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4 unusual facts about Jerichow


Evermode of Ratzeburg

In this post, he oversaw the foundations of new Premonstratensian communities in Havelberg, Jerichow, Quedlinburg and Pöhlde, serving in that post until 1154, when he was named the Bishop of Ratzeburg, the first since its destruction by the Wends in 1066.

Jerichow

The city of Jerichow lies on an ancient branch of the Elbe River between Stendal and Genthin, 31 miles ( 50 kilometers ) northeast of Magdeburg.

Monument in the local cemetery for commemorating Fritz Schulenburg, the founder of the local chapter of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), who was imprisoned at the beginning of the National Socialism years with a hundred others in a basement of the City Hall of Tangermünde and who had endured mistreatment, which caused his death in 1933.

The routes to Schönhausen, Genthin and Güsen were built by the Kleinbahn-AG in Genthin.


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DRG Class 24

They were all stabled in Jerichow shed in 1960 and their sphere of operations until 1968 was the branch line network of the Kleinbahn AG in Genthin.


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