Kloster Lehnin

Kloster Lehnin, or just Lehnin, is a municipality in the German state of Brandenburg. It lies about 24 km (15 mi) west-south-west of Potsdam.

Kloster Lehnin
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Kloster Lehnin within Potsdam-Mittelmark district
Kloster Lehnin Show map of Germany Kloster Lehnin Show map of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52°19′00″N 12°45′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Subdivisions	14 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor (2024–32)	Uwe Brückner[1]
Area
• Total	199.30 km2 (76.95 sq mi)
Elevation	36 m (118 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	11,148
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	14542, 14778, 14797
Dialling codes	03382, 033207
Vehicle registration	PM
Website	www.lehnin.de

Overview

Kloster Lehnin was established on 1 April 2002 by the merger of 14 villages:

Damsdorf Emstal (Schwina until 1937) Göhlsdorf Grebs Krahne

Lehnin Michelsdorf                Nahmitz Netzen Prützke

Rädel Reckahn Rietz and Trechwitz, incorporated on 26 October 2003

The centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for Lehnin Abbey, the oldest monastery in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, established in 1180 by Margrave Otto I. The adjacent settlement developed about 1415 out of a market held by the monks outside the abbey walls.

Today, this well-maintained area includes the renovated monastery church and other Gothic buildings.

In addition to tourism, Kloster Lehnin's local economy is supported primarily by

• the Evangelical Deaconess House Berlin Teltow Lehnin, a hospital network
• Hansa-Heemann AG, a mineral water and soft drinks company
• Grand River Enterprise, a cigarette company
• Windeck, a metal construction company.

All of these companies are established in the industrial area, Rietz.^[3]

Demography

• 
  Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)
• 
  Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

Kloster Lehnin: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)^[4]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 8,142 —     1890 9,562 +1.08% 1910 10,153 +0.30% 1925 9,924 −0.15% 1939 11,651 +1.15% 1950 13,891 +1.61% 1964 11,800 −1.16%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1971 11,504 −0.36% 1981 10,921 −0.52% 1985 11,173 +0.57% 1990 10,864 −0.56% 1995 10,996 +0.24% 2000 11,586 +1.05% 2005 11,700 +0.20%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2010 11,089 −1.07% 2015 10,720 −0.67% 2016 10,903 +1.71% 2017 10,848 −0.50% 2018 10,871 +0.21% 2019 10,894 +0.21% 2020 10,971 +0.71%

Notable people

• Roland Kaiser (1943–1998), actor
• Waltraud Kretzschmar (1948–2018), handball player
• Wolfgang Schmidt (*1966), serial killer

Photogallery

• 
  Church in Göhlsdorf
• 
  Church in Krahne
• 
  Manor house and fire station in Krahne
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  Church in Rädel
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  Manor house in Reckahn
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  Church in Reckahn-Meßdunk
• 
  Listed hotel building in Lehnin

See also

• Klostersee
• Lehnin Abbey