Birkenwerder
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Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ N , 13 ° 17 ′ E |
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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 |
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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
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
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- Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
politics
Community representation
The municipal council consists of 18 members and the full-time mayor .
Party / group of voters | Share of votes | Seats |
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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 | 9.3% | 2 |
SPD | 9.2% | 2 |
Briesetal Association | 4.2% | 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
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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
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
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Birkenwerder community
- ↑ Otto Kuntzemüller: The monuments of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great , Bremen undated (1903), p. 325.
- ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Oberhavel district . Pp. 14-17
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
- ^ 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)
- ↑ § 27 of the Brandenburg municipal constitution. Retrieved June 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Municipality of Birkenwerder: Minutes of the const. Meeting ( June 18, 2019) of the Birkenwerder General Assembly after the municipal election in 2019. In: www.birkenwerder.de. Birkenwerder community, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Result of the 2019 local elections. Accessed July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ 100 years town hall Birkenwerder , Birkenwerder 2012, p. 30
- ↑ District Administrator suspends Hagen . In: Märkische Allgemeine , April 3, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2019
- ^ Citizens' decision on November 16, 2014. Accessed on November 18, 2014 .
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 10, 2015
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ^ Twin towns of Birkenwerder
- ↑ Brandenburg stage | Berlin – Copenhagen. Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
- ↑ From cultural life . In: Neues Deutschland , August 27, 1967, p. 8