Britz (near Eberswalde)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ' N , 13 ° 48' E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Barnim | |
| Office : | Britz-Chorin-Oderberg | |
| Height : | 55 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 15.5 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2088 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 135 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 16230 | |
| Area code : | 03334 | |
| License plate : | BAR, BER, EW | |
| Community key : | 12 0 60 036 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Eisenwerkstrasse 11 16230 Britz |
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| Mayor : | André Guse | |
| Location of the municipality of Britz in the district of Barnim | ||
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Britz is an official municipality in the Barnim district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Britz-Chorin-Oderberg Office, which is based in Britz.
geography
The community is located five kilometers north of Eberswalde .
Community structure
The community includes the residential areas Ferdinandsfelde, Forsthaus, Grenzhäuser and Britz Colony.
history
The place name is derived from the Slavic word for birch breza . The existence of a Slavic settlement at this point has not yet been proven archaeologically. Britz, a rural village owned by the margraves, was first mentioned in a document dated September 2nd, 1258 in the deed of foundation for the Cistercian monastery Mariensee on the Pehlitzwerder in the Parsteiner See . Remains of the Romanesque church built at that time have been preserved. In 1277 the village, which had 53 Hufen at that time, was donated to the Chorin monastery by the margrave . After Elector Joachim II converted to Protestantism, the property of the monastery was confiscated in 1543 and administered or leased by a domain office. From 1555 there was a manor in the village.
In the Thirty Years' War also Britz was severely affected. In 1639 it was looted and devastated by Swedish troops under General Banér . Due to the depopulation of the village, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm appointed Dutch colonists in 1650. Nevertheless, there were only six farmers on 21 Hufen in Britz in 1687. After the Edict of Potsdam , French Huguenots also came to the village in the 1790s.
In 1838 the Chorin domain office was dissolved. Britz became an independent community. When the Berlin-Szczecin Railway was built in 1840–41 , it touched the Britz municipal area, but no stopping point was created here. The Eberswalde – Joachimsthal road leading past Britz was built in the middle of the century. In 1873 the so-called “Kaisergleis” was set up in the vicinity of the village, on which the imperial saloon car was parked when Wilhelm I visited his hunting ground in the Schorfheide . When passenger trains also stopped on a trial basis from 1875, the first houses between Britz and the railway line were built in 1876. This is how the Britz-Kolonie district came into being.
The connection to the rail network promoted economic development. In 1901, the Eberswalde radiator factory built an iron foundry in Britz-Kolonie, which was converted into Britzer Eisenwerk GmbH in 1912 . The ironworks was the largest employer in town. In 1945 550 employees worked here, including numerous prisoners of war from the Britz forest camp. On April 26, 1945 Britz was occupied by the Red Army .
Britz belonged to the Angermünde district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Eberswalde district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . The community has been located in the Brandenburg district of Barnim since 1993. In the course of the formation of offices in the state of Brandenburg, Britz merged with seven other municipalities to form the Office Britz-Chorin, to which two further municipalities were assigned by the Ministry of the Interior. On January 1, 2009, the neighboring Oderberg office was dissolved and the Britz-Chorin office was assigned to four other communities. At the same time, the office was renamed to Amt Britz-Chorin-Oderberg . The office is based in Britz.
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 community council consists of 12 community representatives and the honorary mayor.
| Voter group | Seats |
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| Britz independent voter community | 10 |
| Single applicant Sven Krumbach | 1 |
| Single applicant Christin Ahl | 1 |
(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )
mayor
- 1991-2001: Werner Ahl
- since 2001: André Guse (Britz Independent Voting Association)
In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Guse was elected unopposed with 79.9% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on August 24, 2005.
Blazon : "In green on a golden ground, two entwined golden birch saplings, covered at the bottom by two floating, diagonally crossed silver scythes."
Attractions
The list of architectural monuments in Britz and the list of ground monuments in Britz include the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Brandenburg.
Buildings
Today's Protestant village church in Britz dates from the 13th century and is therefore one of the oldest churches in Barnim . It was consecrated between 1263 and 1274 by Bishop Heinrich von Ostheeren. In the years 1895–96 it was rebuilt in a new baroque style. The current half-timbered church tower dates from 1768. It carries a so-called lantern as a roof attachment . The church has an organ by Johann Simon Buchholz from around 1825.
