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Saxony-Anhalt is the most industrialized region of the GDR The German reunification has caused the closure of many factories, reducing pollution, but swelled unemployment figures spectacular economic situation so caused a half million people to leave the state since 1990.
, Saxony-Anhalt is nevertheless full of surprises for visitors to the beautiful Harz mountains, with its timbered towns and magnificent castles, is one of the most tourist areas of Germany's many palaces and English style parks and gardens around Dessau are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, like the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau the valley of the Saale-Unstrut in the southeastern part of the state, produces the sparkling wine of Germany.
Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of 20447 kmВІ 7895 square miles, roughly the same size as Slovenia or Israel, and has a population of 2 34 million a little more than Slovenia.
Famous people of Saxony-Anhalt are chronologically Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Otto I, the religious reformer Martin Luther, the composer Georg Friedrich HГ Nde, the Novalis philosopher, the founder of modern geography Carl Ritter, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the physicist price Nobel Polykarp Kusch biologist and Nobel laureate Christiane NГјsslein-Volhard.
These British and Belgian royal families descend patrilineal line of the House of Wettin, who was born in the village of the same name along the river Saale.
Attractions are listed geographically, from west to east from left to right and from north to south the top down.
Lined with half-timbered houses, Stendal is a pleasant historical city and unofficial capital of the rural Altmark Once a prominent member of the Hanseatic League, until the fever and development Read more Thirty Years War .
TangermГјnde is a medieval walled town at the confluence of the Elbe and Tangier Rivers favorite residence of Emperor Charles IV 1316-1378 and Hohenzollern Electors of Brandenburg, TangermГјnde combines novel Learn more.
Magdeburg is the capital of Saxony-Anhalt and its largest city founded by Charlemagne, and the preferred residence of Emperor Othon Ier, Magdeburg was one of Germany's most important medieval towns His laws of medieval , known as Learn more.
Quedlinburg is an exquisite half-timbered town that grew up around an imperial abbey of the 10th century for women A real time capsule, medieval jewel was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Read more in 1994.
The tourist timbered town of Wernigerode is located in the northeastern edge of the Harz mountains, at the foot of the Brocken 1141 m, the highest mountain in central Germany the Principality of Head More.
Founded in 1000 as a mining settlement in the Harz Mountains, Stolberg became the seat of a county in 1210, and the Principality of Stolberg-Wernigerode pocket city is dominated by the large Read more .
Schierke is a pretty mountain village and an access point to the Harz National Park in 1914 and 1934, it was the site of German Skeleton Championships Learn more.
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