Schorfheide (municipality)

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Coat of arms of the community of Schorfheide
Schorfheide (municipality)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Schorfheide highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '  N , 13 ° 33'  E

Basic data
State : Brandenburg
County : Barnim
Height : 62 m above sea level NHN
Area : 238.2 km 2
Residents: 10,143 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 16244
Primaries : 03334, 03335, 033393
License plate : BAR, BER, EW
Community key : 12 0 60 198
Community structure: 9 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Erzbergerplatz 1
16244 Schorfheide
Website : www.gemeinde-schorfheide.de
Mayor : Wilhelm Westerkamp
Location of the community Schorfheide in the district of Barnim
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Schorfheide is an unofficial community in northern Brandenburg . It only has 10,000 inhabitants, but at 238 km² it is the largest municipality in the Barnim district .

geography

With its northern part, the municipality has a share in the natural area of the Schorfheide .

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

The following are identified as inhabited parts of the municipality: blossom mountain, Buckow, Döllner Heide, Karlshöhe, Rosenbeck, Sarnow , Sperlingsaue, Uhlenhof and Wildau .

In addition, there are the living spaces Altlotzin, Conradshöhe, Döllner Siedlung, Eichheide, Forsthaus Prötze, Gardix, Grahsee, Hubertusmühle, Klein Dölln , Langer Grund, Margaretenhof, Rehluch, Trämmersee, Üderheide and Wildfang.

history

Finowfurt and its districts belonged to the Oberbarnim district since 1817 , Groß Schönebeck and its districts to the Niederbarnim district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . In 1952 Finowfurt was incorporated into the Eberswalde district , Groß Schönebeck into the Bernau district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) . Since 1993 all places have been in the Brandenburg district of Barnim.

The municipality of Schorfheide was created in the course of the municipal reform by amalgamating the municipalities of Finowfurt and Groß Schönebeck on October 26, 2003. Districts that were incorporated into these two communities were detached and became independent districts of the new community of Schorfheide.

population

Population development of Schorfheide from 2003 to 2016 according to the data on the right
year Finowfurt Gross Schönebeck year Schorfheide year Schorfheide
2002 8,054 2,349 2003 10,489 2015 9,908
2005 10,397 2016 9,966
2010 10,234 2017 9,947
2011 9,858 2018 9,999
2012 9,837 2019 10.143
2013 9,747
2014 9,757

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31, from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 57.5%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
44.3%
14.0%
11.1%
10.8%
9.7%
7.4%
BS a
WE
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Remarks:
a Schorfheide alliance
Seat of the municipal administration Schorfheide in an old warehouse in Finowfurt (2015)

The community council Schorfheide consists of 18 members and the full-time mayor.

Party / group of voters Seats
Schorfheide alliance 8th
The left 3
CDU 2
Free voters Schorfheide 2
WE for Böhmerheide, Groß Schönebeck, Klandorf, Schluft 2
SPD 1

(As of: local election on May 26, 2019 )

Local councils are elected in the districts of the municipality. They consist of three members in Altenhof, Böhmerheide, Eichhorst, Klandorf, Schluft and Werbellin, five members in Groß Schönebeck and Lichterfelde, and seven members in Finowfurt.

mayor

  • 2003–2019: Uwe Schoknecht (Schorfheide Alliance)
  • since 2019: Wilhelm Westerkamp (Alliance Schorfheide)

Westerkamp was elected in the mayoral election on September 15, 2019 with 50.4% of the valid votes for a term of eight years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on August 21, 2007.

Blazon : "Divided by green and gold diagonally to the left over a scaled-down blue corrugated shield base, covered at the dividing line by half a golden tree disc at the front and half a black mill wheel at the back."

flag

The flag of the municipality is two-stripe yellow-green (gold-green) with the coat of arms in the middle.

Community partnerships

The community maintains partnerships with the towns of Korschenbroich ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Mielno ( West Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland ) and Dorossiamasso ( Burkina Faso ).

Postcard of the Böhmerheide district from the beginning of the 20th century

Sights and culture

The list of architectural monuments in Schorfheide and the list of ground monuments in Schorfheide (municipality) include the cultural monuments of the State of Brandenburg, including the Groß Schönebeck hunting lodge with the Schorfheidemuseum in the district of the same name and the Askanier tower on the south bank of the Werbellinsee . Large parts of the municipality belong to the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve, founded in 1990 .

In the Schorfheide Wildlife Park, you can see native animal species such as otters , red deer , fallow deer , wild boars and European mouflons as well as wolves , bison , elk , lynx and Przewalski's horses .

There is an aviation museum in Finowfurt .

Road from Schluft to Zehdenick -Kurtschlag
Buckow municipality
Barnim near Buckow

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Run through the municipality:

The community of Schorfheide lies on both sides of the federal motorway 11 (Berlin– Stettin ). The junctions Werbellin and Finowfurt are located in the municipality.

The Groß Schönebeck train station and the Klandorf stop of the regional train line RB 27 from Groß Schönebeck to Berlin-Karow , the so-called " Heidekrautbahn ", operated by Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn AG (NEB), are located in the municipality .

In 1907 the Eberswalde-Finowfurt Railway was opened with the Finowfurt Ost stop and the Finowfurt station. In 1961 the passenger traffic was stopped, in 1995 the freight traffic.

Three waterways run through the municipality: the Oder-Havel Canal , the Finow Canal and the Werbellink Canal .

education

There are six day-care centers in the municipality as well as two elementary schools and one high school with elementary school (as of 2018).

Club life

There are opportunities to spend your free time in over 50 clubs. Seven of the nine districts have a volunteer fire brigade .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Finowfurt

Gross Schönebeck

Personalities associated with the community

  • Emil Bartoschek (1899–1969), painter, lived in Groß Schönebeck
  • Walter Krumbach (1917–1985), author of children's books and puppet shows, lived in Groß Schönebeck
  • Arno Spitz (1920–2014), publisher, grew up in Finowfurt
  • Reinhard Dahms (1944–1966), fatality on the inner-German border, lived in Finowfurt

Web links

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

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. ^ Statistical report. Population development and areas of independent cities, districts and offices in the State of Brandenburg 2018 , p. 9.
  3. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Schorfheide community
  4. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
  5. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Barnim . Pp. 18-21
  6. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
  7. ^ 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)
  8. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
  9. ↑ Main statutes of the community of Schorfheide from October 29, 2008
  10. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 354
  11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
  12. ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 15, 2019
  13. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
  14. ↑ Flag information from the main statute of the municipality of October 29, 2008
  15. ^ Daycare centers on the municipality's website
  16. ^ Schools on the community website
  17. ^ Associations on the municipality's website
  18. ↑ Volunteer Fire Brigade on the municipality's website