Brandenburg an der Havel is a town in the state of Brandenburg (which is why it is also called Brandenburg City in English), Germany, with a population of 71,778 (as of 2010). It is located on the banks of the River Havel. The town of Brandenburg, which is almost as widely known as the state of Brandenburg, provided the name for the medieval Bishopric of Brandenburg, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and the current state of Brandenburg.
Population: 59,826
Latitude: 52° 25' 0.01" N
Longitude: 12° 33' 0.00" E
Brandenburg-Görden Prison is located on Anton-Saefkow-Allee in the Görden quarter of Brandenburg an der Havel. Erected between 1927 and 1935, it was built to be the most secure and modern prison in Europe. Both criminal and political prisoners were …
The Bishopric of Brandenburg was a Roman Catholic diocese established by Otto the Great in 948, including the territory between the Elbe on the west, the Oder on the east, and the Schwarze Elster on the south, and taking in the Uckermark to the nort…
The Opelwerk Brandenburg (Opel's manufacturing plant at Brandenburg an der Havel) was built, with impressive speed, in 1935 on the initiative of the government in order to ensure supplies of Opel trucks for the army. Opel were an obvious candidate f…
Geographically the Havelland is the region, around which the River Havel flows in a U-shape between Oranienburg to the northeast and Rhinow to the northwest. The northern boundary of the Havelland is formed by the River Rhin and the Rhin Canal.
Lehnin Abbey (German: Kloster Lehnin) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lehnin in Brandenburg, Germany.
Paretz is a village in the German state of Brandenburg in the district of Havelland, west of Berlin. Recently, a district reform made Paretz into a borough of the city of Ketzin.
The Elbe–Havel Canal is a 56-kilometre-long waterway in Germany.
A Tiene (plural: Tienen), sometimes also called Tine or Obsttiene, was a special container for transporting wine and fruit. These were used until shortly after the First World War, mostly in the Brandenburg city of Werder in northern Germany.
Plauer See is a lake in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
Tremmen is a village in Brandenburg, Germany, situated in the district of Havelland.
Rathenow (German: Bahnhof Rathenow) is a railway station on the Berlin–Lehrte railway located in Rathenow, in the Havelland, Germany.
The Pritzerbe Ferry is a vehicular cable ferry that crosses the Havel river between Pritzerbe and Kützkow (Districts of Havelsee ), both located in Brandenburg, Germany.
The Plane is a river in Brandenburg, Germany, left tributary of the Havel. Its total length is 57 km. The Plane originates in the High Fläming Nature Park, near Rabenstein. It flows north through Planetal and Golzow.
Nennhausen is an Amt ("municipal federation") in the district of Havelland, in Brandenburg, Germany.
Klostersee (Lehnin) is a lake in Brandenburg, Germany. At an elevation of 29 m, its surface area is 0.38 km².
Galgenberg (Lütte) is a hill of Brandenburg, Germany.
Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the town of Brandenburg an der Havel in the German state of Brandenburg. It lies on the Berlin–Magdeburg railway at the junction with the Brandenburg Towns Railway. It has largely lost its form…
Beetzsee is an Amt ("municipal federation") in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark, in Brandenburg, Germany.