# Spremberg
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{{Infobox German location
|name = Spremberg
Grodk
|type = Stadt
|image_photo = Rathaus und Kreuzkirche in Spremberg.jpg
|image_caption = Market square
|image_coa = Wappen_Spremberg.png
|image_flag = Hissflagge der Stadt Spremberg.png
|coordinates = {{coord|51|34|18|N|14|22|46|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Spremberg in SPN.png
|state = Brandenburg
|district = Spree-Neiße
|elevation = 97
|area = 202.32
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 12071372
|postal_code = 03130
|area_code = 03563
|licence = SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
|website = [http://www.stadt-spremberg.de/ www.stadt-spremberg.de]
|mayor = Christine Herntier[[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/bm-wahlen/ergebnisse/~12071000 Landkreis Spree-Neiße Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters], accessed 13 November 2022.]
|leader_term = 2021–29
|party = Independent
}}
'''Spremberg''' ({{IPA|de|ˈʃpʁɛmˌbɛʁk|-|De-Spremberg.ogg}}) or '''Grodk''' ({{IPA|dsb|ˈɡrɔtk|-|link=yes}}) is a municipality near the Saxon city of [Hoyerswerda](/source/Hoyerswerda) and is in the [Spree-Neiße](/source/Spree-Nei%C3%9Fe) district of [Brandenburg](/source/Brandenburg), [Germany](/source/Germany).
First mentioned in 1301, the town alone has 14,028 inhabitants, and the municipality, including other villages, has 22,456 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2017.
==Geography==
Spremberg is situated about 20 km (12 miles) south of [Cottbus](/source/Cottbus) and 25 km (15 miles) north of [Hoyerswerda](/source/Hoyerswerda), on an island and on both banks of the [river Spree](/source/river_Spree). Between 1871 and 1918 the town was the geographical centre of the [German Empire](/source/German_Empire): today, it is only 25 km (15 miles) from the German-[Polish](/source/Poland) border. On 1 January 2016, the former municipality [Hornow-Wadelsdorf](/source/Hornow-Wadelsdorf) became part of Spremberg.
==Demography==
Bevölkerungsentwicklung Spremberg.pdf|Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany); Red Background: Time of communist [East Germany](/source/East_Germany))
Bevölkerungsprognosen Spremberg.pdf|Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the [Census in Germany](/source/Census_in_Germany) in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005–2030 (yellow line); for 2017–2030 (scarlet line); for 2020–2030 (green line)
{{historical populations
|align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr
|title = Spremberg: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)[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]]
| 1875 | 19546
| 1890 | 20239
| 1910 | 24472
| 1925 | 27178
| 1939 | 30989
| 1950 | 27879
| 1964 | 37222
| 1971 | 32635
| 1981 | 30565
| 1985 | 30739
| 1990 | 29665
| 1995 | 28935
| 2000 | 28160
| 2005 | 26416
| 2010 | 24373
| 2015 | 22232
| 2016 | 22750
| 2017 | 22456
| 2018 | 22175
| 2019 | 21998
| 2020 | 21749
}}
==Mayors==
* Friedrich Nath (1908–1919)
* Paul Steffen (1920–1931)
* Richard Buder (1931–1933)
* Kurt Kaulbars (1933–1945) NSDAP
* Rudolf Otto (1944–1945) temporary
* August Scholta (1945–1945) temporary
* Richard Buder (1945–1946)
* Willi Lange (1946–1953)
* Ruth Kartschall (1953–1961)
* Herbert Köhler (1961–1965)
* Günter Frenzel (1965–1975)
* Lothar Barnowski (1975–1975) temporary
* Hannelore Neumann (1975–1990) SED
* Egon Wochatz (1990–2002) CDU
* Klaus-Peter Schulze (2002–2013) CDU
* Christine Schönherr (2013–2013) temporary, independent
* Frank Kulik (2014–2014) temporary, independent
* Christine Herntier (since 2014), independent
==Culture==
In 1911 there were [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) and two Protestant churches and a pilgrimage chapel dating from 1100, there was a [ducal](/source/ducal) chateau built by a son of the [elector](/source/Prince-elector) [John George](/source/John_George%2C_Elector_of_Brandenburg) around the end of the 16th century (now used as government offices), and there were classical, technical and commercial schools as well as a hospital.
