Wolmirstedt

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Wolmirstedt is a town in the Ohrekreis in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wolmirstedt has 10828 inhabitants and a size of 32 km². It is located 14 km north of Magdeburg, on the river Ohre.

Wolmirstedt is also the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Wolmirstedt, which consists of the following municipalities (population in 2005 between brackets):

Wolmirstedt * (10.716)
Farsleben (971)

1 History
2 Sights
3 Infrastructure
4 Transportation

[edit] History

1009 first documentary mention
1590 municipal law
heavy destruction in the Thirty Years' War

Wolmirstedt was until 1994 district town of the district of the same name. In this year the districts Haldensleben and Wolmirstedt were united to form the Ohrekreis, with the seat of district administration in Haldensleben.

[edit] Sights

historical town centre
castle and historical castle church (northern brick gothic)

[edit] Infrastructure

In Wolmirstedt there is a large substation for 380kV. On the area of this transformer a 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 one 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 powerline in Germany.

[edit] Transportation

Near Wolmirstedt the Mittellandkanal traverses the Elbe.
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.

Coordinates: 52°15′N 11°38′E