Spruce forest

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Spruce forest
City of Beelitz
Fichtenwalde coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 69 m
Area : 6.6 km²
Residents : 2815  (March 6, 2015)
Population density : 427 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 2001
Postal code : 14547
Area code : 033206
Fichtenwalde (Brandenburg)
Spruce forest

Location of Fichtenwalde in Brandenburg

The Fichtenwalde settlement was founded in 1908, and since 2002 Fichtenwalde has been the youngest part of the city of Beelitz in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg (Germany).

Geographical location

Fichtenwalde lies on the edge of the Nuthe-Nieplitz nature park . The Beelitzer Sander with extensive pine forests is in its vicinity .

The densely wooded Beelitzer Sander stretches in a fan shape from Ferch to the lower edge of the Nieplitz . Only in the area of ​​Klaistow, Kanin and Busendorf does the forest open to the Kaniner Luch. As an elongated wave of sand, the Beelitzer Sander forms the topographical threshold to the lower Havelland . The exchange between the dry air of the sandy pine forest with the moist air of the adjacent lowlands results in a particularly high air quality .

history

Today's Brücker Weg on the southern edge of Fichtenwalde was the border between Kurbrandenburg-Prussia and the Electorate of Saxony . At the intersection of Rummelsborner Weg and the confluence of Fercher Strasse, the Rummelsborn Vorwerk was a border crossing point until 1815 . Immediately to the northeast was the Saxon enclave with the villages of Kanin , Busendorf and Klaistow . It was a frequently used escape route for Prussian deserters who wanted to escape the notorious drill and were looking for freedom from Potsdam, two Prussian miles away. In the border area, now Fichtenwalde, formerly Klaistower Heide, there was an inn, a base for Prussian hussars, and later a few houses for farmers and charcoal burners. The Vorwerk was offered for sale as early as 1814. After the takeover of the "Saxon villages", the Vorwerk fell into disrepair.

Around 1900 and afterwards it was called "Back to nature" due to the poor living conditions in the big cities. Fichtenwalde was founded in the district of Zauch-Belzig on the land of the then independent village municipality of Klaistow with about 80 inhabitants at about 52.3 degrees north and 12.8 degrees east. From the stop of the Beelitz-Heilstätten suburban railway, the Fichtenwalde settlement was created five kilometers away on the Klaistower Grund through the purchase of land by the Berlin parcel owner Wilhelm Scherhag . It is located around 23 kilometers southwest of Potsdam in one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Brandenburg in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district. Soon built the Parzellanten gazebos and Cottages . The plots were deliberately designed generously and distributed. Old street names reveal that the offer was primarily aimed at buyers from southwest Berlin. They also had good transport links. The plots were mostly used for kitchen gardens. There were handle pumps nearby for the water supply, and there was no power supply in the early years. However, there were simple restaurants well distributed with small sales for basic supplies.

In order to promote the development of the settlement, the Fichtenwalde landowner association was founded in 1909 (official entry in the register of associations: 1911). In 1912 a landing site for civil air traffic was built , which was later abandoned. Aviation pioneers Hans Grade from Bork and Carl Jung from Beelitz also landed here. The first school opened in Fichtenwalde in 1929 and the waterworks was inaugurated two years later. Electrification begins in 1932.

The establishment of a road construction fund for the plot owners from May 1935 onwards was helpful in raising the costs of road construction. As early as 1938, the government at that time made efforts to designate Fichtenwalde as an independent municipality. However, as a result of the Second World War , these planned changes were no longer implemented. The Klaistow community with the Fichtenwalde residential area existed until April 1945.

In 1945 Fichtenwalde had around 1,400 indigenous residents, and war refugees and those bombed out made it around 2,500, including around 200 school children. The village of Klaistow had 150 inhabitants. After the entry of the Red Army in 1945, the two places separated administratively without a legal basis and appointed provisional district elders and local councils. The mayor of Beelitz was the highest administrative authority of the communities. A demarcation between Klaistow and Fichtenwalde did not take place. In order to change these lawless conditions - not only in Fichtenwalde - the government instructed to submit applications for new or re-municipalities and to justify these facts created after the war. The council of the municipality of Fichtenwalde applied for the reorganization of the municipality on December 7th, 1948 for submission to the district council. With the law on the amendment to improve the district and community boundaries of April 26, 1950 , enacted by the Landtag of Brandenburg on April 28, 1950 (and entered into force on May 6, 1950 with its publication) , the communities of Kanin, Klaistow, Busendorf merged to form the municipality of Busendorf and Fichtenwalde is shown as an independent municipality. In 1950, the Brandenburg cadastral office created a new land map for the Fichtenwalde district.

