eisenhttenstadt

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Map of Germany showing Eisenhttenstadt

Eisenhttenstadt ( pronunciation) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on the Oder river in the district of Oder-Spree. Population: 39.659 (30.06.2002). Eisenhttenstadt lies in the Berlin-Warsaw glacial valley and it is surrounded by pine forests and terminal moraine hills. The town of Eisenhttenstadt (literally "ironworks town") was founded on November 13, 1961, by merging the small town of Frstenberg, the village of Schnflie and Stalinstadt. Stalinstadt was founded in 1950 as the living area for a newly erected steel works. The quarter of Frstenberg was founded around 1250 by the Wettin Markgraf Heinrich der Erlauchte. At the beginning of the 19th century the development of Frstenberg gained momentum because of the connection to the railway line from Berlin to Breslau and the construction of the Oder-Spree Canal. In the Nazi era armament works and chemical plants were built around Frstenberg. The necessary workforce was recuited from the POW camp STALAG III B. The town was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. After the war the industrial developmet was stopped because of the disassembly of the armament works and the shipping of the machines to the Soviet Union as war reparations. As a result of the Cold War the construction of an iron works started in 1950. Together with the iron works the living area was erected. It was advertised as the "first socialist city of Germany". The city was renamed to Stalinstadt, and kept the name from 1953 to 1961. In the first years the architecture was strongly influenced by the Stalinistic town construction principles. The architecture is characterised by the concrete slab style. These original flats are under listed as historic monuments today. After the German reunification, closure of the ironworks was discussed. This was averted. The state-run ironworks became the private company EKO Stahl AG, now EKO Stahl GmbH, which is now a member of the Arcelor Group, the world's largest steel company.

External links

http://www.eisenhuettenstadt.de

(inofficial sites)

http://www.ehsnet.de
http://www.eisenhuettenstadt-direkt.de

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