Brandenburg: Land of Rivers and Lakes
Facts
- Population 2.6 million.
- Area 24,479 sq. km.
- Largest of Germany’s new states, but low in population due to losing its traditional capital, Berlin.
Famous Facts
J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are now celebrated with a two-week festival in Potsdam.
Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis was shot in Potsdam in 1927.
The Nazis opened the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in a disused brewery in Sachsenhausen where 100,000 “undesirables” were murdered.
Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel spent their summers in Buckow.
Where about
In the north-west of Germany, Brandenburg shares its eastern border with Poland, and borders Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the north, Saxony-Anhalt to the west and Saxony to the south.
How to get there
Berlin's international airports.
