Ruedersdorf is situated 26 km (16 mi) east of Berlin centre. The municipality is noted for its limestone-open-pit mining. Some parts of the mine are used as a museum (Museumspark Ruedersdorf). Some notable buildings in Berlin such as the Brandenburg Gate are built with limestone from Ruedersdorf.
Ruedersdorf was built as a foundation of the Cistercian 1235-1250 in southeastern Barnim, where the monastery Zinna built up ten villages as the owner of the land. During this period, the legend says Ruedersdorfer farmers discovered on their fields and meadows the outcropping limestone. Right thereafter, in 1254 Ruedersdorfer limestone was used for the construction of the Dominican monastery in Strausberg.
With the privatization of the limestone mining and cement plants, as well as the demolition tattered factory building the environmental situation improved greatly. The serious dust emissions in Ruedersdorf have been significantly reduced to 1995 inclusive.
On September 23rd 2008, the municipality was awarded the title "City of Diversity" conferred by the federal government.
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Town Hall Ruedersdorf
Public Order And Construction Office
The necessary construction of an office building in the district Kalkberge was carried out in 1905 at the former Chausseestraße, today Puschkinstraße. An official administrative headquarters was established.
In the two-storey building with five axes were the administrative offices of superintendent Cramer and his secretary Heyer. In the basement were the prison cells of the detention center. At the had first floor had the police their Gendarmerie Station furnished.
After 1945 the Rüdersdorfer register office and the Department of Volkspolizei moved in. For many years here was also a kindergarten, which was closed in 1990.
For last two decades, the building now serves again as 2. official house of Municipality Rüdersdorf.
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