Elsterwerda

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 13 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Elbe Elster
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.58 km 2
Residents:	7853 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	194 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	04910
Area code :	03533
License plate :	EE, FI, LIB
Community key :	12 0 62 124
City structure:	Core city and 2 districts
City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 12 04910 Elsterwerda
Website :	www.elsterwerda.de
Mayor :	Anja Heinrich ( CDU )
Location of the city of Elsterwerda in the Elbe-Elster district

City Church of St. Katharina with the Saxon post mile column

Elsterwerda ( Wikow in Lower Sorbian ) is a small town in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . It covers an area of ​​41 km² and is located in the south of the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park and on the western border of the Schraden , a lowland area of ​​the Black Elster .

The place belonged to the Electoral Saxon Office Hayn until 1815 and after the division of Saxony became part of the Prussian district of Liebenwerda in accordance with the provisions of the Congress of Vienna . 1952-1993 the city was part of the Bad Liebenwerda district (until 1990 in the GDR district of Cottbus ). After the district reform in Brandenburg, Elsterwerda came to the newly formed district of Elbe-Elster in 1993.

Together with Bad Liebenwerda, the city ​​has been fulfilling the function of a medium-sized center in addition to its functions since 1995 and was awarded the Commune of the Year Entrepreneur Award by the East German Savings Banks and Giro Association in 2005. Your largest branch of industry is the metal industry with currently 15 companies and around 700 employees. The city also enjoys a good reputation as a school city due to its educational institutions.

geography

Geographical location

Elsterwerda in Schraden

General map of Elsterwerda

Elsterwerda is an unofficial municipality with town charter since 1364. It is located in the south of Brandenburg around 50 kilometers north of Dresden , on the western border of the Schraden , a 15,000 hectare lowland area in the Wroclaw-Magdeburg glacial valley . In addition, the city belongs to the 484 km² area of ​​the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park . The Black Elster flows through the urban area . The Elsterwerda-Grödel-Floßkanal , built in the 18th century, connects to the Elbe and flows into the Pulsnitz just before it is 88.6 m above sea level. NHN enters the Schwarze Elster at river kilometer 71.09.

City structure

According to its main statute, the district of Kraupa and the inhabited districts of Biehla , Kotschka , Krauschütz , Mitte and West belong to the 41 km² urban area . In addition, there are the residential areas expansion, reissue and vineyards. Biehla and Krauschütz were incorporated in 1940, Kotschka followed in 1974, Kraupa in 1993.

Neighboring places and communities

The spa town of Bad Liebenwerda borders Elsterwerda in the north with its vast forest areas of Liebenwerdaer Heide , in the northeast that with orchards crisscrossed the commune Hohenleipisch and in the east the by former lignite mining embossed Plessa . The urban area borders in the south on the Schradengemeinden Gröden and Merzdorf . In the southwest and west of Elsterwerda, the area of ​​the municipality of Röderland joins.

geology

Today's landscape

The morphology of the landscape around Elsterwerda is largely shaped by the penultimate ice age . A layer of sand and gravel several hundred meters thick covers the crystalline basement . The highest elevations in the city are at 153 m above sea level. NN the goods bank between the districts Kraupa and Biehla and in the northeastern urban area of ​​the Kalkberg, with a height of 113 m above sea level. NN. Both originated during the Saale cold period and belong to the Hohenleipisch-Plessa terminal moraine . Together with the Val Gardena-Ortrander terminal moraine, which also includes Brandenburg's highest topographical elevation, the Heidehöhe , it forms the Elsterwerda gate. With an extension of seven kilometers between Elsterwerda in the north and Merzdorf in the south, it is the narrowest point of the Breslau-Magdeburg glacial valley.

Smaller brown coal deposits were mined from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century on the Kraupaer Flur, where the seam was two to four layers thick , and on the Biehlaer Flur in the Robert mine in underground and open-cast mining. In the lowlands of the Black Elster there are deposits of lawn iron stone with an iron content of 34 to 50%.

Proterozoic

The basement level is part of the Saxothuringian zone of the Variscan basement. The Kieselsinterhornsteine ​​(Rothsteiner Felsen) exposed near Rothstein are Proterozoic in age and also form the oldest rock complexes in the Elsterwerda subsoil. It was originally about Grauwacken , which was silicified by sub-carbonic andesite volcanism . The thickness of the Rothstein Formation is estimated on the basis of research drillings by the SDAG Wismut to be around 1000 m; the age was dated to around 566 ± 10 million years with the help of zirconium analyzes . It is likely that they are fragments of a marine continental margin backarc of the Cadomids .

climate

Climate diagram of Doberlug-Kirchhain about 20 km north of Elsterwerda

The Schraden, to which Elsterwerda belongs, is located in the so-called Schwarze-Elster district of the inland climate , but a transition to the continental climate is noticeable. The specific characteristics of the regional climatic elements are underdeveloped and are mainly determined by the peculiarities of the east-west oriented relief of the Breslau-Magdeburg glacial valley, as well as the mountain ranges of the terminal moraines that border this in the north and south. The Hohenleipisch-Plessa terminal moraine exerts a certain rain shadow effect on the lowlands.

With an area discharge of less than 150 mm per year, the Schraden is one of the areas with the lowest discharge in Germany. In the seasonally drought-prone areas, dry periods mainly occur in spring, autumn and winter. The month with the least rainfall is February, the wettest is July. The mean annual air temperature at the Doberlug-Kirchhain weather station 20 kilometers to the north is 8.5 ° C. The annual fluctuation between the coldest month of January and the warmest month of July is 18.4 ° C.

Average monthly rainfall for Elsterwerda from 1951 to 1980 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Precipitation ( mm ) 37 33 34 45 54 70 72 66 48 49 41 48 Σ 597 Source: Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach, Der Schraden. ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , p. 14.

history

→ Main article : History of Elsterwerda

Place name

• Elsterwerda consists of two sub-words. Elster , which refers to the river and comes from the Indo-European * el / * ol , means something like river or stream. The word part -werda is derived from Werder , which denotes an island or an elevation. Another research opinion relates to the fact that the landscape around Elsterwerda used to be very swampy, and interprets the name as an elevation between swamps.
• Wikow is the Lower Sorbian name of Elsterwerda. It is derived from the Sorbian word wiki and denotes a market or trading place.

Early history, city founding and the Middle Ages

The oldest traces of human settlement in Elsterwerda were found on the Black Elster and come from the late Bronze Age around 1200–1100 BC. Chr.

More than 1500 years ago, Germanic tribes settled in the area around today's city , who probably belonged to the Semnones tribe . The traces of the relatively short settlement of only a few decades extend into the time of the great migration of peoples . Thereafter, this area remained largely deserted. Fragments found in the area of ​​the Kalkberg and in the lowland upstream to the south only show settlement activities here for the late Slavic period.

The castle Elsterwerda appears in the late 12th and in the 13th century to defend the river crossing consisting of hall / Leipzig coming and towards the outskirts leading low road and a cross-country road leading from Großenhain towards Luckau to have been led built. They probably served as outworked base of the old castle waiting of Strehla and Boritz . Protected by the castle, which was first documented in 1288, an urban settlement developed north of the Elsterübergang in the 13th century.

On March 14, 1211 Elsterwerda was first mentioned in a document. The document was issued by the Bishop of Meißen and records a donation that Heinrich von Strehla made to the Altzelle monastery . Fourth of the seven witnesses who signed this document is the priest Rudolfus sacertos de Elster Werden. The west of the city-to-find corridor designation Old City and the vast hall have a local installation as part of the urban layout suspect or the inclusion of neighboring village districts.

The coat of arms of the von Köckeritz

From a document in the main state archive in Weimar from February 18, 1326 it can be concluded that the castle was fiefdom owned by Heinrich von Köckeritz. On December 21, 1343 a Konrad von Köckeritz was named in a document as Lord of Elsterwerda . The von Köckeritz dynasty , who ruled Elsterwerda until the beginning of the 16th century, succeeded in establishing a sovereign territory independent of the office in the transition country between the Mark Meissen and Niederlausitz . The villages of Krauschütz, Biehla, Kotschka, Plessa, Dreska, Kraupa, Kahla, Frauendorf, Hirschfeld, Frankenhain (probably the Franconian desert near Hirschfeld), Strauch, Merzdorf and a part of Großthiemig belonged to the late medieval rule of Elsterwerda. In 1530, these villages were still included in the Elsterwerda Care . The Köckeritze, however, later sank to the level of robber barons . After the kidnapping of the Hohenleipischer pastor, Duke Georg of Saxony and his entourage appeared in Elsterwerda in 1509 and took the castle and the city, as there were signs that other nobles wanted to join the breach of the peace by the Köckeritze. In 1512 he finally forced the Köckeritze to sell their property in Elsterwerda to him and had the rule administered by a bailiff until 1528 and then incorporated it into the Hayner office .

Around 1372 Elsterwerda was called steady . Three gates and one gate shut off the city from all traffic during the night. Since the Black Elster flowed around the city in numerous arms and rivers, similar to the landscape in the Spreewald , this offered safe protection as soon as the gates were closed; it never had a city ​​wall . As recently as 1711, the city register named the Hayn Gate and the Castle Gate in the south of the city, as well as the Luck Gate in the north. The Oedersche map , which dates back to the 16th century, already shows the row of houses opposite the Church of St. Catherine . It is likely to be the oldest part of today's city of Elsterwerda. The church itself was surrounded by a cemetery , and an almost rectangular town plan followed the road to the east.

Mark Meißen around 1600.
Up here is east.

Through the Treaty of Tangermünde , the land between the Elbe and Elster came to Brandenburg in 1312. Until 1367, the castle and town of Elsterwerda, where a parish church was first mentioned in a copy book in 1311 , belonged to the diocese of Naumburg . The first Protestant baptism took place in Elsterwerda around 1539, and in 1547, after the Reformation had been implemented, Magister Petrus Ketzmann was appointed pastor in Elsterwerda. A boys 'and girls' school was also set up. In the same year Haubold von Maltitz (until 1567) was Lord of Elsterwerda. He was followed by his brother Georg von Maltitz and, in 1586, Sigmund von Maltitz, the electoral Saxon stable master and chief forest master of Annaburg . After Sigmund's death, the von Rohr family acquired the property on March 5, 1612. Under their influence, major construction projects took place in Elsterwerda.

Early modern age

Elsterwerda was almost completely cremated in a terrible conflagration in 1562. In the years that followed, the city fell victim to fire many times. One reason for this lay in the way the houses were built, the roofs of which were covered with straw and reeds. There were more devastating fires in 1569, 1621 and 1631.

The Thirty Years War brought a lot of misery and looting by troops passing through for the entire area and the city of Elsterwerda. When Mayor Nagel tried to hide with the Elsterwerda citizens in the swampy terrain of the Schradenwald , Swedish troops are said to have suffered a fate similar to that of Mayor Borßdorff from Liebenwerda , who was seized in 1634 and dragged to death near Zeischa . At that time (1640) half of the town belonged to Bernhard von Rohr, who was sitting in the castle. The other half was subject to Erasmus von Maltitz, who sat on the manor in Krauschütz.

The Seven Years War , which began in 1756 , also had an impact on the Prussian-Saxon border area surrounding Elsterwerda. Troops passing through visited the area again and again, and Prussia tried to force-recruit young men from the occupied territories for the Prussian army. On October 10, 1757, the Austrian imperial count Andreas Hadik von Futak assembled his small corps in Elsterwerda, then Electoral Saxony . The city was the starting point of Hadik's famous Berlin hussar coup , in which he occupied the Prussian capital Berlin for one day on October 16, 1757 and collected around 200,000 thalers in contribution .

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

During the Wars of Liberation in 1813, the area around Elsterwerda experienced massive troop movements by French and Prussian war units, and that year Napoléon and his entourage also traveled through Elsterwerda. Shortly before the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , from September 28 to 30, 1813, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher's corps with 30,000 men camped in Elsterwerda and Kotschka. At about the same time, at the end of September, the corps of Generals Dobschütz and Tauentzien , also with 30,000 men, took up quarters for ten days in nearby Liebenwerda. A short time later, on October 9, 1813, Blücher moved into his headquarters near Leipzig and completely defeated Marshal Marmont near Möckern in the Battle of Leipzig on October 16 .

From the Congress of Vienna to the end of the Second World War

As a result of the provisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Elsterwerda came from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Merseburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony and the Liebenwerda district was established. In 1852, construction work began at Zeischa to regulate the Black Elster. The river got its current bed by 1861 and was diked with dams. In Elsterwerda the trenches and rivers that flowed through and around the city were largely filled in. New streets and residential areas were built in their place.

The construction of the railway lines was to be of great importance for the city. On June 1, 1874, the Upper Lusatian Railway was handed over from Kohlfurt via Biehla to Falkenberg (later Wittenberg ). A year later, on January 2, 1875, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Elsterwerda-Riesaer Eisenbahn took place, where the first train was already running on October 15, and trains from Dresden to Berlin started almost simultaneously on June 17 . The Elsterwerda railway junction was created. In the following years the railway developed into one of the strongest commercial enterprises in the city and due to the favorable railway connections several industrial companies settled in Elsterwerda and Biehla, which was also noticeable in the increasing number of inhabitants.

Mayor Albert Wilde (1882–1917)

On September 18, 1882, the court clerk Karl Wilhelm Albert Wilde was appointed mayor, who strongly influenced the development of the city in the following period. During his tenure, a number of small businesses settled in Elsterwerda by the turn of the century, as the young mayor drew his special attention to the city's favorable traffic situation and was able to inspire industrial companies to use it. The old arable town became more modern and Elsterwerda and its population grew steadily. The relocation of factory workers 'and railway workers' families temporarily led to a housing shortage. After two twelve-year terms in office, the city council elected Wilde mayor for life in 1906.

The First World War put an end to the city's further development for the time being. Numerous citizens were called up for military service. The planning of the construction of a small railway from Mühlberg via Liebenwerda, Elsterwerda and the Schradendörfer to Ortrand, estimated at 2,800,000 Marks, was put on hold and later never realized. Mayor Albert Wilde died on October 16, 1919.

With the beginning of the Second World War , citizens of Elsterwerda were again called up for military service. Companies had to change their production. Soon prisoners of war were also working there, who had to replace the workers called up. Up to 70 prisoners of war from France and the Soviet Union were employed in the stoneware alone . Inmates from the German Wehrmacht's main camp IV B prisoner-of-war camp near Mühlberg were also committed to forced labor in Elsterwerda.

The first direct effects of the Second World War hit the city on May 7, 1944. Railway trains and the area around the town were affected by the low-flying attacks. After a low-flying attack on April 16, 1945, a major attack by 137 American B-17 bombers on the city's railway systems followed on April 19 . Most of the factories in Elsterwerda were destroyed. An ammunition train standing in the station was hit, the explosions of which caused severe damage on the railway site and in the city center. The bombing killed 27 people. On April 22, 1945 the Red Army entered Elsterwerda. At around 5:30 a.m., the Wehrmacht blew up the steel arch bridge over the Black Elster, which was inaugurated on August 24, 1898. It was the only road connection to Grossenhain, Dresden and Riesa. The force of the explosion destroyed buildings in the immediate vicinity of the bridge and individual pieces of iron flew far into the city. In April 1945 there were a total of around 75 dead, most of them civilians who committed suicide or resisted for fear of the Red Army marching in.

Post-war period and GDR

District court converted into a hospital in 1946

August-Bebel-Strasse in Elsterwerda-West

After the occupation of the city, the Soviet city commandant had a city command office and a coordination and reception center set up in the district court for Polish citizens who had to work in Elsterwerda and the surrounding area during the war. They were registered, given medical care and housed in the city. For this purpose, entire streets in the city were cordoned off with wooden cladding and checked by armed guards. Only after twelve weeks could the evacuated residents of these streets return to their apartments and land. A short time after the Red Army marched in, there was arson in the village, which destroyed an entire business district on the market and the Cafe Vaterland . During this time, many refugees and war returnees came to Elsterwerda, who had to be cared for and housed.

After the founding of the GDR in 1949, there was a popular uprising on June 17, 1953 . While 800 workers stopped work in the steelworks in the neighboring Saxon community of Gröditz and the workforce from other companies joined them, things remained quiet in Elsterwerda. But here, too, curfews and a ban on gatherings were imposed. The Red Army marched through the city streets again.

In 1961, the city celebrated its 750th anniversary during the festival week from June 24th to July 2nd, 1961. It was the biggest festival in the history of the city. The highlight of the festival week was a two kilometer long parade through the city to Krauschütz on June 25th. About 30,000 people lined the streets as spectators. In the following years the city and its businesses grew. In the West district of Elsterwerda , between 1955 and 1980, blocks of flats with a total of 805 apartments were built on behalf of AWG "7. October “ built.

Due to the poor economic situation in the GDR, there were also problems in Elsterwerda in the 1980s. The local businesses had to struggle with a lack of foreign currency and a lack of modernization, among other things. During the fall of the Wall in 1989, many residents of Elsterwerda drove to the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, and when the borders opened on November 9, 1989, long queues formed in front of the town hall to get the coveted visa stamp in the ID card, which was necessary to copy To be able to drive West Germany or West Berlin . On November 16, 1989, the first people began to take to the streets in Elsterwerda as well. 350 citizens gathered in the market and then a march with the slogan “We are the people” marched through the city. In the following years there was a service every day at 7 p.m. in the town church, and on November 23, 500 citizens were gathered in the market square.

Recent past

After reunification , many companies in the city and the surrounding area went bankrupt and closed. Elsterwerda station lost its importance as a traffic junction. Unemployment spread and many citizens went to western Germany to earn their living there. But new businesses also emerged and the East industrial estate was planned and implemented in the fields in the east of Elsterwerda. The dairy of the later Campina works was one of the first to be established there. The eastern industrial park is now almost 100 percent full.

Redesigned marketplace

In the 1990s there were a number of major fires in Elsterwerda. On April 6, 1995 there was a fire in the newly renovated town hall. The building suffered considerable damage from the fire and the extinguishing work. In September 1997, the fire followed in VÖWA, a company in the West industrial park that produced polyurethane panels from recycled material for the automotive, furniture and construction industries. On November 20, 1997, there was a fire disaster at the Elsterwerda train station . During the extinguishing work, the city ​​fire chief was killed by a farm building that had collapsed in the explosion, and another firefighter died later in the hospital. Fortunately, the city got off relatively lightly from the disaster, because the locomotive shed of the railway depot , in the direction of which the greatest force of the explosions went, acted like a protective shield in front of the adjacent residential area in Elsterwerda-West.

Comprehensive construction work to beautify the market square began in February 2007. The old Elsterbrunnen was demolished on April 19, 2007. The first construction phase was handed over in December 2007 with a newly designed Elsterbrunnen. The last construction work was completed in 2016.

population

Population development

Around 1700 there were 825 inhabitants in Elsterwerda. In 1801 the place had 885 residents, so-called arable citizens, whose main occupation consisted of agriculture and cattle breeding. The population of the city of Elsterwerda rose to 943 by 1818. After the Elsterwerda railway junction was established in 1875, several industrial companies settled in Elsterwerda and Biehla due to the favorable railway connections, which also had an impact on population development. Since the 1980s, the population has been falling steadily. The short-term increase in 1993 is due to the incorporation of Kraupa.

year Residents 1875 01,793 1890 02,255 1910 04.224 1925 04,627 1933 04,673 1939 04,908 1946 09,749 1950 10,235 1964 10.133 1971 10,399 1981 10,778 1985 10,726

year Residents 1990 10,278 1991 10.207 1992 10.132 1993 10,793 1994 10,726 1995 10,656 1996 10,538 1997 10,442 1998 10,382 1999 10,334

year Residents 2000 10,234 2001 09,937 2002 09,911 2003 09,804 2004 09,654 2005 09,456 2006 09,249 2007 09.096 2008 08,959 2009 08,817

year Residents 2010 8,694 2011 8,498 2012 8,384 2013 8,287 2014 8,161 2015 8,186 2016 8,118 2017 7,975 2018 7,856 2019 7,853

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

Dialect and usage

Today's Elsterwerda dialect is part of the north-eastern dialect of the old Saxon language area, which developed under the influence of the Low German settlement of Saxony between the 11th and 13th centuries and is assigned to the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group .

Sorbian was spoken in the area of ​​the former rule of Elsterwerda until the last decades of the 19th century , as recorded in 1885 by the Lower Sorbian linguist Mjertyn Moń (1848–1905). When he got off the train in Plessa and went on a hike to Kahla and Dreska , he often had the opportunity to use the Sorbian language .

Elsterwerda has long been considered a Sorbian language island, although in 1424 the Wendish language was banned in the Mark Meissen and it was pushed back early. The industrial and economic development of the area around Elsterwerda did not begin until the end of the 19th century. Therefore, the Sorbian language was able to last a long time. Sorbian was understood, spoken and occasionally preached in the neighboring villages of Kahla, Plessa and Dreska.

politics

City Council

The Elsterwerda city council consists of 18 city councilors and the full-time mayor as a voting member. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats with a turnout of 53.3%:

fraction	CDU	AfD	SPD	left	Citizens' voters for Elsterwerda	Alliance 90 / The Greens	Individual applicant Thomas Gehre
be right	3.823	2,265	1,524	1,436	702	394	371
in percent	36.4	21.5	14.5	13.7	6.7	3.7	3.5
Seats	6th	4th	3	2	1	1	1

• Voting group "Citizens for Elsterwerda"

In Brandenburg, every voter has three votes in local elections, which he can distribute among the applicants for a nomination or different nominations.

mayor

Anja Heinrich (CDU) was elected Mayor of Elsterwerda on September 24, 2017 with 61.7% of the valid votes for a term of eight years. She took up office on February 1, 2018. She is the successor of Dieter Herrchen (independent), who had previously been mayor of the city since 2002.

See also : Former Mayor of the City of Elsterwerda

City administration

The city administration has its seat in the Elsterwerda town hall. The first alderman is subordinate to the mayor of the city. This is followed by the three municipal offices of public security, social affairs and economic development , head office and finance and the building authority .

Since 2006, the registry office has been offering a wedding in the town hall's wedding room, as well as the option of getting married in the historic Saathainer half-timbered church built in 1629 .

coat of arms

Seal mark with the former coat of arms around 1890

City arms until 1994

Current city arms

The coat of arms was approved on August 11, 1994.

Blazon : "In red on a green hill, a natural magpie striding to the left, over which three silver girdled lilies (2: 1) float."

The coat of arms probably dates from the first half of the 14th century. It is a so-called speaking coat of arms , because the magpie was derived from the name and inserted into the coat of arms. The lilies come from the coat of arms of the von Köckeritz family , who, as feudal lords of the Naumburg bishop, were the landlords of Elsterwerda from 1367 to 1512.

The magpie and the three lilies can be found for the first time in the town book of 1711. The coat of arms used at that time was described as follows: The magpie standing on a branch, between two crossed, leafy branches each ending in three flowers. This coat of arms was used by the Elsterwerda magistrate until the late 19th century.

At the end of the 18th century a coat of arms was used with the following description: In red on a green hill a magpie on the left, the right claw extended. The top left and right of the shield is covered with 1 and 1/2 lilies.

