Falkensee

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Falkensee
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Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '  N , 13 ° 6'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Havelland
Height : 32 m above sea level NHN
Area : 43.27 km 2
Residents: 43,994 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1017 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 14612
Area code : 03322
License plate : HVL, NAU, RN
Community key : 12 0 63 080
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Falkenhagener Strasse 43-49
14612 Falkensee
Website : www.falkensee.de
Mayor : Heiko Müller ( SPD )
Location of the city of Falkensee in the Havelland district
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Town center with the town hall in the center of the picture
View of the Falkenhagener See

Falkensee is a town with around 44,000 inhabitants in the east of the Havelland district . It is a medium- sized center in Brandenburg and has the status of a large district city .

geography

Falkensee is located on the northwestern edge of Berlin in the so-called " Speckgürtel " in the natural area of the Zehdenick-Spandau Havel lowlands . In the north Falkensee borders on Schönwalde , in the west on Brieselang , in the south on Dallgow-Döberitz , which belongs to the state of Brandenburg. In the east it borders on the districts Falkenhagener Feld and Staaken, which belong to Berlin-Spandau . The development of Falkensee merges seamlessly into that of Berlin-Spandau and Dallgow-Döberitz in the east and south. The largest body of water, the Falkenhagener See , is in the north of the city.

The settlement density is rather low compared to Berlin, due to the village buildings with interspersed pastures or meadows that have been preserved in many places , and the large villa plots , often also made up of high forest . Due to the comparatively small urban area, however, Falkensee has a population density of almost 1000 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is the third highest value among the 113 Brandenburg cities (behind Wildau and Teltow ), 7th place among the 417 cities and municipalities in the state and 280th place among the above 11,000 cities and municipalities in Germany.

City structure

Falkensee consists of the two formerly independent villages

to which the following districts came through later settlements:

All of them are now designated as living spaces, as well as Alt Brieselang, Alter Finkenkrug, Damsbrück and Finkenherd.

After 1990, all districts were again marked by corresponding district signs.

history

Place name

The name was put together as a made-up word when the community Falkensee was formed in 1923 from the two largest incorporated villages Seegefeld and Falkenhagen: Falken ( hagen ) see ( gefeld ) . The place name is emphasized on the last syllable: Falken see . Falken ha gen was (and is) emphasized on the penultimate syllable, See gefeld on the first. So nothing changed in the pronunciation of the merged place names.

Origins

Seegefeld was first mentioned in a document in 1265, and Falkenhagen is noted in a document in 1336. Falkenhagen was hit several times by devastating fires. It burned down completely on April 12, 1676, in 1806 the northern part was destroyed by fire, and in 1822 Falkenhagen again burned down completely except for a few buildings. Thus, the history of the place, recorded on paper and sooner or later burnt, is partly in the dark.

The municipalities Seegefeld and Falkenhagen belonged in the early modern period to Havelländisches district in the Mark Brandenburg , after the Prussian district reform in 1817 then to the district Osthavelland in the administrative district of Potsdam the province of Brandenburg . The communities were conveniently located between the seat of the district administration in Nauen and the largest city in the district, Spandau.

The Alte Finkenkrug was built in 1770 and later (up into the 20th century) one of the most popular excursion restaurants west of Berlin. In the early 19th century, a road running through Falkenhagen was built from Spandau to Nauen (today's inner-city street L 201 Spandauer, Falkenhagener and Nauener Straße).

Railway and housing developments

On October 15, 1846, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway , which runs straight through what is now the city, was opened. In 1848 a temporary station was built near the village of Seegefeld, which was replaced by a permanent structure in 1860, today's Falkensee station . Finkenkrug station was opened for excursion traffic in 1852, and from 1891 as a regular stop for passenger trains.

