During Theodor Fontane's hikes through the Mark, he was especially taken with the sagas and stories around the old lost Mittenwalde, which location was assumed west of today's town.
Around 10.000 years ago during the Old Stone Age, hunters settled in this wild forestry and swampy area. Germanic clans were at home here after the turning point of history, until the Slavs moved here after the Migration Period.
They were probably also the name giver of Mittenwalde, because the settlement wasn't located in the middle of the forest, but, rather, in an extensive swamp area and was named probably Middenwulche, which means that more or less.
During the Thirty Years War, Mittenwalde was pillaged and plundered, pestilence and hunger raged, so that the town became more or less deserted.
And it was Provost Gerhardt, who was preaching his sermons from the pulpit of St. Moritz, that gave the people strength, courage and confidence: "Auf den Nebel folgt die Sonn, auf das Trauern Freud und Wonn!" (Sun follows mist, happiness and delight follow sorrow)
The most important clerical poet of the 17th-century, created uplifting, popular songs like the evening song, which are still sung today: "Nun ruhen alle Wälder, Vieh, Menschen, Städt und Felder, Es schläft die ganze Welt ..."(Now all forests, livestock, people, towns and fields are resting, the whole world is sleeping...)
Part of the stork town Mittenwalde are the villages Telz and Brusendorf, Ragow and Schenkendorf, Gallun, Motzen and Töpchin, everyone of them, full of charm and with lots of room for discoveries as well as touristic attraction.