Rückersdorf (Lower Lusatia)

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Rückersdorf (Lower Lusatia)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '  N , 13 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Elbe Elster
Office : Elsterland
Height : 98 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.71 km 2
Residents: 1348 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 03238
Area code : 035325
License plate : EE, FI, LIB
Community key : 12 0 62 417
Community structure: 3 districts
Office administration address: Kindergartenstrasse 2a
03253 Schönborn
Website : www.rueckersdorf.eu
Mayor : Georg Zörner ( CDU )
Location of the community of Rückersdorf in the district of Elbe-Elster
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Paltrock windmill Oppelhain

Rückersdorf is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg and belongs to the Elsterland district with its seat in the municipality of Schönborn .

geography

The place in the middle of the Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft nature park , which is located in the westernmost part of Niederlausitz , is about 100 km south of Berlin , 70 km west of Cottbus , 70 km north of Dresden and 100 km east of Leipzig .

Rückersdorf (aerial photo 2015)

Neighboring communities

Rückersdorf borders on the communities of Schönborn , Doberlug-Kirchhain , Heideland , Gorden-Staupitz and Bad Liebenwerda .

Community structure

Rückersdorf consists of three districts:

There are also the Erna pit , Täubertsmühle and Waldsiedlung residential areas .

history

Rückersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1234 and was thus one of the first possessions of the Dobrilugk monastery .

Oppelhain, Rückersdorf and Friedersdorf have belonged to the Luckau district in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 and to the Finsterwalde district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Elbe-Elster district of Brandenburg.

The Rückersdorf-Oppelhain community association existed during the GDR era . It was the first of its kind in the Cottbus district and was dissolved when Germany was reunified. The places were part of the community association

About 5400 citizens lived in this association.

Today's community of Rückersdorf emerged on December 31, 2001 from the previously independent communities of Oppelhain and Rückersdorf (with the district Friedersdorf).

Incorporations

  • Integration of Friedersdorf bei Oppelhain into the municipality of Rückersdorf with effect from October 1, 1973
  • Incorporation of Oppelhain with the establishment of the community of Rückersdorf on December 31, 2001

Population development

year Residents
1875 306
1890 298
1910 327
1925 318
1933 349
1939 394
1946 536
1950 583
year Residents
1964 597
1971 751
1981 1 491
1985 1 527
1989 1 667
1990 1 603
1991 1 546
1992 1 586
1993 1 544
1994 1 486
year Residents
1995 1,494
1996 1 486
1997 1,500
1998 1 489
1999 1 464
2000 1 428
2001 1,898
2002 1 857
2003 1 815
2004 1,780
year Residents
2005 1 737
2006 1,694
2007 1 678
2008 1 683
2009 1 624
2010 1 613
2011 1 520
2012 1 476
2013 1 466
2014 1 469
year Residents
2015 1 466
2016 1 392
2017 1 357
2018 1,350
2019 1 348

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

politics

Community representation

The community council of Rückersdorf consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters Seats
CDU 3
Agriculture, the environment and nature Elbe-Elster 3
Rückersdorf fire department 2
SG Friedersdorf 1
Individual applicant Lothar Belger 1

mayor

Surname Term of office
Heinz Deising 06/10/1968 to 12/24/1992
Frank Huebler December 24th, 1992 to March 4th, 1993
Lothar Belger 04.03.1993 to 05.12.1993
Günter Schimko 05.12.1993 to 16.01.2002
Christian Jaschinski January 16, 2002 to April 14, 2010
Wilfried Büchner April 14, 2010 to May 24, 2014
Mathias Lehmann May 24, 2014 to December 31, 2015
Lothar Belger 04.03.2016 to 26.05.2019
Georg Zörner May 27, 2019

Zörner was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 68.7% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Since the merger of the formerly independent municipalities in 2001, each district has its own local mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 1, 1994.

Blazon : "In silver over a lowered blue tip with a striding silver sheep that carries a red and silver banner over its shoulder with its right forefoot, a green leafed linden tree."

Sights and culture

In the list of architectural monuments in Rückersdorf (Niederlausitz) and in the list of ground monuments in Rückersdorf (Niederlausitz) are the cultural monuments registered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Buildings and monuments

Rückersdorf village church
  • Memorials in all districts
  • Soldiers grave in Oppelhain
  • Paltrock windmill in the Oppelhain district
  • Pechofen models in Oppelhain at the mill and at the forestry (Oppelhainer Pechhütte)
  • Oppelhain herb garden with different mill models
  • Bird rearing station in Oppelhain

museum

  • Mill museum in the Oppelhain district

Parks, protected landscape areas, bodies of water

Regular events

  • Carnival , Youth Carnival , Zampern in all districts
  • Weiberfastnacht in Friedersdorf
  • Masked ball in Rückersdorf
  • Easter bonfires in every district
  • Beach and shooting festival in Rückersdorf (annually on the last weekend in July)
  • Mill markets in Oppelhain
  • Harvest festival / Christmas market in Friedersdorf (alternating annually)

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

In the municipality of Rückersdorf, the "Pro Beton GmbH and Co. KG Brandenburg" and the "Kalkandsteinwerk Rückersdorf" have their headquarters. There is also a tree nursery, an agricultural cooperative that is spread across the districts of Oppelhain and Rückersdorf, as well as other smaller companies.

traffic

The state roads L 622 to Doberlug-Kirchhain and L 653 to Bad Liebenwerda lead through the municipality of Rückersdorf .

The Rückersdorf train station is served by the regional express line RE 5 Rostock –Berlin– Elsterwerda . Today's train station was opened in 1897 as the Rückersdorf- Oppelhain stop on the Berlin-Dresden railway . Tracks 3 and 4 as well as connecting tracks to the wood molding plant, sawmill and concrete plant were added later. In addition to the Rückersdorf train station, there was also the Rückersdorf block post, which was located in Grube Erna , and two barrier posts belonging to the Rückersdorf train station . There was a siding of the Rückersdorfer coal works. Signal box B1 is also located directly at the train station . In addition, the Rückersdorf train station had a goods handling facility and a head side ramp. The Doberlug-Kirchhain railway junction is around five kilometers to the north , where the Halle – Cottbus and Berlin – Dresden railway lines intersect .

There used to be a mine train in the concrete plant.

Public facilities

  • Evangelical rectory in Friedersdorf
  • Rückersdorf volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1922
  • Oppelhain volunteer fire brigade
  • Friedersdorf volunteer fire department
  • Rückersdorf visitor center

education

  • Realschule Rückersdorf until 2005 (emerged from the "POS Gerhard-Eisler" Rückersdorf)
  • Primary school Rückersdorf (emerged from the "POS Gerhard-Eisler" Rückersdorf)
  • Landschulheim Täubertsmühle
  • HEC training center

Personalities

  • Jürgen Haase (* 1945), track and field athlete, two-time European champion, born in Friedersdorf

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
  3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  4. ^ Formation of the new community Rückersdorf Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of October 17, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 46, Potsdam, November 14, 2001, p. 779 PDF
  5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 22-25
  6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  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)
  8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  9. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 15, 2014
  10. ↑ Lother Belger is now mayor . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , March 4, 2016
  11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
  12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  13. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg

Web links

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