Oberharz am Brocken

Upper am Brocken is a district town in the district of Harz, Saxony -Anhalt, which was created on January 1, 2010. It was formed by the voluntary association of city Elbingerode and the municipalities of the administrative community Brocken- high resin (except Allrode ). The administrative headquarters is located in the district of Elbingerode ( resin).

5.1 Mayor
5.2 City Council
5.3 Coat of Arms
5.4 flag

Merger

The merger took place against the background of the municipal reform in Saxony -Anhalt and the associated resolution of the administrative community Brocken- high resin in favor of a unified community. The area change treaty was signed on 25 June 2009 by representatives of the places on a boat on the Rappbode reservoir.

Name dispute

The choice of name sparked criticism from the resin, such as in Wernigerode, since the area of the new town nor is directly on the Brocken in the Upper Harz. In particular, the Municipality Upper Harz in Lower Saxony raised a protest and held on 31 August 2009 filed a lawsuit in summary proceedings before the Administrative Court of Magdeburg, primarily to protect the name Samtgemeinde Upper Harz. It failed the Municipality. A complaint to the Supreme Administrative Court of Magdeburg was dismissed in November 2009. In April 2010, the Municipality Upper Harz Mountains announced that they will now file a new lawsuit at trial. The administrative court in Magdeburg had, in July 2011, the action of the velvet municipality Upper Harz because of a naming violation back again. A previous application of the velvet municipality on a temporary injunction was rejected by the Administrative Court. The appeal lodged a complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court of Saxony- Anhalt was unsuccessful.

Districts

The districts of the city are also at the same time the localities of the city.

Benneckenstein (Harz )
Elbingerode ( resin ) with Eggeröder wells and Büchenberg
Misery
Hasselfelde

Chorzów ( resin )
Höhlenort Rübeland with Susen Castle, Cold valley, Kreuztal and Neuwerk
Concern

Stairs
Fir
Trautenstein

History

The majority of today's urban area was in the 19th and early 20th century predecessors in areas of present-day Lower Saxony: Elbingerode, misery, royal court and Rothehütte belonged to the Kingdom and in 1866 the Prussian province of Hanover. As the county Ilfeld was repealed in 1932, they were reclassified in the province of Saxony. Hasselfelde, Rübeland, stairs, fir and Trautenstein were until 1945 braunschweigisch. Only Benneckenstein and worry were an exclave of the county county Hohenstein since 1648 Brandenburg and Prussia in 1701, in which they belonged from 1815 to the province of Saxony.

Incorporations

Policy

Mayor

( according to the official result of the election for mayor of the city Elbingerode / resin on 13 June 2004; turnout. 58.7 % With the founding of the city of Upper am Brocken, the mayor of the city Elbingerode for the remainder of the term serves as Mayor of the Upper Harz at chunks. )

Andreas wing (FDP): 50.9 %

City council

( according to the official result of the election to the City Council Upper am Brocken on December 6, 2009. )

CDU: 9 seats
SPD: 6 seats
Free Wählergemeinschaft Upper Harz: 4 seats
Citizens' Initiative Upper Harz: 3 seats
LEFT: 2 seats
Free Wählergemeinschaft home stairs: two seats
FDP: 1 seat
Free Wählergemeinschaft misery: 1 seat

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 7 June 2010 by the county.

Blazon: " Argent, a green three mountain and one whose larger center Summit on jumping black deer with achtendigem antlers, surmounted by a black Bergmannsgezähe between two growing from the smaller outer peaks of green fir trees, the foot of the mountains topped with three silver wavy lines. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Magdeburg Kommunalheraldiker Jörg Mantzsch and out into the approval process. His symbols are assigned as follows: 1 The Three Mountain is a heraldic symbol expressing the Harz mountains. 2 The firs refer to the natural environment of the city. It should be noted that thus the coniferous forest ( in medieval parlance as Tann = spruce forest designated ) of the Upper Harz in general, is not addressed a tree species. 3 The whole deer is a symbol of speed, power and renewal of life. He expresses the wild wealth of the resin, which was since the early Middle Ages spell forest of the German emperors and kings. At the same time the deer symbolizes a synonym, the combined cities and towns and skips in the crest of the mountains, which symbolically applies to the tasks ahead for the development of the community. 4 The Bergmannsgezähe suppressed with hammer and chisel from the up to the present of mining and metallurgy, which contributed to sustainable industrialization of the region.

The colors of the community are green and white.

Flag

The flag of the city is green - white (1:1) striped ( cross- shape: strips horizontally extending, longitudinal shape: strip running vertically ) and centrally occupied with the coat of arms. "

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