Where In The World?

This one might be a little tough.  It has an important significance from something that happened there between about 1,000 AD and 1,900 AD (how’s that for narrowing it down) and a somewhat important significance during the 20th century. 

UPDATE: This may be a first.  Nobody got it after three days.  So… here it is.  That little village to the northwest of the airbase used to be called Mollwitz.  This is the site of Frederick II, a.k.a. Frederick the Great’s, first battlefield victory.  To be fair, he left the battle when it appeared to be lost and it was won by his underlings, but it remains the site where he first won martial fame and reset the nature of international relations within Europe in 1741. 

The battle took place mostly on the site of the airbase that was used by both the Nazis and the Soviet Union before being decommissioned several years ago.