Magdeburg

Magdeburg is the capital of the country of Saxony Anhalt. The town on the Elbe is one of the 3 fundamental facilities and is with 238,478 populations Statistical State Office as of 31 December 2017 the second one largest town in Saxony Anhalt and the 5th largest town in the new federal states. Magdeburg ranked 30 second in 2017 on the list of major cities in Germany. The city changed into first mentioned in a report in 805. 968 become based via Otto I, first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and together with Otto von Guericke customer saint of latest Ottovian town Magdeburg, the Archdiocese of Magdeburg.

In the middle Ages, the hanseatic town received super significance through free exchange and the Magdeburg town law. It became in the past due Middle Ages one of the largest German towns and the center of the Reformation and the resistance towards the re Catholicization in the Schmalkaldic League. After the almost whole devastation in the Thirty Years' War Magdeburg was improved to the strongest fort of the Kingdom of Prussia.