Gommern
title: "Gommern" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["jerichower-land"] topic_path: "general/jerichower-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gommern" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Stadt |
| image_photo | Gommernrathaus.jpg |
| image_caption | Town hall |
| image_coa | DE-ST 15-0-86-055 Gommern COA.svg |
| coordinates | |
| image_plan | Gommern in JL.png |
| state | Sachsen-Anhalt |
| district | Jerichower Land |
| elevation | 54 |
| area | 159.98 |
| postal_code | 39245 |
| area_code | 039200 |
| licence | JL |
| Gemeindeschlüssel | 15 0 86 055 |
| website | www.gommern.de |
| mayor | Jens Hünerbein |
| leader_term | 2019–26 |
| party | independent |
| :: |
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Gommern () is a town in the Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km southeast of Magdeburg. On January 1, 2005, the municipalities Dannigkow, Dornburg, Karith, Ladeburg, Leitzkau, Menz, Nedlitz, Vehlitz and Wahlitz have been incorporated into Gommern. On January 1, 2008, Prödel was incorporated, and on January 1, 2009, Lübs was incorporated.
Local council
Elections in October 2005: ::data[format=table]
| Party | Vote share |
|---|---|
| SPD | 33.7% |
| FDP | 24.0% |
| CDU | 23.5% |
| FWGL | 9.4% |
| The Left | 9.3% |
| :: |
Elections in May 2014: ::data[format=table]
| Party | Vote share | No. seats |
|---|---|---|
| CDU | 30.7% | 9 |
| FWGL | 24.8% | 7 |
| SPD | 18.5% | 5 |
| The Left | 11.1% | 3 |
| FDP | 6.7% | 2 |
| :: |
Dornburg
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Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, had a new castle built at Dornburg near Gommern from 1674, which he gave to his brother, John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg. It was inherited by the latter's second son, future Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. In 1747 he died and the castle burnt down in 1750. His widow, Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, governed the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst for her son Frederick Augustus until 1752. She had the new castle at Dornburg built as her thirds from 1750, a lavish baroque palace prepared to host her brother, Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, or her daughter Sophie Auguste Fredericka, who in 1743 had married the Russian crown prince Peter III, to become empress in 1762, better known as Catherine the Great. However, neither of them ever visited, and the dowager princess and her son were forced into exile when Prussian forces invaded Anhalt-Zerbst during the Seven Years' War in 1758. Frederick the Great, who had actually proposed the Russian marriage, accused the princess and her son to support Russia, then his war enemy. Johanna Elisabeth died in Paris in 1760 and her son, Frederick Augustus, never returned to Zerbst and continued to live in Basel and Luxemburg. Upon his death in 1793, the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst came to an end.
Nowadays the palace is in critical condition due to a lack of renovation. In 2018, it was sold to an investor from Berlin, who plans to use it as an academy. Gommernkirche.jpg|The Lutheran Church Gommern Herzjesu8.jpg|The Catholic Church
Personalities
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- Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), physician and founder of homeopathy, from 1782 to 1785 physics in the office Gommern
- Otto Theodor Alfred Hensel (1889-1966), honorary citizen, mayor of Gommern 1945-1955
References
References
- [https://wahlergebnisse.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/bmbm/index.html Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse], [[Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt]], accessed 8 July 2021.
- [https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Namens-Grenz-Aenderung/2005.html Gebietsänderungen vom 01.01. bis 31.12.2005], [[Statistisches Bundesamt]]
- [https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Namens-Grenz-Aenderung/2008.html Gebietsänderungen vom 01.01. bis 31.12.2008], [[Statistisches Bundesamt]]
- [https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Namens-Grenz-Aenderung/2009-inklusive-umstellung-januar.html Gebietsänderungen am 01.01.2009], [[Statistisches Bundesamt]]
- "Gesamtergebnis Stadtratswahl 2014 der Einheitsgemeinde Gommern".
- Christoph Richter. (12 July 2017). "Das ostdeutsche Versailles soll verkauft werden". Deutschlandfunk.
- (15 February 2018). "Schloss Dornburg wird nach Berlin verkauft".
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