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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.
Falkensee is a small town by a lake in the Brandenburg region of Germany. It shares a border on the west with the capital city of Berlin. This city has a rather tragic and turbulent past. The most recent is from, of course, the Nazi regime of the 1930s and 40s.
Since the day the “City of Falkensee” emerged from the shadows of the Berlin wall, it had experienced a building boom and a population increase, that even exceeded the growth of the former rural commune that happened in the twenties and thirties of the last century.
The community Falkensee lost between 1945 and 1961 a large part of the population. Many "Ausgebomte" moved back to the new apartments built in Berlin. War refugees moved on and many "Urfalkenseer" moved out of fear of feared restrictions in the western sectors of the city of Berlin.
On 1 June 1952 West Staaken's de facto administration was conveyed to neighbouring East German Falkensee, which incorporated West Staaken on 1 January 1961.
Between January and October 1943 a large satellite camp was set up for Sachsenhausen in a suburb west of Berlin called Falkensee. When the camp was completed in October, it consisted of some thirty barracks and between 1600 and 2500 prisoners from all parts of Europe were incarcerated.
Vor 100 Jahren schlossen sich die beiden benachbarten Dörfer Falkenhagen und Seegefeld zur Gemeinde „Falkensee“ zusammen.
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