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unusual facts about Elbe-Saale


Elbe-Saale

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


2002 European floods

Dresden's Zwinger Palace, home to a significant number of Europe's artistic treasures including Raphael's Sistine Madonna was at risk from the flooding Elbe, however all of the art works were able to be saved.

Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel

The dispute was settled amicably, with the counts in Pinneberg receiving monetary compensation, plus the district of Nienland (consisting of Neuland and the Lordship of Herzhorn) and some land along the Elbe.

Bad Schandau

The new Schrammstein Open-Air Pool (Schrammstein-Bad) that was badly damaged before it could open by the flooding of the Elbe in 2002 went bust but, after a two-year delay, was able to open under its new owners, toskanaworld, as the so-called Toskana Thermal Baths (Toskana-Therme); this firm has similar facilities in Bad Sulza and Bad Orb.

Berlin–Hamburg Railway

It was extended to Lüneburg by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in 1863 and 1864, which used the Lauenburg–Hohnstorf train ferry to cross the Elbe for 14 years from 15 March 1864.

Bethau

Bethau lies in the lowlands on the east bank of the Elbe west of the Annaburg Heath.

Blankenberg, Thuringia

Blankenberg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Brná nad Labem

It is located in landscape park České středohoří on the right side of river Labe.

Canal of Drusus

This was of strategic importance for attacks on the Germanic people living on the Frisian coasts and along the Elbe estuary in the German Bight.

DB Regio Oberfranken

On the Hof / BayreuthMarktredwitzNuremberg line they alternated with VT 610 trains from Nuremberg depot until the timetable change in December 2007.

Eichenberg

Eichenberg, Saale-Holzland, a municipality in the district of Saale-Holzland in the state of Thuringia, Germany

Elbe-Stremme-Fiener

It was situated north of Genthin, which was the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft, but not part of it.

Eurasian Rock Pipit

However, the western populations are known to be nearly sedentary, so east of the Elbe basin vagrant Rock Pipits are presumably mostly littoralis.

Friedrich Christoph Förster

Friedrich Christoph Förster (24 September 1791, Münchengosserstädt on the Saale - 8 November 1868, Berlin) was a German historian and poet.

Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station

The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage power station in the Thüringer Mountains at the upper run of the river Schwarza in Goldisthal, Germany.

Grillenburg

Grillenburg Sandstone, the Elbe sandstone type in the Tharandt Forest, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, Saxony

Halle–Halberstadt railway

It is an important link between the conurbation of Halle (Saale) and the northern Harz Foreland.

Heine-Velox

Gustav Otto Ludolf Heine was born near Boizenburg, Germany, in 1868, and emigrated to the United States in 1873 with his parents and seven siblings, settling in the Capay Valley.

Helicopter Wing 64

Holzdorf Air Base was utilised as hub for all aerial rescue and support operations at the rivers Elbe, Saale, Mulde, Black Elster and White Elster as well as near Bitterfeld and in Fischbeck.

House of Bismarck

By a 1562 agreement with the Hohenzollern margraves, the Bismarcks swapped Burgstall with Schönhausen, located east of the Elbe river and formerly part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which also had been under Hohenzollern rule since 1513.

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis

From a poor background, Kahnis was educated at the gymnasium of his native town Greiz, and after acting as private tutor for several years began the study of theology at Halle.

Karl Wilhelm von Willisen

He lived in Teutschenthal near Halle (Saale), where he was captured as a deserter in 1811 and imprisoned at Kassel.

Karsdorf Fault

It forms the northern geological boundary of the Eastern Ore Mountains in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge with the Elbe zone, where it is adjoined by the Döhlen Basin and the Kreischa Basin.

Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park

The nature park is roughly bordered to the west between Berkenthin and Büchen by the Elbe-Lübeck Canal.

Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard

Their brigades then leapfrogged each other on the advance through Eindhoven to the Rhine and the Elbe.

Margarethe von der Saale

Saale never attended court but resided in a house beside the square in Spangenberg.

Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg upon Elbe, 24 May 1601 – 21 February 1660, Glücksburg); ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus Philipp of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663), son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Marienfelde

Near the end of World War II, as part of the Elbe-Project, the world's first high-voltage direct current transmission lines were built from a power plant in Dessau, on the Elbe river, to Marienfelde.

Martin Luther's Death House

Luther travelled on 23 January 1546 from Halle to Eisleben on a mission to solve an inheritance dispute in the House of Mansfeld.

Martin Mutschmann

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.

Marxgrün station

From 1901 it became the junction for the railway line through the Höllen valley to Gera and, later, also Saalfeld.

Neundorf bei Schleiz

Neundorf (bei Schleiz) is a municipality in the district of Saale-Orla, Thuringia, Germany.

Oberoppurg

Oberoppurg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Old Salt Route

Horse-drawn carts brought the salt from Lüneburg to a crossing of the Elbe river at Artlenburg (near Lauenburg) and from there, via Mölln, to Lübeck.

Östlicher Saalkreis

Östlicher Saalkreis ("Eastern Saale district") is a former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the Saalekreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Pardubice Region

The lowest point (201 m) is situated on the water surface of the Labe (Elbe) River near Kojice.

Pillnitz Castle

The upper staircase built on the Elbe side in 1722 was supplemented in 1725 by water stairs forming a gondola dock, designed by the French architect Zacharias Longuelune.

Principality of Lüneburg

In 1592, after the death of Duke William, the territory was enlarged with the Ämter of Hitzacker, Lüchow and Warpke, but Henry's demands for a transfer of sovereignty were not met.

When Duke Henry went against a gentleman's agreement with his brother William and married Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1569, he had forsake sharing the government of the principality and was compensated instead with the Amt of Dannenberg and the Klosteramt of Scharnebeck.

Ptolemy's world map

The most prominent feature of the map is the peninsula Jutland placed north of the river Albis Trêva, west of the Saxonôn Nesôi (archipelago), east of the Skandiai Nêsoi, which itself lies west of a larger island Skandia.

RMS Etruria

She arrived in the Azores on Sunday, 9 March, and on the 15th her passengers and mail were transferred on to SS Elbe, which had been chartered for the task on the 10th.

Schönwald

Schönewalde, town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany

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.

Sonderkommando Elbe

Sonderkommando literally means "special command", and Elbe is one of the main rivers in Germany.

Stefan Lehmann

with Andreas E. Furtwängler (ed.s): Alexander der Große – einst in Stendal: Original – Kopie – Fälschung? Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-29-9 (Kataloge und Schriften des Archäologischen Museums der Martin-Luther-Universität. Band 2).

The Sea of Ice

In the winter of 1820–21, Friedrich made extensive oil studies of ice floes on the river Elbe, near Dresden.

Wackerbarth-Palais

The palace was situated in the city, north of the River Elbe, at the former Beaumontplatz near Neustädter Markt.

Wilhelmsdorf, Thuringia

Wilhelmsdorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

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.


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