Oranienburg is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Oberhavel. Population: 41,199. Oranienburg coat of arms The copyright status of this work is difficult or impossible to determine. ... Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ... Oberhavel is a Kreis (district) in the northern part of Brandenburg, Germany. ...

Oranienburg is located on the banks of the Havel river, just 35 km north of the city centre of Berlin. The town is now part of the growing Berlin metropolitan area. For the Biblical Havel, see Abel. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...

The original name of Oranienburg was Bötzow. The town was founded in the 12th century and was first mentioned in 1216. Albert the Bear is believed to have ordered the construction of a castle on the banks of the Havel. Around the castle there was a settlement of traders and craftsmen. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Events Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in the First Barons War Henry III becomes King of England. ... Albert I (c. ...

In 1646 Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg was married with Louise Henriette of Orange-Nassau (German: Oranien-Nassau). She was so attracted by the town of Bötzow, that her husband presented her the entire region. The princess ordered to build a new castle in Dutch style and called it Oranienburg. In 1653 the town of Bötzow was renamed to Oranienburg. // Events The Westminster Confession of Faith Ongoing events English Civil War (1642-1649) Births February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. ... Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg. ... The House of Orange-Nassau (in Dutch Oranje-Nassau), is a family that has played a central role in the political life of the Netherlands since William I of Orange (also known as William the Silent and Father of the Fatherland) organised the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, which after... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ...

In the Nazi era Oranienburg was made a showplace of terror. One of the first German concentration camps was built there in 1933; in 1935 another camp was established in the quarter of Sachsenhausen. While the first one was dissolved as early as 1934, the camp of Sachsenhausen continued to exist; 100,000 people were killed in Sachsenhausen until the liberation of the camp by the Red Army in 1945. 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. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sachsenhausen may refer to a quarter of Oranienburg in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), and a detention facility here a quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) a municipality of Weimarer Land, see Sachsenhausen (Thüringen) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Near Oranienburg, at Zehlendorf near Oranienburg, there is a large facility for broadcasting in the longwave, mediumwave and FM-range, the transmission facility Zehlendorf. Zehlendorf is a village belonging to the city Oranienburg in Brandenburg; the incorporation took place on 26 October 2003. ... Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... The Sender Zehlendorf (Transmitter Zehlendorf) is an important longwave and mediumwave transmission facility near Zehlendorf near Oranienburg, Brandenburg (northly of Berlin). ...