Kemberg

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Kemberg
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Coordinates: 51 ° 46 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
County : Wittenberg
Height : 76 m above sea level NHN
Area : 235.14 km 2
Residents: 9636 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 06901
Primaries : 034921, 03491 (Dabrun) , 034904 (Schleesen) , 034927 (Ateritz, Dorna, Globig-Bleddin, Rackith, Wartenburg) , 034928 (Selbitz) , 034953 (Radis)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : WB, GHC, JE
Community key : 15 0 91 160
LOCODE : DE KB7

City administration address : 		Burgstrasse 5
06901 Kemberg
Website : www.stadt-kemberg.de
Mayor : Torsten Seelig ( CDU )
Location of the city of Kemberg in the district of Wittenberg
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Kemberg is a small town in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Kemberg, aerial photo (2015)

geography

Geographical location

The city lies on the northern edge of the Dübener Heide nature park . It is traversed by the Kemberger Flieth (also called Fliethbach) coming from the heather .

City structure

Kemberg has 28 districts:

climate

Precipitation diagram

The annual precipitation is 552 mm (average value 1961–1990) and is therefore comparatively low as it falls in the lower quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 11% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the highest rainfall in August. In August there is 1.9 times more rainfall than in February. The precipitation hardly varies and is very evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 7% of the measuring stations.

history

Already around 1000 BC In the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age , a circular rampart , within which several hundred people lived, is said to have "controlled" the region. The facility existed for about 300 years until it was abandoned after a fire.

The existence of Kemberg has been documented since the first half of the 11th century. It belonged to the county of Brehna or Wettin-Brehna, but fell to the Ascanian Saxony-Wittenberg in 1290 . The oldest documented mention of the city as a city comes from the year 1346. The city council acquired the lower courts in 1482 and the higher courts in 1703 . The partially preserved city wall was built in the 14th century. Around 1429 Kemberg was sacked in the course of the Hussite Wars . In 1488, Magdeburg's town charter was confirmed. In 1522 Kemberg joined the Reformation .

The plague broke out a total of seven times in the 16th and 17th centuries . Together with the severe devastation suffered in the Thirty Years' War , several Elbe floods and city fires, this resulted in the population falling from over 1,000 to barely more than 100 around 1638. In the middle of the 18th century the population had risen to over 1,000 again.

In 1815 Kemberg came from the Kingdom of Saxony to Prussia . In 1908, the development work for lignite mining began near Bergwitz , and lignite mining itself began in 1912. In 1916, Germany's first bucket wheel excavator was used. In 1955, lignite mining was stopped and the open-cast mine was flooded. The Bergwitzsee was created . A total of around 50 million t of lignite was extracted from the opencast mine.

From 1994 to 2009, Kemberg was the seat of the administrative association Kemberg .

Incorporations

In 1950 Gaditz was incorporated. Three communities were added in 2005 (Bergwitz), 2006 (Ateritz) and 2007 (Dorna). Globig-Bleddin followed in early 2009. Finally, nine more municipalities were incorporated in early 2010.

With the incorporation on January 1, 2010, there is only one postcode, and some new street names and new house numbers have been assigned in the districts.

Former parish date annotation
Ateritz 01/01/2006
Bergwitz 07/01/2005
Bidding guest 07/01/1950 Incorporation after Rackith
Bleddin 10/11/1965 Merger with Globig to form Globig-Bleddin
Dabrun 01/01/2010
Dorna 01/01/2007
Eutzsch 01/01/2010
Gaditz 07/01/1950
Globig 10/11/1965 Merger with Bleddin to form Globig-Bleddin
Globig-Bleddin 01/01/2009
Gniest 07/01/1950 Incorporation after Rotta
Klitzschena 07/01/1950 Incorporation to Bergwitz
Lamb Village 07/01/1950 Incorporation after Rackith
Naderkau 07/01/1950 Incorporation after Schleesen
Pannigkau 07/01/1950 Incorporation to Eutzsch
Rackith 01/01/2010
Radis 01/01/2010
Regrets 07/01/1950 Incorporation after Rotta
Rotta 01/01/2010
Schleesen 01/01/2010
Selbitz 01/01/2010
Uthausen 01/01/2010
Wartenburg 01/01/2010

Population development

year Residents
1513 about 950
1555 about 1,250
1638 139
1697 974
year Residents
1755 1,262
1806 1,780
1818 1,922
1849 3,085
year Residents
1862 3,177
1880 2,727
1890 2,528
1900 2.233
year Residents
1910 2,372
1933 2,583
1993 3,058
2008 5,372
year Residents
2010 10,972
2015 9,954
2016 9,899

politics

City council

The city council consists of 19 city councilors and is composed as follows (result of the local elections on May 26, 2019 ):

Party / group of voters Seats Share of votes
CDU 9 46.5%
The left 3 13.1%
SPD 2 11.1%
AfD 2 14.0%
FDP 1 4.3%
Alliance of Citizens 1 11.1%
Interest group for nature and the environment 1
total 19th 100%
Turnout: 61.5%

In addition, the mayor is a member of the city council.

mayor

Torsten Seelig (CDU) was elected mayor in a runoff election on December 13, 2009. On September 4, 2016, he was confirmed in office for another seven years with 100 percent of the valid votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split, in front a red sea leaf in silver; at the back divided nine times by black and gold, covered diagonally on the right with a green diamond wreath. "

The depicted coat of arms was used for a long time, but does not correspond to the city's coat of arms approved by the state. This is based on a no-frills shield.

