Falkenthal

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Falkenthal
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 6 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 43 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 625  (Jan. 5, 2015)
Incorporation : December 31, 1997
Postal code : 16775
Area code : 033088
Falkenthal Church

Falkenthal is a district of the community of Löwenberger Land in the north of Brandenburg .

geography

Geographical location

Falkenthal on a measuring table from the Prussian first recording from 1825

Falkenthal is an anger village at the transition from the natural area of the Granseer Platte to the Zehdenick-Spandauer Havel lowlands . The district is crossed by the federal highway 109 and the federal highway 167 . The expansion of Falkenthal and Exin residential areas belong to it . To the north of the locality , the high mountains rise at 81  m above sea level. HN as Falkenthal's local mountains . The forest area of Exin extends to the northeast of the district . Falkenthal borders the city of Zehdenick to the north and east, the city of Liebenwalde to the east and south and the Liebenberg district to the south and west .

Ice Lake

In 1299 the city of Zehdenick acquired its city forest. The reference to a lake that has disappeared can be found in the purchase agreement from that time . It is said to have been located on the western edge of today's Exin near Falkenthal. In addition, the then newly laid city limits of Zehdenick ran through the water. Today, a swampy patch of forest in the same area is known as Eiser Lake . The name refers to lawn iron ore that was once mined there and also to the Latin word lacus , which means lake. Furthermore, an entry for a lake or a lake called Eisen was found in the Zehdenick hereditary registry from 1590. The swamp in the Exin has recently disappeared more and more due to a nearby artificial moat.

history

Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

The first documentary mention is part of a description of the border between the Ascanian- owned area and the neighboring state of Löwenberg and dates from October 1270. In 1250, a Cistercian nunnery was built in Zehdenick, and Falkenthal was later added to the parish villages. In the Middle Ages, Falkenthal was an important traffic junction. A road ran east via Liebenwalde , Eberswalde and on to the Oder , or via Bernau to Berlin . A road that led to the southwest ran over the district of Nassenheide and through Oranienburg to Berlin. The third road led in a north-easterly direction via Zehdenick , Templin and Prenzlau on to Pomerania . An important route to the north or northwest went via Bergsdorf , Gransee and Fürstenberg / Havel .

The Christianity was in the area by the Norbertine common. Today's Falkenthal Church was built in the 14th century. In the late 15th century, Falkenthal became one of the parish villages of the Zehdenicker monastery. From 1558 until today, sextons have served the church and the village, generation after generation. In 1559 the first guardian took up work. From 1590 beer was brewed in Falkenthal , which at that time mostly only took place in cities in the area. The first forester mentioned by name entered service in 1672. On May 19, 1741, a fire destroyed the buildings of several properties and killed an unknown person. In 1794 the rectory burned down , and important documents on the local and family history were destroyed.

Recent history

At the beginning of the 19th century, Falkenthal was confronted with several tragic events: In the summer of 1805 it rained unusually much. This literally flooded the meadows and pastures. As a result, there was a lack of hay and the cattle fell ill. From 1806 the village was sacked several times by French soldiers. 31 families lost their homes in a fire on May 30, 1807. In the same year a school house was built.

In 1816/18 Falkenthal came from the Uckermark district of the Mark Brandenburg to the new district of Templin in the province of Brandenburg .

It was not until 1857 that the school building, which has been preserved to this day and originally constructed as a half-timbered building, was built near the church. In 1841 the new cemetery was laid out on the road towards Bergsdorf. In 1861, Falkenthal consisted of 89 houses and 143 farm buildings. In addition to the forge and the secondary customs office, there were 4 merchants, 2 shopkeepers, 2 inns, 5 linen weavers, 2 post mills, 1 butcher, 4 bricklayers, 6 carpenters, 1 wheelwright, 2 shoemakers, 4 master tailors and 2 master carpenters. In 1888 the school was rebuilt.

On December 12, 1912, the volunteer fire brigade was founded.

Modern

Falkenthal also has victims of the First and Second World Wars to mourn. In 1953, many years after the end of World War II, the farmers who owned more than 20 hectares were forced to raise their taxes. To avoid fines and imprisonment, 18 farmers gave up and left their homeland. The abandoned fields were merged and farmed in an agricultural production cooperative (LPG). After June 17th, the refugee farmers were offered the opportunity to return to their farms. Some farmers made use of this.

Since the administrative reform of 1952 Falkenthal belonged to the circle Gransee the district Potsdam .

In 1968 a second school building was built. This added three classrooms and two teacher's apartments. In the same years work began on the young cattle facility. In 1970 the construction was completed, 5000 young cattle were stabled. The construction workers' barracks had been set up on Zehdenicker Strasse. The commune bought the barracks to turn them into the new village center. From now on, the municipal administration, crèche, kindergarten, nurses' station, post office, as well as a hairdresser, a restaurant and a consumption were housed in the flat buildings .

From 1992 to 1997 Falkenthal was administered by the Löwenberg Office and in 1993 became part of the new Oberhavel district . On December 31, 1997 the office of Löwenberg was dissolved and Falkenthal merged with nine other communities to form the new community of Löwenberger Land. Since then, Falkenthal has formed a district.

There is the football club FC Falkenthaler Füchse 1994 eV in the village. The annual Falkenthaler Football Night attracts visitors from a relatively large area. Between 2004 and 2005 a wind farm was built west of Falkenthal .

Population development

The following table shows the population development of Falkenthal between 1875 and 1996 in the territorial status of the respective reference date:

Deadline Residents Remarks
0Dec. 1, 1875 0883 census
0Dec. 1, 1890 0946 census
0Dec. 1, 1910 0971 census
June 16, 1925 0939 census
June 16, 1933 0919 census
May 17, 1939 0852 census
Oct 29, 1946 1218 census
Aug 31, 1950 1193 census
Dec 31, 1964 0893 census
0Jan. 1, 1971 0852 census
Dec 31, 1981 0745 census
0Oct 3, 1990 0722 Day of German unity
Dec 31, 1996 0707 last reference date before the municipality merger

literature

  • Erika Rinn: Chronicle of the community Falkenthal 1270–1995. Published by the community of Falkenthal.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b community Löwenberger Land. In: service.brandenburg.de. The service portal of the state administration. State government of Brandenburg , accessed on July 22, 2015 .
  2. ^ Brandenburg Viewer. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg , accessed on August 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ O. V .: Ortschafts = directory of the government = district of Potsdam according to the latest district division from 1817, with a note of the district to which the place previously belonged, the quality, number of people, confession, ecclesiastical circumstances, owner and address, along with an alphabetical register . Georg Decker, Berlin ( full text in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics Land Brandenburg (Ed.): Historical municipality directory of the State of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Oberhavel (=  contribution to statistics . Volume  19.7 ). Potsdam 2006 ( online [PDF; 300 kB ]).