Basdorf (Wandlitz)

Basdorf municipality Wandlitz
Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	59  (58-69)  m above sea level NN
Area :	13.35 km²
Residents :	5832  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	437 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	16348
Area code :	033397
Location of Basdorf in Brandenburg

Basdorf is part of the Wandlitz community . The municipality belongs to the district of Barnim in the state of Brandenburg . Until 2003 Basdorf was an independent municipality within the Wandlitz office .

geography

Geographical location

Basdorf is located on the western part of the Barnim plateau, the Niederbarnim . The height above mean sea ​​level decreases slightly from south to north. The highest point at 69.3 meters above sea level is on the southwestern border with the municipality of Mühlenbecker Land in the Oberhavel district . At 52.5 meters above sea level, the north-western border ditch to the Zühlsdorf settlement of Fuchswinkel, which also belongs to the Mühlenbecker Land, is the lowest point in the village. The height of the old town center by the church is 58 meters, that of the new center on the market 64 meters above sea level.

Neighboring places

The old center of Basdorf with the village church is located on the Chaussee in the direction of Prenzlau, about 8.5 km north of the Berlin city limits, directly on the Bundesstraße 109 . The train station of the regional train line RB 27, also called Heidekrautbahn , is about one kilometer south of the church in the direction of Berlin . Adjacent communities are in the northeast the city of Bernau with the district Waldsiedlung , in the west the community Mühlenbecker Land with the district Zühlsdorf . The northern boundary of the district of Wandlitz in the large community of Wandlitz is about 400 meters behind the Basdorf cemetery on the B 109. The street development of the two districts merges here. To the south-east and south, the road Waldkorso and the Rennegestell form the border between the districts of Basdorf and Schönwalde .

Natural space

The old village by the church is surrounded by meadows and agricultural areas. The history of the settlement meant that new settlements were built to the south in the forest of the Bernauer Heide. The newer districts are all surrounded by forest. Ditches run through the meadows around the historic town center like a network and drain into the Tegeler Fließ, which rises northeast of Basdorf . This flows south of the old village in a south-westerly direction and leaves the Basdorf area at Dammsmühle .

History and settlement structure

Village church on the Anger

history

The name Basdorf originated from "Bartoldisdorp", which was first mentioned in 1302. Initially, the village was under the jurisdiction of Biesenthal Castle , in 1475 it was bought by the Lehnin Monastery , where it remained until 1542. Through the Reformation Basdorf came to the Mühlenbeck office . At that time there were 13  Kossäts and 8  Hüfner registered in the inheritance register. The historical anger around the village church shaped the place as a typical anger village .

Basdorf belonged as an independent municipality to the Bernau district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 to 1990 and then to 1993 in the state of Brandenburg . The administrative tasks were performed from July 1, 1992 by the Wandlitz office within the Barnim district . With the conversion of the office to the municipality of Wandlitz by state law on October 26, 2003, the place Basdorf lost its independence. The former community has since been part of the large community of Wandlitz. On June 16, 2005, a constitutional complaint by all municipalities belonging to the office against the municipal reorganization before the constitutional court of the state of Brandenburg was rejected.

Residential areas

Historic center of Basdorf

One residential area in Basdorf is the forest settlement, also known as the “milk settlement”. This name goes back to the initiator of the settlement, Field Marshal General of the Air Force of the Wehrmacht, Erhard Milch . There are double houses made of wood that belonged to Brandenburgische Motorenwerke GmbH (Bramo - from 1939 BMW-Flugmotorenwerke Brandenburg GmbH) and were built between 1930 and 1940. Aircraft engines and the BMW 003 jet turbine were built for the Air Force in the Bramo works .

Former barracks area

Former police barracks

At the southern entrance of Basdorf there is a barracks area from the time of National Socialism (barracks). From 1939 the barracks served as a forced labor camp. One of the workers housed there as part of the Service du travail obligatoire (STO) was the French poet and later chansonnier Georges Brassens , who was employed by Zühmo in Zühlsdorf in 1943/1944 , a subsidiary of Bramo. In the camp he composed his first 30 chansons. In his honor, the Brassens-in-Basdorf e. V. founded.

After the Second World War , the barracked People's Police were initially housed in the buildings , from which later the People's Police standby emerged . In the 1960s, new large-panel buildings expanded the barracks to accommodate a larger number of People's Police, because since 1962 conscripts were also used in the police force. This entailed extensive infrastructure changes ( road construction , polytechnic high school and new residential areas such as Heinrich-Heine-Ring). In addition, the MDI's intelligence service moved into some parts of the building in the 1970s .

