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	'''Frankfurt-an-der-Oder''' is an old and important city on the commercial route to [[Poland]] and beyond, and was the seat of a university from 1506 to 1811, when it was removed to [[Breslau]]. The city is connected by a bridge with the former Oderdamm suburb on the right bank of the river Oder, which is today occupied by Poland, following the [[Soviet Union\|Stalin]]'s illegal award to Poland of the German provinces east of the Oder, which became a border, in 1945.		'''Frankfurt-an-der-Oder''' is an old and important city on the commercial route to [[Poland]] and beyond, and was the seat of a university from 1506 to 1811, when it was removed to [[Breslau]]. The city is connected by a bridge with the former Oderdamm suburb on the right bank of the river Oder, which is today occupied by Poland, following the [[Soviet Union\|Stalin]]'s illegal award to Poland of the German provinces east of the Oder, which became a border, in 1945.

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[[File:Germany Frankfurt an der Oder City Hall (c1300).jpg|250px|thumb|right|Frankfurt's city hall, south facade, c1300.]]
[[File:Germany No to the Oder Niesse line.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Poster protesting against the Oder border. Frankfurt is shown.]]
'''Frankfurt-an-der-Oder''' is an old and important city on the commercial route to [[Poland]] and beyond, and was the seat of a university from 1506 to 1811, when it was removed to [[Breslau]]. The city is connected by a bridge with the former Oderdamm suburb on the right bank of the river Oder, which is today occupied by Poland, following the [[Soviet Union|Stalin]]'s illegal award to Poland of the German provinces east of the Oder, which became a border, in 1945.

In 1904 the city had 61,800 inhabitants.<ref>Baedeker, Karl, ''Northern Germany'', Leipzig & London, 1904, p.179.</ref> Its population in 1988 was 87,123.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' Micropaedia, vol.4, 15th edition, Chicago, 1990, p.039.</ref>

An early mediaeval settlement of [[Franconia]]n colonists and traders, Frankfurt was chartered in 1253 and joined the [[Hanseatic League]] in 1368. Eleven years later it received the right to free navigation on the Oder, and, later, its fairs became important. It has an inland harbour on the Oder about 6 miles north of its junction with the Oder-Spree canal, and remains an important railway link.

The Wilhelmplatz, where the theatre and post-office were situated in 1904 then contained an equestrian statue of the Emperor Wilhelm I (1900) by the sculptor Max Ungar, also responsible for the [still extant] statue of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia (1828-1885) in front of St.Gertraud's Church Rectory. The nearby Church of St.Mary is a good example of Prussian red brick architecture of the 13th century. The gilded wood-carvings over the altar are from 1419; the font is from 1376. The ''Rathaus'' (Town Hall) on the Market-place was rebuilt between 1607 and 1610. To the south of the Halbe Stadt Promenade is a granite obelisk to the poet Ewald von Kleist who died here of wounds received at the battle of Kunersdorf in 1759.<ref>Baedeker, 1904, p.179.</ref>

In Oderdamm there was a monument erected in 1787 of Leopold, Duke of Brunswick, who was drowned in 1785.<ref>Baedeker, 1904, p.179.</ref> This was destroyed by the Polish occupiers after May 1945.

During [[World War II]] Frankfurt was besieged by the [[Soviet Union|Red Army]] and seriously damaged, but was afterwards reconstructed.

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