Lubben

Lubben is a metropolis of 14,000 human beings, capital of the Dahme-Spreewald district inside the Lower Lusatia place of Brandenburg, Germany. The fortress of Lubin in the March of Lusatia was first mentioned in an 1150 check in of Nienburg Abbey and had received metropolis privileges in keeping with Magdeburg regulation by means of 1220. From 1301 the city inside the centre of the Spreewald floodplain changed into inside the ownership of the clergymen of Dobrilugk Abbey, who sold it to Duke Rudolph I of Saxe-Wittenberg in 1329. After numerous conflicts with the Wittelsbach margraves of Brandenburg the March of Lusatia was in the end received by way of Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg in 1367 who included Lubben into the Kingdom of Bohemia.

In the 15^th century Lübben have become the seat of the Bohemian Vogt administrator and the provincial weight-reduction plan of Lower Lusatia. In 1526 the House of Habsburg inherited the Bohemian kingdom along with Lusatia, which in 1623 Ferdinand II of Habsburg had to give in pawn to Elector John George I of Saxony. The Saxon Electorate sooner or later received Lubben by way of signing the 1635 Peace of Prague. After the Napoleonic Wars it again fell to the Prussian province of Brandenburg via the final act of the 1815 Congress of Vienna. During World War II, Lubben became taken by Soviet troops of the 3rd Guards Army on 27 April 1945.