Spremberg

Spremberg
Market square
Coat of arms
Spremberg
Location of Spremberg within Spree-Neiße district
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Spree-Neiße
Government
• Mayor	Christine Herntier (Ind.)
Area
• Total	180.04 km2 (69.51 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	22,431
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	03130
Dialling codes	03563
Vehicle registration	SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB
Website	www.stadt-spremberg.de

Spremberg (Lower Sorbian: Grodk) is a city near to the Saxon city of Hoyerswerda in the Spree-Neiße district of Brandenburg, Germany. The town was first mentioned in 1301. The town alone has 9,203 inhabitants, whereas the town include other villages has 25,952 inhabitants.

Geography

Spremberg is situated about 20 km south of Cottbus and 25 km north of Hoyerswerda, on an island and on both banks of the river Spree. Between 1871 and 1918 the town was the geographical centre of the German Empire: today, it is only 25 km from the German-Polish border.

Demography

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  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)

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  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Spremberg:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)

Year Population 1875 19 546 1890 20 239 1910 24 472 1925 27 178 1933 29 205 1939 30 989 1946 26 555 1950 27 879 1964 37 222 1971 32 635

Year Population 1981 30 565 1985 30 739 1989 30 195 1990 29 665 1991 29 116 1992 28 843 1993 28 872 1994 29 165 1995 28 935 1996 28 974

Year Population 1997 28 881 1998 28 588 1999 28 407 2000 28 160 2001 27 715 2002 27 376 2003 27 059 2004 26 888 2005 26 416 2006 25 952

Year Population 2007 25 484 2008 25 050 2009 24 718 2010 24 373 2011 22 773 2012 22 618 2013 22 431

Culture

In 1911 there were Roman Catholic and two Protestant churches and a pilgrimage chapel dating from 1100, there was a ducal chateau built by a son of the elector John George 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

Schwarze Pumpe (Lower Sorbian: Čorna Pumpa) is a district of Spremberg, lying approximately 7 km southwest of Spremberg's town centre on the federal state boundary between Brandenburg to Saxony. It had 1988 inhabitants as of 1 January 2006. A large industrial area extending into Saxony and including the site of a large power plant is known by the same name.

On 26 May 2006 construction work started on the world's first CO
₂-free coal power plant in the Schwarze Pumpe industrial district. The plant is based on a concept called Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), which means that carbon emissions will be captured and compressed to ​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. The project, which has cost some 70 million Euros, was funded entirely by the Swedish company Vattenfall AB and will go into service in September 2008. The power plant is a pilot project to serve as a prototype for future full-scale power plants.

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