Marienberg

On the Marienberg (69 m/226ft) in Brandenburg's new town is the Marienberg Park. Here a Germanic tribe, the Semnones, worshipped the goddess Freya, and in the 11th and 12th centuries there was also a Slav sanctuary on the hill. In 1220 a church dedicated to the Virgin, with a wonderworking image, was built here; it was destroyed during the Thirty Years War, and the ruins were finally pulled down in 1772.