Harz Gate

Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Nordhausen
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	109.37 km 2
Residents:	7577 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	99768
Area code :	036331
License plate :	NDH
Community key :	16 0 62 065
LOCODE :	DE HR2
Rural community division:	7 districts
Address of the ; rural community administration:	Ilgerstrasse 23 ; 99768 Harztor OT Ilfeld
Website :	www.harztor.de
Mayor :	Stephan Klante (UWL)
Location of the rural community Harztor in the Nordhausen district

The Harztor community is a rural community in the northern district of Nordhausen in the Free State of Thuringia , which was created on January 1, 2012 through the merger of the former communities of Ilfeld and Niedersachswerfen .

geography

location

Harztor is located in the far north of Thuringia, here is the northernmost point of the Free State. The community is located about nine kilometers north of the district town of Nordhausen . Neighboring communities in Thuringia are Ellrich and Nordhausen. In the north of the community, Oberharz am Brocken joins and in the east, Südharz , both in Saxony-Anhalt .

Community structure

The rural community consists of the districts:

Harzungen
Herrmannsacker with sawmill
Ilfeld with birch moor , Hufhaus , Netzkater and Wiegersdorf
Neustadt / Harz
Lower Saxony
Osterode
Sophienhof

history

Evangelical Church of St. Johannis-Pauli in Niedersachswerfen (Harz Gate)

Originally there were plans to merge all six communities of the administrative community Hohnstein / Südharz into one rural community. After reservations in the Neustadt / Harz municipality, the municipal councils of Ilfeld and Niedersachswerfen pushed ahead with the idea of forming a rural municipality from just two municipalities from January 2011. On March 30, 2011, the Lower Saxony municipal council approved the merger agreement, followed by the Ilfeld municipal council on April 5, 2011.

The name of the new rural community was originally intended to be Hohnstein . It was later changed to Südharz . Because the name was identical to the municipality of Südharz (Saxony-Anhalt), this name was also rejected by the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and the double name Ilfeld-Niedersachswerfen was introduced into the legislative process. In a citizen survey, the majority of the residents of the two communities spoke out in favor of the name Harztor . The merger was originally supposed to take place on December 1, 2011, but was postponed for a month.

Incorporations

On July 6, 2018, the communities Harzungen, Herrmannsacker and Neustadt / Harz were incorporated, whereby the administrative community Hohnstein / Südharz was dissolved.

Population development

year	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Residents	6081	6050	6067	6059	6060	5995	7588	7577

Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values from December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following result for the distribution of seats in the local council:

Local elections 2019

Turnout: 61.2% (2014: 51.9%)

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

42.2%

5.9%

5.4%

3.2%

43.3%

BF-UWL

Parties and constituencies		Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	42.2%	- 9.0	8th	- 3
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	5.9%	- 12.5	1	- 2nd
Green	Alliance 90 / The Greens	5.4%	+ 5.4	1	+ 1
FDP	Free Democratic Party	3.2%	+ 3.2	1	+ 1
BF-UWL ^*	Citizens Forum-Independent Electoral List	43.3%	+ 13.0	9	+ 3
total		100		20th
Turnout: 51.9%

^* 2014: UWL

Web links

Commons : Harztor - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).
↑ StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012
^ Thuringian law on the voluntary restructuring of municipalities belonging to the district in 2011. Draft law of June 28, 2011 (PDF; 227 kB)
↑ Majority wants “Harztor” as the name for a new rural community , in: Thüringer Allgemeine, November 2, 2011
↑ Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018
↑ Municipality of Harztor - Announcement of the election results of the local elections on May 26, 2019 , accessed on January 11, 2020

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-TH-1] Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics ( help on this ).

[2] StBA: Area changes from January 1st to December 31st, 2012

[3] Thuringian law on the voluntary restructuring of municipalities belonging to the district in 2011. Draft law of June 28, 2011 (PDF; 227 kB)

[4] Majority wants “Harztor” as the name for a new rural community , in: Thüringer Allgemeine, November 2, 2011

[5] Thuringian Law and Ordinance Gazette No. 7 2018 of July 5, 2018 , accessed on July 6, 2018

[6] Municipality of Harztor - Announcement of the election results of the local elections on May 26, 2019 , accessed on January 11, 2020