Around 1900 two lilies appeared in the coat of arms, hovering over the Elster. From 1984 to 1994 there were two different versions of the coat of arms. A red variant on a green hill a magpie striding to the left, in natural colors, raised by two silver lilies , with the other the background of the shield was divided lengthways in the colors of the city of Elsterwerda white-red.

The current coat of arms has been used officially since 1994.

Town twinning

A town partnership between Elsterwerda and the town of Vreden in North Rhine-Westphalia has existed since November 9, 1990, Elsterwerda has had another partnership since October 23, 1999 with the Polish town of Nakło nad Notecią (German Nakel).

Culture and sights

Cultural life and regular events

Exhibition in the Elbe-Elster-Halle

One of the biggest events in Elsterwerda is the spring festival in the industrial area east , which is held annually in April by the Werbegemeinschaft Industrie- und Gewerbegebiet e. V. Ost takes place and attracts thousands of visitors from the city and its surroundings. In 2016 the festival took place for the twentieth time. Local companies, which are mainly located in the industrial park, use the weekend to present themselves to the public. In addition to an amusement market, the program usually includes a flea market and other attractions organized by the companies. The historic shopping night that takes place in downtown Elsterwerda also attracts many visitors . At this festival, local traders open their shops and courtyards to the public and appear in historical clothing. AGREDA , which takes place every two years, was an agricultural, producer and consumer fair with a supraregional Brandenburg-Saxony economic show. The Lusatia harvest festival , which took place for the first time in October 2018, has now emerged from it . From April to November every year, the Green Market takes place on the Elsterwerda Market and the Christmas Market in December .

Other cultural events, such as concerts, theater performances and exhibitions, usually take place in the Elbe-Elster-Halle, in the town house opposite the town hall, in the town church or in the hall of the tennis center at the Holzhof.

tourism

In the joint middle center with Bad Liebenwerda, the spa town fulfills the function of a spa, health, relaxation, wellness and tourism center with the facilities available there such as the Fontana clinics and the Lausitztherme Wonnemar . Elsterwerda is well connected in terms of traffic by the B 101 with bus connections and the Ruhland-Falkenberg railway line. Several cycle paths connect the city with the sights in the surrounding area, the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park and the neighboring Schradenland. With the Tour Brandenburg , which opened in 2007, Germany’s longest long-distance cycle path with 1111 kilometers also leads through the city. Further cycle routes are the Fürst-Pückler-Radweg , the 108-kilometer-long Schwarze-Elster-Radweg and the coal-wind & water route, opened in 2007 , a 250-kilometer-long foray into the history of energy with 14 stations through the Elbe-Elster region. You can cycle along the Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal to the southern Saxon city of Gröditz , where the closest cinema to Elsterwerda can be found.

The city also offers guided tours of the local sights.

Buildings

Magpie Castle

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Elsterwerda and List of ground monuments in Elsterwerda

The Elsterwerda Castle was built in the early 18th century as a hunting lodge on the site of a built probably in the 13th century. Baron Waldemar von Loewendahl had renovation work carried out on a four-winged palace complex built in the 16th century. August the Strong , who came into possession of the castle in 1727, initiated further renovation work according to plans by his court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and the castle was given its present shape. From 1858 the castle served as a teachers' college, which was later replaced by other school facilities.

In the Protestant church of St. Katharina in the city center there are twelve von Maltitz's portrait gravestones , nine of which date from the 16th century and the rest from the 17th century. The main features of the church are likely to be a building from the 15th century. The buttresses that can still be seen indicate that the church was originally vaulted. During the Thirty Years War, the vault probably collapsed in a fire and was later replaced by a flat ceiling. In 1718 the square tower of the church was given an octagonal bell storey, tail hood and onion. The pulpit altar dates from the middle of the 18th century. The octagonal baptismal font with crossed tracery was created between 1520 and 1530 and bears three lilies of the old Elsterwerda noble family von Köckeritz on the shaft .

In 1838 the Dobrilugk master mason Weigelt began to build the Gottesackermauer, but did not fulfill his duty, so that the work had to be put out to tender again. Except for the gate, the wall was completed in 1841. In 1903 two stairways to the galleries were added to the tower. Extensive reconstruction work on the church took place in 1973 and in the 1990s.

The small Catholic church in Sorrowful Mother is located on Heinrich-Heine-Straße . Under pastor Ferdinand Schnettler, it was built by carpenter Heinze junior based on a design by the Liebenwerda architect Carl Jost. built and inaugurated on September 28, 1913. The altar and ambo are made of sandstone. The church is equipped with a Rühle organ. As part of a renovation measure in 2007, changes were made to the interior of the church. The barrel vault was clad in profiled wood and the church was repainted.

Other churches are the New Apostolic Church on Feldstrasse and the Evangelical Christ Church , consecrated in 1961 on the Biehlaer Winterberg.

town hall

The Elsterwerda town hall is located in the immediate vicinity of the St. Katharina Church . In 1879 the city council bought the post office building for 26,400 Reichsmarks from the post office keeper Mittag. It was then set up as a town hall and district court. The first renovation measures were carried out in 1897 by master bricklayer Friedrich Jage. The building was given its present form during extensive construction work in 1912, with three additional turrets and two new entrances being built in. The newly created conference room was furnished according to plans by the Dresden painter Baranowsky. In April 1995, the roof and the interior were completely destroyed by fire. After the building was rebuilt, the house was returned to its intended use in August 1996.

In 1738 Elsterwerda was one of the last towns in the Electorate of Saxony to receive a Saxon post mileage column , the inscriptions of which were partly supplemented with Prussian mileage information after 1815 . Originally it was located at the northern end of the former country road and today's main road at the former Luckischer Tor. Mayor Wilde had the post-mile column , which was lying around in Wallstrasse, restored during his tenure and erected at its current location, a small square near the Protestant church. The area around the pillar was redesigned to create a decorative place. The original coat of arms of the column is now in the town hall.

One of the oldest buildings in the city was the diamond wreath . It was once the finest inn in town. The building was mentioned as fireplace no.7 in the Elsterwerda city book of 1711. However, it can no longer be determined when this building was built. After the regular postal service through Elsterwerda was set up at the end of the 16th century, horses were unhitched and re-harnessed here and in the neighboring post office. In 1945 the city came into possession of the building. After it was returned to the previous owner in 1995, the diamond wreath was largely torn down after several changes of ownership from 1998 onwards. Only one room with a historic cross vault was retained during the subsequent reconstruction.

Small gallery "Hans Nadler"

The historical arcade house of the small gallery "Hans Nadler" was built in 1720/25 on the northern section of the main street as a typical farmhouse and is one of the few remaining half-timbered houses of this type in the region. Exhibitions by regional artists and other cultural events take place here. A permanent exhibition on the upper floor of the house pays tribute to the work of the painter Hans Nadler, who was born in Elsterwerda on January 14, 1879, and highlights his close relationship with the city of Elsterwerda. The Eulenspiegel fountain, created by the local artist Hans Eickworth, has been in front of the building since 1980 .

The building of the former imperial post office is located on Elsterstrasse . The Liebenwerda Royal Commissioner and building contractor C. Weiland had it built in 1904 by the Elsterwerda master mason Friedrich Jage according to his own plans. In 1999 the post office was closed and a post office was set up in Packhofstrasse. The building is currently used as a training center for the education and training of specialists in the hotel and restaurant industry.

A landmark that can be seen from afar is the water tower in Weststrasse . This was built from 1905 to 1906 on today's Weststrasse. The water tower was decommissioned in 1948 and should be demolished in the 1980s after the railway had no use for the structure. Since the preservation authorities and the then city council campaigned for the preservation of the technical monument, a renovation was approved and the tower roof was comprehensively renewed in 1989.

