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2 unusual facts about Province of Saxony


Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein

Arentschildt's army suffered greatly from their lack of supplies, however, and were cornered at Langensalza in Prussian Saxony by the advance of Falckenstein's three divisions from the north and, organized by Moltke, 9,000 troops under General Eduard von Flies from Gotha to the south.

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;


Großes Bruch

After World War II the historical frontier between the former Halberstadt territory within the Prussian Province of Saxony (except for Hornburg and Roklum) in the south and the Brunswick lands (except for Hessen and Pabstorf) in the south along the Großes Bruch became the Inner German Border between West and East Germany.

Heinrich von Gossler

Heinrich Wilhelm Martin von Goßler (29 September 1841, in Weißenfels, Province of Saxony – 10 January 1927, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was a Prussian General of the Infantry and Minister of War.

Hermann Krukenberg

Hermann Krukenberg (21 June 1863 - 3 October 1935) was a German surgeon who was a native of Calbe, Province of Saxony, Germany.

Hermann Pabst

Hermann Pabst (January 4 1842 – August 16, 1870) was a German historian who was a native of Burg bei Magdeburg in the Province of Saxony.

Ibrahim Böhme

Ibrahim Böhme (November 18, 1944, Bad Dürrenberg, Province of Saxony – November 22, 1999) was a politician for a short period of time after the collapse of the communist regime in the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany.

Wittingen-Oebisfelde Light Railway

The Wittingen–Oebisfelde Light Railway opened its line from Wittingen to Brome on 15 September 1909 and, on 20 November of the same year, to the terminus at Oebisfelde Nord, the last section of which lay in the Prussian Province of Saxony (today Saxony-Anhalt).


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Drübeck Abbey

At the request of the last abbess, Countess Magdalena of Stolberg-Wernigerode, the Evangelical Church Province of Saxony took over the abbey in 1946 as a convalescent home and conference centre.

Josef Zwernemann

Josef Zwernemann was born on 26 March 1916 in Kirchworbis in the Province of Saxony.