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Eisenhüttenstadt ( pronunciation) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on the Oder river in the district of Oder-Spree. Population: 39.659 (30.06.2002). The purpose of this page is to lay out our policies for handling sounds, and give people some useful information for handling sound files. ... For other uses, see Brandenburg (disambiguation). ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ... The Oder (or Odra) River (German: Oder, Polish/Czech: Odra, Ancient Latin: Viadua, Viadrus, Medieval Latin: Odera, Oddera) is a river in Central Europe (mostly in Poland). ... Oder-Spree is a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. ...

Eisenhüttenstadt lies in the Berlin-Warsaw glacial valley and it is surrounded by pine forests and terminal moraine hills. Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. ... Warsaw ( Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... This article deals with the tree; for the e-mail client see Pine email client Species About 115. ... Moraine is the general term for debris of all sorts originally transported by glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away. ...

The town of Eisenhüttenstadt (literally "ironworks town") was founded on November 13, 1961, by merging the small town of Fürstenberg, the village of Schönfließ and Stalinstadt. Stalinstadt was founded in 1950 as the living area for a newly erected steel works. November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... Events January January 5 - US Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the USA January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China. ...

The quarter of Fürstenberg was founded around 1250 by the Wettin Markgraf Heinrich der Erlauchte. At the beginning of the 19th century the development of Fürstenberg gained momentum because of the connection to the railway line from Berlin to Breslau and the construction of the Oder-Spree Canal. In the Nazi era armament works and chemical plants were built around Fürstenberg. The necessary workforce was recuited from the POW camp STALAG III B. The town was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. After the war the industrial developmet was stopped because of the disassembly of the armament works and the shipping of the machines to the Soviet Union as war reparations. Events December 13 - Death of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Louis IX of France is captured by Muslims and has to ransom himself Mabinogion appears Albertus Magnus isolates the element arsenic Vincent of Beauvais writes proto-encyclopedic The Greater Mirror City of Stockholm founded Alphonso III of Portugal takes Algarve... The Wettin dynasty of German counts, dukes, Prince Electors (Kurfürsten) and kings ruled the area of todays German state of Saxony for more than 800 years as well as holding for a time the kingship of Poland. ... Graf is a German noble title equal in rank to a count or an earl. ... Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. ... . Wrocław, formerly Breslau (Polish Wrocław ( [:vrɔʦwaf]), German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Hungarian: Boroszló, Latin: Wratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet Union - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

As a result of the Cold War the construction of an iron works started in 1950. Together with the iron works the living area was erected. It was advertised as the "first socialist city of Germany". The city was renamed to Stalinstadt, and kept the name from 1953 to 1961. In the first years the architecture was strongly influenced by the Stalinistic town construction principles. The architecture is characterised by the concrete slab style. These original flats are under listed as historic monuments today. The Cold War ( 1947- 1991) was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of nations practicing different ideologies and political systems. ... Events January January 5 - US Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the USA January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...

After the German reunification, closure of the ironworks was discussed. This was averted. The state-run ironworks became the private company EKO Stahl AG, now EKO Stahl GmbH, which is now a member of the Arcelor Group, the world's largest steel company. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) refers to the reunification of Germany from its constituent parts of East Germany and West Germany under a single government on October 3, 1990. ... Arcelor is the worlds second largest steel producer, with a turnover of 25. ...

External links

• http://www.eisenhuettenstadt.de

(inofficial sites)

• http://www.ehsnet.de
• http://www.eisenhuettenstadt-direkt.de