After the GDR People's Police and all other units on the site were dissolved in the spring of 1990, the complex was used by the Brandenburg Police College ( Landespolizeischule ) until September 2006 , which then moved to Oranienburg .

New start as the settlement area of Basdorf Gardens

For the now vacant facilities, the municipality passed development plans for various settlement areas such as Rosenstrasse or In den Grund, with the development started in 2009. In 2017, instead of the now demolished prefabricated buildings, preparatory work for the Basdorf Gardens residential project began .

In September 2018, the municipal council decided to expand the previously approved project to the effect that 120 social housing units will also be built in terraced and multi-family houses. The planning was carried out by Tchoban Voss Architekten GmbH , represented by the architect Johannes Beese . The municipality has entrusted the execution to an external investor following a tender process: the Stonehedge investment company received the contract. This divides the work into several construction fields, the first construction field 6 will be realized in 2019, for which around 7.5 million euros will be invested with a municipal contribution of 2.2 million euros and a subsidy from the State of Brandenburg of 1 million euros. Construction site 6 comprises 160 residential units of various types. In addition to the actual residential buildings, car-free courtyard situations, tenant and community gardens are planned. The municipality will acquire 40 apartments from the client and market them itself. The Basdorf mayor said he was impressed by the development: "A completely new center is being built on a historically burdened area".

Population development

1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2018
2 978	2,936	3 314	3,528	4080	4,521	4,597	4,657	4 688	4,960	4 919	5 090	5 272	5 181	5 246	5 303	5 292	5 375	5 423	5 832

politics

Local advisory board

Basdorf local advisory board

Party / group of voters	Share of votes (percent)	Seats
Free community of Wandlitz	19.8	2
CDU	18.6	2
AfD	18.5	2
The left	14.9	1
BVB / FREE VOTERS Wandlitz	09.7	1
Alliance 90 / The Greens	08.8	1

The Basdorf local advisory council consists of nine members. The last elections took place on May 26, 2019, with a turnout of 60.0 percent.

The local advisory board has an advisory function for the local council of Wandlitz with regard to the decisions of the committee that affect the Basdorf district. Some of the representatives of the local council are also community representatives.

Mayor

Until Basdorf was incorporated into the large community of Wandlitz in 2003, the town was headed by an elected mayor. For districts of a municipality in Brandenburg, the function of a district mayor was created, who is the contact person for all district problems in the larger community. Since the local elections in 2008, this office has been called mayor .

The local council elects the mayor from among its members. Peter Liebehenschel (Freie Bürgergemeinschaft Wandlitz) took over this function for Basdorf on October 13, 2008, and was confirmed in his office in the 2014 and 2019 elections.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shown here was the official local coat of arms of the municipality of Basdorf, which was dissolved in 2003, and was designed by heraldist Frank Diemar . Since the formation of the large community of Wandlitz, it has continued to be used for advertising purposes or by associations in the district.

Local partnerships

The former independent place signed a town partnership with the municipality of Vöhl in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district on October 3, 1990 . One reason for this contract is the fact that a part of the municipality of Vöhl is also called Basdorf. For years there have been good contacts between the citizens and associations of both communities. As a result of the new affiliation to Wandlitz, the individual districts have now been included in its contracts. The Basdorf residents are involved in the collaboration with Trzebiatów in Poland , La Ferrière in France and Gladbeck in North Rhine-Westphalia . A request to the municipal council about the status of the partnership with Vöhl has not yet been answered (as of August 2014).

In April 2013, the Basdorf district and the French municipality of Ballainvilliers signed a partnership agreement.

A committee for city partnerships has been set up in the municipal administration for all town and community partnerships .

Sights and culture

Architectural and ground monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Basdorf

The Brandenburg list of monuments contains four Basdorf buildings or facilities as architectural monuments .

• The most famous of these is the Protestant village church . The church building dates from the 15th century and is the second at this point. The building is a hall church with net vaults , a carved pulpit and a sacrament niche. The wooden tower was put on in the 18th century. In front of the church there is a memorial for those who died in the First World War with the inscription "THIS STONE IS A WITNESS OF YOUR FATHERS NEED - 19 OF THE OUR SANK INTO DEATH". The church building had to be scaffolded at short notice in 2010 because construction experts had discovered during an inspection that parts of the supporting timber inside the tower had been eaten away by the larvae of the house buck . The tower urgently needed to be renovated so that the top was lifted off with a special crane. Carpenters and bricklayers replaced the timber; The work was finished in autumn. At almost the same time, such repairs were carried out on the village church in the Wandlitz district . On this occasion, conservationists had a spacious nest box set up in the attic, which was intended for a barn owl family. But the accommodation was occupied by a pair of kestrels , which have raised several young birds here every year since then. For this active nature protection, NABU has awarded the church the rating of the church tower as a living space . In 2014, the conservation workers observed a clutch of 6 young birds. The nest is monitored and looked after by the Berlin wildlife station.
• The former Hubertus cinema is also one of the architectural monuments . The historical lettering was removed in the late 1990s and has not been used as a cinema since then. For a few years there were dealers as tenants in the entrance area.

