Schirgiswalde-Kirschau
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ N , 14 ° 26 ′ E |
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State : | Saxony | |
County : | Bautzen | |
Height : | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 24.34 km 2 | |
Residents: | 6185 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 254 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 02681 | |
Primaries : | 03592, 035877 , 035936 , 035938 | |
License plate : | BZ, BIW, HY, KM | |
Community key : | 14 6 25 525 | |
City administration address : |
Rathausstrasse 4 02681 Schirgiswalde-Kirschau |
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Mayor : | Sven Gabriel ( FDP ) | |
Location of the city of Schirgiswalde-Kirschau in the Bautzen district | ||
Schirgiswalde-Kirschau ( Upper Sorbian Šěrachow-Korzym ) is a small town in the center of the Upper Lusatian highlands and belongs to the Saxon district of Bautzen .
City structure
Schirgiswalde-Kirschau consists of four districts (localities), which in turn consist of individual districts:
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history
The municipality was created on January 1, 2011 through the voluntary merger of the city of Schirgiswalde and the communities of Kirschau and Crostau . The three communities were already connected in the administrative community Schirgiswalde , which was dissolved at the same time. The seat of the city administration is in Kirschau.
For the history of the individual districts: see the corresponding local articles
Population development
In the census of May 9, 2011, there were 6,761 people in the city's 1959 residential buildings. These are spread over the districts of Schirgiswalde (2735), Kirschau (1703), Crostau (628), Callenberg (532), Rodewitz / Spree (431), Wurbis (153), Halbendorf / Gebirge (128), Carlsberg (126), Bederwitz (112), Neuschirgiswalde (109), Kleinpostwitz (59) and Sonnenberg (45). The average age was 46.9 years.
politics
City council
Since the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the city council has been composed as follows:
List: | CDU | FW | FDP | left | SPD | total |
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Seats: | 11 | 4th | 2 | 1 | 0 | 18 seats |
Share of votes: | 55.1% | 22.6% | 10.4% | 8.3% | 3.6% | 100% |
mayor
On March 27, 2011, the previous mayor of Kirschau, Sven Gabriel (FDP), who had been the administrator of the city since the beginning of the year, was elected as the new mayor. He was re-elected on March 4, 2018.
Town twinning
Denkingen and Niederstetten in Baden-Württemberg and Sundern (Sauerland) in North Rhine-Westphalia are twin towns of Schirgiswalde-Kirschau.
Attractions
The cultural monuments are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Schirgiswalde-Kirschau .
Personalities
The opera singer Reiner Goldberg (* 1939) comes from the Crostau district .
traffic
The Schirgiswalde-Kirschau stop , which had this name even before the municipal merger, is located on the Oberoderwitz – Wilthen railway line and is served by regional trains on the Dresden - Zittau line every two hours.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019 ( help on this ).
- ↑ 2011 census - City of Schirgiswalde-Kirschau
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Saxony