Uebigau-Wahrenbrück

Basic data
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)
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
Website :	www.uebigau-wahrenbrueck.de
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

Uebigau Castle Youth Hostel

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
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

year	Residents
2001	6 727
2002	6 624
2003	6 550
2004	6 521
2005	6 392

year	Residents
2006	6 259
2007	6 145
2008	6 007
2009	5 892
2010	5 769

year	Residents
2011	5 755
2012	5 717
2013	5 598
2014	5 548
2015	5,462

year	Residents
2016	5 324
2017	5 321
2018	5 245
2019	5 206

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

Market square in Uebigau

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

Local history museum in Wahrenbrück

Neudeck Castle on a lithograph by Alexander Duncker

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

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

Commons : Uebigau-Wahrenbrück - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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)