Magdeburg

Magdeburg is the capital metropolis and the second one largest metropolis of the nation of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is located on the Elbe River. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, turned into buried in the town's cathedral after his loss of life. Magdeburg's model of German metropolis regulation, called Magdeburg rights, unfold throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

Until 1631, Magdeburg changed into one in all the biggest and most rich German cities, and a brilliant member of the Hanseatic League. Magdeburg has been destroyed twice in its records. The Catholic League sacked Magdeburg in 1631, ensuing within the death of 25,000 non-warring parties, the most important lack of the Thirty Years' War. Allies bombed the metropolis in 1945, destroying tons of it. Magdeburg is the web page of two universities, the Otto-von-Guericke University and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.

Magdeburg is located on autobahn direction 2, and consequently is at the relationship factor of the East with the West of Europe, in addition to the North and South of Germany. As a cutting-edge production centre, the production of chemical products, steel, paper and textiles are of precise economic significance, along side mechanical engineering and plant engineering, ecotechnology and existence-cycle management, health control and logistics.