Genthin
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Genthin (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a town in Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Geography
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Genthin is situated east of the Elbe river on the Elbe-Havel Canal, approx. Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Magdeburg and Script error: No such module "convert". west of Brandenburg.
The municipal area consists of Genthin proper and the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:[1]
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- Fienerode
- Gladau
- Mützel
- Paplitz
- Parchen
- Schopsdorf
- Tucheim
The formerly independent municipalities Gladau, Paplitz and Tucheim were incorporated in July 2009,[2] followed by Schopsdorf in July 2012.[3]
Genthin was the administrative seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Elbe-Stremme-Fiener until its merger into the newly established Jerichow municipality in 2010.
History
Genthin Castle was first mentioned in an 1144 deed, it was the residence of the Plotho noble family who then served as ministeriales of the Archbishops of Magdeburg. The surrounding settlement was documented as a town in 1459, its citizens were vested with market rights in 1539.
When the last administrator of the Magdeburg archbishopric, Duke Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels, died in 1680, Genthin with the Duchy of Magdeburg fell to the Electors of Brandenburg. The Baroque Trinity parish church was erected from 1707 to 1722.
The town's economy was decisively promoted by the building of the Elbe–Havel Canal from 1743 onwards and the opening of the Berlin–Magdeburg railway line in 1846. A detergent factory was opened in 1921 by Henkel.
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Climate
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Mayor
Thomas Barz was elected mayor in 2013.[4]
Economy
The headquarters of the LFD Holding are in Genthin.
Twin towns
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- Template:Flagicon Datteln, Germany, since 1990
- Template:Flagicon Radlin, Poland, since 2008
Notable people
- Herms Niel (Hermann Nielebock) (1888-1954), conductor and composer
- Kurt von Manteuffell (1853-1922), Prussian General of the Infantry
- Walter Model (1891–1945), field marshal in WW II
- Norbert Dürpisch (born 1952), cyclist
- Bernd Dittert (born 1961), racing cyclist, Olympic champion and trainer
References
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- ↑ Hauptsatzung der Stadt Genthin, November 2014.
- ↑ Gebietsänderungen vom 02. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2009, Statistisches Bundesamt
- ↑ Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2012, Statistisches Bundesamt
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