Zeesen

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The independent municipality until 2003 Zeesenboot is a district of the city Kingswells on Zeesener lake. The village was mentioned in 1542, first documented as Czeisen. The name comes from the Slavic and means place where fish are caught with nets.

History

In Zeesenboot are the ruins of the summer residence of the family of Danckelmann, which was probably built around 1688 by Johann Arnold Nehring, who planned their Berlin city palace at the same time. After several changes of ownership in the 18th century took place in the early 19th century alterations that characterize the shape of the house today. Since the end of the 19th century the castle was the home of Berlin's financial and cultural aristocracy and finally in the 1930s, summer residence of the actor and director Gustaf and his wife, actress Marianne Hoppe. After 1945, it was mainly used as kids and holiday home and wore until 1974 the name " District Judge Albert Children's Home ". Since 1999, the building is crumbling and deserted. After the fall of the members of the leftist autonomous scene lived in the castle and in a corral on the grounds. This led to frequent clashes with politically right-wing youth.

During the First World War, the firm Schütte- Lanz airships built in Zeesenboot. The shipyard began operation in 1916. Were built here (but only) the war airships SL 12, SL 17 and SL 21 was significant by far at this location the construction of aircraft (500 to September 1918) and the development and construction of torpedo gliders ( 100 ), an early form of cruise missiles.

Transmitter Zeesenboot

Zeesenboot was 1929-1945 a location of shortwave radio transmitters, Tannenbaum antennas were used for the first time. I also had up to 1939 a transmission tower, which was built of wood. From 1927 to 1939, and the " Germany transmitter II" operated in Zeesenboot, who owned a T antenna as an antenna, which was suspended on two 210 meter high guyed lattice steel masts. The western of these towers collapsed during construction in 1927, when its construction had reached a height of 40 meters. This delayed the completion of the transmission system by three weeks so that their inauguration took place only on 20 December 1927. At the start of the Germany radio station this was the strongest radio stations in Europe ( long wave, 240 kHz). In 1929 here was the world's radio stations on the air.

The Nazis sent from Zeesenboot from, especially in the Arab world as the " Voice of Free Arabism " and VFA as "Radio Berlin", in Arabic. Involved in content to the broadcasts were the collaborators Mohammed Amin al -Husseini and Rashid Ali al - Gailani. The political significance of the items and the content is presented in detail Jeffrey Herf. The masts were dismantled in 1945 by the Red Army, blasted the radio homes.

On the importance of the transmitter remembers a museum on the premises of there now operated local radio stations, broadcasting Museum King Wusterhausen on the Funkerberg.

Today

Zeesenboot since the local government reform in Brandenburg on October 26, 2003, a district of King Wustershausen and has 4684 inhabitants ( 2010) in an area of ​​about nine square kilometers. The proximity to Berlin and the situation at the Berlin Lakeland leads to a high population growth. Körbiskrug is a district of Zeesenboot and lies on the main road 179 from Bestensee to King Wusterhausen. Partial areas of the district belong to the Zeesener 1995 formed nature reserve Tiergarten, the core, the ancient royal hunting ground Tiergarten, bordered to the north by the Senziger Luch. The Senziger Luch connects to the northern tip of the lake Zeesener.

Coat of arms

Coat of Arms Description: The coat of arms is divided and split up in blue and gold. Forward up a golden jar; behind a green fir tree on a green mountain. Down in silver a blue fish with gold eye over a tensioned in the sign black net.