Niemegk

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Niemegk
Map of Germany, position of the city of Niemegk highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '  N , 12 ° 42'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Potsdam-Mittelmark
Office : Niemegk
Height : 75 m above sea level NHN
Area : 45.12 km 2
Residents: 2006 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 14823
Area code : 033843
License plate : PM
Community key : 12 0 69 448
LOCODE : DE NMG
City structure: 2 parts of the community
Office administration address: Großstrasse 6
14823 Niemegk
Website : www.amt-niemegk.de
Mayor : Hans-Joachim Linthe ( SPD )
Location of the city of Niemegk in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district
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Niemegk is a town in the south of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . It is the seat of the office of the same name , to which three other communities belong.

geography

The town of Niemegk is located between Hohem Fläming and Belziger Vorfläming at an altitude of 69 to 148 m above sea ​​level east of the tarpaulin . Several bodies of water flow through the urban area with the Buffbach , a left tributary of the Plane, and its tributaries Funderbach and Adda . The urban area lies on a ground moraine from the Saale Ice Age . The southern urban area extends up to the terminal moraines and the ice edge of the Saale Ice Age. In the north, south-east, south-west and west, the city is surrounded by forests, the Niemegker Forest and the Hohenwerbiger Forest . The remaining undeveloped area is used for agriculture , not least because of the fertility of the soil for Brandenburg . To the north of Niemegk one comes across sand deposits that have been left open. To the east of the city there are clay deposits that are still being mined. In 2005, a larger wind farm was also put into operation east of the city , the wind turbines of which can be seen as a landmark over the heights of Fläming . Due to the Ice Age, there are many boulders , reading stones and heaps of reading stones as well as stone bars with the function of natural protective forest strips in the territory . Niemegk is partly in the area of ​​the Hoher Fläming Nature Park .

City structure

The inhabited districts of Hohenwerbig and Lühnsdorf and the Werdermühle residential area belong to the city of Niemegk .

history

St. Johannis Church, on the right Robert Koch House

To the southeast of today's Bahnhofstrasse there was a castle rampart in early history , a site of Middle Slavic and early German ceramics, which is now overbuilt. The first mention of Niemegk as Burgward is dated to 1161 and appears in documents in the 12th and 13th centuries in the forms Nymik , Niemeke and around 1441 Nymegk . The name comes with high probability from the Dutch Nijmegen (around 1100 Niumago). Niemegk was under the protection of the Teutonic Knight Order , which had owned the Dahnsdorf Commandery (Komthurmühle) since 1227. The place is originally a clustered village with the status of a castle spot , which acquired town charter in 1228 and developed into a town with a market square on a north-south axis (main road) in the course of the 13th century. The castle, which no longer exists today and is owned by the von Oppen family, was mentioned for the last time as a castle in 1441.

As a border town in Electoral Saxony , the city was often involved in military conflicts. In 1400/01 there were clashes between Brandenburg knights and Rudolf III. von Sachsen , 1416 looting by Dietrich von Quitzow on behalf of the Archbishop of Magdeburg , 1429 invasions of the Hussites , and in 1547 in the Schmalkaldic War after the battle of Mühlberg the Walloons invaded Niemegk. During the Thirty Years War in 1618 only 63 of the original 245 houses stood in 1644. As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Niemegk and the entire Saxon office of Belzig fell to Prussia ( Musspreußen ) and came to the Zauch-Belzig district in the province of Brandenburg . Between 1952 and 1990 Niemegk belonged to the Belzig district in the GDR district of Potsdam , until 1993 in the state of Brandenburg.

Population development

year Residents
1875 2 304
1890 2 250
1910 2,427
1925 2,386
1933 2,436
1939 2,979
1946 3 257
1950 3 192
year Residents
1964 2,744
1971 2,676
1981 2,714
1985 2,649
1989 2 594
1990 2 530
1991 2,428
1992 2,396
1993 2,382
1994 2,399
year Residents
1995 2 408
1996 2,354
1997 2,341
1998 2,368
1999 2,377
2000 2,368
2001 2,350
2002 2,327
2003 2,330
2004 2 295
year Residents
2005 2 262
2006 2 207
2007 2 208
2008 2 156
2009 2 100
2010 2,058
2011 2 034
2012 1 987
2013 1 999
2014 2,014
year Residents
2015 2 006
2016 2 031
2017 2,043
2018 2 037
2019 2 006

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

City Council

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 59.8% (2014: 60.2%)
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40
30th
20th
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0
34.9
26.7
14.4
13.7
3.9
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
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+8.7
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Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
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town hall
old yard
Monument water tower
Fish ponds at the Werdermühle, tarpaulin
Saxon post mile column with stagecoach

The city council of Niemegk consists of eleven city councilors and the honorary mayor.

