Kloster Lehnin, or just Lehnin, is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

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state of

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. It lies about west-south-west of

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

Overview

Kloster Lehnin was established on 1 April 2002 by the merger of 14 villages: The centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for

Lehnin Abbey Lehnin Abbey (german: Kloster Lehnin) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lehnin in Brandenburg, Germany. Founded in 1180 and secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1542, it has accommodated the ''Luise-Henrietten-Stift'', a Protestant ...

, the oldest monastery in the

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, established in 1180 by Margrave Otto I. The adjacent settlement developed about 1415 out of a

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held by the monks outside the abbey walls. Today, this well-maintained area includes the renovated monastery church and other

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buildings. In addition to tourism, Kloster Lehnin's local economy is supported primarily by *the Evangelical Deaconess House Berlin Teltow Lehnin, a hospital network *Hansa-Heemann AG, a mineral water and soft drinks company *Grand River Enterprise, a cigarette company *Windeck, a metal construction company. All of these companies are established in the industrial area, Rietz.

Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Kloster Lehnin.pdf, Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of

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; Red Background: Time of communist

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) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Kloster Lehnin.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the

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in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

Notable people

Roland Kaiser Roland Kaiser (born Ronald Keiler; 10 May 1952) is a German Schlager singer. He is one of the most successful German-speaking Schlager singers. Keiler was born in West Berlin. He was working as a marketing executive in a car firm where he wa ...

(1943–1998), actor *

Waltraud Kretzschmar Waltraud Kretzschmar ( Hermann then Czelake, 1 February 1948 in Kloster Lehnin – 7 February 2018) was an East German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In the 1970s, she was considered ...

(1948–2018), handball player * Wolfgang Schmidt (*1966), serial killer

Photogallery

File:Goehlsdorf_church.jpg, Church in Göhlsdorf File:Krahne church.jpg, Church in Krahne File:Krahne_fire_station.jpg, Manor house and fire station in Krahne File:Raedel_church.jpg, Church in Rädel File:Reckhahn manor house SE.jpg, Manor house in Reckahn File:Reckhahn Messdunk Kirche.jpg, Church in Reckahn-Meßdunk File:PM08-13 img04 Kloster Lehnin.jpg, Listed hotel building in Lehnin

References

Localities in Potsdam-Mittelmark {{Brandenburg-geo-stub

Overview

Demography

Notable people

Photogallery

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