Borkwalde
Borkwalde is like its neighboring community Borkheide a relatively young forest community in the district Potsdam- agent Mark Brandenburg and part of the district bridge and at the same time the youngest town in this office.
The town is located southwest of the Berlin ring between Beelitz and Lehnin. In the west and south Borkwalde is enclosed by Truppenübungsplatz Lehnin and to the east of a 100 hectare ' precautionary location for large-scale commercial and industrial projects '.
The colonization of Borkwalde
Up until the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was today Borkwalde probably only from the forest. Borkwalde arose from the sale of forests, were among the canine and Busendorfer large farmers. There is here no association with the emergence of community Borkheide. The first owner of the colony Borkwalde the Judicial Bredereck is called from Berlin. He placed in 1912 in a very short time 150 acres of forest terrain. More and more of Berlin built in the tranquil woodland setting houses and arcades; especially for the weekends. So now the "old- Borkwalde " called settlement part was.
In the 1920s, in turn, began one of the great population boom and the area has been extended to the colony " Saalberg ". On April 19, 1928, the settlers founded the Landowners Association "settlement weekend " in 1932 changed its name to "real estate owned club Borkwalde " changed. The date of the name change consider the Borkwalder as her year of birth. Although officially only a few inhabitants were registered talking on the weekends sometimes up to 3000 people in the forest settlement on. The German Reichsbahn has even advertised with a settler card; who had less than 30 m² living space, was able to drive on the weekend for 60 pennies from Berlin to Bork.
Even more recently arisen on an area of 35 hectares more numerous homes and multi-family houses - almost exclusively as colorful wooden houses. ( " Sweden settlement "). It involves the continuous Holzhaussiedlung Europe's largest.
Epilogue
Although Borkwalde is a very young community, its history already holds many uncertainties. Contrary to the assumption of many inhabitants there - except for the choice of the place name - only indirectly related to the emergence of the neighboring town Borkheide. Assuming that the first recorded mention of archiving the evidence dates the founding year, the previous Founded in 1932, probably not true. Rather, the local council is, according to the latest findings of Ortschronistin, now assume that the establishment has already taken place in 1912. Appropriate records of a building permit were found at the local court of Charlottenburg.
Policy
Parish council
The Council of the Municipality Council consists of 13 women and councilors.
- We in Borkwalde 7 seats
- Borkwalder Notgemeinschaft 3 seats
- The left 2 seats
- SPD 1 seat
(As at municipal election held on September 28, 2008 )
Attractions
In the center is a listed monument to Ernst Thalmann and a proven than ground monument boundary marker.