Mahlwinkel

Mahlwinkel is a village and a former municipality in the

Börde A ''börde'' (plural: ''börden'') is a region of highly fertile lowland in North Germany, a "fertile plain". These landscapes often cover great areas and are particularly important for arable farming on account of their rich soils. These region ...

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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 th ...

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. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality

Angern Angern is a municipality in the Börde (district), Börde Districts of Germany, district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. On 1 January 2010 it absorbed the former municipalities Bertingen, Mahlwinkel and Wenddorf.paintball Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot using low-energy a ...

tournaments. The former

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is used as a huge playfield. About 2,000 players from all over the world visit Mahlwinkel twice a year. {{authority control Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Börde (district)