Kloster Lehnin was established on 1 April 2002 by the merger of 14 villages:
Damsdorf
Emstal (Schwina until 1937)
Göhlsdorf
Grebs
Krahne
Lehnin
Michelsdorf
Nahmitz
Netzen
Prützke
Rädel
Reckahn
Rietz and
Trechwitz, incorporated on 26 October 2003
The centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for Lehnin Abbey, the oldest monastery in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, established in 1180 by Margrave Otto I. The adjacent settlement developed about 1415 out of a market held by the monks outside the abbey walls.
Today, this well-maintained area includes the renovated monastery church and other Gothic buildings.
In addition to tourism, Kloster Lehnin's local economy is supported primarily by
the Evangelical Deaconess House Berlin Teltow Lehnin, a hospital network
Hansa-Heemann AG, a mineral water and soft drinks company
Grand River Enterprise, a cigarette company
Windeck, a metal construction company.
All of these companies are established in the industrial area, Rietz.[3]
Demography
Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)
Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)
Kloster Lehnin: Population development within the current boundaries (2020)[4]
