Magdeburg
About Magdeburg
Magdeburg is the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. The city was mentioned for the first time in a documentary record as "Magadoburg" in the Capitulary of Diedenhofen by Charlemagne in 805.
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Magdeburg had recently been the victim of the worst atrocity in the Thirty Years War, where the population went down from 20,000 to 4,000 in an enormous massacre.
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More facts about Magdeburg
The Magdeburg hemispheres vacuum experiment was performed there by Otto von Guericke, and there is now a monument to the spheres in Magdeburg.
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Coordinates: 52.1317, 11.6392
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