Berga (Kyffhäuser)

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Mansfeld-Südharz
Association municipality :	Golden floodplain
Height :	159 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.67 km 2
Residents:	1658 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06536
Area code :	034651
License plate :	MSH, EIL, HET, ML, SGH
Community key :	15 0 87 055
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Lange Strasse 8 06537 Kelbra (Kyffhäuser)
Website :	www.vwg-goldene-aue.de
Mayoress :	Katrin Treppschuh ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Berga in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz

View of Berga and the Kelbra dam

Berga is a municipality in the collective municipality Goldene Aue in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany .

location

The place on the Thyra is about 18 km west of Sangerhausen and about 16 km east of Nordhausen on the L 151, formerly the federal highway 80 , the federal highway 85 and the federal highway 38 . The Kelbra dam and the Kyffhäuser lie south of the village. The Halle – Hann railway line meets at Berga-Kelbra station . Münden , and the Berga-Kelbra – Stolberg (Harz) (Thyraliesel) railway line . Until 1966, trains on the Berga-Kelbra – Artern railway also ran to Berga.

Districts

• Berga
• Bösenrode
• Rosperwenda

history

Stone Age traces became apparent with the discovery of the individual grave in Berga during road construction work.

On February 5, 985, King Otto III. his court in Berge in Helmegau to the abbess Mathilde von Quedlinburg . A few days earlier, on January 28, 985, this document had already been issued, but not signed. Berga was part of the Kelbra office , which had been administered jointly by the Counts of Stolberg and the Counts of Schwarzburg since the 16th century and which came to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony after 1816 . Together with Görsbach , Schwenda , Uftrungen , Bösenrode , Rosperwenda and Thürungen, Berga has a share in the Siebengemeindewald , which was given to the communities by Count zu Stolberg for the rescue of his son in 1604.

On February 22, 1945, the express train D 190 Leipzig-Cologne was attacked by US low- flying aircraft with on-board weapons in the Bergaer Kuhried . 41 passengers were killed. In the Nordhausen hospital, 21 seriously injured people died from their gunshot wounds: a total of 62 fatalities.

On April 12, 1945, five Wehrmacht soldiers who had taken up a defensive position near the train station were “shot out” by US troops and shot after they were captured on the Ohl property.

At the beginning of July 1945 Berga, like all of Saxony-Anhalt, was handed over by the Americans to the Red Army and thus part of the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) and, from 1949, of the GDR .

politics

mayor

In May 2015, Katrin Treppschuh (CDU) was elected mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the district on August 2, 2007.

Blazon : "In gold, a green linden tree growing out of a green mountain, accompanied by a red spherical high cross in front, and behind a brick, pointed red tower with two golden windows on stakes."

The colors of the municipality are - derived from the color of the main coat of arms and the tincture of the shield - green-yellow.

flag

The flag is green-yellow (1: 1) striped and has the municipal coat of arms in the center - with vertical stripes in the longitudinal form and with horizontal stripes in the cross form.

Culture and sights

Petri-Pauli Church in Berga

Berga municipal administration

Buildings

• the Petri-Pauli-Kirche , consecrated on July 11, 1898
• the municipal office
• the old school building
• the Berga-Kelbra train station

Regular events

Public life in Berga is shaped by several associations.

• Carnival sessions in January and February by the Bergaer Karneval Club e. V.
• Easter fire on Holy Saturday on the old sports field
• Sports festival in June, organized by SV Olympia Berga on the sports field
• Fair on the 2nd weekend in July, organized by the Berga e. V.
• Clay pigeon shooting at the fair on the old sports field, organized by the Schützenverein Berga e. V.
• Sports ball in November, organized by SV Olympia Berga
• Nikolausmarkt on the Saturday before December 6th, organized by the Berga trade association

Sons of the place

• Johann Arnold Zeitfuchs (1671–1742), chronicler, theologian and spiritual writer.
• Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost (1715–1794), physician and theologian, who described the Leidenfrost phenomenon named after him .
• Heinrich Bleichrodt (1909–1977), naval officer, commander of U 67 .
• Fritz Führ (* 1934), agricultural scientist .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ↑ RI II No. 963 and 964.
3. ↑ Thilo Ziegler : Under the swastika. An outline of the history of the Sangerhausen district from 1933 to 1945 . Sondershausen, Starke-Druck, 2004. pp. 21/22
4. ↑ Jürgen Möller: The fight for northern Thuringia in April 1945 . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-146-7 , p. 153.
5. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/sangerhausen/buergermeisterwahlen-stichwahl-in-wallhausen--katrin-treppschuh-in-berga-gewaehlt-952288
6. ↑ ^{a b} Official Journal of the District No. 3/2007 p. 4 ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  

Web links

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