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Neuhardenberg
Neuhardenberg is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the site of Neuhardenberg Palace, residence of the Prussian statesman Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (1750-1822). The municipal area comprises the villages of Altfriedland, Quappendorf and Wulkow. Neuhardenberg is part of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Seelow-Land. Names of the place The oldest record mentioning the place, then named ''Quilicz'', dates back to 1348. Later the spelling was changed into ''Quilitz''. When in 1814 Karl August von Hardenberg received the manor, he renamed the place right away into ''Neu-Hardenberg''. On Labour Day, 1 May 1949, the precursors of German Democratic Republic renamed it ''Marxwalde'' after Karl Marx. This was reversed on January 1, 1991. Since then the place has borne the old name Neuhardenberg (without the hyphen). History The construction of Neuhardenberg Manor, with interior designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, dates from the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Neuhardenberg is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the site of Neuhardenberg Palace, residence of the Prussian statesman Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (1750-1822). The municipal area comprises the villages of Altfriedland, Quappendorf and Wulkow. Neuhardenberg is part of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Seelow-Land. Names of the place The oldest record mentioning the place, then named ''Quilicz'', dates back to 1348. Later the spelling was changed into ''Quilitz''. When in 1814 Karl August von Hardenberg received the manor, he renamed the place right away into ''Neu-Hardenberg''. On Labour Day, 1 May 1949, the precursors of German Democratic Republic renamed it ''Marxwalde'' after Karl Marx. This was reversed on January 1, 1991. Since then the place has borne the old name Neuhardenberg (without the hyphen). History The construction of Neuhardenberg Manor, with interior designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, dates from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuhardenberg Schinkelkirche
Neuhardenberg is a municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the site of Neuhardenberg Palace, residence of the Prussian statesman Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (1750-1822). The municipal area comprises the villages of Altfriedland, Quappendorf and Wulkow. Neuhardenberg is part of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Seelow-Land. Names of the place The oldest record mentioning the place, then named ''Quilicz'', dates back to 1348. Later the spelling was changed into ''Quilitz''. When in 1814 Karl August von Hardenberg received the manor, he renamed the place right away into ''Neu-Hardenberg''. On Labour Day, 1 May 1949, the precursors of German Democratic Republic renamed it ''Marxwalde'' after Karl Marx. This was reversed on January 1, 1991. Since then the place has borne the old name Neuhardenberg (without the hyphen). History The construction of Neuhardenberg Manor, with interior designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, dates from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Hans Graf Von Hardenberg
Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg (October 22, 1891 – October 24, 1958) was a German people, German politician and landowner. Early life and ancestry Carl-Has was born was born in Glogau Silesia, Germany (now Głogów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship), as the second child and only son of Count Wilhelm von Hardenberg (surname), Hardenberg (1858-1915) and his wife and relative, Baroness Helene von Hardenberg (1862-1922). He was part of the nobility of Lower Saxony; the knights ''von Hardenberg'' own Hardenberg Castle at Nörten-Hardenberg since 1287 and were later created barons and, in 1778, counts (Graf). He had one sister, Baroness Helene Elisabeth Schilling von Cannstatt (1890-1969). Biography Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg entered the German army. In 1914 he married Countess Renate von der Schulenburg (surname), Schulenburg (1888-1959). He was wounded several times during World War I. In 1921, having reached the rank of major, he gave up his military commission and settled at his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl August Von Hardenberg
Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg (31 May 1750, in Essenrode-Lehre – 26 November 1822, in Genoa) was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia. While during his late career he acquiesced to reactionary policies, earlier in his career he implemented a variety of Liberal reforms. To him and Baron vom Stein, Prussia was indebted for improvements in its army system, the abolition of serfdom and feudal burdens, the throwing open of the civil service to all classes, and the complete reform of the educational system. Family Hardenberg was the eldest son of Christian Ludwig von Hardenberg (1700-1781), a Hanoverian colonel, later to become field marshal and commander-in-chief of the Hanoverian army under King George III from 1776 until his death. The mother was Anna Sophia Ehrengart von Bülow. He was born, one of 8 children, at Essenrode Manor near Hanover, his maternal grandfather's estate. The ancestral home of the ''knights of Hardenberg'' is Hardenberg Castle at Nört ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( , ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. As a young man, von Braun worked in Nazi Germany's rocket development program. He helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemünde during World War II. Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. He worked with Walt Disney on a series of films, which popularized the idea of human space travel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seelow-Land
