Havelsee () is a town in the

Potsdam-Mittelmark Potsdam-Mittelmark is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the western part of Brandenburg, Germany. Its neighbouring administrative units are (clockwise from the north) the district of Havelland, the free cities of Brandenburg and Potsdam, the state of Berl ...

district, in

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. It is situated on the river

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 mo ...

, 12 km northwest of

. The

Pritzerbe Ferry The Pritzerbe Ferry is a vehicular cable ferry that crosses the Havel River between Pritzerbe and Kützkow (Districts of Havelsee), both located in Brandenburg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a count ...

, a vehicular

cable ferry A cable ferry (including the terms chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often ...

, crosses the Havel between Havelsee and Kützkow.

Mayor

The mayor of Havelsee since 2003 is Günther Noack, he was reelected in 2014 with 83,4 % of the votes. Schulhauspritzerbe

Protected areas

Over 80% of the area of the borough of Havelsee is covered by overlapping protected areas of various types. These include the

natural monument A natural monument is a natural or natural/cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities or cultural significance. Under World Commission on Protected Areas guidelines, nat ...

Weißes Fenn Marzahne The Weißes Fenn Marzahne is a lake, a boggy wetland and a natural monument area in the county of Potsdam-Mittelmark, in the borough of Havelsee north of the village of Marzahne in the Seelensdorf Forest and Marzahn Heath. History The Weißes ...

as well as 3 nature reserves and 4 SACs.

Personalities

Lothar Kreyssig Lothar Kreyssig (; 30 October 1898 – 6 July 1986) was a German judge during the Weimar and Nazi era. He was the only German judge who attempted to stop the Action T4 euthanasia program, an intervention that cost him his job. After the Second Wor ...

(1898-1986), magistrate in Brandenburg an der Havel, a member of the

Confessing Church The Confessing Church (german: link=no, Bekennende Kirche, ) was a movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German E ...

, euthanasia opponents and founder of

Action Reconciliation Service for Peace The Action Reconciliation Service for Peace is a German peace organization founded to confront the legacy of Nazism. The Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (German: Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, or ASF) was founded in 1958 by the syn ...

, 1937-1971 residing in the Bruderhof at Hohenferchesar *

Walter Kuntze __NOTOC__ Walter Kuntze (23 February 1883 – 1 April 1960) was a German general and war criminal during World War II who commanded the 12th Army. He was the commanding officer responsible for the execution of men and teenage boys in the Kragu ...

(1883-1960), General of the

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previous ...

Mayor

Protected areas

Personalities

Demography

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