Ziesar () 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 south-west of the city of

Demography

Local council

Following local elections held on 26 May 2019:Ergebnis der Kommunalwahl am 26. Mai 2019
/ref> * SPD 5 seats * CDU 4 seats * Freie Bürger und Bauern (FBB) (Free citizens and farmers) 3 seats

Pictures

History

During the Cold War the Western Allies considered Ziesar, specifically Exit 76 from Autobahn 2, the halfway point of the transit route between

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

and "mainland" West Germany. Road patrols offering breakdown services and assistance with DDR and Soviet authorities to Allied travelers were provided by Americans based in Berlin east of Ziesar and by the British detachment at Helmstedt west of it.

Sons and daughters of Ziesar

Johannes Aepinus Johannes Aepinus (Johann Hoeck) (1499–1553) was a German Lutheran theologian, the first Superintendent of Hamburg from 1532 to 1553, presiding as spiritual leader over the Lutheran state church of Hamburg. Life He was born at Ziesar or Zieges ...

(1499-1553), theologian and church reformer * Paul Schneider (1863-1946), the secret war councilor, farmer and the last private owner of Castle Ziesar from 1917 to 1945

Other personalities associated with Ziesar

* Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), painter

References

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