Lübben (Spreewald)

Lübben
Lubin
Town
Lübben Castle
Lübben Castle
Coat of arms of Lübben
Coat of arms
Location of Lübben within Dahme-Spreewald district
Alt Zauche-WußwerkBerstelandBestenseeByhleguhre-ByhlenDrahnsdorfEichwaldeGolßenGroß KörisHalbeHeideblickHeideseeJamlitzKasel-GolzigKönigs WusterhausenKrausnick-Groß WasserburgLieberoseLübbenLuckauMärkisch BuchholzMärkische HeideMittenwaldeMünchehofeNeu ZaucheRietzneuendorf-StaakowSchlepzigSchönefeldSchönwaldSchulzendorfSchwerinSchwielochseeSpreewaldheideSteinreichStraupitz (Spreewald)TeupitzUnterspreewaldWildauZeuthenBrandenburg
Lübben is located in Germany
Lübben
Lübben
Lübben is located in Brandenburg
Lübben
Lübben
Coordinates: 51°57′N 13°54′E / 51.950°N 13.900°E / 51.950; 13.900
CountryGermany
StateBrandenburg
DistrictDahme-Spreewald
Subdivisions6 Ortsteile bzw. Stadtbezirke
Government
 • Mayor (2022–30) Jens Richter[1] (CDU)
Area
 • Total
119.91 km2 (46.30 sq mi)
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total
13,966
 • Density120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
15907
Dialling codes03546
Vehicle registrationLDS
Websitewww.luebben.de

Lübben (Spreewald) (Lower Sorbian: Lubin (Błota), pronounced [ˈlubʲin ˈbwɔta]) is a town of 14,000 people, capital of the Dahme-Spreewald district in the Lower Lusatia region in Brandenburg, in eastern 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

Nieder-Lausitzische Wendische Grammatica, a Lower Sorbian language learning book, published in the town in 1761

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. It was located on a trade route from Luckau to Gubin and Poznań.[3] 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 fell to the Prussian province of Brandenburg by the final act of the 1815 Congress of Vienna. One of the main escape routes for insurgents of the unsuccessful Polish November Uprising from partitioned Poland to the Great Emigration led through the town.[4]

During World War II, the Oflag III-C and Oflag 8 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish, French, British, Australian, New Zealander, Belgian and Dutch officers, a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in Luckau and a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp were located in the town.[5][6][7] Lübben was taken by Soviet troops of the 3rd Guards Army on 27 April 1945.

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)
    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)
  • Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2020-2030 (green line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)
    Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2020-2030 (green line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)
Lübben (Spreewald): Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)[8]
YearPop.±% p.a.
1875 9,168—    
1890 10,140+0.67%
1910 12,370+1.00%
1925 11,992−0.21%
1933 12,018+0.03%
1939 12,337+0.44%
1946 12,726+0.44%
1950 12,245−0.96%
1964 14,717+1.32%
1971 15,274+0.53%
1981 15,727+0.29%
1985 15,829+0.16%
1989 15,712−0.19%
1990 15,495−1.38%
1991 15,257−1.54%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1992 15,262+0.03%
1993 15,139−0.81%
1994 15,202+0.42%
1995 15,091−0.73%
1996 15,070−0.14%
1997 15,054−0.11%
1998 14,998−0.37%
1999 15,095+0.65%
2000 15,025−0.46%
2001 14,845−1.20%
2002 14,897+0.35%
2003 14,807−0.60%
2004 14,751−0.38%
2005 14,627−0.84%
2006 14,557−0.48%
YearPop.±% p.a.
2007 14,346−1.45%
2008 14,250−0.67%
2009 14,179−0.50%
2010 14,122−0.40%
2011 13,869−1.79%
2012 13,815−0.39%
2013 13,707−0.78%
2014 13,672−0.26%
2015 13,824+1.11%
2016 13,861+0.27%
2017 13,964+0.74%
2018 14,024+0.43%
2019 14,022−0.01%
2020 14,036+0.10%

Politics

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

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

  • Wolfgang Figulus (c. 1525 – c. 1591), German composer and teacher, 1545 or 1546 cantor in Lübben
  • Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymn writer, 1668 till his death archdeacon of Lübben
  • Renate Holm (1931–2022), German-Austrian film actress and operatic soprano, school in Lübben
  • Christoph Ernst von Houwald (1778–1845), German dramatist and author, died at Neuhaus
  • Götz von Houwald (1913–2001), German diplomat, historian and ethnographer, completed his secondary education in Lübben
  • Albert Naumann (1875–1952), German fencer, died in Lübben
  • Jens Riewa (born 1963), German television presenter and broadcast news analyst for the Tagesschau, grew up in Lübben
  • Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (1735–1803), German classical philologist and lexicographer, teacher in Lübben
  • Daniel Ziebig (born 1983), German footballer, used to live in Lübben
  • We Butter the Bread with Butter, German deathcore band formed in 2007

References

  1. ^ Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 13 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
  3. ^ Pieradzka, Krystyna (1949). "Związki handlowe Łużyc ze Śląskiem w dawnych wiekach". Sobótka (in Polish). IV (4). Wrocław: 90.
  4. ^ Umiński, Janusz (1998). "Losy internowanych na Pomorzu żołnierzy powstania listopadowego". Jantarowe Szlaki (in Polish). No. 4 (250). p. 16.
  5. ^ Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 211–212, 235. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
  6. ^ "Außenkommando des Zuchthauseses Luckau in Neuendorf". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Anlage zu § 1. Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG" (in German). Archived from the original on 23 April 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  8. ^ Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
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