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40-572: Königs Wusterhausen ( German pronunciation: [ˈkøːnɪçs vʊstɐˈhaʊ̯zn̩] ; Lower Sorbian : Parsk , pronounced [ˈparsk] ) is a town in the Dahme-Spreewald district of the state of Brandenburg in Germany a few kilometers outside Berlin . Königs Wusterhausen – locally known as "KW" ( German pronunciation: [ˈkaː ˈveː] ) or "KWh" ( German pronunciation: [ˈkaː ˈveː 'ha:] )– lies on

80-469: A Lower Sorbian Gymnasium where one language of instruction is Lower Sorbian. It is a heavily endangered language . Most native speakers today belong to the older generations. The phonology of Lower Sorbian has been greatly influenced by contact with German , especially in Cottbus and larger towns. For example, German-influenced pronunciation tends to have a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] instead of

120-403: A hub at Tegel, reportedly considered operating flights to Greece without pay to allow the airline to compete with Interflug. Interflug signed an agreement with Turkish Airlines giving the two airlines exclusive rights to offer dedicated flights for Turkish Gastarbeiter to and from West Germany and West Berlin. In the 1980s, Interflug set up a partnership with KLM for a joint operation on

160-568: A member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). As a consequence of German reunification on 3 October 1990, Interflug came under the administration of the Treuhandanstalt , along with all other East German state property. As no buyers could be found, the liquidation of Interflug, which had 2,900 employees and 20 aircraft at the time, was announced on 7 February 1991. The airline

200-579: A monthly "Jugendtreff". Königs Wusterhausen's town council consists of 36 councillors, with the mayor ( Bürgermeister ) as head. According to the results of the latest local election in May 2019, they were apportioned as follows: Königs Wusterhausen is twinned with: Of the once great number of building works on the Funkerberg ("Transmitter Mountain"), very little is preserved nowadays, as many transmission towers were dismantled for technical reasons after

240-676: Is based on the Latin script but uses diacritics such as the acute accent and caron . Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Lower Sorbian: Wšykne luźe su lichotne roźone a jadnake po dostojnosći a pšawach. Woni maju rozym a wědobnosć a maju ze sobu w duchu bratšojstwa wobchadaś. (All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are given reason and conscience and they shall create their relationships to one another according to

280-470: The 1970s energy crisis and increasing fuel prices, Interflug gradually dismantled its domestic route network. The last scheduled domestic flight, to transport prisoners from East Berlin to Erfurt , took place in April 1980. During the 1980s, Interflug's aging fleet caused increasing difficulties: fuel efficiency was inferior to that of contemporary western airliners, and noise pollution regulations meant

320-652: The Hamburg merchant Hermann Schmidt. In 1920 came the launch of Germany's first radio transmitter , the Transmitter Königs Wusterhausen , and in 1935, Königs Wusterhausen was raised to town status. In 1937, Saint Elisabeth's Catholic Church was built and consecrated. In 1938, the Berlin Autobahn ringroad – now Bundesautobahn 10 – was dedicated, and now serves cities and towns around Berlin, including Königs Wusterhausen. By now,

360-706: The Iron Curtain , Lufthansa and Interflug were granted special permits to operate flights between Leipzig and West Germany. In 1986, Lufthansa and Interflug applied for joint traffic rights for year-round scheduled intra-German flights over the Iron Curtain, which were initially rejected by the Western Allies (likely due to concerns that their unique market position for flights to and from Berlin might be weakened), and only granted in August 1989. Interflug

400-595: The Lufthansa name). Its staff, aircraft fleet, and route network were transferred to Interflug, which henceforth served as the East German flag carrier. As a state-owned airline, Interflug and its approximately 8,000 employees were under the control of the National Defense Council , in supreme command of the East German armed forces. The majority of Interflug pilots were reserve officers of

