Bad Schmiedeberg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ N , 12 ° 44 ′ E |
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| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | Wittenberg | |
| Height : | 100 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 160.02 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8223 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 51 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 06905 | |
| Primaries : | 034925, 034243 , 034926 , 034927 | |
| License plate : | WB, GHC, JE | |
| Community key : | 15 0 91 020 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BMD | |
City administration address : |
Market 10 06905 Bad Schmiedeberg |
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| Mayor : | Martin Röthel ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the town of Bad Schmiedeberg in the Wittenberg district | ||
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Bad Schmiedeberg , until 1925 Schmiedeberg , is a town in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
geography
Geographical location
The state-approved moor, mineral and Kneipp spa Bad Schmiedeberg is located in the Dübener Heide nature park about 30 km southeast of the district town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg and about 50 km northeast of Leipzig .
The district of Pretzsch is located in the Elbaue. Approx. Five kilometers east of the health resort is the Lausiger Teiche and Runaway Pond nature reserve .
City structure
Since then, Bad Schmiedeberg has comprised eight localities with 25 districts: the formerly independent towns of Bad Schmiedeberg and Pretzsch (Elbe) and the former communities of Korgau , Meuro , Priesitz , Schnellin , Söllichau and Trebitz .
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history
The place was first mentioned in 1206 as Smedeberg . In 1350 he received city rights .
Bad Schmiedeberg belonged to the Electorate or Kingdom of Saxony, Amt Wittenberg until 1815 , then to 1945 to the Prussian province of Saxony , in the Soviet Zone and early GDR to the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Since 1952 the city has belonged to the GDR - Halle district , which in 1990 became part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
In 1878 the city founded the municipal iron moor bath.
In 1925 Schmiedeberg received the official title "Bad".
In 1934, two thing places of the Nazi movement were set up in the Dübener Heide .
On July 1, 1950, the previously independent communities Großwig, Morschwig, Patzschwig and Splau were incorporated.
A meeting of the student associations officially banned in the GDR took place on May 29, 1986 in Bad Schmiedeberg, in which student groups from Dresden, Freiberg, Leipzig, Jena and Magdeburg took part.
The municipal councils of the municipalities of Korgau (on October 11, 2007), Meuro (on December 3, 2007), Priesitz (on December 17, 2007), Schnellin (on November 22, 2007), Söllichau (on November 15, 2007) decided by means of a territorial change agreement 2007), Trebitz (on November 14, 2007), City of Pretzsch (Elbe) (on January 31, 2008) and the city of Bad Schmiedeberg (on November 1, 2007) that their cities and municipalities dissolved and become a new unified municipality with the Name of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg. This contract was approved by the county as the lower local supervisory authority and came into effect on July 1, 2009.
For the newly formed town of Bad Schmiedeberg, the local constitution was introduced according to §§ 86 ff. Of the municipal code of Saxony-Anhalt . Settlements of the newly formed town Bad Schmiedeberg become the dissolved towns and communities and future districts Bad Schmiedeberg, Pretzsch (Elbe), Korgau, Meuro, Priesitz, Schnellin, Söllichau, Trebitz. The respective localities bear the name of the respective district. The administrative community Kurregion Elbe-Heideland , whose seat was in Bad Schmiedeberg, was dissolved at that time.
On July 1, 2014, the new municipal constitutional law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt came into force. In its §14 (2) the municipalities are given the opportunity to assign this designation to the districts that were towns before the incorporation. The city of Bad Schmiedeberg has made use of this regulation. Its main statutes are available in the version dated November 18, 2016. In §15 (1) the localities and districts are listed with their official names.
religion
23% of the population are Evangelical Lutheran, 4% Catholic. The Lutheran parishes of Bad Schmiedeberg (with the town church Bad Schmiedeberg and village churches in Patzschwig, Reinharz and Söllichau), Meuro / Ogkel and Pretzsch (with the town church Pretzsch and village churches in Bösewig, Österitz, Priesitz, Sachau ) belong to the Wittenberg parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and Trebitz). The Catholic Church of St. Maria Regina Pacis in Bad Schmiedeberg and the Marienkapelle in Pretzsch belong to the parish of St. Marien (Lutherstadt Wittenberg) in the diocese of Magdeburg .
politics
City council and local council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following distribution of the seats in the city council and in the local council of Bad Schmiedeberg:
* One seat cannot be allocated, vacant according to § 39/7 KWG LSA, |
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mayor
The first mayor of the city after reunification was Reinhard Stefaniak (CDU).
Stefan Dammhayn ( CDU ) has been mayor of Bad Schmiedeberg since April 3, 2005. Since June 21, 2009 he has been the full-time mayor of the new unified community "City of Bad Schmiedeberg".
On April 3, 2016, Martin Röthel ( SPD ) was elected as his successor for a term of seven years with 53.3 percent of the valid votes.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Dessau Regional Council on September 13, 1994 and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 46/1994.
Blazon : “In silver, a red castle with a tin wall and five tinned towers with blue pointed roofs and knobs; the wide, lower central tower with an open black gate and raised portcullis, a round and a square black opening above the gate, a red and silver flag on the roof knob. "
The city colors show red - silver (white).