The train stations quickly became the growth centers of a suburban development and the villages became interesting settlement areas for colonies of villas and homes. Seegefeld developed through the train connection to the small town center of today's Falkensee, while the center of the neighboring Falkenhagen remained recognizable more village. The current district of Finkenkrug developed from scratch in the vicinity of the station of the same name.

In 1898 the Deutsche Ansiedlungsbank bought most of the land belonging to the Seegefeld manor and promoted its settlement. This is how today's districts of Neu-Finkenkrug, Neu-Seegefeld and the Waldheim district came into being. In the same year Falkenhain and in 1902 the settlement area Falkenhagener See was added. Around 1920 there was a first enormous increase in population, mainly from nearby Berlin .

Since 1908 there have been street lighting in the municipalities of today's Falkensee, in 1914 they were connected to the district waterworks in Staaken. The suburban tariff has been in effect on the railway line to Nauen since 1921, and this also had a major impact on settlement development elsewhere on the outskirts of Berlin.

With the Greater Berlin Act , the municipalities became direct neighbors of the Reich capital Berlin on April 1, 1920, to which the previous neighboring municipality of Staaken and the city of Spandau, which had been an independent city since 1887 , now belonged.

On April 1, 1923, the previous rural communities of Falkenhagen and Seegefeld were merged to form the new rural community of Falkensee after approval by the Prussian State Ministry. On April 1, 1927, the Seegefeld manor district was dissolved and incorporated, followed by the Damsbrück manor district on October 1, 1928.

time of the nationalsocialism

Shortly after the NSDAP came to power , terror against institutions and representatives of the labor movement began in Falkensee. For example, the clubhouse of the “Fichte” workers' sports club in Nachtigallstrasse was set on fire by an SA storm, and members of the KPD were attacked with firearms by SA men. Local functionaries of the labor movement such as the workers athlete and local councilor Oskar Sander were arrested, mistreated and taken to the concentration camp.

In 1943, a prisoner camp was built on the eastern edge of the city as a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (today's memorial on Hamburger Straße). Originally, this facility was laid out in 1938 to accommodate 650 railroad workers before it was rented to the Army Administration in 1939, which expanded the facility further and built a camp for prisoners of war north of Spandauer Strasse. During the National Socialist era , up to 2,500 mostly foreign prisoners were interned there. They performed forced labor in the RAW of the Deutsche Reichsbahn - the later DEMAG Panzerwerk Albrechtshof (on Seegefelder Weg) - and in the fenced-in barracks camp , which was guarded by the SS . Because the prisoners had learned of the murders during the death march from prisoners from the Lieberose subcamp to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, they refused to obey the order to evacuate on April 20, 1945. After the guards had fled, they received the arriving Soviet troops as liberators. In 1945 Falkensee had 32,000 inhabitants, as numerous bombed-out Berliners escaped to the surrounding area. This was the highest population up to that point and for the next 55 years.

Post-war period and GDR

Berlin Wall between Falkensee (left) and the West Berlin district of Spandau, 1987.

After the end of the war, Falkensee was right on the border between the Soviet occupation zone and the British sector of Berlin.

After the state of Prussia was dissolved in 1947, the parts of the province of Brandenburg that remained in Germany became the new state of Brandenburg in the Soviet occupation zone , and from 1949 the GDR. With the administrative reform in 1952, the state of Brandenburg and the district of Osthavelland were dissolved and Falkensee part of the district of Nauen in the new district of Potsdam .

In 1951, after decades of planning, Falkensee was connected to the Berlin S-Bahn network.

At the same time, long before the Wall was built, the construction of traffic routes to the western bypass of West Berlin, which made the building of the Wall possible in the first place, began. All three connections (rail, road and waterway) pass directly west of Falkensee.

