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31 unusual facts about Aschersleben


Adolph Gottfried Kinau

Born in Aschersleben into a family of ministers and teachers, he studied theology in Halle and Magdeburg from 1833 to 1840.

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.

Battle of Dessau Bridge

Wallenstein and the Imperial Catholic league marched to Dessau, where Mansfeld and the Protestant army would inevitably try to cross in order to reach Magdeburg and the German Catholic League headquarters in Aschersleben.

Battle of Halle

The Treskow Infantry Regiment was to the northwest at Aschersleben, en route from Magdeburg.

Big Week

# 289 B-17s are dispatched against aviation industry targets at Aschersleben (34 bomb), Bernburg (47 bomb) and Halberstadt (18 bomb) in conjunction with a Fifteenth Air Force raid on Regensburg, Germany; 32 hit Bünde, 19 hit Wernigerode, 15 hit Magdeburg, 9 hit Marburg and 7 hit other targets of opportunity; they claim 32-18-17 Luftwaffe aircraft; 38 B-17s are lost, 4 damaged beyond repair and 141 damaged; casualties are 35 KIA, 30 WIA and 367 MIA.

Christa Beran

Edith Hahn took on the identity of Christa Denner, went to Munich and survived the war in Germany working there as a forced labourer of the Plantage Mertens asparagus farm in Osterburg and the Bestehorn company in Aschersleben until she was able to marry a German and settle in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Edith Hahn Beer

They were separated in April 1941, when Hahn was sent to an asparagus plantation in Osterburg, Germany and then to the Bestehorn box factory in Aschersleben.

Egeno II of Konradsburg

Around 1080 (after 1076, before 1083) Egeno II killed Count Adalbert II of Ballenstedt from the House of Ascania at Westdorf near Aschersleben.

Friedrichsaue

The village lies approximately 18 km north-west of Aschersleben.

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.

Henry I, Count of Anhalt

Before his death, Henry divided Anhalt between his sons: Henry inherited Aschersleben, Bernhard received Bernburg, and Siegfried took Zerbst.

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.

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In 1257, Henry supported King Alfonso X of Castile as German King and led military actions against the monasteries and archbishops of Magdeburg and bishops of Halberstadt as well as his brothers and cousins.

House of Ascania

The Ascanians are named after Ascania (or Ascaria) Castle, Schloss Askanien, which is located near and named after Aschersleben.

Hoym

Hoym is located on the river Selke, between the towns Aschersleben and Quedlinburg.

Johann August Ephraim Goeze

Johann August Ephraim Goeze (28 May 1731—27 June 1793) was a German zoologist from Aschersleben.

Johann Silberschlag

Johann Esaias Silberschlag (16 November 1721 – 22 November 1791) was a German Lutheran theologian and natural scientist from Aschersleben, Principality of Halberstadt.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

He also inherited his family's claim on Aschersleben, which had been controlled by Brandenburg-Prussia since 1648.

Konradsburg

After 1120, the Konradsburgs left this fortified hill spur, which lies about 3 kilometres south of Ermsleben and about eight kilometres west of Aschersleben, built Falkenstein Castle in the Selke valley and called themselves Falkensteins from 1142.

Köthen–Aschersleben railway

The line was extended in 1865 to Aschersleben and a new station was opened in Bernburg, replacing the station opened in 1846.

Langenstein-Zwieberge

With this in mind, the Junkers firm arranged a small camp of three huts inside the large camp in edge of the place of call to place there deportees specialists, 869 people, arrivals of Kommandos of Halberstadt, Aschersleben, Langensalza, and Niederorschel.

Lilo Ramdohr

Ramdohr was a descendant of a merchant family from Aschersleben.

Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein

There, on 4 October 1828, he married the Countess Luise von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg (born 21 November 1800; died 22 January 1835 in Aschersleben), who was the daughter of Prince (after 1803) Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt, Herzog von Trachenberg (1756–1827), royal Prussian ambassador in Vienna, and Friederike Karoline Countess of Schulenburg-Kehnert (1779–1832).

Magdeburg–Cochstedt Airport

The new operating company FMC mbH was founded in 2005 jointly with the Landkreis Aschersleben-Staßfurt.

Mehringen

Since 1 January 2008, it has been part of the town of Aschersleben.

Neo Rauch

He grew up with his grandparents in Aschersleben and passed his exam at the Thomas-Müntzer-Oberschule (now Gymnasium Stephaneum).

Principality of Anhalt-Aschersleben

Henry II the Fat, the eldest son of Henry I, had been co-ruler of his father since 1244.

When in 1315 Henry's grandson Otto II died without male heirs, the principality — including the capital of Aschersleben — was seized as a fief by his cousin and creditor Bishop Albert of Halberstadt.

In the course of the partition he chose the Anhalt ancestral homeland north of the Harz mountains around the Ascanian residence of Aschersleben (Ascharia), which he granted town privileges in 1266.

Wiesenburg–Roßlau railway

Passenger services in the 1970s and 1980s included express trains on the RostockPotsdamKarl-Marx-Stadt and on the Berlin–Belzig–Dessau–Aschersleben routes.


Goeze

Johann August Ephraim Goeze, (1731–1793), a German zoologist from Aschersleben.