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Dallgow-Döberitz is a municipality in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg , in eastern Germany .

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11-545: It consists of the villages of Dallgow-Döberitz, Rohrbeck and Seeburg . To the east it shares border with the Spandau borough of Berlin . Neighbouring Brandenburg municipalities are Falkensee in the north and Wustermark in the west. In the south is the large former proving ground Döberitzer Heide , now mainly a nature reserve governed by the Heinz Sielmann Foundation . The Imperial German Army established

22-520: A military training area in 1894 around the village of Döberitz , which had to be abandoned by its inhabitants. Its pioneering airfield was, in late 1915, the place where the world's first practical all-metal aircraft, the Junkers J 1 , made its pioneering flights. During the 1936 Summer Olympics in neighboring Berlin , it hosted the riding part of the modern pentathlon and part of the equestrian eventing competitions. During World War II , Döberitz

33-637: A population of ca. 1350 became part of West-Berlin . Tiefwerder Meadows , located on the left bank of the Havel, were not part of this deal and remained off limits until unification in 1990. Seeburg church was first mentioned in 1180, making it the oldest fieldstone church in Brandenburg. Fieldstone church A fieldstone church ( German : Feldsteinkirche ) is a type of church , built using fieldstone of glacial erratics and glacial rubble . Such cathedrals and monasteries occur mostly in areas where

44-586: The Baltic states . The stones used are often granite , gneiss or quartzite ; they can be used both hewn and unshaped. Since some of the churches are painted, the stones are not always visible. Especially in later examples, the fieldstones are often combined with other materials, such as brick or half-timbered parts. Many fieldstone churches are in the Romanesque tradition, and others are Gothic or in somewhat later architectural styles. The earliest examples date to

55-454: The ice ages have deposited such rock material on the one hand, and where on the other hand there is little or no access to natural rock for quarrying and fashioning. In Europe , the primary areas with fieldstone churches are Saxony-Anhalt , Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg (including Berlin ) in Germany, as well as Poland , Finland , parts of Scandinavia and

66-575: The 11th century (in some regions later, depending on the date of Christianisation and of the German eastward expansion ). Many early examples in Holstein are associated with the activities of St. Vicelinus and are thus known as Vizellinskirchen (Vicellinus churches); they often have round towers. Some of the earliest churches in Denmark (especially Bornholm ) are fieldstone-built round churches . The flourish of

77-670: The West German Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin . The traffic was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations. After the East German Volkspolizei took control of West-Staaken on 1 February 1951 the checkpoint was moved eastwards. The municipality shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall . The 2008 film The Wave

88-686: The cloisters in nearby Spandau . In 1945 it became part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation . Since its territory stretched to the Havel river it cut through the main access roads to the RAF Gatow airfield. This so-called Seeburger Zipfel , comprising Weinmeisterhöhe and part of Groß Glienicke , was part of an exchange of territory between the British and the Soviets involving West-Staaken . On August 30, 1945 Seeburg with

99-409: The development of fieldstone churches was around the end of the 12th century, after which they became less common due to the increasing popularity of brick-built architecture (see Brick Romanesque and Brick Gothic ). Their construction mostly ceased at the end of the 16th century. In the context of architectural revival styles, especially of Neo-Romanesque , further fieldstone churches were erected in

110-517: Was filmed at the Marie Curie Gymnasium in this municipality. [REDACTED] Media related to Dallgow-Döberitz at Wikimedia Commons Seeburg, Brandenburg Seeburg is a village in the district of in Brandenburg , Germany . Since 2003 Seeburg is part of the municipality of Dallgow-Döberitz . Seeburg was first mentioned in 1283. In 1375 the whole village belonged to

121-592: Was the location of a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for French, Polish, Soviet, and possibly Belgian prisoners. Between 1945 and 1951 Dallgow served as East German border crossing for cars travelling along F 5 between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany (till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic ) or the British Zone of Occupation (till 1949) and thereafter

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