EBERSWALDE  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, 28 m . N.E. of Berlin by rail; on the Finow canal . Pop . (1905) 23,876 . Thb town has a Roman Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a school of forestry, a gymnasium, a higher-grade girls' school and two schools of domestic economy . It possesses a mineral spring, which attracts numerous summer visitors, and has various industries, which include iron-founding and the making of horse-shoe nails, roofing material and bricks . A considerable trade is carried on in grain, wood and coals . In the immediate neighbourhood are one of the chief brass-foundries in Germany and an extensive government paper-mill, in which the paper for the notes of the imperial bank is manufactured . Eberswalde received its municipal charter in 1257 . It was taken and sacked during the Thirty Years' War . In 1747 Frederick the Great brought a colony of Thuringian cutlers to the town, but this branch of industry has entirely died out . About 4 M. to the north lies the old Cistercian monastery of Chorin, the fine Gothic church of which contains the tombs of several margraves of Brandenburg .