The municipality Treuenbrietzen is situated 32 km northeast of Wittenberg and includes the localities The town has existed since the Middle Ages and the first written evidence about it is from 1217.

From 1348 to 1350 the town remained loyal to the Wittelsbach Louis V, the legitimate Margrave of Brandenburg since 1323, against the revolt of the False Waldemar.

Dr. Kroeber & Sohn GmbH (formerly Gehre Dampfmesser GmbH)[3] was a local firm that made steam, gas and fluid gauges, small internal combustion engines, and the Kroeber M4 light aircraft engine.

With the approach of the Red Army, on April 23, 1945, the Wehrmacht executed 127 Italian POWs who were interned in the camp.

Subsequently, Red Army soldiers rounded up between 30 and 166 civilians and murdered them in a nearby forest.