Wildau
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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ N , 13 ° 38 ′ E |
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| State : | Brandenburg | |
| County : | Dahme-Spreewald | |
| Height : | 45 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 9.1 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 10,404 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 1143 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 15745 | |
| Area code : | 03375 | |
| License plate : | LDS, KW, LC, LN | |
| Community key : | 12 0 61 540 | |
| LOCODE : | DE EMU | |
City administration address : |
Karl-Marx-Str. 36 15745 Wildau |
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| Mayoress : | Angela Homuth ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Wildau in the Dahme-Spreewald district | ||
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Wildau (until 1922 Hoherlehme) is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg in Germany . The city is best known for the local Technical University of Wildau , the listed Schwartzkopff housing estate and the A10-Center shopping center .
geography
Wildau is located near the south-eastern outskirts of Berlin on the slope of the Teltow plateau . The place is bordered to the east by the Dahme , which gave the entire region its name.
The city has two cores, the historic village of Hoherlehme and the actual Wildau, which emerged in industrial times.
In the south and east, Wildau merges seamlessly into the former district town of Königs Wusterhausen and in the north into the municipality of Zeuthen . In the west, a wooded area separates the place from the Kiekebusch district in the community of Schönefeld . The city lies within the sphere of influence of Berlin Brandenburg Airport .
City structure
Wildau includes the inhabited parts of the municipality Hoherlehme , Röthegrund, Schwartzkopff-Siedlung, Waldsiedlung and the Bergsiedlung residential area .
history
The first documentary mention of the village of Hoherlehme can be found in Charles IV's land register from 1375. There Hoherlehme with the name Alta Lomen is listed. However, the settlement of today's urban area began much earlier. Archaeological finds show that there were settlements here as early as the Stone Age (around 2000 - 700 BC). One example is the area south of the motorway bridge ( BAB 10 ) to the Neue Ziegelei. Further finds prove the settlement over the Bronze Age up to a Slavic settlement.
The place name Wildau was first mentioned on November 22, 1855, when the Springziegelei estate was given the nickname Wildau. There was already a brickworks establishment there in 1846, but it had no name. In 1855 it was an arable estate, "located on the way from Königs Wusterhausen and Hoherlehme", which was previously run under the name "Springziegelei". There were two residential and three farm buildings there in 1860.
The breakthrough as an industrial location came in 1897 with the settlement of the mechanical engineering company Berliner Maschinenbau -Actien-Gesellschaft, formerly Louis Schwartzkopff , which manufactured locomotives in Wildau. With the establishment of a second company, Maffei-Schwartzkopff-Werke GmbH, the location became increasingly important.
The community of Hoherlehme was renamed Wildau in 1922. In 1931 there were 252 residential buildings. In 1939 there was an agricultural and forestry business that cultivated more than 100 hectares. In addition, there were four farms with an area between 20 and 100 hectares, six farms with an area between 10 and 20 hectares and one farm with an area of 5 to 10 hectares. Another three holdings owned 0.5 to a maximum of 5 hectares of land. After the Second World War, 434 hectares were expropriated and 336 of them were divided. One farm received 0.9 hectares, another two hectares, two farms together 17 hectares and 24 farms between 10 and 15 hectares (together 301 hectares). Another 15 hectares were divided between four old farmers. In 1958 a type III LPG was founded , which merged with LPG Zeuthen and PLG Zeuthen-Wildau. This construct was merged with the LPG Zeuthen-Miersdorf in 1959.
In addition to the industrial operations described below, in 1973 there was a furniture factory in the Königs Wusterhausen district, the VEB Molkerei Königs Wusterhausen Wildau-Hoherlehme, the PGH Aufbau Halbe, branch Wildau, the hairdressing trade Wildau, the painting trade Wildau and the mechanical workshops branch Wildau.
On March 27, 2013, the state government granted the municipality of Wildau town charter, which it was officially allowed to use from April 1.
Industrial history
The mechanical engineering location Wildau was founded in 1900 with the opening of the locomotive works of Berliner Maschinenbau AG (BMAG). For this purpose, BMAG acquired a large piece of land immediately to the west of the railway line, which was connected to the Dahme by a branch canal for freight shipping.