  • The first measure was the construction of the Havel Canal from May 1951, which was opened in June 1952 and runs from Hennigsdorf ( Nieder Neuendorf ) through the Falkensee neighboring communities Brieselang and Wustermark to Ketzin ( Paretz ) and thus Spandau and Potsdam, but above all West- Bypasses Berlin territory.
  • In 1953/55, the Berlin outer ring followed in two sections , which connected all the railway lines on GDR territory running towards West Berlin and thus made driving through the western sectors avoidable. Falkensee received its own train station on the outer ring , which was used from 1954 to 1996.
  • In 1979 the western section (and ring closure) of the Berliner Ring followed , which created a motorway connection from Oranienburg to Potsdam, parallel to the Havel Canal through Brieselang and Wustermark.

The connections to western Berlin, especially in the Spandau district , which were still intensive despite the zone border , were cut when the Berlin Wall was built (August 13, 1961). As a result, Falkensee lost its location advantage as a suburb of Berlin and now existed in the " slipstream " of walled-in West Berlin as a community relatively remote from the big cities. The travel time to East Berlin (via Potsdam and Schönefeld or via Hohen Neuendorf and Pankow) was about two hours. The S-Bahn line to Falkensee, which opened exactly ten years earlier, was shut down. After a spectacular breakthrough in the border fortifications in the Albrechtshof station on December 5, 1961, the long-distance tracks of the Hamburg Railway were also cut, and the trains to Hamburg continued via Griebnitzsee (Potsdam), and from 1976 via Staaken on the Lehrter Bahn.

Nevertheless (or precisely because of this) Falkensee was raised to the status of a city a few weeks after the wall was built by granting it city ​​rights . The award document is dated October 7, 1961, the twelfth " National Day of the GDR", and is in the exhibition at the Falkensee Museum and Gallery .

In the same year West Staaken , which had previously belonged to the Soviet sector of Berlin as an exclave, was incorporated into Falkensee, but in 1971 it was spun off as an independent municipality. The Falkenhagener Wiesen exclave, which had previously belonged to West Berlin (Spandau) , came to the GDR and thus to the city of Falkensee in 1988 as part of a territorial exchange.

On the extensive grounds of Berlin-Seegefelder-Industrie AG (BSI), which until 1945 was south of the railway line between today's Falkensee and Seegefeld stations, VEB Landmaschinenbau Falkensee / Kombinat Impulsa and the transformer factory worked for over 30 years after the GDR was founded . Today there is a large shopping market in the south industrial area and, in addition to other small and medium-sized companies, a wholesale market.

After reunification

Embassy of Madagascar at Falkenhagener See

After the reunification , Falkensee experienced a second strong increase in population, especially from the western districts of Berlin. In a short time the city doubled its population.

The GDR district of Potsdam became the re-founded state of Brandenburg in 1990 with two others. Due to the district reform in 1993 , the districts of Nauen and Rathenow became the new district of Havelland with headquarters in Rathenow. The district seat was chosen to be in Rathenow, far from Berlin, in order to create a counterweight to the population center of the district around Falkensee and Nauen. Since then, however, Falkensee has been the largest city in the district.

The former death strip of the GDR border was planted and built, meanwhile it can no longer be seen everywhere. The course of the former wall can now also be followed in Falkensee on the Berlin Wall Cycle Path . In the courtyard of the local history museum, after the border security systems had been completely dismantled, a typical blocking element from the aforementioned wall section was re-erected, but not in full.

Since 1992 there has been a memorial with memorials and admonishing works of art on the site of the former prison camp, some of which were created together by young people from Falkensee and the Israeli city of Maʿalot-Tarshiha (there has been a youth exchange between the two cities since 1990).

The embassy of Madagascar was reopened in 2003 on a former private property at Falkenhagener See .

By decree of the Brandenburg Minister of the Interior, Falkensee received the status of a town belonging to the Middle District with effect from January 1, 2006 .

On May 25, 2009, the city received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .

Population development

Population development of Falkensee from 1875 to 2016
year Residents
1875 1 309
1890 1 558
1910 4 512
1925 8 180
1933 15 915
1939 24 824
1946 28 275
1950 29 189
1964 29 881
1971 26 007
1981 24 029
year Residents
1985 23 340
1989 22 307
1990 22 087
1991 22 139
1992 22 105
1993 22 242
1994 22 801
1995 24 273
1996 25 640
1997 27 393
1998 29 505
year Residents
1999 32 124
2000 33 791
2001 35 297
2002 36 179
2003 36 829
2004 37 493
2005 38 376
2006 39 008
2007 39 366
2008 39 821
2009 40 179
year Residents
2010 40 511
2011 40 465
2012 40 905
2013 41 258
2014 41 777
2015 42 634
2016 43 105
2017 43 552
2018 43 844
2019 43 994

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

religion

In 2011, 7,702 or 19.1% of the population were Protestant and 6.7% Roman Catholic . 74.1% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. Despite population growth, the proportion of Protestant Christians has decreased further to 7,250 (15.9%) (in contrast to the Catholic) due to church resignations and deaths.

politics

Party / list voting
share 		Seats
Alliance 90 / The Greens 22.0% 8th
CDU 20.7% 8th
SPD 17.2% 6th
AfD 13.5% 5
The left 08.7% 3
FDP 05.6% 2
Free voters Falkensee 05.0% 2
Voting group youth for ANYTHING 03.6% 1
The party 03.6% 1

City Council

The city council has 36 members in addition to the full-time mayor. After the local elections on May 26, 2019 - with a turnout of 63.5 percent - these are divided between parties and groups of voters as shown in the table.

Youth parliament

From April 2008 to May 2012 there was a nine-member youth parliament in Falkensee. However, due to the low number of applicants, the re-election on May 9, 2012 did not take place, so that the youth parliament did not come about.

mayor

Müller prevailed in the mayoral election on October 11, 2015 against his competitor Barbara Richstein (CDU) with 51.3% of the valid votes and was thus confirmed in his office for another eight years.

  • Official coat of arms

  • Logo for non-government use

coat of arms

The official coat of arms ( national emblem ) was approved on February 9, 1994.

Blazon : "In blue a wide green oblique left bar accompanied by silver strips, in front above a rising, uneducated twelve-rayed golden sun, in the bar a left-facing flying silver falcon, in the back below a fallen silver fish."

There is also a city logo that is not protected by sovereign law.

flag

The city's flag is white and has the Falkensee city coat of arms in the middle.

Sights and culture

Architectural and cultural monuments

The monument database of the State of Brandenburg contains 25 listed objects for Falkensee, see

The Falkensee Town Hall on the former village green was inaugurated in 1918 as the administrative seat by the then mayor Ernst Freimuth. After continuous expansion, it is since the late 1990s under monument protection .

Churches

The place has the following places of worship:

  • Evangelical village church in Falkenhagen (Kirchstrasse and Freimuthstrasse) from the 17th century
  • Evangelical village church Seegefeld (Bahnhofstraße 51) from the 13th century, expanded in 1781
  • Evangelical village church Finkenkrug (Pfarrer-Voigt-Platz 1) from the beginning of the 20th century
  • Catholic Church of St. Konrad von Parzham (Tiefer Grund and the Ringpromenade), consecrated in 1934, expanded in 2010 to include a community ensemble based on designs by Falkensee architects David and Benjamin Seidl. The parish itself provided the necessary funds through the sale of the church's own land in Falkensee and Schönwalde
  • New Apostolic Church (Slabystraße 10)

Due to the strong growth of the city of Falkensee, two new churches were built and consecrated after 2000:

