Zehlendorf is a village belonging to the city Oranienburg

Oranienburg

Oranienburg is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Oberhavel.- Geography :Oranienburg is a town located on the banks of the Havel river, 35 km north of the centre of Berlin.- Division of the town :...

 in Brandenburg

Brandenburg

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. It was incorporated into Oranienburg on 26 October 2003.
The town is home to the Sender Zehlendorf

Sender Zehlendorf

Sender Zehlendorf is a radio transmission facility that has existed since 1936, when a short wave transmitter was built in Zehlendorf as part of the establishment of permanent radio services...

, a transmission site for long wave

Radio frequency

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 and medium wave radio

Radio

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History

In the year 1335 the first documents mention the area as "Zedelndorp". In the year 1412 the area was called "Goetze" after the family name of the owners. After Louise Henriette acquired the land 1651, she leased the area of Zehlendorf to the town Oranienburg. One-hundred-twenty-four years later, in 1775, Zehlendorf became its own town. In the year 1819 the Prussian state

Kingdom of Prussia

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 leased the property Zehlendorf to Ernst Friedrich William Kienitz, the mayor of the town Friedrichsthal

Friedrichsthal

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. In the year 1826 Zehlendorf was freed from the lease. In 1901 a railway station, Heidekrautbahn was opened, which led from Berlin

Berlin

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 to Liebenwalde

Liebenwalde

Liebenwalde is a town in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 16 km northeast of Oranienburg, and 39 km north of Berlin ....

. In the year 1927 the property was sold to the "German Society for Internal Colonization" headquartered in Berlin

Berlin

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. This sale was part of a settlement with the local farmers, who had lost land due to the mining of clay and metal in order to supply Germania-Klinkerwerk. The property was also used as the working premises of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen may refer to:* Sachsenhausen , a quarter of Oranienburg, Germany* Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a detention and extermination facility established there in 1936...

, until 1945. In 1998 the western branch railways were shut down and the stations were closed, including the one at Zehlendorf. In 2003 Zehlendorf was incorporated into Oranienburg.

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