Wriezen
Sign in to saveWriezen () is a town in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany, near the border with Poland. It is situated southeast of Bad Freienwalde.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Wriezen COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Wriezen Rathaus Taubstummenanstalt.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall
- German location.image_plan
- Wriezen in MOL.png
- German location.state
- Brandenburg
- German location.district
- Märkisch-Oderland
- German location.elevation
- 10
- German location.area
- 95.14
- German location.postal_code
- 16269
- German location.area_code
- 033456
- German location.licence
- MOL
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 12 0 64 512
- German location.divisions
- 4 Ortsteile
- German location.mayor
- Karsten Ilm
- German location.leader_term
- 2017–25
- German location.party
- CDU
- German location.website
- www.wriezen.de
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Wriezen
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Märkisch-Oderland District
- Population
- 7200
- Area
- 95.14
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.wriezen.de
- Image
- Wriezen Rathaus Taubstummenanstalt.jpg
- Dialing code
- 033456
- Licence plate code
- MOL
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- native label
- Wriezen
- Commons category
- Wriezen
- topic's main category
- Category:Wriezen
- postal code
- 16269
- twinned administrative body
- Mieszkowice
- street address
- Freienwalder Str. 50, 16269 Wriezen
- hashtag
- Wriezen
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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- Demography
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- Notable people
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Wriezen () is a town in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany, near the border with Poland. It is situated southeast of Bad Freienwalde.
==Etymology== The name is of medieval Slavic Lechitic origin, and comes from the words we and rice or rika (modern , ), which means "on the river". The modern Polish name is Wrzecień.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wriezen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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