Spremberg Grodk | |
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| Coordinates:51°34′18″N14°22′46″E / 51.57167°N 14.37944°E /51.57167; 14.37944 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Brandenburg |
| District | Spree-Neiße |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2021–29) | Christine Herntier[1] (Ind.) |
| Area | |
• Total | 202.32 km2 (78.12 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 97 m (318 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 21,497 |
| • Density | 106.25/km2 (275.19/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 03130 |
| Dialling codes | 03563 |
| Vehicle registration | SPN, FOR, GUB, SPB |
| Website | www.stadt-spremberg.de |
Spremberg (German pronunciation:[ˈʃpʁɛmˌbɛʁk]ⓘ) orGrodk (Lower Sorbian pronunciation:[ˈɡrɔtk]) is a municipality near the Saxon city ofHoyerswerda and is in theSpree-Neiße district ofBrandenburg,Germany.
First mentioned in 1301, the town alone has 14,028 inhabitants, and the municipality, including other villages, has 22,456 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2017.
Spremberg is situated about 20 km (12 miles) south ofCottbus and 25 km (15 miles) north ofHoyerswerda, on an island and on both banks of theriver Spree. Between 1871 and 1918 the town was the geographical centre of theGerman Empire: today, it is only 25 km (15 miles) from the German-Polish border. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalityHornow-Wadelsdorf became part of Spremberg.
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In 1911 there wereRoman Catholic and two Protestant churches and a pilgrimage chapel dating from 1100, there was aducal chateau built by a son of theelectorJohn 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 (Lower Sorbian:Carna Plumpa) is a district of Spremberg, lying approximately 7 km (5 miles) southwest of Spremberg's town centre on the federal state boundary between Brandenburg to Saxony. It had 1886 inhabitants as of 31 December 2017. A large industrial area extending into Saxony and including the site of a largepower plant is known by the same name.
On 26 May 2006, construction work started on the world's firstCO
2-free coal power plant in the Schwarze Pumpe industrial district. The plant is based on a concept calledcarbon capture and storage, which means that carbon emissions will be captured and compressed to1⁄500th 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 exacerbatingglobal warming. The project, which has cost some 70 millionEuros, was funded entirely by the Swedish companyVattenfall AB and went into service on 9 September 2008. The power plant was a pilot project to serve as a prototype for future full-scale power plants.[4] Vattenfall stopped carbon capture R&D at the plant in 2014 because they found that "its costs and the energy it requires make the technology unviable".[5]
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