The Elsterwerda post mill, originally built near Dobrilugk in 1804, has an eventful history. Friends of home from Elsterwerda and the surrounding area took the mill, which had disintegrated, from its old location near the Elsterwerda train station and rebuilt the technical monument on a site next to the east industrial area after restoration. A field barn next to the mill has been converted into a small farm museum and houses historical agricultural implements. In the immediate vicinity, the 30,000 m² adventure miniature park opened on April 6, 2007 and offers true-to-scale miniatures of sights of the region, a rosarium with around 500 different types of roses, a 400 m² LGB garden railway system, a 680 m long 7-gauge park railway 1 / 4 inches, a mini Lausitzring with a 170 m long race track for model cars, adventure knight castle and much more.

Historical places

Redesigned Elsterbrunnen, 2015

The Elsterwerda market square is located directly in the city center and has always been the focus of public life in the city. A fountain was first mentioned in the market around 1413. The town hall was also located on the market until 1621, but it was not rebuilt after a town fire. After the Second World War, an adjacent business district fell victim to a major fire. While a hairdressing salon was later built on the rubble site of the Cafe Vaterland, which was also destroyed, the rubble field of the business district was cleared away in 1952/53 with the participation of the population. The request of the former owners to rebuild the building was not approved by the city administration and a green area with ornamental shrubs was created in 1967 as part of a redesign of the entire market area. The Elsterbrunnen, designed by the Elsterwerda artist Hans Eickworth , was later built there . The Mayor Wilde fountain from 1905 in the middle of the market was dismantled during the construction work. Between 2007 and 2015, the entire marketplace was redesigned in four construction phases; the Elsterbrunnen in the western area was torn down. Since November 2007 the market has had a new fountain in which the figures of the old fountain have been integrated. The lawn was removed in the course of the first construction phase and covered with concrete slabs. With the approval of the southern tip in November 2015, most of the redesign measures have been completed.

Monument place at the turn of the century

The memorial square is at the northern end of the main street. The former Scheunenplatz was the starting point for the expansion of the urban area to the north in the late 19th century. In place of the barns of the Elsterwerda farmers, residential and commercial buildings were built. After the Franco-German wars, a 3.5 m long column was erected here to commemorate the fallen from Elsterwerda and Krauschütz. After a storm destroyed the memorial on January 24, 1884, a new memorial was erected on September 7, 1890 with the help of donations. After the end of the Second World War, this was moved to the city cemetery and the clinker brick VVN monument was erected with a shell. The square was renamed Karl-Marx-Platz. In 1983 the bowl was removed and a Karl Marx bust was placed on the base. The bust was removed in 1994 and, after having been stored in the municipal building yard for a few years, it was put back up in the city park on October 1, 1997.

The former Postplatz was located in the immediate vicinity of the former Imperial Post Office until 1995 . While at the end of the 19th century it was mainly used as a wood storage area and was therefore also known as the room place , it was later used as a fairground and parking lot. From 1995 it was built on with residential and commercial buildings and the building of the Sparkasse Elbe-Elster, which previously had its headquarters in Berliner Straße, was built.

Parks

Sculpture by Hans Eickworth in the city park

Elsterwerda has three municipal parks. The city ​​park is located on the site of the former city cemetery on Berliner Straße. The last burial took place here in 1961. In 1982 the cemetery was transformed into a district memorial for the victims of fascism . In the rear part of the complex there is a 4 m high block by the Elsterwerda artist Hans Eickworth with half relief panels on the topics: “The suffering of the anti-fascists and their liberation by Soviet soldiers” , “Youth and mother - the reunion after liberation” , “The Jewish one Girl Anne Frank ” , as well as “ Living on and hope for the future ” . In August 1997 the park was opened for public use. On the site there is the war memorial, which was on the memorial square from 1890 until the end of the Second World War, the Karl Marx memorial, which later followed him and has been in the city park since 1997, as well as the graves of the painter Hans Nadler, who died in 1958 and the deserving Mayor Wilde, who died in 1919.

The castle park begins about 80 m behind the Elsterschloss and is connected to the castle grounds by a causeway across a valley. Together with the adjoining Krauschützer Park , also called Park II , it forms an approximately one kilometer long continuous band. Both were shaped by different stylistic epochs and currently have a more forest-like character. The castle park has its origins in the former baroque garden , which Maria Josepha of Austria had Karl Siegmund Emmerich create around 1730. Strictly geometrically shaped hedge quarters were laid out on both sides of an avenue of lime trees, which were intended to be open-air social spaces, but are now hardly recognizable. In their place are red beeches planted in the 19th century. Immediately in front of the Pulsnitz Bridge are the remains of English games on Dresdner Strasse, which were apparently created here in the transition stage to the landscape park around 1800.

On the left side of Dresdner Strasse is the Krauschützer Park , which was built around 1880 as a landscaped area along the Pulsnitz . The work was carried out by a beautification association initiated by the post administrator Gründler. Resting areas and spacious park paths were created in what had been an almost inaccessible forest until then.

Monuments

Hero's Gate

Soviet cemetery of honor

The so-called Heldentor is located at the entrance to the city park . This was built in 1924 in honor of the citizens of Elsterwerda who died in World War I. Various designs for a memorial were presented to the memorial committee before construction began. It was finally decided on a design by the Elsterwerda architect Müller, who was a student of Professor Hans Maler. The Elsterwerda company Erfurth & Jacob carried out the construction work; the sculptures come from the Max Rentzsch sculpture company . The sandstone used for the monument probably comes from Saxon Switzerland . On November 23, 1924, the Heldentor was inaugurated with a large audience. Superintendent Steiner and the Catholic pastor Husemann from Elsterwerda spoke. The two name boards on the sides of the building were hidden in GDR times and thus saved from destruction. It was only after 1989 that they could be returned to their original location.

The Soviet Cemetery of Honor is located right next to the Elsterwerda Bergfriedhof and was laid out in 1946 and 1947. 297 Soviet army personnel and 159 Soviet prisoners of war from the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag IV B near Mühlberg and the entire district of the former Liebenwerda district are buried here. In the cemetery there are two obelisks made of red sandstone and granite, which were given copper roofs in 1999. In the same year Bundeswehr reservists repaired the surrounds on the left side and in 2001 active Bundeswehr soldiers on the right side of the 110 grave sites in the cemetery.

A gray sandstone atonement cross is located a little south of the city. The stone, also known as the French grave in Elsterwerda, was originally erected as an atonement for murder or manslaughter. After it had meanwhile been set up in Linz near Ortrand , the stone was returned to its original location around 1950, which was redesigned into a small jewelry place.

leisure

Elsterwerda rifle guild around 1898

Currently (2008) around 90 clubs are active in Elsterwerda. These include 20 sports clubs , ten allotment garden clubs and three youth clubs with several thousand members. In addition, there are several national associations, such as the German Amateur Radio Club , which are active in the city through their members or local associations.

Clubs have a long tradition in Elsterwerda and have shaped the city through their work. After a beautification association established in 1880 had redesigned the Krauschützer Park and the Holzhof, there were thirty associations in the village in 1906. In 1926 the number had risen to 40. These included the railway association , the innkeeper association , the Gröditzer workers association , the Hohenzollern association , the Friday society , the metalworkers association , the bakers' guild as well as the Germania and the Thalia as theater associations. There were also several sports clubs in Elsterwerda.

In the present, it is the Elsterwerda trade associations, among others, that draw attention to themselves in the city through well-organized and attended events. The members of the Heimatverein Elsterwerda und Umgebung e. V. publicize the history of the place in various media and projects. For example, at the beginning of the new millennium, they took care of the rescue and restoration of the city's last post mill. In Krauschütz, the Heimat- und Zamperverein Krauschütz e. V. the pond festival that takes place every summer.

Sports

sports clubs

Elsterwerdaer Sportensemble 1987 in Leipzig

At present ⁽²⁰⁰⁸⁾ around 20 sports clubs are active in Elsterwerda. One of the best-known national clubs in the city is the TSC Sportensemble Elsterwerda, founded in 1953 . The sports ensemble was founded in 1953 by Rolf Hirschnitz as a sports advertising group, which initially began with a small gymnastics team of ten to twelve year old girls. Just one year later, the group won their first district championship title and became East German champions in 1955. Numerous sports show programs whose highlights mostly the Rhönrad form -Darbietungen, television appearances and a DEFA film entitled "Destination Erfurt" this club made especially in the GDR and after the turn of Germany widely known.

