Falkenberg (Mark)

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Falkenberg (Mark)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 48 '  N , 13 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Märkisch-Oderland
Office : Falkenberg height
Height : 2 m above sea level NHN
Area : 59.6 km 2
Residents: 2262 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 16259
Area code : 033458
License plate : MOL, FRW, SEE, SRB
Community key : 12 0 64 125
Community structure: 3 districts
Office administration address: Karl-Marx-Str. 2
16259 Falkenberg
Website : www.amt-fahoe.de
Mayor : Christian Ziche
Location of the municipality of Falkenberg in the Märkisch-Oderland district
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View of Falkenberg, Neuenhagen Island and Bad Freienwalde in the background

Falkenberg is a municipality in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg. It belongs to the office of Falkenberg-Höhe , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Falkenberg. The naming is a bit confusing. The (large) community bears the name Falkenberg, the eponymous district is officially called Falkenberg / Mark .

geography

The community is located in the transition area between the hilly, wooded and lake-rich Barnim plateau and the wide area of ​​the Oderbruch .

Community structure

For the municipality of Falkenberg three districts are identified.

  • Dannenberg / Mark with the municipal parts of Bodenseichen, Dannenberg / Mark, Krummenpfahl, Platzfelde and Torgelow
  • Falkenberg / Mark with the municipal parts of Cöthen, Falkenberg / Mark and paper mill
  • Kruge / Gersdorf with the districts of Ackermannshof , Gersdorf, Kruge and Neugersdorf

In addition, there are the Amalienhof, Broichsdorf, Tortz and Uchtenhagen residential areas .

Falkenberg

history

Falkenberg / Mark is first mentioned in a document together with Cöthen in 1334. The Kreuzangerdorf Gersdorf was first mentioned in 1307 as Ghearddestrop and in 1375 as Gerhardsdorf. In the Middle Ages Gersdorf belonged to the neighboring farms on wild pitch pitcher Mark for possession of the Cistercian nuns - monastery Friedland . From 1568 to 1573 Kruge was owned by the von Pfuel family.

Coethen is mentioned in Barnim's local directory from 1375 under the name Koten. In 1451 it had 48 hubs. Who owned the village until the 16th century has not been proven for certain. The von Holzendorf family bought it in 1590. From 1663 to 1607 it belonged to the von Falkenberg family, then to the family of the Imperial Count von Flemming, who sold it to Gottfried von Jena in 1721 together with Danneberg and Falkenberg.

In the GDR, the former Coethen manor house was a boarding school for children with parents in the diplomatic service. The building now houses a special school for the Stephanus Foundation.

Falkenberg has belonged to the Oberbarnim district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Bad Freienwalde district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . The municipality has been in the Brandenburg district of Märkisch-Oderland since 1993.

Incorporations

Dannenberg / Mark and Kruge / Gersdorf were incorporated on December 31, 2001. The municipality of Kruge / Gersdorf was created on October 1, 1961 through the merger of the two eponymous towns.

Population development

Population development of Falkenberg from 1875 to 2017 according to the table below
year Residents
1875 1 013
1890 1 197
1910 1 484
1925 1,650
1933 2 522
1939 2,460
1946 2,539
1950 2,790
1964 2 540
1971 2,466
year Residents
1981 2 093
1985 1 961
1989 1 908
1990 1 884
1991 1,850
1992 1 815
1993 1 762
1994 1 758
1995 1 718
1996 1 689
year Residents
1997 1,697
1998 1,658
1999 1 617
2000 1 622
2001 2,518
2002 2 510
2003 2,486
2004 2,481
2005 2,479
2006 2,436
year Residents
2007 2 425
2008 2,388
2009 2 351
2010 2,316
2011 2 298
2012 2 278
2013 2 274
2014 2 268
2015 2 208
2016 2 221
year Residents
2017 2 206
2018 2222
2019 2 262

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.

Party / group of voters Seats
Voting group Voluntary Fire Brigade Falkenberg / Mark 3
SPD 2
Falkenberger sports club “Th. Fountain" 1
CDU 1
Friends of the Voluntary Fire Brigade Kruge-Gersdorf 1
GREEN 1
Single applicant Steffi Waga 1
Single applicant Rico Ewald 1
Individual applicant Marcel Ewald 1

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

mayor

  • 1994–2014: Lothar Papenfuß ( SPD )
  • since 2014: Christian Ziche (Volunteer Fire Brigade Falkenberg / Mark)

Ziche was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 56.0% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Partner communities

  • Trzciel , (German Tirschtiegel) in Poland (since 2000)

Attractions

  • Coethen village church: brick building with plaster structure, built in 1830 according to plans by Schinkel
  • Falkenberg village church: half-timbered building from 1820
  • Gersdorf village church: field stone building in the middle of the 13th century
  • Landscape park in the Cöthener Fließal . Designed after an idea by Carl Friedrich von Jena in the 20 years of the 19th century. Theodor Fontane describes the park in his "Walks through the Mark Brandenburg".
  • "Ida-Eiche" in the forest between Falkenberg and Coethen. 300 to 400 year old sessile oak, which is also called Fontane.

In the list of architectural monuments in Falkenberg (Mark) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

  • Copper relief by Theodor Fontane in Falkenberg

  • Carlsburg

  • View from Carlsburg ( Neuenhagen Island in the background )

  • Dannenberg village church

  • Church with main road L35 in Cöthen

traffic

The B 167 runs between Eberswalde and Bad Freienwalde (Oder) through Falkenberg. The Falkenberg (Mark) stop is on the Eberswalde – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line . It is served by the regional train line RB 60 Eberswalde - Frankfurt (Oder) .

Personalities

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. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Falkenberg from December 15, 2008 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amt-fahoe.de
  3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Falkenberg community
  4. ^ Leopold von Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Rauh, 1856, p. 196.
  5. ↑ Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg and the Markgrafthum Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century. Second volume. Brandenburg. 1855. p. 449
  6. ↑ All castles / Castle Atlas. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Create school homepage. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
  9. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  10. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 18-21
  11. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  12. ^ 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)
  13. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 15, 2014
  15. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
  16. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
  17. ↑ Sponsorship group old churches Berlin-Brandenburg eV: village church Cöthen. In: Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV Accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  18. Jump up ↑ Support group Alte-Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV: Dorfkirche Falkenberg (Mark). In: Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV Accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  19. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 2000, p. 547
  20. ↑ reiseland-brandenburg.de
  21. ^ Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg. The Oderland. Construction Verlag Berlin, 1980. pp. 65/66
  22. ^ Ida oak near Falkenberg. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .

Web links

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