Bad Freienwalde is a spa town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg , in north-eastern Germany .
6-718: The town is situated on the Alte Oder , an old branch of the Oder River at the northwestern rim of the Oderbruch basin and the steep rise of the Barnim Plateau . It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) east of Eberswalde , and 50 km (31 mi) northeast of Berlin , near the border with Poland . The municipal area comprises the following villages: Altranft, Altglietzen, Bralitz, Hohensaaten, Hohenwutzen, Neuenhagen and Schiffmühle. The settlement of Vrienwalde in
12-766: The Margraviate of Brandenburg was first mentioned in a 1316 deed and appeared as a town in 1364. From 1618, the Freienwalde manor was directly held by the Brandenburg prince-electors ( Kurfürsten ). From 1701, Bad Freienwalde was part of the Kingdom of Prussia , and from 1871 also the German Empire . From 1815 to 1947, it was administratively part of the Province of Brandenburg . A mineral spring
18-593: The State of Brandenburg , from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany and since 1990 again of Brandenburg. Bad Freienwalde is twinned with: [REDACTED] Media related to Bad Freienwalde at Wikimedia Commons Alte Oder Alte Oder is a branch on the river Oder in Brandenburg , Germany , where it drains the Oderbruch basin, flowing northwards to the confluence with
24-420: The architect Andreas Schlüter . The development was further promoted, when in 1799 the small Neoclassical Freienwalde Castle was built according to plans by David Gilly as a summer residence of Princess Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt , the widow of King Frederick William II of Prussia . Its park was redesigned by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1822. The industrialist and politician Walther Rathenau acquired
30-471: The palace in 1909, it was nationalised after his assassination in 1922. Freienwalde achieved the official status of spa town ( Bad ) in 1925. During the final stages of World War II , on 11 March 1945, it was visited by Adolf Hitler in his last visit on the war front. On 16–20 April 1945, fights between the 1st Polish Army and 9th German Army took place in the area, won by the Poles. From 1947 to 1952 of
36-505: Was discovered in 1683. The alchemist Johann Kunckel brought it to the attention of the "Great Elector" Frederick William of Brandenburg , who, gout -ridden, arrived in Freienwalde the next year. Recorded by the physician Bernhardus Albinus in 1685, the Kurfürstenquelle became the foundation of Freienwalde's rise as a spa town. Frederick William's son King Frederick I of Prussia had a first maison de plaisance erected by
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