Another major sports club in the city is Elsterwerdaer SV 94 e. V. With its divisions volleyball, handball, fistball, gymnastics and the marching band . While the first men's team plays in the Landesliga / Süd-West in handball, the first women's team is in the Brandenburg League. The first men's team in the volleyball division is currently also in the Brandenburgliga. The fistball is also very traditional. Its beginnings in Elsterwerda go back to 1910. After being promoted to the GDR league , the Elsterwerda team never relegated and immediately played in the 2nd Bundesliga after reunification. It was only after the division of the league that the club left voluntarily, as the routes to the individual venues were unreasonable. In the past seven years, the club has recorded six national championship and one runner-up title. The traditional Max Meyer fistball tournament takes place in Elsterwerda every year .

Elsterwerda also has the traditional sports club SV Preußen, founded in 1909 with its football, bowling, volleyball and gymnastics divisions, SV Elster 08 Elsterwerda (soccer), newly founded in 2006 , and ESV Lok Elsterwerda e. V. (bowling), whose 1st men's team is in the 2nd Bundesliga / East.

Martial arts are also represented in Elsterwerda. The karate club Bushido Lubwart Bad Liebenwerda e. V. emerged from the former police sports club. Since then, karate courses with international participants have been held regularly in Elsterwerda. Despite the relatively young history of the club, members of the club have already won numerous championship titles at national and international championships. The promotion of East Asian culture is another field of activity of the association. Hosting schoolchildren and students (primarily from Japan, China and Taiwan) has a long tradition. In addition, the Kuroi Tora Dojo has been active with its ancient Japanese martial art Ninjutsu since 1991 . Through numerous presentations in and around Elsterwerda, the Kuroi-Tora-Kampfsportverein e. V. has become a permanent institution in Elsterwerda and in the Elbe-Elster district.

Sports facilities

Tennis center at the Holzhof

Elbe Elster Hall

The most traditional sports facility in Elsterwerda is the Holzhof . Originally this area was a transshipment point on the Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal. After the canal was hardly used anymore due to the suspension of timber transports in 1833 and the construction of the Elsterwerda-Riesa railway line in 1875, the timber yard also lost its importance. As early as 1864, a building used by the Royal Forestry Administration was leased out as a restaurant and the area became a popular destination. After the city later bought the wooden yard, the local clubs used the area for their festivities and in the early 1920s the city's first public outdoor pool was opened on the Pulsnitz. The construction of sports facilities began in 1934 and in 1937 the facility was completed with sports and tennis courts, a parade ground and festival meadow, as well as a shooting range. Due to the Second World War, the wooden courtyard restaurant was a victim of arson in April 1945. The damage to the facility was gradually repaired after the war. In 1977, after renovations and extensions, a restaurant that met the requirements was reopened, which was sold in 1989. The hotel and park restaurant Holzhof was created through further renovations and extensions. In 1997 the deficiencies in the swimming pool, which was built in 1934, were so severe that it had to be shut down. In December 2003 a tennis hall was inaugurated on the site and a little later another seven tennis courts followed.

In Biehla there is a sports field created in the mid-1960s immediately behind the primary school center. Before this square was created, a sports field on Haidaer Strasse that had existed since around 1920 was used, where from 1960 to 1664 football games of the district league were also played. In 2008 a DFB mini field was set up at the primary school center.

Other sports facilities are the soccer fields in Kotschka and Kraupa, the Elbe-Elster-Halle directly behind the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium and several smaller sports halls, such as the sports hall at the Oberschule in Elsterwerda-West with the Robby school circus tent . In Frauenhorststraße there is a bowling alley, in which competitions of the second division take place.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gewerbegebiet-Ost for the spring festival

Commercial and start-up center

The city received the Entrepreneur Award 2005 in the Commune of the Year category from the East German Savings Banks and Giro Association.

In addition to the metal industry, the main sectors in Elsterwerda are the food and plastics industry as well as the energy sector. With currently 15 companies and around 700 employees, the metal industry is the largest branch of industry in the city. The city has a commercial and start-up center that offers favorable conditions for business start-ups. In the three industrial areas of the city, East (152 hectares), West (58 hectares) and North (15 hectares), besides industrial companies, other medium-sized companies from trade, craft and the forwarding industry have settled.

The city of Elsterwerda is also involved in the Schraden e. V. , which was founded in 2000. The aim of the association is the promotion and implementation of various projects for the development of the economic area adjacent to the city. Other members of the association are various offices, municipalities and companies from the region, such as Bad Liebenwerda, the Schradenland office and the Röderland municipality.

Middle center

The cities of Bad Liebenwerda and Elsterwerda have been fulfilling the tasks and functions of a joint medium-sized center since 1995 .

The city of Bad Liebenwerda became a spa, health, recreation, wellness and tourism center through the creation and maintenance of appropriate facilities, such as the Fontana clinics , the Lausitztherme Wonnemar and the EPIKUR center for health . Bad Liebenwerda was given the status of a spa town .

The city of Elsterwerda is a business and school location thanks to numerous investments in commercial infrastructure and the school landscape. In the three commercial areas (east, north and west) an occupancy rate of 85 to 95% has been achieved.

Both cities are integrated into local public transport as central locations. This makes it possible to reach all required facilities of the common center within 30 minutes. There are extensive medical supply facilities for basic care such as the hospital but also for extended care in the outpatient, inpatient and therapeutic areas.

In order to continue the positive development and cooperation, the chairmen of the city councils and the mayors of both cities signed a cooperation agreement between the cities of Bad Liebenwerda and Elsterwerda as a joint medium-sized center in addition to functions .

Economic development

Agriculture

Agricultural businesses in Elsterwerda 1940
District	Establishments	Agricultural land
Elsterwerda	46	240 ha
Krauschiitz	77	1400 ha
Biehla	41	235 ha

Agriculture has always been an important source of income for the people of Elsterwerda. However, the surrounding soils showed only low fertility. After the Elsterwerdensia in 1727, rye, barley, oats, wheat, heather, hemp, millet, peas, vetches and flax were grown. Wine was grown in the Weinberge district to the northeast of the city and in Biehla. The citizens of the city could fetch the green fodder for their cattle on boats from the Schraden and almost everyone had the right to pour wine and brew beer.

After the incorporation of Biehla and Krauschütz in 1940, the town's farms cultivated around 2000 hectares of arable land and grassland and around 270 hectares of forest.

In 1945 the land reform was carried out in what was later to become the GDR . This was followed by further reforms in agriculture and by the spring of 1960 the agricultural production cooperatives Erich Weinert (158 ha), Einheit (522 ha), Elsterland (218 ha), Heimatland (493 ha), Vorwärts (215 ha), Grüne Heide were founded (40 ha) as well as the GPG Elsterrose with 20 hectares, which cultivated the agricultural areas of Elsterwerda until the fall of the Wall and was later closed.

Business

Elfa prospectus from the 1920s

Former consumer bakery

ODW dairy plant

The establishment of the Saxon post road system and the construction of the Elsterwerda-Grödel raft canal in the 18th century gave the former agricultural town a first boom. Even if agriculture and animal husbandry remained the main occupations of the inhabitants, shoemaking, tailoring and gray pottery gained some importance. With the construction of the railway lines at the end of the 19th century, Elsterwerda became a traffic junction and numerous small and medium-sized industrial companies emerged. The most important companies in 1913 included the O. Grieshammer building fittings factory with 133 employees, the Barth & Sohn rag processing plant , which had around one hundred employees, and the Carl Winter screw factory in Elsterwerda, also with almost one hundred workers. Other important companies at that time were the Elsterwerda ironworks , the Töppel & Freystadt steam sawmill and the Heinrich brothers' loom and machine factory . In Biehla there was the Steingut AG with 388 employees, the Elfa with 149 employees, the Oskar Lorenz screw factory , the Phenicia works , and the Elsterwerdaer sand works Germania .

