Aschersleben
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Salzlandkreis
Population	26,438 (2005)
Area	85.82 km²
Population density	308 /km²
Elevation	114 m
Coordinates	51°45′N 11°28′E / 51.75, 11.467Coordinates: 51°45′N 11°28′E / 51.75, 11.467
Postal code	06449
Area code	03473
Licence plate code	ASL
Mayor	Andreas Michelmann
Website	aschersleben.de

View from Rondell to St.Stephanichurch

Aschersleben (IPA: [ˈaʃɐsleːbən]) is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approx. 22 km east of Quedlinburg, and 45 km northwest of Halle (Saale). Aschersleben is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Aschersleben/Land. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... Salzland is a district in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen, abbreviated to PLZ), consist of five digits, which indicate the wider area (first two digits), and the postal district (last three digits). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 2. ... Salzland is a district in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... Quedlinburg is a town located near the Harz mountains, in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Halle Halle (also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. ... An Amt (plural Ämter) is an administrative unit, which is unique to the German Bundesländer (federal states) of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. ... Aschersleben/Land is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (collective municipality) in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ...

History

• First mention in 753
• During World War II, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was located here. It was established to provide slave labour for Junkers (aircraft) and Motorenwerk (automotive).^[1]

At Aschersleben was the Junkers serial fuselage production facility. In April 1935 tools were transfered to Aschersleben and already in May 1935 the first fuselages were built here. The facility was located in the Wilslebener Strasse 9 near the socalled Seewiesen, where an airfield was erected as well. The Aschersleben shop area reached 564 thousand square metres and about 6000 people were busy here. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Gate with the words Jedem das Seine (literally, “to each his own”, but figuratively “everyone gets what he deserves”) Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, in July 1937, and one of the largest such camps on German soil. ... Slavery is any of a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. ...

Since July 1944 about 950 KZ prisoners were forced to work at the Junkers Flugzeugwerke in Aschersleben. In April 1945 the production was ceased. On 17th April 1945 U.S. forces occupied Aschersleben, but on 23rd May 1945 the city was handed over to the British forces and later on 1st July 1945 it was finally handed over to the Soviets.

Bombings: 01.04.1942 first British bomb attack 20.02.1944 U.S. day attack, failed target due to cloudy weather 31.03.1945 14.04.1945

At the end of WWII Junkers-Aschersleben was mostly intact and the production was just changing for the Heinkel He162 production. Most installations were demontaged and transfered to Kiev in Russia by the Soviets in 1946. The remaining facility buildings at Aschersleben were later used by VEB Kombinat Fritz Heckert. Today the areal is used by Schiess AG

Styles of Building

Here in Aschersleben are the various styles of past centuries. To determine the historical buildings of the old Romanesque (Gray Court) and Gothic (St. Stephani Church) and the Renaissance (City Hall, Krukmannsches house) and the Baroque.

Like a ring of buildings close to classicism and Art Nouveau to the historic Old Town. This, in turn, will take hold and supplemented by buildings of early modernism as the Heckner-Bauten and buildings from the former GDR. Large new areas are mainly in the north and south-east of the city.

The spectators in the old town of Aschersleben is not dominant. Good rock material in the vicinity of one and other, smaller forest ownership, as well as numerous fires before 16 Century is here as reasons to see. Nevertheless, there are numerous buildings, which

People

• Adam Olearius 1603 - 1671, writer and diplomat
• Johann Esaias Silberschlag, 1721 - 1791, theologian and scientist
• Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806-1881), chemist and physicist
• Gerd von Rundstedt; 1875 - 1953, World War II general
• Hermann Gieseler; 1889 - 1948, union leader
• Otto Arndt; 1920 - 1992, politician in the FRG
• Gerd Höfer; born 1943, politician
• Ernst Klodwig; 1903 - 1973 in Hamburg; Formula 1 driver for BMW

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