Schwielowsee

Schwielowsee is a municipality within the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Schwielowsee lake, via which the River Havel flows. The municipality turned into based on December 31, 2002 in merger of the 3 villages Caputh, Geltow and Ferch. The Caputh Ferry, a cable ferry throughout the Havel, hyperlinks Caputh and Geltow. In the east Schwielowsee shares border with the City of Potsdam, in the west with the town of Werder. Geltow together with Potsdam was first cited as Slavic Geliti in the Hevelli lands in a 993 deed by means of Emperor Otto III, who ceded it to his aunt, abbess Matilda of Quedlinburg.

The ford in the Havel were a widespread river-crossing on the grounds that historical times. Today the Bundesstrabe 1 federal highway crosses the river on the Baumgartenbrücke. Geltow become always surpassed by using a number of strangers on the principle road. Like Caputh it has a railway station because 1904. The village church of Geltow was built in line with plans of the unfortunate Emperor Frederick III after the version of the church of Terlano in Tyrol, with glazed roof tiles and a spire outside the nave. It was consecrated in 1887. Friedrich's final go to on June 6, 1888 became perpetuated by way of Theodor Fontane in his poem Kaiser Friedrich III. Letzte Fahrt.