Magdeburg,_administrative_districts,_Buckau_location

Buckau is a quarter of the city of

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

, capital of the German state of

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 ...

. It covers an area of 2.1803 km² and has a population of 6,217 (as of 31 December 2020).Bevölkerung & Demografie 2021
Magdeburger Statistik. Its name originates from the Slavic name "Bukow". "Buk" means "beech" in Polish.

Geography

Buckau lies directly on the river

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...

opposite the southern part of the Rotehorn Landscape Park. To the north, on the roads of Erich-Weinert-Straße and Schönebecker Straße towards Harnackstraße and Steubenallee is Magdeburg’s old town, the Altstadt. To the south the boundary with Fermersleben is the ‘’Schanzenweg and its projection to the banks of the Elbe. The building complex of Erich-Weinert-Straße 5 belongs to the quarter. This may be transferred to the quarter of Leipziger Straße as a result of protest action by a local woman. West of Buckau, the railway line from Magdeburg to Leipzig Buckau with the

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

stop of ''SKET-Industriepark'' and the roads of Schanzenweg and Schilfbreite form the boundary with the quarters of

Leipziger Straße Leipziger Straße is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte district of Berlin, capital of Germany. It runs from Leipziger Platz, an octagonal square adjacent to Potsdamer Platz in the west, to Spittelmarkt in the east. Part of the Bundesstr ...

and Hopfengarten. Buckau ist also the start of the so-called chain of pearls of quarters which include Fermersleben,

Salbke Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low German, Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the Capital city, capital and second-largest City, city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Em ...

and Westerhüsen to the south. Apart from its northern and southern areas, the quarter is densely populated and still has several entire streets in the architectural

Gründerzeit (; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...

style. Buckau has its own station and is well served by local public transport services. There is a ferry over the Elbe from Buckau to the Rotehornpark.

References

External links

Buckau in the Stadtwiki Magdeburg (MagdeWiki)Short video with a circular view of the Elbe, the Stern Bridge and Speicher
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