Schöneiche

Schöneiche
Municipality
Schöneiche – Old Castle Church
Coat of arms
Location of Schöneiche within Oder-Spree district
Schöneiche Schöneiche
Coordinates: 52°28′00″N 13°40′59″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Government
• Mayor (2016–24)	Ralf Steinbrück (SPD)
Area
• Total	16.64 km2 (6.42 sq mi)
Elevation	38 m (125 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	13,142
• Density	790/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15566
Dialling codes	030
Vehicle registration	LOS
Website	www.schoeneiche-bei-berlin.de

Palace Schöneiche around 1860, Edition by Alexander Duncker

Schöneiche is a municipality in the Oder-Spree District of Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated directly at the edge to Berlin/Friedrichshagen and next to Rüdersdorf and Woltersdorf, Brandenburg on the eastern edge of the German capital Berlin.

It is served by the Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway which runs from Rüdersdorf to Berlin-Friedrichshagen station on the Berlin S-Bahn network.

Demography

• 
  Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)
• 
  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 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

Schöneiche bei Berlin: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 846 —     1890 1,005 +1.15% 1910 2,984 +5.59% 1925 4,727 +3.11% 1939 9,153 +4.83% 1950 9,561 +0.40% 1964 9,970 +0.30%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1971 10,175 +0.29% 1981 9,241 −0.96% 1985 8,906 −0.92% 1990 8,199 −1.64% 1995 9,428 +2.83% 2000 11,299 +3.69% 2005 12,004 +1.22%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2010 12,196 +0.32% 2015 12,311 +0.19% 2016 12,337 +0.21% 2017 12,494 +1.27% 2018 12,666 +1.38% 2019 12,789 +0.97% 2020 12,899 +0.86%

Notable people

• Georg Luger (1849–1923), designer of the famous Luger pistol
• Max Fechner (1892–1973), politician (SPD / SED), 1924–1933 Deputy of the Prussian Landtag, 1949–1953 Minister of Justice of the GDR
• Margarete Herzberg (1921–2007), operatic mezzosoprano

'Ottokar Domma (1924–2007), journalist and writer

• Heinz Schröder (1928–2009), puppet player (Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen, Mr. Fuchs and Mrs. Elster)
• Waltraud Kretzschmar (1948–2018), handball player
• Frank Terletzki (born 1950), footballer
• Bernhard Hochwald (born 1957), olympic shooter
• Frank Pastor (born 1957), footballer
• Lisa Buckwitz (born 1994), bobsledder, olympic gold medalist 2018

Gallery

• 
  "Heimathouse" (oldest existing house and village museum)

External links

Media related to Schöneiche at Wikimedia Commons