John George, however, had stipulated his will that part of the Neumark and Krosno Odrzańskie should be separated from the Mark and given to his two younger sons.
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Neumark was born in Langensalza, the son of Michael Neumark and his wife Martha.
By the mid-1770s Hufnagel had become acquainted with Freiherr S. A. von Rottemburg who lived in Klemzig near Züllichau (then Neumark, today Poland).
Julius von Flotow; full name- Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von Flotow (March 9, 1788- August 15, 1856) was a German military officer and lichenologist born in the village of Pitzerwitz (Polish-Pstrowice) in the region of Neumark.
Meanwhile the Brandenburg margraves forwarded the incorporation of Lubusz Land into their New March, created and expanded further to the northeast after the acquisition of the Santok castellany in 1296 on the forest areas between the Duchy of Pomerania and Greater Poland.
Neumark is the recipient of numerous artist grants and residencies, including the prestigious MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
It is the site of a border crossing, on the road connecting the Polish town of Chojna (formerly Königsberg in der Neumark) with Bad Freienwalde in Germany.
In 1938 the districts of Arnswalde and Friedeberg (Neumark) were merged into a new district called Posen-West Prussia frontier district, which was transferred from Brandenburg to the adjacent more northerly Province of Pomerania.