page_title: Eberswalde
section_title: Prehistory
hierarchical_section_title: Eberswalde / History / Prehistory
context_page_description: Eberswalde is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German State of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42,144, geographical location 52°50′N 13°50′E. The town is often called Waldstadt, because of the large forests around it, including the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. Despite this fact, Eberswalde was an important industrial center until the German Reunification.
context_section_description: The area around Eberswalde was already populated in Paleolithic. Before the establishment of the Margraviate of Brandenburg it was the place of a Slavic stockade. The Treasure of Eberswalde, the largest pre-Christian gold treasure from the area of today's Germany was found here. Today the treasure is located in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
caption: Steel-mill near Eberswalde, Carl Blechen, c. 1830.
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