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
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 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
The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 13 in East Germany. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Comm ...
.
Demography
File: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)
File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Schorfheide.pdf, 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)
Twin towns
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Korschenbroich
Korschenbroich ( li, Korsjebrooch) is a town in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Niers, approx. 13 km west of Neuss and 5 km east of Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach (, li, Jla ...
, Germany
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Mielno, Poland
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Carbonne
Carbonne (; oc, Carbona) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Geography
The A64 autoroute passes near the village. Carbonne station on the Toulouse–Bayonne railway has rail connections to Toulouse, Pau and Ta ...
, France
References
External links
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Localities in Barnim