the Stadion am Berg (“Stadium at the Mountain”), several sport halls, a zoo, two libraries, a vocational library and the youth centre. In 2000, a skatepark was built at the youth centre, which in 2005 was expanded with a funbox, a quarter pipe, a ramp and an obstacle. Notable residents Sons and daughters of the town Juana Bormann (1893–1945), German SS Nazi concentration camp prison guard executed for war crimes Heiner Flassbeck (1950–), German economist, State Secretary (ret.), UNCTAD senior economist Matthias Henn (1985–), German footballer Lorielle London (1983–), entertainer, became well known from participation in the television programmes Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the latter a German version of the British programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Otto Pick (1882–1945), German Democratic Party Member of the Reichstag (Nazi Germany) August Rippel-Baldes (1888–1970), founder of microbiology Eugenia von Skene (1906–?), Kapo at Ravensbrück concentration camp Christian Warth (1836–1890), modeller and draughtsman, known for the figure “Trauernde” (“Mourning Woman”) made by Villeroy & Boch on a make-to-stock basis, which can be found in many graveyards Notable people associated with the town Ludwig Friedrich Schmidt (1764–1857), clergyman in Birkenfeld, later cabinet preacher to Queen Caroline of Bavaria and the first Evangelical clergyman in Munich, said to be the father of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Many well known people went to school in Birkenfeld: Friedrich Cassebohm (1872–1951), jurist and politician, among other things Minister-President of the Free State of Oldenburg Reinhard Goering (1887–1936), writer, Kleist Prize (1930) John Henry Mackay (1864–1933), Scottish-German writer Gerhard Storm (1888–1942) died at Dachau, martyr in the Catholic Church Klaus Rüter (b. 1940 in Berlin), German jurist, administrative official and politician (SPD). Nicole (1964–), singer and winner at the Eurovision Song Contest with “Ein bißchen Frieden” Further reading Heyen, Franz-Josef und Zimmer, Theresia, „Wappenbuch des Landkreises Birkenfeld“, herausgegeben vom Landkreis Birkenfeld und der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Band 6, Selbstverlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 1966 Brucker, Heinrich, „Birkenfelder Land Erinnerungen“, Geiger-Verlag, Birkenfeld 1990 Dr. Klar, Hugo, „Aufsätze zur Heimatkunde des Landkreises Birkenfeld“, Band II, Sonderheft 24, Hrsg. Verein für Heimatkunde im Landkreis Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld 1974 External links Birkenfeld - official web site References Birkenfeld (district) Naheland Grand Duchy of Oldenburg