the town, which is on the Berlin S-Bahn Line 5 and Deutsche Bahn's Berlin Lichtenberg - Kostrzyn service. There are three other stops on the S5 line within the town, these being Strausberg Hegermühle, Strausberg Stadt and Strausberg Nord. Strausberg is also served by the Strausberg Railway (Strausberger Eisenbahn), a light rail line with nine stops, which connects the main railway station to the centre of town. Besides the main railway station, the other 8 stops are: Landhausstraße, Schlagmühle, Stadtwald, Hegermühle, Wolfstal, Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße, Elisabethstraße and Lustgarten, the northern terminus. The Strausberg Railway also operates the Straussee Ferry (Strausseefähre), an unusual electrically operated passenger cable ferry across Straussee. The town has also a small aerodrome ("Flugplatz Strausberg", ICAO: EDAY), opened in 1927, with a runway of 1,200 m × 28 m, and situated 2 kilometres in the east of town centre. Sport The local football representative is the FC Strausberg, competing in the fifth tier of German football. Home games of FCS are played at the "Energiearena" stadium. Twin towns – sister cities Strausberg is twinned with: Dębno, Poland Frankenthal, Germany Hamont-Achel, Belgium Terezín, Czech Republic Notable people Andreas Angelus (1561–1598), clergyman, teacher and chronicler Paul Max Bertschy (1840–1911), architect Johannes Haw (1871–1949), Roman Catholic priest Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), cosmonaut and pilot Siegfried Kasche (1903–1947), Nazi Storm Trooper officer and ambassador executed for war crimes Kurt Wagner (1904–1989), general Michael Gartenschläger (1944–1976), political prisoner Martin Schindler (born 1996), professional darts player Gallery References Bibliography Rolf Barthel, Michael Haddenhorst: Städte in Deutschland - Strausberg. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Beuermann GmbH, Berlin 1993 Horst Klein: Zur Geschichte der Ortsgruppe der KPD Strausberg 1920 bis 1946 (Thesen), in: Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, No. I/2002. Horst Klein: 110 Jahre organisierte Arbeiterbewegung - 1887–1997 Sozialdemokraten in Strausberg (Thesen), in: Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, No. II/2003. External links Strausberg.de Stadt-Strausberg.de Strausberg-Live FC Strausberg Strausberger Eisenbahn (urban railway) Stadtwiki Strausberg Map of railways in Strausberg on www.urbanrail.net Localities in Märkisch-Oderland