Magdeburg

What this place is

• School or library — Otto I's foundation of 968, whose cathedral school taught the men who staffed the new eastern sees.

Who is recorded here

• Liutgarde birth · AD 932

In art

• The Siege of Magdeburg (1631) — Pieter Meulener (1650)
• Magdeburg, View from Southeast — Carl Hasenpflug (1831)
• File:Carl Hasenpflug Blick über die Elbe auf Magdeburg 1835.jpg — Carl Hasenpflug (1835)
• File:Aerial view of Magdeburg.jpg — Olivier Cleynen

About the place

Magdeburg is the capital and most populous city 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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