Bernburg

Bernburg is the county seat of the Salzlandkreis inside the center of Saxony Anhalt. Bernburg is located at the Saale approximately 35 kilometers south of Magdeburg and 35 kilometers north of Halle. Bernburg is historically part of Anhalt and was residence city of the ancillary line Anhalt Bernburg. Bernburg is the eponymous website for agreement facts of the Bernburg tradition, a subgroup of Neolithic funnel beaker culture.

The place around Bernburg is characterized by way of fertile loess soils and therefore counted inside the early days to the favored settlement areas. Research outcomes from 2010 situate the agreement Luppia, which Ptolemy had recorded inside the year 150 AD in his Atlas Geographia, inside the Bernburg location. In the early middle Ages, the Saale separated the residential regions of the Teutons from those of the Slavs. In the place of present day town Bernburg changed into as soon as a favorable river crossing. The Saale made however at that point a curve and flowed a bit similarly west, between modern day Neustadt and the district Waldau.