Birkenwerder

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oberhavel
Height :	32 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.12 km 2
Residents:	8133 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	449 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16547
Area code :	03303
License plate :	OHV
Community key :	12 0 65 036
LOCODE :	DE 2BN
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 34 ; 16547 Birkenwerder
Website :	www.birkenwerder.de
Mayor :	Stephan Zimniok (BiF)
Location of the municipality of Birkenwerder in the Oberhavel district

Birkenwerder is a municipality in the Oberhavel district in the state of Brandenburg .

geography

Birkenwerder is located in the south of the district in the natural area of the Zehdenick-Spandauer Havelniederung . The northern border of the Berlin district Frohnau ( Reinickendorf district ) is just under three kilometers and the center of Berlin around 25 kilometers away. Birkenwerder borders on Hohen Neuendorf and is almost enclosed by its districts. In the east, the place borders on the municipality of Mühlenbecker Land and in the northeast on the district of Wensickendorf in the district town of Oranienburg . The town center is traversed by the Briese, which flows into the Havel on the western border of Birkenwerder .

Over half of Birkenwerder consists of forest. Birkenwerder has many forest and hiking trails, including along the Briese and Briesesees. In contrast to most of the district, there are almost no meadows and fields in Birkenwerder.

Birkenwerder's townscape is characterized by extensive residential areas with single-family houses and garden properties as well as by the Briese with its three lakes Boddensee, Briesesee and Mönchsee. The town center is determined by the town hall building, the Protestant church and Clara-Zetkin-Straße up to the station forecourt, which is bordered all around by the station, the post office and a hotel.

Community structure

The residential areas Birkenwerder Nord, Kolonie Briese and Lindenhof belong to Birkenwerder .

history

Old houses on the Werder

Birkenwerder was first mentioned by name in 1355. As early as the 12th century, however, there was a Slavic rampart at the mouth of the Bries, which was later expanded by German nobles . According to excavations in 2005, the first German settlement was built east of the castle, but it was soon abandoned in favor of the current town center. As a church and mill location, Birkenwerder was the most important place in the area. In 1840 the industrial development of the place began with the construction of brickworks . In 1877 Birkenwerder received its station on the Berlin Northern Railway and thus a rail connection to Berlin. A rapid transformation began from a farming village to a suburb of villas and an excursion destination in Berlin. The inauguration of a Kaiser Wilhelm I monument created by the Berlin sculptor Alexander Tondeur on June 16, 1892 on the market square in front of the town hall can also be interpreted as an “upgrade” of the townscape .

Most of the conversion was complete by the 1920s. From 1961 to 1990, because of its location in the railway network, Birkenwerder was also of great importance as a transfer station for rail travelers between the " Sputnik " trains and the S-Bahn trains coming from Oranienburg or Berlin .

It was only after 1990 that major construction work began again. In addition to a significant increase in the number of single-family houses, this also includes the connection to the sewer system, the expansion of the streets, the construction of commercial buildings opposite the town hall, an industrial area on the motorway, a residential area north of the federal motorway 10 and one in the direction of the Havelwiesen, modernization and expansion of both Schools, the hospital and the volunteer fire brigade , the construction of a sports field and a hardware store.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	951
1890	1167
1910	2318
1925	3387
1933	4993
1939	6648
1946	7023
1950	7148
1964	6967
1971	6911

year	Residents
1981	6325
1985	6122
1989	5602
1990	5510
1991	5422
1992	5377
1993	5370
1994	5423
1995	5417
1996	5491

year	Residents
1997	5721
1998	6055
1999	6290
2000	6518
2001	6632
2002	6800
2003	6961
2004	7108
2005	7219
2006	7360

year	Residents
2007	7492
2008	7650
2009	7774
2010	7819
2011	7748
2012	7827
2013	7833
2014	7881
2015	8019
2016	8017

year	Residents
2017	8096
2018	8134
2019	8133

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

politics

Community representation

Birkenwerder town hall

The municipal council consists of 18 members and the full-time mayor .

Party / group of voters	Share of votes	Seats
IOB / BiF Together for Birkenwerder	24.1%	4th
ProBirkenwerder	17.0%	3
CDU	12.6%	2
Alliance 90 / The Greens	12.0%	2
AfD	11.5%	2
The left	09.3%	2
SPD	09.2%	2
Briesetal Association	04.2%	1

After the election, the community representatives on the lists of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and Briesetalverein formed a parliamentary group. The community council is chaired by Katrin Gehring (CDU), and her deputies are Dorothea Trebs (IOB / BiF) and Doris Kaiser (Greens).

