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Markranstädt
Markranstädt () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 11 km southwest of the city of Leipzig and has close to 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Markranstädt is located about south-west of Leipzig city centre, between Saxony-Anhalt and the Leipzig housing estate , to the west of the ''Kulkwitzer See''. It is the only municipality in the ''Landkreis Leipzig'' that lies west of the city. Divisions Markranstädt is a municipality consisting of the town itself and the following six ''Ortschaften'' (localities), each containing several ''Ortsteile'' or divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Markranstädt September 2016. *Frankenheim (incl. Lindennaundorf and Priesteblich) *Großlehna (incl. |
SSV Markranstädt
SSV Markranstädt is a German association football club from the city of Markranstädt, Saxony near Leipzig. It is part of a larger sports club that also has departments for badminton, cycle ball, gymnastics, table tennis, and volleyball. __TOC__ History Established following World War II as ''Sportgemeinde Markranstädt'', the club took up play in the top-flight regional Landesliga Sachsen/Leipzig in the Allied-occupied Germany, Soviet occupied eastern part of the country and earned a first-place finish in the 1947–48 season. Renamed ''SG Glück-Auf Markranstädt'', the team slipped to consecutive seventh-place finishes in its next two campaigns. The club then disappeared into lower-tier play in East Germany and, like most other clubs there, underwent a succession of name changes over the years: ''BSG Stahl Markranstädt'' (1951–1952); ''BSG Motor Markranstädt'' (1952–1958); ''BSG Turbine Markranstädt'' (1959–1984); ''BSG Motor Markranstädt'' (1984–1988); and ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markranstädt Kirche
Markranstädt () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 11 km southwest of the city of Leipzig and has close to 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Markranstädt is located about south-west of Leipzig city centre, between Saxony-Anhalt and the Leipzig housing estate , to the west of the '' Kulkwitzer See''. It is the only municipality in the ''Landkreis Leipzig'' that lies west of the city. Divisions Markranstädt is a municipality consisting of the town itself and the following six ''Ortschaften'' (localities), each containing several ''Ortsteile'' or divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Markranstädt September 2016. *Frankenheim (incl. Lindennaundorf and Priesteblich) *Großlehna (incl. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulkwitzer Lake
The Kulkwitzer See (Lake Kulkwitz), colloquially called Kulki, is a lake in the western part of Saxony, Germany. The lake is a part of the Central German Lake District. ''Kulkwitzer See'' emerged from two former lignite opencast mining areas southwest of Leipzig. Coal was mined here from 1864, first underground and from 1937 in opencast mining. The two remaining opencast mines were flooded from 1963 and opened in 1973 as a local recreation area. Location The lake is located east of Markranstädt, north of the former village of ''Göhrenz'', 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into ''Markranstädt'', south of the former village of ''Miltitz'', 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into Leipzig, and west of Grünau and Lausen, both parts of Leipzig. It is named after the former village of ''Kulkwitz'', which became a neighborhood of Markranstädt in 1999. Tourist facilities There are substantial tourist facilities: several bathing beaches - on the western shore also one suita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulkwitzer See
The Kulkwitzer See (Lake Kulkwitz), colloquially called Kulki, is a lake in the western part of Saxony, Germany. The lake is a part of the Central German Lake District. ''Kulkwitzer See'' emerged from two former lignite opencast mining areas southwest of Leipzig. Coal was mined here from 1864, first underground and from 1937 in opencast mining. The two remaining opencast mines were flooded from 1963 and opened in 1973 as a local recreation area. Location The lake is located east of Markranstädt, north of the former village of ''Göhrenz'', 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into ''Markranstädt'', south of the former village of ''Miltitz'', 1999 incorporated as a neighborhood into Leipzig, and west of Grünau and Lausen, both parts of Leipzig. It is named after the former village of ''Kulkwitz'', which became a neighborhood of Markranstädt in 1999. Tourist facilities There are substantial tourist facilities: several bathing beaches - on the western shore also one suita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markranstädter Automobilfabrik
The Markranstädter Automobilfabrik is a former producer of automobiles from Markranstädt, Germany, which was active between 1909 and 1923. Hugo Ruppe founded the Markranstädter car factory in 1909, producing cars that were sold under the brand name ''MAF''. The first model was the Type D 4 from 1909 to 1913. Its air-cooled four-cylinder engine with 1192 cc provided 12 PS. The Type F 5 followed in 1913 with 1375 cc and 14 hp, and the G 6 with 1620 cc and 16 hp. Due to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 production was interrupted. After the war MAF produced the pre-war type F 5, and the 6 / 18 hp which replaced the G 6. MAF also built the type 8 / 25 hp, and the large 14 / 35 hp with a six-cylinder engine. In 1921 the factory was taken over by the Apollo-Werke AG, and in 1923 the last models were produced by MAF. Very few examples of the MAF remain today. A type F 5 / 14 PS of 1914 is in the Cité de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOFV-Oberliga Süd
