Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the
district of Salzlandkreis, in
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 ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated on the left bank of the
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 Rep ...
, approx. southeast 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 Mag ...
.
For much of the twentieth century it was noted for its large
salt mine
Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite formations.
History
Before the advent of the modern internal combustio ...
.
The manor house of Schönebeck was owned by Count Heinrich
von Blumenthal
The von Blumenthal family are Lutheran and Roman Catholic German nobility, originally from Brandenburg-Prussia. Other (unrelated) families of this name exist in Switzerland and formerly in Russia, and many unrelated families (quite a few of them J ...
, Mayor of Magdeburg, until 1810.
The firm of
Sellier & Bellot
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Foundation
Sellier & Bellot was founded on August 5, 1825 by a German businessman of French ...
opened a munitions factory there in the 1829.
Geography
The town Schönebeck consists of Schönebeck proper and three ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions, that were independent municipalities until January 2009, when they were absorbed into Schönebeck:
[Hauptsatzung der Stadt Schönebeck (Elbe)]
February 2021.
Statistisches Bundesamt
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The Office is responsible for collecting, processing, presenting and ...
* Plötzky
* Pretzien
* Ranies
Twin towns – sister cities
Schönebeck is twinned
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* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:Garbsen
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, Germany
* Söke
Söke is a town and the largest district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of western Turkey, 54 km (34 miles) south-west of the city of Aydın, near the Aegean coast. It had 121.940 population in 2020. It neighbours are Germencik from ...
, Turkey
* Trakai
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, Lithuania
Schönebeck also have friendly relations with Farmers Branch, Texas
Farmers Branch, officially the City of Farmers Branch, is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb of Dallas and is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its population was 28,616 at the 2010 census.
Known a ...
, United States.[
]
Notable people
* Christoph Grabinski (born 1990), footballer
* Katharina Heise (1891–1964), sculptor, painter and printmaker
* Erik Neutsch (1931–2013), writer
See also
* Schönebeck (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft)
References
External links
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Towns in Saxony-Anhalt
Salzlandkreis
Populated riverside places in Germany
Populated places on the Elbe
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