Werneuchen
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Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ' N , 13 ° 44' E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Barnim | |
| Height : | 75 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 117 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9162 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 78 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 16356 | |
| Area code : | 033398 | |
| License plate : | BAR, BER, EW | |
| Community key : | 12 0 60 280 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WEU | |
| City structure: | Kernort + 8 districts | |
City administration address : |
Am Markt 5 16356 Werneuchen |
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| Mayor : | Frank Kulicke | |
| Location of the city of Werneuchen in the Barnim district | ||
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Werneuchen is a north-east of Berlin situated town in the district of Barnim of the state of Brandenburg . As a city in the “closer interlinked area”, the Werneuchen basic center belongs to the European metropolitan region of Berlin / Brandenburg .
geography
Werneuchen is located on the Barnim , a mountain range between Berlin and Eberswalde . The landscape is shaped by the last ice age. The Weesower Luch nature reserve and lakes such as the Haussee in Seefeld and the Gamensee are evidence of this time . The city is located in the Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park .
The urban area borders in the north on the office of Biesenthal-Barnim , in the east on the offices in Falkenberg-Höhe and Barnim-Oderbruch , in the south on the city of Altlandsberg and in the west on the city of Ahrensfelde and the city of Bernau .
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities of Werneuchen are:
- Ahrensfelde
- Bernau near Berlin
- Biesenthal
- Altlandsberg in the district of Märkisch-Oderland
- Panke Valley
- Prötzel in the district of Märkisch-Oderland
City structure
According to its main statute, the city is divided into the following districts:
- Hirschfelde
- Krummensee
- Löhme
- Schönfeld
- Seefeld
- Deep lake
- City of Werneuchen
- Weesow
- Willmersdorf
The following residential spaces are also shown: Amselhain, Bahnhofssiedlung, Elisenhof, Rudolfshöhe, Steinau, Stienitzaue, Werftpfuhl and Werneuchen-Ost.
The city council of Werneuchen decided on December 19, 2013 to make the districts of Seefeld and Löhme, which had previously been connected to one district, independent. The separation became legally effective in the local elections on May 25, 2014.
history
The originally Wendish settlement of Werneuchen was first mentioned in 1247 by the signature of pastor Johann de Warnow as a witness on two documents. On April 24th or 25th, 1432, the city was completely destroyed by a Hussite troop who tried in vain to conquer Bernau on April 23rd . Since the city, unlike Bernau, had no strong fortifications, the residents had not tried to defend themselves, but fled. During the Thirty Years War, the city suffered greatly from looting and burned down almost completely in 1637. In the Middle Ages, the city became known through the Wröhe , a voluntary jurisdiction of the citizens to regulate land disputes and damage. It took place weekly or monthly under a linden tree in the church square.
Although it had been granted city rights since 1375 , the place never had supraregional importance. Theodor Fontane describes him in the walks through the Mark Brandenburg .
For the history of Krummensee, Löhme, Seefeld, Weesow and Willmersdorf up to 1874 see Amt Löhme .
With the construction of the Berlin – Wriezen railway line , the route of which via Werneuchen was significantly promoted by a local association (opened in 1898), Werneuchen's transport links improved significantly for the first time. In 1906 Werneuchen got a power station and electric street lighting. Between 1910 and 1930 a number of new residential areas such as Rudolfshöhe, Amselhain, Stienitzaue and Werneuchen-Ost were built. The regional train connection with Berlin remains an important addition to the Berlin S-Bahn, which ends at Ahrensfelde . However, this did not lead to large-scale industrialization, nor did Berlin-related suburbanization take place .
From 1937 won Werneuchen new importance as a military airfield of the German Air Force ( Jagdfliegerschule 1). After the end of the Second World War , the Werneuchen airfield was expanded considerably as a military airfield for the Soviet garrison and was used for military purposes by the Western Group of the Soviet Army (GSSD / WGT) through front-bomb, reconnaissance and helicopter units of the 16th Air Army until their withdrawal in 1993. Today it serves as a sports airfield .
The Soviet special camp No. 7, an internment camp , was located in Weesow after the Second World War and until August 1945 ; it was moved to Sachsenhausen .
