Eberswalde

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Eberswalde
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Eberswalde within Barnim district
Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2022–30)	Götz Herrmann[1]
Area
• Total	58.17 km2 (22.46 sq mi)
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	41,461
• Density	710/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	16225/16227
Dialling codes	03334
Vehicle registration	BAR, BER, EW
Website	www.eberswalde.de

Eberswalde (German pronunciation:

History

Prehistory

The area around Eberswalde was already populated in

After rebuilding the town, Eberswalde became the first industrial town of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, with huge metallurgy capacities. Some parts of the town are still named from their past function, like Kupferhammer ("copper hammer"). 1605 till 1620 the important waterway Finow Canal was built.

Thirty Years' War

During the

The world's first radio concert was broadcast from Eberswalde in 1923. Werner Forssmann received his 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1929 experiments with cardiac catheterization performed on his own heart, whilst resident in Eberswalde.

In the 1938 pogroms, Eberswalde's synagogue was destroyed. During World War II, several factories employed forced labourers and inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. At the end of the war, the town center was attacked by the German Luftwaffe, in an attempt to delay the Soviet advance. After learning that Soviet forces had taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admitted defeat in his underground bunker and stated that suicide was his only recourse.^[4]

From 1947 to 1952, Eberswalde was part of the State of Brandenburg, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany and since 1990 again of Brandenburg.

In 1970 Eberswalde was merged with the settlement of Finow to create Eberswalde-Finow. In 1993 the name Eberswalde was restored.

Demography

• 
  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)
• 
  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)

Mayor

On 3 April 2022 Götz Hermann (independent) was elected mayor of Eberswalde with 61.9 % of the votes.^[6] He replaced Friedhelm Boginski (FDP), who was mayor since 2006^[7] and left in 2021 due to his election as Member of Parliament.^[8]

The previous mayor Reinhard Schulz (independent) was unelected in July 2006 with 91,2 % of the votes.^[9]

Transport

Eberswalde has access to the federal highways (Bundesstraße)

The town and its industrial areas are on the

The town had a tram service until 1940, when the trams were replaced by the trolleybuses. Eberswalde is one of only three towns in Germany where trolleybuses are still in operation, along with Solingen and Esslingen.

Economy

While Eberswalde was renowned for its thriving heavy industry in the past, since the fall of the wall, it has fallen upon harder times. As the East German government fell, state support vanished, and factories had to suddenly compete with more efficient firms in the West. As a result, many factories in Eberswalde went under, and visitors can see the remnants of these abandoned plants across town. Like many former East German towns, Eberswalde has since struggled with unemployment, and many have left the region in search of work elsewhere. Consequently, many of the huge Soviet-Bloc style apartment complexes in Eberswalde (most notably the Brandenburgisches Viertel) are becoming empty, and are slowly being razed.

Culture

Festivals

Carnival Compared to other towns of the region, Eberswalde has quite a huge Carnival society. It was brought to Eberswalde from Bavaria and from the Rhineland, both are standing for different Carnival traditions. That's why Carnival is celebrated in two independent festivals at the same time, they are called Karneval and Fasching.

Rock me Magdalena

Rock me Magdalena is a rock concert in the Maria Magdalena church of Eberswalde, taking place every December 25.

Filmfest Eberswalde

Since 2004 there is the annual Eberswalde Movie Festival for Independent Film and Documentaries.

Culinary traditions

There are some foods that are associated with Eberswalde. The most important of them are Eberswalder Spritzkuchen (a special pastry that was invented in Eberswalde in 1832) and Eberswalder Würstchen (sausages).

Language

The tongue spoken in the region of Eberswalde is often called Eberswalder Kanaldeutsch (canal German). It is not an independent German dialect, but a very extreme mix of the

The Forstbotanischer Garten Eberswalde is a historic botanical garden and arboretum.

Religion

Evangelical

The evangelical city parish of Eberswalde is part of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO) and maintains three churches.

Catholic

Eberswalde is seat of a deanery since 1938.

Notable people

• Bernard Altum (1824–1900), zoologist
• Bernhard Danckelmann (1831–1901), forestry scientist
• Hans-Jürgen Döscher (born 1943), historian
• Hans Dresig (born 1937), professor of technical mechanics
• Werner Forßmann
  (1904–1979), doctor, Nobel Prize laureate
• Robert Hartig (1839–1901), forestry scientist
• Erwin Hagedorn (1952–1972), known as child murderer of Eberswalde
• Ralf Hauptmann (born 1968), football player
• Candida Höfer (born 1944), photographer
• Erich Lindemann (1894–1934), doctor and leading member of the Reichsbund Jewish Veterans and one of the victims of the so-called
  Night of long knives
• Friedrich Mieth (1888–1944), General of Infantry
• Albrecht Milnik (born 1931), forestry scientist
• Christiane Nord (born 1943), translation scholar
• Wilhelm Pfeil (1783–1859), forestry scientist
• Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (1801–1871), zoologist, entomologist and forestry scientist
• Albert Richter (1909–2007), forestry scientist
• Rudolf Schmidt (1875–1943), city engineer
• Ursula Werner (born 1943), actress
• Fantastic Realism
• Eva Zeller (born 1923), author

Coat of arms

The emblem shows a green

Twin towns – sister cities

Eberswalde is twinned with:^[10]

• Delmenhorst, Germany
• Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
• Herlev, Denmark

Gallery

• 
  Marketplace
• 
  Town hall
• 
  View onto the building of the county government
• 
  Museum of the town with tourist info

See also

• Experimental Radio Station Eberswalde

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eberswalde.

• Official website (in German)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070313195700/http://www.eberswalde.biz/
• http://www.eberswalde.tv
• Eberswalde at
  Curlie
• "Eberswalde" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.