Wriezen (German pronunciation: [ˈvʁiːt͡sn̩] ⓘ) is a town in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany, near the border with Poland.

The name is of medieval Slavic Lechitic origin, and comes from the words we and rice or rika (modern Polish: rzeka, Lower Sorbian: rěka), which means "on the river".

[4] From 1373 to 1411, it was part of the Bohemian (Czech) Crown under the House of Luxembourg.

In the final weeks of World War II, on 19 April 1945, the town was captured by Allied Soviet and Polish forces.

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