Falkenberg (Briesen (Mark))

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Falkenberg
Briesen (Mark) municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 56 m above sea level NN
Residents : 188  (Jun. 30, 2017)
Incorporation : October 26, 2003
Incorporated into: Madlitz-Wilmersdorf
Postal code : 15518
Area code : 033607

Falkenberg , including Falkenberg in Fürstenwalde called, is part of the municipality Briesen (Mark) in Odervorland , Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .

Church in Falkenberg near Fürstenwalde

Traffic situation

Falkenberg is about 12 km east of Fürstenwalde / Spree , north of the federal highway 12 Berlin - Frankfurt (Oder) . The place can be reached via the motorway junctions Fürstenwalde-Ost or Briesen . Railway stations are Berkenbrück or Briesen (Mark) .

Politics / administration

The village has about 200 inhabitants. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reform and was incorporated into the municipality of Madlitz-Wilmersdorf by a law passed by the Brandenburg State Parliament on October 26, 2003 against the will of the majority of the population (vote on July 15, 2001) . Since the local elections on October 26, 2003, there has been a local council with three representatives, who elected Andreas Püschel as honorary local mayor . Püschel was confirmed in his office in 2008 and 2014. As before the municipal reform, administration is the responsibility of the Odervorland office with its seat in Briesen (Mark). On January 1, 2014, the community Madlitz-Wilmersdorf was dissolved and the district came to the community Briesen (Mark) .

Institutions / associations

  • Day care center “Zwergenstübchen” : It has existed since 1951 and was able to hold its own in the competition for children with other facilities in the area.
  • Voluntary fire brigade : It was founded in 1934, is not only responsible for fire fighting and rescue services, but also takes part in the organization of the Easter bonfires and village festivals.
  • Falkenberger Dorfverein eV : It was founded in the course of the community reform by local residents to take on tasks in the locality that were previously carried out by the community council. This includes the administration of the community hall, the organization of the village festivals and cultural events and the publication of the village chronicle.

Parish

The Evangelical Church Community Falkenberg belongs to the parish Demnitz-Heinersdorf. Rahel Rietzl has been the pastor since 2015. The parish is also responsible for the cemetery at the church.

history

First settlements in the district Falkenberg probably already existed 7000 years ago. This is evidenced by finds that were discovered by archeology students on the “Crescent” in the Lost Water in the early 1980s. The Germanic tribe of the Burgundians , who later lived here, emigrated around 350 AD, came as far as southeastern France during the migration of peoples and gave the local province of Burgundy its name. The place Falkenberg was probably founded according to plan in the course of the so-called eastern colonization . It was first mentioned in a document on June 17, 1354. However, it was possibly founded 100 years earlier.

The spelling of the place has changed frequently over the years: 1354: Falkenberg, Valkenberg, 1404: Falkemberg, Falkinberg, 1460: Falkenberch, 1534: Falkinberg, 1624: Falckenberge, 1711: Falckenberg, 1805: Falkenberg. The name could have come from the Altmark and was taken over in the course of the eastern colonization through name transfer - possibly via Falkenberg near Freienwalde .

Manor house in Falkenberg - built around 1710, demolished after 1945; Etching from 1939

The feudal lord of the village was the Margrave of Brandenburg until 1354, the Bishop of Lebus from 1354 to 1598, then the Elector of Brandenburg and the King of Prussia. Feudal bearers and later (i.e. after the repeal of the feudal constitution) the owners of the Falkenberg manor were:

before 1400 from Beerfelde
1460 from Ihlow
1488 up to after 1496 from Steinkeller
before (?) 1517 to 1690 from Ihlow via upper and lower court a. Patronage (1620)
1690 to 1693 from Mandelsloh
1693 to 1709 Witte zu Frankfurt
1709 to 1719 from Burgsdorff
1719 to 1750 by Enderlein (Enderlien, Enderling)
1750 to 1860 von Wiedebach
1860 to 1862 Ludwig Lucke
1862 to 1878 Adolf Muth
1879 to 1894 Freiherr von Cramm from
1894 to 1945 from Alvensleben

The population went up and down. Originally the village had 54 hooves , on which around 40 farming families are likely to have settled. After the Thirty Years' War in 1654 there were only four farmers left , a shepherd and a shepherd , who however had no more cattle. The first data on the population are available from 1734: at that time Falkenberg had 129 inhabitants. This number rose to 252 by 1871, but then fell to 196 by 1895 due to the so-called rural exodus , stabilized and rose again to 246 by 1939. As a result of the refugees and displaced persons from the eastern regions , the population increased to 300 in 1946. During this time, many new settlement houses were built. In the following decades the number fell back to 156. Another construction activity after the fall of the Wall then led to the current population of over 200.

Detail from the Urmes table sheet from 1844

Form of settlement and structures

Falkenberg was laid out as a street green village - a typical form of settlement in eastern colonization. The farmsteads and houses stood on either side of an Angers , on which there was a village pond, a pasture (now a green area) and the church .

The medieval village church with a steeple from the early 18th century is characteristic of the townscape. It was extensively renovated from 2011 to 2016.

The manor house , built around 1710, was demolished in the 1950s. Only one extension built in 1903 remained, which was converted into a multi-purpose building in 1967.

Biotope network system

The Falkenberg district is part of the natural area of ​​the East Brandenburg heath and lake area with a high proportion of forests and bodies of water as well as heterogeneous, but predominantly low-yield agricultural areas. As in many parts of Brandenburg, extensive field improvements were carried out in Falkenberg in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving behind large, wood-free arable land and deep, straightened ponds. This led to negative ecological and economic consequences with increasing wind erosion, drought damage due to falling groundwater levels and a sharp decline in many plant and animal species. In cooperation with the Institute for Land Use Systems in Müncheberg , a pilot project has been carried out since 1991 for the redesign of land and biotope networks , which was funded by the former Brandenburg Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Regional Planning. The basis was a comprehensive biotope mapping . The focus of the project consists in a subdivision of the fields by woodland biotopes (length: approx.7.5 km) with priority given to wind erosion protection, in the renaturation / creation of region-specific wet and dry biotopes, in the creation of a meadow orchard and in the demolition of the to deeply deepened rivers. Different variants of the new plant (e.g. different hedge types and dry biotopes) and their ecological consequences are examined.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Residents' registration office Odervorland. In: amt-odervorland.de. Office Odervorland, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

literature

  • Hartmut Kretschmer and Torsten Schönbrodt: Project redesign and biotope network - Falkenberg district (near Fürstenwalde). Müncheberg April 1999, 28 pp.
  • Reimar von Alvensleben : Contributions to the Falkenberg village chronicle. Published by the Falkenberger Dorfverein eV Falkenberg 2004, 72 pp.

Web links

Commons : Falkenberg bei Fürstenwalde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Falkenberg in the RBB program Landschleicher on August 2, 2015