Kothen

Kothen is the county seat of the Saxony Anhalt district of Anhalt Bitterfeld. The founding father of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann labored right here for decades, and the homeopathic World Medical Association has its headquarters in Kothen. Therefore, the town is occasionally known as the sector capital of homeopathy. Furthermore, the fruitful society become based in Kothen, and Johann Sebastian Bach wrote here, inter alia, parts of the Well Tempered Clavier and the Brandenburg Concerts.

The oldest evidence of human presence in the Kothener place is a handcart of a Paleolithic hunter, about 250,000 years antique, kept inside the Prehistoric Collection within the fortress of Kothen. From the Middle Stone Age of about 10,000 years in the past stem hints of reindeer hunters. Here are the settlements of different cultures, which already 5000 years ago operated agriculture and cattle. The surprisingly massive number of archaeological sites in the immediately vicinity of Kothen shows a distinctly dense populace hundreds of years earlier than the migration. Between 180 and 450 settled the Germanic tribes of Hermunduren and Semnonen within the Kothener region, whose own ceramics similarly to Roman imported items of everlasting dwellings testifies.