During the First and Second World Wars, production was partially converted to armaments and prisoner of war and forced labor camps were set up. In the northern part of the factory, the Maffei-Schwartzkopff-Werke started production in 1907, and AEG from 1936 . Among other things, aircraft parts were manufactured here. In 1949 both parts of the factory were combined into a state-owned company . Production was switched from locomotives to heavy engineering. From 1952 the heavy engineering plant was called " Heinrich Rau " (SHR), from 1969 it was part of the heavy engineering combine "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET). After 1990 most of the plants were shut down by the Treuhandanstalt .
The site of the industrial site is used today by the Technical University of Wildau as well as new settlements and successor companies of the heavy machinery plant (including Wildauer Kurbwellen GmbH).
Schwartzkopff settlement
The place is decisively shaped by the "Schwartzkopff-Siedlung" built from 1899, a workers' settlement of the Belle Époque . The former residential buildings for workers and employees of the plant, which are under monument protection , are built with dividing elements made of striking red clinker bricks. These were perceived as “ Brandenburg ” and therefore fit in well with the region. In contrast to Berlin workers' apartments at the same time, all apartments have an indoor toilet and a garden. The settlement was largely completed by 1918, consisting of 164 houses and 820 company apartments . This also included supply facilities, a school and a "casino" called entertainment venue with a large ballroom. More houses were added by 1926.
Overall, the settlement is laid out uniformly, but the type and equipment of the buildings vary depending on the year of construction and location. In today's Karl-Marx-Straße, the buildings in the area of the railway line are two-tier houses with a two-story structure. The houses located from the street running through the center of the settlement in the direction of Dahmewiesen and Dahmelauf were primarily built with two and three storeys. Individual houses are also single-row, mainly end or corner houses.
All houses in the area of Friedrich-Engels-Straße to Dahmelauf are three-story and have balconies, while in the area of Karl-Marx-Straße balconies are not available in all houses.
Since the entire settlement is under monument protection, attention must be paid to the preservation or restoration of stylistic features during renovation work. In particular, the lattice windows with their four-wing extension were restored, which had previously been partially replaced by tilt and turn windows. The renovation and modernization measures in the estate were awarded the special “Monument Protection in Housing” prize in January 2012 by the German Foundation for Monument Protection as part of the awarding of the German Building Owner Award.
Decorative elements have only been used on individual houses. Thus, individual, facing the street fronts with in the Karl-Marx-Straße ornaments provided red brick, some small zinc battlements were placed on the gables and ridges.
Despite the clear variations, the settlement is perceived as harmonious and stylistically closed.
In the same construction phase, villas were also built for the factory directors, which are located all around on the former Springziegelei estate in today's Eichstrasse. Eichstrasse was a private road and the workers at the plant were not allowed to use it.
Despite the bombing of the nearby locomotive works with its armaments production, the settlement was not badly destroyed during World War II. The factory owners' villas in Eichstrasse were used as a kindergarten and after-school care center after 1945 and are now used by a private school and a youth club. The former casino became the house of culture for heavy machinery builders after 1945 and is now the town hall under the name Volkshaus .
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 of Wildau consists of 20 city councilors and the full-time mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Party / group of voters | Seats |
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| SPD | 6th |
| The left | 5 |
| CDU | 3 |
| Alliance 90 / The Greens | 2 |
| Single applicant Frank Vulpius | 1 |
| Single applicant Frank Nerlich | 1 |
| FDP | 1 |
| Individual applicant Kevin Weidler | 1 |
Vulpius' share of the vote is equal to three seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, two seats in the city council remain vacant.
