Kleinmachnow

Kleinmachnow is a municipality inside the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. Kleinmachnow arose at the previous Bake creek, these days changed with the aid of the Teltow Canal constructed in 1906. Parvo Machenow become first stated within the 1375 land registry of Emperor Charles IV, then also Brandenburg Elector. In medieval times the ford changed into controlled by using a fort, lately held via the Hake noble own family. Together with the canal the Kleinmachnow lock turned into erected, soon turning into a landmark. From the early 20th century the previous village developed to an prosperous suburb of Berlin.

In 1937 Wilhelm Ohnesorge, minister of the Reichspost, acquired the Hakeburg mansion as his residence and set up a huge research facility of communications-electronics right here. In World War II Kleinmachnow became the site of a labour camp with about 5,000 inmates, together with a subcamp of Sachsenhausen. Crash website online of LM316 in Kleinmachnow south of Berlin. On the night time of two–three December 1943, a Lancaster plane of the Royal Australian Air Force turned into shot down over Kleinmachnow, one of those killed being the famous Norwegian author and poet Nordahl Grieg, at the time serving as a struggle correspondent.