Lübben (Spreewald)

Lübben/Lubin
Lübben/Lubin
	Lübben Castle
	Coat of arms
	Location of Lübben/Lubin within Dahme-Spreewald district
	Lübben/Lubin Lübben/Lubin
	Coordinates: 51°57′N 13°54′E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Dahme-Spreewald
Subdivisions	6 Ortsteile bzw. Stadtbezirke
Government
• Mayor	Lars Kolan (SPD)
Area
• Total	119.91 km2 (46.30 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	14,022
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15907
Dialling codes	03546
Vehicle registration	LDS
Website	www.luebben.de

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

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. 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 again fell to the Prussian province of Brandenburg by the final act of the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

During World War II, Lübben was taken by Soviet troops of the 3rd Guards Army on 27 April 1945.

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 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Lübben (Spreewald): Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)[2]

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

Neuhaus Manor

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

Hans Peter Bull (born 1936), German constitutional lawyer and jurist
Karin Büttner-Janz (born 1952 in Hartmannsdorf), German Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and habilitated doctor
Henry Eugene Fritz (1875–1956), American painter
Hans Walter Gruhle (1880–1958), German psychiatrist
Louis Klopsch (1852–1910), American author and editor of the Christian Herald
Sylvio Kroll (born 1965), German Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics
Kornelia Kunisch (born 1959), German handball player, 1980 olympic bronze medal with the East German team
Christian Lillinger (born 1984), German musician and composer
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805–1882), German politician, Minister-President of Prussia
Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931), South African botanist, pharmacist and analytical chemist
Richard Constantin Noschke (1867–1945), diary of his World War I Alexandra Palace internment sufferings in Imperial War Museum, London.
Thorsten Rund (born 1976), German cyclist
Carl Siegemund Schönebeck (1758–1806), German composer and cellist
Lavinia Schulz (1896–1924), German dancer and actress
Ingo Spelly (born 1966), East German-German sprint canoer, Olympic champion

Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), German hymn writer, 1668 till his death archdeacon of Lübben
Renate Holm (born 1931), 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

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