Hirschfeld (Brandenburg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Elbe Elster
Office :	Schradenland
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.46 km 2
Residents:	1235 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	60 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	04932
Area code :	035343
License plate :	EE, FI, LIB
Community key :	12 0 62 232
Office administration address:	Großenhainer Straße 25 04932 Val Gardena
Website :	www.hirschfeld-im-schraden.de
Mayoress :	Ivonne Haase
Location of the municipality of Hirschfeld in the Elbe-Elster district

Hirschfeld 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 Schraden community of Hirschfeld is located about 12 kilometers southeast of Elsterwerda in the immediate vicinity of the Saxon state border.

Community structure

The Frankenmühle residential area belongs to the Hirschfeld community .

history

Hirschfeld around 1898

The place was probably founded in the 12th century as part of the eastern settlement . However, exact dates about the first settlements are not available. Around 1428, 16 farming families were already cultivating the previously barren and swampy land. In 1470 a church was built for the first time, which was given a steeple in 1474 , but which collapsed in 1769 and also severely damaged the nave , so that a complete new building was necessary.

Hirschfeld 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

Population development of Hirschfeld from 1875 to 2016

year Residents 1875 1,000 1890 1,000 1910 1 100 1925 1 142 1933 1 211 1939 1 185 1946 1 588 1950 1 571

year Residents 1964 1 501 1971 1 547 1981 1 613 1985 1 603 1989 1 613 1990 1 578 1991 1 588 1992 1 568 1993 1 555 1994 1 548

year Residents 1995 1 561 1996 1 562 1997 1 540 1998 1 544 1999 1 539 2000 1 520 2001 1 510 2002 1 484 2003 1,460 2004 1 471

year Residents 2005 1 456 2006 1 435 2007 1 433 2008 1 410 2009 1 394 2010 1 367 2011 1 344 2012 1 351 2013 1 321 2014 1 298

year Residents 2015 1 279 2016 1 254 2017 1 236 2018 1 248 2019 1,235

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 municipal council of Hirschfeld consists of seven municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Volunteer firefighter	1
Hirschfelder Blide	1
Heimatverein Hirschfeld	1
Individual applicant Wolfgang Kohl	1
Voting group SV Hirschfeld	1
Single applicant Gerd Stange	1
Sports voters group	1

Ivonne Haase ran for both community representative and mayor. Their share of the vote in the election for community council corresponded to three seats. Since she accepted the election as mayor, these three seats in the municipal council remain vacant in accordance with Section 60 (3) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act.

mayor

• 1998–2019: Bernd Trobisch (Heimatverein Hirschfeld)
• since 2019: Ivonne Haase

Haase was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 75.3% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on March 11, 2003.

Blazon : “Divided; above in silver a growing, gold-armored black stag, below, sheathed in green and silver. "

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar .

State election 2019

For the state elections in Brandenburg in 2019 , the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) reached 50.6%. Nowhere else in Brandenburg did the AfD achieve such a high value. As early as 2004, the right-wing extremist German People's Union achieved a record figure of 26 percent.

Sights and culture

Hirschfelder Church

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

The steeple of today's church , built in 1786, is the landmark of Hirschfeld. The church was completely renovated in 1997.

Since 1968 the association "Spielmannszug TV Deutsche Eiche" has organized the music festival every June.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Hirschfeld is located on the state roads L 59 between Gröditz and Ortrand and L 591 to Plessa . The nearest motorway junction is Ortrand on the A 13 Berlin – Dresden.

education

There is a primary school in Hirschfeld with 111 students in 6 classes (as of the 2017/18 school year).

Sports

"SV Hirschfeld 1921" is active in football in the village. The club was founded in 1921 as the "Harry Hirschfeld Workers Sports Club". Two years later, this joined the Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association , which was banned during the Nazi era . After the end of the Second World War, the club was re-established in 1946 as "SG Hirschfeld", which was later renamed BSG "Traktor Hirschfeld" and was able to record the greatest success in club history in 1980 with the championship in the district league. The association has had its current name since 1992.

Personalities

• August Dächsel (1818–1901), Protestant theologian, took up his first pastorate in Hirschfeld in 1847
• Adolf Werner (1827–1904), portrait and genre painter, born in Frankenmühle

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 : Hirschfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Office Schradenland
• Hirschfeld's homepage
• The local history on the homepage of the Hirschfelder Heimatverein
• Contribution to the RBB program Landschleicher on October 10, 2010
• Link catalog on the subject of Hirschfeld at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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. Hirschfeld 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 election on May 26, 2019
7. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 60
8. ↑ 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. 
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
12. ↑ Sebastian Leber: Zero refugees, but 50.6 percent AfD. In: Tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel, September 2, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019 . 
13. ^ School website
14. ^ SV Hirschfeld 1921 eV on the website of the community
15. ↑ Heinz Hirschfeld: Harry Hirschfeld's 90th birthday . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , July 6, 2011