Haldensleben

Haldensleben is the county seat of the district of Borde in Saxony Anhalt. 966 Haldensleben is first referred to in a document. It appears as a hahaldeslevo in a report wherein Emperor Otto I, a positive Mamaco with the county Haldensleben. Neuhaldensleben turned into a service provider settlement of the Castle Keep Althaldensleben within the North Thuringia; in 1150 the market rights were granted. The metropolis was destroyed in 1181 after a long siege by means of Archbishop Wichmann of Magdeburg.

The siege was simplest a hit because the attackers dammed the ear and therefore put the city beneath water. Since 1215 Haldensleben belonged to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg. 1223 started the reconstruction of the town Neuhaldensleben. In Althaldensleben 1278 the Cistercian Monastery Althaldensleben was based, a foundation by way of the Archbishop Albrecht I. 1277 it got here in Neuhaldensleben to the formation of the first metropolis council. In 1526 the marketplace rights had been again awarded and in 1541 the Reformation changed into delivered. In 1636, the plague claimed more than 2,000 sufferers and in 1661 a chief hearth destroyed 60 houses.