Vockerode is a village and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg,

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. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town

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/ref> At Vockerode, there was a large coal-fired power plant, the Vockerode Power Plant. On the area of this power plant was the static inverter of world's first

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, the Elbe Project. The Nelson monument planned by

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was never built. However, the planned location still bears the name Nelson Hügel (Nelson Hill) at the ''Vockerode war memorial''. Due to the

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, the monument was not erected.

Gallery

File:Kraftwerk Vockerode, 1998.jpg, Vockerode power plant (1998) File:Vockerode power plant.jpg, Coal power station in Vockerode (2006) File:Kriegerdenkmal Vockerode Anhalt.jpg, Vockerode war memorial and Nelson Hill (2008)

References

{{Authority control Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Oranienbaum-Wörlitz Duchy of Anhalt Horatio Nelson