Ahrensfelde

Ahrensfelde
Municipality
Aerial view of Ahrensfelde (foreground) with Berlin-Marzahn housing estates (background)
Coat of arms
Location of Ahrensfelde within Barnim district
Ahrensfelde Ahrensfelde
Coordinates: 52°34′33″N 13°34′35″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Barnim
Subdivisions	5 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Wilfried Gehrke (CDU)
Area
• Total	57.74 km2 (22.29 sq mi)
Highest elevation	85 m (279 ft)
Lowest elevation	56 m (184 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	14,050
• Density	240/km2 (630/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	16356
Dialling codes	030
Vehicle registration	BAR
Website	www.ahrensfelde.de

Ahrensfelde is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Barnim Plateau at the city limits of Berlin, about 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of the city centre. The municipal area comprises the villages of Ahrensfelde, Blumberg, Eiche, Lindenberg, and Mehrow.

History

Ahrensfelde parish church

Ahrensfelde, like the neighbouring village of Eiche, was first mentioned in the 1375 Landbuch (domesday book) survey executed for Emperor Charles IV, after he had acquired the Margraviate of Brandenburg two years before. The oldest village however is Blumberg, once a possession held by the Bishops of Brandenburg, which was first mentioned as Blumenberch in 1253. Blumberg manor was acquired by the poet and diplomat Friedrich von Canitz in the late 17th century, the castle was later rebuilt according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a park designed by Peter Joseph Lenné. It was destroyed by the advancing Red Army during the 1945 Battle of Berlin. The art historian Adolf Bötticher was a native of Blumberg.

In 1908 the Ahrensfelde Cemetery was established by the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union as a multi-regional burial site outside of Berlin. Parts of the municipal area near Ahrensfelde station were overbuilt and finally incorporated into the East Berlin borough of Marzahn in 1990. The present-day municipality was established by the merger of Ahrensfelde proper with Blumberg, Eiche and Lindeberg on 26 October 2003.

Demography

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  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)
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  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)

Ahrensfelde: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 2,766 —     1890 3,130 +0.83% 1910 3,320 +0.30% 1925 3,477 +0.31% 1933 5,041 +4.75% 1939 6,766 +5.03% 1946 7,055 +0.60% 1950 7,711 +2.25% 1964 7,178 −0.51% 1971 6,918 −0.53% 1981 5,674 −1.96% 1985 5,438 −1.06% 1989 5,043 −1.87% 1990 5,036 −0.14% 1991 5,154 +2.34%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 5,309 +3.01% 1993 5,389 +1.51% 1994 5,999 +11.32% 1995 6,494 +8.25% 1996 6,697 +3.13% 1997 7,701 +14.99% 1998 8,559 +11.14% 1999 9,640 +12.63% 2000 10,612 +10.08% 2001 11,130 +4.88% 2002 11,553 +3.80% 2003 12,128 +4.98% 2004 12,538 +3.38% 2005 12,848 +2.47% 2006 13,040 +1.49%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 13,006 −0.26% 2008 13,090 +0.65% 2009 13,114 +0.18% 2010 13,028 −0.66% 2011 12,727 −2.31% 2012 12,761 +0.27% 2013 12,769 +0.06% 2014 12,856 +0.68% 2015 12,954 +0.76% 2016 13,068 +0.88% 2017 13,307 +1.83% 2018 13,543 +1.77% 2019 13,843 +2.22%

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeindevertretung) as of the 2008 local election:

• Free Voters: 6
• Christian Democratic Union: 5
• The Left: 4
• Social Democratic Party of Germany: 3
• "Citizens' Association Eiche": 2
• Free Democratic Party: 1
• "The Independent": 1