Uebigau-Wahrenbrück
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ' N , 13 ° 20' E |
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State : | Brandenburg | |
County : | Elbe Elster | |
Association municipality: | Liebenwerda | |
Height : | 85 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 135.61 km 2 | |
Residents: | 5206 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 38 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postcodes : | 04924 (Wahrenbrück (with Zinsdorf), Beiersdorf, Beutersitz, Bönitz, Domsdorf, Kauxdorf, Marxdorf, Prestewitz, Rothstein, Wildgrube, Winkel) , 04938 (Uebigau with Bomsdorf and Munich, Drasdo, Langennaundorf, Wiederau) , 04895 (Bahnsdorf, Neudeck, Saxdorf) |
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Primaries : | 035365, 035341 (Beutersitz, Bönitz, Kauxdorf, Rothstein, Saxdorf, Zinsdorf) | |
License plate : | EE, FI, LIB | |
Community key : | 12 0 62 500 | |
City administration address : |
Markt 11 04938 Uebigau-Wahrenbrück |
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Mayoress : | Dittgard Hapich ( The Left ) | |
Location of the city of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district | ||
Uebigau-Wahrenbrück is a town in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg ( Germany ).
geography
The town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück is located in the southwest of the state of Brandenburg, about 25 km east of the Elbe town of Torgau , about 10 km south of the district town of Herzberg and 4 km north of Bad Liebenwerda . The Schwarze Elster flows through the urban area, the Kleine Elster flows northeast of Wahrenbrück into the Schwarze Elster. The largest districts are the former cities of Uebigau and Wahrenbrück, which are 7 km apart. The main road B 101 passes east of Wahrenbrück and Uebigau. Uebigau is 3 km east of the Falkenberg / Elster railway junction on the Halle – Cottbus railway line .
Neighboring communities
The following communities border Uebigau-Wahrenbrück (clockwise, starting from the north): Herzberg (Elster) , Doberlug-Kirchhain , Schilda , Tröbitz , Schönborn , Bad Liebenwerda , Mühlberg / Elbe and Falkenberg / Elster .
geology
In the vicinity of the Rothstein district, the Rothsteiner Felsen juts out of the flat landscape . It is the exposed remains of a slab of rock that was formed around 560 million years ago. The starting material is Grauwacke . This was silicified by deposits from hot springs.
The rock was mined for centuries and used as building material (Rothsteiner gravel). The mining of the main rock has been prohibited since 1915 and it is under nature protection.
City structure
Uebigau-Wahrenbrück consists of 21 districts:
In addition, there are the residential areas at Beutersitz station, Wahrenbrück station, Neumühl and Ziegelei.
history
The cities of Uebigau and Wahrenbrück and the communities Bahnsdorf, Drasdo and Wiederau were merged on December 31, 2001 under the name of Wahrenbrück. The following day this new community was renamed Uebigau-Wahrenbrück.
Before the city of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück was rebuilt, there were a number of incorporations:
- The city of Wahrenbrück was enlarged by twelve neighboring towns in 1998. She had already received Zinsdorf in early 1977.
- The city of Uebigau was enlarged to include Munich in 1960, Bomsdorf in 1970 and Langennaundorf in 1998.
- The community of Bahnsdorf received Neudeck in 1957.
Former parish | until 1952 | 1952 to 1993 | Incorporation after | date |
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Bahnsdorf | Schweinitz district (Herzberg) | Herzberg district | Wahrenbrück | December 31, 2001 |
Beiersdorf | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Prey seat | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Bomsdorf | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Uebigau | March 22, 1970 |
Boenitz | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Cathedral village | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Drasdo | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Wahrenbrück | December 31, 2001 |
Kauxdorf | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Langennaundorf | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Uebigau | December 31, 1998 |
Marxdorf | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Munich | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Uebigau | January 1, 1960 |
New deck | Schweinitz district (Herzberg) | Herzberg district | Bahnsdorf | January 1, 1957 |
Prestewitz | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Rothstein | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Saxdorf | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Uebigau | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Wahrenbrück | December 31, 2001 |
Wahrenbrück | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Renaming to Uebigau-Wahrenbrück | January 1, 2002 |
Again | Liebenwerda district | Herzberg district | Wahrenbrück | December 31, 2001 |
Wild pit | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
angle | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | September 27, 1998 |
Zinsdorf | Liebenwerda district | Bad Liebenwerda district | Wahrenbrück | January 1, 1977 |
In March 2019, the city council decided that Uebigau-Wahrenbrück would merge with Bad Liebenwerda , Falkenberg / Elster and Mühlberg / Elbe (all districts of Elbe-Elster) to form the Liebenwerda community on January 1, 2020 .
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census
religion
In 2011, 32% of the city's residents were Protestant and 3% Catholic.
