Fehrbellin

Fehrbellin () is a municipality in Germany, located 60 km NW of Berlin. It had 9,310 inhabitants as of 2005, but has since declined to 8,606 inhabitants in 2012.

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German location.image_coa: Wappen Fehrbellin.png
German location.image_photo: Fehrbellin church.jpg
German location.image_plan: Fehrbellin in OPR.png
German location.state: Brandenburg
German location.district: Ostprignitz-Ruppin
German location.mayor: Mathias Perschall
German location.leader_term: 2019–27
German location.party: SPD
German location.elevation: 40
German location.area: 269.06
German location.postal_code: 16833
German location.area_code: 033932

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Fehrbellin () is a municipality in Germany, located 60 km NW of Berlin. It had 9,310 inhabitants as of 2005, but has since declined to 8,606 inhabitants in 2012.

==History== In 1675, the Battle of Fehrbellin was fought there, in which the troops of Brandenburg-Prussia defeated those of the occupying Swedish Empire. In 1758 during the Seven Years' War Prussian and Swedish forces clashed at the Battle of Fehrbellin (1758).