Sangerhausen

Sangerhausen is the county seat of the district of Mansfeld Sudharz in the kingdom of Saxony Anhalt. It is located within the southwest of the state near the border to the Free State of Thuringia. Sangerhausen is probably a Franconia basis. The settlement became noted for the first time in a documentary ebook of the Fulda Monastery, which was created between 780 and 802. In a among 881 and 899 resulting directory of the tithe of the monastery Hersfeld Sangerhausen is called as a ten toll village Sangerhus in Friesenfeld.

In 991 the village belonged to the monastery Memleben. From the tenth century there was a Fronhof within the vicinity of brand new Ulrich Church. After Sangerhausen turned into presented the market proper among 1004 and 1017, a market city advanced in the place of modern Alter Markt. This grew because of the inflow of traders with the Frohnhof inside the north together. In 1194 the metropolis changed into granted city rights. In 1204, the now city acquired protection by means of a palisade fence, in 1263 she obtained a town wall and in 1485 she fell to the Albertine line of Wettin.