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86 unusual facts about Anhalt


Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Albert IV, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (d. Coswig, 24 November 1423), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen.

Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg

The territories of Anhalt-Bernburg were augmented one year later with the formal division of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1797; Alexius Frederick Christian received the towns of Coswig and Mühlingen, which represented 1/3 of the defunct principality.

Anhalt-Köthen

It was created for a second time in 1603 with the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Apostolic History Network

In 2008, interested parties met at the history of the apostolic communities across Germany for a first meeting in Coswig (Anhalt).

Aulosen

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

Bellingen

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

Biendorf, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Bierstedt

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

Blankenheim

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

Boock, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Bördeaue

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

Brachstedt

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

Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

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

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

Breitungen, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Brücken

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

Brücken, Saxony-Anhalt

Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the municipality Brücken-Hackpfüffel.

Coswig Ferry

The Coswig Ferry, also known as the Wörlitz Coswig Ferry, is a cable ferry across the Elbe river between Coswig and Wörlitz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Dedi I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark

With him in his revolt was Albert II of Ballenstedt, who raided the monastery of Nienburg, a foundation of the family of Dedi's first wife.

Disraelis

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

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).

Ellenberg, Saxony-Anhalt

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

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.

After the death of the Dowager Princess and formal assumption of the rule of his principality, Emmanuel Lebrecht sent for Gisela Agnes and they finally married in a secret ceremony in Nienburg on 22 May (30 September according to some sources) of 1692.

Erhard Melcher

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

Falkenberg, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Frans van Mieris the Elder

The pictures of all the generations of the Mieris family were successfully imitated by A. D. Snaphaan, who lived at Leipzig and was patronized by the court of Anhalt-Dessau.

Friederike Auguste Sophie of Anhalt-Bernburg

Friederike Auguste Sophie of Anhalt-Bernburg (28 August 1744, Bernburg – 12 April 1827, Coswig), was a princess consort of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Friedersdorf

Friedersdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt

Gisela Agnes of Rath

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

Gisela Agnes of Rath (9 October 1669 in Kleinwülknitz, now part of Köthen – 12 March 1740 in Nienburg) was Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage from 1692.

Glinde, Saxony-Anhalt

Glinde is a town and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Götschetal

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

Greifenhagen

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

Gröningen Priory

Gröningen Priory (Kloster Gröningen) was a house of the Benedictine Order located west of Gröningen in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

Halle, Bentheim

Unlike the people of the better known and bigger city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, who call themselves Hallenser in German, the inhabitants here call themselves simply Haller, following the usual German rule for formulating nouns denoting a particular place’s inhabitants.

Holzhausen

Holzhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt

Hornburg, Saxony-Anhalt

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Seegebiet Mansfelder Land.

Isaac de Beausobre

After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), and in 1686 was appointed chaplain in Oranienbaum to the princess of Anhalt-Dessau, Henrietta Catherine of Orange-Nassau.

In 1693, on the death of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, he went to Berlin and became a court preacher, and in 1695 pastor for the French church at Friedrichswerder Church.

John II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

#Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, later Anhalt-Dessau (d. Coswig, 19 January 1405).

John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Political instability caused by warfare during the Thirty Years War caused John to be educated in Zerbst, Coswig, and Wittenberg at various times.

Jüdenberg

Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 107 between Coswig and Bad Düben runs right through the community.

Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt

The town's first documentary mention came in 961 as "civitas holm" in a document from Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt

It convenes in Magdeburg and currently consists of 97 members of four Parties.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau

#Count Franz John George of Waldersee (b. Dessau, 5 September 1763 – d. Dessau, 30 May 1823), married in Dessau on 20 May 1787 to Countess Louise of Anhalt (morganatic granddaughter of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav, eldest son and heir of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau).

As the head of the senior Anhalt branch, he could not earlier by etiquette receive his kinsmen, the Princes of Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg, who were raised to that rank before him.

He was succeeded by his eldest grandson Leopold IV, because his son, the Hereditary Prince Frederick, had predeceased him.

In 1812 Leopold became regent of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen during the minority of Duke Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil.

In Charlottenburg on 25 July 1767 Leopold married his cousin Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (b. Różanki, Brandenburg, 24 September 1750 – d. Dessau, 21 December 1811), daughter of Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by his wife Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, a sister of his father.

Losse

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

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen

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With him, the main line of Anhalt-Köthen became extinct, and he was succeeded by his uncle Frederick Ferdinand, a member of the Anhalt-Köthen-Pless branch.

He was the second (but only surviving son) of Prince Louis of Anhalt-Köthen by his wife Louise Karoline Theodora Amalie, daughter of the later (1806) Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.

One year later, his uncle, the reigning Prince (and later Duke) Augustus Christian Frederick of Anhalt-Köthen divorced his wife after eleven years of childless union, and showed no interest in marrying again; this left Louis Augustus as his uncle's heir presumptive.

Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (Köthen, 20 September 1802 – Leipzig, 18 December 1818), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen.

