South Harz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Südharz (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '  N , 11 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
County :	Mansfeld-Südharz
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Area :	236.38 km 2
Residents:	9307 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	06536
Primaries :	034651, 034653, 034654, 034656, 034658
License plate :	MSH, EIL, HET, ML, SGH
Community key :	15 0 87 412
Community structure:	17 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Wilhelmstrasse 4 Roßla district 06536 Südharz
Website :	www.gemeinde-suedharz.de
Mayor :	Ralf Rettig
Location of the municipality of Südharz in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz

The municipality of Südharz was formed on January 1st, 2010 in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt through the merger of 13 of the 15 municipalities of the Roßla-Südharz administrative community. The administrative community was dissolved due to the municipal reform. On September 1, 2010, the remaining two communities ( Stolberg (Harz) and Wickerode ) were forcibly incorporated into the southern Harz community by law.

geography

The municipality is located in the karst landscape of the southern Harz and was named after this geographical region. In the north the Wipper flows through the municipality , in the west the Thyra , in the east the Leine and in the south the Helme . With an area of ​​236.36 km², the southern Harz is one of the largest municipalities in Germany .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Harzgerode ( HZ ) in the north, Sangerhausen in the east, Wallhausen , Kelbra and Berga in the south and Harztor , Nordhausen and Urbach (all three NDH ) in the west.

Districts

The municipality of Südharz consists of 17 districts, which are combined to form a total of 15 localities in the municipality. The municipal administration is located in the Roßla district.

Locality	Residents  1	Districts	The villages of Südharz (clickable map)
Names	936	Names
Breitenstein	505	Breitenstein
Spreads	470	Spreads
Dietersdorf	425	Dietersdorf
Drebsdorf	106	Drebsdorf
Hainrode	339	Hainrode
Hayn (Harz)	557	Hayn
Small lines	136	Small lines
Questenberg	267	Agnesdorf and Questenberg
Rossla	2244	Dittichenrode and Roßla
Rottleberode	1502	Rottleberode
Schwenda	589	Schwenda
City of Stolberg (Harz)	1286	Auerberg, City of Stolberg (Harz), Hainfeld and Thyratal
Uftrungen	1070	Uftrungen
Wickerode	273	Wickerode

¹ As of December 31, 2008

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 municipality of Südharz has made use of this regulation for the district of Stolberg (Harz). Their new main statutes came into force on January 1, 2017. In §§1 and 15 (1) the districts and localities are listed with their official names.

politics

The local council consists of 20 voluntary citizens who were newly elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014. The results of the elections were as follows:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CDU	18.3%	4th
The left	8.1%	2
SPD	7.7%	1
Green	1.2%	-
FDP	9.0%	2
Alliance for the southern Harz	54.3% *	3
BVS		2
AS		2
Uftrunger List - Future South Harz		2
UWG Bennungen		1
FWG		1
Individual applicants	1.4%	-

^* The electoral communities are recorded together in the state election statistics.

mayor

In October 2016 Ralf Rettig was confirmed in office with 62.88% of the votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms and the flag were approved by the district of Mansfeld-Südharz on July 28, 2015.

Blazon : "Divided by gold and green by a double-row slanted left bar made of silver and red with 17 places, above a striding black stag, below a golden ear of barley, accompanied by two golden oak leaves."

For historical reasons, the coat of arms shows a striding deer in the upper field. It is the heraldic animal of the Stolberg princes, who have shaped most of the southern Harz community for centuries. Geographically, the southern Harz region is known for its unique landscape and its diverse flora and fauna. The color green in the lower field of the coat of arms stands for this. The ear of wheat is supposed to symbolize the fertile golden floodplain and the oak leaves represent the wealth of forests in the southern Harz region. The two fields of the coat of arms are divided by a nested oblique left bar. The interlocking symbolizes the different districts, which together create a harmonious picture. The colors red and silver are the dominant colors in the coat of arms of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Jürgen Prell from Roßla.

The colors of the church are black and yellow.

flag

The flag is black and yellow (1: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and centered with the municipal coat of arms.

traffic

In the south, the federal motorway 38 Halle - Göttingen with the junction Roßla runs through the municipality. The south Harz motorway triangle of the same name between the A 38 and the A 71 is not in the Südharz community, but rather in the area of ​​the Sangerhausen and Allstedt communities .

The Halle – Hann railway line runs parallel . Münden . The regional railways (Halle–) Sangerhausen - Nordhausen and part of the regional express train Halle – Nordhausen, operated by DB Regio AG, stop at the stations Bennungen and Roßla .

From the Halle – Hann. Münden branches off the Berga-Kelbra – Stolberg (Harz) railway line, which is no longer used for passenger traffic , at Berga-Kelbra station . The Uftrungen, Rottleberode and Stolberg (Harz) stops were in the area of ​​the southern Harz municipality.

Web links

Commons : Südharz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
2. ↑ Message Sachsen-Anhalt.de 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2009 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. 
3. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
4. ↑ Communication from August 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 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. P. 32 
5. ↑ Local constitution law of the state in the version of July 1, 2014
6. ↑ Main Statute of January 1, 2017
7. ↑ State Returning Officer Saxony-Anhalt, municipal council elections, municipality of Südharz, final result ( memento of the original from October 31, 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. 
8. ^ Municipality of Südharz, announcement of the election results of June 4, 2004
9. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/landkreis-mansfeld-suedharz/buergermeisterwahlen-alle-vier-amtsinhaber-bleiben-in-ihren-chefsesseln-24962406
10. ↑ Coat of arms information on the website Deutsche-Kommunale-Wappenschau