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Oranienburg
Schloss Oranienburg
Schloss Oranienburg
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Oranienburg
Oranienburg (Germany)
Oranienburg
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Brandenburg
District Oberhavel
Town subdivisions 9 districts
Mayor Hans-Joachim Laesicke (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area 162. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of the sixteen states of Germany. German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Oberhavel is a Kreis (district in the northern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 37 km² (62. 7 sq mi)
Elevation 34 m  (112 ft)
Population 41,194  (30/06/2006)
 - Density 254 /km² (657 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate OHV
Postal code 16515
Area code 03301
Website www.oranienburg.de
Location of the town of Oranienburg within Oberhavel district
Map

Coordinates: 52°45′16″N 13°14′13″E / 52.75444, 13.23694

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Geography

Oranienburg is a town located on the banks of the Havel river, 35 km north of the centre of Berlin. The Havel (ˈhaːfəl is a river in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany.

Division of the town

Oranienburg consists of 9 districts

History

The original name of Oranienburg was Bötzow. The town was founded in the 12th century and was first mentioned in 1216. Albert the Bear is believed to have ordered the construction of a castle on the banks of the Havel. Albert the Bear (Albrecht der Bär c 1100&ndash18 November 1170 was the first Margrave of Brandenburg (as Albert I from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke Around the castle there was a settlement of traders and craftsmen.

In 1646 Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg married Louise Henriette of Orange-Nassau (German: Oranien-Nassau). Frederick William (Friedrich Wilhelm February 16 1620 &ndash April 29 1688) was the Elector of Brandenburg and the Louise Henrietta of Nassau (Louise Henriëtte van Nassau Luise Henriette von Nassau The Hague, December 7 1627 &ndash Berlin, She was so attracted by the town of Bötzow, that her husband presented the entire region to her. The princess ordered a new castle to be built in Dutch style and called it Oranienburg. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In 1653 the town of Bötzow was renamed Oranienburg.

Oranienburg became a showplace of terror during the Nazi era. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers One of the first Nazi concentration camps was built there in 1933; in 1935 another camp was established in the quarter of Sachsenhausen. See also List of Nazi-German concentration camps, Extermination camp Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany under Hitler maintained Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sachsenhausen (zaksənˈhaʊzən was a Concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1945 While the first camp was dissolved as early as 1934, the Sachsenhausen camp continued to exist; 100,000 people were killed in Sachsenhausen before the liberation of the camp by the Red Army in 1945. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar

According to the military historian Antony Beevor possession of as much of the German nuclear energy project was a primary motive for Stalin authorising the launching of the Battle for Berlin. Antony James Beevor (born 14 December 1946) is a British Historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. For the bombing campaign on Berlin by the RAF from November 1943 to March 1944 see Battle of Berlin (air. [1] The preemptive destruction of as much of this infrastructure as possible, so that it would not fall into Soviet hands, was the motive behind the raid on 15 March 1945 by the USAAF Eighth Air Force on the German atomic energy research facility in Oranienburg. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, The United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II. Eighth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force (NAF of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC The German nuclear energy project in Nazi Germany was informally known as the Uranverein (Uranium Club and it began in April 1939 just months [2]

Twin Towns

Public Institutions

The Zehlendorf transmission facility, a large facility for broadcasting in longwave, medium wave and FM-range, is located near Oranienburg, at Zehlendorf. Bagnolet is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen usually shortened to NRW, official short form NW is the westernmost and - in terms of population and economic output - the Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Mělník (ˈmɲɛlɲiːk is a town in the Czech Republic, Central Bohemian Region. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, Vught ( is a Municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Friedrichsthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany. Saarland (ˈzaːɐ̯lant in German; French: Sarre) is one of the 16 federal states (German Bundesländer) of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Sender Zehlendorf is a transmission facility existing since 1936 The longwave Radio band is a range of frequencies used for AM broadcasting, which extends from 148 Medium Wave (MW is a part of the Medium frequency (MF radio band used mainly for AM broadcasting.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Antony Beevor Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Penguin Books, 2002, ISBN 0-670-88695-5 Preface xxxiv
  2. ^ Richard G. Oranienburg (in German Bahnhof Oranienburg) is a Railway station in the city of Oranienburg, Germany. Davis,Bombing the European Axis Powers. A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945 Alabama: Air University Press, 2006, page 518

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