==Schwarze Pumpe==
{{See also|Schwarze Pumpe power station|Ende Gelände 2016}}
Schwarze Pumpe ({{langx|dsb|Carna Plumpa}}) is a district of Spremberg, lying approximately 7 km (5 miles) southwest of Spremberg's town centre on the federal state boundary between Brandenburg to Saxony. It had 1886 inhabitants as of 31 December 2017. A large industrial area extending into Saxony and including the site of a large [power plant](/source/Schwarze_Pumpe_power_station) is known by the same name.
On 26 May 2006, construction work started on the world's first {{chem|CO|2}}-free coal power plant in the Schwarze Pumpe industrial district. The plant is based on a concept called [carbon capture and storage](/source/carbon_capture_and_storage), which means that carbon emissions will be captured and compressed to {{frac|1|500|}}th their original volume, liquefying the gas. It will then be forced 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) below the soil into porous rock where it is believed that it will remain for thousands of years without exacerbating [global warming](/source/global_warming). The project, which has cost some 70 million [Euro](/source/Euro)s, was funded entirely by the Swedish company [Vattenfall AB](/source/Vattenfall_AB) and went into service on 9 September 2008. The power plant was a pilot project to serve as a prototype for future full-scale power plants.[{{citation| title= Germany leads 'clean coal' pilot| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7584151.stm| date=3 September 2008| publisher=BBC News}}] Vattenfall stopped carbon capture R&D at the plant in 2014 because they found that "its costs and the energy it requires make the technology unviable".[{{cite web | title=Vattenfall abandons research on CO2 storage | url=http://www.thelocal.se/20140507/vattenfall-abandons-research-on-co2-storage | date=7 May 2014 | newspaper=[The Local](/source/The_Local) }}]
==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}
Spremberg is [twinned](/source/Sister_city) with:[{{cite web |title=Partnerstädte|url=https://spremberg.de/rathaus/stadtportraet-und-ortsteile/partnerstaedte|website=spremberg.de|publisher=Spremberg|language=de|access-date=9 March 2021}}]
*{{flagicon|CAN}} [Grand Forks](/source/Grand_Forks%2C_British_Columbia), Canada
*{{flagicon|POL}} [Szprotawa](/source/Gmina_Szprotawa), Poland
*{{flagicon|RUS}} [Zheleznogorsk](/source/Zheleznogorsk%2C_Kursk_Oblast), Russia
==Notable people==
*[Johann Agricola](/source/Johann_Agricola) (1530–1590), Protestant theologian
*[Otto Ostrowski](/source/Otto_Ostrowski) (1883–1963), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Berlin 1946/1947
*[Erwin Strittmatter](/source/Erwin_Strittmatter) (1912–1994), writer
*[Joachim Teege](/source/Joachim_Teege) (1925–1969), actor and cabaret artist
*[Dirk Meier](/source/Dirk_Meier) (born 1964), cyclist
*[Sebastian Piersig](/source/Sebastian_Piersig) (born 1984), slalom-canoeist
*[Martha Israel](/source/Martha_Israel) (1905–{{circa|1967}}), politician (SED, DFD), member of the [Volkskammer](/source/Volkskammer) and the city council[{{Cite book |last=Pawlowski |first=Rita |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2e4iAQAAIAAJ&q=martha+israel+Lohsa |title=Unsere Frauen stehen ihren Mann: Frauen in der Volkskammer der DDR 1950 bis 1989 : ein biographisches Handbuch |date=2008 |publisher={{ill|Trafo Verlagsgruppe|de}} |isbn=978-3-89626-652-1 |location=Berlin |pages=126 |language=de |trans-title=Our Women Stand Their Ground: Women in the People's Chamber of the GDR, 1950 to 1989: a Biographical Handbook |oclc=277197894}}]
*[Linus Güther](/source/Linus_G%C3%BCther) (born 2010), footballer
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Spremberg}}
*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Spremberg |volume=25 |short=x}}
{{Cities and towns in Spree-Neiße (district)}}
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