IOB-BiF = Local Development Initiative Birkenwerder Citizens in Focus

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019)

mayor

1945–1945: Ernst Schulze
1945–1946: Erich Hahn
1946–1951: Emil Tautenhahn
1951–1952: Alfred Engel
1952–1954: Friedrich Heilmann
1954–1955: Dagobert Mumot
1955–1958: Annemarie Kahl
1959–1972: Gertrud Marx

1972–1976: Ingeborg Möbes
1976–1979: Harry Theuer
1979–1981: Rolf Fugmann
1981–1990: Günter Lewinsohn
1990–2009: Kurt Vetter (independent)
2009–2014: Norbert Hagen (independent, with the support of the CDU)
2014–2015: Jens Kruse (independent), acting
since 2015: 00Stephan Zimniok (BiF)

Because of several corruption allegations , Norbert Hagen was temporarily suspended on April 3, 2014 by the district administrator of the Oberhavel district and finally voted out by a majority of citizens in a referendum on November 16, 2014. After the mayoral election on April 19, 2015 with seven candidates, the runoff election on May 10, 2015 decided with 60.9% of the valid votes for the 41-year-old police officer Stephan Zimniok. He was elected for an eight year term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 21, 1994. Blazon : "In silver with a blue corrugated shield base, a naturally colored birch tree growing out of a golden three-mountain."

Town twinning

Birkenwerder maintains city partnerships with the following cities:

since 1966: Villetaneuse ( France )
since 2012: Šumskas ( Lithuania )

Attractions

Clara Zetkin Memorial

Protestant church

In the list of architectural monuments in Birkenwerder and in the list of ground monuments in Birkenwerder, there are the architectural monuments and ground monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Brandenburg.

Clara Zetkin memorial with documentation exhibition in her former home at Summter Strasse 4
Memorial stone at the junction between Erich-Mühsam-Strasse and Brieseallee for Peter Raupach from 1962, which commemorates him and his fiancée who were shot in April 1945 for contact with forced laborers in the Heinkel factory near Leegebruch
Cenotaph for the victims of National Socialism in the center of Birkenwerder

At the northern edge of the town center, the Protestant church, one is Stüler building of yellow Birkenwerderaner clinkers the outskirts of 1849. Near toward Bergfelde is located since 1988 a monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Order . A monastery and a children's home were created here in 1920 through the conversion of a former restaurant . The monastery church is also used for the services of the Birkenwerder Catholics .

Economy and Infrastructure

Asklepios Clinic

Birkenwerder station reception building

The Asklepios Klinik Birkenwerder and the Gegenbauer group of companies are based in Birkenwerder .

traffic

The federal highways B 96 ( Berlin – AS Birkenwerder) and B 96a (Berlin – Birkenwerder) run through the town. The Birkenwerder junction is on the federal highway 10 (northern Berlin ring).

The Birkenwerder station is on the Berlin Northern Railway . It is served by the S-Bahn lines S1 and S8 as well as by the regional train line RB20 Oranienburg - Potsdam .

In the north of Birkenwerder, in the Lindenhof settlement, there is a bus stop on line 816 ( Borgsdorf - Velten ). There are no other public transport routes in Birkenwerder.

Birkenwerder is on the Berlin – Copenhagen long-distance cycle route and the Havel cycle route .

education

Pestalozzi Elementary School
Regine-Hildebrandt-Gesamtschule, comprehensive school with upper secondary level

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Henning Wolff (1929–2006), journalist and newspaper publisher
Jochen Zwecker (* 1936), politician ( SPD )
Hartmut Eichler (1937–2007), pop singer
Julia Axen (* 1937), pop singer
Friedrich von Senden (* 1942), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr

Personalities associated with Birkenwerder

Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), politician ( KPD ), lived in Birkenwerder from 1929–1932
Frida Winckelmann (1873–1943), educator, managed the rural education home in Birkenwerder
Paul Poser (1876–1940), architect of several buildings in Birkenwerder
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) poet, health resort from 1905 to 1906 in the sanatorium of Birkenwerder, today's Asklepios Clinic
Hans Brass (1885–1959), painter, lived in Birkenwerder from 1948 to 1950
Hans Bremer (1885–1959), painter, lived in Birkenwerder
Edmund Kesting (1892–1970), painter and photographer, lived in Birkenwerder from 1948–1970
Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969), politician ( DVP / LDPD ), President of the GDR People's Chamber , lived in Birkenwerder
Victor Aronstein (1896–1945), doctor in the Birkenwerder Park Sanatorium
Helge Rosvaenge (1897–1972), Danish tenor, spent his twilight years in Birkenwerder
Günter Kupetz (1925–2018), industrial designer, is buried in Birkenwerder
Karl Sturm (1935–2017), actor , lived in Birkenwerder
Friedrich Dieckmann (* 1937), writer, grew up in Birkenwerder
Josef Duchač (* 1938), first Thuringian Prime Minister after 1990, lives in Birkenwerder

literature

Roland Lampe: "Nevertheless, the house enchanted me ..." - On the trail of well-known and unknown authors in Oberhavel . Tredition Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7439-5033-7 .