Jüterbog: Guide

Jüterbog (2002 pop. 13,604) is a city of Germany, located in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, on the Nuthe, 39 mi. southwest of Berlin, at the junction of the main lines of railway from Berlin to Dresden and Leipzig.

The town is surrounded by a medieval wall, with three gateways, and contains two Protestant churches, of which that of St Nicholas (14th century) is remarkable for its three fine aisles. There are also a Roman Catholic church, an old town-hall and a modern school. Jüterbog carries on weaving and spinning both of flax and wool, and trades in the produce of those manufactures and in cattle. Vines are cultivated in the neighborhood.

Jüterbog belonged in the later middle ages to the archbishopric of Magdeburg, passing to electoral Saxony in 1648, and to Prussia in 1815. It was here that a treaty over the succession to the duchy of Jülich was made in March 1611 between Saxony and Brandenburg, and here in November 1644 the Swedes defeated the Imperialists. Two miles S.W. of the town is the battlefield of Dennewitz where the Prussians defeated the French on the 6th of September 1813.

3 km north of Jüterbog is Kloster Zinna, a monastery of the Cistercians founded in 1170.

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