The Seeburger Zipfel (Seeburg strip), comprising Weinmeisterhöhe and part of Groß Glienicke, was a Brandenburgian salient into Greater Berlin's city boundary and as such part of a land swap between Britain and the Soviet Union regarding

West Berlin West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1 ...

. Since the major access roads to the RAF Gatow airfield ran through the territory of

Seeburg, Brandenburg is a village in the district of in Brandenburg, Germany. Since 2003 Seeburg is part of the municipality of Dallgow-Döberitz. Overview Seeburg was first mentioned in 1283. In 1375 the whole village belonged to the cloisters in nearby Spandau. In ...

, which belonged to the Soviet Zone of Occupation, the British exchanged

West-Staaken Staaken () is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau. History First mentioned in a 1273 deed as ''Stakene'' (from Middle Low German: ''staken'', "stakes") in the Mittelmark region of the Margraviate of Brandenbur ...

, part of the British Sector for the "Seeburger Zipfel" on August 30, 1945. Jürgen Grothe, ''Spandau: Stadt an Spree und Havel: aus der Chronik eines Berliner Bezirks'', 1971, S. 175

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