Schenkenberg (Uckermark)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '  N , 13 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Uckermark
Office :	Bruessow (Uckermark)
Height :	43 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.16 km 2
Residents:	620 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17291
Area code :	039851
License plate :	UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP
Community key :	12 0 73 490
Office administration address:	Prenzlauer Strasse 8 17326 Brüssow
Website :	www.amt-bruessow.de
Mayor :	Hans-Ludwig Muller
Location of the community Schenkenberg in the district of Uckermark

Schenkenberg is an official municipality in the far north of the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the office of Brüssow (Uckermark) with its seat in the city of Brüssow .

geography

The municipal area lies on a ground moraine that spreads between the parallel valleys of the Ucker and Randow . It is characterized by many small lakes and ponds as well as intensive agriculture and a few forest areas. A large number of wind turbines can be found in the area . Schenkenberg lies between the Uckermark cities of Brüssow and Prenzlau .

Community structure

The districts of Ludwigsburg and Schenkenberg as well as the inhabited districts of Baumgarten , Dauerthal, Kleptow and Wittenhof belong to Schenkenberg .

history

In 1256 the place was first mentioned as a Schenkenberc . In 1478 Schenkenberg came into the possession of the von Pfuel family .

Schenkenberg has belonged to the Prenzlau district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Prenzlau district in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg from 1952 . The community has been in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark since 1993.

The municipality of Ludwigsburg, which was created on July 1, 1961 through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Baumgarten and Kleptow, was incorporated on December 31, 2001.

The former district of Blindow left the municipal association with effect from November 1, 2001 and was incorporated into Prenzlau.

The community belonged to the Prenzlau-Land office from 1992 until its dissolution in 2001 and changed to the Brüssow office (Uckermark) with effect from November 1, 2001 .

Population development

year Residents 1875 210 1890 173 1910 280 1925 288 1933 246 1939 234 1946 324 1950 323

year Residents 1964 502 1971 478 1981 375 1985 366 1989 354 1990 333 1991 324 1992 330 1993 327 1994 323

year Residents 1995 309 1996 304 1997 470 1998 484 1999 491 2000 466 2001 732 2002 720 2003 707 2004 689

year Residents 2005 667 2006 636 2007 639 2008 634 2009 629 2010 583 2011 603 2012 603 2013 572 2014 586

year Residents 2015 600 2016 609 2017 625 2018 624 2019 620

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

Voter group	Seats
We for our community	2
Joint list Schenkenberg	2
Single applicant Gerd Runge	1
Individual applicant Rüdiger Müller	1
Individual applicant Thomas Golz	1
Individual applicant Stephan Huebner	1

mayor

• since 2003: Hans-Ludwig Müller

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Müller was elected unopposed with 60.3% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

Attractions

Schenkenberg village church

In the list of architectural monuments in Schenkenberg (Uckermark) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• The village church Schenkenberg is a hall church , which was built in the core in 1685. After a fire in 1900, the parish rebuilt it in neo-baroque forms. Inside there is a church interior from the period of construction .

traffic

Schenkenberg is on the L 26 state road between Prenzlau and Brüssow. The Ostseautobahn A 20 ( Uckermark - Lübeck junction ) runs between Schenkenberg and the districts of Kleptow and Ludwigsburg. The Prenzlau-Ost junction is located in the municipality.

Up until the summer of 1972 Wittenhof , Schenkenberg , Ludwigsburg and Kleptow had stops on the Prenzlau – Klockow railway line . Since then, rail operations have ceased.

literature

• Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg , Part VIII, Uckermark . Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2

Web links

Commons : Schenkenberg (Uckermark) municipality  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schenkenberg in the RBB program Landschleicher on February 18, 2007

• Ludwigsburg in the RBB program Landschleicher on April 29, 2018

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. Community of Schenkenberg
3. ^ Leopold von Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Rauh, 1856, pp. 196-197.
4. ↑ Parishes in 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states . Federal Office of Statistics. Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
5. ↑ Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001. Federal Statistical Office.
6. ↑ Incorporation of the Blindow district of the official municipality of Schenkenberg into the city of Prenzlau. Official Journal for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 40, Potsdam, October 4, 2001, p. 634 PDF
7. ↑ Change of Office Brüssow (Uckermark) Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of October 5, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 12, 2001, Number 43, Potsdam, October 24, 2001, p. 672 PDF
8. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 26-29
9. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
10. ^ 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)
11. ↑ Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019. Accessed on July 17, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019