Liebenburg

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Liebenburg
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Location of Liebenburg within Goslar district
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Liebenburg
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Liebenburg
Coordinates: 52°01′27″N10°26′02″E / 52.02417°N 10.43389°E / 52.02417; 10.43389 Coordinates: 52°01′27″N10°26′02″E / 52.02417°N 10.43389°E / 52.02417; 10.43389
Country Germany
State Lower Saxony
District Goslar
Subdivisions10 districts
Government
   Mayor (202126) Alf Hesse [1] (SPD)
Area
  Total78.73 km2 (30.40 sq mi)
Elevation
128 m (420 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31) [2]
  Total7,793
  Density99/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
38704
Dialling codes 05346
Vehicle registration GS
Website www.liebenburg.eu

Liebenburg is a municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Geography

The municipal area is situated north of the Harz mountain range, within the eastern Salzgitter Hills of the Innerste Uplands. It borders on the district capital Goslar, approx. 12 km (7.5 mi) in the south; the adjacent municipalities in the north are Salzgitter-Bad and Schladen in Wolfenbüttel District.

Subdivisions

The municipality comprises Liebenburg proper (with 2,140 inhabitants [3] ) and the following nine villages, which were incorporated on 1 July 1972 with the following population as of 30 June 2018: [4]

History

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Liebenburg Castle Church

Archaeological excavations of a gallery grave indicate a settlement of the area in the Late Neolithic. The former Saxon estates in 1235 belonged to the territory of the newly established Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim.

From 1292 to 1302, Prince-bishop Siegfried II of Querfurt had the Levenborch spur castle erected in the Salzgitter Hills, near where his episcopal lands bordered on the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. From 1366 it was pawned by his successors to the citizens of Braunschweig, important to secure the trade route to the Imperial City of Goslar.

The castle was seized by the warlike duke Henry V of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel after the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud in 1523 and temporarily served as hidden residence of his mistress Eva von Trott. The Catholic duke in turn lost it to the Protestant Schmalkaldic League, whose troops campaigned the Brunswick lands from 1542 until their final defeat in the 1547 Battle of Mühlberg. During the Thirty Years' War, the stronghold was used as headquarters by the Imperial Generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1625, it was occupied by Swedish troops in 1633, and reconquered by the Imperial Army in 1641.

By a 1643 peace treaty with the Braunschweig dukes, the heavily damaged castle was restored to Hildesheim, while day laborers and craftsmen lived within its walls. The Hildesheim prince-bishops promoted the settlement of Catholic families. The castle itself was partly rebuilt in a Baroque style by the order of the Wittelsbach prince-bishop Clemens August until construction work was abandoned due to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756. After the bishopric was finally secularised in 1802, Liebenburg fell to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814.

Demographics

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Population statistics
YearInhabitants
18214464
18485710
18715737
18855727
19056535
19256375
YearInhabitants
19336167
19398206
194613.208
195013.700
195612.279
196111.687
YearInhabitants
196811.143
197010.982
197510.405
19809851
19859502
19909655
YearInhabitants
19959803
20009693
20059431
20108777
20118620

(from 1968 on numbers of inhabitants as of 31 December) [5]

Politics

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Town hall

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2011 local elections:

Elections in September 2016:

Mayors

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References

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  2. Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen, LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2020.
  3. Population statistics, municipality of Liebenburg - 01.05.2014
  4. "Einwohner der Gemeinden und Ortsteile" (PDF). Landkreis - Goslar.
  5. Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Statistik. "Bevölkerungsfortschreibung" (in German).