Africa (Flieth-Stegelitz)

Africa Community Flieth-Stegelitz Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	53 m
Residents :	14  (2006)
Postal code :	17268
Area code :	039887
Location of Africa in Brandenburg

Africa is a place (“inhabited part of the municipality”) in the municipality of Flieth-Stegelitz in the district of Uckermark in Brandenburg (Germany).

history

Three years after the end of the Second World War , resettlers from the east settled near the Hessenhagener mill . In the absence of sufficient building material, they dug pits on which they placed low log buildings so that the small windows were level with the ground. The inhabitants of the area associated it with the African way of life and so the name Africa caught on. The temporary arrangements were gradually replaced by new buildings. Further houses were not approved because the settlement is located in a nature reserve . Because of the strange name, the place-name sign is often stolen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Africa on gov.genealogy.net; Retrieved July 5, 2015
2. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Flieth-Stegelitz , decided on November 7, 2008.
3. ^ Claus-Dieter Steyer: Africa, again and again Africa. About the very special problems of a small village in the Uckermark . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 9, 2000.