Spremberg
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| Spremberg | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Brandenburg |
| District | Spree-Neiße |
| Mayor | Dr. Klaus-Peter Schulze (CDU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 180.04 km² (69.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 97 m (318 ft) |
| Population | 25,952 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 144 /km² (373 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | SPN |
| Postal code | 03130 |
| Area code | 03563 |
| Website | www.stadt-spremberg.de |
Spremberg (Sorbian Grodk) is a city in the Spree-Neiße district of Brandenburg, Germany. The town was first mentioned in 1301 and has about 25,000 inhabitants.
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[edit] Geography
The city is situated about 20km south of Cottbus, on an island and the two banks of the river Spree. Between 1871 and 1918, the city was the geographical center of the German Empire. Today, it is at a distance of just 25 km from the German-Polish border.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Trivia
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Schwarze Pumpe (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 in the industrial area, construction work started on the world's first CO2-free coal power plant. This is a facility with a power of 30 MW, following the so-called Oxyfuel method to burn the coal with pure Oxygen and Nitrogen-free exhaust. The resulting carbon dioxide will be compressed and liquefied. It will then pressed into the soil and stored so as not to contribute to global warming. The projected power of the facility is 10 to 12% below that of previous coal power plants, as Oxygen purification, exhaust gast treatment and CO2 isolation require a lot of energy. The facility, built by the company Vattenfall Europe, should go into service in 2008 and serve as a prototype for larger power plants. Environmentalists call the facility "a fig leaf" and criticise is as too complex. In their opinion a greater impact on the reduction of global warming could have been obtained for the same money through investments in more efficient power production and use.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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