Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in

Brandenburg 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 ...

, Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of

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History

Frederick the Great, while still Crown Prince, designed and moved into a restored chateau in Rheinsberg shortly after his 1733 marriage to Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern. Here he experienced his "Rheinsberg Period", an era marked by regular correspondence with Voltaire, boisterous celebration in the company of minor philosophers and musicians, and the writing of several works of political theory, including the '' Anti-Machiavel.'' In 1870, the painter Eduard Gaertner and his family decided to leave the hectic atmosphere of Berlin and settle in Flecken Zechlin, a suburb of Rheinsberg - where he lived until his death in 1877. Rheinsberg is the location for Kurt Tucholsky's '' Rheinsberg'', a 1912 picture book for lovers based on an autobiographical weekend trip.

Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Rheinsberg.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 Rheinsberg.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

Geography

Lakes

* Großer Prebelowsee * Großer Zechliner See * Schwarzer See * Tietzowsee * Zootzensee

Photogallery

File:Rheinsbergehrendenkmal1.jpg, Monument opposite castle File:Rheinsbergschloss3.jpg, Castle seen from monument place File:Rheinsberg001.jpg, Concerthall (part of the castle) File:Dierberg_church.jpg, Church in Dierberg File:Heinrichsdorf_fire_house.jpg, Fire engine house in Heinrichsdorf

Twin towns

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, USA)

People from Rheinsberg

* Gad Granach (1915–2011), German writer *

Erhard Egidi Erhard Egidi (23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014) was a German cantor, organist and composer of sacred music. He was ''Kantor'' at the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, from 1972 to 1991, where he focused on music in church services, but also conduct ...

(1929–2014), German cantor, composer and organist * Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist

References

External links

* {{Authority control Localities in Ostprignitz-Ruppin