The municipal area is situated on the northeastern slopes of the Fläming Heath, east of the Plane river. The surrounding region comprises farmland and extended forests adjoining the High Fläming Nature Park. The town centre is located about 10 km (6.2 mi) southeast of Bad Belzig, and 23 km (14 mi) north of Wittenberg.
The town has access to the Bundesautobahn 9 highway at the Niemegk junction.
During World War II, Niemegk was the location of a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for prisoners of various nationalities, especially Norwegians, but also Dutch, Poles (including kidnapped children, which were to be Germanized and adopted by German families), French, Czechs, Russians, Britons, Germans.[3] After the war, the town was part of East Germany.
Demography
Niemegk: Population development within the current boundaries (2013)[4]
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1875
2,647
—
1890
2,606
−0.10%
1910
2,789
+0.34%
1925
2,749
−0.10%
1933
2,780
+0.14%
1939
3,303
+2.91%
1946
3,819
+2.10%
1950
3,694
−0.83%
1964
3,148
−1.14%
1971
3,081
−0.31%
1981
2,714
−1.26%
1985
2,649
−0.60%
1989
2,594
−0.52%
1990
2,530
−2.47%
1991
2,428
−4.03%
1992
2,396
−1.32%
1993
2,382
−0.58%
1994
2,399
+0.71%
1995
2,408
+0.38%
1996
2,354
−2.24%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1997
2,341
−0.55%
1998
2,368
+1.15%
1999
2,377
+0.38%
2000
2,368
−0.38%
2001
2,350
−0.76%
2002
2,327
−0.98%
2003
2,330
+0.13%
2004
2,295
−1.50%
2005
2,262
−1.44%
2006
2,207
−2.43%
2007
2,208
+0.05%
2008
2,156
−2.36%
2009
2,100
−2.60%
2010
2,058
−2.00%
2011
2,034
−1.17%
2012
1,987
−2.31%
2013
1,999
+0.60%
2014
2,014
+0.75%
2015
2,006
−0.40%
2016
2,031
+1.25%
Politics
Seats in the town's assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2014 local elections:
^Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1331. ISBN978-0-253-35328-3.