Briesen (Mark)

Briesen (Mark) is an official belonging to municipality southeast of Berlin in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg. It is administered by the Office Or foreland.

2.1 Prehistory
2.2 Middle Ages
2.3 Modern Times
2.4 Amalgamations
2.5 Demographics

3.1 Municipal Council
3.2 Coat of Arms

5.1 Education

Geography

Name

" Breezes " is about the Slavic- language equivalent of " Birkesdorf ".

Geographical Location

Briesen is within the Berlin glacial valley, which is crossed in the commune of a glacial trough. Within the channel there were numerous lakes, but they are largely silted up. Only a few remaining lakes are preserved. Today are in the gutter, especially Moore. The slightly higher Urstromtalflächen be built from the sands.

At the northern end of the village extends a 10 km long nature reserve. Southeast of Briesen, about 4 kilometers from the city limit, which is Kersdorfer lock. Built in 1888, it connects the River Spree in Berlin towards the Oder- Spree Canal, a major artery to the inland waterways of Eastern Europe. It consists of two lock chambers 57 and 67 meters in length. The northern chamber is extended since 22 April 2010 around 14 million euros to 115 meters.

The village lies on the old trade route between Berlin and Frankfurt ( Oder), which favored the development of trade and industry.

Community structure

The municipality Briesen (Mark) include the districts of Alt Madlitz, bending, Briesen, Falkenberg and Wilmersdorf. Other residential places are:

Colorful Protective
Buschhaus
Doris mill
Emilienhof
Fisherman's House
Freedom Loose
Karolinenhof
Kersdorf
Kersdorf
Kersdorfer lock
Madlitzer mill
New Madlitz
Vorwerk Briesen
Vorwerk Madlitz
Vorwerk Wilmersdorf
Waldhof
Waldschloßchen

History

Prehistory

Already in the year 600 the Slavs to have the area around Briesen settled - in the construction of the present Federal Highway A12 is a village complex was discovered from this period. Several sites in the surrounding forest area are registered as ground monuments.

Middle Ages

The oldest mention of Briesen is from 1403. 1495 sold the resident knights of the village with all its inhabitants to the wealthy Charterhouse Frankfurt ( Oder). Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg used the income of the village for the support he founded in 1506 University of Frankfurt, after the monastery taken a number of estates.

Modern Times

1842 Niederschlesisch - märkische railway between Berlin and Frankfurt ( Oder) was opened, Briesen was henceforth for the surrounding area, an important center. Here on November 1, 1918 occurred a serious railway accident when a military train in the left standing cars of a freight train went.

After 1945, the rural atmosphere, again influenced from stronger, recollected the inhabitants of their natural environment.

Not far from the Kersdorfer lock in today's "Forest House on the River Spree ", operating since 1969, the Ministry for State Security ( MFS) in the then "Forest House At high tide, " a property, the "object 74 ". After the research of Tobias Wunschik of the Gauck authority to Stasi officers who have trained RAF terrorists Christian Klar at Henning Beer and rocket-propelled grenades in the forest house. In addition, ten outs of the RAF and the 2nd of June Movement, which from 1980 to deposed with the help of the Stasi in the GDR, as has been the RAF activist Silke Maier- Witt and Susanne Albrecht, prepared in the forester's house on her life in the GDR be.

Incorporations

Bending was incorporated on 31 December 2002. Madlitz- Wilmersdorf was incorporated on January 1, 2014.

Demographics

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal council of the municipality consists of 12 community representatives and representatives as well as the honorary mayor.

WG farmers 7 seats
CDU 4 seats
WG Mountain / Wählisch 1 seat

(As at municipal election on October 26, 2003)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 27 January 2000.

Blazon: " Divided by an angle for sign foot; above in silver a red deer's head guardant, whose antlers surrounds a green birch leaf; blue wavy bottom. "

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Briesen (Mark) and in the list of ground monuments in Briesen (Mark) are registered in the list of monuments of Brandenburg monuments.

Evangelical Church, built in 1835-1838 in the classical style based on the standard church Schinkel

Bakery in Briesen

Economy and infrastructure

Education

The Martin Andersen - Nexo - school was inaugurated on 21 October 1956 the teaching but had already begun in the previous month. There was previously a garden area at the site of the school. In the school year 2006/2007 21 258 teachers supervised students. Is named the school after the Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø

Personalities

Werner E. drain (* 1946), politician

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