Kloster Lehnin, or just Lehnin, is a municipality in the German state of Brandenburg. It lies about west-south-west of Potsdam.
Overview Kloster Lehnin was established on 1 April 2002 by the merger of 14 villages:
Damsdorf Emstal (Schwina until 1937) Göhlsdorf Grebs Krahne Lehnin Michelsdorf Nahmitz Netzen Prützke Rädel Reckahn Rietz and Trechwitz, incorporated on 26 October 2003
The centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for Lehnin Abbey, the oldest monastery in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, established in 1180 by Margrave Otto I. The adjacent settlement developed about 1415 out of a market held by the monks outside the abbey walls.
Today, this well-maintained area includes the renovated monastery church and other Gothic buildings.
In addition to tourism, Kloster Lehnin's local economy is supported primarily by the Evangelical Deaconess House Berlin Teltow Lehnin, a hospital network Hansa-Heemann AG, a mineral water and soft drinks company Grand River Enterprise, a cigarette company Windeck, a metal construction company. All of these companies are established in the industrial area, Rietz.
Demography
Notable people Roland Kaiser (1943–1998), actor Waltraud Kretzschmar (1948–2018), handball player Wolfgang Schmidt (*1966), serial killer
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See also Klostersee Lehnin Abbey
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