Hohenfinow

Hohenfinow
Hohenfinow
Location of Hohenfinow within Barnim district
Coordinates: 52°49′0″N 13°56′0″E / 52.81667°N 13.93333°ECoordinates: 52°49′0″N 13°56′0″E / 52.81667°N 13.93333°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Barnim
Municipal assoc.	Britz-Chorin-Oderberg
Government
• Mayor	Kerstin Bernhard (Ind.)
Area
• Total	21.91 km^2 (8.46 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)[1]
• Total	512
• Density	23/km^2 (61/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	16248
Dialling codes	033362
Vehicle registration	BAR
Website	www.birt-chorin.de

Hohenfinow is a municipality in the Barnim district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is part of the Amt ("municipal federation") Britz-Chorin-Oderberg.

Geography

Hohenfinow is located about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Eberswalde. It is part of a rural area on the northeastern rim of the Barnim Plateau, south of the Finow River and the Finow Canal. The glacial valley in the north with the neighbouring municipality of Niederfinow separates it from the adjacent Uckermark region. The historic village centre is surrounded by extended fields, meadows and pine forests.

History

Parish church

A fortress overlooking the Finow valley and a ford across the river was erected about 1220, after the area settled by Polabian Slavs had been conquered by the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg. The foundations of the parish church date back to around 1250. The settlement itself was first mentioned in a 1334 deed issued by the Wittelsbach margrave Louis I.

Temporarily held by Count Henry Matthias of Thurn, the estates were sold to the Pfuel noble family in 1614. During the indecisive stance of Brandenburg in the Thirty Years' War, Hohenfinow was devastated by a contingent under Ernst von Mansfeld in 1626, and again by Imperial, Saxon and Swedish troops in the following years. The rebuilding began with three remaining farmsteads. In 1780 the cornfields of Hohenfinow were mentioned in a travel account by Johann III Bernoulli.

In 1855 the Hohenfinow manor was purchased by Felix von Bethmann-Hollweg (1824–1900), scion of a Frankfurt banking dynasty and father of the later German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who was born here in 1856. In the last days of World War II, a unit of the "Army Detachment Steiner" rested near Hohenfinow before the troops withdraw to Eberswalde.

Demography

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)

Hohenfinow:
Population development within the current boundaries^[2]

Year Population 1875 776 1890 758 1910 812 1925 879 1933 864 1939 872 1946 894 1950 1 015 1964 829 1971 849

Year Population 1981 639 1985 579 1989 580 1990 574 1991 563 1992 546 1993 539 1994 541 1995 539 1996 558

Year Population 1997 569 1998 581 1999 571 2000 575 2001 555 2002 550 2003 543 2004 538 2005 537 2006 524

Year Population 2007 513 2008 509 2009 521 2010 524 2011 519 2012 500 2013 512

Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.^[3]

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. Boundaries as of 2013
3. Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons