Stahnsdorf

Stahnsdorf
Stahnsdorf village church Stahnsdorf village church
Coat of arms of Stahnsdorf Coat of arms
Stahnsdorf
Location of Stahnsdorf within Potsdam-Mittelmark district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Government
• Mayor	Bernd Albers (Ind.)
Area
• Total	49.07 km2 (18.95 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	14,415
• Density	290/km2 (760/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	14532
Dialling codes	03329
Vehicle registration	PM
Website	stahnsdorf.de

Stahnsdorf is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography

It is situated on the Teltow plateau, about 20 km (12 mi) southwest of the Berlin city centre, and 12 km (7.5 mi) east of Potsdam. Neighbouring municipalities are the town of Teltow in the east and Kleinmachnow in the north, both immediately bordering the Berlin city limits.

The municipal area is bound by the Teltow Canal in the north. It comprises Stahnsdorf proper and the villages of Güterfelde, Schenkenhorst, and Sputendorf.

History

Stahnsdorf in the Margraviate of Brandenburg was first documented in a 1264 purchase contract of Margrave Otto III and the Brandenburg bishop. It originally consisted only of its old village green on a formerly important merchant road from Leipzig in Saxony via Güterfelde and Stahnsdorf, crossing the Bäke creek (the present-day Teltow Canal) at Kleinmachnow, and running northwards to Spandau.

With the construction of the Teltow Canal in the early 20th Century, the opening of the large Southwest Cemetery in April 1909, the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof and Friedenauer Waldfriedhof in 1913, and the opening of the S-Bahn route from Berlin-Wannsee station in June 1913 the development in a Berlin suburb began. In the following decades, the current site was created by the development of privately owned homes, the connection to Berlin-Lichterfelde by a tram and building a settlement for workers at the Bosch manufactures in Kleinmachnow. 1931 Stahnsdorf WWTP was put into operation, where waste water from the south of Berlin was treated. It was one of the first plants to produce biogas.

The construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 severed the connections to the bordering Berlin. In the communist era, the place was dominated economically, especially through the semiconductor business as a major operation and farms. The fall of the Berlin Wall set a renewing development by inflows, opening new home communities, and in recent years by commercial development, particularly in "Green Park", a large industrial park.

On 1 January 2002 Stahnsdorf in its present form was formed by the incorporation of the towns Güterfelde, Schenkenhorst and Sputendorf.

Demography

• Bevölkerungsentwicklung Stahnsdorf.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 Stahnsdorf.pdf

  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Stahnsdorf:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)

Year Population 1875 1 488 1890 1 495 1910 2 746 1925 3 399 1933 5 244 1939 8 391 1946 8 805 1950 8 900 1964 8 820 1971 8 869

Year Population 1981 8 341 1985 8 120 1989 8 154 1990 7 938 1991 7 892 1992 7 888 1993 8 065 1994 8 852 1995 9 431 1996 9 852

Year Population 1997 10 147 1998 10 880 1999 11 224 2000 11 506 2001 11 785 2002 12 216 2003 12 589 2004 12 977 2005 13 235 2006 13 488

Year Population 2007 13 817 2008 13 984 2009 14 112 2010 14 210 2011 14 156 2012 14 245 2013 14 415

Politics

Town hall

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeindevertretung) as of 2014 local elections:

• Bürger für Bürger (Independent): 7
• Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU): 5
• Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 3
• Wir Vier (Independent): 2
• Alliance '90/The Greens: 2
• The Left: 2
• Alternative for Germany (AfD): 1

External links

• Official website of Stahnsdorf
• Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery
• Official website of the Stahnsdorf Voluntary Fire Department