EBERSWALDE, a town of Germany, in the province of Bran denburg, 28m. N.E. of Berlin by rail; on the Finow canal. Pop. 31,310. It received its municipal charter in 1257, but was sacked during the Thirty Years' War. In 1747 Thuringian cutlers came to the town, but the cutlery industry has died out. About 4 m. to the north lies the Cistercian monastery of Chorin.
The town has a 14th-century church. Industries include iron founding and the making of roofing material and bricks. Trade is in grain, wood and coal. In the immediate neighbourhood are an important brass-foundry and a Government paper-mill, in which paper for note money is manufactured.