Brücken is a village and a former municipality in the

Mansfeld-Südharz Mansfeld-Südharz is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its area is . History The district was established by merging the former districts of Sangerhausen and Mansfelder Land as part of the reform of 2007. In the German parliament, the Bu ...

district, in

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. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the municipality

Brücken-Hackpfüffel Brücken-Hackpfüffel is a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2009 by the merger of the former municipalities Brücken and Hackpfüffel. Geography The municipality lies north-eas ...

History

Brücken was referenced in a document at

Hersfeld Abbey Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse (formerly in Hesse-Nassau), Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda. The ruins are now a medieval festival venue. History ...

as ''Trizzebruccun'' at the start of the 9th Century. The settlement of Brücken was awarded a town charter in 1518 by Kaiser Maximilian I, however this was withdrawn in the following centuries. Brücken was occupied by US troops in April 1945, which were relieved by the Red Army in July of the same year.

Famous Residents

Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717 - 1771), political economist, was born in the town Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Mansfeld-Südharz {{MansfeldSüdharz-geo-stub