2014–2019 parliamentary term
The local election on May 25, 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
- SPD : 6 seats
- The left : 6 seats
- CDU : 4 seats
- FDP : 1 seat
- Individual applicant Lutz Rehfeldt: 1 seat
2008-2014 electoral term
The local election on September 28, 2008 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
- SPD 6 seats: Doreen Böhme, Angela Homuth, Wilfried Hoppe (until July 31, 2013), Hannelore Klank-Neuendorf (since August 1, 2013), Christian Ritter, Manfred Sternagel, Manfred Stöpper
- The left 6 seats
- CDU 4 seats: Mark Scheiner, Susanne Scheiner, Winfried Schenk (parliamentary group leader), Siegfried Steckling
- FDP 1 seat: Martin Stock. Since 2008 the CDU and FDP have formed a joint parliamentary group.
- Individual applicant Lutz Rehfeldt
2003-2008 electoral term
The local election on October 26, 2003 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
Since the WfW (We for Wildau) faction dissolved, this distribution changed after the community council meeting on November 7, 2006:
- SPD 8 seats: Martina Dietzel, Dr. Martina Frank (replacing Gerd Richter) Wilfried Hoppe (parliamentary group leader), Gerd Richter (died on April 20, 2008), Christian Ritter, Manfred Sternagel , Manfred Stöpper, Lothar Werchan, Sandro Zenker-Wandschneider
- CDU 5 seats: Helmut Pospieszny, Mark Scheiner, Winfried Schenk (parliamentary group chairman), Siegfried Steckling, Ulf-Ingo Zühlke
- The left 5 seats
mayor
In the mayoral election on October 15, 2017, Malich was confirmed in office with 56.8% of the valid votes. At the end of 2018, he resigned for health reasons.
In the runoff election for the mayor's office on May 26, 2019, Homuth prevailed with 57.1% of the valid votes against her competitor Matthias Mnich (Die Linke) and was elected for a term of eight years.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In blue a silver locomotive wheel braided with an erect golden stalk of corn with two ears and three leaves."
The heraldist and glass painter Carl Busch referred with his design from 1936 to the development of the place. Golden ears of corn symbolize the village of Hoherlehme and the formerly important agriculture, a flywheel refers to the industrial activity, especially the locomotive construction in Wildau and the originally red background takes into account the "considerable settlement activity" at that time. However, in a letter dated October 1, 1936, the community asked the Secret Prussian State Archives to change it to a cornflower blue background. On July 15, 1937, the municipality received the right to use the coat of arms with a cobalt blue background. Over the years the coat of arms was no longer used and was only preserved as a glass picture on the town hall.
With the resumption of the coat of arms in the 1990s, the symbols found a new meaning. The flywheel is now also an expression of the hope to be able to transfer the upswing of the 1920s in the lower part of Wildau to the upper part. The ears of wheat embody the bond with nature, u. a. on the Dahmewiesen and in the Waldsiedlung. Together with the blue background, they express the wish of the community, supported by “green building concepts” and research by the technical college, to bring industry and nature into harmony. With this justification, the continuation of the coat of arms was approved on May 19, 1994.
Town twinning
There are partnerships with:
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Taufkirchen in Bavaria
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Rewahl in Poland
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Hückelhoven in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Salla in Lapland ( Finland ) -
Lechbruck am See in Bavaria
Attractions
In the list of monuments in Wildau and in the list of ground monuments in Wildau are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg:
- Friedenskirche : In Wildau there has been a Protestant parish since 1900 . The Friedenskirche, which was built between 1909 and 1911, is located on Kirchstrasse. It was planned and built in the Art Nouveau style by the Royal Building Councilor Georg Büttner . Together with the neighboring rectory, it is a listed building as an ensemble. Pastor Cornelia Mix is responsible for Wildau and Zeuthen. The “Freundeskreis Friedenskirche Wildau” is dedicated to the restoration and maintenance of the church and rectory.
- Soviet memorial on Albert-Lemaire-Platz for 61 Soviet prisoners of war and 35 Soviet soldiers who perished towards the end of the war
- Honorary grave site with a wooden cross at the Wildau-Hoherlehme forest cemetery in memory of 44 perished forced laborers from the Soviet Union, France , Italy and Poland
- Three memorial stones on the grounds of the Technical University Wildau (FH) Bahnhofstrasse 1, house 13, for three anti-fascist resistance fighters : Otto Lemm, Otto Grabowski and Paul Schütze, all murdered in Brandenburg-Görden in 1944
- Memorial at the Wildau-Hoherlehme forest cemetery for the plane crash of an Ilyushin Il-62 on August 14, 1972, in which all 156 passengers and eight crew members lost their lives (see Königs Wusterhausen plane disaster )
Economy and Infrastructure
Established businesses
The factory premises of the former heavy machinery construction company , which was wound up by the trust after the fall of the Wall , houses a large number of well-known companies in the metalworking industry, mechanical and plant engineering and high technology. The Technical University of Wildau is also located there in several buildings and halls.
