Walbeck, Börde

Walbeck
Stadtteil of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Ruins of the abbey church
Coat of arms
Walbeck
Location of Walbeck in Börde district
Coordinates: 52°17′N 11°4′E / 52.283°N 11.067°E / 52.283; 11.067Coordinates: 52°17′N 11°4′E / 52.283°N 11.067°E / 52.283; 11.067
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Börde
Town	Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Area
• Total	14.61 km2 (5.64 sq mi)
Elevation	96 m (315 ft)
Population (2011-12-31)
• Total	690
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	39356
Dialling codes	039061
Vehicle registration	BK

Walbeck is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen.

Walbeck is situated in the west of the Magdeburg Börde on the Aller River at the northeastern rim of the Lappwald hill range. It is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Weferlingen, near the border with Helmstedt in the state of Lower Saxony. A nearby crack of karstic (Muschelkalk) galleries is the site of a significant fossil deposit with numerous traces of Paleocene mammals () and birds.

With effect from 1 January 2010, Walbeck and the neighbouring municipalities of Oebisfelde, Bösdorf, Eickendorf, Etingen, Kathendorf, Rätzlingen, Eschenrode, Döhren, Hödingen, Hörsingen, Schwanefeld, Seggerde, Siestedt, and Weferlingen merged to form the new town of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen.

Walbeck was first mentioned in 929, when the local Saxon count Lothair I was killed in a battle against the Polabian Slavs near Lenzen. In 942 his son Count Lothair II of Walbeck dedicated a house monastery at his residence, part of a reparation after he had been involved in a failed assassination attempt instigated by the Ottonian duke Henry I of Bavaria against his brother King Otto I. Lothair reached his pardon; his son Count Lothair III of Walbeck and his descendants served as margrave of the Northern March from about 983.