Treuenbrietzen

Treuenbrietzen lies on the Nieplitz near the Fläming uplands, where old roads between Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Jüterbog crossed. A castle is recorded in 1208, and the settlement was called a town in 1290. Its walls enclosed houses around the churches of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas. The name Treuenbrietzen is traditionally linked to the town's loyalty to the Wittelsbach margraves during the challenge of the False Waldemar in 1348–49.

The Reformation reached the town in 1537. Much of its medieval building fabric was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, after which residents rebuilt on the old foundations. Brewing, pottery and agriculture supported the local economy; clothmaking and linen weaving expanded in the eighteenth century.