Thank Frederick William I for the existence

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The following lines are from the Kienberg village chronicle and depict some snapshots from village history.
King Frederick William I bought Grünefelder and Börnicker meadows and created Kienberg. The actual independence of Kienberg, compared to that of Königshorst, which is some kilometres away, goes back to the year 1737. The lessee with the name Mayer farmed Kienberg and wanted to deliver butter to the royal kitchen but was declined. He also founded a small stud farm with race horses, who even raced in England. At the time of Frederick the Great a graveyard was created that was surrounded by a mulberry hedge. The teacher at the time wanted this food basis to breed silkworms, which only generates a smile these days.

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Kienberg delivered in 1896 daily four hundred to six hundred litres of milk to Berlin. Also morels, even then an expensive mushrooms, were sold to Berlin. In the year 1903 the first telephone reached Kien­berg. But it wasn't open to public use. The summer of 1911 brought a great torrid period to Kienberg; the village and the surrounding area were a grim sight. The drains were only grey strips with deep cracks. The Havelländisch great main canal was so dry that only some puddles were visible. At the end of June the meadows started to burn and many hundreds of acres were destroyed. Also the peaty top layer burned, which had dramatic consequences for the economy as peat was an indispensible heating matter.


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