Finsterwalde

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Finsterwalde
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Elbe-Elster
Town subdivisions	3 Stadtteile / 2 Ortsteile
Mayor	Johannes Wohmann (FDP)
Basic statistics
Area	76.91 km² (29.7 sq mi)
Elevation	108 m  (354 ft)
Population	18,516  (31/12/2006)
- Density	241 /km² (624 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	EE (alt: FI)
Postal code	03238
Area code	03531
Website	www.finsterwalde.de
Location of the town of Finsterwalde within Elbe-Elster district
Coordinates: 51°37′59″N 13°43′00″E / 51.63306, 13.716667

Finsterwalde (IPA: [fɪnstɐˈvaldə]) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district (German: Landkreis), in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Schackebach, a tributary of the Kleine Elster, 28 m. W.S.W of Cottbus by rail. Pop. (2005) 18,840. The town has a Gothic church (1581), a castle, schools, cloth and cigar factories, iron-foundries, flour and saw mills and factories for machine building. The town, which is first mentioned in 1288, came into the possession of electoral Saxony from 1635 and of Prussia in 1815. Popular are the "four singers from Finsterwalde" and their "singer-song".

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