Memorial to the victims of fascism on the town hall square
Historical monuments

Culture

  • The youth center Creatives Zentrum - Haus am Anger is located on the village green and offers numerous educational and artistic courses. Before the fall of the Wall , the building served as a pioneer house . There is an offshoot in Kantstrasse.
  • The cultural offerings of the city also include the museum in Falkenhagener Strasse, the International Falkenseer Musiktage , the Anger Christmas , the Falkensee History Park and a number of memorials.
  • On Havelländer way which is cultural center Johannes R. Becher , in which the Little Theater Falkensee has its venue.
  • City Hall
Old town hall near the train station is to be demolished
Under this term, there are two facilities in the village (as of the end of 2018): the old town hall shown in the picture and the new town hall , which is also called twin hall because of its division into two parts for cultural and sports use and was inaugurated in April 2016 (address: Scharenbergstraße 15 ). The clear structural separation means that sporting and cultural events can take place at the same time, and the connection via the large foyer means that the building is also suitable for trade fairs, exhibitions or congresses. In total, there is a capacity of up to 1200 seats.
The old hall was to be replaced by a completely new building as early as 2003, for which the city administration had launched an architectural competition: The Residenz am Gutshof is to be built on the area, which will offer 90 apartments, enable small-scale use on the ground floor and create parking spaces. On the basis of the winning design, which received great approval from the residents, a redevelopment plan, a development plan and an expression of interest procedure were developed. As a result, the investor project company Residenz am Gutshof UG submitted a purchase application for the property including the building land. The city's stipulation was to leave the space in front of the town hall free and to open it up to the manor. Instead of building quickly, new problems arose as a result, which on the one hand result from an objection from the neighboring school, fears shade and noise pollution and wants to move the new building closer to Bahnhofstrasse. On the other hand, the parish of Seegefeld would prefer to leave the space free, but is critical of the planned height. In addition, further detailed questions are unclear, for example these: what will happen to the oak tree monument on the site, is the Residenz am Gutshof project also barrier-free , how should the traffic be managed and many other things. In order to achieve progress, a panel discussion took place on February 26, 2019 with all those involved and interested citizens. No final agreement was reached. Therefore the managing director of the investor, Michael Betker, declared: “Please decide what you want. [...] Without clarifying the property issues and the purchase contract, we don't plan any further ”.
Regular events
  • Falkenseer Environment Day: The city administration has been organizing the Environment Day since 1994 and calls on all citizens to actively participate. With the help of gripping devices and garbage bags, the rubbish is collected across the city every spring. The urban green maintenance team organizes and coordinates the operations.
  • The Falkenseer Musiktage has been taking place since 1999. Different vocal groups or orchestras perform at different locations, such as in the town's churches, in the town hall meeting room or in front of the Haus am Anger.
  • There is the festival of travesty or music shows by the ortsanasääsigen music school Fröhlich

Sports

  • 15 educational institutions from Falkensee (from kindergarten to high school) run regular sports courses in their sports halls.
  • TSV Falkensee eV is based in the village . This club offers a broad sports program for all ages and for a wide variety of interests: baby sports, family and recreational sports, health and rehabilitation sports, hockey, wrestling, dancing, gymnastics, cheerleading, acrobatics, athletics, ball and roller sports
  • Berlin football club - BFC Meteor 06 e. V. , Fehrbelliner Str. 15
  • Yellow-White Falkensee e. V. , Fehrbelliner Str. 2-6
  • Eintracht Falkensee e. V. (volleyball, hockey, soccer), Falkenhagener Str.

traffic

Road traffic

There are no motorways or federal highways running through the urban area, but they are in the immediate vicinity. The Federal Highway 5 , the main arterial road of Berlin (there: highway ) to the west runs highway-like expanded south of Falkensee passing through Dallgow , the motorway A 10 (Berliner Ring) by the western neighboring communities Brieselang and Wustermark . Falkensee is accessed through the Seeburg / Falkensee, Dallgow / Falkensee and Dallgow-Döberitz junctions on the B5 expressway and Falkensee, Brieselang and Berlin-Spandau on the A10.

Three Brandenburg state roads run through Falkensee:

  • the L 20 from Birkenwerder and Velten towards Potsdam
  • the L 201 along the old road from the border with Berlin-Spandau to Nauen
  • the L 202 , which branches off to the west outside the development from the L 201 and leads to Brieselang and Wustermark.