museum

→ Main article : Heather Railway Museum

In the railway depot, there has been the Berliner Eisenbahnfreunde e. V. established and operated Heidekrautbahn-Museum Basdorf .

Regular events and festivals

• A tourist attraction is the annual fair with the largest Easter bonfire in Brandenburg, which, together with a final fireworks display, is also very popular from nearby Berlin (sometimes up to 10,000 spectators).
• The Brassens Festival has been held every year in mid-September since 2004 . It brings together artists from France and Germany in order to make the chansons of Georges Brassens and his contemporaries and friends better known to a German audience. These include Jacques Brel , Charles Trenet , Barbara , Charles Aznavour , Edith Piaf , Gilbert Bécaud and others. This festival is organized by the Brassens in Basdorf e. V., Les amis des amis de Brassens , which was founded on March 7, 2004. Georges Brassens is still revered by young people in France. He worked as a slave laborer in Basdorf until he did not return from home leave and went into hiding in Paris. He wrote his first chansons in Basdorf. His friends who were still alive at the time visit the Brassens Festival or take part in it. The festival takes place in the Brassens library, in the railway museum and in various cultural sites in Berlin in French and German.
• On June 21, 2008, the Wandlitz Open started in the Basdorf district as a further sport and game offer in the community, which has been held annually since then and includes all districts of the greater Wandlitz community. The event is based on the previously successfully conducted sports comparisons Offenes Basdorfer Sportfest . Young people from Basdorf, Wandlitz, Schönwalde, Klosterfelde and Eberswalde already took part in the premiere event. The performances and competitions offered a great variety: music and dance, athletics, volleyball, demonstrations by the volunteer fire brigade, girls' football and much more.
• On the new market square in Basdorf the adjoining traders organized in 2005 under the name crest festival a colorful playground and amusement program for guests and residents. In September 2008 the second coat of arms festival took place. The Basdorf local advisory board, the Basdorf advertising community, numerous cultural and sports clubs and music groups offered a colorful and varied program for visitors.
• In the past, Christmas markets were held sporadically in Basdorf. In 2008, the Basdorf e. V. in the new town center, as the new market square is now called, a Christmas market on the first weekend in Advent, which was well received. It has become a tradition.

Sports and cultural associations

• The Police Sports Association (PSV) Basdorf was founded in the district in the 1980s. Various sports are offered there for children, young people (U 21), people between 22 and 60 years of age, as well as for seniors: Budo , gymnastics , ju-jutsu , karate , kickboxing , athletics , volleyball .
• There is also the Basdorf Football Sports Club, the Basdorfer Schützenverein and an equestrian group .
• The non-profit association Brassens-in-Basdorf e. V. organizes the annual Brassens Festival .
• In December 2013, the Wandlitz volunteer agency was founded, which coordinates all previous volunteers even better with the requirements. In addition, a relaxed exchange of experiences should contribute to better acceptance. For the time being, the association is using the premises of the local Montessori school.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Bundesstrasse 109 , which was laid out in the 19th century as a stagecoach connection between Berlin and Prenzlau , runs through Basdorf .

Basdorf is a station of the regional train  27 ( Heidekrautbahn ), which runs between Berlin-Karow (connection to the S-Bahn Berlin ) and Groß Schönebeck or Wensickendorf . In 1924 the Reinickendorf-Liebenwalder-Groß-Schönebecker Eisenbahn AG set up a workshop in Basdorf, and in 1935 a railcar hall was added. In Basdorf, coal and water were refilled until steam operations were abolished on this railway line (around the mid-1960s), and the place was also a loading station for goods transports . The extensive premises with the workshops and engine sheds still bear witness to the old railway times and are used by the Heidekrautbahnmuseum .

The mid-1960s was at kilometer built a platform of leading 1.8 of Basdorf to Gross Schoenebeck Streckenastes the Heidekrautbahn. This served as an option for the chairman of the GDR State Council, Walter Ulbricht, to get on and off to the GDR political prominence settlement, which is easily accessible from here . The train was made available at Basdorf station and pushed to the platform for getting on and off. The railway facilities belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn between 1950 and 1990 . In 1998 the route network of the Heidekrautbahn went back into the ownership of Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG (NEB), which is based in Basdorf. In December 2005, driving operations were taken over by NEB Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of NEB.

