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Encyclopedia > Zossen

Zossen is been a city in the district Teltow Flaeming in Brandenburg, south of Berlin because of B 96. Zossen exists beside the city Zossen of several, in the year 2003 folded up, small municipalities. Zossen is originally like several localities in Brandenburg a slawische establishment.


History

Between Berlin Marienfelde and Zossen between 1901 and 1904 different high-speed travel attempts with electrical locomotives and motor coaches were accomplished. These vehicles were propelled with three-phase alternating current by 15kV and variable frequency. The current feed was made by three overhead lines arranged one above the other. In Zossen lies a large area, which served from 1945 to 1994 as Soviet military plant and is civilian used since 1994. It was already in the First World War a military plant, where in the "half moon camp so mentioned" Muslim prisoners were accommodated, who fought on sides of the British army. This prisoner came from north and west Africa and India. For the Muslims among them even a mosque from wood was established. One promised oneself that the Muslims of the German side would follow. In the vineyard camp against it French and Russian prisoners found accomodation. From 1943 to 1945 the supreme command of the German army had its headquarters in Zossen.


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Zossen ist eine Stadt im Landkreis Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, südlich von Berlin an der B 96 gelegen.
Zwischen Berlin-Marienfelde und Zossen wurden zwischen 1901 und 1904 verschiedene Schnellfahrtversuche mit elektrischen Lokomotiven und Triebwagen durchgeführt.
In Zossen liegt ein großes Areal, das von 1945 bis 1994 als sowjetische Militäranlage diente und seit 1994 zivil genutzt wird.
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