The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Oberligas in German football. Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fourth tier of the league system, and until the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 the third tier. Overview The NOFV-Oberliga Sud was formed in 1991 when, along with the political reunion of Germany, the East German football league system was integrated into a unified German system. The abbreviation NOFV stands for ''Nordostdeutscher Fußballverband'', meaning ''North East German Football Association''. Along with this league, two other NOFV-Oberligen were formed, the NOFV-Oberliga Mitte and the NOFV-Oberliga Nord. The league was formed from clubs from six different leagues: One club from the Oberliga Nordost, the former DDR-Oberliga, fourteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VC Leipzig
Volleyball Club Leipzig is a German professional volleyball team based in Leipzig. History The club was born in 1962 as SC Leipzig from the union between the teams that had formed part of the multi-sport ''"Deutsche Hochschule fur Korperkultur"'' and ''"SC Rotation Leipzig"'' (it had helped to create the football team Lokomotive Leipzig), that already in the fifties had already placed respectively four and two times their name on the albo d'oro of the East German volleyball championship. The new club, the Sport Club Leipzig ruled absolutely in championship at the turn of the sixties. Between 1962 (year of the triumph of Rotation Leipzig) and 1976 it won fourteen consecutive national titles and in 1964 won the CEV European Champions Cup (against the Yugoslavian Mladost), the first European triumph for any East German sport club. Also, Leipzig won five titles in the eighties, before the German reunification. In 2000 the club changed its name to the more German VV Leipzig (''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig (district)
Leipzig (official name: ''Landkreis Leipzig'') is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the city Leipzig, which is partly surrounded by the district, but not part of it. It borders (from the west and clockwise) the state Saxony-Anhalt, the urban district Leipzig, the districts Nordsachsen and Mittelsachsen, and the state Thuringia. Geography The district is located in the Leipzig Bay and is rather flat. Individual hills are found in the north (Hohburg Hills) and south of the district. Its larger rivers are the Mulde, Pleiße and White Elster. Also worth mentioning are the many lakes of the Leipzig Neuseenland in the west of the county, that were formed by flooding old brown coal pits. History The district was established by merging the former districts Muldentalkreis and Leipziger Land as part of the district reform of August 2008. Geography The district is located in the lowlands around Leipzig. The main rivers of the district are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altranstädt
Altranstädt is a village and former municipality in Saxony, Germany, now part of the town Markranstädt in the district of Leipzig. The village is historically famous for two treaties that were concluded there, the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706) and the Treaty of Altranstädt (1707). The 1706 treaty was a peace which Augustus II, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify on 24 September 1706, with Charles XII of Sweden. The former renounced the throne of Poland in favor of Stanislaus Leszczynski's treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII's defeat at Poltava (8 July 1709). The other treaty was signed on 31 August 1707. Emperor Joseph I guaranteed to Charles XII religious tolerance and liberty of conscience for the Silesian Protestants. Charles was visited in Altranstädt by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Altranstädt (1706)
The Treaty of Altranstädt was concluded between Charles XII of Sweden and Augustus the Strong of Saxony and Poland–Lithuania, on 13 October 1706, during the Great Northern War. Augustus had to renounce his claims to the Polish throne and his alliance with Russia. Background On behalf of Charles XII, who had occupied much of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Great Northern War, Stanisław Leszczyński was crowned king of Poland on 4 October 1705.Bromley (1970), p. 699 A faction of the commonwealth, organized in the Sandomierz Confederation, remained loyal to Saxon elector Augustus the Strong, Polish king since 1697 and allied against Charles XII with Russian tsar Peter the Great.Anisimov (1993), pp. 103-104 The resulting civil war in Poland (1704-1706) did not go well for August. His attempt to regain control in Poland–Lithuania was thwarted by Charles XII in the Battle of Grodno and by Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld in the Battle of Fraustadt, both in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesstraße 87
The Bundesstraße 87 (Abbreviation: B 87) is a Bundesstraße in Germany. It begins in Ilmenau and ends in Frankfurt (Oder). In Thüringia it runs partly along the Straße der Romanik. History Origin The modern-day Bundesstraße 87 has been in use since medieval times as a connection between Frankfurt (Oder) and Leipzig. Between Leipzig and Eckartsberga it follows the historical route of the Via Regia. This section was upgraded to a highway by 1819. The connection as far as Eilenburg was upgraded in 1845. To upgrade the stretch from Eilenburg to Frankfurt (Oder), a company limited by shares was founded on 20 November 1854. The ''Frankfurt an der Oder Leipziger Chausseebaugesellschaft'' was headquartered in Lübben. This section ran from Eilenburg through Torgau, Herzberg, Schlieben, Luckau, Lübben, Beeskow and Müllrose to Frankfurt (Oder). The easternmost section between Beeskow and Frankfurt (Oder) was completed in 1856. Earlier Descriptions The Prussian State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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