Mühlberg / Elbe
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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ' N , 13 ° 13' E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Elbe Elster | |
| Association municipality: | Liebenwerda | |
| Height : | 91 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 89.2 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3671 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 41 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 04931 (Altenau, Fichtenberg, Mühlberg) 04895 (Brottewitz, Koßdorf, Martinskirchen) |
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| Area code : | 035342 | |
| License plate : | EE, FI, LIB | |
| Community key : | 12 0 62 341 | |
| City structure: | 5 districts | |
City administration address : |
Neustädter Markt 1 04931 Mühlberg / Elbe |
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| Mayor : | Dieter Jähnichen | |
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Mühlberg / Elbe is a town on the Elbe in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .
Geographical location
Mühlberg is located on the Elbe in the southwestern part of the state of Brandenburg, halfway between Riesa in the south and Torgau in the north. The 1.2 km² area around the ferry landing stage at the mouth of the Dahle west of the Elbe, including a section of the federal highway 182, is the only area in Brandenburg on the left bank of the Elbe, belonging to Mühlberg .
City structure
According to the main statute of the city, Mühlberg / Elbe has the following local and community parts:
- Altenau with the Wendisch-Borschütz community
- Brottewitz
- Fichtenberg with the districts Borschütz, Gaitzsch and Schweditz
- Koßdorf with the community part Lönnewitz
- Martinskirchen with the Altbelgern municipality
- Mühlberg / Elbe with the districts of Köttlitz and Weinberge
There is also the Alte Ziegelei residential area .
history
Mühlberg was first mentioned in a document in 1230. Long before this, Slavic settlements since around 600 AD can be proven through archaeological excavations and grave finds. The city was founded on a valley sand island at the Elbe crossing under the protection of a moated castle . The lords of the castle were initially the ministerials from Ileburg (Eilenburg), who also founded the Marienstern monastery here in 1228 . The city and its rulers were under the changing influence of Bohemian and Meissen lords. In 1397 Mühlberg fell to Meissen , but in 1443 it was exchanged for the rule of Hohnstein to Hincko Birke von der Duba . After the death of his descendants, Mühlberg came back to Meissen in 1520, and after the Schmalkaldic War it was integrated into the now Albertine Electoral Saxony. During the war, the decisive battle took place on April 24, 1547 near Mühlberg . In the electoral state the Mühlberg office belonged to the Meißnische Kreis formed in 1547 .
In 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna , Mühlberg went to Prussia together with other Saxon areas and became part of the newly founded district of Liebenwerda . In 1854, straightening the Elbe resulted in Mühlberg no longer lying directly on the Elbe. A preserved Elbarm was converted into a harbor in 1883.
In 1939 the prisoner-of-war camp, main camp IV B, was set up near Neuburxdorf , in which around 3,000 prisoners died by the end of the war. From September 1945 to November 1948, this camp was operated as special camp No. 1 Mühlberg of the NKVD , in which around 7,000 of a total of 22,000 people died of starvation and secondary diseases and are buried in mass graves near a shooting range to the north.
After the end of the Second World War , Mühlberg, which previously belonged to the Prussian administrative district of Merseburg , became part of the newly founded state of Saxony-Anhalt . In the GDR, as part of the administrative reform of 1952, it was assigned to the Cottbus district . The official name of the city was Mühlberg (Elbe) until 1990 . When the borders of the new federal states were determined with the reunification in 1990 , Mühlberg came to the state of Brandenburg with a large part of the Cottbus district . In 1992 Mühlberg was accepted into the working group "Cities with historic town centers" of the state of Brandenburg.
On July 21, 1992 the Mühlberg / Elbe office was established. The municipalities of Altenau, Brottewitz, Fichtenberg, Koßdorf, Martinskirchen and the city of Mühlberg / Elbe from the then Bad Liebenwerda district were combined in this administrative association. On August 31, 2001, the new city of Mühlberg / Elbe, which was free of charge, from the municipalities of Altenau, Brottewitz, Fichtenberg, Koßdorf, Martinskirchen and the city of Mühlberg / Elbe, was approved by the Mühlberg / Elbe office with effect from August 31, 2001. The Mühlberg / Elbe office was dissolved on the same date.
The high water level of the Elbe during the floods in August 2002 forced the district and state administration to completely evacuate Mühlberg. But the dikes held, celebrated by the locals as the “miracle of Mühlberg”.
Another severe natural disaster hit the city on May 24, 2010. A hailstorm was followed by a tornado that destroyed over 300 houses, some severely, including the tower of the monastery church. Mühlberg was cut off from the outside world for several hours.
When the Elbe floods in 2013 , three quarters of the residents were evacuated by June 8th and the dykes were raised and reinforced, which - as in 2002 - held. The Elbe level reached 9.62 m.