Martinsrieth

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

Memleben

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

Novalis

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

Ostrau, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Paul Mahlo

Friedrich Paul Mahlo (born July 28, 1883 in Coswig, Anhalt, died August 20, 1971 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) was a Germanmathematician.

Plötzkau

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

Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg

The principality lasted until 1742 when Princes Christian August and John Louis II inherited Anhalt-Zerbst.

It was created in 1667 following the death of Prince John VI and the partition of Anhalt-Zerbst with Anhalt-Mühlingen being created along with Anhalt-Dornburg for the younger sons of Prince John VI.

Rossau

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

Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

In Oldenburg on 31 August 1612 Rudolph married for a second time to Magdalene (b. Oldenburg, 6 October 1585 - d. Coswig, 14 April 1657), heiress of Jever and daughter of John VII, Count of Oldenburg; only when Rudolph met her did he find a way out of his depression.

Seeburg

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

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (born: 5 December 1630 in Gottorp; died: 12 December 1680 in Coswig) was a daughter van Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

Steinburg, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

#Christine Elisabeth Albertine (b. Bernburg, 14 November 1746 - d. Coswig, 18 May 1823), married on 27 April 1762 to Augustus II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

Wahrenberg

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

Wallendorf, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Since 31 December 2009, it is part of the municipality Schkopau.

Wallstawe

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

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.

Wiendorf, Saxony-Anhalt

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

Winfried Freudenberg

Freudenberg was born in Osterwieck, and grew up in the Saxony-Anhalt town of Lüttgenrode, near what was then the border between his native East Germany, which was then a part of the communist Eastern Bloc, as a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and West Germany.

Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

In 1562, however, he signed all of his territories over to his cousins, keeping only Coswig.

Wust

Wust, Saxony-Anhalt, a village in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Wust-Fischbeck

It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Wust and Fischbeck.

Wust, Saxony-Anhalt

The village is situated in the northern Saxony-Anhalt not far from the river Elbe, near the old town Tangermünde which was a favourite place of Kaiser Karl IV in 14th century.

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Wust-Fischbeck.


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.

Albert II of Brunswick-Lüneburg

During the interregnum between the death of Albert I and the confirmation of Albert II, the cathedral chapter had a conflict with Anhalt about the principality of Aschersleben and, almost simultaneously, a feud broke out between the chapter and Counts Albert II and Bernard of Regenstein, who were the patrons of the city of Quedlinburg.

Anna of Eppstein-Königstein

Anna of Eppstein-Königstein (Königstein, 1481 – Stolberg, 7 August 1538) was the daughter of Philip I of Eppstein-Königstein and his wife, Louise de la Marck.

Armin Lemme

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.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

#Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, later Anhalt-Köthen (b. Plötzkau, 8 April 1622 - d. Köthen, 7 November 1669).

Braschwitz

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

Cörmigk

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

Elbe-Saale

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

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#John V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Zerbst (b. Dessau, 4 September 1504 - d. Zerbst, 4 February 1551).

#George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. Dessau, 15 August 1507 - d. Dessau, 17 October 1553).

FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen

FC Grün-Weiß Wolfen is a German association football club from the industrial city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in southern Saxony-Anhalt.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.

Fred Anhalt

Most Anhalt apartments, especially those he built in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle and Queen Anne neighborhoods such as Anhalt Arms (formerly Berkeley Court), feature landscaped interior courtyards.

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1717 in Grave – 1777 in Barchfeld) was the oldest son of Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and his wife, Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernberg.

German-Jordanian University

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.

Giersleben

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

Götschetal

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

Gottfried August Bürger

At the age of twelve, Bürger was practically adopted by his maternal grandfather, Bauer, at Aschersleben, who sent him to the Pädagogium at Halle.

Hakeborn

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

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (1215 – 12 June 1266) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben.

Herman II, Count of Winzenburg

One of the murderers was beheaded in 1156; the other, Count Henry of Bodenburg, was defeated in a trial by battle and went into Neuwerk Monastery in Halle.

Höhnstedt

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

Klobikau

Klobikau is a former municipality in the Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Latdorf

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

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 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.

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.

Paul Greifzu Stadium

Every year the Anhalt-Meeting is held in the Paul Greifzu Stadium, regarded as one of the best outdoor meetings in Europe by athletes such as Franka Dietzsch or Tim Lobinger.

Pretzsch

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

Pretzsch, Burgenlandkreis, a community in the Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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.

Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Sigismund assumed the title "Lord of Zerbst," but established the town of Dessau as his main residence and capital of his newly created principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

Steuden

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

Tornau

Tornau vor der Heide, a municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

U.M.M.

A good comparison may be as well made with modern EBM or anhalt bands like Spetsnaz, Sturm Café, EkoBrottsMyndigheten, A.D.A.C.8286, Tech Nomader or Spark!

Wedlitz

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

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin – 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

Wohlsdorf

Wohlsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, 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.