Waldheim (Falkensee)
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Waldheim
City of Falkensee
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 45 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 48 ″ E
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| Height : | 32 m |
| Area : | 44 ha |
| Residents : | 806 (Dec. 31, 2007) |
| Population density : | 1,832 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1927 |
| Postal code : | 14612 |
| Area code : | 03322 |
The former colony of Waldheim is now part of the town of Falkensee in the Havelland district in Brandenburg . The self-contained settlement area Waldheim is located in the northwest of the city between the "Heimschen Heide" and the Bredower Forest and covers around 44 hectares. It is widely bordered by Nauener Strasse, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway and the Berlin outer ring of the railway.
history
The district was founded in 1900. The heavily moistened forest area with the original name "Faule Lake" was sold in 1898 as part of the Seegefeld manor by the merchant B. Ehlers to the German settlement bank and until then belonged to the Seegefeld manor district , which the bank moved to the Neufinkenkrug colonies after the acquisition, Waldheim and Neu-Seegefeld divided. Initially, however, there were no official permits to settle the area. On the initiative of the settlement bank, the "Bau- und Sparverein Finkenkrug eGmbH" was founded for the administration and development of the Waldheim colony, which resulted in 15 people willing to build home savings as settlers. In an officially required "Colonization Certificate", areas to be kept clear for the construction of churches, schools and parish areas were laid down. Finally, a mortgage of 50,000 marks had to be deposited as security for the entire colony. After further fundamental concerns, including the Seegefelder forest administration under forester Kopp, had to be clarified in part against settlement (since they did not want to do without a popular hunting area), there were finally building police requirements for the creation of drainage ditches and the filling of roads , as the area was often under water in the spring and the authorities considered it to be too swampy overall. The “Bau- und Sparverein Finkenkrug” acquired part of the Falkenhagener Sandberge from the municipality of Falkenhagen in order to be able to use this sand to create the required roads. Between 1899 and 1900 "Straße 1" (today "An der Rehwiese") and "2" (today "Hirschsprung") were laid out. At the beginning of 1903 the " Osthavelländische Kreisblatt" reported on the laborious transport of the required soil " on a field railway in tipping lorries that are pulled by horses ". The " Colony on the Faulen Laake " had "its entire terrain" increased by 75 centimeters.
The first twelve houses were built in 1901, and the first sales contracts were concluded from 1902. Wilhelm Hardt is noted as the first resident of Waldheim. Between 1910 and 1912 the first gas and water pipes were laid in the colony (gas supply from Seegefeld, water supply from Nauen ). At the beginning of the First World War there were around 20 houses in Waldheim. Land purchases increased more rapidly between 1918 and 1922. A “half-train” of the volunteer fire brigade was stationed in the settlement during this time. The “Neufinkenkruger Zeitung” reported on June 14, 1924 of a “major fire” in Waldheim, in which one person was injured and an outbuilding and various stocks of wood and hay fell victim. On October 1, 1925, Neufinkenkrug and Waldheim merged to form their own parish.
After the amalgamation of Falkenhagen and Seegefeld in 1923 to form the "largest rural community in Germany", the community of Falkensee became the owner of Waldheim on April 1, 1927 as part of the exchange of land. Further streets were opened up and new settlers were attracted. With the incorporation of the Damsbrück manor on October 1, 1928, the Waldheim forester's house finally came into the possession of the new community. Around this time, residents of Waldheim took their own initiative and laid out Eichkittenallee, which is around 900 m long and 2.50 m wide, as the exclusive pedestrian and cycle path to the Finkenkrug station, which was completed in 1908 . Probably in the 1930s, the wild boar trail, one of the two main axes in Waldheim, was finally paved with a solid road surface.
The original plan for the Berlin motorway ring was to lead the ring and the motorway coming from Hamburg directly past Waldheim like a pincer. The ring would have run west on today's Berlin railway outer ring, the motorway to Hamburg coming from Reichsstrasse 5 would have run in the embankment on the now wooded section between Waldheim and Havelländer Weg / Karl-Marx-Strasse. The motorway junction would have been roughly level with the current Ri Brieselang level crossing.
During the Second World War, at the end of the war, Allied bomber groups dropped five high-explosive bombs over Waldheim, which completely destroyed two houses and damaged another.
In 1953, the nearby “ Falkenhagen (Kr Nauen) ” station on the outer ring of Berlin was completed as the third station in the Falkensee community, as a result of which the somewhat remote district of Waldheim experienced a significant improvement in traffic structure and was now accessible via two stations. Until the 1970s / 1980s there were three small grocery stores (private and state-owned shops), two gardening shops, a hairdressing salon, a grinding shop and a bar called "Zur Wilden Sau" (recently also occasionally used as a clubhouse for club meetings and events) in the settlement At that time there was a public square across from the pub, where the Whitsun festival took place almost every year, and in addition to the Whitsun concert, a prize shooting and bowling also took place. At that time there was u. a. Wild ducks shot by the hunter from Waldheim or, for the winner, a live sheep. Not only the residents from Waldheim came to the festival, but also many guests from Falkensee. Later the house became a hotel and restaurant. After a few years of successful operation, it was then sold. The restaurant / hotel became a retirement home. After a few years, the old people's home was sold again.
From 1990 onwards, there was a greater influx of people to Waldheim. The population rose from 317 in 1989 to 806 (as of December 31, 2007). An environmental scandal caused an uproar in 1998 when the previously unpaved road “Hasenwinkel”, along with 18 other roads in Falkensee, was provisionally paved with recycling material and the residents found asbestos waste in this pavement . As a result, both the Hasenwinkel and the other 18 contaminated streets were given an asphalt surface to seal off the hazardous materials. In 2008 and 2009, Waldheim is one of the last regions in the Falkensee city area to be connected to the public sewage network in Falkensee.
traffic
Waldheim is connected to the rest of the Falkensee via 2 streets (Hirschsprung and Eichkittenallee). Two bus lines offer connections to the regional train stations Finkenkrug and Falkensee. The neighboring town of Brieselang is served by line 656 . There is also the nearby junction Brieselang (AS 27) of the federal motorway 10 .