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21. Nov. 2024 / Events

Friedensau celebrates its 125th anniversary

Der Rektor Prof. Fischer eröffnet den Festgottesdienst.

Blue skies, pure sunshine, happy faces - a Sabbath that couldn't have been more beautiful. On Sabbath, 19 October 2024, a service of celebration and thanksgiving took place in the Friedensau Arena to mark the 125th anniversary.
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21. Nov. 2024 / Events

Great cinema in Friedensau

In August 2024, attentive observers in Friedensau were able to spot film crews on the move, lugging around large microphones and other equipment, setting up in groups to shoot scenes with actors and extras dressed in historical costumes ...
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19. Aug. 2024 / Events

The 2023 donation cheque for Zabakuck Zoo

It felt like an eternity ago: on 16 April 2023, the seventh forest run for a good cause took place in Friedensau. Zabakuck Zoo, a branch of Werkstätten für Behinderte Elbe-Havel gmbH, had been chosen as the recipient of the donation.
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15. Jul. 2024 / Events

“The round must go into the square”

While the games of the European Championship are still resonating in our minds, memories of times gone by are also returning. FC Magdeburg is celebrating a special anniversary this year: on May 8, 1974, the team defeated AC Milan 2:0 in Rotterdam!
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28. Mar. 2024 / Events

Searching with words

Today, March 21, 2024, is World Poetry Day. It will be celebrated for the 25th time since it was first proclaimed by UNESCO in 1999. The aim of this commemorative day is to raise awareness of the beauty of language and at the same time to express ...
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25. Jan. 2024 / Events

The Pabsdorf-Friedensau railway station – a lost place

In a travelogue by Ludwig Richard Conradi, which he published in April 1898 in the community magazine "Zions-Wächter", there is a rather incidental remark: "On Tuesday [22 March 1898] I visited a sick sister ...
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25. Jan. 2024 / Events

History and stories – 125 years of Friedensau

125 years | Friedensau connects | People. Cultures. Generations.

125 years of Friedensau - how did it all begin? When did the first school year start, who were the first students?
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25. Jan. 2024 / Events

Friedensau and the FFF

At the end of October 2023, the members of the "Förderverein Freundeskreis Friedensau International e.V." (FFF) met for a weekend on which the annual general meeting took place, we were able to celebrate Sabbath together and experienced an evening ..
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24. Jan. 2024 / Events

How Friedensau overcame difficult times

As a prelude to the anniversary events, a reading with church historian and Friedensau expert Dr. Johannes Hartlapp took place in the university library on January 14, 2024. He spoke about the decade "1940s and 1950s" in Friedensau's history.
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18. Dec. 2023 / Events

Hanukkah surprises in the university library

The team at the university library came up with a few surprises for the younger members of the Friedensau community to mark the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
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