DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Brandenburg
Landkreis: Oberspreewald-Lausitz

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Brieske is situated at the lake Senftenberger See just outside the town of Senftenberg in southern Brandenburg. On 31 December 2001 Brieske was incorporated into the municipality of Senftenberg.

The  Kolonie Marga [left], a residential complex for the mining workers of the coal mining company 'Ilse', was founded in 1907 and completed around 1915. It was designed by the architect Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg (1870–1930) as the first German garden-city. In 1914, Kolonie Marga already had 2500 inhabitants, whereas the old village of Brieske only had one tenth of that number. As a sub-project of the world exposistion EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Kolonie Marga has recently been restored.