Hermsdorf (near Ruhland)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '  N , 13 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Office :	Ruhland
Height :	112 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.03 km 2
Residents:	776 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	01945
Area code :	035752
License plate :	OSL, CA, SFB
Community key :	12 0 66 124
Address of the municipal administration:	Main street 13b 01945 Hermsdorf
Website :	amt-ruhland.de
Mayor :	Klaus-Peter Müller
Location of the municipality of Hermsdorf in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district

Hermsdorf in a map from 1757

Hermsdorf (until January 1, 2002 Hermsdorf bei Ruhland ; Lower Sorbian Lubušow , Upper Sorbian Hermanecy ) is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz in the south of Brandenburg and part of the Office Ruhland .

geography

The community is located in Upper Lusatia and is an agricultural village.

Community structure

The district of Jannowitz and the inhabited district of Lipsa belong to the community .

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1489 .

Hermsdorf and today's district of Jannowitz have belonged to the Hoyerswerda district in the Prussian province of Silesia since 1816 . Since the district was west of the Oder-Neisse line , it became part of the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 and incorporated into the state of Saxony . In 1952, the places came to the newly founded Senftenberg district in the GDR - Cottbus district (1990-1993 in the state of Brandenburg). Since the district reform in 1993 they have been in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district.

Incorporations

Jannowitz was incorporated into the municipality of Hermsdorf on December 31, 2001.

Population development

year Residents 1875 200 1890 200 1910 250 1925 286 1933 273 1939 533 1946 751 1950 832

year Residents 1964 892 1971 864 1981 755 1985 720 1989 726 1990 725 1991 724 1992 718 1993 706 1994 710

year Residents 1995 695 1996 689 1997 696 1998 687 1999 695 2000 702 2001 1 029 2002 952 2003 942 2004 930

year Residents 2005 924 2006 908 2007 893 2008 874 2009 856 2010 839 2011 813 2012 808 2013 803 2014 795

year Residents 2015 794 2016 796 2017 796 2018 789 2019 776

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

Voter group	Seats
Independent voter association Hermsdorf	4th
Free voter community Jannowitz	4th
Independent voter association Lipsa	2

mayor

• 1998–2003: Horst Schober
• since 2003: Klaus-Peter Müller

Müller was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 89.4% of the valid votes for a further term of five years without a candidate.

Attractions

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  Church in Hermsdorf

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  Village pond

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  War memorial

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  Hermsdorf landscape

In the list of architectural monuments in Hermsdorf (near Ruhland) and in the list of ground monuments in Hermsdorf (near Ruhland) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Lipsa Castle , which is used as a nursing home with the associated castle park, is located in the Lipsa part of the municipality of Hermsdorf .

In 1736 the current church was built on the Hermsdorf cemetery. The church tower was demolished in 1987 because of the risk of collapse. In 2012, the community rebuilt the church tower. The current church goes back to a previous building from 1530. In front of the church there is a war memorial for the fallen of the First World War .

traffic

Hermsdorf is on the district road K 6603 between Ruhland and Lipsa, the district Jannowitz on the state road L 55 between Ruhland and Ortrand . The closest motorway junction is Ruhland on the A 13 Berlin - Dresden .

There is a Category II commercial airfield in the nearby Schwarzheide .

See also : List of streets and squares in Hermsdorf

Personalities

• Franziska Bennemann (1905–1986), politician (SPD), 1953–1961 Member of the Bundestag , born in Hermsdorf

Footnotes

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. ↑ Historical municipality register of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. (PDF; 331 KB) District Oberspreewald-Lausitz. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics State of Brandenburg, December 2006, p. 38 , accessed on January 20, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Lubušow - Lower Sorbian place names, 1911-1928, Arnost Muka
4. ^ Walter Wenzel: Oberlausitzer Ortnamesbuch (2008), ISBN 978-3-7420-2067-3
5. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Hermsdorf community
6. ↑ Incorporation of the Jannowitz community into the Hermsdorf community. Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of November 2, 2001. Official Journal for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 47, Potsdam, November 21, 2001, p. 786 PDF
7. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Oberspreewald-Lausitz . Pp. 18-21
8. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
11. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 27
13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
15. ↑ Bells in Hermsdorf are ringing again . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , September 6, 2012
16. ↑ Article in the Lausitzer Rundschau from September 11, 2008

Web links

Commons : Hermsdorf (near Ruhland)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Presentation of Hermsdorf on the homepage of the Ruhland office