Natural monuments
See list of natural monuments in Britz (near Eberswalde)
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The Viennese known as Eberswalder Wurstchen are produced in the EEC Eberswalder Wurst in Britz. Founded in 1975/76 as Europe's most modern slaughter and processing combine Eberswalde (SVKE) on 65 hectares, it was one of the largest operations of its kind. In 2013 the company had an annual turnover of 110 million euros.
The Britzer iron foundry closed after almost 100 years of existence in July 2000.
traffic
Britz is on the L 23 state road between Joachimsthal and Eberswalde. The closest motorway junction is Chorin on the Berlin– Stettin .
Since February 1875 Britz has had a station on the Berlin-Szczecin Railway . There the railway branches off to Joachimsthal . Stop every hour at Britz train station
- the regional express Stralsund / Schwedt (Oder) - Berlin - Falkenberg (Elster) / Lutherstadt Wittenberg of the DB Regio AG (lineRE 3of the VBB )
- the regional train Eberswalde - Templin of the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) (lineRB 63 of the VBB).
education and Science
Britz has had a school since the mid-19th century. Today's Max Kienitz elementary school is located in the Kolonie district in a school building that was built between 1961 and 1963. The then Polytechnic Oberschule had been called Pablo Neruda since 1973 and after the political change it was initially continued as a comprehensive school with elementary school until the decreasing number of pupils led to the discontinuation of lower secondary level.
The Britz ecological research station is located in the forest northeast of Britz-Kolonie. Here the Institute for Forest Ecology and Forest Inventories Eberswalde, a specialist institute of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute , operates a large lysimeter system , which was the largest in the world when it was commissioned in 1974. In the complex of nine large lysimeters, the water consumption of growing tree species in the pure and mixed stand is measured.
Sports
The handball team of the company sports association of the slaughter and processing combine Eberswalde-Britz ( BSG SVKE Britz ), founded in 1979 , played in the GDR league for one year in the 1987/88 season . Britz is thus the smallest independent municipality in terms of inhabitants that has ever presented a first division team in German league handball (before Großwallstadt ). After reunification, the handball section of the BSG SVKE Britz became today's league team 1. SV Eberswalde . Under the temporary name SV Eberswalde-Britz , the club played in 1991/92 and 1992/93 in the 2nd Bundesliga North . FSV Fortuna Britz 90 eV was founded in 1990 as the successor to the soccer section of the BSG “Stahl Britz” . In 1991 the billiards section was added here. At the moment, around 200 sports enthusiasts in the departments of football, billiards, volleyball, gymnastics, pop gymnastics and in the general sports group “Power women” are regularly involved in sports at FSV Fortuna Britz 90 eV.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Fritz Gieseler (1928–2020), former school director
- Werner Ahl (1947–2016), mayor 1991–2001
- Herbert Mielke (* 1947), Deputy President of FSV Fortuna Britz
They were made honorary citizens at the ceremony for the 750th anniversary of the village on June 6, 2008.
Others
- Hans-Joachim Laesicke (* 1954), politician ( SPD ), Lord Mayor of Oranienburg from 1993 to 2018
literature
- Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part 8: Uckermark. Böhlau, Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2 ( publications of the State Archives Potsdam 21).
- Doris Ortloff, Sylvia Goetze: Britz - a grown place. Chronicle 1258–1277 - 2008. Chorin Monastery, Chorin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936932-15-7 .
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. Britz parish
- ↑ Gisela Gooß, Adina Günther: Between four cities. The former core property of the Cistercian monastery Chorin , Chorin 2008, p. 61. ISBN 3-936932-24-7
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Barnim . 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ↑ The Eberswalder brand holds its own. In: Märkische Onlinezeitung , February 18, 2014
- ↑ Julia Lehmann: A school out of nowhere in the online edition of the Märkische Oderzeitung on September 1, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2018.
- ↑ Measure the water consumption of trees with underground flower pots. The world's largest and oldest lysimeter system near Eberswalde inspires specialists ( memento from March 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, press release of September 8, 2008
- ↑ The ecological experimental station Britz near Eberswalde on the website of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, accessed on April 2, 2018
- ^ The first honorary citizens of Britz , Märkische Oderzeitung, June 12, 2008
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