Ammendorf/Beesen is a suburb to the south of the city of
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
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Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...
, Germany. It consists of the formerly independent villages of Ammendorf and Beesen.
History
The first evidence of a settlement of the area date from the Neolithic period. The first written documentation dates from 1214 in ''Urkundenbuch Ammendorfs der Stadthalle''. The eponymous
Ammendorf family
The Ammendorf family was a family of Brandenburg nobility from which the Blumenthal and Grabow families originated, by a change of name.
History
The earliest known member was Fritz von Ammendorf who took part in a tournament in 969 in Mersebur ...
originated here.
Halle (Saale)
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