Ziethen 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 district of Barnim in

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History

On 1 February 2002, the municipality of Ziethen was formed by merging the municipalities of Groß-Ziethen and Klein Ziethen. From 1815 to 1947, Groß-Ziethen and Klein-Ziethen were part of the Prussian

Province of Brandenburg The Province of Brandenburg (german: Provinz Brandenburg) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg ...

, from 1947 to 1952 of the State of

, from 1952 to 1990 of the

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

Bezirk Frankfurt and since 1990 again of Brandenburg, since 2002 united as the municipality of Ziethen.

Demography

References

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