Grafenhainichen

Grafenhainichen is a city inside the district of Wittenberg in Saxony Anhalt. Grafenhainichen turned into first documented in 1285 as a fief of Count Albrecht II of Anhalt. The vicinity becomes to start with known as the Hayne, then Gravenalbrechtshayn, from which finally the modern day call become born. In 1454, the city rights were confirmed after all of the files had been destroyed by using a fire. In 1607, the city's most essential son, the Protestant Lutheran pastor and songwriter Paul Gerhardt, became born. 1637 reached the consequences of the Thirty Years War also Grafenhainichen, which changed into nearly absolutely destroyed by using Swedish troops.

The area becomes till 1815 the capital of the Electoral Saxon office Grafenhainichen. By the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, he came to Prussia and become in 1816 the district of Bitterfeld within the district of Merseburg the province of Saxony assigned, to which he belonged till 1944. At the beginning of the length of National Socialism, one of the early concentration camps changed into installation in the Stolzenberg operation on the railroad crossing towards Grobern through the SA, wherein contributors and officers of the employees' organizations have been terrorized.