The young Emperor Otto III to thank for that Potsdam can look back on a thousand-year history. As a 13 year old emperor he left his aunt Mart Hilda, the abbess of Quedlinburg, was in 993 ([Slav "under the oaks"] not gain) with signature and seal of the places not gain Geliti et. One assumes, however, that already in the 7th century by the Hevelli, a Slavic tribe, a castle was built on the river Havel.

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