Wenzlow

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the district of Heidesee see Wenzlow (Heidesee) .

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '  N , 12 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Office :	Ziesar
Height :	37 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.54 km 2
Residents:	529 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14778
Area code :	033833
License plate :	PM
Community key :	12 0 69 648
Office administration address:	Mühlentor 15a 14793 Ziesar
Mayor :	Randy Matthies
Location of the municipality of Wenzlow in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district

Wenzlow is a municipality in office Ziesar of the district Potsdam-Mittelmark in Brandenburg .

geography

Wenzlow is located between the cities of Ziesar and Brandenburg an der Havel in the west of Brandenburg. The community borders immediately to the south with the independent city of Brandenburg an der Havel, the regional center of the region. The Verlorenwasser and the Holzbuckau flow through the community . Both are tributaries of the Buckau , which drains to the Havel .

Wenzlow's neighboring communities are clockwise Brandenburg an der Havel in the north, Wollin in the east and south, Trenches in the extreme south, Ziesar in the west and Rosenau in the northwest. The community is primarily located on areas of the Baruther glacial valley . Western parts of Wenzlow can already be counted as part of the Fiener Bruch .

Community structure

The community includes the core town of Wenzlow, the district of Boecke and the district of Grüningen .

history

Wenzlow in the Hochstift Brandenburg

The places Wenzlow, Grüningen and Boecke were until 1571 in the Hochstift Brandenburg , the imperial principality of the bishops of the diocese of Brandenburg . Since 1817 they belonged to the Jerichow I district in the Prussian province of Saxony . Grüningen was incorporated into Wenzlow on July 1, 1950.

Wenzlow and Boecke were incorporated into the Brandenburg-Land district in the GDR district of Potsdam in 1952 . Since 1993 they have been in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark.

Boecke has been part of the municipality since March 1, 2002.

Population development

year Residents 1875 331 1890 331 1910 331 1925 331 1933 332 1939 338 1946 431 1950 717

year Residents 1964 588 1971 610 1981 551 1985 526 1989 533 1990 518 1991 495 1992 483 1993 486 1994 486

year Residents 1995 488 1996 494 1997 492 1998 533 1999 534 2000 537 2001 527 2002 645 2003 635 2004 611

year Residents 2005 595 2006 591 2007 591 2008 575 2009 557 2010 562 2011 545 2012 541 2013 534 2014 532

year Residents 2015 535 2016 543 2017 548 2018 530 2019 529

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 municipal council of Wenzlow consists of six council representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Citizens' initiative Gesundes Wenzlow	3
Individual applicant Andreas Linsdorf	1
Free citizens and farmers	1
Individual applicant Werner Kraatz	1

Andreas Linsdorf's share of the vote corresponds to two seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, a seat in the municipal council remains vacant.

Randy Matthies ran as both community representative and mayor. Since he accepted the election as mayor, his seat in the municipal council remains vacant according to § 60 (3) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act.

mayor

• 1998–2019: Martin Schäfer (Free Citizens and Farmers)
• since 2019: Randy Matthies

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Matthies was elected unopposed with 81.7% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

Church in Grüningen

In the list of architectural monuments in Wenzlow and in the list of ground monuments in Wenzlow are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Protected areas

In the 1990s, the lowlands of the Fiener Bruch west of the municipality of Wenzlow were designated as an EU bird protection area Fiener Bruch as part of the Natura 2000 network . The Fiener Bruch is one of only three breeding areas left for the Great Bustard , the heaviest bird capable of flying, which is threatened with extinction in Germany .

traffic

Wenzlow is located on the L 93 state road between Ziesar and Brandenburg an der Havel, directly at the Wollin junction on the A 2 .

Web links

Commons : Wenzlow  - 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. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Wenzlow community
3. ↑ Gustav Abb and Gottfried Wentz: The Diocese of Brandenburg . First part, In: Germania sacra , Berlin and Leipzig 1929, Walter de Gruyter, p. 66.
4. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
5. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
6. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . Pp. 30-33
7. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
8. ^ 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)
9. ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
10. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 48
11. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 60
12. ↑ Results of the local elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
14. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
15. ↑ Part sheet Northwest Protected Areas. In: Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark landscape framework plan. Office for Environmental and Landscape Planning, archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 .