Wandlitz
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| Wandlitz | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Brandenburg |
| District | Barnim |
| Local subdivisions | 9 Ortsteile mit je einem Ortsbürgermeister |
| Mayor | Udo Tiepelmann (SPD) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 164.27 km² (63.4 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 59 m (194 ft) |
| Population | 20,760 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 126 /km² (327 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | BAR |
| Postal code | 16348 |
| Area code | 033397 |
| Website | www.wandlitz.de |
| Location of Wandlitz within Barnim district | |
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Wandlitz is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Berlin, and 15 km east of Oranienburg. The municipality was established in 2003 by merger of the nine villages Basdorf, Klosterfelde, Lanke, Prenden, Schönerlinde, Schönwalde, Stolzenhagen, Wandlitz and Zerpenschleuse.
Wandlitz was first mentioned as Slavic Vandlice in a 1242 deed, when the Margraves of Brandenburg John I and Otto III sold it to the Lehnin Abbey. Situated on the Barnim plateau among woods and lakes it became a popular recreation area. Since 1901 the Heidekrautbahn railway line links Wandlitz with Berlin.
The name Wandlitz was and is also often used as a synonym for the nearby "Waldsiedlung" compound, where the highest East German functionaries lived removed from the general population.
[edit] Lanke
Within the small village of Lanke stands a small palace built in 1858 by the architect Eduard Knoblauch in a French Renaissance architecture style. Originally a property of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Redern in a park laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné, the building served as a hospital after World War II and since 2006 again is a private estate.
In the woods west of the village is the small Bogensee with a former summer house of Joseph Goebbels, later part of the academy of the Free German Youth organization. Today the area belongs to the Berlin state forests.
[edit] Transportation
Wandlitz is situated at the junction of the Bundesstraße 109 to Berlin and the Bundesautobahn 10 (Berliner Ring) with the Bundesstraße 273 leading from Oranienburg to the Bundesautobahn 11. With the Heidekrautbahn the Berlin-Karow railway station can be reached.
[edit] Twin towns
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