Bad Liebenwerda

Bad Liebenwerda
Town
The Lubwartturm, Bad Liebenwerda
Coat of arms
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Bad Liebenwerda Bad Liebenwerda
Coordinates: 51°31′N 13°24′E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Elbe-Elster
Municipal assoc.	Liebenwerda
Government
• Mayor (2020–25)	Johannes Berger
Area
• Total	138.41 km2 (53.44 sq mi)
Elevation	86 m (282 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	9,284
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	04924
Dialling codes	035341
Vehicle registration	EE, FI, LIB
Website	www.badliebenwerda.de

Bad Liebenwerda (German: [baːt ˌliːbm̩ˈvɛʁda] ) is a spa town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 57 km northwest of Dresden, and 28 km east of Torgau.

History

The first written mention is from the Lievenwerde in 1231. The meaning of the name is Live, or Lieb for life or lovely, and -werde from werda meaning island, high place in water. The document mentions an Otto of Ileburg, Vogt of Lievenwerde, and Plebanus Walterus, a priest.

Liebenwerda has a moated castle with a keep known as the Lubwartturm. The first mention as Liebenwerda as a city is from 1304. Liebenwerda was part of the Electorate of Saxony and Kingdom of Saxony until 1815; as a result of the Congress of Vienna the area became a district in the Kingdom of Prussia. The town has had a health spa since 1905, and in 1925 the word Bad was prefixed to its name. From 1952 to 1990, Bad Liebenwerda was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.

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 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 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Bad Liebenwerda: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 7,715 —     1890 8,058 +0.29% 1910 9,075 +0.60% 1925 9,943 +0.61% 1933 10,257 +0.39% 1939 11,012 +1.19% 1946 14,574 +4.08% 1950 14,459 −0.20% 1964 13,316 −0.59% 1971 13,548 +0.25% 1981 12,690 −0.65% 1985 12,445 −0.49% 1989 12,123 −0.65% 1990 11,937 −1.53% 1991 11,703 −1.96%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 11,677 −0.22% 1993 11,733 +0.48% 1994 11,638 −0.81% 1995 11,649 +0.09% 1996 11,574 −0.64% 1997 11,590 +0.14% 1998 11,593 +0.03% 1999 11,483 −0.95% 2000 11,326 −1.37% 2001 11,231 −0.84% 2002 11,068 −1.45% 2003 10,981 −0.79% 2004 10,866 −1.05% 2005 10,720 −1.34% 2006 10,573 −1.37%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 10,391 −1.72% 2008 10,236 −1.49% 2009 10,038 −1.93% 2010 9,973 −0.65% 2011 9,772 −2.02% 2012 9,634 −1.41% 2013 9,486 −1.54% 2014 9,411 −0.79% 2015 9,305 −1.13% 2016 9,283 −0.24% 2017 9,282 −0.01% 2018 9,188 −1.01% 2019 9,140 −0.52% 2020 9,224 +0.92%

Culture and architecture

Bad Liebenwerda is home of the Gothic church of St. Nikolai. The tower of the church was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century after lightning struck the tower and caused a fire. The Lubwartturm, a tower was built around 1207 as part of the moated castle, is the oldest building in town. Next to this tower is the museum with an exhibition on the composer Carl Heinrich Graun and his brothers. Also is there an exhibition on Marionettes, other puppets and puppeteers of south-east Germany.

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  Bad Liebenwerda, former prison
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  Bad Liebenwerda, Lubwart-Tower
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  central place "Rossmarkt"

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gotthard Fritzsche (1797-1863), theologian and founder of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia
• Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer (1805-1844), philosopher and philologist
• Ernst Eberhard (1843-1909), popular science writer
• Erich Müller (1897-1980), writer

External links

Media related to Bad Liebenwerda at Wikimedia Commons