Blankenfelde-Mahlow

Blankenfelde-Mahlow is a municipality in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated approximately 3 kilometres (2 miles) south of Berlin.

Blankenfelde-Mahlow
Municipality
Church in Blankenfelde
Location of Blankenfelde-Mahlow within Teltow-Fläming district
Blankenfelde-Mahlow Show map of Germany Blankenfelde-Mahlow Show map of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52°21′00″N 13°24′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Teltow-Fläming
Government
• Mayor (2019–27)	Michael Schwuchow[1] (SPD)
Area
• Total	54.89 km2 (21.19 sq mi)
Elevation	43 m (141 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	29,159
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15827, 15831
Dialling codes	03379
Vehicle registration	TF
Website	www.blankenfelde-mahlow.de

History

Church in Mahlow

The municipality shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated.

Blankenfelde

Blankenfelde was first mentioned in documents in 1375. However, a substantial part of this district, the so-called Gagfah settlement, did not develop until the 1930s, after the Süd-Berlin Bodenaktiengesellschaft had acquired and parceled out the area. As a result, the population increased significantly - from 766 inhabitants in 1930 to 6228 inhabitants in 1939.

Mahlow

Mahlow was first mentioned in documents in 1287. After the place had received a station in 1875, the immigration of wealthy Berliners. Its constituency is under Teltow from 1945 until its dissolution in 1952. As early as 1950, the community Glasow was merged with the community Mahlow. The construction of the Berlin Wall from 13 August 1961, the S-Bahn links were cut to Berlin. Only after the fall of the Wall in 1989 did these connections get going again. On 31 August 1992, the S-Bahn connection was restored with the gap closing the Dresden railway between Lichtenrade and Mahlow.

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)
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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 2017–2030 (scarlet line); for 2020–2030 (green line)

Blankenfelde-Mahlow: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)^[3]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 1,895 —     1890 2,022 +0.43% 1910 2,646 +1.35% 1925 3,793 +2.43% 1939 12,850 +9.11% 1950 14,689 +1.22% 1964 14,431 −0.13%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1971 14,951 +0.51% 1981 14,561 −0.26% 1985 14,312 −0.43% 1990 14,600 +0.40% 1995 15,621 +1.36% 2000 21,307 +6.41% 2005 24,210 +2.59%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2010 25,718 +1.22% 2015 26,319 +0.46% 2016 26,914 +2.26% 2017 27,378 +1.72% 2018 27,837 +1.68% 2019 27,939 +0.37% 2020 28,606 +2.39%

Transport

Blankenfelde-Mahlow is located on the federal highway B 96 between the Berlin state border (district Tempelhof-Schöneberg) and Zossen, the state road L 40 between Potsdam and King Wusterhausen and the L 76 to Teltow. The nearest motorway junction is Rangsdorf on the Federal Highway 10 (southern Berliner Ring).

Since 1992, Blankenfelde-Mahlow is with the stations Mahlow and Blankenfelde (Kr Teltow-Fläming) again with the S-Bahn line 2 from Berlin on the Dresden train, after this originally to Rangsdorf going connection in 1961 in the course of the construction of the Berlin Wall and separated was set. Terminus is now Blankenfelde.

With the regional train you can reach Blankenfelde and Dahlewitz via the Regional Express lines RE 5 Rostock / Stralsund-Berlin-Elsterwerda / Wünsdorf-Waldstadt and RE 7 Dessau-Berlin-Wünsdorf-Waldstadt.

In the immediate vicinity there is the airport Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF), which was extended to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), which is not yet in operation. It will be reachable from Blankenfelde-Mahlow by train or car in fifteen minutes.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Blankenfelde-Mahlow is twinned with:^[4]

• Bad Ems, Germany
• Kretinga, Lithuania
• Tószeg, Hungary

Notable people

• Manfred Görg (1938–2012), Catholic theologian and egyptologist
• Hans-Joachim Hacker (born 1949), politician (SPD)
• Jan-Michael Feustel (1951–2009), art historian and author
• Dietmar Klemt, politician (SPD), mayor and official director 1992–2003

References

1. Landkreis Teltow-Fläming Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 4 July 2021.
2. "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
3. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
4. "Partnerstädte". blankenfelde-mahlow.de (in German). Blankenfelde-Mahlow. Retrieved 2021-03-05.