The small village of Selchow is one of the six districts of the municipality of

Schönefeld Schönefeld (, meaning ''beautiful field'') is a suburban municipality in the Dahme-Spreewald district, Brandenburg, Germany. It borders the southeastern districts of Berlin. The municipal area encompasses the old Berlin Schönefeld Airport (SXF) ...

in the district of

Dahme-Spreewald Dahme-Spreewald (, ) is a district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Oder-Spree, Spree-Neiße, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Elbe-Elster and Teltow-Fläming, and by the city of Berlin. History Th ...

south of

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. It borders in its east and south directly on the

Berlin Brandenburg Airport Berlin Brandenburg Airport () () is an international airport in Schönefeld, just south of the Germany, German capital and state of Berlin, in the state of Brandenburg. Named after the former Mayor of West Berlin, West Berlin mayor and Chance ...

(BER) and lies between its southern and the end of the northern runway.

Geographical classification

Selchow borders clockwise on the following villages (starting in the north):

Waßmannsdorf Waßmannsdorf is a village and a civil parish (''Ortsteil'') of the German town of Schönefeld, located in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg. As of 2007 its population was of around 1,000. History First mentioned in 1350 as ''Wasmans ...

, Groß-Kienitz, Glasow, Mahlow and Großziethen.

Traffic

The Bundesstraße 96a runs through ''Selchow'', as well as the ''Landesstraße 75''. The

Bundesstraße 96 The Bundesstraße 96 (B 96) is a federal highway in Germany. It begins in Zittau in Saxony, close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, heads north through Berlin and ends in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen in ...

is connected to the west via the country road. The nearest freeway junction is the ''Schönefeld-Süd'' junction of the Bundesautobahn 113. The village is connected to

Waßmannsdorf station The Waßmannsdorf station is a stop of the Berlin S-Bahn in Waßmannsdorf in the municipality of Schönefeld on the Grünau Cross–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway. It was completed in October 2011 and opened on 26 October 2020, five days bef ...

via the bus line 742.

Places of interest

*The village church of ''Selchow'' is a Romanesque

fieldstone church A fieldstone church () is a type of church, built using fieldstone of glacial erratics and glacial rubble. Such cathedrals and monasteries occur mostly in areas where the ice ages have deposited such rock material on the one hand, and where on t ...

from the first half of the

13th century The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCI) through December 31, 1300 (MCCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched ...

. The windows were partly enlarged around 1700; the building was restored in 1972 and 1973. Inside there is, among other things, a two-storey pulpit altar and a fifth from 1710 as well as a

crucifix A crucifix (from the Latin meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the (Latin for 'body'). The cru ...

, which was created at the end of the 15th century. *Lake Selchow ''(Selchower See)''

Crest

Blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...

: "On a blue background above a green shield base a silver church in side view. In the heraldically left upper corner two opposite horseshoes in S-shape, placed one inside the other. The coat of arms reflects prominent points of the village, on the one hand the church and on the other hand the

horses The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 milli ...

, which outnumber the inhabitants. The

horseshoe A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail, altho ...

arrangement as S comes from the first letter of the village name.

References

External links

*{{official website, www.gemeinde-schoenefeld.de/ortsteil-selchow.html Localities in Dahme-Spreewald