Finsterwalde

Finsterwalde is a metropolis in southern Brandenburg and the maximum populous location in the district of Elbe Elster. It changed into from 1952 to 1993 the seat of the county or district Finsterwalde. The hit of the overdue 19^th century "We are the singers of Finsterwalde" and named after this name Finsterwalder Song Festival made the city additionally recognized national. In legit correspondence may additionally therefore because 2009, the extra designation "singer city" are used. Since May sixteen, 2013, the city officially with the approval of the Ministry of Interior Brandenburg this additional designation, even at the metropolis entrance signs and symptoms.

The first written point out was made in 1282 underneath the call Vynsterwalde. In 1301, for the first time, a file speaks of a city or at least a agreement in the immediately vicinity of the fortified complex. But opium probably only way market patches here. The precise name of Finsterwalde as a metropolis offers most effective a record from the year 1336^th in this year, the metropolis were given their marketplace rights.