Genthin

Genthin is a unitary municipality and small town inside the district of Jerichower Land in Saxony Anhalt. In 1144 a fort changed into first referred to in a record. From this castle managed the noble circle of relatives of Plotho the encircling location. Genthin was first stated in a file in 1171, however finally have become a mere region, because it turned into no longer till 1459 that it changed into possible to prove that it turned into an oppidum city like settlement.

The city won market rights in 1539. The town raised an inch at its four gates, the Brandenburg, Mill, Parchen and Bergtor. After the administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, August von Sachsen Weissenfels had died in 1680, entered a provision of the Westphalian Peace of 1648 and the location fell to the Elector of Brandenburg. Thus, the town belonged to the Duchy of Magdeburg and lay in the then Jerichower circle. In the years 1682 and 1683 raged a pandemic epidemic within the metropolis, in which 147 populations died, in 1704, a fireplace destroyed huge parts of gendarme. From 1707 to 1722, the 3 aisled baroque parish church changed into built in keeping with designs through Magdeburg's Georg Preusser.