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the Werneuchen office with its seat in Werneuchen was formed as part of the formation of offices in the state of Brandenburg. The Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg approved the formation of the Werneuchen office on July 13, 1992. July 31, 1992 was set as the date on which the office was established. The office initially consisted of nine communities in the former districts of Bernau and Bad Freienwalde : Hirschfelde, Krummensee, Löhme, Seefeld, Weesow, Willmersdorf, Schönfeld, Tiefensee and the city of Werneuchen. On December 31, 1998, the municipality of Löhme was incorporated into the municipality of Seefeld. As of December 31, 2001, the community Weesow was incorporated into the city of Werneuchen. On October 26, 2003, the communities of Hirschfelde, Krummensee, Schönfeld, Seefeld, Tiefensee and Willmersdorf were incorporated into the city of Werneuchen. The Werneuchen office was dissolved, and the city of Werneuchen is now vacant. Four districts sued the state constitutional court of Brandenburg unsuccessfully against this decision. The district of Seefeld-Löhme was divided into the two districts of Seefeld and Löhme in 2013.
Werneuchen belonged to the Oberbarnim district until July 1, 1950 , then came to the Niederbarnim district and on July 25, 1952 to the Bernau district in the GDR district of Frankfurt (Oder) . Today's Barnim district was formed on December 6, 1993 .
Today's urban area is identical to the area of the Werneuchen office that existed from 1992 to 2003 .
Population development
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Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census
politics
City Council
The city council consists of 18 city councilors and the full-time mayor. The following parties and voter groups have been represented since the local elections on May 26, 2019 :
| Party / group of voters | Seats 2014 |
Seats 2019 |
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| Independent voter group Werneuchen (UWW) | 2 | 4th |
| AfD | - | 3 |
| The left | 6th | 3 |
| SPD | 3 | 3 |
| CDU | 3 | 2 |
| Werneuchen voter initiative (WIW) | 2 | 1 |
| Free voters Werneuchen (FW) | - | 1 |
| The party | - | 1 |
| Voting group pro Seefeld (WpS) | 1 | - |
| The independents (YOU) | 1 | - |
mayor
- 2001–2019: Burkhard Horn (Die Linke)
- since 2020: Frank Kulicke (Independent Voting Group Werneuchen)
Kulicke was elected in the mayoral election on September 22, 2019 with 69.4% of the valid votes for a term of eight years.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on August 10, 2001.
Blazon : "Under a green shield head, covered with a silver double lintel rafter, in silver on a green ground a green linden tree."
The linden tree in Werneuchen's coat of arms goes back to a seal from 1670. The oak prevailed as a tree species in the 19th century. In 2000, the state archives of Brandenburg temporarily prohibited the use of the coat of arms, since a single tree does not distinguish it from other coats of arms. Until the final clarification, the city has a newly designed coat of arms for legal reasons.
Today's coat of arms with the “double lintel rafter” added above in silver on a green background, which is reminiscent of the first letter of the city's name, comes from the design of the Erfurt heraldist Frank Diemar .
Town twinning
- Dziwnów , formerly Berg-Dievenow, in Poland , since 1996
- Ustronie Morskie , formerly Henkenhagen, in Poland, since 1996
Attractions
In the list of architectural monuments in Werneuchen and in the list of ground monuments in Werneuchen are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.
Buildings
- Neo-Gothic town church St. Michael from 1873/74 (design: Robert Thiem ) with the graves of the Schmidt family (von Werneuchen), the memorial stone for the freedom fighter Otto von Arnim who fell in the battle of Blumberg and the mausoleum of the Petitjean family (in the architectural style of David Gilly )
- Catholic parish church St. Josef (Lamprechtstrasse)
- Werneuchen Castle , historicist building from 1913
- Rittergut Hirschfelde , an estate consisting of the manor house , the manager's house, the coach house , a horse stable, several other stable buildings, a schnapps distillery , a water tower and a kindergarten . The preserved buildings have been partially restored in recent years.
- Johannaheim in Werftpfuhl (district Hirschfelde ), donated by the Hirschfeld manor owner Eduard Arnhold and today used by the Kurt Löwenstein youth education center
- The village church Krummensee was built in the 13th century and was in the 14th / 15th. Century added a west tower . In 1866 the renewed church , the church facilities .
