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Wurzen is a large district town in the northeast of the district of Leipzig in Saxony. The city has been the cathedral metropolis for 900 years and as a consequence on the same time the middle and namesake of the Wurzener Land. As the birthplace of the poet Joachim Ringelnatz, the city unofficially leads the nickname Ringelnatzstadt. On the Wurzener Stadtflur, a agreement continuity of approximately 6,000 years has been verified via latest archaeological excavations. Until the 6th century, the location was settled Germanic.

The oldest Settlement cells of the prevailing metropolis are because the location name of Slavic beginning. Wurzen is first stated in 961 in a charter of Otto I as Vurcine and Civitas. The fort and the marketplace settlement took their meaning from their area on the junction of Via Regia at the river Mulde and their junction with an antique salt street from Halle to Prague. Wurzen belonged quickly to the diocese of Merseburg and got here after 995 to the diocese of Meissen. In 1114, Bishop Herwig founded the Kollegiatstift Wurzen, which became Protestant in the sixteenth century and still exists.

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