After the Second World War, the Elsterwerdaer Fahrradfabrik (ELFA), which from 1953 specialized in the production of systems for milk production, such as stable milking systems and rotary milking parlors, became the largest employer in the city and the former district of Bad Liebenwerda . A milestone during this time was the development of the first rotary milking parlor and its commissioning in 1969. On January 1, 1970, ELFA became the lead company of VEB Kombinat Impulsa. The successor company of ELFA is IMPULSA AG, founded in 1990 by the Treuhandanstalt .

On July 1, 1965, the large consumer bakery on Biehlaer Lutzweg started production. In the 1970s, the company produced 8,000 breads, 70,000 rolls and 4 tons of confectionery for six districts in the area. This company, whose buildings are still on the site of what is now the north industrial area, went bankrupt shortly after the fall of the Wall.

The stoneware factory in Elsterwerda-Biehla had a history of more than 100 years . This company was founded on January 25, 1900 and has become one of the largest employers in the city. At the beginning of 1945 405 people were employed and even after the facilities had been dismantled by the Soviet occupying forces by March 1946, the company continued to develop in the period that followed. His earthenware products produced in Elsterwerda were export goods and have received several awards at exhibitions at home and abroad. After the company was privatized in 1994 by the Treuhand, extensive modernization of the facilities began. After several changes of ownership, these were finally dismantled at the beginning of the new millennium; the operation was shut down.

One of the most important companies in the city with the most jobs are currently the milk works, which have been part of ODW Frischprodukte GmbH since December 2010 . These emerged in 1990 as Milchwerke Elsterwerda GmbH . In 1995 the dairy works were initially taken over by Meierei-Zentrale Berlin (emzett) , which in turn became part of the Campina Group in 2000 . It was one of the first companies to emerge in the newly created industrial park east after the fall of the Wall. The GIZEH Group , a large employer from the plastics and packaging industry, also settled there in 2004. In 2007, the company took over the former stoneware site in Elsterwerda-Biehla and currently employs around 100 workers and apprentices in Elsterwerda.

Directly next to the biomass cogeneration plant in the west industrial area, the company LDZ-Hofmann , which is based in the east industrial area, operates a rail siding with a container terminal, which is currently also handling steel. On the 25,000 square meter site of the former Elsterwerda screw factory in Berliner Straße, the Ennepetal company August Vormann GmbH & Co. KG has been producing hinges, construction fittings and wood connectors since 1992 . According to its own information, it generated a turnover of 30 million euros in 2007 and employs 76 people in Elsterwerda. Other Elsterwerda companies are Elsterwerkstätten & intawo GmbH , which mainly employs disabled people, as well as Elstermode Produktions- und Vertriebs-GmbH , which emerged from PGH Elstermode , which was founded in 1958 and which manufactures leather jackets for the police, regulatory agencies and fire brigades, among other things. ITEC Entwicklungs- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH , which is based in the eastern industrial area, has specialized in milking technology and heat pumps . The P. Menzel concrete building systems KG is based in the Elsterwerdaer West Street and manufactures in its factory Großthiemiger precast concrete. This company has its origins in a craft business founded by Carl Menzel in 1876, in which products from terrazzo and concrete were initially manufactured.

Biomass cogeneration plant

Biomass cogeneration plant

The on Expo 2000 project climate region Elbe-Elster belonging Biomasseheizkraftwerk Elsterwerda is located in the industrial area West. It is fired with old wood. As early as the mid-nineties there were first plans in Elsterwerda to replace the heat generation previously based on oil and natural gas. After the privatization of Stadtwerk Elsterwerda GmbH in 2001, the project was built in 2003 and 2004.

Since July 1, 2011, the management of the Danpower GmbH, which has acquired the power plant from bankruptcy.

Based on the principle of the cogeneration built biomass cogeneration has a thermal input of 44 MW and an installed electric output of 12.6 MW. Around 22 GWh of heat and 80 GWh of electricity are generated annually from around 90,000 tonnes of Class AI to A IV waste wood. The electrical energy is fed into the existing line network in accordance with the Renewable Energy Sources Act . The generated heat is fed into the district heating network of Stadtwerk Elsterwerda GmbH and used by private households, public institutions as well as industry and commerce.

Thanks to the use of renewable raw materials and the application of combined heat and power technology, the primary energy factor of the power plant is 0.00. The CO ₂ emission factor for the amount of heat supplied by the thermal power station is 0.085 kgCO ₂ / kWh.

Combustion heat output:	44 MW
Electrical power:	12.6 MW
Heat output:	12 MW
Fuel consumption:	90,000 t / a
Power generation:	80,000 MWh / a
Heat generation:	22,000 MWh / a

Drinking water supply and sanitation

The Elsterwerda Water and Wastewater Association currently ⁽²⁰¹⁴⁾ supplies 25,000 residents of the cities of Elsterwerda and Bad Liebenwerda as well as the communities of Röderland, Plessa and Hohenleipisch with drinking water . The length of the drinking water pipe network is 275.5 kilometers. The drinking water with an average water hardness of 11.9 ° dH is obtained for the city of Elsterwerda from a waterworks in Oschätze .

The wastewater is disposed of via a 142.9-kilometer sewer network for wastewater , which includes around 8,000 house connections. There are two sewage treatment plants in Elsterwerda and Bad Liebenwerda.

traffic

Elsterwerda station

In Elsterwerda the federal highways 101 ( Herzberg - Meißen ) and 169 ( Riesa - Senftenberg ) cross. The latter leads east to the Ruhland junction on the A 13 Berlin – Dresden. There are first preliminary investigations of the routing of planned north and south bypasses of the city.

At the station Elsterwerda which meets railway Riesa-Elsterwerda to Berlin-Dresden railway . It is served by the Intercity Dresden – Berlin – Rostock, the regional express line RE 5 ( Rostock – Berlin – Elsterwerda) and the regional train lines RB 31 ( Elsterwerda-Biehla - Dresden ) and RB 45 (Elsterwerda– Chemnitz ).

From Elsterwerda-Biehla station there are connections with the regional train lines RB 31 (Elsterwerda-Biehla - Dresden ) and RB 49 ( Falkenberg (Elster) - Cottbus ) as well as with the S-Bahn line S 4 ( Markkleeberg - Leipzig - Hoyerswerda ).

A siding connects the Elsterwerda train station with the west industrial area, where there is also a container terminal. The bus station and park-and-ride car parks that have been redesigned in recent years are located at Elsterwerda train station .

The inland ports closest to the city are in Riesa and Mühlberg on the Elbe .

In summer around 15 passenger planes fly over the Elsterwerda area every hour at an altitude of around 8,000 to 9,000 meters. Air routes lead over the city from the Czech Republic to Hamburg and Scandinavia and from Munich to Poland , Sweden and Finland .

The nearest airfields are in Großenhain, 20 kilometers away, and in Riesa . There is a special landing site in Schwarzheide . The nearest commercial airport is Dresden Airport , 60 kilometers away , and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport (around 120 kilometers) is also easily accessible.

media

In Elsterwerda, the Lausitzer Rundschau appears as a regional daily newspaper . The free advertising papers "Wochenkurier" and "SonntagsWochenBlatt" appear weekly. The “Official Journal for the City of Elsterwerda” is published monthly and the “Kreisanzeiger” for the Elbe-Elster district appears as required.

The regional television station "Elbe-Elster Fernsehen" , based in Elsterwerda, is connected via cable and, according to its own information, reaches around 75,000 viewers in the region.

Medical institutions

South side of the hospital with the helipad

One of the most important medical facilities in the region is the Elbe-Elster-Klinikum in Elsterwerda with its specialist departments for gynecology , surgery , intensive care , radiology , internal medicine and physiotherapy. There is also a day clinic for psychiatry , psychosomatics and psychotherapy .

