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4 unusual facts about Brandenburg an der Havel


Battle of Fehrbellin

Once he returned to Brandenburg, Frederick William realized that the Swedish forces, occupying the swampy Havelland region between Havelberg and the town of Brandenburg, were dispersed and ordered Derrflinger to take the central town of Rathenow in order to split them roughly down the middle.

Brandenburg an der Havel

In front of it stands a 5.35m high statue of the knight Roland.

Commercial traffic instead uses the Silo Canal that passes through the eastern and northern fringes of the city.

Edith Hahn Beer

The couple lived together in Brandenburg an der Havel and married to legitimise the impending birth of their daughter, Angelika, born in 1944.


Berlin Cathedral

In that year Prince-Elector Frederick II Irontooth of Brandenburg moved with his residence from Brandenburg upon Havel to Cölln (today's Fishers' Island, the southern part of Museums Island) into the newly erected Berlin Schloss, which also housed a Catholic chapel.

Christa Beran

Edith Hahn took on the identity of Christa Denner, went to Munich and survived the war in Germany working there as a forced labourer of the Plantage Mertens asparagus farm in Osterburg and the Bestehorn company in Aschersleben until she was able to marry a German and settle in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Opelwerk Brandenburg

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.

Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr

Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr (17 May 1783, in Brandenburg an der Havel – 15 March 1851, in Glogau) was a Prussian general and minister of war.


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