Märkische Heide

Märkische Heide or Markojska Góla is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.
On 26 October 2003, the municipality of Märkische Heide was formed by merging 17 municipalities: Alt-Schadow, Biebersdorf, Dollgen, Dürrenhofe, Glietz, Gröditsch, Groß Leine, Groß Leuthen, Hohenbrück-Neu Schadow, Klein Leine, Krugau, Kuschkow, Leibchel, Plattkow, Pretschen, Schuhle-Wiese and Wittmannsdorf-Bückchen.
Parts of the municipality are in the Sorbian settlement area; in those areas, the German and Lower Sorbian languages have equal status. Markojska Góla is the northernmost part of the surviving settlement regions.
"Märkische Heide", also known as "Brandenburglied", is the title of a well-known German song, whose text mainly praises the beauty of the local countryside. The Chilean military song Mi fusil y yo adopted its melody.

WWW maerkische-heide.de

History

The constituent localities of Märkische Heide were part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg from 1815 to 1947, and from 1947 to 1952 they were part of the Soviet and GDR State of Brandenburg. From 1952 to 1990 in East Germany, Plattkow was in the Bezirk Frankfurt and the rest were in the Bezirk Cottbus. Since 1990, the area has been part of the revived state of Brandenburg, since 2003 united as the municipality of Märkische Heide.