Wildau

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen Wildau.pnglat_deg = 52 |lat_min = 19
lon_deg = 13 |lon_min = 38
Lageplan = Wildau in LDS.pngBundesland = Brandenburg
Landkreis = Dahme-Spreewald
Höhe = 45
Fläche = 9.09
Einwohner = 9642
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 15745
Vorwahl = 03375
Kfz = LDS
Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 61 540
Straße = Karl-Marx-Str. 36
Website = [http://www.wildau.de/ www.wildau.de]
Bürgermeister = Dr. Uwe Malich
Partei = Die Linke

Wildau, in the federal state of Brandenburg, is close to Germany's capital city of Berlin and is easily reached by the Berlin S-Bahn. 9.500 Inhabitants (30 june 2005)

History

The history of Wildau begins with fisherman's families that settled by the Dahme River and then came to deliver sand, gravel and bricks from the region by boat to Berlin.

As a location for industry, mechanical engineering that put Wildau on the map. In 1897 the Schwartzkopff company established a locomotive works here, and built a works' housing complex that is a listed building today. In the Second World War the works were involved in armaments production, and was then demolished after the war. It was from the remains of these works that the East German state enterprise in heavy engineering was founded. This in turn had to restructure completely after 1989.

In the region around Wildau, numerous technology and business parks have been set up in recent years, with service industries, logistics centres, as well as energy and environmental technology companies. A works school, founded in 1949, was an integral part of mechanical engineering in the region before 1990. In 1991 the federal state of Brandenburg founded the University of Applied Sciences Wildau.

External links

* [http://www.tfh-wildau.de/1442.htm Website of TFH Wildau]
* [http://www.wit-wildau.de Website of Wildau Institute of Technology]
* [http://mensamaus.de/studifotos/index.htm Party pics]