Kemberg
coat of arms | Germany map | |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ' N , 12 ° 38' E |
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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) | |
License plate : | WB, GHC, JE | |
Community key : | 15 0 91 160 | |
LOCODE : | DE KB7 | |
City administration address : |
Burgstrasse 5 06901 Kemberg |
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Mayor : | Torsten Seelig ( CDU ) | |
Location of the city of Kemberg in the district of Wittenberg | ||
Kemberg is a small town in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt .
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
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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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
- Memorial stone for the resistance fighters against fascism (since 1994 in the cemetery, previously at the former train station)
- Burial in the cemetery for an individual known Italian military internees , the 1,945 victims of the April forced labor was
- Memorial plaque from 1994 on the house where Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg was born at Kreuzstrasse 12, a resistance fighter of July 20, who was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1944
- Memorial stone in the district of Gaditz, where in 1944 a Polish slave laborer who was deported to Germany during the Second World War was publicly hanged in front of his fellow prisoners
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
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
- Adam von Bodenstein (1528–1577), doctor and alchemist
- Johannes Wanckel (1553–1616), historian
- Ambrosius Rhode (1577–1633), mathematician, astronomer and physician
- Ambrosius Rhodius (1605–1696), medic and astrologer
- Gottlieb Müller (1721–1793), theologian
- Ernestine Christine Reiske (1735–1798), author and private scholar
- Gottfried Fähse (1764–1831), educator, born in Schleesen
- Wilhelm Traugott Krug (1770–1842), philosopher, born in Radis
- Johann Gottfried Galle (1812–1910), astronomer, born in Radis
- Georg Schleusner (1841–1911), founder of a hospital foundation in Wittenberg
- Richard Bartmuß (1859–1910), composer and organist, born in Schleesen
- Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875–1944), diplomat and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- August Blume (1893–1970), trade unionist
- Gottfried Dietze (1922–2006), political scientist
- Helmut Köhler (1928–2009), politician ( SPD )
- Gerd Mielke (* 1945), educator
- Ernst Paul Dörfler (* 1950), author and environmentalist
Other personalities associated with the city
- Bartholomäus Bernhardi (1487–1551), theologian
- Matthias Wanckel (1511–1571), theologian
- Matthäus Blöchinger (1520–1584), mathematician, philologist and theologian
- Johannes Bugenhagen the Younger (1527–1594), theologian
- Wolfgang Franz (1564–1628), theologian
- Jeremias Spiegel (1589–1637), theologian and rhetorician
- Martin Caselius (1608–1656), theologian
- Hieronymus Dathe (1667–1707), theologian
- August Müller senior (1679–1749), theologian
- Balthasar Geyder (1681–1767), pastor in Radis
- August Müller junior (1711–1789), theologian
- Hans Heinrich von Witzleben (1713–1771), head of the Leipzig district
- Johann Gottlieb Drasdo (1753–1819), theologian
- Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827), physicist
- Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler (1779–1843), physician
- Karl Immanuel Nitzsch (1787–1868), theologian
- Helmuth Miethke (1897 – after 1973), writer, lived in Kemberg
- Corinna Reinecke (* 1965), politician ( SPD ), lives in Kemberg
- Matthias Lieschke (* 1970), politician ( AfD ), lives in Kemberg
- Justin Neumann (* 1998), soccer player
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Kemberg (PDF; 171 kB)
- ↑ Kemberg: The oldest castle in Central Europe fell 2600 years ago. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Louis D. Nebelsick, Anna Swieder: Der Burgwall von Kemberg, Lkr. Wittenberg - The oldest dendrochronologically dated fortification of the Lausitz culture at academia.edu
- ^ Lexicon of cities and coats of arms of the GDR. Leipzig 1979, p. 219
- ↑ coal-steam-light
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2006
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
- ↑ StBA: Area changes on 01/01/2009
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
- ↑ a b c Population status of the city of Kemberg ( Memento from 7 August 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt: Results of the municipal council election in the city of Kemberg
- ^ Result of the mayor's election on December 13, 2009 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 4, 2016
- ^ Information sheet of the parish of St. Marien
- ^ Information sheet of the parish of St. Marien