Schorfheide, Brandenburg

Schorfheide
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Schorfheide within Barnim district
Schorfheide Schorfheide
Coordinates: 52°54′N 13°31′E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Barnim
Subdivisions	9 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Wilhelm Westerkamp (Ind.)
Area
• Total	236.79 km2 (91.43 sq mi)
Elevation	29 m (95 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	10,252
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	16230, 16244, 16348
Dialling codes	03334, 03335
Vehicle registration	BAR
Website	Official site (in German)

Schorfheide is a municipality in the Barnim district of Brandenburg, Germany. It was established in 2003 by the merger of Finowfurt and Groß Schönebeck.

History

On 26 October 2003, the municipality of Schorfheide was formed by merging the municipalities of Finowfurt and Groß Schönebeck.

From 1815 to 1947, Finowfurt and Groß Schönebeck were part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, from 1947 to 1952 of the State of Brandenburg, from 1952 to 1990 of the East German Bezirk Frankfurt and since 1990 again of Brandenburg, since 2003 united as the municipality of Schorfheide.

Overview

Groß Schönebeck hunting lodge

Schorfheide further comprises the villages of Altenhof, Böhmerheide, Eichhorst, Klandorf, Lichterfelde, Schluft and Werbellin. It is situated immediately west of the district's capital Eberswalde and about 40 km (25 mi) northeast of the Berlin city centre. Schorfheide is the largest municipality of Barnim by area. Large parts belong to the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve.

In the 13th century the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg built a castle at the southern end of the Werbellinsee. In 1879 Prince Charles of Prussia had the Ascania Tower erected at the site. Groß Schönebeck houses a hunting lodge erected from 1680 at the behest of the Brandenburg Elector Frederick William I of Hohenzollern, now a museum. From 1950 until 1989 Altenhof was the site of the Pionierrepublik Wilhelm Pieck, a large camp of the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation.

Demography

Street near Schluft

• 
  Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule)
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  Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Schorfheide: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 6,223 —     1890 7,440 +1.20% 1910 8,055 +0.40% 1925 8,685 +0.50% 1933 9,978 +1.75% 1939 10,951 +1.56% 1946 12,001 +1.32% 1950 11,943 −0.12% 1964 10,761 −0.74% 1971 10,335 −0.58% 1981 9,377 −0.97% 1985 9,187 −0.51% 1989 9,024 −0.45% 1990 8,974 −0.55% 1991 8,892 −0.91%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 8,970 +0.88% 1993 9,238 +2.99% 1994 9,425 +2.02% 1995 9,585 +1.70% 1996 9,768 +1.91% 1997 10,015 +2.53% 1998 10,183 +1.68% 1999 10,324 +1.38% 2000 10,420 +0.93% 2001 10,456 +0.35% 2002 10,403 −0.51% 2003 10,489 +0.83% 2004 10,461 −0.27% 2005 10,397 −0.61% 2006 10,342 −0.53%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 10,331 −0.11% 2008 10,241 −0.87% 2009 10,172 −0.67% 2010 10,234 +0.61% 2011 9,858 −3.67% 2012 9,837 −0.21% 2013 9,747 −0.91% 2014 9,759 +0.12% 2015 9,908 +1.53% 2016 9,966 +0.59% 2017 9,947 −0.19% 2018 9,999 +0.52% 2019 10,143 +1.44% 2020 10,191 +0.47%

Twin towns

• Korschenbroich, Germany
• Mielno, Poland
• Carbonne, France

External links

Media related to Schorfheide at Wikimedia Commons