Kloster Lehnin

Kloster Lehnin
Kloster Lehnin
Coordinates
Administration
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Potsdam-Mittelmark
Local subdivisions 14 Ortsteile
Mayor Bernd Kreykenbohm
Basic statistics
Area 199.30 km2 (76.95 sq mi)
Elevation 36 m  (118 ft)
Population 11,089 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 56 /km2 (144 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate PM
Postal codes 14542, 14778, 14797
Area codes 03382, 033207
Website www.lehnin.de

Kloster Lehnin or Lehnin is a municipality in the German state of Brandenburg, about 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Brandenburg an der Havel.

Contents

Overview

It was established on April 1, 2002 by the merger of 13 villages:

  • Damsdorf
  • Emstal (Schwina until 1937)
  • Göhlsdorf
  • Grebs
  • Krahne
  • Lehnin
  • Michelsdorf               
  • Nahmitz
  • Netzen
  • Prützke
  • Rädel
  • Reckahn
  • Rietz and
  • Trechwitz, incorporated on October 26, 2003

Centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for Lehnin Abbey, the oldest monastery in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, established in 1180 by Margrave Otto I. The adajacent settlement developed about 1415 out of a market held by the monks outside the abbey walls.

Today, this well-maintained area includes the renovated monastery church and other Gothic buildings.

Photogallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg am am 30. Dezember 2010 nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden. Gebietsstand: 31.12.2010" (in German). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de//Publikationen/OTab/2011/OT_A01-04-00_124_201012_BB.pdf. 
Towns and municipalities in Potsdam-Mittelmark