440-890: The National People's Army (and as such were required to be members of the Socialist Unity Party ), and its aircraft could be requisitioned for military purposes at any time. Klaus Henkes , who became General Director of the airline in 1978, had previously served as General of the East German Air Force . Applicants for flight attendant jobs had to be approved of by the Stasi , which assessed their political reliability , in an attempt to minimize espionage and defection to Western countries. Interflug crews who associated with employees of airlines from non-socialist countries risked suspension. Each flight crew

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480-546: The National Socialists were in power, and in 1944 they built a concentration camp for Jews and Poles at the railway goods station. After the Second World War and until 1990, Königs Wusterhausen lay in the former East Germany . In 1972, Germany's deadliest-ever aviation accident occurred when an Interflug passenger flight crashed near Königs Wusterhausen , killing 156 people. 1972 also saw

520-645: The Notte canal and the river Dahme southeast of Berlin . Much further away to the west lies the state capital Potsdam . The abbreviation "KW" is also a reminder of the Königs Wusterhausen radio transmitter as "KW" is also the abbreviation for "Kilowatt" and "Kurzwelle" (German: "Shortwave") Königs Wusterhausen is the biggest town in the Dahme-Spreewald district. The municipal reforms in 2003 brought about seven amalgamations, since which time

560-608: The Perestroika movement, commercial airliners were exempted from the trade embargo in 1988. Malév Hungarian Airlines also bought Boeing aircraft in 1988, and later that year, Interflug placed an order for three Airbus A310 long-haul aircraft, worth DM 420 million. The deal was secured with the support of Franz Josef Strauss , then Minister-President of Bavaria, chairman of the Airbus supervisory board and responsible for West German loans to East Germany. The first Airbus A310

600-786: The Treuhandanstalt to the Federal Republic of Germany and became part of the German Air Force , used for VIP transport of high-ranking politicians like the German president or chancellor . Several former Interflug aircraft have been preserved in different places in Germany. As the national airline of East Germany from 1963 to 1991, Interflug operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations. As an East German state-owned company, Interflug had

640-715: The 13th century. In 1998 the Evangelical Königs Wusterhausen deanery ( German : Kirchenkreis ) merged in the Berlin- Neukölln deanery. The Protestant congregations in Königs Wusterhausen (KW), Deutsch Wusterhausen, Niederlehme, Senzig, Zeesen, and Zernsdorf (all components of KW) as well as that in Schenkendorf (a component of Mittenwalde ), today make up the ecclesiastical Region 9. The Catholic parish belongs to

680-503: The Central Tower collapsed and fell on 15 November 1972. Today, only a 210-m-high mast and two small freestanding towers are found there. It along with the remaining buildings form a technological monument. Until 1999, this mast bore the transmitting antenna that served as the reserve antenna for the longwave stations at Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg and Donebach . In 1994, a 67-m-high precast concrete cellular transmission tower

720-784: The Deanship of Köpenick-Treptow of the Archdiocese of Berlin . Both communities have very active youth groups, the Evangelical Junge Gemeinde ("Young Community") and the Katholische Jugend ("Catholic Youth"). In January 2013, the Freie Baptistengemeinde Königs Wusterhausen was organized. They are located near the post office and hold weekly services as well as other Bible studies including "Jungschar" and

760-606: The East Berlin- Amsterdam route. Of the six weekly flights, two were operated by KLM's Fokker F28 Fellowships , and four by Interflug's Tu-134s and Il-62s. As neither airline was allowed to cross the intra-German border, the KLM flights were routed via Denmark , and Interflug used a southern routing over Czechoslovakia . During the annual Leipzig Trade Fair , at that time considered the most important meeting place for businesspeople and politicians from both sides of

800-486: The East German airline would likely lose a lawsuit over the use of the Lufthansa branding. As a result, Interflug was set up on 18 September 1958 as a "backup" company, initially intended to complement the East German aviation industry by operating chartered flights. In 1963, the East German Lufthansa was liquidated, officially due to poor profitability (though this step foreclosed the imminent stripping of

840-488: The airline had to pay higher landing fees and was even banned from operating at some airports. With some exceptions, western-built airliners (most notably those produced by Boeing , McDonnell Douglas , and Airbus ) could not be delivered to Soviet bloc countries because of the CoCom embargo. Following a deal between Boeing and LOT Polish Airlines for the purchase of six Boeing 767 aircraft, and in order to acknowledge

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880-417: The alveolar trill [r] . In villages and rural areas, German influence is less marked, and the pronunciation is more "typically Slavic". Lower Sorbian has both final devoicing and regressive voicing assimilation : The hard postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ is assimilated to [ɕ] before /t͡ɕ/ : The vowel inventory of Lower Sorbian is exactly the same as that of Upper Sorbian. It is also very similar to

920-576: The castle and the village. In 1698, Kurprinz Friedrich Wilhelm was given the castle along with the attached estate as a gift by his father. In 1707, the Crown Prince and later King Frederick William I in Prussia founded his military company, the " Potsdam Giants ". Between 1713 and 1718, the castle was remodelled as a hunting lodge, which his son Frederick II (Frederick the Great) despised. In 1718,

960-620: The collapse of Königs Wusterhausen's central tower , which at 243 m tall was the most prominent structure at the radio transmission facility. In Königs Wusterhausen, there is a Catholic parish as well as congregations of the Protestant church body named Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The oldest church in town is the village Wehrkirche (a church whose architecture contains typically military elements) in Deutsch Wusterhausen, built in

1000-415: The communities of Zeesen, Kablow, Diepensee, Niederlehme, Senzig, Wernsdorf and Zernsdorf have belonged to Königs Wusterhausen, the town's land area has grown sixfold, and its population has doubled. In 1320, in connection with an investiture on 19 September, the settlement ("hus to wosterhusen") and the castle received their first-known documentary mentions. By 1400, the two were both a fiefdom held by

1040-435: The company was liquidated. Until 1945, Deutsche Luft Hansa had served as German flag carrier . Following the end of World War II and the subsequent allied occupation of Germany , all aircraft in the country were seized and the airline was liquidated. In 1954, a West German company acquired the Lufthansa trademark. In 1955, Deutsche Lufthansa was founded as a rival East German flag carrier. It soon became obvious that

1080-584: The highly unprofitable company to secure a share of the German air traffic market, especially in Berlin. In early March 1990, Lufthansa signed a letter of intent to acquire 26 percent of Interflug, but the offer was blocked by Germany's Federal Cartel Office . Plans for a takeover by British Airways did not materialize either (the UK airline instead founded Deutsche BA in 1992). On 1 July 1990, Interflug became

1120-968: The important role of securing foreign currency reserves, as the East German mark was considered a weak currency . For most of its existence, Interflug was not a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and could therefore significantly undercut the ticket prices of other European carriers. From the 1970s, more effort was put into operating chartered flights to Mediterranean and Black Sea holiday resorts, many of which specifically catered to West Germans. (Travel restrictions applied to East Germans). Starting in that period, Interflug gained traffic rights to several destinations in Western Europe. All these flights could be booked at travel agencies in West Berlin and West Germany, which had signed sale contracts with Interflug. To simplify

1160-481: The noble family of Schlieben. In 1500 the estate of Wendisch Wusterhausen was verified for the first time by the Schenken (a noble title) of Landberg zu Teupitz. On 14 October 1669 Privy Councillor Friedrich von Jena acquired the castle and the village of Wendisch Wusterhausen. In early July 1683, Kurprinz Friedrich , later (1688) Elector Friedrich III, and later still (1701) King Frederick I of Prussia , acquired

1200-470: The prototype phase and was abandoned in 1961. In 1969, the Tupolev Tu-134 was introduced, the first jet airliner operated by Interflug, used on European routes. The long-range Il-62 joined the fleet in 1971. That same year, the number of Interflug passengers reached 1 million. At its peak, Interflug flew to destinations such as Havana , Cuba , Singapore and Conakry , Guinea . As a result of

1240-698: The spirit of brotherhood.) Interflug Interflug GmbH ( German : Interflug Gesellschaft für internationalen Flugverkehr m.b.H. ; [ˈɪntɐfluːk] ) was the national airline of East Germany (officially the “German Democratic Republic”) from 1963 to 1990. Based in East Berlin , it operated scheduled and chartered flights to European and intercontinental destinations out of its hub at Berlin Schönefeld Airport , focusing on Comecon countries. Interflug also had significant crop dusting operations. Following German reunification ,

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1280-555: The town, hitherto known as Wusterhausen, was given its current name, Königs Wusterhausen ("Königs" = "king's" in German ). In 1862, novelist and poet Theodor Fontane visited Königs Wusterhausen for his Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg . Since 1901, Königs Wusterhausen has been home to the Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired ( Brandenburgische Schule für Blinde und Sehbehinderte ), endowed by

1320-613: The transfer of passengers from West Berlin to and from Schönefeld Airport, a dedicated border crossing checkpoint was inaugurated at Waltersdorfer Chaussee , and scheduled shuttle buses were operated from the Central Bus Terminal in the Westend locality. By the early 1980s, low Interflug ticket prices led to a severe decline in holiday flights at Berlin Tegel Airport in West Berlin. Pilots at Pan Am , which had

1360-522: The two literary Sorbian languages , the other being the more widely spoken standard Upper Sorbian . The Lower Sorbian literary standard was developed in the 18th century, based on a southern form of the Cottbus dialect. The standard variety of Lower Sorbian has received structural influence from Upper Sorbian. Lower Sorbian is spoken in and around the city of Cottbus in Brandenburg . Signs in this region are typically bilingual, and Cottbus has

1400-465: The vowel inventory of Slovene . Stress in Lower Sorbian normally falls on the first syllable of the word: In loanwords , stress may fall on any of the last three syllables: Most one-syllable prepositions attract the stress to themselves when they precede a noun or pronoun of one or two syllables: However, nouns of three or more syllables retain their stress: The Sorbian alphabet

1440-401: Was German radio pioneer Hans Bredow 's brainchild (for this and other groundbreaking work, he is considered the "Father of German Radio"). Until 1926, the popular Sonntagskonzerte ("Sunday Concerts") were broadcast. The station's studio was at first a remodelled bathroom in the first broadcasting house on the Funkerberg. Lower Sorbian language Standard Lower Sorbian is one of

1480-619: Was assigned a political officer who gave political lectures during flights. The airline's route network and fleet of Soviet-built aircraft grew significantly in the 1960s. The Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop airliner became the workhorse of Interflug's short-haul flights during that period. The company had been the intended primary operator of the Baade 152 , an early jet airliner constructed in East Germany. Its development never went beyond

1520-650: Was delivered to Interflug on 26 June 1989. The East German crews for the new aircraft type were trained in West Germany; aircraft maintenance was also performed there. The A310 enabled non-stop flights to Cuba (flights had previously required a fuel stop at Gander International Airport in Canada). Following the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the subsequent political upheaval in East Germany, several airlines expressed interest in buying parts of

1560-483: Was put up. It is today the only active transmitter on the Funkerberg. The first attempts at transmissions were in 1908. On 22 December 1920, music and speech were transmitted wirelessly from the Funkerberg for the first time on "Welle 2400" – longwave. It went down in history as the German postal system's Christmas concert. Königs Wusterhausen is thus also said to be the cradle of German radio. The artists in that broadcast were, incidentally, postal employees. The initiative

1600-594: Was then dismantled. The last commercial flight (on the Berlin- Vienna -Berlin route, using a Tu-134) took place on 30 April 1991. Following the liquidation, a group of former Interflug employees acquired five of the company's Ilyushin Il-18 airliners and set up Il-18 Air Cargo , which soon became known as Berline , operating chartered cargo and leisure flights out of Schönefeld Airport. The company went bankrupt and ceased operations in 1994. The three Airbus A310 purchased by Interflug in 1988 were handed over by

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