Storkow, Brandenburg

Storkow
Storkow
Town
	Town centre and parish church
	Coat of arms
	Location of Storkow within Oder-Spree district
	Storkow Storkow
	Coordinates: 52°15′12″N13°55′48″E / 52.25333°N 13.93000°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Subdivisions	13 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Cornelia Schulze-Ludwig (SPD)
Area
• Total	179.96 km2 (69.48 sq mi)
Elevation	37 m (121 ft)
Population (2021-12-31)
• Total	9,373
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15859
Dialling codes	033678
Vehicle registration	LOS
Website	storkow.de

Last updated July 09, 2023

Storkow (Mark) is a town in Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography

Storkow is situated in the western part of Oder-Spree district, about 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest of Fürstenwalde. The municipal area comprises several lakes of the Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park; in the south, the Spreewald biosphere reserve stretches into Lower Lusatia.

Division of the town

The following villages of the former Amt Storkow were incorporated into the present municipality with effect from 26 October 2003:

Alt-Stahnsdorf (population: 384)
Bugk (population: 194)
Görsdorf (population: 556)
Groß Eichholz (population: 141)
Groß Schauen (population: 178)
Kehrigk (population: 325)
Kummersdorf (population: 499)

Limsdorf (population: 377)
Philadelphia (population: 258)
Rieplos (population: 132)
Selchow (population: 269)
Schwerin (population: 131)
Wochowsee (population: 60)

The municipalities of Alt Stahnsdorf, Limsdorf, Schwerin, Wochowsee had merged with the town of Storkow on 31 March 2002. Storkow proper already included the hamlets of Karlslust, Neu Boston and Wolfswinkel.

The villages of Philadelphia and Neu Boston were named after their American counterparts by Frederick the Great in 1772.^[3]

History

The town of Storkow was first mentioned in a 1209 deed issued by Emperor Otto IV; it thereby is one of the oldest towns in Brandenburg. In early medieval times, the area was settled by Polabian Slavs, it was incorporated by the Saxon margrave Gero in his vast marca Geronis and by 965 formed part of the Imperial March of Lusatia (or Saxon Eastern March). During the German Ostsiedlung migration, maybe under the rule of the Wettin margrave Conrad the Great in the mid 12th century, Storkow Castle was erected. It probably arose at the site of a former Slavic marsh fortress and served as administrative seat of Wettin ministeriales ruling over the extended Lusatian lordship ( Herrschaft ) of Storkow.

With Lower Lusatia, Storkow passed to the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1367; it was located near the northern border with the Margraviate of Brandenburg. From 1518, Storkow Castle was pawned to the Bishops of Lebus as an episcopal residence. Upon the death of the last Catholic bishop in 1555, it was presented as a gift to the Hohenzollern margrave John of Brandenburg-Küstrin by King Ferdinand I of Bohemia and, together with neighbouring Beeskow, finally merged into the Brandenburg electorate upon John's death in 1571.

Lower Sorbian was spoken by a significant proportion of the population until the early 17th century. Devastated during the Thirty Years' War, Storkow Castle was rebuilt in a Renaissance style under the rule of the "Great Elector" Frederick William. The town became part of the newly established Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. King Frederick the Great decisively promoted the local trade of weavers, bleachers and dyers.

From 1815 to 1947, Storkow was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg.

After World War II, Storkow was incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990 Storkow is again part of Brandenburg. In January, 1946, Storkow issued 16 postage stamps of its own, the final two semi-postals to raise funds for "victims of fascism." Storkow Castle was destroyed by a blaze in 1978; it was rebuilt after German reunification and today is a listed monument.

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)

Storkow (Mark): Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)^[4]

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1875	6,004	—
1890	5,738	−0.30%
1910	6,172	+0.37%
1925	6,847	+0.69%
1939	7,824	+0.96%
1950	9,297	+1.58%
1964	8,626	−0.53%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1971	8,581	−0.07%
1981	8,890	+0.35%
1985	8,801	−0.25%
1990	9,671	+1.90%
1995	9,320	−0.74%
2000	9,522	+0.43%
2005	9,476	−0.10%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2010	9,077	−0.86%
2015	9,020	−0.13%
2016	9,070	+0.55%
2017	9,097	+0.30%
2018	9,180	+0.91%
2019	9,226	+0.50%
2020	9,352	+1.37%

Politics

Seats in the town's assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2014 local elections:

Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 4
Free Voters: 4
Wählergruppe Neues Storkow (independent): 3
The Left: 2
Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 2
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD): 1
Johann Kney: 1
Haus und Grund e.V.: 1

Twin towns — sister cities

Storkow is twinned with:

Opalenica, Poland, since 2003

External links

Municipal site (in German)

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References

↑ Landkreis Oder-Spree Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 2 July 2021.
↑ "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Flächen der kreisfreien Städte, Landkreise und Gemeinden im Land Brandenburg 2021" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2022.
↑ Lenze, Franz (7 August 2003). "This is not America: Dabei ist die Rede von Boston und Philadelphia. Das aber sind zwei Dörfer, klein und unscheinbar. Sie liegen mitten in Brandenburg" (in German). Die Zeit.
↑ Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] Landkreis Oder-Spree Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 2 July 2021.

[2] "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Flächen der kreisfreien Städte, Landkreise und Gemeinden im Land Brandenburg 2021" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2022.

[3] Lenze, Franz (7 August 2003). "This is not America: Dabei ist die Rede von Boston und Philadelphia. Das aber sind zwei Dörfer, klein und unscheinbar. Sie liegen mitten in Brandenburg" (in German). Die Zeit.

[4] Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

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