"The Prussian king Frederick the Great initiated the drainage of the Oderbruch in order to bring this large tract of marshland under cultivation. Since that time ...
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the land west of the river has been river polder, whereas the 17% of the Oderbruch which is now in Poland has retained its original wetland character.
The region experienced two months of heavy fighting which devastated the area at the close of World War II when Marshal Georgy Zhukov led the 1st Belorussian Front through the Oderbruch on the way to Berlin." - (en.wikipedia.org 21.09.2020)
- Latitude52.700000762939
- Longitude14.25
