Herzberg (Elster)

Geschichte

Herzberg is a town in the Elbe-Elster district of the German federal state of Brandenburg.OverviewAs of 2004, its population is 10,968 and the mayor is Michael Oecknigk of the Christian Democratic Union.Herzberg (Elster) is twinned with the following cities: Büdingen, Hesse Świebodzin, Poland Dixon, Illinois, United States of America Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia From 1939 to 1945 there was the Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster, a huge longwave transmitter, whose mast was the second tallest construction in the world, at Herzberg/Elster. The basement of the mast is still there.DemographySons and daughters of the city Louise von François (1817-1893), narrator and writer Werner Janensch (1878-1969), paleontologist and geologist Steffen Zesner (* 1967), world class swimmer