Raguhn-Jeßnitz

Raguhn-Jeßnitz
Town
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Raguhn-Jeßnitz within Anhalt-Bitterfeld district
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Coordinates: 51°40′N 12°4′E
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Anhalt-Bitterfeld
Government
• Mayor (2023–30)	Hannes Loth[1] (AfD)
Area
• Total	97.09 km^2 (37.49 sq mi)
Elevation	76 m (249 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	8,861
• Density	91/km^2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	06779, 06800
Dialling codes	034906, 03494
Vehicle registration	ABI
Website	www.raguhn-jessnitz.de

Raguhn-Jeßnitz is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Altjeßnitz, Jeßnitz, Marke, Raguhn, Retzau, Schierau, Thurland and Tornau vor der Heide.[3] These 8 former municipalities are now Ortschaften or municipal divisions of the town Raguhn-Jeßnitz.[4]

History

During World War II, Raguhn was the location of a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in which some 500 women and girls were imprisoned and subjected to forced labour.[5] The prisoners were almost exclusively Jewish, but there was also one non-Jewish American, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish woman each.[5]

Politics

The first round of the mayoral elections for the town were held on 18 June 2023 with the candidate from the far-right AfD Hannes Loth party receiving 40.7% of the vote, more than any other candidate. His main rival was the independent Nils Naumann who managed to get 36.9% of the vote.[6] Hannes Loth [de] won with 51.13% of the vote in a second run-off round on 2 July 2023 despite the fact that his party is under the surveillance of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.[7][8][9]

He became the first AfD mayor in Germany.[10][11][12]

References

1. Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse, Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
2. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
3. Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2010, Statistisches Bundesamt
4. Hauptsatzung der Stadt Raguhn-Jeßnitz, 21 August 2019.
5. "Raguhn". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2023.
6. "Bekanntmachung des Wahlergebnisses der Bürgermeisterwahl am 18.06.2023 und der zur Stichwahl zugelassenen Bewerber". www.raguhn-jessnitz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
7. "Sachsen-Anhalt: Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz stuft AfD als rechtsextremen Verdachtsfall ein". Der Spiegel (in German). 2021-01-25. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
8. "Stichwahl um das Amt des Bürgermeisters am 02.07.2023 - Vorläufige Wahlergebnisse". www.raguhn-jessnitz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
9. "Vorläufiges Ergebnis zur Stichwahl am 02.07.2023 um das Amt des Bürgermeisters der Stadt Raguhn-Jeßnitz" (PDF). www.raguhn-jessnitz.de. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
10. "Hannes Loth wird erster hauptamtlicher AfD-Bürgermeister in Deutschland". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
11. "Sachsen-Anhalt: Erster AfD-Bürgermeister Deutschlands in Raguhn-Jeßnitz gewählt". Der Spiegel (in German). 2023-07-02. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
12. "Sachsen-Anhalt - Deutschlandweit erster AfD-Bürgermeister in Raguhn-Jeßnitz". deutschlandfunk.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.