With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification, a new era began once again: full of hope, but also with some disappointment and many shattered…

After the end of the Second World War, Lychen initially belonged to the Soviet occupation zone, and then from 1949 to 1989 to the socialist state of the…

In 1933 Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany - and was soon to plunge the whole world into misfortune. First the Olympic athletes trained in Lychen for…

With the railroad connection to the capital Berlin (1899), the founding of the Hohenlychen sanatoriums (1902) and the burgeoning wanderlust of Berliners,…

Around the turn of the century, Berlin, then capital of the German Empire, began to pulsate. Suddenly, the subway rattled through the underground and tramway through…

Sommerfrische's timber-framed house on the Oberpfuhl, which everyone in Lychen knows as the "Färberhaus" ("Dyer's House"), was built around 1750. However,…

In 19th century Prussia, the ideas of the French Revolution could no longer be suppressed despite the victory over Napoleon in 1815. The citizens were…

The mid-18th century was the Age of Enlightenment: an era marked by the fight against prejudice, the dawn of the natural sciences and the idea of tolerance…

The horrors of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), a great city fire (1633), the plague (1637) and the "Little Ice Age" with poor harvests and famine almost…

The 13th century was a kind of boom period of the Middle Ages: thanks to mild climates and rich harvests, the population in present-day Germany doubled.…