Mönchwinkel

Mönchwinkel Community Grünheide (Mark) Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 20 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 22 ″ E
Height :	35 m above sea level NN
Area :	25.92 km²
Residents :	265 (22 Aug 2019)
Population density :	10 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	15537
Area code :	033632

Spree bridge at Mönchwinkel

Mönchwinkel is a district of Grünheide (Mark) southeast of Berlin in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .

geography

Community structure

Mönchwinkel consists of the locations (old) Mönchwinkel and Neu Mönchwinkel and the so-called "Gutsviertel" of Spreewerder as well as the railway house No. 35, an inhabited former railway building on the connecting line Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder), located between the Hangelsberg and Fangschleuse stations.

history

The first mention of Mönchwinkel under the name "Monikwinckel" can be found on a Swedish war map from 1630, which was made by cartographer Olof Hansson Svart on behalf of the Swedish king Gustav Adolf. However, many years passed until the Prussian State Ministry announced on March 31, 1927 that the districts of Alt-Mönchwinkel and Neu-Mönchwinkel had been separated from the municipality of Spreeau in the then Niederbarnim district and that they would now form an independent rural municipality with the name "Mönchwinkel" . This situation lasted for 76 years until 2003. With the local elections on October 26, 2003, as part of the municipal reform in the state of Brandenburg, the municipality of Mönchwinkel was incorporated into Grünheide (Mark). Although they filed a complaint against the reform together with the neighboring communities of Hangelsberg and Spreeau , it then failed before the state constitutional court without a hearing.

Mönchwinkel's farmers

From the beginning, Mönchwinkel was mainly characterized by agriculture and forestry, and farming families once made up the majority of the population. The annual harvest festival was one of the main events in village life. Not all farmers ran their farm full-time, however, and also worked on the side, during the day, at the forestry and state railways or offered their horse-drawn vehicle to other people as part of a haulage company. There were big changes with the establishment of the LPG in the GDR, which also affected Mönchwinkel's farmers, some continued and others who were almost of retirement age simply stopped. In an invitation to a farmers' meeting together with the local council in 1954, the following farms were mentioned before the LPG was founded: Georg Maschlonkowski, Wilhelm Hönow, Johann Briesenick, Otto Lenz, Helmut Kotzan, Albert Bülow, Otto Thieme, Margarete Stahnke, Arthur Müller, Karl Tabbert , Karl Kaminski, Walter Lucke. As the youngest among the farmers at the time, only Georg Maschlonkowski is still alive.

Of these, the farmers Maschlonkowski, Hönow, Briesenick and Kotzan ran their businesses full-time, while Karl Kaminski, who ran the local butcher, had the larger subsidiary farmers. Otto Lenz, who lived mainly from his inn and Otto Thieme, who also worked for the forest, for the fisherman responsible for the Spree and was a haulier. Not to forget the Bülow farm, which was one of the bigger ones. After 1990 at the latest, most of the other farms, which were often run by the heirs, ceased to exist.

Today the descendants of the farmers are still farming on the side. On the Maschlonkowski-Hof, a great-nephew with a was 2016 Lohnbetrieb main occupation. When he had to cease operations, an era came to an end there. Thieme's great-grandson activated the part-time business, which was canceled in 1992, in April 2017 and since then has cultivated 15 hectares of land, produces free-range eggs and fattened sheep and pigs. It is the only remaining farm in town.

From the old farming families, only a nephew of Maschlonkowski and a grandson of Kotzan lead hobby livestock farming, mostly horses, chickens, rabbits and pigs. All other courtyards were sold, left to decay or only used for living. Mr. Blask, who now keeps poultry and pigs, was added. As well as Mr. Hentze, who bought the former Storchnest inn, and Mr. Müller, the latter two grow potatoes together, own a few chickens and a small herd of Highland cattle. So you run a somewhat larger hobby farm, with tractors and the associated equipment. In conclusion, one can say that the tradition has not yet completely disappeared.

politics

Local advisory board

The Mönchwinkel local council consists of 3 people.

Individual nomination: 1 seats (172 votes, 34.47%) Mandate holder: Ute Thieme
Die Linke : 1 seat (168 votes, 33.67%) Mandate holder: Tobias Thieme
SPD : 1 seat (89 votes, 17.84%) Mandate holder: Annette Weise

(Status: local elections on May 26, 2019)

Community representation

Since October 26, 2003 Mönchwinkel no longer has its own local council.

Since the 2014 election and re-election in 2019 , Tobias Thieme from Mönchwinkel has been represented in the Grünheide (Mark) community council for DIE LINKE .

Council chairperson / mayor / mayor since 1978

Over the years, different and constantly changing legislations have also changed the official designations of the local head, but the scope of duties has remained about the same over the years. Based on the short terms of office of the mayors between 1989 and 1994, one can sense that even in a small town like Mönchwinkel, the time of reunification and coming to terms with the GDR past has not passed by without a trace.

