Kloster Lehnin
municipality in Potsdam-Mittelmark district, Brandenburg state, Germany
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.
Overview
Kloster Lehnin was established on 1 April 2002 by the merger of 14 villages:
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.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q627838. VIAF identifies the subject as 234843333. The Library of Congress control number is n2013068027. Authority coordinates are 52.317, 12.750. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 1180 and 1415.
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