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97 unusual facts about Saxony


603rd Tank Destroyer Battalion

The battalion was present at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April, halting its advance that week – after elements had pushed as far forward as Tannenberg, on the Czech border – to be deployed in Zeitz as a garrison unit until the end of the war, some weeks later.

Ahlum

Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the municipality Rohrberg.

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Anagarika Govinda

Ernst Lothar Hoffmann was born in Waldheim, Germany, the son of a German father and a Bolivian mother.

Anja Möllenbeck

Anja Möllenbeck (born Anja Gündler on 18 March 1972 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is a retired German discus thrower, whose personal best throw is 64.63 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Obersuhl.

Aulosen

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Aland.

Bärenstein

Bärenstein is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Bellingen

Bellingen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Blankenheim

Blankenheim, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in eastern Germany, part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Allstedt-Kaltenborn.

Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf

Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf is a municipality in the Mittelsachsen district of Saxony, Germany, created with effect from 1 January 2012 by the merger of Bobritzsch and Hilbersdorf.

Börnichen

Börnichen is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Brücken

Brücken, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt

Burgstall

Burgstall, Saxony-Anhalt a gemeinde in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt.

Burkhardtsdorf

Burkhardtsdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Claußnitz

Claußnitz is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany.

Disraelis

In June 2007, 20 disabled soldiers visited the town Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt.

Doberschau-Gaußig

Doberschau-Gaußig (Sorbian Dobruša-Huska) is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany.

Dorfchemnitz

Dorfchemnitz is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Elend

Elend, Saxony-Anhalt, a village at the foot of the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz in central Germany

Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen

On 24 January 1716 in Nienburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Eleonore Wilhelmine married for the second time, to Duke Ernest Augustus I of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (1688-1748).

Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

On August 3 of that year Emmanuel Lebrecht assigned his wife the castle, city, and bailiwick of Nienburg as dowage for life and made her "tutrix and regent" in case of the minority of his successor, with the full approval of the agnates.

When Emmanuel Lebrecht was still a young prince, he fell in love with Gisela Agnes of Rath (b. Klein-Wülknitz near Köthen, 9 October 1669 - d. Nienburg, 12 March 1740), of an old noble family of Anhalt.

Nonetheless, Gisela Agnes was created Imperial Countess of Nienburg (German: Reichsgräfin von Nienburg) on 23 July 1694.

Eppendorf

Eppendorf, Saxony, a German town in the Freiberg district in Saxony

Erhard Melcher

When Aufrecht moved AMG to larger premises in Affalterbach, Melcher left the company to work independently in Burgstall.

Frankenberg, Saxony

Frankenberg (also: Frankenberg/Sa.) is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

Friedrich Gottlob Keller

Friedrich Gottlob Keller (born June 27, 1816 in Hainichen, Saxony – died September 8, 1895 in Krippen, Saxony) was a German machinist and inventor, who (at the same time as Charles Fenerty) invented the wood pulp process for the use in papermaking.

Gelenau

Gelenau is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Georg Feig

Georg Feig was born on 27 February 1899, in the town of Annaberg in Saxony, Germany to Karl and Mina Feig.

Giersleben

Giersleben is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Gisela Agnes of Rath

In 1699, Emmanuel Lebrecht gave her the castle, city and district of Nienburg as a personal possession for life.

Gornsdorf

Gornsdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Greifenhagen

Since 1 January 2010, it has been part of the town of Arnstein.

Großdubrau

Großdubrau, in Sorbian Wulka Dubrawa, is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany.

Großweitzschen

Großweitzschen is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Hainichen concentration camp

Hainichen concentration camp is a concentration camp at Öderanstrasse in Hainichen, Saxony, formed on April 4, 1933 by order of Amtshauptmann Döbeln.

Heavy warmblood

The title includes the Ostfriesen ("East Friesian") and Alt-Oldenburger ("Old-Oldenburger"), Groningen, and similar horses from Silesia, Saxony-Thuringia, and Bavaria.

Heidersdorf

Heidersdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Herringfleet

Herringfleet was occupied by the Roman Empire, and archaeologists have made a number of finds, including a Roman bronze 'patera', a 'soup ladle' vessel with the maker's name 'Quattenus' on the handle, and a Roman nether mill-stone of trachyte, originally imported from Saxony or Koblenz on the Rhine.

Höckendorf

Since 31 December 2012, it is part of the municipality Klingenberg.

Huysburg

Huysburg or Huysburg Priory (Priorat Huysburg), formerly Huysburg Abbey (Kloster Huysburg), is a Benedictine monastery situated on the Huy, a mountainous area near Halberstadt, in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

Jahnsdorf

Jahnsdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Joakim Stulić

His search for a sponsor and printer then took him to Bohemia, Saxony and Prussia.

Jochen Sachse

Jochen Sachse (born 2 October 1948 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is an East German former athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw.

Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider

Through the good offices of Reinhard, he became pastor of Schneeberg in Saxony (1807).

