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Wittenberg ( / ˈwɪtənbɜːrɡ, ˈvɪt -/ WIT-ən-burg, VIT-, German: [ˈvɪtn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Wittenbarg; meaning White Mountain; [a] officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg ( Luther City Wittenberg )), is the fourth-largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, 60 kilometers (37 mi) north of Leipzig ...
Wittenberg, city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies on the Elbe River, southwest of Berlin. First mentioned in 1180 and chartered in 1293, it was the residence of the Ascanian dukes and electors of Saxony from 1212 until it passed, with electoral Saxony, to the house of Wettin in 1423. Wittenberg University, made famous ...
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In 843 Saxony became part of the East Frankish, or German, kingdom. By the early 10th century Saxony had emerged as a hereditary duchy under the Liudolfing dynasty, and in 919 Duke Henry of Saxony was elected German king. He founded the Saxon, or Ottonian, dynasty, which held the German crown until 1024.
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The Congress of Vienna (1814–15) took from Saxony the greater part of its land and gave it to Prussia, namely 7,800 square miles (20,000 km 2) with about 850,000 inhabitants; this ceded territory included the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, the former possessions of the Dioceses of Merseburg and Naumburg, a large part of Lusatia, etc. What ...
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The first medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy", which emerged around the start of the 8th century AD and grew to include the greater part of Northern Germany, what are now the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt.
Jun 8, 2018 · Wittenberg. Wittenberg a town in eastern Germany, on the River Elbe north-east of Leipzig, which was the scene in 1517 of Martin Luther's campaign against the Roman Catholic Church, a major factor in the rise of the Reformation. Wittenberg (vĬt´ənbĕrkh´), city (1994 pop. 53,374), Saxony-Anhalt, E Germany, on the Elbe River.
Oct 31, 2017 · Wittenberg also takes part in the Germany-wide “stumbling stones” project to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Throughout 2017, local filmmaker Peter Benedix has been documenting ...
