Herzberg (Mark)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '  N , 12 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Office :	Lindow (Mark)
Height :	46 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.72 km 2
Residents:	617 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16835
Area code :	033926
License plate :	OPR, KY, NP, WK
Community key :	12 0 68 188
Office administration address:	Strasse des Friedens 20 16835 Lindow (Mark)
Website :	www.herzberg-mark.de
Mayoress :	Michaela Wolff
Location of the municipality of Herzberg (Mark) in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district

Herzberg (Mark) is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Office Lindow (Mark) .

geography

Herzberg (Mark) is located in the eastern part of the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district between Neuruppin and Kremmen . It borders on the foothills of the Rhinluch landscape.

Community structure

The Birkenhof residential area belongs to the community.

history

In the Herzberg area there were two Slavic settlements in the 11th to 12th centuries . These were given up when Herzberg was founded. Herzberg is first mentioned in 1365. Around 1490, Herzberg belonged to the Ruppin rulership of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin, which was essentially imperial . The name comes from the Low German "herte" for deer and "berch" for mountain. In the Thirty Years War 14 of 40 farms were destroyed. In 1785 356 inhabitants lived here, in 1817 there were 421 and in 1858 806. There was work in a brickworks that was built in the middle of the 19th century. In 1896, Herzberg was given a stop on the Löwenberg-Lindow-Rheinsberger Railway .

Herzberg has belonged to the Ruppin rule since the 14th century, to the Ruppin district in the Mark Brandenburg since 1524 and to the Neuruppin district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . Herzberg has been located in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg since 1993.

Population development

year Residents 1875 869 1890 795 1910 768 1925 728 1933 767 1939 843 1946 1 275 1950 1 266

year Residents 1964 874 1971 855 1981 738 1985 729 1989 716 1990 700 1991 668 1992 673 1993 659 1994 642

year Residents 1995 643 1996 624 1997 640 1998 681 1999 683 2000 699 2001 698 2002 716 2003 721 2004 703

year Residents 2005 708 2006 667 2007 671 2008 669 2009 672 2010 660 2011 643 2012 634 2013 638 2014 617

year Residents 2015 630 2016 659 2017 653 2018 627 2019 617

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 municipality of Herzberg consists of five municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

	Seats
Individual applicant Lutz Dutzmann	1
Individual applicant Lutz Engel	1
Single applicant Dörthe Hering	1
Individual applicant Alfred Bülten	1
Individual applicant Petra Sandow	1

Michaela Wolff ran for both community representative and mayor. Since she accepted the election as mayor, her seat in the municipal council remains vacant according to Section 60 (3) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act.

Michaela Wolff's share of the vote in the local council election corresponded to three seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, another two seats in the municipal council remain vacant.

mayor

• 1998–2008: Hans-Joachim Rößger
• since 2008: Michaela Wolff

Wolff was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 87.7% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Herzberg (Mark) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

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  church

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  "Dorfkrug" porch house

The village church from the 13th century stands on the oldest built-up square in Herzberg and used to be a fortified church . The churchyard portal dates from the 16th century. The church has double paintings from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century (partly exposed in the 1920s). The organ comes from Albert Hollenbach , a famous organ builder from Neuruppin.

Historical monuments

• War memorial for those who fell in the Wars of Unification, originally with a relief medallion of Kaiser Wilhelm I and an eagle on the top of the obelisk.
  Stripped of its Prussian attributes, the ruinous obelisk still stands in its original destination in the middle of a roundabout.
• Memorial stone from 1946 for 19 victims of the death march from Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the northwest corner of the cemetery
• Memorial, erected after 1989, for all victims of war and tyranny in the center of the cemetery

traffic

The federal road 167 from Neuruppin to Eberswalde and the state road 19 from Lindow (Mark) to Kremmen lead through the village . The closest motorway junction is Neuruppin on the A 24 .

The regional train line RB 54 ( Löwenberg – Rheinsberg ) stops at Herzberg (Mark) station . From 2008 to 2018, the route was only operated in the summer half of the year ( Good Friday to the beginning of November). A year-round operation will take place on a trial basis.

Personalities

• Eberhard Klunker (* 1952), guitarist, born in Herzberg

literature

• Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Brandenburg, district Ostprignitz-Ruppin, part 2: Fehrbellin community, Lindow (Mark) and city of Rheinsberg, Ulrike Schwarz and Matthias Metzler and others, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein, 2003, ISBN 3-88462- 191-2 , pp. 252-262.

Web links

Commons : Herzberg (Mark)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Herzberg in the RBB program Landschleicher on January 8, 2006

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. Herzberg (Mark) community
3. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin . Pp. 14-17
4. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 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 election on May 26, 2019
7. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 60
8. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 48
9. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ( memento of the original from April 13, 2018 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. 
10. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 10
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019