Zossen

HISTORY

Between 1901 and 1904 , Zossen adopted the use of different high-speed vehicles, such as electric locomotives and trams, for transportation to and from Berlin-Marienfeld. These vehicles were powered by an alternating current of 15kV and used a variable frequency. The power was channelled through three overhead lines.

There is a large area in Zossen which, from 1945 to 1994 , was the site of a Soviet military camp, and since then has been used as civil property. It had been a military camp in World War I , and Muslim prisoners who had fought on the side of the British were executed there, in the so-called "Half Moon Camp". These prisoners usually came from North and West Africa and India . A wooden Mosque was erected specially for the captured Muslims, who hoped that the German Muslims would become their allies. French and Russia n prisoners, on the other hand, were accommodated in the so-called "Weinbergelager". From 1943 to 1945, the headquarters of the German army's High Command was in Zossen.

Timeline

1809/1810: Kietz and the vineyards of Zossen are suburbanised

1885: Monument to the fallen soldiers of the 1864, 1866, and 1870 wars is erected in Kietz

1906: School on Kirchplatz is expanded

1910: Military field between Zossen and Wünsdorf is developed

1932: Flyers of the town councillor and deacon Emil Phillip regarding the threatening change in the Protestant community and the city Zossen

1933: As a result of the Nazis ' rise to power, Socialists and Communists in Zossen are arrested by SS troops and mistreated in the school on Kirchplatz. Emil Phillip is removed from his post, upon the order of Pastor Eckerts