Beilrode is a municipality in the district

Nordsachsen Nordsachsen ("North Saxony") is a district ('' Kreis'') in Saxony, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Delitzsch and Torgau-Oschatz as part of the district reform of August 2008. On 10 December 200 ...

, in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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. It absorbed the former municipality Großtreben-Zwethau in January 2011. It consists of the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Beilrode, Dautzschen, Döbrichau, Döhlen, Eulenau, Großtreben, Kreischau, Last, Neubleesern, Rosenfeld and Zwethau.Ortsteile
Gemeinde Beilrode, accessed 12 October 2021.

Infamous residents

* Fritz Ritterbusch (1894–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commander executed for war crimes

References

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