Infrastructure

New center of Basdorf

Until about 1991 there was the Hubertus cinema in the village, which was no longer used after that, but is a listed building. Basdorf has a gas station. There are general practitioners, dentists, lawyers, there is trade in flowers and plants, the Basdorf volunteer fire brigade , a public library, various supermarkets, a pharmacy, a sports hall with a sports field, a hotel, holiday apartments and guest houses, a nursing home, a post office and a bowling facility. A modern town center, which was named Marktplatz Basdorf, was built where most of the commercial agencies are located.

On the outskirts of Basdorf, a new industrial area Am Sandweg was established with car dealerships, workshops, craft businesses, a recycling center and other trades.

education

In Basdorf there is a secondary school with an attached elementary school.

Personalities

• Rudolf Jäger (1907–1974), trade unionist, died in Basdorf
• Georges Brassens (1921–1981), French poet and chansonnier, spent a year in Basdorf as a slave labor
• Jan Jansen (* 1945), Dutch cyclist, born in Basdorf
• Uwe Liebehenschel (* 1971), local politician (CDU)

literature

• Basdorf - Klosterfelde - Lanke - Prenden - Schönwalde - Stolzenhagen - Wandlitz - Zühlsdorf - an information booklet of the former tourist association Märkische Seenlandschaft Wandlitz eV, approx. 1992
• On the Heidekrautbahn - vehicle catalog (and small chronicle), published by Berliner Eisenbahnfreunde eV, Berlin 1998
• Astrid Schaefer: Basdorf - walk through the history of a Barnim village , chronicle of the place 2008, self-published
• Volkmar Gäbler: Wanderführer Wandlitzsee - Liepnitzsee , Tourist Verlag / Verlag Kümmerly + Frey, 1993/94, pp. 16–18: Description of the location Basdorf , ISBN 3-350-00836-4

Web links

Commons : Basdorf (Barnim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Basdorf on the website of the municipality of Wandlitz
• Website with commented photos from Basdorf
• Chronicle of Basdorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Astrid Schaefer: Basdorf - Walk through the history of a Barnim village , chronicle of the place 2008
2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
3. ↑ ^{a b} Heidekrautjournal , April-May 2019 edition, p. 13, readers' letters on a publication in the Wandlitz magazine in a nutshell .
4. ^ Annual report 2008 of the Wandlitz community , p. 13 ff.
5. ↑ Wandlitz builds . Re-use of the Basdorf Police School started . In: Heidekraut Journal No. 69, December 2016, p. 8.
6. ^ Official Journal for the municipality of Wandlitz , vol. 15, edition 1/2019, p. 15: New housing project Basdorf Gardens .
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Development of the number of inhabitants in the districts of the municipality of Wandlitz (PDF file) and 'Wandlitz. Facts and Figures 2008 '
8. ↑ Population on December 31, 2018
9. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
10. ^ Website of the municipality of Voehl
11. ^ Official Journal of the Wandlitz community, May 2013 edition, page 34 , accessed on August 21, 2013
12. ↑ Flyer: Around the church tower of the Protestant churches Basdorf - Wandlitz - Zühlsdorf: Church under renovation , June / July 2010
13. ↑ SEX on the church tower . In: Heidekraut Journal , August / September 2014, page 11.
14. ↑ Official Gazette for the Wandlitz community from July 26, 2008, p. 14: News from the youth coordination - 'Wandlitz Open', premiere for the sports and games event for the entire community
15. ↑ Official Gazette for the community of Wandlitz from July 26, 2008, page 35: Wappenfest in Basdorf - Werbegemeinschaft Basdorf e. V.
16. ↑ Christmas market in the new town center , in: Wandlitz - Citizen and Visitor Information 008/2209 (10. A.), p. 22
17. ↑ PSV Basdorf website , accessed on September 2, 2014
18. ^ Website of the Basdorf football club , accessed on September 2, 2014
19. ^ Address equestrian club Wandlitz
20. ^ Address Schützenverein Basdorf
21. ↑ Volunteering with a system! In: Wandlitz compact , 16th edition, 2014, pages 26/27.
22. ↑ Klaus Bossig: East German leaders on trips. Rail, road, air and water vehicles for state trips by the GDR leadership . Freiburg 2010. ISBN 978-388255-734-3 , p. 165.