Jüterbog

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
image_photo = Jueterbog_St_Nikolai.jpg
image_caption = Saint Nicholas' Church
Wappen = Wappen von Jüterbog.pnglat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 59 |lat_sec = 36
lon_deg = 13 |lon_min = 04 |lon_sec = 22
Lageplan = Jüterbog in TF.pngBundesland = Brandenburg
Landkreis = Teltow-Fläming
Höhe = 71
Fläche = 175.68
Einwohner = 13075
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 14913
Vorwahl = 03372
Kfz = TF (auslaufend JB)
Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 72 169
Straße = Markt 21
Website = [http://www.jueterbog.eu/ www.jueterbog.eu]
Bürgermeister = Bernd Rüdiger
Partei = FDP

Jüterbog (2002 pop. 13,604) is a city in north-eastern Germany, located in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, on the Nuthe, 39 mi. southwest of Berlin, at the junction of the main lines of railway from Berlin to Dresden and Leipzig.

History

Jüterbog belonged in the later Middle Ages to the archbishopric of Magdeburg. It was in Jüterbog that a treaty over the succession to the duchy of Jülich was made in March 1611 between the Electorate of Saxony and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. In November 1644 during the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops defeated an Imperial army near Jüterbog. The town passed to Saxony in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

The Battle of Dennewitz occurred two miles southwest of Jüterbog on 6 September 1813 during the Napoleonic Wars. The town passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna and was subsequently administered within the Province of Brandenburg. In 1871 it became part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany. Jüterbog was part of East Germany for 40 years until it was integrated as a part of the federal state of Brandenburg in the German reunification in 1990.

ights

The town is surrounded by a medieval wall, with three gateways, and contains two Protestant churches, of which that of St Nicholas (14th century) is remarkable for its three fine aisles. There are also a Roman Catholic church, an old town-hall and a modern school. Jüterbog carries on weaving and spinning both of flax and wool, and trades in the produce of those manufactures and in cattle. Vines are cultivated in the neighborhood.

Three kilometers north of Jüterbog is Kloster Zinna, a monastery of the Cistercians monastery founded in 1170.

People

* Johann Deutschmann (1625-1706), theologian
* Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879), naturalist
* Hans Peter Hallwachs (born 1938), actor
* Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991), pianist
* Ulrich Wegener (born 1929), police officer

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