In the field of metal processing, in addition to Gröditzer Kurbwellen GmbH and Wildauer Schmiedewerke GmbH, (both subsidiaries of Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH), SMB Schwermechanik GmbH & Co.KG from the HNP group of companies can be found as well as kochmesser.de GmbH & Co in the vicinity KG, on whose company premises segments of the Berlin Wall are exhibited.
The companies SMB Sondermaschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, SMB Rohrleitungsbau GmbH & Co. KG as well as the companies airkom Druckluft GmbH and airplan Anlagenbau GmbH have settled in the area of mechanical and plant engineering.
In the high technology sector, the aerospace center with AneCom AeroTest GmbH, the Fraunhofer facility for polymer materials and composites PYCO, DELCON Deutsche Luftfahrt Consult GmbH, ETN Aerospace Production GmbH and a subsidiary of TRAINICO should be mentioned.
The A10 Center at the Königs Wusterhausen motorway junction of the A10 is a shopping center with a multiplex cinema with a sales area of 66,000 m² on one level. It is one of the largest retail locations in the Berlin area.
The business location is one of 15 regional growth centers in the state of Brandenburg. This promotes selected future-oriented industries.
traffic
The town's main street, Karl-Marx-Straße, is part of the Brandenburg state road 401 between the Berlin state border and Königs Wusterhausen . The thoroughfare in Hoherlehme (Chausseestrasse, Dorfaue, Miersdorfer Strasse) is the K 6160 district road. The A 10 (southern Berlin ring) with the Königs Wusterhausen junction leads through the city.
The Berlin – Görlitz railway runs through the city, where the Wildau train station was opened in 1900. Since the separation of long-distance and suburban traffic in 1951, it has been a station in the network of the Berlin S-Bahn , the penultimate station on the S 46 line from Berlin-Westend via the Südring to Königs Wusterhausen . By September 2013 the platform and the pedestrian underpass were completely renovated, an elevator installed and a second platform track built. The Bergstrasse level crossing was replaced by a tunnel in 2008, which made waiting times on the busy railway line superfluous. There is a second crossing of the railway line (on the same rails) in Freiheitstraße.
The four bus routes in Wildau are operated by RVS . They connect Wildau with Königs Wusterhausen, Zeuthen, Berlin Brandenburg Airport , Schulzendorf and Eichwalde and, above all, develop the residential areas far west of the S-Bahn stations and the A10-Center shopping center.
Part of the inland port of Königs Wusterhausen lies in the Wildau city area.
