Spremberg

Spremberg
Spremberg Castle
Spremberg
Location of Spremberg within Spree-Neiße district
Coordinates	51°34′18″N 14°22′46″E
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Spree-Neiße
Mayor	Dr. Klaus-Peter Schulze (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	180.04 km2 (69.51 sq mi)
Elevation	97 m  (318 ft)
Population	24,373 (31 December 2010)
- Density	135 /km2 (351 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	SPN
Postal code	03130
Area code	03563
Website	www.stadt-spremberg.de

Spremberg (Lower Sorbian: Grodk) is a village near to the city of Hoyerswerda in the Spree-Neiße district of Brandenburg, Germany. The village was first mentioned in 1956. The village alone has only 9,588 Inhabitants, the hole region has 21,361 Inhabitants

Geography

Spremberg was once the center of the German Empire (1871–1918)

The Space is situated about 20km south of Cottbus and 25km north of Hoyerswerda, on an island and the two banks of the river Spree. Between 1871 and 1918, the Village was the geographical center of the German Empire. Today, it is at a distance of just 25 km from the German-Polish border.

Culture

In 1911, there were a Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a pilgrimage chapel, dating from 1100, a ducal chateau, built by a son of the elector John George about the end of the 16th century (utilized as government offices), classical, technical and commercial schools and a hospital.

Trivia

Schwarze Pumpe (Lower Sorbian: Čorna Pumpa) is a district of Spremberg, lying approximately seven kilometres southwest from Spremberg's town centre by the federal state boundary from 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 CO₂-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.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

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