The parish of St. Nikolai (Uebigau) is also responsible for the village churches in Drasdo , Graefendorf , Kolpien , Körba , Langennaundorf , Lebusa , Schöna and Wiederau , the parish of Wahrenbrück is also responsible for Bönitz and the parish of Saxdorf is also responsible for Kauxdorf. All three Lutheran parishes belong to the Bad Liebenwerda parish in the provost district of Halle-Wittenberg of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
The Church of St. Peter and Paul (Uebigau) has existed for Catholics since 1964; it belongs to the parish of St. Franziskus with its seat in Bad Liebenwerda , diocese of Magdeburg .
politics
City Council
The city council of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück consists of 18 city councilors and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 68.4%:
Party / list | CDU | FDP | WG LUN 1 | left | WG ER 2 | WG LAW 3 |
Share of votes | 30.0% | 24.0% | 17.5% | 12.3% | 8.3% | 7.9% |
Seats | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
1 group of voters agriculture, environment and nature 2 group of voters Elster-Röderland 3 group of voters living, working, living
mayor
- 2003–2019: Andreas Claus
- 2019–2020: Delf Gerlach (FDP)
- since 2020: Dittgard Hapich (Die Linke)
Gerlach was elected mayor on May 26, 2019 with 54.5% of the valid votes for a term of eight years. elected. In 2020 he moved to the newly founded community of Liebenwerda as an alderman .
Hapich was elected as the new honorary mayor by the city council on January 22, 2020.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on September 3, 2003.
Blazon : “Quartered; Field 1: in green behind a silver crenellated wall, a tinned silver tower with two black windows and a pebbled red pointed roof; Field 2: in silver nine (3: 3: 3) oblique green leaves; Field 3: in silver ten (3: 3: 3: 1) slanted green leaves; Field 4: in red on a three-arched silver stone bridge, a silver tower with a penned pointed roof, black gate and two black windows. "
The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Frank Diemar . The former city arms of the formerly independent cities of Uebigau and Wahrenbrück have been incorporated into the coat of arms.
Town twinning
Sister cities of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück are:
Culture and sights
Buildings
In the list of architectural monuments in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück and in the list of ground monuments in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.
Historical monuments
- Memorial stone from 1989 at the railway kilometer 101.6 in the district of Langennaundorf for 16 Jewish victims of the lost train , a rail transport that came from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and was liberated in Tröbitz .
- Memorial site commemorating the lost train at kilometer 106.7
- Here in the so-called snow forest at the end of April 1945, 17 dead from the train were buried in a mass grave on the instructions of the Red Army . In 1975 a memorial was set up on this site.
- Graun monument in Wahrenbrück
Museums
- Technical monument Briquette Factory Louise Domsdorf, an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Culture (ERIH)
- Uebigau local history museum with a Bronze Age village
- Wahrenbrücker Heimatstube
- Elstermühle Wahrenbrück
Parks
- Saxdorf parish garden
- Uebigau Castle Park
- Little Spreewald Wahrenbrück
nature
The Rothstein is the only larger natural rock in the state of Brandenburg.
music
- Concert cycle in the Uebigauer Land (in Drasdo, Gräfendorf, Langennaundorf, Uebigau and Wiederau)
- Summer music in Saxdorf
Regular events
- Praise dance in Bönitz on the first weekend in July
- Rothsteiner Felsenfest on the second weekend in July
- Oktoberfest in "Munich an der Elster" at the beginning of October
Economy and Infrastructure
Established businesses
- uesa GmbH (Uebigauer electrical and switchgear construction, 350 employees)
- Ormazabal Schaltanlagen Uebigau GmbH (120 employees)
- EFEN GmbH (130 employees)
- Predl GmbH Bönitz
traffic
Uebigau-Wahrenbrück is located on the 101 federal road between Herzberg (Elster) and Bad Liebenwerda . In the south of the urban area, federal road 183 crosses the districts of Marxdorf and Bönitz between Torgau and Bad Liebenwerda.
The Uebigau and Beutersitz stops are on the Halle – Cottbus railway line . They are served by the regional train line RB 43 ( Falkenberg (Elster) - Cottbus ).
sons and daughters of the town
- August Friedrich Graun (1698 / 1699–1765), cantor and composer , born in Wahrenbrück
- Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771), composer, born in Wahrenbrück
- Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), composer, born in Wahrenbrück
- Gustav Seyffarth (1796–1885), Egyptologist, born in Uebigau
- Friedrich Jage (1850–1937), master builder, born in Wahrenbrück
- Fritz Borrmann (1869–1942), General Director of Edeka , member of the Reichstag, born in Bahnsdorf
- Max Jungnickel (1890–1945), writer, born in Saxdorf
- Ludwig Freiwald (1898 – after 1945), writer and Nazi propagandist, born in Uebigau
- Michael Strempel (1944–2018), football player, born in Drasdo
Web links
- Website of the city of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück
- Demography report
- Link catalog on Uebigau-Wahrenbrück at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . P. 37 f.
- ↑ a b StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1998
- ↑ a b c d municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ rbb24: New community of Liebenwerda. March 22, 2019, accessed March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 30-33
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 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)
- ↑ census database
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 24
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ↑ These are the honorary mayors . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 22, 2020.
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg