Geographically, the Havelland is the region around which the River Havel flows in a U-shape between Oranienburg to the northeast and Rhinow to the northwest. The northern boundary of the Havelland is formed by the River Rhin and the Rhin Canal. In the history of Brandenburg, the Havelland represents a historic region.
19-582: In the heart of the Havelland is the county of the same name . In addition the Havelland includes the south of Ruppin Land with the Rhinluch , the western part of Berlin's Spandau , parts of Potsdam , the town of Brandenburg an der Havel and several villages in the county of Potsdam-Mittelmark . The Tourist Association of Havelland has chosen a rather different boundary. It covers the county of Havelland,
38-621: A crucial role as transit route ( German : Transitstrecke ) between West Berlin and West German Northern Germany . Transit passengers were not allowed to deviate from the route. In East Berlin F 5 passed the Brandenburg Gate , which became an East Berlin checkpoint within the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, but was closed the very next day until December 22, 1989. F 5 gradually lost its function as transit route to new built autobahns (today's A 19 and A 24 ) until it
57-525: A freight transport centre has been established. In Paaren im Glien , the Märkische Exhibition and Leisure Centre ( Ausstellungs- und Freizeitzentrum ) offers a venue for larger trade fairs and events. A continuing problem for the Havelland is transport communication. On the one hand, the Havel is an important waterway, especially between Brandenburg and Oranienburg, on the other, its lakes and
76-546: A greater or lesser extent by the advancing Weichselian ice sheet . The sandy, dry plateaux support arable farming as well as woodlands. The largest is the Nauen Plateau ( Nauener Platte ). North of it there are several morainic plateaux or Ländchen . West of the bend in the Havel river is Land Schollene . In the urstromtäler either side of the Havel north of the Nauen Plateau are the former marshlands of
95-437: A symbol for the Havelland region. Amt-free municipalities 1. Friesack 2. Nennhausen 3. Rhinow 52°38′N 12°38′E / 52.633°N 12.633°E / 52.633; 12.633 Bundesstra%C3%9Fe 5 replaced by the [REDACTED] A 23 [REDACTED] A 7 The Bundesstraße 5 (abbr. B5 ) is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction from
114-498: Is a district or county in Brandenburg , Germany . It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Ostprignitz-Ruppin and Oberhavel , the city-state of Berlin , the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark , the city of Brandenburg and the state of Saxony-Anhalt (districts of Jerichower Land and Stendal ). The district was established in 1993 by merging the former districts of Nauen and Rathenow. Geographically
133-1066: Is partially paralleled by Bundesautobahn 23 . The numbering of Bundesstraße 5 follows the numbering of highways, then called in German : Fernverkehrsstraßen (literally in English: far traffic streets ), in the Weimar Republic, issued on 17 January 1932. The Fernverkehrsstraße 5 , or simply 5 , however, continued from Frankfurt upon Oder (today as Polish DK29 ) via Crossen upon Oder , (today as Polish DK32 ) via Grünberg in Silesia , (today as Polish S3 ) via Lüben , (today as Polish DK36 ) via Parchwitz , (today as Polish DK94 ) via Breslau , Ohlau , Brieg , Oppeln in Silesia , Peiskretscham , (today as Polish DW901 ) via Gleiwitz (today as Polish DK88 ) to Beuthen in Upper Silesia . The route between Berlin and Frankfurt upon Oder
152-552: The Danish border near Niebüll to Frankfurt (Oder) . It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between Berlin and Hamburg . In Berlin B5 forms among others the following squares and streets Heerstraße , Theodor-Heuss-Platz , Kaiserdamm , Straße des 17. Juni , Großer Stern , Unter den Linden , Karl-Liebknecht-Straße , Alexanderplatz , Karl-Marx-Allee , Frankfurter Tor , and Frankfurter Allee . The section north of Hamburg
171-567: The Havelland refers to the land either side of the Havel river and the area surrounded by the large "U" bend in its course between the city of Berlin and its confluence with the Elbe river. The district mainly consists of the areas north of the Havel river. The red eagle is the heraldic animal of Brandenburg. The head of the eagle is part of the coat of arms of Rathenow. The swan is often used as