Party / group of voters Seats 2014 Seats 2019
SPD 3 4th
Future of Niemegk 3 3
Brandenburg United Citizens Movements / Free Voters 1 2
CDU 2 1
The left 1 1
Single applicant Ines Maager 1 -
Alliance 90 / The Greens 1 -
All in all 12 11

One seat of the CDU remains vacant because there was no second applicant from this party.

mayor

  • 1998-2014: Eckhard Zorn (SPD)
  • since 2014: Hans-Joachim Linthe (SPD)

Linthe prevailed in the mayoral election on June 15, 2014 with 50.4% of the valid votes and only eight votes ahead (500 versus 492). In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with 69.3% of the valid votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city of Niemegk was approved on June 12, 2012. With the sign of Saxony, it reminds of the city's Electoral Saxon past. The eagle refers to today's belonging to the state of Brandenburg.

Blazon : “In silver a rooted green oak with golden fruits, the trunk of which is covered by two shields, on the right with the Brandenburg one (in silver a golden-armored and red-tongued red eagle with golden clover stems on the wings) and on the left with the Saxon one Coat of arms (divided nine times by black and gold and covered by an inclined green diamond ring). "

Until 2012 the city had a different coat of arms. In the old coat of arms there was an acorn instead of the Brandenburg coat of arms: “In silver on a green hill, a rooted oak tree in natural colors, the trunk of which is fronted with a sign, divided nine times by black and gold, covered by a slanted green diamond ring (Saxony), left with a fallen, two-leaved golden acorn. "

It highlighted the former wealth of Niemegk with the deciduous deciduous trees in the largely pine forest-dominated area. The coat of arms was renewed because it did not correspond to the heraldic principles.

flag

The city's flag is green, white, green, white and green striped. The city coat of arms is emblazoned in the middle.

Sights and culture

The list of architectural monuments in Niemegk and the list of ground monuments in Niemegk contain the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Passenger traffic on the Belzig – Niemegk – Treuenbrietzen line was stopped in 1962. The nearest train stations are in Bad Belzig and Treuenbrietzen .

With the Regiobus Potsdam-Mittelmark , Niemegk can be reached with a PlusBus and other regional bus routes.

Niemegk is connected to the federal motorway 9 Berlin – Munich via the motorway junction of the same name . The federal highway 102 runs through the northern part of the city - without touching the city center - via which the district town of Bad Belzig and the neighboring town of Treuenbrietzen can be reached. The state road  82 leads via Hohenwerbig and Zeuden to Marzahna on federal road 2 , the L 83 via Neuendorf to Straach in Saxony-Anhalt . District roads connect the neighboring towns.

State institutions

In 1930 the Adolf Schmidt Observatory for Geomagnetism was founded in Niemegk . It continues the measurements of the earth's magnetic field that began in Potsdam in 1890. The observatory has been operated by the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) since 1992 . The observatory is a member of the Intermagnet program.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Siegfried Dalitz (1925–2012), long-time mayor and local chronicle (honorary citizen 2009)

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with the city

Adolf Schmidt

Web links

Commons : Niemegk  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Niemeck in the Topographia Superioris Saxoniae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. City of Niemegk
  3. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark. Pp. 22-25.
  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 elections on May 25, 2014. Accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019. Accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ New faces among the Niemegk city councilors. In: Märkische Allgemeine , May 27, 2019
  9. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 15, 2014
  10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
  11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  12. ↑ Coat of arms of the city of Niemegk. on service.brandenburg.de
  13. ↑ Coat of arms and flag of the city of Niemegk. on service.brandenburg.de
  14. ↑ Coat of arms and flag of the city of Niemegk. at www.amt-niemegk.de
  15. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung: Niemegks deputies selected icon. at www.amt-niemegk.de
  16. ^ Wilhelm Roloff: Robert Koch as a Brandenburg country doctor . In: Ärzteblatt for Berlin, Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania. No. 33-34 / 1939, p. 631.
  17. ^ Adolf Best: On the history of the Adolf Schmidt observatory for geomagnetism in Niemegk.
  18. ^ Geomagnetic Observatory, Niemegk. Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, accessed on April 21, 2018 .