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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.
Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.
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.
Armin Lemme (born October 28, 1955 in Packebusch, Saxony-Anhalt) is a former track and field athlete from East Germany who competed in the men's discus throw event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Borstendorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.
Braschwitz is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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).
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 (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.
Cörmigk is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
In June 2007, 20 disabled soldiers visited the town Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt.
Drebach is a municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.
Von Tschirnhaus was born in Kieslingswalde (now Sławnikowice in western Poland) and died in Dresden, Saxony.
Elbe-Saale was a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
1678 in Villecerf, in the Province of Champagne (now commune of Messon in the French departement of Aube) and died the died April 29, 1727 in Dresden, Duchy of Saxony (now federal state of Saxony, Germany) is a French sculptor who spent more of his proeminent artistic life in Dresden where he was the First sculptor of the King Augustus II the Strong.
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.
GJU receives government aid through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and also the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences are contributing.
Gornsdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.
Götschetal is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Gröningen Priory (Kloster Gröningen) was a house of the Benedictine Order located west of Gröningen in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.
Hakeborn is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
In May 1559 the brothers had to pledge the Lordships of Plauen and Oelsnitz and the district of Schöneck to Elector August of Saxony.
In the 19th and 20th centuries numerous violins were produced in France, in Saxony and the Mittenwald in what is now Germany, in the Tyrol, now parts of Austria and Italy, and in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.
In early 1901 he accompanied his father on a special diplomatic mission to announce the accession of King Edward to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony.
He left Paris and was a captain in the 1813 Saxony campaign, assisting at the battles of Lützen and Bautzen (at the latter he was decorated personally by Napoleon).
Josef Zwernemann was born on 26 March 1916 in Kirchworbis in the Province of Saxony.
Latdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
At the beginning of the First World War he was serving with the 15th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "King Friedrich August of Saxony" at the Western Front and was involved in September 1914 fighting in Lorraine and around St Quentin as commander of a machine gun platoon.
The initial complement consisted of twelve monks from Altenberg under an abbot (Bodo) from Amelungsborn Abbey.
Born in Hirschberg on the Saale in the Principality of Reuss Younger Line, Mutschmann moved while he was young with his family to Plauen in Saxony.
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.
Neukirchen is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.
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.
The genus is monotypic, containing the single fossil species Palaeocybe striata, which was found in Tertiary amber in Saxony, Germany.
Plötzkau is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Pretzsch, Wittenberg, a community in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Joseph Maria Frederick Wilhelm of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duke in Saxony (5 October 1702 – Hildburghausen, 4 January 1787), was an Austrian General and Field Marshal.
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.
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.
He was a student at Maria Magdalena Gymnasium (high school) in Poznań, where he participated actively in a secret Polish educational-social youth movement, and later studied at academies in Tetschen (Děčín), Bohemia, and Leipzig, Saxony.
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (24 January 1853, Rhaunen, Rhine Province – 4 January 1931, Dresden, Saxony) was a German psychiatrist born in Rhaunen.
Steuden is a village and a former municipality in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Tornau vor der Heide, a municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Treaty of Versailles (1757), expansion of 1756 Versailles treaty to Saxony, Sweden and Russia; see Diplomatic Revolution
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.
Wallstawe is a municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Duke Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg married Duchess Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg a daughter of Prince-Elector Wenceslas, and Duke Bernard of Brunswick-Lüneburg was wedded to Duchess Margaret of Saxony, also a daughter of Wenceslas.
Wedlitz is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Wohlsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Schloss Wolfsbrunn, formerly a grand villa, now a hotel, in Hartenstein, Saxony
The FIBT World Championships 2008 ran February 11–24, 2008 in Altenberg, Saxony, for the fifth time, having done so in 1991 (bobsleigh), 1994 (skeleton), 1999 (skeleton), and 2000 (men's bobsleigh).