Merseburg

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base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	Saxonia-Anhalt
district:	Merseburg Querfurt
geographical location:	Coordinates: 51° 22 ' N, 12° 00 ' O 51° 22 ' N, 12° 00 ' O
height:	88 m and. NN
surface:	36.08 km ²
inhabitants:	34.790 (30.June 2005)
Population density:	964 inhabitants for each km ²
postal zip code:	06217
preselection:	03461
Kfz characteristics:	MQ (in former times: MER)
Municipality key:	15 2 61 036
address of the city administration:	City Merseburg p.o. box 16 61 06217 Merseburg
Website:	www.merseburg.de
mayor:	Pure hard Rumprecht

Merseburg is a city in Saxonia-Anhalt and administrative seat of the district Merseburg Querfurt, south of resounds (Saale). Together with resounds, for wolves and bitter field forms it a population centre, which is also called because of the prevailing branch of industry “chemistry triangle “and also over the national border to Leipzig is enough. Directly at Merseburg the chemistry enterprises of Buna ( Schkopau) and Leuna border.

geography

Merseburg is because of the eastern edge of the Querfurter plate predominantly on the left bank of the Saale, in in the citythe hostages flows. The city forms the gate to lock and for castle-rich region of the Saale - Unstrut - valley. Northeast Merseburg borders on the Saale Elster Aue, west on the open mining subsequent landscape of the hostage valley.

Merseburg is accurately on that 12. Degree of longitude.The degree of longitude crosses the city on the line palace garden salon, palace garden, office before lock & Vorschloss of the Merseburger of lock, cathedral place 2, custom gallery, castle route 21, Rossmarkt, Herdergymnasium up to the hall cycle path east the Merseburger natatorium.

Merseburg is seat of the professional school Merseburg.

the places Annemariental

, Elizabeth height, Freiimfelde, Kötz, Meuschau, new market and Werder belong to expansion of the city to the municipality.

neighbour municipalities

adjacent municipalities (in the clockwise direction, of the north beginning) are Schkopau, peace village, Kreypau, Leuna, Spergau, Beuna (hostage valley) and Geusa.

traffic

Merseburg is tied up over the connection point Leipzig West/Merseburg to the A9 (Berlin Munich). At the south resin motorway A38 (/Leipzig Goettingen-resounds) the departures Merseburg north and Merseburg south represent a favorable connection to the city. By Merseburgzieht sich die B91 Halle-Merseburg-Weißenfels-Zeitz, welche im Bereich Halle-Merseburg als Schnellstraße ausgebaut ist. Further here the federal highway 181 begins to Leipzig, which is partly vierspurig developed in Merseburg. Connection to the railway system exists by the railway line Berlin resound Erfurt Frankfurt, moreover take herethe distances after Mücheln Querfurt and sheep city their starting point. It exists one in to 60's the built interurban train after resounding new city over Buna works. 1998 the railroad line was shut down to Leipzig.

history

apart from the lay meaning of the city Merseburg was it an important religious center at the eastern border of the German Reich. Of 10. Century up to the reformation was Merseburg bishop seat. The diocese developed in the original area of the diocese half. It covered also Leipzig and thus parts of thetoday's Saxonia. The diocese Merseburg lay in the southern part of the today's Land of the Federal Republic Saxonia-Anhalt and was surface-moderately one of the smallest German dioceses. It nevertheless covered approximately 310 Pfarr and branch churches at the end of the Middle Ages. Merseburg was center of the high pin of the same name. In Merseburg 43 bishops resided. The pin territory became in the middle 16. Century secularizes and arrived into the possession of the cure princes of Saxonia. Still up to the beginning 18. Century existed however its own pin government in Merseburg, those the countryon behalf the cure prince administered.

The Merseburger cathedral pc. Johannes of the Täufer and Laurentius represents that high pin. The first building with the crypt begun after 1036 is over-formed by changes in the time between 1510 and 1537. For those to a large extentlost glass painting of 1280 created Charles Crodel 1947-1960 in modern updating of the medieval stylistic idiom replacement.

See also: List of the bishops of Merseburg

time border

inhabitant development

development of the number of inhabitants (starting from 1960 31. December):

data source starting from 1990: Statistic national office Saxonia-Anhalt

1 29. October
2 31. August
3 03. October

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politics

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partnerships between cities

Merseburg maintains partnerships between cities with

• Châtillon in France (since 1. August 1963)
• Genzano di Roma in Italy (since 16. January 1971) - see also Genzano di Roma
• Bottrop in North Rhine-Westphalia (since 10. March 1989)

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personalities

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of sons and daughters of the city

• Thietmar (bishop, 1009-1018) - authors of the first Merseburger chronicle
• Tiloof Trotha (bishop, 1466-1514) - reference figure of the Merseburger Rabensage
• Ernst Haeckel (biologist, pupil at the cathedral High School)
• Christian Reuter (comedy writer, pupil at the cathedral High School)
• Lucian Mueller (classical scholar, Philologe)
• Oskar Herrfurth (painter and Illustrator, 1862-1934)
• Klaus Tennstedt (conductor, 1926-1998)
• Elizabeth Schumann, (GermanUS-AmericanSopranistin, 1888-1952)
• Carl Adolph of Basedow, (physician, 1799-1854)
• walter farmer, (writer, 1904-1976)
• Maik Franz, (football player of the VfL wolf castle)
• Hugo Roye (composer, conductor and music teacher (violin), 1873-1939, geb. in once the pin Merseburgi small towns, studied Zörbig in Cologne alsothe Meisterpianistin Elly Ney together and returned 1918 to Merseburg, directors/conductors of the citizen singing association and the singing association of the Leunawerke, that former house monastery 8 to Merseburg became with city. Means restores.

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the Merseburger Rabensage

bishop Thilofrom Trotha possessed golden Siegelring, a gift of his friend, the bishop von Naumburg. One morning let it it because of the open window be and noticed after short absence the loss of the ring. In its anger he accused his servant of many yearsthe theft. Although the servant protested his innocence, it let it execute. Still after reducing the head its stretched arm is to have protested its innocence. When the ring was found later in a Rabennest, left Thilo of Trotha asReminder to fall no judgement in the sudden anger in the lock yard bird farmer establish, in whom since then a Kolkrabe pays for the theft. To the constant memory the bishop led a Raben with a ring in the bill in his coat of arms. Such Rabealso today still in a cage is held, the old custom is however disputed with Tierschützern.

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see also

• Merseburger of spells
• Merseburger Trias

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Web on the left of

• official homepage of the city
• Merseburg as Saalestadt

of cities and municipalities in District Merseburg Querfurt

Albersroda | Talking nonsense EDT | Bath dry mountain | Bath allium city | Barn city | Beuna (hostage valley) | Braunsbedra | Delitz to mountains | Esperstedt | Fern city | Peace village | Geusa | Günthersdorf | Horburg Masslau | Klobikau | Excrement slot | Kötzschau | Kreypau | Krumpa | Leuna | Merseburg | Milzau | Mücheln (hostage valley) | Nempitz | Nemsdorf Göhrendorf | Obhausen | Oebles Schlechtewitz | Oechlitz | Transverse ford | Rodden | Sheep city | Schkopau | Schraplau | Spergau | Steigra | Mad joke | Boiling village (ball) | Zö | Zweimen