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a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Oder, 28 m. N.E. of Berlin, on the FrankfortAngermiinde railway. Pop. (1905) 7995. It has a small palace, built by the Great Elector, an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and manufactures of furniture, machinery, &c. The neighbouring forests and its medicinal springs make it a favourite summer resort of the inhabitants of Berlin. A new tower commands a fine view of the Oderbruch (see Freienwalde, which must be distinguished from the smaller town of the same name in Pomerania, first appears as a town in 1364.