- Spremberg
Infobox German Location
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen_Spremberg.png
lon_deg = 14 |lon_min = 22 |lon_sec = 46
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Brandenburg
Landkreis = Spree-Neiße
Höhe = 97
Fläche = 180.04
Einwohner = 25952
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 03130
Vorwahl = 03563
Kfz = SPN
Website = [http://www.stadt-spremberg.de/ www.stadt-spremberg.de]
Bürgermeister = Dr. Klaus-Peter Schulze
Partei = CDUSpremberg (Sorbian Grodk) is a city in the
Spree-Neiße district ofBrandenburg ,Germany . The town was first mentioned in 1301 and has about 25,000 inhabitants.Geography
The city is situated about 20km south of
Cottbus , on an island and the two banks of theriver Spree . Between 1871 and 1918, the city was the geographical center of theGerman Empire . Today, it is at a distance of just 25 km from the German-Polish border.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.Trivia
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 of1 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 construction work started on the world's first CO2-free coal power plant in the Scwarze Pumpe industrial district. The plant is based on a concept called Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), which means that carbon emissions will be captured and compressed to frac|1|500|th their orignal 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 exacerbating
global warming . The project, which has cost some 70 millionEuro s, was funded entirely by the Swedish companyVattenfall AB and will go into service in September 2008. The power plant is a pilot project to serve as a prototype for future full-scale power plants. [citation| title= Germany leads 'clean coal' pilot| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7584151.stm| date=2008-09-03 | publisher=BBC News]References
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