The city colors show red and silver (white).

Culture and sights

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Kemberg

Church tower seen from the market
Post mileage
Kemberg, St. Marien, aerial photo (2015)
town hall

Buildings

Kemberg is a former agricultural town . Due to the unity of the preserved cityscape, it is of urban significance. The typical regional floor plan of a street perch village, which was expanded and fortified in the Middle Ages, is essentially due to the monumental-looking late Gothic town church “St. Marien “ dominates.

The church was built from 1290 to 1340. It was the successor to a late Romanesque predecessor, which was administered by the Kemberger provosts from 1330/31. The sacristy and the vestibule (south-east) were added 75 years after completion by Matthias Löser. After the building was expanded around 1500, the monumental neo-Gothic west tower was built according to designs by Friedrich August Ritter in 1856-59 .

During the Reformation, Kemberg and the Kemberger Church played an important role. It is proven that Luther was 14 times in Kemberg and preached several times in the church. After Luther's death, his coffin was laid out in the church on the night of February 21-22, 1546. In the church there was a 1565 by Lucas Cranach the Elder. J. created the altar, which fell victim to a fire in 1994 and the remains of which can be seen in the sacristy. The church still has interesting exhibits such as the remains of late medieval wall paintings, a sandstone sacrament house and a carved altar (both from the 15th century), a very beautiful baptismal font and interior decoration by Michael Adolf Siebenhaar . Also noteworthy is the gallery (south side) with 35 pictures showing scenes from Genesis and the names of the donors. The gallery cycle dates from the last third of the 16th century.

Also worth seeing is the late Gothic town hall with its renaissance extensions, the reconstructed electoral Saxon distance column from 1725 and the partially well-preserved city wall from the 14th century. In addition to the historical stone pavement from 1882, individual buildings from the Renaissance (e.g. Bürgerhaus, Schulstrasse 2), the Baroque (e.g. Altes Brauhaus, Wittenberger Strasse 24) and Classicism are also worth mentioning.

Memorials

Schulenburg memorial plaque

traffic

Street

The federal highway 2 from Wittenberg to Bad Düben , the federal highway 100 from Eutzsch to Halle (Saale) and the federal highway 182 , which branches off the federal highway 2 in the urban area and leads to Torgau , run through the city area .

The Vockerode junction of the federal motorway 9 ( Munich - Berlin ) is approx. 22 km from the Kemberg district.

rail

Rackith stop (Elbe)

The Bergwitz stop is on the Berlin – Halle railway line and is served hourly by S-Bahn trains from Central Germany .

The Eutzsch and Rackith stops are on the Pratau – Torgau railway line . In 2014 regular passenger traffic was discontinued. On public holidays and weekends, special trains run to Eilenburg on the route .

From 1903 to 1951 a railway line connected Bergwitz and Kemberg . The former Kemberg train station has been demolished. There is now a supermarket there.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities associated with the city

See also

literature

  • Lexicon cities and coats of arms of the GDR. Leipzig 1979
  • Information sheet from the parish of St. Marien
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Sax guide Dübener Heide. Beucha 2003, ISBN 3-934544-44-4 .
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Forays through the Düben Heath. (The archive images series) Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-243-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kemberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Kemberg in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Kemberg  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Main statute of the city of Kemberg (PDF; 171 kB)
  3. ↑ Kemberg: The oldest castle in Central Europe fell 2600 years ago. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Louis D. Nebelsick, Anna Swieder: Der Burgwall von Kemberg, Lkr. Wittenberg - The oldest dendrochronologically dated fortification of the Lausitz culture at academia.edu
  5. ^ Lexicon of cities and coats of arms of the GDR. Leipzig 1979, p. 219
  6. ↑ coal-steam-light
  7. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
  9. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006
  10. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
  11. ↑ StBA: Area changes on 01/01/2009
  12. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
  13. ↑ a b c Population status of the city of Kemberg ( Memento from 7 August 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt: Results of the municipal council election in the city of Kemberg
  15. ^ Result of the mayor's election on December 13, 2009 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 4, 2016
  17. ^ Information sheet of the parish of St. Marien
  18. ^ Information sheet of the parish of St. Marien