page_title: Wandlitz
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wandlitz / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Amtshaus und Standesamt Wandlitz, ehemalige sowjetische Kommandantur, vormals Hotel "Rünger" in Wandlitz, Brandenburg, Deutschland. English: Parish house and registry office Wandlitz, former Soviet Commander's office, former Hotel "Rünger" in Wandlitz, Brandenburg, Germany.
context_page_description: Wandlitz is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Berlin, and 15 km east of Oranienburg. The municipality was established in 2004 by merger of the nine villages Basdorf, Klosterfelde, Lanke, Prenden, Schönerlinde, Schönwalde, Stolzenhagen, Wandlitz and Zerpenschleuse.
  The communal government of the Great municipality has its seat in Wandlitz directly. It consists of deputies from the several parts of the commune and in accordance with the election results of the existing parties here.
context_section_description: Wandlitz was first mentioned as Slavic Vandlice in a 1242 deed, when the Margraves of Brandenburg John I and Otto III sold it to the Lehnin Abbey. The word means men who live at the water. Situated on the Barnim plateau among woods and lakes it became a popular recreation area especially in the 20th century. Since 1901 the Heidekrautbahn railway line links Wandlitz with Berlin.
  Development
  The name Wandlitz was and is also often used as a synonym for the nearby "Waldsiedlung" compound, where the highest East German functionaries lived removed from the general population. But this settlement is a part of the town Bernau.
  Shortly after World War II, the village was home to an orphanage of children from Berlin.  The orphanage, run by nuns, later became a holiday spot for visiting high-ranking Communist party members.  The children of the small orphanage were frowned upon as second-class citizens by villagers, and often went hungry.
caption: The townhouse in Wandlitz, former being a private hotel.
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