- More medieval village churches in
- Hirschfelde (still with damage from the post-war period)
- Schönfeld ( structure partly in ruins since the Second World War )
- Seefeld; In the churchyard there are numerous graves for fallen soldiers and Volkssturmmen from the Battle of Berlin on April 21, 1945
- Weesow
- Willmersdorf
Seefeld village church
Weesow village church
Memorial for the special camp of SMAD in Weesow
Church in Willmersdorf
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Historical monuments
- Commemorative plaque from 1993 on the community hall of the Tiefensee district on the B 158 in memory of the reform pedagogue Adolf Reichwein , who temporarily taught at the school located there and later participated in the anti-fascist resistance of the Kreisau district , which is why he was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1944
- Memorial stone in the forest cemetery of the Tiefensee district for the resistance fighters against fascism and war. Next to it is the grave of a Ukrainian slave laborer who died
- FIR - Memorial in the park on Paddenphul in memory of the anti-fascist resistance fighters
Parks
- The remains of the former park of the Hirschfelde manor , laid out by its owner Eduard Arnhold, are listed as a historical monument , as is the manor house . The bronze statue of a deer by Louis Tuaillon stands on the village green of Hirschfelde
Economy and Infrastructure
The former agricultural town of Werneuchen is still strongly characterized by agriculture and forestry in the municipality . Fruit growing dominates on the border with the Märkisch-Oderland district . The city itself has numerous smaller, primarily craft businesses, but also larger companies, for example in the food industry (e.g. Zuegg AG ). Together with BBG Brandenburgische Boden GmbH, it maintains several commercial areas. The ADAC operates a driving safety center in Werneuchen. In the north, at the Gamensee in the Gamengrund , local recreation, leisure and tourism are in the foreground. A campsite in Tiefensee on the Großer Gamensee offers overnight accommodation.
Aldi-Nord is based with one of its regional companies in the Seefeld district of Werneuchen, where it also has a large central warehouse.
With the Weesow-Willmersdorf solar park , EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg is planning the largest solar park in Germany on an area of 164 hectares in Werneuchen . EnBW wants to refinance the solar park exclusively through the sales proceeds of the energy on the free market; no state payments are to be made. According to EnBW, this is possible because the costs of photovoltaics have fallen by more than 80% within a decade. In October 2019, EnBW made the final investment decision. Accordingly, construction should start in 2020 and commissioning should take place in the same year. The company specifies a high double-digit million amount as the cost of the project, which has an output of more than 180 MW.
Public facilities
The city administration of Werneuchen employs around 80 people with subordinate facilities.
traffic
Road traffic
Werneuchen is on the B 158 federal highway between Berlin and Bad Freienwalde . The closest motorway junction is Berlin-Hohenschönhausen on the A 10 (eastern Berlin ring), around 10 km away.
Rail transport
The Werneuchen train station and the Seefeld stop are on the Wriezener Bahn . They are served by the regional train line RB 25 ( Berlin Ostkreuz –Werneuchen). The line is operated by the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB) in the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association, the Ostbrandenburg regional network of DB Netz is the operator of the railway infrastructure.
Local rail transport between Werneuchen and Tiefensee was canceled by the State of Brandenburg on December 10, 2006, after the connection to Wriezen had been discontinued in the 1990s. The train stations Tiefensee and Werftpfuhl were closed. The Werneuchen entry signal - Tiefensee section has now been bought by the Mittenwalder Eisenbahnimmobiliengesellschaft, which already owns the Tiefensee - Sternebeck section. The section has been leased to RegioInfra since 2013 .
