Brand-Briesen Airfield

Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical water park located in the former Brand-Briesen Airfield in Halbe, a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg, Germany, 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the southern boundary of Berlin. It is housed in a former airship hangar (known as the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world. The hall belonged to the company Cargolifter until its insolvency in 2002. Tropical Islands has a maximum capacity of 8,200 visitors a day. In its first year of operation, it attracted 975,000 visitors, according to the operators. The Tanjong company reported 155,000 visitors in the business year February 2004 to February 2005. Approximately 600 people work at Tropical Islands. Tropical Islands has a world record for the largest indoor waterpark. It is bigger than Canada's World Waterpark at West Edmonton Mall. It is also the fourth-largest building in the world by usable volume.Parques Reunidos acquired Tropical Islands in December 2018.

Brand Tropical Islands station is a railway station in the municipality of Brand, located in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg, Germany.

Luchsee is a lake in Brandenburg, Germany. It lies at an elevation of 52.7 m and has a surface area is 7.2 ha. It is located in the municipality of Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg, close to the Krausnick hills. As part of the European Union's Habitats Directive, the lake protects three habitat types. In 2004, Luchsee was confirmed as a Site of Community Importance.

Schönwalde (Spreewald) station is a railway station in the municipality of Schönwald, located in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg, Germany.

Wehlaberg is a hill in Brandenburg, Germany.

The Krausnick hills (German: Krausnicker Berge) are a small range of hills in Eastern Germany in the federal state of Brandenburg.

Märkisch Buchholz is a small town in the Dahme-Spreewald district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Dahme, 20 km northwest of Lübben (Spreewald) and resp. 50 km southeast of Berlin.

Schönwald is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.

Köthener See is a lake in Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg, Germany. It lies at an elevation of 43 m, and has a surface area of 1.48 km². It is located in the municipality of Märkisch Buchholz, Dahme-Spreewald district.

Rietzneuendorf-Staakow is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.

Krausnick (Lower Sorbian: Kšušwica) is a village in the Dahme-Spreewald district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located in Lower Lusatia, about 60 km (38 mi) south of Berlin. Krausnick is most famous for the theme park Tropical Islands Resort which is located near the village and the Krausnick hills. Since 31 December 2001, Krausnick is part of the municipality Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg.

The Battle of Halbe (German: Kesselschlacht von Halbe, Russian: Хальбский котёл, Halbe pocket) was a battle lasting from April 24 – May 1, 1945 in which the German Ninth Army—under the command of General Theodor Busse—was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. The Ninth Army, encircled in a large pocket in the Spree Forest region south-east of Berlin, attempted to break out westwards through the village of Halbe and the pine forests south of Berlin to link up with the German Twelfth Army commanded by General Walther Wenck with the intention of heading west and surrendering to the Western Allies. To do this, the Ninth Army had to fight its way through three lines of Soviet troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Ivan Konev, while at the same time units of the 1st Belorussian Front, under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov, attacked the German rearguard from the northeast. After heavy fighting, about 30,000 German soldiers—just over one third of those originally in the pocket—reached the comparative safety of the Twelfth Army's front lines. The rest were either killed or captured by Soviet forces.