Nebra (Unstrut)

Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Burgenland district
Association municipality :	Unstruttal
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.42 km 2
Residents:	3064 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	121 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06642
Area code :	034461
License plate :	BLK, HHM, NEB, NMB, WSF, ZZ
Community key :	15 0 84 360
; City administration address :	Promenade 13 ; 06642 Nebra (Unstrut)
Website :	stadt-nebra.de
Mayoress :	Antje Scheschinski ( independent )
Location of the city of Nebra (Unstrut) in the Burgenland district

Nebra, aerial photo (2018)

Nebra (Unstrut) is a country town in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the Unstruttal community in the north-western Burgenland district .

geography

Nebra is located between Querfurt and Naumburg on the Unstrut in the northwest of the Burgenland district .

City structure

Locality	Residents
Nebra	2467
Reinsdorf	551
Cheeks	551

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Querfurt , Barnstädt and Steigra (all three Saalekreis ) in the north, Karsdorf in the east, Bad Bibra in the south and Kaiserpfalz in the west.

history

Former quarry with red sandstone on the slope of the Unstrut

Unstrut Bridge and Schlossmühle, in the background the train station

Ruins of the old castle from the 16th century

On May 18, 876, Nebra was first mentioned as Neveri in the "Ingelheim Protocol" of the Imperial Monastery of Fulda. In the 12th century Nebra received city rights . The “von Nebra” ministerial family had their headquarters here and was first mentioned in 1205. The Thuringian taverns of Vargula had Nebra in fiefdom from 1259 to 1341 and called themselves "Schenken von Nebra". The castle Nebra left in 1540, the brothers of Nißmitz build.

Until 1815 the place belonged to the Wettin , later Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . The decisions of the Congress of Vienna he came to Prussia and in 1816 the county Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

For many centuries, red and salmon-colored Nebra sandstone has been mined on the Unstrut slopes . It was generally used as building material, for farmhouses but also for castles and other representative buildings such as the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The mining only came to a standstill in the 20th century.

Between 1952 and 1994, Nebra was the seat of the district of the same name in the Halle district and the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The name was changed on January 1, 1998, when the city of Nebra was renamed Nebra (Unstrut) .

In 1962, near Nebra auf der Altenburg, a red sandstone spur in the Unstruttal, four Venus figurines from the late Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) were found, which are among the oldest known works of art in Saxony-Anhalt. The figurines are 12,000 to 14,000 years old. They are exhibited in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle .

On July 4, 1999, the so-called Nebra Sky Disc was excavated from two robber graves on the Mittelberg together with a bronze treasure . It comes from the immediate vicinity of Nebra (Wangens) and is considered the earliest known representation of the sky in human history. It was made around 1600 BC. Buried while the manufacture dates from 2100 to 1700 BC. Is estimated.

On July 1, 2009, the previously independent community of Wangen was incorporated into Nebra, and on September 1, 2010 the community of Reinsdorf .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of the municipality of Nebra was last elected on May 26, 2019, with a voter turnout of 57.9% (2014: 51.3%). The result of the election and the composition of the municipal council are as follows:

Town hall Nebra

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	21.8%	4th
LEFT	19.4%	3
SPD	10.8%	2
AfD	21.2%	2
Groups of voters	25.1%	4th
total		15th

Town twinning

Plattling in Lower Bavaria

Culture

Nebra Sky Disc

Sights include the castle ruins and the Hedwig Courths Mahler archive in the Nebra Local History Museum with an exhibition on the Nebra Sky Disc and the Bronze Age . Several residential buildings are adorned with remarkable Renaissance portals.

On June 20, 2007, the Arche Nebra multimedia visitor center was opened near the place where the sky disc was found near Nebra . Part of the facility is a 30 m high observation tower inclined at 10 ° , which is divided into two parts with a vertical section. At the summer solstice, it marks the line of sight to the Brocken as the pointer of an oversized sundial .

Since 2004, the "Unstrut in Flammen" festival of lights has been taking place in June. The highlight are u. a. a big fireworks display, a boat parade and the duck regatta.

City Church of St. George
Neo-Renaissance castle from 1874
Nebra Ark Visitor Center
Venus figurines from Nebra

Burgenland Railway in front of Nebra

traffic

Nebra is located on the federal road 250 from Eckartsberga to Querfurt . The regional trains of Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland run on the Unstrutbahn every hour from Wangen (Unstrut) to Naumburg (Saale) . The connection to Artern was canceled with the timetable change in December 2006 by the Free State of Thuringia .

The Unstrut cycle path runs along the western edge of Nebra.

Personalities

Hedwig Courths-Mahler's birthplace

sons and daughters of the town

Gallus Dreßler (1533–1581), cantor and composer
Georg von Nißmitz (1575–1654), court master of the Electorate of Saxony
Franz Weineck (1839–1921), grammar school director and local researcher
Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), writer
Kurt Hickethier (1891–1958), physician, founder of the face analysis according to Schüßler
Rudolf Reichert (1893–1967), Lieutenant General
Joachim-Hermann Scharf (1921–2014), anatomist and biologist
Dieter Lindner (* 1937), athlete
Georg Christoph Biller (* 1955), Thomaskantor

People connected to the city

Michael Ranft (1700–1774), deacon in Nebra, vampirism researcher of the 18th century

literature

Otto Küstermann : On the history of the city, the castle and former judicial district of Nebra and its immediate surroundings as well as its relationship to the former Saxon office of Freiburg. In: Annual report of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for research into patriotic antiquity and preservation of its monuments. Halle, Volume 1897, pp. 40-92.
Dietrich Mania, Volker Toepfer, Emanuel Vlček: Nebra - a Upper Palaeolithic open-air station in the Saale-Unstrut area (= publications by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory , Volume 54). State Office for Archeology, Halle (Saale) 1999, ISBN 3-910010-36-9 .
Ernst Pfeil : On the history of the city and Nebra Castle on the Unstrut. August Schneider, Sangerhausen 1929–1933, DNB 361285418 .
Trautmann: Nebra city and castle. In: Thuringia and the Harz. 1839, p. 134.