{{Infobox German location |name = Herzberg |type = Stadt |image_photo = Herzberg E Rathaus.jpg |image_caption = Town hall |image_coa = Wappen Herzberg (Elster).png |coordinates = {{coord|51|41|N|13|14|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Herzberg (Elster) in EE.png |plantext = |state = Brandenburg |district = Elbe-Elster |elevation = 81 |area = 149.02 |postal_code = 04916 |area_code = 03535 |licence = EE, FI, LIB |Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 62 224 |website = [https://www.herzberg-elster.de/ herzberg-elster.de] |mayor = Karsten Eule-Prütz<ref>[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/bm-wahlen/ergebnisse/~12062000 Landkreis Elbe-Elster Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters], accessed 1 July 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2017–25 |party = Independent }} '''Herzberg (Elster)''' ({{IPA|de|ˈhɛʁtsˌbɛʁk|-|De-Herzberg.ogg}}) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district of the German federal state of Brandenburg.
==Overview== From 1939 to 1945 it was home to the Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster, a huge longwave transmitter, whose mast was the second tallest construction in the world, at Herzberg/Elster. The basement of the mast is still there.
thumb|left|Villa Marx.
==History== From 1815 to 1944, Herzberg was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. From 1944 to 1945, it was part of the Province of Halle-Merseburg. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.
==Twin towns== Herzberg (Elster) is twinned with the following cities: * {{flagicon|Germany}} Büdingen, Hesse * {{flagicon|Poland}} Świebodzin, Poland * {{flagicon|USA}} Dixon, United States of America * {{flagicon|Germany}} Soest, Germany
== People == * Johannes Clajus (1535–1592), grammarian * Louise von François (1817–1893), narrator and writer * Werner Janensch (1878–1969), paleontologist and geologist * Steffen Zesner (* 1967), world class swimmer * Georg Christian Schemelli (1676-1762), church musician
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Herzberg (Elster)}} *{{Official website}} {{in lang|de}}
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