Melchow

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '  N , 13 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Barnim
Office :	Biesenthal-Barnim
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.61 km 2
Residents:	982 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16230
Area code :	03337
License plate :	BAR, BER, EW
Community key :	12 0 60 161
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Finower Str. 2 16230 Melchow
Website :	www.melchow.de
Mayor :	Ronald Kühn
Location of the municipality of Melchow in the Barnim district

Melchow [ ˈmɛlçoː ] is a municipality in the south of the Barnim district . It is administered by the Biesenthal-Barnim Office.

geography

Village church with a modern bell chair

The place is 40 km northeast of Berlin-Mitte, not far from the district town of Eberswalde . Melchow makes an inconspicuous impression with cobblestones, a bakery, a newspaper shop, a church, a "nature park station" (one train every hour to Berlin and Eberswalde) and a secluded cemetery in the area, characterized by the slightly hilly, wooded landscape of the Eberswalder Urstromtales , there are also some lakes, such as Samith and Black Lakes .

See also : List of field names in Melchow

Community structure

The municipality has two districts:

• Melchow
• Schönholz

There is also the Wildtränke living area .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1324.

Melchow belonged to the Oberbarnim district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Eberswalde district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 . The community has been located in the Brandenburg district of Barnim since 1993.

The former district of Spechthausen has belonged to the city of Eberswalde since 2006, after the Spechthausen community representatives broke away from the community of Melchow.

Population development

year Residents 1875 253 1890 285 1910 243 1925 463 1933 561 1939 745 1946 810 1950 843

year Residents 1964 969 1971 908 1981 841 1985 832 1989 742 1990 732 1991 721 1992 718 1993 706 1994 726

year Residents 1995 746 1996 799 1997 826 1998 1 027 1999 1 044 2000 1,080 2001 1 063 2002 1,069 2003 1,069 2004 1 073

year Residents 2005 1 057 2006 898 2007 901 2008 907 2009 896 2010 899 2011 925 2012 923 2013 937 2014 939

year Residents 2015 932 2016 932 2017 950 2018 975 2019 982

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 of Melchow consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Pro Melchow	6th
Sustainable for Melchow	2
SPD	2

mayor

• 1993–2014: Wolfgang Lindt
• since 2014: Ronald Kühn (Pro Melchow)

Kühn was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 72.0% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

Forge in Melchow

The village smithy on Eberswalder Strasse was included in the state monument list. The cultural monuments are listed in the list of architectural monuments in Melchow and in the list of ground monuments in Melchow .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Reception building of the Melchow stop (2018)

The state road L 200 runs through Melchow between Bernau near Berlin and Eberswalde . About 6 km north-east of the district Melchow leading county road K 6007 south to the district Schönholz.

The Melchow stop is on the Berlin – Szczecin railway line . Regional trains of the DB Regio of the line RB 24 ( Eberswalde - Berlin - Senftenberg ) of the transport association Berlin-Brandenburg stop there every hour .

Sports

• Melchow is a stage on the 416 km long 66 lakes regional park route through Brandenburg.
• Reitpark Melchow, an approx. 7.5 kilometers long, terrain and obstacle course designed as a circuit.
• Melchow and Grüntal have a common football club: SV 1969 Melchow / Grüntal

Honorary citizen

2014: Wolfgang Lindt (* 1944), long-time mayor

Web links

Commons : Melchow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Contribution to the RBB program Landschleicher on April 13, 2008

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. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Melchow community
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Barnim . Pp. 18-21
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
6. ^ 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)
7. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
8. ↑ ^{a b} Competence, passion and prudence. In: Märkische Oderzeitung , July 29, 2014
9. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
10. ↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019