Since there are no district roads in Falkensee , many inner-city main roads remain under urban responsibility as unclassified municipal roads.

City buses

The bus lines in Falkensee are operated by the Havelbus Verkehrsgesellschaft, line 337 by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe . In times of low demand, regular bus taxis are sometimes used. The following lines operate:

  • 648 Falkensee train station - Seegefeld - Seegefeld train station
  • 651 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Falkensee Waldheim - Schönwalde - Hennigsdorf
  • 652 Falkensee Bahnhof - Falkenhöh - Falkenhagener Anger - Falkensee Bahnhof (ring line)
  • 653 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Falkenhain - Finkenkrug train station - Finkenkrug - Dallgow-Döberitz train station
  • 654 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Finkenkrug - Finkenkrug-West
  • 655 Falkensee train station - Seegefeld - Dallgow - Havelpark
  • 656 Falkensee train station - Falkenhagener Anger - Alter Finkenkrug - Brieselang

Regional rail transport

Falkensee is on the Hamburger Bahn , which had a major influence on urban development. There are four stations on this in the Falkensee area:

  • Berlin-Albrechtshof, a few meters east of the city limits in Berlin. Opened in 1943, 1948–61 border station between GDR and West Berlin, 1961–93 terminus for trains from Nauen, reopened in 1995 on the embankment.
  • Seegefeld, opened in 1996 as Seegefeld-Herlitzwerke .
  • Falkensee , opened in 1848 as Seegefeld , today's name since 1927, 1951–61 terminus of the S-Bahn, 2009 demolition and new construction.
  • Finkenkrug, opened in 1850/52 for excursion traffic, regular stop since 1891, rebuilt in 2009.

Falkensee station is served by four regional transport lines:

The two regional train lines also stop at the other stations. For the southern residential areas of Seegefeld and Finkenkrug, the Dallgow-Döberitz train station can also be reached quickly on the Lehrter Bahn . The next train station with ICE and IC stops is Berlin-Spandau, which can be reached from all four lines from Falkensee.

After the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, the city was decoupled from traffic to Berlin. Falkensee could only be reached from Berlin via the Berlin outer ring with a stop at Falkenhagen station, which was closed in 1995 and demolished in 2006 (in the Waldheim district). The train service from Falkensee and Finkenkrug via the outer ring to Potsdam worked from 1961 to 1995 also only with changing trains at this station.

It was not until May 26, 1995 that the gap in the Berlin – Hamburg long-distance rail link between Albrechtshof and Berlin-Spandau was completed. The section has been operated electrically since May 1997. At first, only regional trains took over the traffic, since May 24, 1998, regional express trains have also been running as local trains via Falkensee to downtown Berlin. Some of the trains from the north drove via Falkensee to Berlin instead of via the eastern Berlin outer ring, thus ensuring a dense train service. Since the opening of the new Berlin Central Station in 2006, these trains have been running from Oranienburg directly to Berlin and no longer via Falkensee.

Train

Falkensee has been part of the Berlin suburban tariff since 1921. Despite many earlier plans, Falkensee was not connected to the Berlin S-Bahn network until August 14, 1951 . Almost exactly ten years later, with the construction of the Wall on August 13, 1961, the connection in Albrechtshof was interrupted, and in October the initially remaining island operation of the S-Bahn to Falkensee was discontinued.

The re-establishment of the S-Bahn connection to Berlin, which has been planned since 1990, has so far been postponed because of the controversial traffic benefits. According to the standardized assessment, the economic benefit would exceed the costs for an S-Bahn extension from Spandau to Falkensee and the construction of a track that is independent of the rest of the railway operations, but travel times would be longer compared to the regional train with the S-Bahn.

