Oebisfelde () is a town and a former municipality in the

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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 ...

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

Oebisfelde-Weferlingen Oebisfelde-Weferlingen is a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Bösdorf, Döhren, Eickendorf, Eschenrode, Etingen, Hödingen, Hörsingen, Kathe ...

. It is accessed by Bundesstraße (German federal highway) 188.

Geography

Oebisfelde is in the

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area. It borders on

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, across the

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river. East of Oebisfelde is the

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Nature Park.

Subdivisions

* Bergfriede * Breitenrode * Buchhorst * Gehrendorf * Lockstedt * Niendorf * Wassensdorf * Weddendorf

History

Between 1945 and 1990 the

Oebisfelde railway station Oebisfelde (german: Bahnhof Oebisfelde) is a railway station located in Oebisfelde, Germany. The station opened in 1871 and is located on the Berlin-Lehrte Railway. The train services are operated by Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland. The station w ...

served as an East German

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crossing for

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. In Oebisfelde's component village of Buchhorst there was an East German border crossing for

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on the

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, only open for freight vessels. The traffic between the

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(until 1949, thereafter the East

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, or

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and the British zone of occupation) and

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was subject to the

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regulations, which, between West Germany and West Berlin, followed the special regulations of the

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Twinnings

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Sites of interest

* The 10th century Oebisfelde water castle * Naturpark

Burg Oebisfelde.jpg, The water castle Rathaus Oebisfelde.JPG, The townhall St.Katharinenkirche Oebisfelde.jpg, The Lutheran Church Oebisfelde Herz jesu 2008 hell.jpg, The Catholic Church Oebisfelde Nicolaikirche.JPG, The former Lutheran Church

External links

* http://www.oebisfelde.info (in German) Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Oebisfelde-Weferlingen Inner German border {{Börde-geo-stub