Spreetal

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Spreetal
Spreetal
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 14 ° 21'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony
County : Bautzen
Height : 113 m above sea level NHN
Area : 108.86 km 2
Residents: 1845 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 17 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 02979
Primaries : 035727 (Burg, Burghammer, Burgneudorf, Neustadt partly., Spreetal, Spreewitz partly.) , 035773 (partly Neustadt.) , 03563 (Zerre) , 03564 (partly Spreewitz.)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : BZ, BIW, HY, KM
Community key : 14 6 25 570
LOCODE : DE SPX
Community structure: 7 districts *
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Spremberger Str. 25,
OT Burgneudorf
02979 Spreetal
Website : www.spreetal.de
Mayor : Manfred Heine (independent)
Location of the municipality of Spreetal in the district of Bautzen
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Spreetal , in Upper Sorbian Sprjewiny Doł , is a municipality in the north of the Saxon district of Bautzen and, as the third largest municipality in the district, is one of the largest municipalities in Saxony. The community is located in the Sorbian settlement area in Upper Lusatia . The seat of the municipal administration is located in the central district of Burgneudorf .

Geography and traffic

Pre-mining situation of the individual places around 1850

The community is located on the Brandenburg border between Spremberg and Hoyerswerda , about 30 km south of Cottbus . The federal road 97 runs through the western part of the municipality as well as the Spreetal district, while the old road between Spremberg and Hoyerswerda runs through the districts of Zerre, Spreewitz, Burgneudorf, Burghammer and Burg. Neustadt is located on State Road 130 between Burgneudorf and Runde on the edge of the Neustädter Heide and north of the western part of the Upper Lusatia military training area .

Except for the Spreetal district, all districts are on the Spree or the Little Spree , which flows back into the Spree near Spreewitz. In addition to the Spree, the municipality is characterized by decades of lignite mining and the surrounding large forest areas. The Spreetaler See , Bernsteinsee and Scheibe Lake of the new Lusatian Lakeland are currently being created from the remaining open -cast mine holes .

Local division

The community consists of seven districts and as of December 31, 2018 has the following inhabitants:

  • Castle (Sorbian Bórk) , 336 inhabitants
  • Burghammer (Bórkhamor) , 243 inhabitants
  • Burgneudorf (Nowa Wjes) , 317 inhabitants
  • Neustadt / Spree (Nowe Město) (with the settlements Neustädter Hammer (Hamor) , Döschko (Daški) and Altmühle (Starik) ), 360 inhabitants
  • Spreetal (Sprjewiny Doł) , 95 inhabitants
  • Spreewitz (Šprjejcy) , 305 inhabitants
  • Zerre (Drětwja) , 248 inhabitants

According to another count with eight districts, Spreewitz is divided into the actual place and Spreewitz settlement. The settlement Döschko south of Neustadt is still described by Salomon Gottlob Frentzel as an independent village in 1744 , Altmühle belonged to Mühlrose for a long time .

history

The municipalities Burghammer (with the parts of the municipality, Burg Hammer, Burgneudorf and Spreetal), Neustadt and Spreewitz (with the municipality parts Spreewitz and Zerre) formed on April 1, 1993, the administrative community Burgneudorf that the 1 January 1994 Management Association Burgneudorf was converted. In the course of the municipal area reforms in Saxony, the three municipalities merged on January 1, 1996 to form the municipality of Spreetal, whereby the administrative association was dissolved.

politics

Community and local councils

City council election 2014
Turnout: 64.8%
 %
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
62.8%
6.3%
3.3%
4.0%
23.6%
SWV
BVS

Since the municipal council election on May 25, 2014 , the 14 seats of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

  • Spreetaler Voters' Association (SWV): 10 seats
  • Citizens' Association Spreetal (BVS): 3 seats
  • LEFT : 1 seat

Each of the seven districts has a local council.

mayor

Manfred Heine was re-elected in 2017 and has been in office for 21 years.

coat of arms

Municipal coat of arms

Blazon

In silver, a blue, curved rafter tapering to a post, the front arm weaker. Above in front, a green frog, above in the back a green oak branch with four leaves and three acorns. Both symbols are placed in stakes. At the bottom of the golden, inflected tip, crossed in black, mallets and iron.

meaning

Frogs and oak leaves in the upper fields represent nature in the municipality, mallets and iron in the shield base are reminiscent of the brown coal opencast mines. The blue asymmetrical field boundary symbolizes the two arms of the Kleiner and Großer Spree , which unite in the municipality.

Partnerships

With around 400 inhabitants, Neustadt is the smallest member of the Neustadt Working Group in Europe , to which 37 cities and municipalities named Neustadt in six European countries belong.

Culture and sights

The cultural monuments of the community are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Spreetal .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 97 runs through the municipality in the north-south direction and the state road 130 in the west-east direction. To the north and south-east of the municipality, the federal highway 156 runs from the direction of the federal highway 13 via Spremberg and Weißwasser to Bautzen to the federal highway 4 .

The Brandenburg-Saxon border runs through the middle of the Schwarze Pump industrial park , which means that the municipality has a share in it. It is connected to the German railway network via the Lausitz mine railway. In the past, the Knappenrode – Sornoer Buden railway also passed the community.

education

The municipality of Spreetal has a primary school in Burgneudorf.

Personalities

The songwriter and rock musician Gerhard Gundermann (* 1955) lived in the Spreetal district until his untimely death in 1998.

Web links

Commons : Spreetal  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Spreetal  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the Free State of Saxony by municipalities on December 31, 2019  ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Spreetal in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Results of the 2014 municipal council elections
  4. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/bautzen/buergermeisterwahl-spreetal-104.html  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de  
  5. ↑ Municipality of Spreetal - our coat of arms. Retrieved April 17, 2012 .