Talk:Brandenburg an der Havel

Folk etymology?

Could Brandenburg literally mean "burnt fortress"? I guess it may not have ever referred to such a physical landmark if it came to German merely as a phonetic approximation of a Slavic word. Maybe then "burnt fortress" would be folk etymology. — ¾-10 21:21, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Brandenburg City

In Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark always refers to the city as Brandenburg City in order to distinguish it from Brandenburg. I would like to suggest this usage for this article. --85.181.226.22 (talk) 22:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Name

• The official name of the city is Brandenburg an der Havel. You can't use Brandenburg city, because there are a lot more "Brandenburgs" in Germany and other countries.
• The origin of the name Brandenburg is uncertain. Nobody knows anything. We don't know the name, the Slavons called their fortress. But sure is, it was not "Brenna" or similair. That is a romantic fairy-tale, not more. Names like the polish "Sgorzelica" from the medieval age for example is an invention of the Bishop of Gnesen in the 14th century, to prove the polish claim of those terretories. So I have to beg you to remove that "Brenna" nonsens. Thanks for your patience! Kotofeij K. Bajun (talk) 06:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC) (Historian, member of the executive committee of the Circle of Town's History, Member of the Historical Assosiation)

Citations?

The large paragraph on concentration camps is completly uncited and is full of spelling mistakes. Can anyone site these or otherwise delete it? 89.213.1.85 (talk) 10:46, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of spelling mistakes, it's cite, not site. Sca (talk) 00:09, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Full of errors

The German Wikipedia article is good, this one is full of errors. For example, Brandenburg was not 70% destroyed by bombing, 70% of its industry was, and this happened a few weeks before the end of the war (31.3. and 20.4.1945), when industrial production had already ceased. Therefore, stopping industrial production could hardly have been the reason for the bombing. The discussion of the etymology of the name Brandenburg is hardly adequate, to be polite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.119.121 (talk) 19:53, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Brandenburg Pano 02 (MK).jpg to appear as POTD soon

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Picture of the day

A panoramic view of Brandenburg an der Havel, a town in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, located on the banks of the River Havel. The town was founded by the Hevelli, a tribe of Polabian Slavs, in the 8th century, and changed hands between Germans and Slavs several times. Development was restricted to the western bank of the Havel until 1196, when it was extended to the eastern side, although the two portions were regarded as separate towns until 1715.Photo: Mathias Krumbholz

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Middle Ages section

There is smth unclear in the Middle Ages section. It says that in the 17th century the court was moved to Potsdam. But the capital of Brandenburg Markgraviate was moved to Berlin in 1417. What court is mentioned here?--Ymblanter (talk) 20:37, 29 August 2018 (UTC)