Mountains (Prignitz)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Prignitz
Office :	Putlitz mountains
Height :	57 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.62 km 2
Residents:	754 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	19348
Area code :	038785
License plate :	PR
Community key :	12 0 70 028
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Parchimer Str. 5 19348 Berge
Mayoress :	Susanne Scherfke-Weber
Location of the municipality of Berge in the Prignitz district

Berge is a municipality in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg (Germany). She belongs to the Putlitz-Berge office based in the city of Putlitz .

geography

The community is located on the southern foothills of the Ruhner Mountains on the border with Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The Schlatbach rises at the eastern border of the municipality, flows south and flows into the Stepenitz at Perleberg .

Community structure

There are five inhabited parts of the municipality:

mountains
Border home
Kleeste
Muggerkuhl
Neuhausen

,

also the Simonshof residential area.

history

Groß Berge and Klein Berge have belonged to the Westprignitz district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 . They were merged in 1938 to form the Berge community. From 1952, Berge was in the Perleberg district in the GDR district of Schwerin . Since 1993 the community has belonged to the Brandenburg district of Prignitz.

In 1971 Neuhausen, 1972 Kleeste and 1973 Grenzheim were incorporated. On August 1, 1992, the districts of Pampin and Platschow moved to the municipality of Ziegendorf in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Population development

year Residents 1939 433 1946 707 1950 634 1964 595 1971 697 1981 1 203 1985 1 154 1989 1 090

year Residents 1990 1 081 1991 1 048 1992 1 021 1993 1 004 1994 1 017 1995 1 002 1996 998 1997 1 005 1998 992 1999 993

year Residents 2000 1 004 2001 969 2002 951 2003 947 2004 917 2005 899 2006 871 2007 856 2008 827 2009 807

year Residents 2010 793 2011 784 2012 767 2013 770 2014 760 2015 770 2016 771 2017 750 2018 758 2019 754

Territory of the respective year: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

Berge's municipal council consists of 10 municipal representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Voting community active citizens for the municipality of Berge	7th
Community of voters 93	2
Voting group of district farmers' association Prignitz	1

mayor

• 1998–2003: Bernd-Uwe Arndt
• 2003–2019: Werner Eckel
• since 2019: Susanne Scherfke-Weber

Scherfke-Weber was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 65.8% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

Former brickworks in the Muggerkuhl part of the municipality

In the list of architectural monuments in Berge (Prignitz) are the monuments registered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

The Neuhausen Castle is an attractive manor house in the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Berge lies on the national road L 10 according to Perleberg and L 104 to Putlitz .

The Berge (Prign) train station and the Neuhausen stop were on the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn , which was closed in 1975. On the Berge – Putlitz railway with the Berge (Prign) train station and the Grenzheim and Muggerkuhl stops , traffic ceased in 1968.

education

There is a day-care center and a primary school in the village.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Robert Günther (1874 – after 1932), politician ( DNVP )

literature

• Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 37 f .

Web links

Commons : Mountains  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Putlitz Mountains Office
• Neuhausen in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher on September 23, 2007
• Philipp Seibt: Dorf Berge in Prignitz: There is nothing to see here. In: Spiegel Online. January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Mountains community
3. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . P. 34
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . Pp. 14-17
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Prignitz ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 31
10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019