Falkenhagen (Mark)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '  N , 14 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Märkisch-Oderland
Office :	Seelow Land
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.23 km 2
Residents:	680 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15306
Area code :	033603
License plate :	MOL, FRW, SEE, SRB
Community key :	12 0 64 128
Community structure:	3 districts
Office administration address:	Berliner Strasse 31 a 15306 Seelow
Website :	www.falkenhagen-mark.de
Mayoress :	Bärbel Mede ( SPD )
Location of the municipality Falkenhagen (Mark) in the district of Märkisch-Oderland

Falkenhagen (Mark) , formerly just Falkenhagen , is an official municipality in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg . The (large) municipality of Falkenhagen was renamed Falkenhagen (Mark) on February 1, 2005. The core town, now part of the municipality, continues to bear the name Falkenhagen. Falkenhagen (Mark) is administered by the Seelow-Land office.

geography

The place is on the Lebusplatte , a ground moraine of the Vistula Ice Age , in the southwestern foreland of the ice edge of the Frankfurt Staffel at a point where a subglacial channel crosses this plate and the ice edge. Within the channel, the place is surrounded from north to east to south by six lakes and other small bodies of water.

Community structure

The community consists of the community parts Falkenhagen, Regenmantel and Georgenthal as well as the residential areas Grüner Baum, Helenenruh, Jochenshof and Luisenhof.

history

Grave fields from the early, middle and late Bronze Age at the Seehotel Luisenhof bear witness to the very early settlement. During the Slavic or Polish rule, one of the two castles Thorin or Rukkowe, which appear in a document from 1336, but cannot be assigned, was probably built here. The largest early Gothic stone church in East Brandenburg was built as a basilica bishopric in the 13th century.

The first written mention of Falkenhagen as Castrum et districtus comes from the year 1313. In 1321 Falkenhagen was an oppidum on the long-distance trade route Magdeburg - Posen . 1375 was a knight Johann von Wulkow and from 1412, the family of Uchtenhagen , family from Berne field and the family of Scharpelow owner. In 1472 the Silesian family von Hohendorff came for over 300 years . In 1600 the city of Falkenhagen had a school. In 1624 there were 535 residents in Falkenhagen. In 1650, after the end of the Thirty Years' War , the town consisted of just 52 farms.

Falkenhagen Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Falkenhagen had city rights until the 17th century. In 1773 legation councilor Johann Anton von Junck bought Falkenhagen and built a pleasure palace. In 1792 Albertine von Junck married Franz Alexander von Kleist . The couple moved to Falkenhagen in the newly built castle in 1793. The book The Happiness of Marriage , created here, is dedicated to his wife. Franz Alexander von Kleist died in 1797. In 1796 Falkenhagen was sold to Reichsgraf zu Münster-Meinhöfel. In 1799, Graf von der Goltz became the owner of Falkenhagen.

church

The two side aisles of the church were demolished in 1801. In 1805 Baron von Eckardstein acquired the castle, and around 1815 his wife Lisette, née. von Blumenthal , into a mansion and created a park. Julius von Eckardstein and his wife Imperial Countess Wilhelmine Finck von Finckenstein followed in 1830 . In 1852 the New Castle was built in Tudor style between water and forest . In 1862 Walter Schulz-Wulkow bought the Falkenhagen castle and estate.

In 1923 the lake area became a landscape protection area. In 1938/39, the owners of the land on the east side of the Black Lake were expropriated by the National Socialists and Falkenhagen Castle was demolished in 1939. At this point, a secret armaments factory was created under the cover name Seewerk . In 1940/43 an underground plant for the production of chlorine trifluoride (N-substance) and a large-scale sarin plant were built in 1943/45 . Completion was planned for May / June 1945 at the earliest. In February 1945 the entire chemical plant was evacuated and taken over by Soviet troops in April without a fight.

In 1950 the school was rebuilt and in 1954 the LPG was founded . From 1958 to 1964, the Falkenhagen bunker was converted by the GSSD into an ABC-safe emergency command center of the Warsaw Pact . Between 1958 and 1962, plasma research was carried out in parts of the Wehrmacht facility. In 1962 the Institute for Material Processing (semiconductor technology) was founded. In 1995, the Seehotel Luisenhof was a new hotel building on the Gabelsee. Since 1998, the OderlandCamp with over 200 beds has been one of the largest facilities of its kind in Germany, a destination for numerous school trips and trips from day-care centers .

Falkenhagen belonged to the district of Lebus in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and from 1952 to the district of Seelow in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) . The community has been in the Brandenburg district of Märkisch Oderland since 1993.

Population development

year Residents 1875 0 879 1890 0 710 1910 0 792 1925 0 874 1933 0 737 1939 0 752 1946 1 076 1950 1 238 1964 1 152 1971 1 110

year Residents 1981 990 1985 967 1989 917 1990 930 1991 877 1992 868 1993 861 1994 878 1995 881 1996 787

year Residents 1997 777 1998 777 1999 786 2000 781 2001 761 2002 750 2003 746 2004 754 2005 768 2006 794

year Residents 2007 788 2008 765 2009 767 2010 752 2011 729 2012 717 2013 719 2014 718 2015 711 2016 697

year Residents 2017 698 2018 691 2019 680

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 eight community representatives and the honorary mayor.

Party / group of voters	Seats
Falkenhagen voter group	2
SPD	2
CDU	2
Single applicant Maria Plontasch	1
FDP	1

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

mayor

• 1998–2003: Lothar Papenfuß (SPD)
• 2003-2008: Wolfgang Trohl (SPD)
• 2008–2014: Bernhard Fahndrich
• since 2014: Bärbel Mede (SPD)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Mede was elected for a further five-year term with 77.0% of the valid votes.

Parish partnership

A partnership with the Polish municipality of Kłodawa has existed since 2006 .

Attractions

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

The village church was built in the first half of the 14th century as a basilica with a three-aisled nave. The mighty stone building with walls up to two meters thick and a wide west facade is a former bishop's church. In 1801 craftsmen removed the side aisles and closed the arcade arches. The furnishings include a pulpit from the beginning of the 18th century and a wooden fifth from the first half of the 17th century.

traffic

Falkenhagen (Mark) is on the main road L 37 with the federal highway 5 and with Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) connected. The federal highway 167 and thus the district town of Seelow can be reached via the L 37 in a northerly direction .

The Falkenhagen stop was on the Fürstenwalde – Wriezen railway line . In 1969 passenger traffic was stopped.

Personalities

• Ernst Engels (1845–1899), lawyer, Bergrat and member of the German Reichstag, born in Falkenhagen
• Georg Deuter (* 1945), New Age musician , born in Falkenhagen

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. ↑ Change of the name of the municipality Falkenhagen. Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 28, 2004. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 16, 2005, Number 2, Potsdam, January 19, 2005, p. 20 PDF
3. ^ Service portal of the state administration of the state of Brandenburg: Municipality of Falkenhagen (Mark)
4. ↑ Martin Kaule: Fascination Bunker: Stone Evidence of European History . Ch.links Verlag, Berlin 2014, p. 92.
5. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland . Pp. 18-21
6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
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)
8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
9. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Märkisch Oderland ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 26
11. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 9
12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
13. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019

Web links

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

• Page about Falkenhagen (Mark) on the homepage of the Seelow-Land office
• Private homepage about Falkenhagen (Mark)
• Material on Falkenhagen Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 225 kB)