Köpenick district

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Coat of arms of the former Köpenick district 1992–2000
Coat of arms of Berlin
Köpenick
district 1920–2000 district of Berlin
Location of the former Köpenick district in Berlin
Coordinates 52 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  E.
surface 127.76 km²
Residents 116,404 (Dec. 31, 2000)
Population density 911 inhabitants / km²
Serial number 16

The Köpenick district (until 1990 Köpenick district ) is a former Berlin district . It was founded on October 1st, 1920 as part of the Greater Berlin Act . On January 1, 2001, it was merged with its neighboring district to form the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin. The district comprised the current districts of Oberschöneweide , Grünau , Schmöckwitz , Müggelheim , Rahnsdorf , Friedrichshagen and the eponymous district of Köpenick .

geography

The eponymous formerly independent town of Köpenick is located at the confluence of the Dahme into the Spree . The Spree connects today's district of Köpenick with the Müggelsee . Shortly before the confluence of the Spree and Dahme, the castle island with the Köpenick Castle, which was renovated in 2004, is located in the Dahme .

The Köpenick district bordered the Berlin districts Treptow , Lichtenberg , Marzahn and Hellersdorf in the north and west and the Märkisch-Oderland , Oder-Spree and Dahme-Spreewald districts of Brandenburg in the east and south .

history

Already at the time of the Slavs , who gave the city its name with Copnic (island town), there were castles at the confluence of the Dahme and Spree rivers . It was first mentioned in documents under the name Copenic in 1209 . As the main castle and main settlement of the Slavic tribe of the Sprewanen under their prince Jaxa von Köpenick , it became the settlement center of the Köpenick area.

Town hall Köpenick

In the course of industrialization in the 19th century, the population of the city of Köpenick grew to 32,586 inhabitants by 1919. The city of Köpenick became known in particular through the shoemaker Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, who became known as " Captain von Köpenick " through a bold prank in 1906 .

On October 1, 1920, as part of the formation of Greater Berlin, the 16th administrative district of Berlin was formed from the following communities and manor districts :

The new district had 56,910 inhabitants in 1920. Since January 1, 1931, Köpenick has been spelled with "K".

In June 1933, Köpenick was the scene of the Köpenick Blood Week under the National Socialist regime . When the district boundaries were changed in 1938, Bohnsdorf came to the Treptow district, while the Wuhlheide and Oberschöneweide came from the Treptow district to the Köpenick district. The population of the district increased by 23,119 due to the border changes and the area of ​​the district increased by 339  hectares .

At the end of World War II , the Köpenick district was taken by Soviet forces on April 23, 1945 . The district then became part of the Soviet Sector of Berlin and thus belonged to East Berlin until 1990 .

With 12,776 hectares , that is 14.3 percent of the area of ​​Berlin, the Köpenick district was the largest of all Berlin districts. With its recently around 116,000 inhabitants, 3.3% of Berlin's population, the Köpenick district was the most sparsely populated. In 2001 the district with the Treptow district became the new Treptow-Köpenick district . united.

See also Berlin-Köpenick , with details on the history of the city of Köpenick.

Population development

year Residents
1920 56,910
1925 65,754
1933 88,517
1939 120,446
1946 113.851
1950 119.083
1961 119,795
1970 128,781
1987 116,218
2000 116,404

politics

Elections to the district assembly

Share of votes of the parties in percent:

1921-1933

year SPD DVP DNVP USPD KPD DDP 1) Zen NSDAP
1921 24.9 18.4 17.4 14.6 12.8 05.6 02.3
1925 30.2 05.7 19.4 20.8 05.4 02.2 02.6
1929 26.8 05.8 16.4 24.7 03.9 02.6 06.3
1933 19.7 13.1 18.5 01.4 03.0 42.4
1)1933 DStP

1946

year SPD SED CDU LDP
1946 37.9 29.2 22.8 10.1

1992-1999

year SPD PDS CDU FDP Green
1992 38.0 23.2 15.2 04.0 12.4
1995 32.2 29.9 22.8 01.1 08.5
1999 30.3 33.5 26.0 04.1

District Mayor

Source: Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

Period Surname Political party
1904-1918 Georg Langerhans German Progressive Party
1918-1921 Ludwig Behnke SPD
From 1921 district mayor
1921 Martin Franz independent
1921-1923 Unknown
1923-1929 Robert Kohl SPD
1929-1933 Martin Franz independent
1933-1945 Karl Mathow NSDAP
1945-1946 Gustav Kleine KPD , then SED
1946-1948 Fritz Bessen SPD
1948-1951 Gustav Kleine SED
1951-1961 Fritz Schiller SED
1961-1967 Herbert Fechner SED
1967-1989 Horst Stranz SED
1989-1990 Wilfried Engel SED
1990-1992 Monika Höppner SPD
1992-2000 Klaus Ulbricht SPD
From 2001 district mayor in the Treptow-Köpenick district
2001-2006 Klaus Ulbricht SPD
2006-2011 Gabriele Schöttler SPD
2011 Oliver Hedgehog SPD

statistics

  • Around 75 percent of the area of ​​the district consisted of forests , meadows and bodies of water .
  • Forest area: 6623 hectares (about half of the territory)
  • Water surface: 2165 hectares (a good sixth of the territory)
  • Hiking trails : 320 km
  • Waterways : 65 km

Districts

In the Friedrichshagen district

During the administrative reform in 2001, the Köpenick district and all of its districts became part of the new Treptow-Köpenick district.

Köpenick district → 09
Oberschöneweide → 0909   Oberschöneweide
Wuhlheide
Koepenick → 0910 Koepenick
Spindlersfeld + Köllnische suburb
Reversible lock
Kietzer field
Allendeviertel
Old town Köpenick
Dammvorstadt + Dammfeld
Uhlenhorst + Wolfsgarten + Elsengrund
Friedrichshagen → 0911 Friedrichshagen
Deer garden
Rahnsdorf → 0912 Rahnsdorf
Rahnsdorfer mill
Hessenwinkel
Wilhelmshagen
New Venice
Grünau → 0913 Grünau
Müggelheim → 0914 Müggelheim
Ludwigshöhe
Schönhorst settlement
Müggelhort settlement
Schmoeckwitz → 0915 Schmoeckwitz
Karolinenhof
Schmöckwitz settlement
Schmöckwitzwerder
Chimney

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedrich Leyden: Greater Berlin. Geography of the cosmopolitan city . Hirt, Breslau 1933 (therein: Development of the population in the historic districts of Old Berlin , p. 206)
  2. ↑ Berlin in Numbers , 1949
  3. ^ Statistical yearbooks of Berlin
  4. ↑ Maria Curter: Berlin's district mayor . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 126 ( luise-berlin.de ).