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Gräfenhainichen
Gräfenhainichen () is a town in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Geography The town was the seat of the offices of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide until it was disbanded in January 2011. It lies about 25 km southwest of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, southeast of Dessau and northeast of Bitterfeld on the edge of the Düben Heath. Nearby lies the Gremminer See, a lake created as a result of the redevelopment of the former brown coal strip mine of Golpa-Nord, and on whose shore is found the Ferropolis ("Iron Town") industrial memorial, actually a museum dedicated to "industrial culture". The town Gräfenhainichen consists of the following ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Gräfenhainichen [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zschornewitz
Zschornewitz is a village and a former municipality on the southwestern edge of the Wittenberg (district), Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Gräfenhainichen. It was part of the Amt (subnational entity), administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide. It lies about 4 km west of the former district seat of Gräfenhainichen, right on the border with Saxony. Geography The former municipalities of Jüdenberg, Möhlau, Burgkemnitz and Gröbern as well as the town of Gräfenhainichen border on the community of Zschornewitz. Subdivisions The municipality was divided into the historical centre of Kolonie, a neighbourhood to the east built for power station, and Pöplitz, about 2 km to the west. History In the 19th century, there were hardly any more than 200 inhabitants in Zschornewitz. In 1915, work began on the power station under architect Prof. Klingenberg's plans. At the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüdenberg
Jüdenberg is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since January 2007, it belongs to the municipality of Gräfenhainichen. Jüdenberg lies about 4 km northwest of Gräfenhainichen on the edge of the Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe. Politics The municipal council was made up of eight councillors. * CDU 1 seat *Marksmen's Club (citizens' coalition) 5 seats *Fire Brigade (citizens' coalition) 3 seats *Free Voters (citizens' coalition) 2 seats (as of municipal election held on 5 September 2004) The honorary mayor Heinz Powroznik was first elected on 15 December 2002. Transport Road Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 107 between Coswig and Bad Düben runs right through the community. The district road K2038 leads to Möhlau. The ''Dessau-Ost'' interchange with Autobahn A9 (Munich - Berlin) is about 11 km away. Railway The nearest railway station is about 4 km away in Gräfenhainichen lying on the Deutsche Bahn line between W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schköna
Schköna is a village and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since January 1, 2011, it is part of the town Gräfenhainichen. It was part of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide since January 1, 2005. Geography and transport Schköna lies about 9 km southeast of Gräfenhainichen and about 13 km from Bad Düben, in the middle of the Düben Heath, putting the community within the Düben Heath Nature Park. Through the community runs Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 107. History Schköna had its first documentary mention in the Meißen Bishopric Register of 1346 under the name ''Skogen''. This placename, ''Skogen'', is of Slavic origin, but its meaning is unknown. In the Thirty Years' War, Schköna was utterly destroyed by the Swedes, as were many places in the region. The church was only built anew in 1670. In 1950, nearby Hohenlubast was amalgamated with Schköna. Subdivisions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Möhlau
Möhlau is a village and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Gräfenhainichen. It was part of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide. Geography The community lies on the southern edge of Wittenberg district about 9 km west of the former district seat of Gräfenhainichen and about 18 km southeast of Dessau, right on the border with Saxony. Geology The municipal area is strongly marked by brown coal strip mining. Most of the old pits have flooded since they were shut down and are now used as bathing ponds. Subdivisions Möhlau consists of the subdivisions of Golpa, Rothehaus, Großmöhlau, and Kleinmöhlau. History Möhlau is said to have been settled originally by Slavs. It had its first documentary mention on 12 December 1200 when a church was consecrated in Wörlitz Wörlitz () is a town and a former municipality in the district of Witte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düben Heath
The Düben Heath () is a landscape in Germany in eastern Saxony-Anhalt and northern Saxony, between the rivers Elbe and the Mulde, on the northern edge of the Leipzig Bay. It is bounded in the west by the town of Dessau, in the north by the Elbe valley (Wittenberg, Pretzsch), in the southeast by Torgau, in the south by Eilenburg and the course of the Mulde through Bad Düben and Bitterfeld. The Düben Heath is a terminal moraine landscape formed during the Saale glaciation (Plateau of Gräfenhainichen-Schmiedeberg) with predominantly sandy soils. Beneath this Pleistocene cover lie lignite-bearing strata. The majority of the Düben Heath is covered by forest. The eastern part of the Düben Heath, with the resort of Bad Düben, is designated as a nature park. In the western part around Gräfenhainichen and Bitterfeld, lignite was extracted until the end of the 1980s in open pits; as a result large areas of the natural woodland landscape were destroyed. Since then, the pits have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittenberg (district)
