Neuhardenberg

Neuhardenberg

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Neuhardenberg

Coordinates: 52°36′N 14°15′E / 52.600°N 14.250°E / 52.600; 14.250Coordinates: 52°36′N 14°15′E / 52.600°N 14.250°E / 52.600; 14.250
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Märkisch-Oderland
Municipal assoc. Neuhardenberg
Government
  Mayor Mario Eska (Ind.)
Area
  Total 77.94 km2 (30.09 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
  Total 2,479
  Density 32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 15320
Dialling codes 033476
Vehicle registration MOL
Website www.amt-neuhardenberg.de

Neuhardenberg is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the site of Neuhardenberg Palace, residence of the Prussian statesman Prince Karl August von Hardenberg. The municipal area comprises the villages of Altfriedland, Quappendorf and Wulkow. Neuhardenberg ist part of the Amt ("municipal federation") Neuhardenberg.

Neuhardenberg Manor

Names of the place

The oldest record mentioning the place, then named Quilicz, dates back to 1348. Later the spelling was changed into Quilitz. When in 1814 Karl August von Hardenberg received the manor, he renamed the place right away into Neu-Hardenberg. On Labour Day, 1 May 1949, the place was renamed into Marxwalde after Karl Marx. This was reversed on January 1, 1991. Since then the place bears again the old name Neuhardenberg in this slightly altered spelling.

History

Parish church

The construction of Neuhardenberg Manor with interior designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans dates back to the late 18th century. In 1763 the Prussian general Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz had received Quilitz, a former property of the Pfuel noble family. The historic village was devastated by a blaze in 1801 and reconstructed as a Neoclassical model settlement according to plans designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1814 King Frederick William III vested Hardenberg with the locality together with the princely title as a gratification for his merits as Prussian state chancellor. From 1820 on Schinkel also rebuilt the mansion, while the gardens were redesigned by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and Peter-Joseph Lenné.

Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg held conspirative meetings here in preparation of the 20 July plot after which he was arrested and his properties were seized by the Nazi authorities. In 1945 Hardenberg again had to face the condemnation of his estates by the Soviet Military Administration. The mansion was turned into a school building. From 1957 on the Marxwalde airfield built in the 1930s was extended as the base of an East German Air Force wing.

After reunification the manor was restored to the Hardenberg family and acquired by the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband saving banks association in 1996. After renovation it was reopened in 2002 in the presence of German President Johannes Rau. It is today used as a conference building but also for cultural events.

Demography

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)
Neuhardenberg:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)
[2]
Year Population
1875 3 517
1890 3 250
1910 2 628
1925 2 733
1933 2 571
1939 2 455
1946 2 940
1950 3 179
1964 3 103
1971 3 799
Year Population
1981 4 249
1985 4 587
1989 4 610
1990 4 555
1991 4 390
1992 4 305
1993 4 207
1994 4 237
1995 4 143
1996 4 086
Year Population
1997 3 865
1998 3 626
1999 3 417
2000 3 203
2001 3 094
2002 3 120
2003 3 035
2004 3 016
2005 2 924
2006 2 888
Year Population
2007 2 840
2008 2 771
2009 2 698
2010 2 672
2011 2 464
2012 2 451
2013 2 479

Twin towns

References

External links

Media related to Neuhardenberg at Wikimedia Commons

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