* October 1, 1920: The Greater Berlin Act created " Greater Berlin " ( Groß-Berlin ) by incorporating several neighboring towns and villages like Charlottenburg, Köpenick or Spandau from the Province of Brandenburg into the city ; Berlin's population doubled overnight from about 2 to nearly 4 million inhabitants.

After German reunification the line was extended 7. 6 km further west to Teufelsbruch substation in Spandau Forest, near Berlin's western border, in 1994.

The borough of Spandau lies partly within the Berlin Glacial Valley and partly on the Nauen Plain, which stretches to the west of Berlin.

Spandau Prison was a prison situated in the borough of Spandau in western Berlin, constructed in 1876 and demolished in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

The Havel's main tributary is the Spree river, which joins the Havel in Spandau, a western borough of Berlin, and is longer and delivers more water than the Havel itself above the confluence.

The British New Romantic band Spandau Ballet took their name from the Spandau borough in the British sector of former West Berlin.

The borough headquarters occupy the Rathaus Spandau, a town hall built in 1913.

It borders on the Mitte borough in the east, on Tempelhof-Schöneberg in the southeast, Steglitz-Zehlendorf in the south, Spandau in the west and on Reinickendorf in the north.

It was not used as the prison for national socialist war criminals who were housed at Spandau prison in the same Berlin borough.

Its name means " hazel eyrie " in English ; it was named for the locality where it lies: Haselhorst in the borough of Spandau.

Known for most of its operational life as Royal Air Force Station Gatow, or more commonly RAF Gatow, this former British Royal Air Force military airbase is in the district of Gatow in south-western Berlin, west of the Havel river, in the borough of Spandau.

It is within the borough of Spandau.

The stretch of the river between the junction with the Oder – Havel Canal near Liebenwalde and the confluence with the River Spree at Spandau is administered as part of the Havel – Oder – Wasserstraße, which also includes the Oder-Havel Canal.

The stretch of the river between the confluence with the River Spree at Spandau and the junction with the Elbe – Havel Canal at Plaue is administered as part of the Untere Havel – Wasserstraße, which also includes the stetch of river downstream to the confluence with the River Elbe.

Built from 1559 – 94 atop a medieval fort on an island created by the meeting of the Havel and the Spree, it was designed to protect the town of Spandau, which is now part of Berlin.

The proliferation of acts led to an anti-synth backlash, with groups including Spandau Ballet, Human League, Soft Cell and ABC incorporating more conventional influences and instruments into their sounds.

South of Spandau, the river widens into a wide lake, including a large arm known as the Großer Wannsee, which due to its proximity to Berlin can be very busy with leisure craft.

The five M. 5K / MG production prototypes, with Fokker factory serial numbers 191 through 194, and s / n 198, received the IdFlieg military serial numbers E. 1 / 15 through E. 5 / 15, followed Parschau's A. 16 / 15 aircraft into military trials very shortly thereafter, with Leutnant Parschau himself receiving E. 1 / 15 as the replacement for his then worn-out No. 216 aircraft, which was returned to the Fokker factory for further trials with the lMG 08 " Spandau " air-cooled machine gun.

The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen (" Recollections ") ( Propyläen / Ullstein, 1969 ), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1970 as Inside the Third Reich ; then Spandauer Tagebücher (" Spandau Diaries ") ( Propyläen / Ullstein, 1975 ), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1976 as Spandau: The Secret Diaries.

The proliferation of acts had led to an anti-synth backlash, with groups including Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell and ABC incorporating more conventional influences and instruments into their sounds.

On 23 / 24 January 1944 at Damiano Ridge, Italy, when an advance was held up by enemy machine-guns firing at point-blank range, Private Mitchell charged alone up the hill through intense Spandau fire, jumped into the weapon pit and killed the crew.

This stretch of the river is long, and the river descends through two locks at Lehnitz and Spandau.

Some further downstream, the Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal joins the river on the east bank, providing a connection to central Berlin without passing through the lock at Spandau.

A car ferry crosses the river between Hakenfelde and Konradshöhe, in the Berlin boroughs of Spandau and Reinickendorf respectively.

The river enters Berlin before Spandau, having formed the boundary for the previous.

Between Spandau and Plaue, the river forms part of the main inland waterway route from the River Rhine and the west of Germany, and from Hamburg and the North Sea ports, to both Berlin and Poland.

* About 750: The Hevelli founded Spandow ( today's Spandau ) on the river Havel.

The locality is situated in the western side of the city and is separated from Spandau by the river Havel.

During Pribislav's reign, in which he cultivated close connections with the German nobility, the Holy Roman Empire re-affirmed Christian government in the Hevelli region from Brandenburg an der Havel to Spandau, which had been destroyed in earlier heathen uprisings.

It flows through the city centre of Berlin to join the River Havel in Spandau, one of Berlin ’ s western boroughs.

The present tower became an important tourist destination offering a panorama of Berlin, Spandau, the Havel Valley, Potsdam, Nauen and Hennigsdorf.

The tower is an important tourist destination offering a panorama of Berlin, Spandau, the Havel Valley, Potsdam, Nauen and Hennigsdorf.

By 3 May the divisions had reached the Charlottenbrücke crossing the Havel River in Spandau.

The Hehfeldi as they were called by the Bavarian Geographer about 850 built their main fortification at Brenna ( later to become Brandenburg an der Havel ) and a large eastern outpost at the current site of Spandau.

The band picked their name in part as a reaction against those used by synthpop bands of the early 1980s, such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Spandau Ballet, which they considered pretentious.

It owed relatively little to the foundations of early popular music in jazz, folk music or the blues, and instead of looking to America, in its early stages, it consciously focused on European and particularly Eastern European influences, which were reflected in band names like Spandau Ballet and songs like Ultravox's " Vienna ".

At the same party, Heroin Bob complains of a headache ( induced by Spandau Ballet's " She Loved Like Diamond " playing on a stereo ), and is given Percodan, which he consumes while intoxicated.

Capitalizing on his victory of the American reality show, his Debut compilation was re-issued, and his second collection was also released in the same year, True Ballads, including some of his solo tracks, most of the cover songs which were already contained in his second studio album, and historical hits from the Spandau Ballet period.

* Spandau Ballet recorded a concert film over two nights at the NEC in 1986, during their tour in support of the Through the Barricades album, for broadcast on a special episode of The Tube which featured the group.

These were the Berlin Air Safety Center and Spandau Prison ( which was demolished in 1987 when Rudolf Hess, the sole remaining prisoner, died ).

In 1580, first troops were assigned to the Spandau Citadel which was completed only in 1594.

This situation was intensified by the building of the U-Bahn line, which was essentially a parallel service to the S-Bahn to Spandau.

There were three series produced, which featured guest stars including David Seaman, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonny Lee Miller, gangster " Mad Frankie " Fraser, ex Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp, Denise van Outen and Donna Air.

Later that day, he led an attack on an enemy position which contained a field gun and Spandau machine guns.

With utter disregard of his own wounds he continued and charged the next post in which the enemy had one Spandau and three automatics, which were still very active and preventing movement on both banks.