Air traffic
The airfield Werneuchen is open to amateur pilots and business travelers.
education
schools
- Elementary school in the Rosenpark
- Europaschule Werneuchen (comprehensive school)
Daycare centers
- “Altstadtspatzen” day care center, Werneuchen
- “Sunshine” day care center, Werneuchen
- “Zwergenland” day care center, Löhme
- “Schneckenhaus” day care center, Schönfeld
- “Wirbelwind” day care center, Seefeld
- “Tiefenseer” day care center, Landmäuse Tiefensee
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Gottlieb Hermann Boit (1874–1921), pastor in Werneuchen
- 2006: Eberhard Müller, artisan
- Günther Engelmann, entrepreneur
sons and daughters of the town
- Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Stöwe (1756–1824), superintendent and astronomer in Potsdam
- Christian Westphal (* 1953), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
Personalities associated with Werneuchen
- Friedrich Schmidt , called Schmidt von Werneuchen (1764-1838), pastor and poet, lived in Werneuchen
- Eduard Arnhold (1849–1925), entrepreneur and art patron, manor owner in Hirschfelde , donated a. a. the Villa Massimo in Rome
- Adolf Reichwein (1898–1944), educator, member of the Kreisau Circle , teacher in Tiefensee in the 1930s
- Brigitte Helm (1906 / 1908–1996), actress, attended school in Hirschfelde
- Harald Jäger (* 1943), lieutenant colonel in a passport control unit in the GDR, is considered the man who actually opened the Berlin Wall and lives in Werneuchen
- Max Moor (* 1958), TV presenter, lives in Hirschfelde
- Sergej Alexander Dott (* 1959), sculptor, lives in Tiefensee
literature
- Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Volume 4 ( Spreeland ) "Right of the Spree" - Werneuchen
Web links
- Official website of the city of Werneuchen
- News and updates from Werneuchen
- Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Werneuchen from November 18, 2010 PDF
- ↑ City of Werneuchen on the service portal of the state administration
- ↑ December 20, 2013, Seefeld / Löhme - Werneuchen now with 8 districts on www.werneuchen.com
- ↑ Lutz Freundt (Ed.), Stefan Büttner: Red places - Russian military airfields Germany 1945–1994 , AeroLit, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935525-11-4 , pp. 135–143 and 292–293.
- ↑ Formation of the Ahrensfelde / Blumberg, Werneuchen, Groß Schönebeck (Schorfheide) -Land offices. Announcement of the Minister of the Interior of July 13, 1992. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 3, Number 54, July 31, 1992, p. 971/2.
- ↑ Incorporation of the community of Löhme into the community of Seefeld. Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 22, 1998. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Joint Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 10, Number 5, February 9, 1999, p. 71.
- ↑ Incorporation of the community Weesow into the city of Werneuchen Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior of December 19, 2001. Official Gazette for Brandenburg - Common Ministerial Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, Volume 13, Number 1, January 4, 2002, p. 6 PDF .
- ↑ Fifth law on state-wide municipal area reform concerning the districts of Barnim, Märkisch-Oderland, Oberhavel, Ostprignitz-Ruppin, Prignitz, Uckermark (5th GemGebRefGBbg) of March 24, 2003 Gazette of Laws and Regulations for the State of Brandenburg, I (Laws), 2003, No. 5, p. 82, amended by the law of 1 July 2003 (Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Brandenburg, I (Laws), 2003, No. 10, p. 187)
- ↑ 2. Amendment of the main statutes of Werneuchen 2013 .
- ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Barnim . Pp. 22-25
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 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)
- ^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
- ↑ "You have to leave the door ajar!" on www.verlag-vwm.de
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on September 22, 2019
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ↑ Information board at the Turner monument Ustronie Morskie
- ↑ EnBW increases its commitment in the solar energy sector at www.enbw.com
- ↑ EnBW wants to build Germany's largest solar park - and is planning without state subsidies . In: Handelsblatt , February 5, 2019. Retrieved February 8, 2019.
- ↑ EnBW is building Germany's largest solar park in Brandenburg . In: Wirtschaftswoche , October 16, 2019. Accessed October 16, 2019.
- ↑ Werneuchen. From the old days . Heimatheftverlag, Werneuchen 2012, p. 72
- ↑ People - Faces of the Regions. on www.verlag-vwm.de
- ↑ Future Prize 2011: Berec Recycling GmbH . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , November 9, 2011
- ^ Theodor Fontane : Before the storm , Volume I, Chapter 15 on the relationship between the poet school in Niederbarnim and that in the Lebus region in Ziebingen around Ludwig Tieck
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