Freyenstein is a former small town in

Brandenburg, Germany Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 square ...

. On October 26, 2003 it was merged into the city of

Wittstock Wittstock/Dosse is a town in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in north-western Brandenburg, Germany. Geography It is located in the eastern Prignitz region on the Dosse River near the confluence with its Glinze tributary, about east of Pritzwal ...

. The earliest mention of the town was in 1263 as "Vriegenstene". The town had 971 inhabitants on December 31, 2009.

Natives

Minna Cauer Wilhelmine Theodore Marie Cauer, née Schelle, usually known as Minna Cauer (1 November 1841 in Freyenstein – 3 August 1922 in Berlin) was a German pedagogue, activist in the so-called "radical" wing of the German bourgeois feminist movement ...

(1841-1922), German feminist Freyenstein 09-2013 img15.jpg, Freyenstein parish church Freyenstein 09-2013 img01.jpg, Freyenstein archaeological site Freyenstein 09-2013 img03.jpg, Freyenstein archaeological site

References

{{Authority control Villages in Brandenburg