In March 2019, the city council decided that Mühlberg / Elbe would merge with Bad Liebenwerda , Falkenberg / Elster and Uebigau-Wahrenbrück (all districts of Elbe-Elster) to form the Liebenwerda community on January 1, 2020 .
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
politics
City Council
The Mühlberg city council consists of 16 city councilors and the honorary mayor as a voting member. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats with a turnout of 56.6%:
| Community of voters for the Mühlberg economic area | CDU | Koßdorf voter community | Voting group "For Altenau" | Citizens' Union for Fichtenberg | Individual applicant Dieter Jähnichen | |
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| percent | 39.5 | 20.1 | 14.5 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 6.4 |
| Seats | 6th | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
mayor
- 2000–2008: Dieter Jähnichen
- 2008–2020: Hannelore Brendel (independent)
- since 2020: Dieter Jähnichen
Brendel was elected in the 2008 mayoral election with 92.0% of the valid votes. In the mayoral election on April 17, 2016, she was confirmed in office for another eight years with 56.9% of the valid votes. In 2020 she moved to the Liebenwerda community as an alderman .
Jähnichen was elected the new honorary mayor by the city council on January 22nd, 2020 with 11 out of 16 votes.
coat of arms
The coat of arms designed by heraldist Frank Diemar was approved on July 15, 2002. It shows "In black a red-armored and -tongued, double-tailed golden lion."
flag
The flag of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe is two-stripe black and yellow with the city coat of arms in the middle.
Partnerships
Mühlberg maintains a partnership with a municipality and a city:
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Gutach (Black Forest Railway) , Baden-Württemberg , Germany, since 1991 -
Nieszawa , Poland
Attractions
In the list of architectural monuments in Mühlberg / Elbe and in the list of ground monuments in Mühlberg / Elbe are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.
- Marienstern Cistercian Convent , founded in 1228, secularized in 1539, has been revived since 2000 by the Order of the Claretians .
- Museum Mühlberg 1547 (Propstei). The provost's office was built in 1531 with graduated gables and has medieval wall and ceiling paintings. The city museum has been located in the building since 1926 and was restored in the early 1990s. Since 2015, the newly designed permanent exhibition has focused on the Battle of Mühlberg in 1547.
- Villa Güldenstern, built 1898–1900 as a residential and administrative building for the Güldenstern manor , historicizing with Art Nouveau elements.
- Mühlberg Castle , first mentioned in 1272 as a moated castle of the Lords of Ileburg ; Rebuilt as a hunting lodge in 1545 (after a city fire) under Elector Moritz . The moats were drained at the beginning of the 19th century. Later it was used as a district court, prison and since 1859 main customs office, more recently as a school, youth club, city library, city archive and apartments. A privatization in 1999 only led to rudimentary renovation measures, a resale to progressive neglect, in 2015 a foreclosure auction was set for € 292,000. In 2018, three siblings from Mexico City bought it.
- Historic city center, including a reconstructed post-distance column from the Saxon region
- Memorial complex from 1949 on Schloßplatz in memory of the anti-fascist resistance fighters
- Dutch windmill in Koßdorf , built in 1912 on the site of a post windmill that burned down at the time . The functioning mill is owned by the Humpisch family and is still used by their mill operations.
- Memorial for the victims of the prisoner- of- war camp Stalag IV B and the special camp No. 1 Mühlberg that followed after 1945
traffic
The state road L 66 runs north of Mühlberg to Bad Liebenwerda . The L 67 touches the city in the east and connects it with several districts.
On the opposite bank of the Elbe, the federal highway 182 runs between Torgau and Riesa . A yaw ferry was used to cross the Elbe until 2008 . The Mühlberg ferry station in the Köttlitz district, consisting of Gierponte, two ferry ramps and a yaw cable system, is a technical monument. With the handover of the Mühlberg road bridge over the Elbe on December 22, 2008, the Gierseilfähre was decommissioned. It was the only yaw ferry in Brandenburg. In 2013 the ferry was transferred to the historic port of Berlin . The closest ferries are in Strehla approx. 15 km upstream and in Belgern approx. 10 km downstream.
The station Mühlberg (Elbe) was on the railway line Neubuxdorf-Mühlberg . After 46 years Muhlberg was the first time Saturday with the July 6 until September 29, 2007 Railway reached. As part of a community railway project of the DBV-Förderverein Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn, the association's own Elbe-Elster-Express drove from Mühlberg via Falkenberg / Elster and Herzberg (Elster) to Schlieben . In 2008, however, traffic was stopped after two months on July 12, 2008. On the ten days of travel since May 1, only eight passengers had used the journeys between Mühlberg (Elbe) and Luckau-Uckro, which meant that no cost-covering operation was possible. While freight traffic to the local gravel works is still taking place, the last section of the route to the train station was shut down and interrupted in favor of the bypass (L 67).
The inland port, which was closed in 1998, was modernized in 2011 and expanded into the Mühlberg industrial port (upgrading the sheet pile wall , installing two heavy-duty slabs, creating a storage and handling area, redesigning the access roads).
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Narhammer (1549–1593), Protestant theologian
- Georg Christoph von Taupadel (around 1600–1647), general in the Swedish service, born in Fichtenberg
- Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698–1756), cantor and composer
- Johann Christoph Erdmann (1733–1812), theologian and church historian
- Emil Heinrich Schneider (1839–1928), pastor and writer
- Wilhelm Hasemann (1850–1913), Black Forest painter
- Martin Bartholdy (1904–1965), archivist and writer, born in Altbelgern
- Peer Baedeker alias Ernst-Max Hacke (1912–1999), opera singer, writer and antiquarian, born in Alt-Löhnewitz
- Karl-Heinz Krug (* 1922), functionary of the GDR block party LDPD
- Paul Kienberg (1926–2013), MfS officer
- Peter Eichhorst (1943–2008), software pioneer
- Michael Gundermann (* 1945), painter and graphic artist, born in Brottewitz
Personalities associated with Mühlberg
- Max Pauly (1849–1917), director of the Brottewitz sugar factory 1878–1897, optician, invented the so-called Pauly cooker for making sugar
- Werner Kube (1923–1945), resistance fighter , shot at the Brottewitz cemetery wall after a failed attempt to escape together with Reinhold Franznick, Johann Jakobi, Erich Kindermann and Harry Prien
- Matthias Taatz (* 1959), pastor in Mühlberg from 1988–1992, president of the Mühlberg city council in 1990, chairman of the Mühlberg camp initiative group since 2001 .
Propstei
Villa Güldenstern
Kirchstrasse with Frauenkirche
Water tower
literature
- Carl Robert Bertram: Chronicle of the city and the cloister Mühlberg . Torgau 1865. ( E-copy )
- City of Mühlberg / Elbe: We were spared! City of Mühlberg / Elbe. Elbe flood 2002. Mühlberg 2003.
- City administration Mühlberg (ed.): Mühlberg. Yesterday and today. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942146-29-6 .
Web links
- Official website of the city
- Link catalog on Mühlberg at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ BRANDENBURGVIEWER. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe from January 28, 2009 (PDF)
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Mühlberg / Elbe
- ^ History of the Liebenwerda District Stories of the Territories and Districts of the Province of Saxony, Volume 1: History of the Liebenwerda District , Heinrich Nebelsieck
- ↑ The Kamenice estuary - the Schwarze Elster estuary - WasserKulturLandschaft Elbe - the tourist guide along the Labe / Elbe. In: wasserkulturlandschaft-elbe.de. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Formation of the offices of Gartz / Oder, Bad Liebenwerda, Mühlberg / Elbe, Plessa, Märkische Schweiz, Premnitz, Rüdersdorf, Scharmützelsee, Steinhöfel / Heinersdorf Elsterland, Kleine Elster and Falkenberg Uebigau. Announcement by the Minister of the Interior of July 21, 1992. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 3, Number 54, July 31, 1992, p. 970/1.
- ↑ Formation of the new city of Mühlberg / Elbe, which is free of public offices. Announcement by the Ministry of the Interior of July 30, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 34, Potsdam, August 22, 2001, page 587 (PDF)
- ↑ Elbe floods abate - tension remains: The “Miracle of Mühlberg”. (No longer available online.) Rp-online.de, August 20, 2002, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Windhose devastated Mühlberg in just seven minutes :: lr-online. Lr-online.de, accessed on June 5, 2010 .
- ↑ rbb24: New community of Liebenwerda. March 22, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district , pp. 22-25.
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
- ^ 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ^ Mühlberg elects a new mayor. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 10, 2008
- ^ Victory for Hannelore Brendel. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 14, 2008
- ↑ a b These are the honorary mayors . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 22, 2020
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on April 17, 2016
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg. Service.brandenburg.de, accessed on June 5, 2010 .
- ↑ Flag information from the main statute of the city. (PDF; 76 kB) Retrieved June 5, 2010 .
- ↑ Partner municipality / twin town on the homepage of the city of Mühlberg / Elbe, accessed on March 27, 2017
- ↑ website of the city muehlberg-elbe.de , accessed on November 2, 2015.
- ↑ Burgerbe.de , July 2018
- ^ Corinna Karl: "Hol over": Mühlberg's ferry leaves the port. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. November 9, 2013, accessed June 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Press release from the German Railway Customers' Association. (No longer available online.) July 4, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Brandenburg: In future no more Saturday traffic on the Elbe-Elster-Express. (No longer available online.) Press release Deutscher Bahnkunden-Verband , July 12, 2008, archived from the original on August 21, 2009 ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Industrial port Mühlberg / Elbe. City of Mühlberg / Elbe, accessed on June 15, 2018 .
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