Gorleben
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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ' N , 11 ° 21' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Lüchow-Dannenberg | |
| Joint municipality : | Gartow | |
| Height : | 20 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 21.26 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 602 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 28 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 29475 | |
| Area code : | 05882 | |
| License plate : | DAN | |
| Community key : | 03 3 54 007 | |
| LOCODE : | DE GOX | |
| Community structure: | 2 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Main street 16 29475 Gorleben |
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| Mayor : | Klaus Hofstetter (WG) | |
| Location of the municipality of Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district | ||
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Gorleben is a municipality in the Gartow municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far northeast of Lower Saxony . The region is also known as Wendland . The famous Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility is located near the village .
geography
The small town is located directly on the left bank of the Elbe (German river kilometer 492) at about 20 meters above sea level . While the Elbe river landscape, protected as a biosphere reserve of Lower Saxony Elbe Valley, extends to the east, north and northwest , a large pine forest area, the so-called " Gartower Tannen " , joins in the south . This largest contiguous German private forest, which is owned by Count Bernstorff zu Gartow, is located on an extensive hill of drifting sand that was created by periglacial processes. The entire region up to the Drawehn hill chain in the west lies within the Elbe glacial valley , which was last formed as the main melt water channel during the Vistula Ice Age. Biogeographically , the area is already counted as part of the subcontinentally influenced north-east German lowlands (compare also: the main natural unit group " Wendland and Altmark "). The elevation of the Höhbeck to the east of Gorleben , which rises like an island from the Elbe valley, is remarkable in terms of natural history .
Angler on the Elbe near Gorleben
Flock of sheep in the Elbe
Elbe approach
history
Gorleben was mentioned for the first time in 1360 by a document from the rulership of Dannenberg (Elbe) . There was a fortress on the spot. The name "Gorleben" is probably derived from "Goor" (Schlick; Slavic Gor but "mountain") and "Leben" (heritage).
On July 1, 1972, the neighboring community Meetschow was incorporated.
The municipality of Gorleben gained nationwide and international fame through the plans for the establishment of a national nuclear waste repository and the regular nuclear waste transports to the existing aboveground interim storage facility in the forest south of the village, which are regularly subject to strong protests .
The community benefited massively financially from the settlement of nuclear facilities and is one of the richest communities in Lower Saxony.
The councilors of the community approved the establishment of the interim storage facility in 1981, although they had originally spoken out against the camp. The decision was unanimous. The CDU had an absolute majority in the council. Both Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and opposition leader Helmut Kohl had visited the community in advance to convince the councilors. In the elections that took place 4 months after the decision, the opponents of the camp won around 20% of the votes from scratch. After the decision, living together in the region changed forever.
In April 1984 the situation worsened when demonstrators blocked all access roads into Wendland for the first time. The first transport took place in October 1984. The Gorleben prayer has been held every Sunday since 1989 .
In 1995 a day X took place for the first time in connection with the Castor transports . Since then, such transports have taken place almost annually. In the context of the transports there are always massive clashes between opponents of nuclear power, local farmers and the police. Since the farmers used tractors repeatedly in the past as part of their protests, the police now regularly confiscate them in advance and take them to a central warehouse.
politics
The municipality of Gorleben belongs to the Elbe state electoral district and the Lüchow-Dannenberg-Lüneburg federal electoral district .
Community structure
The municipality of Gorleben has consisted of two districts since the municipal reform of 1972:
- Gorleben
- Meetschow
Municipal council
The council of the municipality of Gorleben has nine members who have been divided into the following groups of voters and parties since the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 :
- Gorleben community of voters (WG): 7 seats
- GREEN : 1 seat
- Independent community of voters (UWG): 1 seat
mayor
Mayor of Gorleben is Klaus Hofstetter (WG).
Culture and sights
In addition to the Gorleben chapel and the Meetschow village church , all architectural monuments are in the list of architectural monuments in Gorleben .
Center Gorleben
War memorial
Town view
Economy and Infrastructure
There are several nuclear waste disposal facilities in the community:
- Gorleben transport cask storage facility
- Gorleben waste storage facility
- Gorleben pilot conditioning plant
- Exploration mine for a repository
traffic
The state road 256 Dannenberg - Gartow leads through Gorleben. At the “Gorlebener Haken”, an old arm of the Elbe, there is a public sport boat harbor and a base for the Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office, outskirts of Wittenberge.
Web links
- Gorleben community
- Information on the community of Gorleben on the website of the joint community Gartow
- Gorleben archive, archive of the Wendland resistance
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ http://www.elbe-urlaub.de/region/sport.html
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 231 .
- ↑ cf. z. B. Gorleben: Far from over The prospect of atomic industrialization has divided the Wendland , DER SPIEGEL 2/1982, January 11, 1982.
- ↑ http://wahl.luenecom.de/gartow/gw2016gorleben.html
- ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note .; 87 kB)
- ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn, March 18, 2008, p. 325. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 200 kB)
- ↑ "The new one after the Krüger era" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , EJZ on July 15, 2013, accessed on July 16, 2013.
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