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Halberstadt

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Halberstadt , city (1994 pop. 43,030), Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is an industrial center and rail junction and has sugar-refining, metal-processing, and engineering plants. Manufactures include machinery, rubber, and processed food. Halberstadt was made an episcopal see in 814. It was burned (1179) by Henry the Lion; after Henry's fall (1180) the bishopric of Halberstadt was given in temporal fief to the bishops by Emperor Frederick I. The city became (13th-14th cent.) a flourishing trade center. In 1648 it was annexed by Brandenburg. Halberstadt was severely damaged in World War II.... Read more
Kluge, Alexander
KLUGE, Alexander Nationality: German. Born: Halberstadt, 14 February 1932. Education: Charlottenburger...The Indomitable Leni Peickert ); Ein Arzt aus Halberstadt ( A Doctor from Halberstadt ) (short) 1970 Der grosse Verhau ( The Big... Read more
Christian of Brunswick
or Christian of Halberstadt, 1599-1626, Protestant military leader in the Thirty Years War , titular bishop of Halberstadt (1616-23). One of the first allies of Frederick the Winter King, elector palatine of the Rhine, he took up arms in defense... Read more

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