190-692: The Havelland Luch and Rhinluch , separated from one another by the Ländchen , south of the Nauen Plateau the small morainic hills of the East Havel lowlands are divided by numerous lakes or Havelsees . From 1700 to the 1950s large areas, especially in the north of the Havelland, were drained by canals . The western part of the region between Rhinow and Pritzerbe belongs to the West Havelland Nature Park . This contains
209-807: The 1850s. The section from Itzehoe until Bredstedt was finished in 1858. In 1934 the Fernverkehrsstraßen were renamed into Reichsstraßen (literally in English: Reich's streets ), but the numbering remained Reichsstraße 5 or R 5 . By the Agreement of Potsdam in August 1945 the section East of the Oder-Neiße Line came under Polish authority and was subsequently renumbered within the Polish system of long-distance routes. After
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#1732764972170228-549: The Havelland. Fruit and vegetable farming is also common, especially around Werder. Both are also processed into juices, as well as fruit and vegetable preserves. The Havel and the Havelsee lakes also provide a few fishermen with a livelihood. Tourism is playing an increasingly important role in the Havelland, which is viewed as one of the recreation areas for the metropolis of Berlin . On the edge of Berlin, in Wustermark ,
247-691: The Havelland. These are the Berlin–Hamburg line via Nauen and the Lehrte Railway via Rathenow. In the west the Brandenburg Städtebahn links Brandenburg and Rathenow. In the east the Berlin outer ring grazes the region. 52°30′00″N 12°45′00″E / 52.5000000°N 12.7500000°E / 52.5000000; 12.7500000 Landkreis Havelland Havelland ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːfəlˌlant] )
266-644: The foundation of the two new German republics in 1949 the section of R 5 within the West German Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin became Bundesstraße 5 (literally in English: federal street ) or B 5 . The section in the East German Democratic Republic (GDR) and East Berlin was given back its former name Fernverkehrsstraße 5 or F 5 . During the division of Germany the F 5 played
285-584: The large wetland areas form an obstacle to roads and railways. The most important roads are the B ;5 federal highway from Berlin via Nauen towards Hamburg , from which the B 188 to Rathenow branches. North–south routes are the B 102 from Brandenburg via Rathenow to Rhinow and, in the east, the Berlin ring motorway, the A ;10 . From Spandau, two railway lines carry high-speed trains through
304-686: The largest inland wetlands in Western Europe, the Lower Havel Lowlands. The Havelland is very sparsely populated. The larger towns developed by the crossings over the River Havel: Spandau (today part of Berlin ), Potsdam , Brandenburg and Rathenow . Other central settlements in the Havelland are Rhinow , Premnitz , Nauen and Friesack . The town of Falkensee and its surrounding villages have grown rapidly. Arable and cattle farming dominate large areas of
323-464: The town of Brandenburg an der Havel and the northern part of the county of Potsdam-Mittelmark, including communities south of the Havel river, that belong to the region of Zauche . The writer Theodor Fontane described the Havelland as well as the other landscapes of Brandenburg . In the ballad Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland he helped to give this region special prominence and his novel character Effi Briest grew up here. The Havelland
342-473: Was already completed in 1803. The route from there to Breslau was built between 1817 and 1819. In 1824 the route was extended from Breslau until Gleiwitz. The section between Berlin and Hamburg was upgraded to a highway between 1827 and 1830, with its section crossing the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin representing the first structurally designed road there. The routes Northwest of Hamburg were built in
361-535: Was also given its own volume of Fontane's accounts of hiking across Brandenburg, the Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg . Wide urstromtal lowlands characterize the countryside of the Havelland. Plateaux rise above the general level of the land like islands, mostly formed from Ice Age ground moraines . But end moraines from the Saale and Weichsel glaciations also occur. The former were overlain to
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