Hohenberg-Krusemark

Hohenberg-Krusemark
Hohenberg-Krusemark
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Hohenberg-Krusemark within Stendal district
	Hohenberg-Krusemark Hohenberg-Krusemark
	Coordinates: 52°43′36″N 11°57′11″E / 52.72667°N 11.95306°E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Stendal
Municipal assoc.	Arneburg-Goldbeck
Government
• Mayor	Dirk Kautz (SPD)
Area
• Total	63.39 km2 (24.48 sq mi)
Elevation	31 m (102 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	1,196
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	39596
Dialling codes	039394
Vehicle registration	SDL
Website	www.arneburg-goldbeck.de

Hohenberg-Krusemark t is about 17 km (10 miles) North East of Stendal and is a municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Community Structure

The municipality consists of 10 districts (Ortsteile), one of which has the same name as the municipality. Smaller settlements belong to the local parts.^[2]

Altenzaun
Gethlingen
Groß Ellingen (Altenau and Burckhardshof)
Hindenburg (Balleierhof and Siedlung)
Hohenberg-Krusemark (Hohenberg, Krusemark und Schladen)

Klein Ellingen
Klein Hindenburg
Osterholz
Rosenhof
Schwarzholz (Ausbau, Kirchpolkritz, Küsel, Schweinslust, Starbeck und Tannhäuser)

Historie

On October 17, 1928, the Hohenberg estate district was merged with the Krusemark estate district and the rural municipalities of Hohenberg and Krusemark to form a rural municipality of Hohenberg-Krusemark. The municipality of Hohenberg-Krusemark was reorganized on July 25, 1952 from the district of Osterburg to the district of Osterburg. After its dissolution it became part of the district of Stendal on July 1, 1994.

On December 31, 2008 the community of Hindenburg was incorporated, on January 1, 2009 the community of Altenzaun and on September 1, 2010 the community of Schwarzholz was incorporated.

Year	Population
1925	598
1939	521
1946	787
1946	560
1971	514
1981	681
1993	604
2006	637
2014	1268
2015	1261
2017	1246
2018	1241
2020 (Jan)	1266

Politics

Municipal Council

The municipal elections on May 26, 2019, produced the following result:^[3]

four seats Voter group "Per Region
four seats CDU
two seats single applicants

Four of the 10 municipal councils are women.

Partnerships

Hohenberg-Krusemark is a partner municipality of Ellingen in Bavaria, initiated in 1989 after the opening of the border by the volunteer fire departments of Groß Ellingen and Ellingen in Bavaria. Furthermore, the local community Strassenhaus of the association community Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach in Rhineland-Palatinate is a partner community of Hohenberg-Krusemark.

Culture

Sports

Hohenberg-Krusemark was already a center of the horse sport at the time of the GDR. Every year, riding events are held here, especially in the areas of eventing and rural riding, which are organized by the equestrian sports club founded in 1881.

Associations

In Hohenberg-Krusemark there is an active club life which consists of the Heimatverein, the Interessenverein "Sternreiten in der Altmark" e.V., the Dorfentwicklungsverein, the Pferdesportverein "1881" Hohenberg-Krusemark e.V. and the Kulturförderverein "Östliche Altmark".

Religion

The 2011 European Union census showed that of the 1296 inhabitants of the municipality of Hohenberg-Krusemark, about 23% belonged to the Protestant and about 3% to the Catholic Church.^[4] The protestant village church of Krusemark is from the 12th century and is the oldest preserved building in the region.