Zörbig () is a town in the district of

Anhalt-Bitterfeld Anhalt-Bitterfeld is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its capital is Köthen (Anhalt). Its area is . History This district was established by merging the former districts of Bitterfeld, Köthen and a large part of Anhalt-Zerbst as part o ...

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 ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated approximately 15 km west of

Bitterfeld Bitterfeld () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2007 it has been part of the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. It is situated approximately 25 km south of Dessau, and 30 km northeast of Halle ( ...

, and 20 km northeast of Halle (Saale). Zörbig is well known for its molasses made from sugar beets.

Geography

The town Zörbig consists of the following ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Zörbig
§ 15, 17 June 2021. *Cösitz *Göttnitz *Großzöberitz *Löberitz *Quetzdölsdorf *Salzfurtkapelle * Schortewitz *Schrenz *Spören *Stumsdorf *Zörbig

People

Thomas Selle Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer. Life There is practically no reliable information about the early years of Thomas Selle. Between his birth in 1599 and his matriculation in the U ...

(1599–1663), composer and church musician *

Johann Jacob Reiske Johann Jakob Reiske (Neo-Latin: Johannes Jacobus Reiskius; December 25, 1716 – August 14, 1774) was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics. Biography Reisk ...

(1716–1774), Graezist, Arabist and Byzantinist * August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), surgeon * Carl Marx (1911–1991), painter, pupil at the Bauhaus Dessau 1931-33

References

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