Grünheide (Mark)
Grünheide is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany, 30 kilometres south-east of Berlin city centre. It is situated south-east of Berlin on the River Löcknitz. In 2020 Tesla, Inc. began to build Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Grünheide near the Autobahn A10.Etymology
The name "Grünheide" is a compound of grün and Heide. Mark means march.Geography
Grünheide lies in the northwest of the Oder-Spree District, directly bordering the Märkisch-Oderland District to the north. Grünheide is clockwise surrounded by the municipalities of Rehfelde, Müncheberg, Steinhöfel, Fürstenwalde/Spree, Spreenhagen, Gosen-Neu Zittau, Erkner, Woltersdorf, and Rüdersdorf bei Berlin.Grünheide consists of the following districts:
- Grünheide with the villages Grünheide, Alt Buchhorst, Bergluch, Gottesbrück and Fangschleuse
- Hangelsberg
- Kagel
- Kienbaum
- Mönchwinkel
- Spreeau
Demographics
Personalities
- Curt Herrmann, Impressionist, lived in the mansion with a tower in the village part of the Hangelsberg from the year 1750.
- Fritz Rasp, actor, lived during his time in Berlin in his own house in what is today's Mönchwinkel.
- Robert Havemann, chemist, communist, resistance fighter against the National Socialism and Critical Critic in the GDR. Havemann lived in his house in today's district of Grünheide from 1976 to 1979 because of his criticism of the SED
