Finkenkrug is a district of Falkensee

Falkensee

Falkensee is a town in the Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany. It is the most populated municipality of its district and it is situated at the western border of Berlin.-History:...

, a town west of Berlin

Berlin

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. It has been named after Alten Finkenkrug, a tar furnace in the "Bredower Forst".

History

When the railway Berlin-Hamburg was opened on December 12th 1846 the area of Finkenkrug was a deserted landscape with rich arable fields interspersed with forest. Toward Dyrotz and the Königsgraben (kings ditch, also Russians ditch) the landscape transferred into an alder bush landscape with agricultural cultivated fields that belonged to the manor Seegefeld. Unpaved roads were in the north the "Nauener Straße" from Falkenhagen and the "Finkenkruger Straße" from Seegefeld, that in a westbound curve of the current "Hohlbeinstr." ended in the "Rohrbecker Weg". Toward the west in old maps of the 18th century the "Dyrotzer Weg" is marked.

Literature

• Richard Wagner, Finkenkrug in seinem Jahrhundert, published by the 'Förderverein des Heimatmuseums Falkensee e.V.', 2001
• Richard Wagner, Illustrierte Geschichte von Falkensee, published by the 'Förderverein des Heimatmuseums Falkensee e.V.', 2003
• Neufinkenkrug und seine Entwicklung, published by the 'Verein zur Förderung von Neufinkenkrug', 1914
• Lehrer Rehfeld, Festschrift des Alten Finkenkrugs, 1927
• Kurt Ruppin, Seegefeld, 1994
• Falkensee, wie es früher war, Kulturamt der Stadt Falkensee, 1. Auflage 1994
• Chronik, 1961
• Hans-Ulrich Rhinow, Heimatgeschichte Falkensee und Region

External links

• History of Finkenkrug