education
The following care, training and further education facilities are located in Wildau:
- Three day care centers
- Wildau primary school
- Ludwig Witthöft High School
- Private school Villa Elisabeth (private high school)
- Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau
- Technical Academy Wuppertal
- Trainico GmbH
- Zeuthen Academy for Further Education (ZAK)
- A private music school
- library
sport and freetime
In Wildau there are three sports halls, a swimming pool and a stadium. The swimming pool was expanded considerably in 2006/2007. A lifting floor pool, an 80 m slide, a mother-child area, a sauna area and a fitness area were added. In the long term, the city is also planning a sports park with another sports hall and an artificial turf pitch. There are also numerous sports clubs. The A10 shopping and leisure world is on the outskirts. In addition to numerous shopping opportunities, there is also a multiplex cinema and a bowling center. A skate park was created in the Schwartzkopff settlement.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1999: Wilfried Arlt (* 1936), founding rector and president of the Technical University of Wildau
- 2001: Heinz Lohmann, owner of the A10 center
- 2001: Herbert Müller (1924–2004), founder and director of the Wildauer Zupfmusikanten
- 2002: Arnold Heller († 2005), head of the community council
- 2002: Gerd Richter (1938–2008), mayor 1990–2001
- 2010: Irmgard Hornung (* 1936), teacher and local writer
- 2010: Bernhard Welsch (1941–2016), founder and chairman of the Association of Engineers, Technicians and Economists in the Dahme-Spreewald region
- 2013: Wilfried Hoppe (1936–2018), long-time chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council
- 2015: László Ungvári (* 1955), former President of the Technical University of Wildau
sons and daughters of the town
- Gerhard Bischoff (1925–2001), geologist
- Werner Voigt (* 1947), soccer player and coach
- Petra Elsner (* 1953), author and painter
- Christiane Schulz (* 1955), poet
Personalities associated with Wildau
- Friedrich Barthel (1881–1960), writer, lived in Wildau
- Otto Grabowski (1901–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism , lived in Wildau
- Walter Lehweß-Litzmann (1907–1986), director of flight operations at Interflug , died in Wildau
- Willi Stoph (1914–1999), long-time chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers , was buried in the forest cemetery
- Gisela Schertling (1922–1994), member of the Friends of the White Rose , catechist in Wildau, honorary grave at the forest cemetery
- Paul Dinter (1922–2001), cyclist with BSG Motor Wildau
- Gerd Uhlig (1927–2020), Lieutenant General of the People's Police of the GDR, lived in Wildau
- Kurt Singhuber (1932–2005), Minister for Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Potash of the GDR, trained and worked for several years in Wildau
- Manfred Sternagel (* 1934), politician (SPD), lives in Wildau
- Werner Heine (* 1935), footballer, coach of BSG Motor Wildau
- Achim von Paczensky (1951–2009), actor, lived in Wildau
- Tanja Stern (* 1952), writer, lives in Wildau
- Lutz Franzke (* 1953), local politician (SPD), grew up in Wildau
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 ).
- ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. City of Wildau
- ↑ Lieselott Enders (arrangement): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg , part 4 Teltow . Böhlau, Weimar 1976 (= Publications of the Potsdam State Archives, Vol. 13), p. 152
- ↑ Kulawsky, Richard: "History of the district Hoherlehme-Wildau"
- ↑ Franziska Mohr: Congratulations! Brandenburg's state government gives the municipality of Wildau city rights. Märkische Allgemeine , March 27, 2013, accessed on February 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Irmgard Hornung: “100 Years of the Schwartzkopff Settlement”. In: Wildauer Heimatbuch, Horb am Neckar 1999 p. 73 ff
- ↑ Awards for monument protection in residential construction. In: Monuments , No. 1 - February 2012, p. 98
- ^ Irmgard Hornung: Casino, Comradeship Home, House of Culture, People's House, House of Culture for Heavy Machinery Builders . In: Wildauer Heimatbuch, Horb am Neckar 2001, p. 313ff
- ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Dahme-Spreewald district . Pp. 34-37
- ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg according to urban districts, districts and municipalities 1991 to 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ 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
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 48 (6)
- ^ Result of the local elections on May 25, 2014
- ↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 23
- ^ Result of the mayoral election on October 15, 2017
- ↑ SVV is retiring Wildau's mayor. In: Märkische Allgemeine (MAZ). Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 74
- ↑ Result of the mayor's ballot on May 26, 2019. Accessed on September 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg
- ↑ Irmgard Hornung: The coat of arms of Wildau , in: Wildauer Heimatbuch , part I. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 1999, p. 92f, ISBN 3-89570-592-6
- ↑ partner municipalities. In: wildau.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Wildau soon to be more convenient for rail travelers. (No longer available online.) DB Mobility Logistics AG, February 21, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 3, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung - article from October 10, 2008
- ↑ Hoppe became an honorary citizen of Wildau. In: Blickpunkt, July 12, 2013
- ↑ Honorary Citizen of Wildau on www.wildau.de
- ↑ Wildau: Grave of honor for White Rose activist. In: Märkische Allgemeine , November 1, 2014
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