Wolmirstedt () is a town in the

Börde A ''börde'' (plural: ''börden'') is a region of highly fertile lowland in North Germany, a "fertile plain". These landscapes often cover great areas and are particularly important for arable farming on account of their rich soils. These region ...

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is located 14 km north of

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

, on the river

Ohre The Ohre is a river in northern Germany, left tributary to the Elbe. Its total length is . Its source is north of Wolfsburg, in Lower Saxony. It flows generally south-east, at first following the border of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. After B ...

. The town Wolmirstedt consists of Wolmirstedt proper and the ''Ortschaften'' (municipal divisions) Elbeu,

Farsleben Farsleben is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the town Wolmirstedt Wolmirstedt () is a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is locate ...

, Glindenberg and Mose.Hauptsatzung der Stadt Wolmirstedt
May 2020.

History

*1009 first documentary mention *1274 Ruthger

von Blumenthal The von Blumenthal family are Lutheran and Roman Catholic German nobility, originally from Brandenburg-Prussia. Other (unrelated) families of this name exist in Switzerland and formerly in Russia, and many unrelated families (quite a few of them Je ...

appointed

Vogt During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German: ; French: ) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as ...

of Wolmirstedt *1348 the Emperor Charles IV stays in the town; issues decree releasing the burghers of

Pritzwalk Pritzwalk () is a town in the district of Prignitz, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 20 km west of Wittstock, and 33 km northeast of Wittenberge. The river Dömnitz flows through Pritzwalk. History Pritzwalk obtained municipal s ...

Havelberg Havelberg () is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the Havel, and part of the town is built on an island in the centre of the river. The two parts were incorporated as a town in 1875. It has a populati ...

Perleberg Perleberg (; North Margravian: ''Perlberg'') is the capital of the district of Prignitz, located in the northwest of the German state of Brandenburg. The town received city rights in 1239 and today has about 12,000 inhabitants. Located in a mostl ...

and

Kyritz Kyritz () is a town in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 28 km west of Neuruppin and 28 km southeast of Pritzwalk. The town has 9,260 inhabitants (2019). Overview The town is situated near the Ky ...

from their feudal duty to Louis of Bavaria. *1475 Dietrich

von Quitzow The von Quitzow family is a noble family of Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as ...

's men raid the town. *1590 municipal law *heavy destruction in the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

Wolmirstedt was district town of the Wolmirstedt District until 1994, when the districts Haldensleben and Wolmirstedt were united to form the Ohrekreis, with the seat of district administration in

Haldensleben Haldensleben (; Eastphalian: ''Halslä'') is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Börde district. Geography It is situated on the Ohre river, near the confluence with its Beber tributary, and the parallel Mitt ...

. In 2007, the Ohrekreis was merged with the Bördekreis district to form the

district.

Sights

* Historical town centre * Castle and historical castle church (northern brick gothic) File:Wolmirstedt Friedensstraße.JPG, Wolmirstedt File:39326 Wolmirstedt, Germany - panoramio - Marc Dorendorf (15).jpg, Wolmirstedt File:Schlossdomäne Bürgerhaus - panoramio.jpg, Castle Wolmirstedt

Infrastructure

In Wolmirstedt there is a large substation for 380kV. On the area of this transformer an HVDC back-to-back station with a transmission rate of 600 megawatts was planned, but this plan was canceled after the

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

in 1990, because it was decided to synchronize electricity mains of East and West Germany. The 380kV line running from the transformer station Wolmirstedt to the shut-down nuclear power station Lubmin is the longest power line in Germany.

Transport

* Near Wolmirstedt the

Mittellandkanal The Mittelland Canal, also known as the Midland Canal, (german: Mittellandkanal, ) is a major canal in central Germany. It forms an important link in the waterway network of that country, providing the principal east-west inland waterway connec ...

traverses the

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...

. * The city can be reached by means of the exit Magdeburg-center of the federal motorway A 2 as well as the federal highway 189.

Sons and daughters of the city

Anne Catherine of Brandenburg Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (26 June 1575 – 8 April 1612) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1597 to 1612 as the first spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark. Life Anne Catherine was born in Halle (Saale) and raised in Wolmirstedt. Her par ...

(1575–1612), Queen of Denmark *

Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg (28 August 1587 in Wolmirstedt – 1 January 1665 in Zinna Abbey) was a titular Margrave of Brandenburg, and from 1598 to 1631 Archbishop of Magdeburg. Life Christian Wilhelm was a son of Elector Joachim Fr ...

(1587–1665), Markgraf * Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757), the theologian at the Friedrichs-University Halle *

Friedrich Schrader Friedrich Schrader (19 November 1865 – 28 August 1922) was a German philologist of oriental languages, orientalist, art historian, writer, social democrat, translator and journalist. He also used the pseudonym Ischtiraki (Arabic/ Ottoman fo ...

(1865–1922), journalist and writer * Hans Schmidt (1877–1953), theologian * Gerd Domhardt (1945–1997), composer * Steffen Wesemann (born 1971), cyclist *

Carlo Westphal Carlo Westphal (born November 25, 1985 in Wolmirstedt) is a German professional road bicycle racer, currently unattached following the collapse of Team Gerolsteiner. Palmares * Thüringen Rundfahrt - 1 stage (2004) * 3rd, National U23 Road ...

(born 1985), cyclist

References

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