The variants discussed include

  • the new construction of the S-Bahn to Nauen, with the closure of the two regional train lines,
  • S-Bahn to Finkenkrug or Falkensee, with (partially) continued operation of regional trains,
  • an express S-Bahn without stopping between Spandau and Westkreuz,
  • S-Bahn only to Berlin-Albrechtshof, service from Falkensee and Nauen still only with regional trains.

Depending on the concept, only around 2,000 passengers per day would be eligible for use. A final decision on the construction of the S-Bahn is not yet in sight, and there is no agreement on whether, and if so, how, the capacity of the Hamburg railway should be expanded. A resolution of the city council of Falkensee, which rejected the construction of the S-Bahn for the reasons mentioned above, has now been repealed.

For the construction of S-Bahn tracks, areas will be kept free on the north side of the tracks of the Hamburger Bahn .

air traffic

Berlin Tegel Airport is about 18 kilometers (by road) away. Aircraft that take off from Tegel to the west or land from the west - depending on the wind direction - fly over Falkensee at a relatively low altitude. According to the noise mapping of the Brandenburg Ministry for Rural Development, Environment and Agriculture , Falkensee is not considered to be affected by aircraft noise, as it is just outside the contour L DEN (24-hour average value) 55 dB (A).

The Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport is located at the opposite end of the conurbation Berlin and change trains accessible from Falkensee from the "Airport Express" (RB14) in about 65 minutes.

On the Berliner Ring, between the Falkensee junction and the Havelland triangle, there is a makeshift motorway airport that can still be used today for military purposes. The areas provided for parking fighter jets are used for the Wolfslake petrol station.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

The largest company is the logistics center at Seegefeld train station on the edge of the southern industrial area, which emerged from the Herlitz plants that were located here from 1995 . Otherwise, the Falkensee economy is characterized by many small and medium-sized local supply companies.

education

There are ten schools in Falkensee:

  • Adolf Diesterweg Primary School
  • GE Lessing Elementary School
  • Erich Kästner Elementary School
  • Geschwister-Scholl-Elementary School
  • Europaschule am Gutspark
  • Special school "Am Akazienhof"
  • Falkensee High School
  • Comprehensive school "Immanuel Kant" with upper secondary school
  • Lise Meitner High School
  • Vicco-von-Bülow High School

The Falkensee City Library has a stock of 30,000 items.

media

The local editorial offices of the daily Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung and the Brandenburger Wochenblatt (BraWo) are based in Falkensee . There are also a large number of small advertising papers. In the Waldheim district, the editorial office of the right-wing extremist Compact magazine is also located in the home of the editor-in-chief Jürgen Elsässer .

Sports

Falkensee has various sports halls and sports facilities, such as a BMX facility and a tennis facility. The men's soccer team of SV Falkensee-Finkenkrug has been playing in the Brandenburg League since the 2010/11 season . Other resident sports clubs are SV Blau-Gelb Falkensee, TSV Falkensee and Eintracht Falkensee, the latter being the result of a spin-off from SV Blau-Gelb Falkensee.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with Falkensee

Web links

Commons : Falkensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  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. ↑ falkensee.de - numbers-data-facts. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Falkensee
  4. ^ Wilhelm Döbbelin: In the sign of terror and violence. The first weeks of Nazi rule in Havelland. , in: Work - Movement - History , Hefte II / 2016; Tobias Bank: Oskar Sander, trade unionist, worker sportsman and communist, in: Work - Movement - History , I / 2017, pp. 126–136.
  5. ^ The course of the border on the city map of Berlin 1955
  6. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Havelland . Pp. 14-17
  7. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ City of Falkensee: Population in regional comparison by religion
  10. ↑ Church members: falling numbers in Falkensee. on prourknall.de
  11. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  12. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
  13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on October 11, 2015
  14. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
  15. ↑ Hiltrud Müller: Returned to the roots. David and Benjamin Seidl are brothers, architects and happy to be back home ; In: MAZ from August 11, 2009
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