Mahlsdorf

• Mahlsdorf North
• Mahlsdorf -South

Mahlsdorf is a district in the borough of Marzahn - Heller village of Berlin. It was first documented in 1345 as Malterstorp. Together with Kaulsdorf and Biesdorf here is Germany's largest contiguous area of ​​one-and two -family homes.

Topography

South of the jointly controlled route of the Federal Road B 1 and B 5 is located on the border with Kaulsdorf the so-called Berlin balcony, the only place in the Berlin area, where the height difference of the Barnim plateau to the Berlin glacial valley ( approximately 15 meters) can be traced.

Development of the community

Mahlsdorf was like any other village churches around Berlin on the Barnim, founded in 1230. It was a north-south oriented street village; the village church lies on the western side of the road. The old trade route from Berlin via Frankfurt to Poznan and Gniezno was south of the church of the village, which was later extended along the ausgebauteren trade route. Ersterwähnt documented it was in 1345 as Malter village. In the Land Book of Charles IV of 1375 Mahlsdorf is mentioned 50 hooves, including four parish hooves; there was also a pitcher ( taberna ). In 1450 two church hooves were also mentioned, and in 1459 was one Mahlsdorf a Rectory Berlin. The village shared the rights of greaves and Falkenberg, who also decreed accordingly over the church patronage.

In 1753 settled on adoption of the Prussian King Frederick II colonists from Plattenhardt Württemberg in the new district Kiekemal, who came from the district of Barnim it. By the beginning of the 19th century there was only a slight development with around 250 inhabitants. Then it came - especially in the early days - an explosive growth, encouraged by a 1885 opened railway station.

Mahlsdorf belonged to the district Niederbarnim in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. 1920 - at that time lived here 6000 inhabitants - it was incorporated into Berlin and belonged to the district of Lichtenberg ( in the GDR "district "). 1979 Mahlsdorf part of the municipality at the time the newly formed Marzahn, 1986 of the then newly formed municipality Heller village.

Social structure

Mahlsdorf is considered part of town with very favorable social structure and high purchasing power (ranked 33 among all 178 Berlin district zip code). The social index is significantly higher than the Berlin average. In Mahlsdorf very few welfare recipients live, it is the lowest number and the lowest proportion of all parts of the city (as of 2004). The proportion of foreigners is also very low at 1.3% (as of 2004).

Monuments

Medieval village church

The oldest building in Mahlsdorf is the village church from the 13th century. The church is an original early Gothic stone building. Typical of the time the nave was designed as a stocky nave hall, on the east followed by a fed, rectangular chancel with a straight rectangular choir of the. In some places the outlines of the bricked 1699 and replaced by large arched openings early Gothic windows are still visible.

The up to Traufgesims applied in Beam west tower, a narrow rectangular tower was set up in the late Middle Ages. Its gabled roof dates from around 1900 and runs against the practice from west to east. On either side of the choir are the usual vestry extensions.

The medieval space planning of the interior is still visible at the tip triumphal arch between the nave and chancel. One of the bells bears the year 1488th At Lampert Distelmeyer, Chancellor of the Elector Joachim II, commemorated by a stone tablet with its coat of arms. The pulpit is a gift of his son John of Kötteritz from the period around 1620.

Nearly a hundred years younger is the altar with the images of Mary, John and the city of Jerusalem in the background ( 1710). A coat of arms decorated grave stone in the southern sacristy cultivation is dedicated to the late 1579 Gertraut greaves, marital Housewife Peter Bretzke to Stettin.

Gründerzeitmuseum

About national fame, the district acquired by Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and Gründerzeitmuseum set up by her at the mansion Mahlsdorf. The museum houses Europe's largest contiguous collection of items from the early days and is popular as a location for film and television productions, theater performances, as well as a registry office. The museum is located within a park on Hultschiner Damm 333

Economy

In 2005, the waste disposal company ALBA built the most modern recycling plant on the site of the former SERO just east of Berlin balconies.

From 1959 until the turn were located in the former cinema Lichtenburg on Hultschiner dam production studios for the children's program Sandman television of the GDR. There over 1000 Sandman films were produced and sold in 43 countries worldwide. After it stood empty for many years, it was demolished around the turn of the millennium, despite many protests of citizens and built a supermarket and a youth club.

Policy

In the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2011, won in the constituency Kaulsdorf-Süd/Mahlsdorf Mario Czaja with 41.5 percent of the primary vote, the only direct mandate of the CDU in the eastern districts before the opposing candidate of the SPD and the Left Party.

Train

• Mahlsdorfer primary school
• Friedrich Schiller Elementary School
• Kiekemal Primary School
• Waldorf School Mahlsdorf

The Upper School at Elsengrund was closed at the end of the school year 2008/2009 and merged with the Otto -Nagel -Gymnasium in Berlin- Biesdorf.

Rail traffic

On September 1, 1895 Mahlsdorf station on the Prussian Eastern Railway opened in 1867 was put into operation. It consisted of two side platforms and lay on the Hönower road that crossed the Eastern Railway at the same height.

After the station was set up in 1929, the S-Bahn in 1930 reached the Mahlsdorf station. The Hönower road was 1929 not lowered, so that the passengers had entered the building through today's first floor at the beginning. It now consisted of two central platforms, one for the S -Bahn and one for the track Mahlsdorf - Strausberg. From the end of May 1931, another temporary for the S -Bahn passengers had been completed: the wooden bridge from the south - platform to the station building was demolished. In September 1941 there was a train accident when a retracting into the station train ran over the buffer stop and fell down on the road Hönower situated behind it.

Since March 7, 1947, the S -Bahn went on to Hoppe Garden, October 31, 1948 to Strausberg.

The State of Berlin provided on the second platform a regional train stop. However, the funding is still uncertain.

Prominent Mahlsdorfer

• Paul Grossmann (1865-1939), librettist, local historian and editor
• Alice Herz (1882-1965), pacifist and journalist
• Josep Renau (1907-1982), Spanish painter and mechanic photo
• Kurt Schwaen (1909-2007), composer, lived 1956-2007 in the Wacholderheide 31
• Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (1928-2002), founder of the museum founders time
• Gerhard Behrendt (1929-2006), director, puppet designer and creator of the Sandman
• Pure Sweet ( born 1930 ), opera singer
• Rudi Ray (1931-2001), writer
• Martin Kramer ( born 1933), Protestant theologian, university chaplain and Konsistorialpräsident
• Jurek Becker (1937-1997), writer
• Günter Holwas ( born 1950 ), blues musician
• Ralf Bursy ( born 1956 ), singer and music producer
• Kathrin Schmidt (born 1958 ), writer, winner of the 2009 German Book Prize
• Petra Zieger ( born 1959 ), rock singer
• Mario Czaja (* 1975), politician ( CDU)
• Susanne Graf ( * 1992), politician ( Pirate Party )