wittenberg in 1524. Andreas Rudolf Bodenstein returned from Karlstadt, where his iconoclasm had made him hated. Here he lived as the so-called neighbor Undres in the manner of a farmer, which thirst forced him to do, and left Seegrehna in 1525 when he received the pastorate in Orlamünde. Banished from Saxony as a participant in the peasant unrest, he died in 1541. In Basel as a professor, and confessed there that he had been a doctor of theology for eight years without having learned about the Bible other than from Augustus' writings. A sign of the pre-Lutheran period.
MEDDLE STONE AGE (approx. 8000–4500 BC)
Collectors, hunters and fishermen used a sand island in the Elbe east of Seegrehna, on the so-called “Butterberg”, as a settlement site. Numerous flint microliths attest to their presence. Microliths are tiny, worked stone devices, usually made of flint, which can be easily split. These sharp-edged cuts served as components of tools such as harpoons, saws, drills or arrowheads.
Stadtgut, Burgwall, Vorwerk Domäne
Zukunftsweisend ist es für Seegrehna nötig, den Kern durch Zentralisierung des öffentlichen Lebens zu stärken, sowie die weitgehende Erhaltung des Bestandes. Eine Förderung des Tourismus ist nur erfolgreich, wenn Seegrehna mehr mit anderen Orten vernetzt wird. Auch Innovationen und Verbesserungen des Bestehenden sollen wieder für mehr Tourismus sorgen, wie zum Beispiel ein Senkgarten, der Besuchern ein kleines Abenteuer bescheren soll, so die Studentinnen Katja Lindrath und Carina Voge zu diesem Thema. Zudem soll die Wallanlage als Ausflugs- und Veranstaltungsort verbessert und genutzt werden. Auch ein wichtiger Punkt der Veränderung stellt, laut den Studentinnen Nancy Ungurean und Susanne Perplies das Stadtgut dar. Durch dessen massiven Charakter distanziert es sich stark vom „jungen“ Seegrehna. So ist es also nötig, dass ein gemeinschaftliches soziales Leben entsteht, welches durch einen Markt mit Halle, Konsum, Clubs, Vereinsräumen, sowie der Verwaltung zentral gebündelt wird. Auch die Feuerwehr erhält hier einen erhöhten Stützpunkt.
Doch auch die Domäne aus dem 16. Jahrhundert soll für Besucher in neuem Glanz erstrahlen. Maren Berbig, Studentin der HS Anhalt äußerte zu diesem Thema, dass eine Aufwertung des Ensembles stattfinden soll. Dazu gehören sowohl der Wiederaufbau des Südflügels, Errichtung von Handwerkszellen im Ostflügel, als auch eine Erdaufschüttung als Grenze des Gutes im Westen. Durch eine Mischnutzung von Gewerbe, Wohnen und Landwirtschaft soll die Domäne an den öffentlichen Verkehr und die Radwanderwege angeknüpft werden und damit ein Anziehungspunkt für Touristen und Wittenberger sein.
QUELLE 2006
- Katja Lindrath | Carina Voge | Susanne Perplies | Nancy Ungurean | Maren Berbig | Marco Gernt, Germany