Overview
As of 2004, its population is 10,968 and the mayor is Michael Oecknigk of the Christian Democratic Union.
Herzberg (Elster) is twinned with the following cities:
- Büdingen, Hesse
- Swiebodzin, Poland
- Dixon, United States of America
- Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia
From 1939 to 1945 there was the Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster, a huge longwave transmitter, whose mast was the second tallest construction in the world, at Herzberg/Elster. The basement of the mast is still there.
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