In May 1952, the GDR Council of Ministers decided to seal off the GDR's border with the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin . Only within Berlin was there still freedom of movement until August 13, 1961. The owners, who mostly come from West Berlin, were initially only allowed to travel to their properties with a pass, but were later completely refused. The obligation to pay public taxes (property tax, road construction fund) remained, however. Many parcels came under municipal administration and were later offered for lease or even for sale without the consent of the owners . Applicants from the chemistry triangle were preferably considered for the award .

After the political change , the place developed strongly. A new building area with around 400 residential units was built to the west of Berliner Straße (now: Berliner Allee) and south of Kaniner Straße. With the development of a new center in the former pine forest with around 400 new single-family houses, the place changed fundamentally after German reunification . In the center of the village are the school, children's facilities, shops, doctors and dentists, hairdressers, crafts, businesses and much more. The Fichtenwald chapel from 1934 was extended by an extension. Festivities and cultural offers include the annual summer festival “Viva la Fiwa” and the traditional cone market in December.

In the 1990s, efforts were made to merge Fichtenwalde with the nearby towns of Borkwalde and Borkheide to form a large forest community. In 2002 the community of Fichtenwalde became a district of the city of Beelitz . It is the youngest and the second largest district of the city after the Beelitz district. On December 31, 2012, Fichtenwalde had 2,714 inhabitants.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Fichtenwalde shows a rooted green spruce with a black trunk, which is accompanied by red flanks. The color sequence of the coat of arms and the representation of the tree are based on the design of a still preserved historical table flag from the early years of the community, which was established in 1905.

The municipal flag is white with two narrow green stripes and bears the municipal coat of arms in the middle.

Remarkable

  • In 2003, the dacha scene was featured in the film Good Bye, Lenin! shot here.
  • In 2006 and 2007, Fichtenwalde was the seat of the women's professional cycling team "Getränke Hoffmann", which was dissolved in 2007.
  • On October 23, 2006, paratroopers jumped out of the plane too early and landed in the forest near the old town. They actually wanted to hold a maneuver on the nearby military training area between Borkwalde and Lehnin .
  • April 6, 1991: murder of a 66-year-old woman in Fichtenwalde by serial killer Wolfgang Schmidt (Rosa Riese) . He was also referred to as the Beelitz killer and the Beelitz beast . That was his last crime because he was arrested in August.
  • 26.-28. July 2018: A forest fire on the eastern edge of the village in the border area to the municipality of Schwielowsee between the European cycle route R1 and the A9 motorway temporarily threatened the place, an evacuation was considered. However, the large-scale deployment of over 200 helpers from Brandenburg prevented a disaster. Tank trucks were used to supply the extinguishing water until the four-kilometer-long lines to the suction points at the asparagus farm in Klaistow and at the Schwielowsee had been laid. The evacuation had been prepared as a precaution and the A 9 and A 10 motorways in the area around the Potsdam triangle were closed for almost three days. The operation was made more difficult by the occasional exploding remains of ordnance in the burning pine forest, which made the use of fire fighting tanks necessary. In addition, the gas pipeline at the edge of the fire area got a leak, which, however, could be repaired shortly afterwards.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beelitzer Nachrichten , Volume 26, No. 3, p. 9 on yumpu.com , accessed on July 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Beelitzer Chronik, p. 98.
  3. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung . No. 128, July 4, 1848, p. 2639.
  4. ^ Church and cemetery. In: Eva Griebel: Chronicle. Spruce forest 1908–2008. Fichtenwalde 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023920-5 , p. 69 ff.
  5. ↑ Fichtenwalde.info - From the synopsis on the coat of arms for Fichtenwalde
  6. ^ Team Beverages Hoffmann dissolves after one year. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 20, 2007.