Merseburg (deu)

Merseburg

Merseburg ranks 1,705th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hitachi, Ibaraki, Sutton Coldfield, and Santiago de Compostela. Memorable people born in Merseburg include Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Klaus Tennstedt, and Elisabeth Schumann. Memorable people who died in Merseburg include Thietmar of Merseburg, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. Merseburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many writers, and physicians. Merseburg is located in Germany.

Merseburg is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese founded by Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg. The University of Merseburg is located within the town. Merseburg has around 35,000 inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia