Großbeeren

Großbeeren
Coat of arms
Großbeeren
Location of Großbeeren within Teltow-Fläming district
Coordinates: 52°21′16″N 13°18′22″E / 52.35444°N 13.30611°ECoordinates: 52°21′16″N 13°18′22″E / 52.35444°N 13.30611°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Teltow-Fläming
Government
• Mayor	Carl Ahlgrimm (Ind.)
Area
• Total	51.89 km^2 (20.03 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
• Total	8,291
• Density	160/km^2 (410/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	14979
Dialling codes	033701
Vehicle registration	TF
Website	www.grossbeeren.de

Großbeeren is a municipality in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the German state of Brandenburg.

Geography

View from the Battle of Großbeeren Memorial Tower, north towards the village church. Berlin's skyline in the background.

Located about 3 km south of Berlin's city limits. It includes the localities of Diedersdorf, Heinersdorf and Kleinbeeren.

Demography

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  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 (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Großbeeren:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)^[2]

Year Population 1875 1 953 1890 2 797 1910 3 547 1925 3 676 1933 3 606 1939 4 346 1946 4 240 1950 4 434 1964 3 770 1971 3 720

Year Population 1981 3 460 1985 3 452 1989 3 259 1990 3 171 1991 3 112 1992 3 134 1993 3 230 1994 3 480 1995 3 778 1996 4 323

Year Population 1997 4 874 1998 5 414 1999 5 833 2000 6 077 2001 6 306 2002 6 473 2003 6 654 2004 6 809 2005 7 034 2006 7 146

Year Population 2007 7 213 2008 7 335 2009 7 397 2010 7 466 2011 7 666 2012 7 794 2013 8 291

History

Großbeeren memorial tower

Großbeeren was first mentioned in a 1271 deed. It was devastated in the Thirty Years' War and again in 1760, when Russian and Habsburg troops in the course of the Seven Years' War burnt down the church and several houses.

On 23 August 1813 the Sixth Coalition under Crown Prince Charles John of Sweden and General Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow defeated three corps of the Imperial French Army under Marshal Nicolas Oudinot in their advance on Berlin at the Battle of Großbeeren. A memorial tower in the village centre was erected on the hundredth anniversary in 1913. Furthermore, a fieldstone pyramid from 1906 on a pasture west of Großbeeren is dedicated to General von Bülow.

In September 1942 the Gestapo established a labour camp in Großbeeren, where at least 1197 forced labourers from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Poland, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were killed. Werner Seelenbinder was imprisoned here in 1943.

Church (by Schinkel)

Großbeeren shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall.

The municipality houses the Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community.

Transportation

Großbeeren can be reached via the Bundesstraße 101 federal highway. It has also access to the Berlin-Halle railway line. A large logistics complex serves for storage and distribution of goods addresses to Berlin.

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2013 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2014.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons