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Zehdenick
Zehdenick is a town in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Havel, southeast of Fürstenberg/Havel, and north of Berlin (centre). Since 31 July 2013, the city has the additional appellation "Havelstadt". Geography Zehdenick is located about 60 km north of Berlin on the Havel. It forms the northern starting point of the natural region of the Zehdenick-Spandauer Havelniederung. East extends the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. The urban area belongs mainly to the historical landscape Uckermark. The subdivisions Marienthal and Ribbeck pertain to the Ruppiner Land, Mildenberg and Zabelsdorf to the Land Löwenberg. Zehdenick has a share in the ''Naturschutzgebiet'' Kleine Schorfheide. Subdivision The urban area of Zehdenick next to the core city Zehdenick includes 13 villages: Besides these ''Ortsteile'' (districts), there are several smaller inhabited places: Amt Mildenberg, Ausbau (District Ribbeck), Ausbau (Core city Zehdenick), ...
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Zehdenick Abbey
Zehdenick Abbey (german: Kloster Zehdenick) was a Cistercian nunnery founded in 1250 or shortly after in Zehdenick in Mark Brandenburg, Germany It was dissolved in 1541 during the Reformation. The buildings were mostly destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. Those that remain are used for various religious and community purposes. Foundation legend The circumstances leading to the foundation of the abbey are described in a legend transmitted by the märkische chronicler Andreas Angelus, according to which Zehdenick became a place of pilgrimage after a "miracle of the host" took place there in 1249: a woman innkeeper is said to have buried a consecrated host beneath her beer barrel in the cellar in order to obtain God's help in increasing the beer consumption of her guests. When she confessed this blasphemous act to her priest, he ordered the host to be dug up again. When this was done, blood flowed from the ground in several places, which was caught in a vessel and put on the al ...
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Havel
The Havel () is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt. It is a right tributary of the Elbe and long. However, the direct distance from its source to its mouth is only . For much of its length, the Havel is navigable; it provides an important link in the waterway connections between the east and west of Germany, as well as beyond. Source The source of the Havel is located in the Mecklenburg Lake District, between Lake Müritz and the city of Neubrandenburg. There is no obvious visible source in the form of a spring, but the river originates in the lakes in the Diekenbruch near Ankershagen, close to and south-east of the watershed between the North and Baltic seas. From there the river initially flows southward, eventually joining the Elbe, which in turn flows into the North Sea. Every river north-east of it flows to the Baltic Sea. The river enters Brandenburg near the town of Fürstenberg. ...
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Sebastian Mielitz
Sebastian Mielitz (born 18 July 1989) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for VfB Oldenburg. Club career Early career Sebastian Mielitz was born in Zehdenick, and began his football career at Eintracht Oranienburg, moving later to MSV Neuruppin and Energie Cottbus. In 2005, he joined the youth team of SV Werder Bremen at age 17. On 10 November 2007, he debuted for the second team of Werder Bremen in the second half of a match, replacing the injured first-choice goalkeeper Nico Pellatz. In August 2008, Mielitz extended his contract until 2010. His professional debut in the 3. Liga was on 16 August 2008 against Jahn Regensburg. He played 20 times for the side in the 2008–09 season despite competing with Pellatz over a first choice role at the club's reserve. Werder Bremen During the 2007–08 season, Mielitz appeared twice as an unused substitute for a match against Stuttgart and Bayer Leverkusen. Two seasons later, he made his first appearance w ...
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Marianne Grunthal
Marianne Grunthal (31 January 1896 – 2 May 1945, Schwerin) was a German teacher who was executed under the Nazi regime for expressing her wish for peace. Grunthal was born in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg. In 1945, after having heard the news of Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...'s death, she had called out aloud with relief, "''Gott sei Dank, dann ist der furchtbare Krieg endlich zu Ende''". (English: "Thank god, then this terrible war will be over at last", different version: "Thank God, then there will be peace".) She was heard by SS guards who were on their way to bring prisoners from Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps on so-called death marches towards the west. For having spoken this single sentence, Grunthal was hanged by SS m ...
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Josefine Preuß
Josefine Preuß (born 13 January 1986) is a German television actress. Early life Preuß was born in Zehdenick, Brandenburg, near Berlin with an older sister. She won the Brandenburg Junior Championships in rhythmic gymnastics in 1993. Career Her breakthrough role was Anna Reichenbach in ''Schloss Einstein'' (''Einstein Castle''), a broadcast for children, in which she starred from 1999 to 2001. Preuß also starred in numerous other movies and broadcasts like ''Abschnitt 40'' or ''Klassenfahrt - Geknutscht wird immer''. She won the German TV Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2005. Since 2005, she has been playing Lena, the lead role in the family comedy Türkisch für Anfänger (''Turkish for Beginners''). As "Josi" she hosts ''Quergelesen'', a TV show for children about books. As a voice actor, she performed the German voices for Mary Katherine in the 2013 film ''Epic'' and as Judy Hopps in the 2016 film ''Zootropolis ''Zootopia'' (titled ''Zootropolis'' in various reg ...
