{{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |image_coa = Wappen Lieberose.png |coordinates = {{coord|51|58|59|N|14|18|00|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Lieberose in LDS.png |state = Brandenburg |district = Dahme-Spreewald |Amt = Lieberose/Oberspreewald |elevation = 50 |area = 72.51 |postal_code = 15868 |area_code = 033671 |licence = LDS |Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 61 308 |divisions = 5 Ortsteile |website = [http://www.amt-lieberose-oberspreewald.de/ www.amt-lieberose-oberspreewald.de] |mayor = Kerstin Michelchen<ref>[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12061000 Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters]. Retrieved 27 June 2024.</ref> |leader_term = 2024–29 }} '''Lieberose''' (Lower Sorbian: ''Luboraz'') is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Cottbus. thumb|Lieberose, Aerial view thumb|Lieberose, Church [[File:Lieberose-Sammlung Duncker (5365598).jpg|thumb|Castle Lieberose, around 1861/62, Edition by Alexander Duncker]] thumb|left|Castle Lieberose thumb|left|Town hall
==History== From 1815 to 1947, Lieberose was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg.
During World War II, Lieberose forced labor camp, a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp was located here.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/General/ListeEng.html|title=The List of the Camps|accessdate=2016-09-16|website=jewishgen.org}}</ref> (The subcamp, KL Lieberose, was a labour camp for the support point of SS- Division "Kurmark".{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} The SS- Division "Kurmark" located in Lieberose and surrounding area.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
Near the end of the war, Jewish prisoners were sent on a death march towards Sachsenhausen.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9780415281454|title=The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust|first=Martin|last=Gilbert|page=212|date=2002|publisher=Routledge}}</ref>
After World War II was the camp a prison camp for the soviet secret service (NKGB).{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
After World War II, Lieberose was incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990, Lieberose is again part of Brandenburg.
==Demography== thumb|200px|left|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)
{{historical populations |align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr |title = Lieberose: Population development <br>within the current boundaries (2017)<ref>Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Population_projection_Brandenburg Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons]</ref> | 1875 | 2919 | 1890 | 2712 | 1910 | 2576 | 1925 | 2415 | 1933 | 2411 | 1939 | 2261 | 1946 | 3330 | 1950 | 3244 | 1964 | 2495 | 1971 | 2396 | 1981 | 2068 | 1985 | 2017 | 1989 | 2006 | 1990 | 1970 | 1991 | 1939 | 1992 | 1892 | 1993 | 1880 | 1994 | 1864 | 1995 | 1832 | 1996 | 1823 | 1997 | 1796 | 1998 | 1809 | 1999 | 1793 | 2000 | 1770 | 2001 | 1707 | 2002 | 1664 | 2003 | 1651 | 2004 | 1611 | 2005 | 1613 | 2006 | 1573 | 2007 | 1534 | 2008 | 1514 | 2009 | 1503 | 2010 | 1485 | 2011 | 1472 | 2012 | 1417 | 2013 | 1416 | 2014 | 1391 | 2015 | 1379 | 2016 | 1360 | 2017 | 1379 }}
== People from Lieberose == * Dietrich von der Schulenburg (1849-1911), German politician and member of Prussian parliament
==See also== *Lieberose forced labor camp *Lieberose Photovoltaic Park
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==External links== * {{in lang|de}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012313/http://www.stadt-lieberose.de/ Official site] * {{commons category-inline|Lieberose}}
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