Vogelsang (Odertal)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′  N , 14 ° 40 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Oder-Spree
Office :	Brieskow-Finkenheerd
Height :	27 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.86 km 2
Residents:	711 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	121 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	15890
Area code :	03364
License plate :	LOS, BSK, EH, FW
Community key :	12 0 67 508
Office administration address:	August-Bebel-Strasse 18a 15295 Brieskow-Finkenheerd
Mayor :	Nils-Hagen Giesa
Location of the community Vogelsang in the Oder-Spree district

Vogelsang is a municipality in southeast Brandenburg in the Oder-Spree district . It is administered by the Brieskow-Finkenheerd office.

geography

The community is located about 15 kilometers south of Frankfurt (Oder) on the edge of the Ziltendorfer Niederung .

Community structure

Vogelsang has no officially designated districts, inhabited parts of the municipality or places to live .

history

The history of the settlement begins in the early Vistula Ice Age , as proven by a find of a hand ax from the Middle Paleolithic in the Vogelsang gravel pit. To the north of Vogelsang, there was an extensive Germanic settlement with iron smelting , as numerous slag from the slag show. Historically valuable finds, u. a. of urns and graves, are evidence of an early dense settlement of today's municipality. The late medieval population, on the other hand, must have had a high proportion of Sorbs , as Vogelsang has the highest proportion of Sorbian field names in the region.

On June 25, 1327, the Neuzelle monastery acquired five Hufen "zume Vogelsange" . The place name varies widely, in 1345 "the Vogilsang" , 1416/26 "Vogilsangk" , 1547 "Dorff Fogelsangk" , 1562 "Fogelgesangk" and from 1654 in the current spelling "Vogelsang" . The place name suggests a wooded area around the village with many songbirds , especially since there is no Lower Sorbian place name.

During the Second World War , a unitary power plant was built near Vogelsang to supply the armaments industry in the area with electrical energy. In February 1945 the Red Army built a bridgehead in the power station , which lasted until April. As a result of the fighting over the bridgehead, Vogelsang was almost completely destroyed.

Vogelsang had belonged to the Guben district in the province of Brandenburg since 1817 . Between 1950 and 1957 Vogelsang was part of Fürstenberg (Oder) and from 1952 it belonged to the Eisenhüttenstadt-Land district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) . The community has been in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg since 1993 .

Population development

year Residents 1875 653 1890 798 1910 963 1925 958 1933 930 1939 896 1946 532 1950 754 1964 772 1971 719

year Residents 1981 647 1985 620 1989 593 1990 557 1991 549 1992 561 1993 588 1994 608 1995 649 1996 683

year Residents 1997 748 1998 787 1999 821 2000 811 2001 831 2002 824 2003 863 2004 842 2005 837 2006 805

year Residents 2007 799 2008 807 2009 779 2010 773 2011 768 2012 763 2013 747 2014 728 2015 735 2016 727

year Residents 2017 722 2018 708 2019 711

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 Vogelsang consists of 10 community representatives and the honorary mayor.

Party / group of voters	Seats
Free voter community Vogelsang	9
SPD	1

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

mayor

• 1998–2008: Dieter Schulze
• since 2008: Nils-Hagen Giesa (Free Voting Association Vogelsang)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Giesa was elected unopposed with 86.6% of the valid votes for a further term of five years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on February 13, 2006.

Blazon : "In red from a golden shield base, covered with a blue wavy bar, growing a three-leaved golden oak branch on which two facing and singing silver birds sit."

Fallen memorial

Attractions

• Fallen memorial
• Power plant ruin of the Wernerwerk (Vogelsang power plant) .

traffic

Vogelsang is sandwiched between the Oder and the ArcelorMittal industrial area . The station of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn was approx. 1500 m away from the place but is no longer served. Via the state road L 372, Vogelsang can only be reached from the north via Ziltendorf or from the south via Eisenhüttenstadt .

The plan for a bridge over the Oder near Vogelsang is no longer being pursued.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wolfgang Cajar (* 1935), local history researcher

References

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. Vogelsang municipality
3. ^ Museum for Prehistory and Early History Potsdam: Publications of the Museum for Prehistory and Early History Potsdam, Volume 22. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, p. 135ff.
4. ^ Eisenhüttenstadt and its surroundings (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 45). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986, p. 88.
5. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Gansleweit: Investigations on naming and settlement history of the northeastern Lower Lusatia. The field and place names in the area of ​​the former Neuzelle Abbey (= German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history, Volume 34). Akademie-Verlag, 1982, p. 247.
6. ↑ Axel Drieschner, Barbara Schulz: Monument or contaminated site? A power station ruin in Eisenhüttenstadt tells of the arms industry, forced labor and war . In: kunsttexte eV (Ed.): Kunsttexte.de . No. 2 . Berlin 2002 ( hu-berlin.de [PDF]).
7. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Oder-Spree . P. 37
8. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Oder-Spree . Pp. 30-33
9. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 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 election on May 26, 2019
12. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Oder-Spree district ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Local elections in the state of Brandenburg on September 28, 2008. Mayoral elections , p. 10
14. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
15. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
16. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
17. ^ Ulrich Thiessen: Transport Minister Beermann: But no bridge over the Oder river north of Eisenhüttenstadt. June 18, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 . 

Web links

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

• Contribution to the RBB program Landschleicher on January 17, 2010
• Private website