Uckerfelde

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 13 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Uckermark
Office :	Gramzow
Height :	87 m above sea level NHN
Area :	46.21 km 2
Residents:	956 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17291
Primaries :	039858, 039861
License plate :	UM, ANG, PZ, SDT, TP
Community key :	12 0 73 578
Office administration address:	Poststrasse 25 17291 Gramzow
Website :	www.amtgramzow.de
Mayor :	Peter Gerhardt
Location of the community Uckerfelde in the district of Uckermark

Uckerfelde is a municipality in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark in northeast Germany . She belongs to the Gramzow office .

geography

The Uckerfelde municipality in the Uckermark region is located southeast of the district town of Prenzlau in a ground moraine area that extends between the parallel Ucker and Randow valleys . The lake-rich area is characterized by intensive agriculture and many wind turbines . The highest elevations within the municipality are the Hohe Berg and the Bollenberg with 104 and 103  m above sea level. NN .

Community structure

The districts Bertikow , Bietikow, Falkenwalde and Hohengüstow as well as the residential areas Kleinow, Mattheshöhe, Neu-Kleinow and Weselitz belong to the community of Uckerfelde .

history

The Falkenwalde site is located in the municipality.

According to a document, Bertikow's village history can be traced back to 1243 , about 30 years earlier the village of Bietikow was first mentioned under the name Bitcowe .

Von Arnim tombstone

Church in Bietikow

Falkenwalde Church

Brick church in Hohengüstow

The place Bietikow, part of the community Uckerfelde, was first mentioned in 1214 under "Bitcowe". Before that there was a Slavic settlement on the Haussee. Archaeological finds prove a settlement history in the epochs since the Neolithic. During the German colonization, Bietikow was created as an anger village. In the Middle Ages around 1375, the von Blankenburg, von Eickstedt and Seehausen monastery owned the site , whose share came to the Gramzow office after the monastery was dissolved in 1543. From free surfaces made around 1424 manor which von Arnim who came into possession of the whole village to the 1650th The property was expropriated in 1945 and the land was given to new farmers and resettlers as part of the land reform. The von Arnim family farms the land again today .

For 1573 there was a schoolboy , a blacksmith and a shepherd in the village, in 1775 there was a sheep farm, 17 farmers and 42 campfires. In 1900, four farmers, five landowners, a blacksmith, a teacher and a road supervisor were counted. After 1945 37 landless and poor farmers and resettlers found a new home in Bietikow .

The current district of Falkenwalde - originally laid out as an anger village - was first mentioned in a document in 1375 .

The village of Hohengüstow was called Güstrow until around 1900 ; it appears for the first time in a document in 1365 . In the 1930s, the eastern part of Hohengüstow was settled, and around 15 families from southern Germany created new livelihoods here.

Administrative history

Bertikow and Hohengüstow belonged to the Angermünde district since 1817 , Bietikow and Falkenwalde to the Prenzlau district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . In 1952 the four places were incorporated into the Prenzlau district in the GDR district of Neubrandenburg . Since 1993 they have been in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark.

The community of Uckerfelde was created on December 31, 2001 from the merger of the previously independent communities Bertikow, Bietikow, Falkenwalde and Hohengüstow.

Population development

year Residents 2001 1 126 2002 1 118 2003 1 085 2004 1 095

year Residents 2005 1,089 2006 1,087 2007 1 061 2008 1 054 2009 1 046

year Residents 2010 1 053 2011 1 008 2012 997 2013 992 2014 953

year Residents 2015 948 2016 943 2017 931 2018 952 2019 956

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

politics

Community representation

The community council of Uckerfelde consists of ten 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
Uckerfelde-Bietikow-Bertikow voter group	4th
Hohengüstow voter group	2
Voting group We for the citizens	2
Individual applicant Peter Gerhardt	1
AfD	1

mayor

• 2003–2014: Manfred Endrunat
• 2014–2019: Jörg Mach
• since 2019: Peter Gerhardt

Gerhardt was elected mayor in the mayor election on May 26, 2019, with 80.9% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

In the list of monuments in Uckerfelde are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

• Falkenwalder Church (Gothic stone building with wall paintings from the pre-Reformation period)
• Hohengüstow brick church
• Field stone church in the Bertikow district

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture is still formative in the entire municipality. At the motorway junction near the district Hohengüstow one works highway maintenance .

The Uckermark power plant , a network of wind turbines and a biomass power plant , is located in the Bertikow district .

traffic

The B 198 (Prenzlau - Angermünde ) runs through the districts of Bietikow and Hohengüstow and leads to the Gramzow motorway junction on the A 11 (Berlin - Stettin ). The motorway triangle Kreuz Uckermark (A 11, A 20 , B 166 ) is partly in the Uckerfeldes municipality.

The next rail connection is in Prenzlau, about ten kilometers away . The Schönermark – Damme circuit with the Kleinow stop was shut down on June 30, 1997.

Personalities

• Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (1724–1795), pastor and butterfly researcher , born in Falkenwalde

Web links

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

• Bietikow in the RBB program Landschleicher on October 28, 2007
• Bertikow in the RBB program Landschleicher on March 27, 2005

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. Uckerfelde community
3. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2001
4. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Uckermark . Pp. 30-33
5. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 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. ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 34
9. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019