Amt Seelow-Land is an ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Seelow, itself not part of the ''Amt''. The ''Amt'' Seelow-Land consists of the following municipalities: # Falkenhagen # Fichtenhöhe #Gusow-Platkow # Lietzen # Lindendorf #Neuhardenberg # Vierlinden Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Amt Seelow-Land.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Amt Seelow-Land.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany A national census in Germany (german: Volkszählung) was held every five years from 1875 to 1910. After the World Wars, only a few full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pfuel
The German ancient noble family of Pfuel (also Pfuhl or Phull) arrived in Brandenburg in the year 926 and later widened their influence to Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Württemberg, Westphalia, Eastern Europe and Sweden. Its members today bear the name "Grafen Bruges-von Pfuel". Family line Ancestors' list for direct paternal main line: * Henricus de Puele, c. 1215 * Heino de Puele (1282–1307) * Heino von Pule (1306–1349) * Strassen von Pfuel (died 1375) * Otto von Pfuel (1375–1420) * Bertram von Pfuel (born. c. 1405–1410, died 1482), 1440 to 1477 documented * Friedrich von Pfuel (1460–1527) * Bertram von Pfuel (born 1510/1515, died 1574), 1531 to 1574 documented * Friedrich von Pfuel (1545–1594), 1577 to 1587 documented * Bertram von Pfuel (1577–1639), 1597 to 1638 documented * Friedrich Heino von Pfuel (1620–1661) * Christian Friedrich von Pfuel (1653–1702 near Kaiserswerth), Killed in action * Hempo Ludwig von Pfuel (1690–1770 in Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myślibórz
Myślibórz (pronounced ; german: Soldin; csb, Żôłdzëno) is a town in northwestern Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is the capital of the Powiat of Myślibórz (powiat myśliborski), with a population of 11,867. It is home to the first monastery of the Congregation of Sisters of Merciful Jesus and a sanctuary of the Divine Mercy. History Middle Ages The city's official webpage mentions a settlement inhabited by a pre-Slavic population from Lusatian culture on the shores of the lake (Polish: Jezioro Myśliborskie; German: Soldiner See) in the 7th century, which later turned into a West Slavic or Lechitic fortress in the 10th and 11th centuries; the area was incorporated into Poland by the Piast duke Mieszko I by the end of the 10th century. According to the city's webpage, the town site was a fishing settlement called ''Sołtyń'', located on trading route between Silesia and Greater Poland towards Oder delta. It is from this fishing settlement that the later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märkisch-Oderland
Märkisch-Oderland is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from the north clockwise) the district Barnim, the country Poland, the district-free city Frankfurt (Oder), the district Oder-Spree and the ''Bundesland'' Berlin. The administrative seat is Seelow but the largest town is Strausberg. Geography The district extends from the outskirts of Berlin in the west to the Oder river and the Polish border in the east. It includes a swampy area along the Oder known as the ''Oderbruch'', about 60 km in length and 17 km in width. The Oderbruch was partially drained and populated in the 18th century. The rest of the district is mainly agricultural land. History The district dates back to the district Lebus and the district Oberbarnim, which were both created in 1816. The district Lebus dates back to the ''Land Lebus'', the region around the town of Lebus. In 1863 Seelow became the seat of the administration of the district L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Forces Of The National People's Army
The Air Forces of the National People's Army (german: Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee; LSK) was the Air Force of East Germany. As with the , the , and the Border Troops, it was a military branch of the National People's Army (NVA). At the end of November 1953, a reorganisation of air units saw air units transferred from the Ministry of the Interior directly to the Deputy Minister and Chief of the People's Police. The air regiments were reorganized into the Aero Club 1 (Cottbus), 2 (Drewitz) and 3 (Bautzen), which in turn were divided into two sections. Starting in 1954, additional Z-126 and M-1D from Czechoslovakian production were made available."Administration of the Aero Club (Federal Archive) On 1 March 1956 the air force was officially established as part of the National People's Army, following the GDR's entry into the Warsaw Pact alliance. Initially the air force (LSK), with its headquarters at Cottbus, was separate from the (Air Defence, headquartered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Military Administration In Germany
The Soviet Military Administration in Germany (russian: Советская военная администрация в Германии, СВАГ; ''Sovyetskaya Voyennaya Administratsiya v Germanii'', SVAG; german: Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland, SMAD) was the Soviet military government, headquartered in Berlin-Karlshorst, that directly ruled the Soviet occupation zone of Germany from the German surrender in May 1945 until after the establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in October 1949. According to the Potsdam Agreement in 1945, the SMAD was assigned the eastern portion of present-day Germany, consisting mostly of central Prussia. Prussia was dissolved by the Allies in 1947 and this area was divided between several German states ''(Länder)''. German lands east of the Oder-Neisse line were annexed by Soviet Union or granted to Poland, and Germans living in these areas were forcibly expelled, having had their property expropriated and been rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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