Mayor (since 2003)

No.	Surname	Start of office	End of office	Deputy
19th	Ute Thieme	2008	20 ??	without
18th	Annette way	2003	2008	Andy Pankow

Honorary Mayor (until 2003)

No.	Surname	Start of office	End of office	Deputy
18th	Annette way	1998	2003	Werner Thieme
17th	Lutz leather	1994	1998	Annette way
16	Egon Pankow	1991	1994	Lutz leather
15th	Günt (h) er Kunert	1989	1991	Egon Pankow

Chairman of the municipality council (until 1989)

No.	Surname	Start of office	End of office	Deputy
14th	Steffen Vogel	1989	1989	Werner Thieme
13	Gerhard Block	1978	1989	Werner Thieme
12	Burkhard Fraissinet	1974	1978
11	Margarete Graef	1968	1974
10	Walter Habermann	1952	1968
9	Ernst Amthor	1952	1952
8th	Alex Cuba	1952	1952
7th	Mr. Meng	1950	1951
6th	August Nehls	1948	1949

Mayor (until 1948)

No.	Surname	Start of office	End of office
5	Paul Kremkau	1945	1948
4th	Fritz Rasp	1945	1945
3	Ludwig Haas	1944	1945
2	Richard Muntus	1935	1944
1	Mr. Girndt	1925	1935

Mönchwinkel memorial stone

1st WW

2nd WW

Culture and sights

Personalities

Fritz Rasp (1891–1976), actor, lived in his own house in Mönchwinkel during his time in Berlin. His daughter was the writer Renate Rasp . On some surviving documents, signed Fritz Rasp as the first post-war mayor of Mönchwinkel, u. a. he issued passes.
Ernst Höfner (1929–2009) was Minister of Finance of the GDR from 1981 to 1989 . Until his death, during the summer, lived in his dacha in the part of the municipality of Neu-Mönchwinkel, which belongs to Mönchwinkel.
Günter Kunert (1929–2016), retired state forest manager D., lived in Mönchwinkel, was from 1989 to 1991 the first post-reunification mayor and engaged as a local historian and amateur historian, he wrote his books Mönchwinkel, Cistercian villages , The Green Heath and the heathen people, four works that especially the landscape and natural areas in the present-day community Grünheide (Mark) as well as the settlement of the region by Cistercian monks.
Karl-Heinz Kotzan (born January 1, 1930 - † July 9, 2013), retired military officer D., lived in Mönchwinkel and worked for the voluntary fire brigade until the end. The fire inspector ended his active service in 1996 after 39 years in the office of the fire chief. When he died in July 2013 at the age of 83, there was deep mourning far beyond the town. At the funeral, well over 100 people honored his life's work and his unique character with a final greeting at the grave. The mourners included office directors, mayors, district and community military leaders as well as many old comrades and companions from his life.
Renate Rasp (* 1935; † July 21, 2015), writer and actress, daughter of the actor Fritz Rasp , later member of Group 47, spent her childhood and youth in her father's Mönchwinkler house. After her death a British became a universal heir, who sold the property to a Berliner.
Richard Leder (* 1935), is a former area manager of the fire brigade and was the first official fire chief of the Grünheide (Mark) office after the fall of the Wall and was thus significantly involved in the reorganization of the volunteer fire brigade after reunification, especially at the official and district level. After he left office in 1999, the then director appointed him honorary officer.

Natural monuments

In the area of the village there is the Störitzsee and an outdoor biotope . In addition, the elongated Spree valley along the Müggelspree .

Historical monuments

Memorial stone for the victims of war and tyranny in the main cemetery at the parish hall
Local history museum in the district of Neu Mönchwinkel Neue Spreeauerstraße 32 , former school of the village (until 1974)
Peace oak in the center of the village (probably exactly in the center of the village, planted around 1870/71 when the empire was founded)
Lenzhof at the end of Spreestrasse, as the original structural substance of the place
Schmenkel Castle in the Spreewerder estate district that belongs to Mönchwinkel

Associations / Organizations

Mönchwinkel volunteer fire department
DFD rural women group Mönchwinkel
Interest group senior group
Schneckenverein Mönchwinkel e. V. (Heimatverein)
Anglerverein Mönchwinkel e. V.

literature

Günter Kunert: The Green Heath: the history of the Rüdersdorfer forest district, its settlement and its inhabitants. Verlag Die Furt, Jacobsdorf 2005, ISBN 3-933416-64-7 .
Günter Kunert: Cistercian villages: a contribution to the history of the Rüdersdorf domain. Verlag Die Furt, Jacobsdorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-933416-77-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

[1] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003