Beelitz Travel Guide
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Beelitz Overview
Beelitz is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated about 18 km south of Potsdam (Potsdam vacation rentals | Potsdam travel guide), in a glacial sandur plain surrounded by extended pine woods.
Beelitz is known for its cultivation of white asparagus (Beelitzer Spargel), which is quite popular within the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Beelitz is a member of the Association of Cities with the historic core of Brandenburg.
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Things to See in Beelitz
Heimatmuseum
Beelitzer Heilstätten
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Marien & St. Nikolai
Wunderblutkapelle
Pfingstsonntag
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Maps and Driving Directions to Beelitz
The A9 and A10 intersect each other at Beelitz. In the city cross the main roads are the 2 and 246.
Beelitz Heilstätten
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Beelitz: Beelitz (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Beelitz
More about the History of Beelitz
A 997 deed by Emperor Otto III mentions a settlement with the Slavic name Belizi, though this denotation may also refer to the nearby town of Belzig. The Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas parish church was first mentioned in a 1247 report of a bleeding host miracle, that made Beelitz a medieval pilgrimage site. Since 1370 the host was kept in a small chapel adjacent to the church. When in 1731 King Frederick William I of Prussia billeted a husar regiment, Beelitz became a garrison town and today is home to a Bundeswehr command. The cultivation of asparagus was first documented in 1861.
The village of Kanin, a subdivision of Beelitz since 2001, had been an exclave of the Electorate of Saxony until 1815 and therefore a notorious smuggling area as well as a destination for deserters from the Prussian army. Its fieldstone church was erected about 1138 and today is the oldest preserved one within the Brandenburg state.
In 1928 the Telefunken company erected a radio station in the subdivision of Schönefeld for the wireless communication with North America. Together with the Nauen Transmitter Station it was incorporated by the Reichspost in 1932 After World War II the station was used by the Deutsche Post of the GDR until it finally went out of service in 1991.
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