There are descriptions of the coat of arms of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg from a correspondence between the magistrate and the Prussian State Archives in Magdeburg from 1927: “… a five-tower castle with a wide, lower gate tower with an open gate and an adjoining battlement wall, above which a higher round tower appears on each side on the outside bears a smaller oriel tower. ”The same picture has a seal used in 1491:“ SIGILLUM CIVITATIS SMEDEBERGENSIS ”. The castle was later changed into five towers standing freely next to each other. The symbolism of the gate tower with four more towers and tin walls results from the view of the city before it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1637.
First mentioned as a town in 1350, “Smedeberg” was burned down in 1429 by the Hussites . The reconstruction of the city is accompanied by a strong walling with two city gates. The northern Aue gate was first mentioned in 1490. The town church (1454), which was rebuilt in late Gothic style, has four towers as a symbol of the seat of an archpriest . In 1570 the construction of the town hall was completed with a roof turret. In the city view, five towers protrude over the city wall. As a member of the Electoral Saxon City Committee, a view of Schmiedeberg is mentioned in the large cycle of city views designed by Wilhelm Dilich in the giant hall of the Dresden Residence . Destroyed in the hail of bombs in 1945, a copy in which five towers can be clearly seen is in the town hall. In an engraving based on Merian , five towers are also the symbol of the city. Even today the city has five visible towers with the Kurhaus, the town church, the town hall, the Au gate and the cemetery chapel.
Culture and sights
Buildings
→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Bad Schmiedeberg
- Evangelical Nikolaikirche , consecrated in 1453 as a three-aisled Gothic hall church, furnished in baroque style after the destruction of the Thirty Years' War and given a neoclassical design by August Oetken after a church tower fire in 1904 ; romantically tuned organ by Geissler 1853, restored in 1997 by Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt from Bad Liebenwerda
- Au-Tor, city gate of the medieval city fortifications from 1490
- Town hall in the style of the Saxon Renaissance
- Art Nouveau spa house and Art Nouveau water tower from 1908
- Catholic Church, consecrated in 1956
- Reinharz baroque church from 1704, restored between 2000 and 2004
- Reinharz moated castle and park
- Kaiser Wilhelm Tower , built in 1910 as an observation tower with a restaurant in the city forest of Bad Schmiedeberg, 208 m above sea level. NHN
Market square with a memorial for those who fell in the war of 1870/71
Nikolaikirche
Healing fountain at the Kurhaus
Catholic Church
Reinharz water castle
Kaiser Wilhelm Tower
Water tower
Historical monuments
- Federal cyclist memorial in honor of the fallen and missing club members and athletes, donated by the Association of German Cyclists , inaugurated on June 17, 1923
- Several graves in the local cemetery for a Dutch and a few unknown foreign forced laborers who were victims of forced labor during the Second World War
- Military Museum Bunker Kossa-Söllichau not far from Bad Schmiedeberg
Regular events
- Schmiedeberger Margarethenfest in honor of the Electress Margaretha II of Austria
- Bad Schmiedeberger fountain run
- Two Christmas markets (Marktplatz / Kurpromenade)
Economy and Infrastructure
Spa clinic
The rehabilitation clinic is geared towards the orthopedic and gynecological indications, both inpatient and outpatient.
Leisure and adventure pool
The leisure and adventure pool “Basso”, which was once the city's figurehead next to the cure, has only existed as a ruin on the outskirts of the city since bankruptcy and enormous scrap thefts.
traffic
Bad Schmiedeberg is located on state road 128 from Pretzsch to Bad Düben and on state road 129 between Kemberg and Greudnitz in Saxony. The Elbe ferry in the Pretzsch district connects the city with Mauken .
In local public transport there are bus connections to Wittenberg (via Kemberg), Pretzsch, Eilenburg and Graefenhainichen. At the Bad Schmiedeberg train station and at the Bad Schmiedeberg Nord and Kurzentrum stops on the Pretzsch – Eilenburg railway line, trains to Eilenburg and Wittenberg run seasonally on weekends and public holidays . In addition, Bad Schmiedeberg is located on the same bike path and on the bike path Berlin-Leipzig .
Personalities
Web links
- Bad Schmiedeberg website
- Link catalog on Bad Schmiedeberg at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kurt U. Bertrams (ed.): Student associations in the GDR - before the opening of the wall until the founding of the Rudelsburg alliance. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2006, ISBN 3-933892-99-6 .
- ↑ Official Journal of the District No. 3/2009 page 2-3 (PDF; 524 kB)
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
- ↑ Local constitution law of the state in the version of July 1, 2014
- ↑ Main statutes in the version of November 18, 2016 ( Memento of the original of September 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ census database
- ↑ Official Gazette Bad Schmiedeberg June 2019 (PDF)
- ↑ Result of the mayor's ballot on April 3, 2016 ( memento of the original from January 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History of the Margaret Festival
- ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/dlfmagazin/1110693/
- ↑ Timetable information for Saxony-Anhalt, departure / arrival. Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH, December 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014 .
