Lieberose

Town in Brandenburg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Lieberose within Dahme-Spreewald district

(2019–24) Petra Dreißig^[1]Area

• Total72.51 km² (28.00 sq mi)Elevation

50 m (160 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total1,329 • Density18/km² (47/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

15868

Dialling codes033671Vehicle registrationLDSWebsitewww.amt-lieberose-oberspreewald.de

Lieberose (Lower Sorbian: Luboraz) is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Cottbus.

History

From 1815 to 1947, Lieberose was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg.

During World War II, Lieberose forced labor camp, a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp was located here.^[3] (The subcamp, KL Lieberose, was a labour camp for the support point of SS- Division "Kurmark".^{[citation needed]} The SS- Division "Kurmark" located in Lieberose and surrounding area.^{[citation needed]}

Near the end of the war, Jewish prisoners were sent on a death march towards Sachsenhausen.^[4]

After World War II was the camp a prison camp for the soviet secret service (NKGB).^{[citation needed]}

After World War II, Lieberose was incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990, Lieberose is again part of Brandenburg.

Demography

Lieberose: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)^[5]

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1875	2,919	—
1890	2,712	−0.49%
1910	2,576	−0.26%
1925	2,415	−0.43%
1933	2,411	−0.02%
1939	2,261	−1.06%
1946	3,330	+5.69%
1950	3,244	−0.65%
1964	2,495	−1.86%
1971	2,396	−0.58%
1981	2,068	−1.46%
1985	2,017	−0.62%
1989	2,006	−0.14%
1990	1,970	−1.79%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1991	1,939	−1.57%
1992	1,892	−2.42%
1993	1,880	−0.63%
1994	1,864	−0.85%
1995	1,832	−1.72%
1996	1,823	−0.49%
1997	1,796	−1.48%
1998	1,809	+0.72%
1999	1,793	−0.88%
2000	1,770	−1.28%
2001	1,707	−3.56%
2002	1,664	−2.52%
2003	1,651	−0.78%
2004	1,611	−2.42%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2005	1,613	+0.12%
2006	1,573	−2.48%
2007	1,534	−2.48%
2008	1,514	−1.30%
2009	1,503	−0.73%
2010	1,485	−1.20%
2011	1,472	−0.88%
2012	1,417	−3.74%
2013	1,416	−0.07%
2014	1,391	−1.77%
2015	1,379	−0.86%
2016	1,360	−1.38%
2017	1,379	+1.40%

People from Lieberose

Dietrich von der Schulenburg (1849-1911), German politician and member of Prussian parliament

References

^ Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 30 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
^ "The List of the Camps". jewishgen.org. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
^ Gilbert, Martin (2002). The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust. Routledge. p. 212. ISBN 9780415281454.
^ Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons