Altenburg (deu)

Altenburg

Altenburg ranks 1,323rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bondy, Bari, and Agen. Memorable people born in Altenburg include Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, and Hermann Schlegel. Memorable people who died in Altenburg include Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Władysław II the Exile, and Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia. Altenburg has been the birth place of many politicians and biologists and the death place of many politicians and noblemen. Altenburg is located in Germany.

Altenburg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located 40 kilometres south of Leipzig, 90 kilometres west of Dresden and 100 kilometres east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region between Gera, Zwickau and Chemnitz with more than 1 million inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of 33,000. Today, the city and its rural county is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region. Read more on Wikipedia