Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg (; ) is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately north-east of Neuruppin and north-west of Berlin.
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- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen_Rheinsberg.png
- German location.image_photo
- Rheinsberg Schloss und Park asv2024-03 img04.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Schloss Rheinsberg
- German location.image_plan
- Rheinsberg in OPR.png
- German location.state
- Brandenburg
- German location.district
- Ostprignitz-Ruppin
- German location.elevation
- 61
- German location.area
- 328.21
- German location.postal_code
- 16831
- German location.area_code
- 033931
- German location.licence
- OPR
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Rheinsberg (; ) is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately north-east of Neuruppin and north-west of Berlin.
==History== thumb|Manor in Wittwien Frederick the Great, while still Crown Prince, designed and moved into a restored chateau in Rheinsberg shortly after his 1733 marriage to Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern. Here he experienced his "Rheinsberg Period", an era marked by regular correspondence with Voltaire, boisterous celebration in the company of minor philosophers and musicians, and the writing of several works of political theory, including the Anti-Machiavel.
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