Upper Harz on the Brocken
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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ' N , 10 ° 49' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Saxony-Anhalt | |
| County : | resin | |
| Height : | 475 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 271.51 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 10,256 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 38 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postcodes : | 38875 (Elbingerode, Elend, Königshütte, Sorge, Tanne) , 38877 (Benneckenstein) , 38889 (Rübeland) , 38899 (Hasselfelde, Stiege, Trautenstein) |
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| Primaries : | 039454, 039455, 039457, 039459 | |
| License plate : | HZ, HBS, QLB, WR | |
| Community key : | 15 0 85 228 | |
| LOCODE : | DE OZR | |
City administration address : |
Markt 1–2 38875 Oberharz am Brocken OT Elbingerode |
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| Mayor : | Ronald Fiebelkorn ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz district | ||
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Oberharz am Brocken is a district town in the Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt , which was established on January 1, 2010. It was formed with the voluntary amalgamation of the city of Elbingerode (Harz) and the municipalities of the Brocken-Hochharz administrative community (except Allrode ). The administrative seat is in the district of Stadt Elbingerode (Harz). The city with the districts Benneckenstein, Elbingerode, Elend, Hasselfelde, Königshütte, Rübeland, Sorge, Stiege, Tanne and Trautenstein has been a state-approved resort since 2015 .
Merger
The merger took place against the background of the municipal area reform in Saxony-Anhalt and the associated dissolution of the administrative community Brocken-Hochharz in favor of a unified municipality. The area change agreement was signed on June 25, 2009 by representatives of the towns on a boat on the Rappbode dam .
Name dispute
The choice of name triggered criticism in the Harz , for example in Wernigerode , as the area of the new city is neither in the Upper Harz nor directly on the Brocken . In particular, the Upper Harz municipality in Lower Saxony raised a protest and on August 31, 2009 filed a suit and application for urgent legal protection with the Magdeburg Administrative Court , primarily to protect the Upper Harz municipality . The combined community failed. A complaint to the Magdeburg Higher Administrative Court was rejected in November 2009. In April 2010, the Upper Harz municipality announced that it would now file a new lawsuit in the main proceedings. In July 2011, the Magdeburg Administrative Court again rejected the action brought by the Upper Harz municipality due to a name violation. A previous application by the joint municipality for a temporary injunction was rejected by the administrative court. The complaint lodged against this with the Higher Administrative Court of the State of Saxony-Anhalt was unsuccessful. At the end of 2014, the Upper Harz community dissolved.
Districts
Localities with their districts :
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On July 1, 2014, the new municipal constitutional law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt came into force. In its §14 (2) the municipalities are given the opportunity to assign this designation to the districts that were towns before the incorporation. The city of Oberharz am Brocken has made use of this regulation. Their new main statutes came into force on June 26, 2015. In §3 (1) the districts are listed with their official names.
history
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the largest part of today's urban area lay in the predecessor areas of today's Lower Saxony : Elbingerode, Elend, Königshof and Rothehütte belonged to the kingdom and from 1866 to the Prussian province of Hanover . In the 19th century they formed the Elbingerode office , which belonged to the Clausthal Mining Authority from 1842 to 1868 , so that during this period there was actually a political affiliation with the Upper Harz . When the district of Ilfeld was abolished in 1932, they were reclassified to the province of Saxony . Hasselfelde, Rübeland, Stiege, Tanne and Trautenstein were Brunswick until 1945 . Only Benneckenstein and Sorge belonged as exclave of the County of Hohenstein to Brandenburg since 1648 and Prussia from 1701 , in which they belonged to the Province of Saxony from 1815.
In 2017, a pedestrian suspension bridge and megazipline was opened over the Wendefurth reservoir, spanning the valley and the reservoir.
Incorporations
| Former parish | date | annotation |
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| Benneckenstein | January 1, 2010 | |
| Elbingerode | January 1, 2010 | |
| misery | January 1, 2010 | |
| Hasselfelde | January 1, 2010 | |
| Royal court | April 1, 1936 | Merger with Rothehütte to form Königshütte |
| Koenigshütte | January 1, 2004 | Incorporation to Elbingerode |
| Neuwerk | July 1, 1950 | Incorporation to Rübeland |
| Rotacker | ? | Incorporation to Hasselfelde |
| Rothehütte | April 1, 1936 | Merger with Königshof zu Königshütte |
| Rübeland | January 1, 2004 | Incorporation to Elbingerode |
| Concern | January 1, 2010 | |
| Stairs | January 1, 2010 | |
| fir | January 1, 2010 | |
| Trautenstein | January 1, 2002 | Incorporation to Hasselfelde |
Dialect border
A dialect border runs through the urban area. The town of Benneckenstein is located immediately south of the Benrath line and thus at the transition from the High German - more precisely: the East Central German - dialects to the Low German language .
politics
City council
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City council election 2019
Turnout: 55.0% (2014: 46.4%)
% 40 30th 20th 10
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36.6%
29.2%
13.2%
9.1%
11.9%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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-2 -4 -6 -8th -10 + 2.7 % p.p.
