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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Elbe Elster
Office :	Schradenland
Height :	113 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.1 km 2
Residents:	1044 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	04932
Area code :	035343
License plate :	EE, FI, LIB
Community key :	12 0 62 208
Office administration address:	Großenhainer Straße 25 04932 Val Gardena
Website :	www.grossthiemig.info
Mayor :	Heiko Imhof
Location of the community Großthiemig in the district of Elbe-Elster

Großthiemig is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It belongs to the Schradenland office based in the municipality of Val Gardena .

geography

The Schradengemeinde Großthiemig is located about 15 kilometers southeast of Elsterwerda in the immediate vicinity of the Saxon state border.

Community structure

Großthiemig has no officially designated districts, inhabited districts or places to live .

history

The place was first mentioned as Thimmigk in 1389 .

Großthiemig belonged to the Liebenwerda district in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Bad Liebenwerda district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . The community has been in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg since 1993

Population development

year Residents 1875 1,200 1890 1,300 1910 1,400 1925 1 516 1933 1 281 1939 1 274 1946 1 776 1950 1 742

year Residents 1964 1 554 1971 1 568 1981 1 529 1985 1 479 1989 1 462 1990 1 455 1991 1 414 1992 1 388 1993 1 398 1994 1,390

year Residents 1995 1 368 1996 1,350 1997 1 346 1998 1 323 1999 1 295 2000 1 315 2001 1 305 2002 1 287 2003 1 285 2004 1 242

year Residents 2005 1 203 2006 1 198 2007 1 190 2008 1 184 2009 1 157 2010 1 158 2011 1 129 2012 1 103 2013 1 092 2014 1 059

year Residents 2015 1 073 2016 1 043 2017 1 039 2018 1 018 2019 1 044

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

politics

Community representation

The community council of Großthiemig consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Volunteer Fire Brigade voter group	4th
Sports voters group	3
Individual applicant Michael Ziegenbalg	1
CDU	1
Single applicant Carsten Weichelt	1

mayor

• 1998–2008: Georg Rimke
• 2008–2019: Andreas Klemm
• since 2019: Heiko Imhof

Imhof was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 91.6% of the valid votes for a term of five years without a candidate.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on January 6, 1995.

Blazon : "Divided from green to blue by an arched stone bridge with a railing, above a leafy silver linden branch with two fruit stands."

Attractions

Church with a war memorial

In the list of architectural monuments in Großthiemig and in the list of ground monuments in Großthiemig are the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Brandenburg.

• Gothic village church
• Communal bakery
• Water house
• Former inn "Wilder Mann"
• War memorial in honor of the inhabitants who died in the First World War
• Großthiemig outdoor pool

traffic

Großthiemig is located on state road 59 between Gröditz and Ortrand . The nearest motorway junction is Ortrand on the A 13 Berlin – Dresden.

The nearest train station is Ortrand on the Grossenhain – Cottbus line . It is served by the regional express lines RE 15 Hoyerswerda– Dresden and RE 18 Cottbus –Dresden.

Personalities

• Wilhelm Braune (1850–1926), Germanist, born in Großthiemig
• August Förster (1880–1959), faith healer, lived in Großthiemig. Even today there are his so-called "August drops" in the Löwenapotheke Ortrand and in Hirschfeld. In many places the older people knew him as "Dafts August" (a parcel in Großthiemig is commonly known as "Dafts Birken").

See also

• Kleinthiemig - 14 km southwest in Saxony, approx. 350 inhabitants

literature

• Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): The Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 .

Web links

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

• Office Schradenland
• Link catalog on Großthiemig at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Great in the RBB program Landschleicher on January 2, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Großthiemig community
3. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 18-21
4. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
5. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
6. ^ Result of the local elections on May 26, 2018
7. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Elbe-Elster district ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 8
9. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
10. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
11. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg