The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magdeburg \Mag"de*burg\, n. A city of Saxony.
Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.
Wikipedia
Magdeburg (; Low Saxon: Meideborg, ) is the capital city and the second largest city of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe.
Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, was buried in the town's cathedral after his death. Magdeburg's version of German town law, known as Magdeburg rights, spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The city is also well known for the 1631 Sack of Magdeburg, which hardened Protestant resistance during the Thirty Years' War. Prior to it Magdeburg was one of the largest German cities and a notable member of the Hanseatic League. Magdeburg was destroyed twice in its history.
Magdeburg is the site of two universities, the Otto-von-Guericke University and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.
Nowadays Magdeburg is a traffic junction as well as an industrial and trading centre. The production of chemical products, steel, paper and textiles are of particular economic significance, along with mechanical engineering and plant engineering, ecotechnology and life-cycle management, health management and logistics.
In 2005 Magdeburg celebrated its 1200th anniversary. In June 2013 Magdeburg was hit by record breaking flooding.
Magdeburg was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the north of the country.
Magdeburg is the capital city of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Magdeburg may also refer to:
Places:
- Magdeburg Region, a region of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Magdeburg (region), a former region of Saxony-Anhalt
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Magdeburg, a modern Roman Catholic diocese
- Marca Geronis, sometimes called the March of Magdeburg, a very large march (border region) in the tenth century
- Duchy of Magdeburg, a province of Brandenburg-Prussia (1680-1701) and of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1807)
- Province of Magdeburg, a province in Nazi Germany from 1944 to 1945
- Magdeburg (Bezirk), a former district (Bezirk) of East Germany
- 55735 Magdeburg, an asteroid
Ships:
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Magdeburg-class cruiser, a class of German Imperial Navy ships
- SMS Magdeburg, a German First World War light cruiser, and the lead ship of the class
- Magdeburg, a Braunschweig-class corvette in the German navy
Other uses:
- 1. FC Magdeburg, a German football club
Several naval ships of Germany were named Magdeburg after the city of Magdeburg, Germany:
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(cruiser): light cruiser, launched 1911
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, launched 1917
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(Type 130) corvette, launched 2006
Magdeburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of nine districts covering the state of Saxony-Anhalt, it covers the whole of the Magdeburg district and the municipalities of Barby, Schönebeck, Calbe, Bördeland, all located in the Salzlandkreis district.
In its current form, the constituency was created for the 2009 election, replacing the former Magdeburg – Schönebeck – Wanzleben – Staßfurt constituency. The first two elections in the constituency were won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who had held the predecessor constituency since the 1994 election. At the 2009 election the constituency was gained by The Left party. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) gained the seat at the 2013 election. The current representative is Tino Sorge of the CDU.
Usage examples of "magdeburg".
Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Hamm, Bielefeld, Hanover, Helmstedt, Magdeburg, to Berlin-Zoological Gardens and Berlin-East Station is about to pull out.
On 7 and 8 November Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Magdeburg, Brunswick, Frankfurt, Cologne, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Munich all followed suit.
Magdeburg at midnight, however, Grantville at its dimmest had been lit up like downtown Las Vegas on a Saturday night.
Magdeburg, or if a partisan of the emperor who is residing in Nuernberg might need discreet access to a way to provide information to the people.
By now, it had been officially acknowledged that Eddie, Larry, Hans, and Swedish sailor Bjorn Svedberg had been killed in action at Wismar, but the situation in Magdeburg had not left time for the release of a detailed statement.
From Magdeburg I went straight to Berlin, without caring to stop at Potsdam, as the king was not there.
The English put me in the hospital in Magdeburg for a while, but I left of my own accord and hitchhiked back home.
In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats.
Henri had taken Colette and Colas back to his home in Magdeburg when men associated with the political machinations began hunting them.
By 1634 or 1635, the Voice of Luther goes on the air out of Magdeburg, changing yet another 100 mile footprint.
If anything, he was even more highly regarded by the rapidly growing population of Magdeburg, the new capital of the United States of Europe rising out of the ruins on the Elbe.
The new rifle shops in Magdeburg, set up by partnerships between Grantville's machine shops and some German gunmakers, had reached a production rate of just over a hundred and fifty weapons a week.
Magdeburg was the political capital of the new United States of Europe as well as-so far, at least-its major industrial center.
While the old harbor is at Magdeburg Central, here there is much more room to grow and to use heavy equipment.
Between the Imperial Post and every other one-horse town boasting a printing press, there had been a lot of places on the route that had received his reports from Grantville and Magdeburg.