Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

🇩🇪 Wolmirstedt is a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is located 14 km north of Magdeburg, on the river Ohre. The town Wolmirstedt consists of Wolmirstedt proper and the Ortschaften (municipal divisions) Elbeu, Farsleben, Glindenberg and Mose.

History • 1009 first documentary mention • 1274 Ruthger von Blumenthal appointed Vogt of Wolmirstedt • 1348 the Emperor Charles IV stays in the town; issues decree releasing the burghers of Pritzwalk, Havelberg, Perleberg and Kyritz from their feudal duty to Louis of Bavaria. • 1475 Dietrich von Quitzow's men raid the town. • 1590 municipal law • heavy destruction in the Thirty Years' War

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

Sights • Historical town centre • Castle and historical castle church (northern brick gothic).

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 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 Wolmirstedt station is located on the Magdeburg-Stendal-Wittenberge railway line and is served by regional express trains of the line RE20 (Magdeburg-Stendal-Uelzen) and the line S1 (Schönebeck-Salzelmen-Magdeburg-Stendal-Wittenberge) of the S-Bahn Mittelelbe every Until 1965, the place was also the starting point of the Kleinbahn Wolmirstedt-Colbitz.

At Wolmirstedt, the Mittelland Canal crosses the Elbe. The city can be reached via the Magdeburg-Zentrum junction of the Bundesautobahn 2, the Wolmirstedt junction of the Bundesautobahn 14 and the Bundesstraße 189.

Museums • The Museum Wolmirstedt was founded in 1927 on the initiative of the teacher Hans Dunker. His building, a reconstructed quarry stone barn, is located in the middle of the castle domain. It houses several permanent exhibitions on the history of the city, as well as natural history and geological exhibitions and three historical workshops (stillmacherrei, Schmiede and Sattlerei). • The pharmacy museum uses the first floor of the 300-year-old Adler pharmacy (Friedensstraße 48). It is open to the public by appointment. This includes a herb garden with numerous medicinal plants. The museum director is Konrad Riedel. 20]

Memorials • Memorial in the St. Katharinen cemetery for six unknown concentration camp prisoners who were murdered at the Haidberg near Lindhorst in April 1945, were initially buried there and buried here in 1946. They probably belonged to a death march from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. • Graves in the same cemetery for 32 well-known women and men of different nations who were deported to Germany during the Second World War and were victims of forced labor in agriculture and the sugar factory of the large landowner Loß.

Buildings • The most remarkable architectural monuments are Wolmirstedt Castle and the historic castle chapel as testimonies of brick Gothic. Locally referred to as the castle domain, the castle is now the seat of the branch of the Haldensleben District Court. In the 16th In the 19th century, the later Elector Joachim Friedrich of Brandenburg lived as an administrator at the then castle. During this time, it became a representative Renaissance residence (similar to Bernburg Castle). Later, the castle fell into disrepair, and to rebuild the destroyed city, many parts were removed at the end of the Thirty Years' War. In the 18th century, the castle received its present form in simple Baroque. Since that time, the castle has been used by the Prussian state as an agricultural domain. Buildings preserved today are the castle with chapel, the manor house (18. century), gatehouse, stables (today library) and field stone barn (district museum). The first documentary mention in 1014 describes an attack in 1009 on the eastern wall of the Oberburg. This wall has been preserved fragmentarily until recently and was to be addressed as the oldest building in the city. In 2007, the wall fragments were demolished to create car parking spaces for the 1000th anniversary of 2009.

The noteworthy buildings in the historic city centre include: • the Old Town Hall, in the core from the 16th century, today a residential and commercial building, • the Kurfürst-Joachim-Friedrich-Gymnasium, built in 1995 for 30 million marks and • an arcade house in August-Bebel-Straße 49, built in the 18th century.

The other sacred buildings besides the castle church are: • the Protestant church of St. Katharinen in the centre of Wolmirstedt; the city is the seat of the church district Haldensleben-Wolmirstedt in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, • the so-called New Abbey a little east of St. Catherine, • the Catholic church of St. Josef in Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, built in 1936, now belongs to the parish of St. Christophorus based inHaldensleben, • a new Apostolic church on Friedensstraße; the community dates back to 1905 and • in the Bürgerhaus on the castle domain, the divine services of the Pentecostal congregation Wolmirstedt take place; it belongs to the Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Congregations.

West of the city centre are: • Auerbach's mill, a buck windmill from 1842 and • the Jewish cemetery.

Sport The city administration lists several sports clubs on its website, including sports such as football, handball, judo, canoeing, tennis and table tennis. The Baskets Wolmirstedt are probably best known nationwide. In the summer of 2021, the club rose from the fourth-class regional league to the ProG professional league. The main and name sponsor of the basketball professionals is the local Segment-Behälter-Bau GmbH (SBB).

Public institutions • Bodelschwingh Haus Wolmirstedt e. V., social-diaconal institution • Education and leisure center

Education • Kurfürst-Joachim-Friedrich-Gymnasium, over 70 teachers teach around 1200 students in the main building and the branch office • Secondary school Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz • All-day school Johannes Gutenberg • Diesterweg Primary School • School for the Intellectually Disabled Gerhard Schöne • Kreisvolkshochschule Ohrekreis branch office Wolmirstedt • Technical School for Social Pedagogy of the Bodelschwinghhaus