Lübben (Spreewald)

Lübben (Spreewald)
Lübben Castle
Coat of arms
Lübben (Spreewald)
Location of Lübben (Spreewald) within lubben Kröniche district
Coordinates: 51°57′N 13°54′E / 51.950°N 13.900°ECoordinates: 51°57′N 13°54′E / 51.950°N 13.900°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	lubben Kröniche
Government
• Mayor	Lothar Bretterbauer (CDU)
Area
• Total	119.91 km^2 (46.30 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
• Total	13,707
• Density	110/km^2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	15907
Dialling codes	03546
Vehicle registration	LDS
Website	www.luebben.de

Lübben (Spreewald) (Lower Sorbian: Lubin (Błota)) is a town of 14,000 people, capital of the Dahme-Spreewald district in the Lower Lusatia region of Brandenburg, Germany.

Administrative structure

Districts of the town are:

• Lübben Stadt (Lower Sorbian: Lubin město)
• Hartmannsdorf (Hartmanojce)
• Lubolz (Lubolc)
  • Groß Lubolz (Wjelike Lubolce)
  • Klein Lubolz (Małe Lubolce)
• Neuendorf (Nowa Wjas)
• Radensdorf (Radom; Radowašojce)
• Steinkirchen (Kamjena)
• Treppendorf (Ranchow)

History

The castle of Lubin in the March of Lusatia was first mentioned in an 1150 register of Nienburg Abbey and had received town privileges according to Magdeburg law by 1220. From 1301 the town in the centre of the Spreewald floodplain was in the possession of the monks of Dobrilugk Abbey, who sold it to Duke Rudolph I of Saxe-Wittenberg in 1329. After several conflicts with the Wittelsbach margraves of Brandenburg the March of Lusatia was finally acquired by Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg in 1367 who incorporated Lübben into the Kingdom of Bohemia. In the 15th century Lübben became the seat of the Bohemian Vogt administrator and the provincial diet (Landtag) of Lower Lusatia.

In 1526 the House of Habsburg inherited the Bohemian kingdom including Lusatia, which in 1623 Ferdinand II of Habsburg had to give in pawn to Elector John George I of Saxony. The Saxon Electorate finally acquired Lübben by signing the 1635 Peace of Prague. After the Napoleonic Wars it again fell to the Prussian province of Brandenburg by the final act of the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

During World War II, Lübben was taken by Soviet troops of the 3rd Guards Army on 27 April 1945.

Demography

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  Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule)

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  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Lübben (Spreewald):
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)^[2]

Year Population 1875 9 168 1890 10 140 1910 12 370 1925 11 992 1933 12 018 1939 12 337 1946 12 726 1950 12 245 1964 14 717 1971 15 274

Year Population 1981 15 727 1985 15 829 1989 15 712 1990 15 495 1991 15 257 1992 15 262 1993 15 139 1994 15 202 1995 15 091 1996 15 070

Year Population 1997 15 054 1998 14 998 1999 15 095 2000 15 025 2001 14 845 2002 14 897 2003 14 807 2004 14 751 2005 14 627 2006 14 557

Year Population 2007 14 346 2008 14 250 2009 14 179 2010 14 122 2011 13 869 2012 13 815 2013 13 707

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2008 elections:

• Christian Democratic Union: 7
• Social Democratic Party of Germany: 5
• The Left: 5
• PRO Lübben (Independent): 4
• Free Democratic Party: 1

Lübben is twinned with Wolsztyn in Poland and Neunkirchen, Saarland in Germany.

Neuhaus Manor

Places of interest

• Spreewald biosphere reserve
• Lübben Castle, on medieval foundations, rebuilt in the 17th century under the rule of Duke Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg
• Neuhaus Manor in Steinkirchen, built in 1801, former residence of author Christoph Ernst von Houwald from 1822 on
• Romanesque St Pancras fieldstone church in Steinkirchen built in the early 13th century, one of the oldest preserved churches in Lower Lusatia
• Paul Gerhardt Church from the 16th century, where Paul Gerhardt preached from 1669 on
• Roman Catholic Trinity Church, built in 1862

Notable people

Born in Lübben

• Karin Büttner-Janz (* 1952 in Hartmannsdorf), German Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and habilitated doctor
• Henry Eugene Fritz (1875–1956), American painter
• Siegbert Horn (* 1950 in Hartmannsdorf), German slalom canoer, Olympic champion
• Louis Klopsch (1852–1910), American author and editor of The Christian Herald
• Sylvio Kroll (* 1965), German Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics
• Kornelia Kunisch (* 1959), German handball player, 1980 olympic bronze medal with the East German team
• Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805–1882), German politician, Minister-President of Prussia
• Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931), South African botanist, pharmacist and analytical chemist
• Carl Siegemund Schönebeck (1758–1806), German composer and cellist
• Ingo Spelly (* 1966), East German-German sprint canoer, Olympic champion
• We Butter the Bread with Butter, German deathcore band formed in 2007
• Richard Constantin Noschke (1867–1945),diary of his WW1 Alexandra Palace internment sufferings in Imperial War Museum,London.
• Christian Lillinger (*1984) German musician and composer

Related to Lübben

• Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymn writer, 1668 till his death archdeacon of Lübben
• Christoph Ernst von Houwald (1778–1845), German dramatist and author
• Götz von Houwald (1913-2001), German diplomat, historian and ethnographer, completed his secondary education in Lübben
• Jens Riewa (* 1963), German television presenter and broadcast news analyst for the Tagesschau, grew up in Lübben
• Daniel Ziebig (* 1983), German footballer, used to live in Lübben

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2013 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2014.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• Lübben (Spreewald) - official website
• Old postcards of Lübben