-8.2 % p
-3.8 % p
-0.9 % p
+ 11.9 % p
Remarks:
b various groups of voters
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Allocation of seats in the city council 2019
A total of 28 seats
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The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result for the composition of the 28 seats of the city council with a turnout of 55.0%:
| Party / list | Share of votes | Seats | +/- |
| CDU | 36.6% | 10 | +1 |
| Voter groups * | 29.2% | 8th | -3 |
| SPD | 13.2% | 4th | −1 |
| AfD | 11.9% | 3 | +3 |
| The left | 9.1% | 3 | ± 0 |
* The elected voter groups consist of: Citizens' Initiative Upper Harz (8.1%, 2 seats), Free voter community Upper Harz (15.5%, 4 seats), voter group Heimat Stiege (3.9%, 1 seat) and Free voter community Elend (1st , 7%, 1 seat)
mayor
Mayor is Ronald Fiebelkorn (CDU). He was elected on April 22, 2018 in the second ballot with 52.9% of the valid votes cast.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the district on June 7, 2010.
Blazon : "In silver a green three-mountain and a black stag with eight-pointed antlers that jumps over its larger central peak, raised by a black miner's toughness, between two green fir trees growing from the smaller outer peaks, the foot of the mountain covered with three silver wavy lines."
The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg municipal heraldist Jörg Mantzsch and included in the approval process. Its symbols are explained as follows: 1. The three mountain is a heraldic symbol that expresses the mountains of the Harz Mountains. 2. The fir trees relate to the natural environment of the city. It should be taken into account that the coniferous forest (referred to in medieval parlance as fir = spruce forest) of the Upper Harz is generally referred to, not a tree species. 3. The jumping stag is a symbol of speed, strength and renewal of life. It expresses the abundance of game in the Harz, which has been the forest of the German emperors and kings since the early Middle Ages. At the same time, the stag symbolizes the united cities and municipalities as a synonym and skips the mountains in the coat of arms, which symbolically applies to the upcoming tasks for the development of the community. 4. The miner's toughness expresses with mallets and iron the mining and metallurgy, which have continued to the present day and which have made a lasting contribution to the industrialization of the region.
The colors of the church are green and white.
flag
The city's flag is striped green and white (1: 1) (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the city coat of arms.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
- ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
- ↑ Oliver Stade: Mayor of the Harz district sign regional agreement In: Goslarsche Zeitung online (full text only available for subscribers)
- ↑ Press release of the city of Wernigerode (PDF file)
- ^ Resolution of the Upper Harz Joint Community
- ↑ Press release of the Higher Administrative Court of Magdeburg ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Goslarsche Zeitung on April 10, 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.
- ↑ Administrative Court Magdeburg 9 A 247/09 MD
- ↑ Local constitution law of the state in the version of July 1, 2014
- ^ Main statute of the city of Oberharz am Brocken in the version of June 26, 2015
- ↑ a b c election announcement city council election 2019. (PDF) In: oberharzstadt.de. June 4, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections . State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Official Journal of the District No. 6/2010 page 12 ( 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.
- ↑ Jörg Mantzsch: The coat of arms of the city of Oberharz am Brocken, documentation on the approval process , deposited with the Harz district in 2010 (statement: State Main Archive Saxony-Anhalt )
Ballenstedt | Blankenburg (Harz) | Ditfurt | Falkenstein / Harz | Groß Quenstedt | Halberstadt | Harsleben | Harzgerode | Hedersleben | Huy | Ilsenburg (Harz) | North Harz | Oberharz am Brocken | Osterwieck | Quedlinburg | Schwanebeck | Selke-Aue | Thale | Waylife | Wernigerode
Localities and districts: City of Benneckenstein (Harz) | City of Elbingerode (Harz) | Misery | City of Hasselfelde (with Rotacker ) | Königshütte (Harz) | Rübeland cave site (with Neuwerk and Susenburg ) | Concern | Stairs | Fir tree | Trautenstein
Other locations: Büchenberg and Eggeröder Brunnen (to the city of Elbingerode) | Almond wood and Wietfeld (on misery) | Lüdershof and Neue Hütte (to Königshütte) | Kaltes Tal and Kreuztal (to Rübeland caves)