Kolleg St. Ludwig

A group of Franciscan brothers from Saxony purchased the land from the owner of a castle in the southern Limburg region of the Netherlands.

Königsfeld, Saxony

Königsfeld is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Königshain-Wiederau

Königshain-Wiederau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Konrad Zdarsa

Born in Hainichen, Zdarsa was ordained to the priesthood on March 16, 1974, serving in Dresden-Meißen.

Krosigk

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Petersberg.

Lauter

Lauter, Saxony, town in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany

Leutersdorf

Leutersdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Lichtenau, Saxony

Lichtenau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Lichtenberg, Mittelsachsen

Lichtenberg is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Losse

Losse, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Germany

Louis de Silvestre

Friedrich August II, the prince-elector of Saxony, met Silvestre when he was in France and offered him the chance to work at the court of his father Augustus II, King of Poland.

Low Lusatian German

After the foundation of the German Democratic Republic and an economical development because of a stronger extraction of lignite people from Mecklenburg, Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt moved to the Lusatia region to benefit from the development.

Max Seydewitz

Max Seydewitz (December 19, 1892 — February 8, 1987) was a German politician (SPD, SAPD and SED) and Minister-President Saxony in East Germany).

Mittelherwigsdorf

Mittelherwigsdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Mochau

Mochau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Neschwitz

Neschwitz, Sorbian Njeswačidło, is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany.

Neukirchen, Erzgebirgskreis

Neukirchen is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Niederwiesa

Niederwiesa is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Nikolay Raevsky

When the Russian army entered Saxony, Raevsky was forced to return to Russia because of his poor health.

Novalis

Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg was born in 1772 at Oberwiederstedt manor (now part of Arnstein, Saxony-Anhalt), in the Harz mountains.

Oberschöna

Oberschöna is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Ostrau

Ostrau, Saxony, a municipality in the district of Döbeln, Saxony, Germany

Pfaffroda

Pfaffroda is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

He lived until his death on 10 March 1689 with his old friend Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Schneeberg.

Picolit

The Count oversaw production of more than 100,000 bottles that was exported to the royal courts of the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Saxony and Tuscany as well as the Vatican.

Pillory

When permanently present in sight of prisoners, it was thought to act as a deterrent against bad behaviour, especially when each prisoner had been subjected to a "welcome beating" on arrival, as in 18th-century Waldheim in Saxony (12, 18 or 24 whip lashes on the bare posterior tied to a pole in the castle courtyard, or by birch rod over the "bock", a bench in the corner).

Plötzkau

Plötzkau is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Raschau-Markersbach

Raschau-Markersbach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany.

Reinsberg, Germany

Reinsberg is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Reinsdorf

Reinsdorf, Saxony, a municipality in the district Zwickauer Land, Saxony, Germany

Reinsdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Richard Lipinski

After the end of the First World War on 10 November 1918 by Hermann Fleißner was in the circus Sarrasani Call Out the Free State of Saxony, Lipinski was from 15 November 1918 to 16 January 1919 Lipinski was people's deputy and chairman of the Council of People's Representatives (equivalent to today's first democratic parliament) and he is was the first democratic prime minister in Saxony.

Riethnordhausen, Saxony-Anhalt

Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the municipality Wallhausen.

Rohrberg

Rohrberg, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Rosenbach, Görlitz

Rosenbach is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Rossau

Rossau, Saxony, a municipality in the district of Mittweida, Saxony, Germany

Rossau, Saxony

Rossau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Schönau-Berzdorf

Schönau-Berzdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Schönbach, Saxony

Schönbach is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

Schöneck, Saxony

Schöneck (also: Schöneck/Vogtl.) is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

Seeburg

Seeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Striegistal

Striegistal is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

USCHLA

After a hearing before an Ort-Uschla in Saxony, expulsion was ordered for an SA man, but his SA commander disagreed with the decision and claimed that the tribunal had no jurisdiction over SA men performing their functions in the line of duty.

Ute Hommola

Ute Hommola (born January 20, 1952 in Weißenborn, Saxony) is a former German athlete who mainly competed in the women's javelin throw event.

Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Veit Hans Schnorr (15 March 1644, Schneeberg, Saxony - 26 January 1715, Schneeberg) was a German iron and cobalt magnate.

Viktor Orth

He believed himself at different times the King of Saxony, the Duke of Luxembourg, and the King of Poland.

Welbsleben

Since 1 January 2010, it has been part of the town Arnstein.

Wettin Castle

Wettin Castle is a former castle that stood near the town of Wettin on the Saale river in Germany, and which is the ancestral home of the House of Wettin, the dynasty that included several royal families, including that of the current ruling families of the United Kingdom and Belgium.

Wohlmirstedt

Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the municipality Kaiserpfalz.

Zettlitz

With 794 inhabitants on 30 June 2012, Zettlitz is the second smallest (by number of inhabitants) municipality in Saxony after Rathen with its 372 inhabitants.

Zettlitz is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Zschaitz-Ottewig

Zschaitz-Ottewig is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.


89.0 RTL

While it is licensed to Saxony-Anhalt, the exposed position of the Brocken at 3,743 ft allows the channel to cover large parts of central Germany, including Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony.

Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach

During this period he edited, in collaboration with N. F. S. Grundtvig, the Theologisk Maanedskrift (13 vols., 1825 sqq.), and in 1829 was called to the pastorate of Glauchau, Saxony, where he powerfully aided religious awakening and revolt against the rationalism of the period, though at the same time he opposed any formal separation from the Lutheran Church.

Borstendorf

Borstendorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Bunsenite

It was first described in 1868 for a sample from a hydrothermal nickel-uranium vein from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany and named for German chemist Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811–1899).

Cerussite

Finely crystallized specimens have been obtained from the Friedrichssegen mine in Lahnstein near Nassau, Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony, Mies in Bohemia, Phoenixville in Pennsylvania, Broken Hill, New South Wales; and several other localities.

Charles Zeuner

Charles Zeuner (20 September 1795 Eisleben, Saxony - 7 November 1857 Philadelphia) was an organist and composer active in Germany for a time, and then in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States.

Dietersdorf

Dietersdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Dornstedt

Dornstedt is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Drebach

Drebach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Ebersbach

Ebersbach, Mittelsachsen, a municipality in the Mittelsachsen district, Saxony

Eggersdorf

Eggersdorf is a former municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

Von Tschirnhaus was born in Kieslingswalde (now Sławnikowice in western Poland) and died in Dresden, Saxony.

Elbe-Saale

Elbe-Saale was a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Franz Anton Bustelli

It was a relatively late entrant to the group of porcelain factories set up in Europe as the secrets of the techniques developed by Johann Friedrich Böttger for the Meissen factory in Saxony (established in 1710) gradually leaked out.

Glasebach

Glasebach Pit, a mining museum in the Lower Harz, Saxony-Anhalt

Götschetal

Götschetal is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hakeborn

Hakeborn is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hedersleben, Harz

Hedersleben is a municipality in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen

In May 1559 the brothers had to pledge the Lordships of Plauen and Oelsnitz and the district of Schöneck to Elector August of Saxony.

Herlasgrün–Oelsnitz railway

In the mid-1990s, the remaining section of the line, which connected Reichenbach and Zwickau to Adorf and Klingenthal, was selected by the state of Saxony as a pilot project for the revitalisation of endangered branch lines.

Horburg-Maßlau

Horburg-Maßlau is village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Josef Zwernemann

Josef Zwernemann was born on 26 March 1916 in Kirchworbis in the Province of Saxony.

Königshain-Wiederau

Wiederau, part of Königshain-Wiederau, is the birthplace of Clara Zetkin.

Max Koffler

After the Fall of the Wall his family moved from Berlin to Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt where he founded his first band Kerosin together with his brother Hanno Koffler in 1994.

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Nathaniel P. Hill

Accordingly, he spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea, Wales and Freiberg, Saxony studying metallurgy, and returned to the United States with a perfected method of smelting.

Niederwürschnitz

Niederwürschnitz is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

Night on Bröcken

The title of the album is apparently a reference to the Brocken, a mountain in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, that is traditionally connected with witches (Walpurgis Night), most famously in Goethe's Faust.

Otto Ribbeck

He took great interest in the monumental Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, and it was chiefly owing to his efforts that the government of Saxony was induced to assist its production by a considerable subsidy.

Pretzsch

Pretzsch, Wittenberg, a community in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Rainald of Dassel

A younger son of a rich Saxon count, Reinold I, Count of Dassel, and destined as such to be an ecclesiastic, he was sent to the cathedral school at Hildesheim in 1146, where he started working as subdeacon.

Reinhard Keiser

Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland

At the end of 2013, the ongoing full electrification of the railway line Leipzig-Hof (as part of Saxony-Franken-Magistrale) south of Reichenbach im Vogtland was completed.

Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen

In his new position of Duke of Saxony he held the Land of Hadeln around Otterndorf, south of the river Elbe right opposite of Ditmarsh on the north bank.

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (24 January 1853, Rhaunen, Rhine Province – 4 January 1931, Dresden, Saxony) was a German psychiatrist born in Rhaunen.

Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

Men and women of all ages and even children were murdered at Sonnenstein, including those from the Katharinenhof in Saxony's Großhennersdorf and from the Chemnitz-Altendorf State Institute.

Steuden

Steuden is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Waldhufendorf

Waldhufendörfer and Hagenhufendörfer are especially common in the Ore Mountains and their foreland as well as in East Saxony, the Sudeten and the Beskids, as well as the Thuringian Forest, Fichtelgebirge, Bavarian Forest, Bohemian Forest, Spessart, Odenwald, Westrich, North Black Forest and Nordvorpommern.

Wallendorf, Saxony-Anhalt

Wallendorf is a village and a former municipality in the Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Wallstawe

Wallstawe is a municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Wolfgang Böhmer

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhmer (born 27 January 1936 in Dürrhennersdorf, Upper Lusatia) is a German politician (CDU) and former Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from 16 May 2002 to 19 April 2011.