Schorfheide (municipality)

Schorfheide
Coat of arms of Schorfheide Coat of arms
Schorfheide
Location of Schorfheide within Barnim district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Barnim
Government
• Mayor	Uwe Schoknecht (Free Voters)
Area
• Total	236.79 km2 (91.43 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	9,747
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	16230, 16244, 16348
Dialling codes	03334, 03335
Vehicle registration	BAR
Website	Official site (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.

Overview

File:GrossSchönebeck 07-2015 img1 Jagdschloss.jpg

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 on the behest of the Brandenburg Elector Frederick William I of Hohenzollern, tody 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

File:Schorfheide Schluft street.jpg

Street near Schluft

• Bevölkerungsentwicklung Schorfheide.pdf

  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)

• Bevölkerungsprognosen Schorfheide.pdf

  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Schorfheide:
Population development within the current boundaries

Year Inhab. 1875 6223 1890 7440 1925 8685 1933 9978 1939 10951 1946 12001 1950 11943 1964 10761 1971 10335 1981 9377

Year Inhab. 1985 9187 1989 9024 1990 8974 1991 8892 1992 8970 1993 9238 1994 9425 1995 9585 1996 9768 1997 10015

Year Inhab. 1998 10183 1999 10324 2000 10420 2001 10456 2002 10403 2003 10489 2004 10461 2005 10397 2006 10342 2007 10331

Year Inhab. 2008 10241 2009 10172 2010 10234 2011 9858 2012 9837

Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.

Twin towns

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

External links

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