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| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Burgenlandkreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Zeitzer Land |
| Mayor | Dr. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Saxony-Anhalt ( Sachsen-Anhalt) is one of the sixteen ''Bundesländer'' (federal states that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Burgenlandkreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Burgenlandkreis " Amt " is a type of Administrative division of some Northern European countries Zeitzer Land is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality" in the Burgenlandkreis (district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress Ulf Altmann |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 24. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 63 km² (9. 5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 160 m (525 ft) |
| Population | 28,117 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 1,142 /km² (2,957 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | BLK |
| Postal code | 06712 |
| Area code | 03441 |
| Website | www.zeitz.de |
Zeitz is a town in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is situated on the river Weiße Elster in the middle of the triangle of the federal states Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time German car number plates ( Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered __FORCETOC__ Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen abbreviated to PLZ consist of five digits which indicate the wider area (first two digits and the see also Telephone numbering in Germany for further codes including service numbers cell phones etc A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Saxony-Anhalt ( Sachsen-Anhalt) is one of the sixteen ''Bundesländer'' (federal states that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany. Zeitz is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Zeitzer Land. " Amt " is a type of Administrative division of some Northern European countries Zeitzer Land is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality" in the Burgenlandkreis (district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Zeitz was first recorded under the name Cici in the synode of Ravenna in 967. Between 965 and 982, it was the chief fortress of the March of Zeitz. The March of Zeitz (Mark Zeitz was a frontier county of the Holy Roman Empire, created through the division of the Marca Geronis in 965 when Between 968 and 1028 Zeitz was a bishops residence which has later been laid to Naumburg. Naumburg (ˈnaʊ̯mbʊɐ̯k is a town in Germany, on the Saale River. But since the end of the 13th century the bishops were again residing in their castle at Zeitz. Zeitz has a lot of sights to offer which are predominantly situated along the "Street of Romanic" (point 52).
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Notable Buildings
Moritzburg The residential baroque styled castle Moritzburg contains the oldest building of Zeitz called the cathedral of St. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Peter and Paul. The oldest part of the cathedral is the crypt which originates from the second half of the 10th century. In the 17th century the dukes of Saxony-Zeitz used this crypt as a burial site. Today visitors still have the opportunity to see 13 tin coffins from the duke's family, including the coffin of Duke Moritz who was the founder of the duchy of Saxony-Zeitz.
Michaeliskirche The "Michaeliskirche" (first recorded in 1154), originally a Roman basilica, guards an Original Print of Martin Luther's 95 Theses from 1517. Martin Luther (November 10 1483 February 18 1546 was a German Monk, theologian, university professor Father of Protestantism, and church reformer The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences, commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, were written by Martin Luther in 1517 The church, as well as other buildings in Zeitz, is closely connected with the history of Martin Luther and his male descendants. Martin Luther (November 10 1483 February 18 1546 was a German Monk, theologian, university professor Father of Protestantism, and church reformer
Town Hall The late gothic Town Hall (built between 1504 and 1509, reconstructed between 1907 and 1909) is the symbol of the city, and together with restored houses and 3 market-places it forms the medieval appearance of the city Zeitz.
Herrmannsschacht Traditionally connected with mining, Zeitz ownes the conceptionally oldest briquette-factory of the world, i. e. the Herrmannsschacht. Nowadays it is designed as a technical monument.
History
Nazi Period
During the Nazi period a concentration camp "Wille" was erected in Rehmsdorf and Gleina (both of which are near Zeitz), which served as a satellite of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald concentration camp (German Konzentrationslager or 'KZ' Buchenwald) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain near Most of the prisoners were Hungarian Jews, among them the Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, who worked in the Brabag-Werk in Tröglitz. Imre Kertész (imrɛ ˈkɛrteːs (born November 9, 1929, Budapest) is a Hungarian Jewish author Holocaust He described his experience in his novel Fateless. Fateless or Fatelessness ( Hungarian: Sorstalanság, lit "Fatelessness" is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner
DDR Period
The town was the centre of an industrial region until 1989/90. From the middle of the 1980s there were established numerous newly built areas, for example the area known as "Völkerfreundschaft". In the middle of the 1960s bean the closing of the "Zeitz-Ost" residential area.
On the 18th August 1976, the evangelical vicar Oskar Brüsewitz from Rippicha burnt himself in front of the Michaeliskirche. Oskar Brüsewitz ( May 30 1929 &ndash 22 August 1976) was an East German Lutheran pastor who committed Self-immolation This was a protest against the DDR system and was one of the roots of the 1989 uprising.
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