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Karl Frenzel (SS Member)
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel
(20 August 1911 – 2 September 1996) was an SS noncommissioned officer in . After the , he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but he was ultimately released after serving 16 years in prison.


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Amtsgericht
An ''Amtsgericht'' (District Court) in Germany is an official court. These courts form the lowest level of the so-called 'ordinary jurisdiction' of the German judiciary (German ''Ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit''), which is responsible for most criminal and civil judicial matters. The German ''Amtsgericht'' may be compared to the magistrates' courts in England and Wales, although it has much broader sentencing powers. Its name derives from the ''Amt'' as a denomination for an administrative and court district in many of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. The main areas of an ''Amtsgericht's'' jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels. Jur ... are: * court of first instance for civil case where the subject of litigation is worth €5,000 or less, and for litigation ...
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Günther Morbach
Günther Morbach (26 November 1927 – 4 August 2009) was a German classical bass in opera and concert. He performed major roles at German opera houses and on international tours. Career Born in Zehdenick, Morbach studied voice at the Musikhochschule Hamburg from the end of the 1940s with Prof. Korberg. He made his stage debut at the Stadttheater Flensburg in 1955, as the ''Polizeikommissar'' in ''Der Rosenkavalier'' by Richard Strauss. He was from 1956 a member of Stadttheater Augsburg, from 1959 of the Opernhaus Essen, from 1960 of the Oper Frankfurt, and from 1965 of the Opernhaus Dortmund. In 1966, when the new opera house was opened, he appeared as Sarastro in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'', conducted by Wilhelm Schüchter. Morbach was a member of the Staatstheater Braunschweig from 1969 where he stayed until he retired from the stage in 1993. He performed more than 180 roles, of comic as well as serious characters. In the German repertoire, he was known for Don Alfonso ...
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Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny (; born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers. Biography Nadolny grew up in the town of Traunstein, in Upper Bavaria. After receiving his ''Abitur'', he studied history and political science in Munich, Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin. Nadolny received his PhD in 1976 at the Free University of Berlin. His dissertation was on German disarmament diplomacy at the 1932/33 Geneva Conference, shortly before Hitler came to power. Nadolny's grandfather, Rudolf Nadolny, had led the German delegation. Nadolny worked for about a year as a history teacher before entering the film industry as a production manager, an experience he wrote about in his first novel, the semi-autobiographical ''Netzkarte''. He currently lives in Berlin. Literary works Nadolny's first novel, ''Netzkarte'', was published in 1981. Originally, it was written as a script for a film that was never realized ...
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Paul Georg Von Möllendorff
Paul Georg von Möllendorff (17 February 1847 in Zehdenick, Prussia – 20 April 1901 in Ningbo, China) was a German linguist and diplomat. Möllendorff is mostly known for his service as an adviser to the Korean king Gojong in the late nineteenth century and for his contributions to Sinology. In English-language publications, Möllendorff is often credited with having designed a system for romanizing the Manchu language, which was in fact the creation of his compatriot Hans Conon von der Gabelentz Early life Hailing from the Prussian aristocratic family von Möllendorf, Paul Georg von Möllendorff was the son of Georg von Möllendorff, a high-ranking Prussian civil servant. The young Möllendorff attended gymnasium in Görlitz and he enrolled at University of Halle in 1865, where he studied law, oriental studies and philology. Möllendorff showed a strong aptitude for the study of classical and foreign languages and acquired a good command of Hebrew, but did not study any Eas ...
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Siemiatycze
Siemiatycze ( uk, Сім'ятичі ''Simiatychi'', be, Сямятычы ''Siamiatyčy'') is a town in eastern Poland, with 15,209 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Białystok Voivodeship (1975–98). It is the capital of Siemiatycze County. The history of Siemiatycze dates back to the mid-16th century, when the village was part of the Podlasie Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1542, King Sigismund II Augustus granted town charter to Siemiatycze, and with the 1569 Union of Lublin, it became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. For centuries Siemiatycze remained property of several Polish-Lithuanian magnate families. The town, conveniently located along the Bug River, and near local administrative centers at Drohiczyn and Mielnik, became a popular market place, where farmers sold their produce. Disastrous Swedish invasion of Poland (1655-60) did not bring widespread destruction to Siemiatyc ...
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Castrop-Rauxel
Castrop-Rauxel (), often simply referred to as Castrop by locals, is a former coal mining city in the eastern part of the Ruhr Area in Germany. Geography Castrop-Rauxel is located in Germany between Dortmund to the southeast, Bochum to the southwest, Herne to the west, Recklinghausen to the northwest, Datteln to the north and Waltrop to the northeast. Urban area The city covers an area of . The Halde Schwerin (slag heap in the Schwerin district) is marked as the point of highest elevation at above sea level. The lowest point is located on Pöppinghauser Straße (Poppinghausen Street), besides house number 264, with an elevation of above sea level. The city is divided into 15 districts, from north to south and within one line from west (southwest) to east (northeast): * Henrichenburg (Becklem) * Pöppinghausen, Habinghorst, Ickern * Bladenhorst, Rauxel, Deininghausen * Behringhausen, Castrop, Dingen * Obercastrop, Schwerin * Bövinghausen, Merklinde, Frohlinde ...
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