The house, which was built in 1946 on the premises of the city's former district court building, was expanded to include a polyclinic in 1974 . In 1995 the hospital received a ward block with a modern kitchen and cafeteria and a spacious entrance area. In 1996 the intensive care unit followed and in 1999 the emergency center, the operating theaters and the central sterilization unit. It also has a modern helicopter landing pad.

The senior citizen and nursing home of Pro Civitate Pflege und Pflege Elsterwerda gGmbH has 110 fully inpatient geriatric care places in single and double rooms as well as six short-term care places in single rooms. Elsterwerda also has several facilities for assisted living , four pharmacies and numerous specialists and general practitioners. Further medical facilities are located in the neighboring spa town of Bad Liebenwerda .

education

Oldest school building in the city

Former preparation institute

Primary school center Biehla

School town Elsterwerda

The school location Elsterwerda has a long tradition and the city is therefore often referred to as a school town. The oldest schoolhouse preserved in the village is the building of the former Noack bookstore and is located to the right of the St. Katharina Church in Hauptstrasse. It was mentioned in the town book as early as 1711 as fireplace no.9. In October 1851 the Prussian Provincial School College commissioned the Ministry of Education to set up a seminar in Elsterwerda Castle and on November 13, 1857 the Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminar was opened with 19 pupils. The seminar was replaced by an upper secondary school in 1925 and an upper school in 1938. In the GDR it became the Extended Oberschule (EOS) " Wladimir Komarow " and after the fall of the Wall the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium.

A preparation institute was inaugurated in Elsterstrasse in 1898 , the rooms of which are currently used by a vocational school. The Krauschützer domain tenant and later honorary citizen August Müller donated the school building for an agricultural winter school in 1905 , which was built in Schillerstrasse. On October 15 of the same year the school was inaugurated by the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Saxony in order to give young farmers the opportunity to acquire specialist knowledge from November to March.

Educational offers of the city

In the school landscape of the city, all school types possible in the state of Brandenburg are offered (as of 2008).

According to surveys by the magazine Unicum Abi, the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium is currently one of the best and most beautiful schools in Germany. In 2003, the grammar school took second place in the environment category and in 2006 a remarkable seventh place in the overall ranking. The Friedrich-Starke- Grundschule , named after the musician Friedrich Starke who was born in Elsterwerda, is located in Biehla, a special school as well as the sports-oriented Elsterschulzentrum with primary and secondary level I , where the elementary schools at Schlossplatz and Biehla merged in 2006 since 1993 the project circus makes school is realized. In addition, the Elbe-Elster Upper School Center with the departments of metal technology, electrical engineering, business / administration and business / vocational preparation is located in the city. The Kreismusikschule Brothers Graun has a branch in Elsterwerda.

Numerous adult education institutions in the village offer opportunities for training and further education. The Elbe-Elster District Adult Education Center also gives courses in Elsterwerda and once a month the senior academy gives lectures in the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium and in the Haus des Gastes in Bad Liebenwerda .

In Elsterwerda there is a city ​​library which offers library tours, literary events, literary readings and slide lectures in addition to the usual lending options.

Volunteer fire brigade and police

Fire station inaugurated in 1999

After the main teacher Schäfer had called for the establishment of a volunteer fire brigade at a citizens' meeting on September 9, 1880 , this was announced to the city's magistrate on July 20, 1881, which approved on September 3. The fire brigade at that time had a strength of 60 men. Existing technology was initially stored in a horse stable at the town hall and in barns. In 1888 a syringe house with a riser tower in Burgstrasse was handed over, which was extensively rebuilt three times (around 1930, 1965, 1981). A Granit 27 fire engine purchased in 1954 is again in the possession of the fire brigade and has been restored.

On May 29, 1999, a new fire station at the underpass was put into use. The Elsterwerda volunteer fire brigade currently (2014) has six vehicles with the fire engine I. The fire fighting train II in Biehla has two vehicles and the Kraupa fire fighting group also has two vehicles in use.

A police station of the Brandenburg police is located opposite the new fire station. It belongs to the Elbe-Elster police station , which also includes the police stations in Herzberg and Finsterwalde .

Personalities

See also : List of personalities from the city of Elsterwerda

The master mason and later honorary citizen Friedrich Jage left clear traces in Elsterwerda. Among other things, he was the builder of public buildings, such as the district court, which was later converted into a hospital, and the former imperial post office in Elsterstrasse. He was also responsible for the renovation work on the town hall, which he gave to its present form.

Also an honorary citizen of the city was the conservationist Hans Nadler , who was responsible for the preservation of numerous cultural monuments in Dresden and who, shortly before his death, campaigned vehemently for the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche , which was destroyed in 1945 . His father, the painter Hans Nadler , who was born in Elsterwerda , was known as a Schraden painter for his depiction of the landscape and the people of neighboring Schraden . In his honor there is a permanent exhibition in the upper rooms of the small gallery "Hans Nadler" .

Johannes Gillhoff

The indie pop band “ Virginia Jetzt! "

Most of the city's well-known personalities were connected to the Elsterschloss and its educational institutions. Above all, the teachers' college (1858–1926) played a major role in the city's intellectual and cultural life. At the beginning of the 18th century , Julius Bernhard von Rohr , who grew up on his father's estate in Elsterwerda, was one of the most well-known authors of German house-fathers' literature , which is regarded as advisory literature, among other things as a forerunner of modern cookbooks . Later seminar teachers and students who became known through literary and scientific publications, such as Hermann Kahle , Ulrich Kleist , Wilhelm Teschner and Johannes Gillhoff, worked here . The writer Klaus Beuchler attended secondary school here and in 1955, in his book “The Village in the Wilderness”, described the dramatic course of the founding of Plessa-Süd after the Second World War. He also wrote the script for the 1961 DEFA film “Destination Erfurt”, the main characters of which were members of the Elsterwerda sports advertising group. The high school student and later honorary citizen Heinz Fülfe became known as a quick draftsman and puppeteer Tadeus Punkt through children's television . The popular television journalist Thilo Koch passed his Abitur here in 1939 as the best of his year. He remained closely connected to the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium, whose library bears his name, until his death. The writer Werner Schendell , who was born in Elsterwerda, was the founding director of the German Schiller Foundation in 1952 , Germany's oldest private funding agency for writers.

The German-speaking indie pop band Virginia Jetzt! , which existed from 1999 to 2010, was founded by students from the Elsterschloss-Gymnasium and took part in Stefan Raab's Federal Vision Song Contest in 2005 with the song "Wahre Liebe" . Her album “Beginners” reached number 17 in the German album charts a year earlier.

The Elsterwerda-born lawyer and DVP politician Wilhelm Bünger , who led the trial of the Berlin Reichstag fire in 1933 , made a political career . The SPD politician and former Elsterwerda student Reinhard Höppner was Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt from 1994 to 2002 .

Well-known athletes born in Elsterwerda are the soccer players Ralf Minge and Daniel Ziebig , the handball player Christoph Schindler and the cyclist Falk Boden , who won the International Peace Tour in 1983 . Hartmut Buschbacher , who was head coach of the German rowing association from 2008 to 2012, also comes from Elsterwerda .

Literature (selection)

• Michael Goebel (Ed.): On Stranger Paths. From Albert Deroche's diary. The years 1895-1919 . Wagner Verlag, Gelnhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86683-159-9 .
• Dietrich Hanspach and others, published by Luise Grundmann on behalf of the Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig: Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area (= Landscapes in Germany; 63), Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .
• Margarete Noack: Elsterwerda: Photo documents between 1945 and 1989 . Leipziger Verlagsgesellschaft, publishing house for cultural history and art, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-910143-14-8 .

Web links

Commons : Elsterwerda  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Elsterwerda  - travel guide

• Link catalog on Elsterwerda at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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Individual evidence

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