Wittenberg is a district () in the east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the district-free city of Dessau-Roßlau, the districts of Potsdam-Mittelmark, Teltow-Fläming and Elbe-Elster in Brandenburg, and the district of Nordsachsen in Saxony. The capital and largest city is Wittenberg, famous for its association with the influential religious reformer Martin Luther and containing a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History In 1994, the district was merged with the district of Jessen and a small part of the district of Gräfenhainichen. In 2007, 27 municipalities from the former district Anhalt-Zerbst were added to the district of Wittenberg. Geography The area of the district is . The main rivers in the district are the Elbe and its tributary, the Schwarze Elster. Coat of arms The coat of arms shows two swords, which is the symbol of a field marshal in the Holy Roman Empire. This title was bestowed upon the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tornau, Wittenberg
Tornau is a village and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Gräfenhainichen. It was part of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide. Geography Location Tornau lies about 5 km north of Bad Düben in the Düben Heath Nature Park. Neighbouring municipalities *Söllichau (Wittenberg district) *Bad Düben ( Delitzsch district, Saxony) *Schwemsal ( Anhalt-Bitterfeld district) *Schköna (Wittenberg district) Economy and transportation Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 2 between Leipzig and Wittenberg Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is the fourth-largest town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. It is situated on the River Elbe, north of Leipzig and south-west of the reunified German ... runs straight through the municipality, while State Highway (''Landesstraße'') 130, which connect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor Zur Dübener Heide
Tor zur Dübener Heide ("Gateway to the Düben Heath") was a ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' ("administrative community") in the district of Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was situated southwest of Wittenberg. The seat of the ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' was in Gräfenhainichen. It was disbanded in January 2011. The ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' Tor zur Dübener Heide consisted of the following municipalities (population in 2005 in brackets): *Gräfenhainichen * (7,817) * Möhlau (2,125) * Schköna (810) * Tornau (597) *Zschornewitz Zschornewitz is a village and a former municipality on the southwestern edge of the Wittenberg (district), Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Gräfenhainichen. It was part of the Amt (subnat ... (2,943) References Former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften in Saxony-Anhalt {{Wittenberg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élancourt
Élancourt () is a communes of France, commune in the Yvelines departments of France, department, and the Île-de-France region, north central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, 30.6 km (19.0 mi) from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris, in the "new town#France, new town" of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Transport Élancourt is not linked directly to the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Élancourt is La Verrière station on the Transilien La Défense and Transilien Paris-Montparnasse suburban rail lines. This station is located in the neighbouring commune of La Verrière, 1.4 km (0.9 mi) from the town center of Élancourt. Population Tourism France Miniature is a tourist attraction in Élancourt featuring scale models of major French landmarks and monuments in an outdoor park. The Colline d'Élancourt, an artificial hill made by landfill, is the highest point in Île-de-France. It is a public park, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferropolis
Ferropolis, "the city of iron", is an open-air museum of huge mid-20th century industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city between Wittenberg and Dessau, Germany. These can measure up to 30 meters high and 120 meters long, and weigh up to 1,980 tons. The area is also used for several events such as opera performances or music festivals, including the Splash! Festival, Melt! Festival, and the "Ferropolis in Flammen" ("Ferropolis in flames") festival. Also some drifting events such as Drift Masters. History The museum is located on the site of a former strip mining operation. The minister of finance of the Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ... formally created the project on 14 December 1995. In December 2005, the museum was integrated into the " Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (Saale). At the end of 2016, it had 40,964 inhabitants. History and description The name Bitterfeld most likely comes from the Middle High German words ''bitter'' and ''Feld'' and so means "boggy land". Bitterfeld was built by a colony of Flemish immigrants in 1153. The first documentary mention is from 1224. It was captured by the landgrave of Meissen in 1476, and belonged thenceforth to Saxony, until it was ceded to Prussia in 1815. By 1900, Bitterfeld station was an important junction of the Berlin–Halle and the Magdeburg–Leipzig railways. The population at that time was 11,839; it manufactured drainpipes, paper roofing, and machinery, and had sawmills. There were also several coal mines in the vicinity. Owing to its pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Printing
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing as applied to paper was woodblock printing, which appeared in China before 220 AD for cloth printing. However, it would not be applied to paper until the seventh century.Shelagh Vainker in Anne Farrer (ed), "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas", 1990, British Museum publications, Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. History Woodblock printing Woodblo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
