Borkheide

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Office :	Bridge
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.76 km 2
Residents:	2088 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	309 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14822
Area code :	033845
License plate :	PM
Community key :	12 0 69 052
Office administration address:	Ernst-Thälmann-Str. 59 14822 Brück
Website :	www.borkheide.de
Mayor :	Andreas Kreibich ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Borkheide in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district

Borkheide is a municipality in the center of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg and part of the Brück office .

geography

Borkheide is located between the towns of Beelitz and Bad Belzig in the Zauchegebiet , an ice age sander . Mainly pine trees grow on the sand, so the place is also known as a forest community. West of Borkheide is the Lehnin military training area of the Bundeswehr .

Community structure

Borkheide has no officially designated districts, inhabited parts of the municipality or places to live .

history

Origin of the community

Fliegerheim, 2009

The municipality of Borkheide is of a more recent origin than the nearby villages such as Alt-Bork , Neuendorf or Schäpe . It was not until 1898 that there were some residents with hunters and hunting tenants in the area of ​​the present municipality. The starting shot for the settlement was given with the construction of a train station on the Berlin-Wetzlar railway . In the same year, a forest tavern , today's Fliegerheim , was built. Together with the hunting lodge and the forester's house in Bork, these were the first permanent buildings in the village. Bork began to be interesting for real estate agents due to its quiet, wooded location . The businessman Poppenberg, a native of Niemegker , and Georg Rothgießer acquired large areas of the forest in order to market them. The two men are considered to be the founders of the small forest colony Bork.

1909-1945

In 1909 the aviation pioneer Hans Grade settled in Bork. In 1910 he built an aircraft factory in Bork and founded the first flight school in Germany. Both were in operation until 1914. 80 aircraft were built and around 130 flight students trained. On February 18, 1912, the first airmail transport in Germany took place here. The flight route led from Borkheide (then still Bork) to Brück. The provisions of the Versailles Treaty prohibited all aircraft construction activities in Germany after the First World War , so that many aircraft manufacturers switched to neighboring areas such as vehicle construction. In 1921, Grade founded the Grade Automobilwerke in Bork for the production of small cars. Up to 1000 cars were produced by 1924. Up to 800 workers were employed in Grades Automobile Plant. It went bankrupt in 1927 .

Since 1910, Bork has been a destination for many Berliners who want to see the planes and even fly with them. The first country houses and gardens were built around the train station and the Marsfeld. A workers' settlement was also established as a result of the settlement of the aircraft works.

In 1937, the filming of the film Target in the Clouds with Brigitte Horney took place here. The former airfield of the airframes was used for military purposes after 1933 and during the Second World War . From 1944, many residents of the nearby larger cities, especially Berlin , sought refuge from the air raids in Borkheide .

1945-1989

The post-war development was shaped by the fact that many former weekend houses fell into disrepair because the owners no longer came regularly. A large part of this was because many of the former owners had moved away from the destroyed city of Berlin. When the Wall was built on August 13, 1961, West Berliners were finally cut off access to their properties and weekend houses.

From the 1960s onwards, Borkheide was rediscovered as a resort by citizens from the chemical triangle Bitterfeld - Wolfen - Merseburg and Halle , who took over the unused properties and weekend houses to recover from the environmental pollution in their hometowns. Some larger companies from this region also operated their own recreational facilities and company holiday camps for children here.

Administrative history

Borkheide has belonged to the Zauch-Belzig district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since it was founded and from 1952 to the Belzig district in the GDR district of Potsdam . The community has been in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark since 1993 .

On January 1, 1937, the neighboring community of Alt Bork was incorporated into Bork. At the end of 1937 the villages in the surrounding area, which had a Slavic name, were renamed. At the same time, the Borkheide colony became Borkheide. On January 1, 1946, the district of Alt Bork became an independent municipality again.

Population development

year Residents 1939 828 1946 1520 1950 1382 1964 1232 1971 1227 1981 1107 1985 1104 1989 1077

year Residents 1990 1066 1991 1085 1992 1109 1993 1139 1994 1351 1995 1505 1996 1650 1997 1686 1998 1749 1999 1789

year Residents 2000 1819 2001 1833 2002 1826 2003 1824 2004 1883 2005 1873 2006 1865 2007 1875 2008 1879 2009 1878

year Residents 2010 1857 2011 1875 2012 1850 2013 1877 2014 1895 2015 1924 2016 1953 2017 2004 2018 2044 2019 2088

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

politics

Community representation

The community council of Borkheide consists of 12 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
SPD	5
Citizens List-Borkheide	4th
CDU	1
The left	1
Individual applicant Mario Janthur	1

mayor

• 1998–2014: Angelika Schulz
• since 2014: 0Andreas Kreibich (SPD)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Kreibich was elected unopposed with 85.6% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 12, 2000.

Blazon : "In green an oblique left silver propeller, accompanied above by a golden post horn and below by two golden mushrooms."

The propeller stands for the aircraft manufacturing tradition and the post horn for the first mail flight. The color green and the mushrooms refer to the community name.

Attractions

The list of architectural monuments in Borkheide and the list of ground monuments in Borkheide contain the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg.

museum

The Hans Grade Museum, which opened in 1990, is located on board an Ilyushin Il-18 on the former airfield. It shows an exhibition about the beginnings of powered flight in Germany. The plane landed here in 1989 on a grass runway that was only 800 meters long. Further aircraft can be seen outside.

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  Ilyushin Il-18

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  Kamow Ka-26 helicopter

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  Let Z-37

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  Let Z-37, front view

Monuments

In the village are the graves of Hans Grade and that of Arthur Dizier, one of 16 victims of war and tyranny, who was shot here in the forest by SS guards when he was trying to escape while a group of prisoners from Buchenwald was being transported .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Borkheide is on the B 246 federal road between Brück and Beelitz and the K 6917 district road to Borkwalde and Busendorf . The nearby Federal Motorway 9 (Berlin – Munich) can be reached via the Beelitz junction .

The Dessau - Berlin line , part of the Berlin-Wetzlar Railway, formerly known as the Kanonenbahn , runs through the municipality. Borkheide station is served by the regional express line RE 7 Dessau- Berlin-Wünsdorf-Waldstadt.

The European cycle route R1 , which connects the French Channel coast near Boulogne with St. Petersburg , leads through Borkheide .

Sports

The Borkheide forest pool , reopened in 2003, is an artificially created, chemical-free natural pool that replaced the old forest pool built in 1972, which was in great need of renovation and therefore closed in 1998. Since summer 2005, the pool has also had a slide for children and a 3-meter diving platform.

The sports field of the local sports club Borkheider SV 90 is not far from the forest pool.

societies

There is an active volunteer fire brigade with a youth group in the village . In addition, the forest pool in the village is managed by the Naturbad Borkheide e. V. operated. The DLRG local group Borkheide is active in the field of swimmer and lifeguard training and carries out medical security.

Personalities

• Hans Grade (1879–1946), aviation pioneer, lived in Borkheide

Web links

Commons : Borkheide  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Borkheide community
• History of the creation of the natural pool
• Borkheide in the RBB broadcast Landschleicher on February 28, 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. Borkheide community
3. ↑ www.borkheide.de: History of Borkheide , here online; accessed on January 30, 2019
4. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . 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 Potsdam-Mittelmark ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 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. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
13. ↑ Exposé on the coat of arms of the municipality of Borkheide, accessed on January 30, 2019.