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Altenburg (listen ⓘ) is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Leipzig, 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of Dresden and 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Erfurt.
The Altenburg is a castle that sits on the tallest of the seven hills of Bamberg, southern Germany, overlooking the town. It is located in Upper Franconia , a region in the state of Bavaria , and dates back to at least 1109.
Saxe-Altenburg had an area of 1,323 km 2 (510 sq. mi.) and a population of 207,000 in 1905. Its capital was Altenburg.. The duchy consisted of two separate areas: the Ostkreis, containing the cities of Altenburg, Schmölln, Gößnitz, Lucka und Meuselwitz (including the exclave of Mumsdorf), Roschütz, Hilbersdorf, Neukirchen by Waldenburg and Rußdorf by Chemnitz; and the Westkreis, which ...
The original Altenburg station was located elsewhere on today's Fabrikstraße (street). Its opening ceremony was held on 19 September 1842 and it was the first station in the Ernestine duchies.
Altenburg Altenburg: HASAG: Manufacture of cartridge cases: Arolsen Bad Arolsen: Service personnel for the SS officers' school Aschersleben Aschersleben: Junkers: Production of aircraft and engines Augustdorf (Sennelager) Augustdorf: Work for Panzer unit training and replacement Bad Berka Bad Berka: Thüringische Eisenbahn-AG Railway work Bad ...
The town of Altenburg and the surrounding lands were the tiny Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918; afterwards it was a state within the Weimar Republic for a short time, before it was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the Free State of Thuringia. The district in its present borders was established in 1922 under the name "Altenburg".
Altenburg Abbey was founded in 1144 [3] by Countess Hildeburg of Poigen-Rebgau. Archeological excavations carried out by the Federal Monuments Office between 1983 and 2005 have revealed evidence of its dating in the remains of a wall from the 12th century and of a Romanesque cloister dated to the 13th century. The monastery was destroyed and ...
Altenburg is a municipality in the district of Horn in Lower Austria, Austria. It is the location of the important 12C Benedictine Altenburg Abbey. Population