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Leipzig
Leipzig, Saxony's largest city, first recorded 1015 as urbs Libzi, a trade-fair, university, and music center. Official population 615,932 (end 2025); 1989 Monday demonstrations helped end the GDR.
Lübeck
Lübeck, the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, is a northern German city founded in 1143, former 'Queen of the Hanse', with a UNESCO-listed old town (1987), Holstentor, seven church towers, and about 220,000 residents.
Magdeburg
Magdeburg, capital of Saxony-Anhalt on the Elbe, about 244,500 residents (2025), first recorded 805, archbishopric 968, Magdeburg Law, two universities with 18,000+ students.
Meissen
Meissen (Meißen), Saxony's oldest town on the Elbe near Dresden, birthplace of European porcelain: manufactory founded 1710 in the Albrechtsburg, crossed-swords mark since 1722, wine region, about 29,000 residents.
Merseburg
Merseburg is a town of about 34,500 in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, seat of the Saalekreis. A former Ottonian palatinate and bishopric founded in 968, it is known for Merseburg Cathedral and the Merseburg Incantations.
Neu Darchau
Neu Darchau, a municipality in Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony, on the left Elbe bank, part of Samtgemeinde Elbtalaue; founded 18th century, merged 1972, about 1,331 residents, ferry to Darchau, planned Elbe bridge.
Niemberg
Niemberg is a village of about 1,470 people in the Saalekreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, part of the town of Landsberg since 2010 and known for a Migration Period burial ground.
Norderstedt
Norderstedt, city in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, on Hamburg's northern border; founded 1 January 1970 from Friedrichsgabe, Garstedt, Glashütte, and Harksheide; fourth-largest city in the state with about 83,000 inhabitants.
Oberdorla
Oberdorla is a village in the Thuringian Basin near Mühlhausen, Germany, lying at the geographic center of the country and known for its ancient sacrificial bog.
Oldenburg
Oldenburg (Oldb) is an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Hunte river; first recorded as Aldenburg in 1108, a former ducal residence, now about 177,000 residents and a university city.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a German city in Lower Saxony on the River Hase, founded by Charlemagne in 780, a former Hanseatic town and site of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, with about 165,000 inhabitants.
Potsdam
Potsdam, capital of Brandenburg, Germany, southwest of Berlin; first documented 993 as Poztupimi. Prussian residence city with UNESCO-listed Sanssouci palaces and parks, site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, about 188,000 residents on the Havel lakes.
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Ottonian royal palatinate and capital, site of the 936 women's convent founded by Queen Mathilde, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town with over 1,300 timber-framed houses.
Rostock
Rostock (Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock) is a Hanseatic city and kreisfreie Stadt on the Warnow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded 1218, largest city in the state, home of the 1419 University of Rostock and Germany's largest Baltic universal port.
Saalfeld
Saalfeld/Saale is a Thuringian town of about 28,500 in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, first mentioned in 899, seat of the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld dukes, and known for the Feengrotten show mine.
Salzgitter
Salzgitter, German city in Lower Saxony, founded April 1, 1942 as Watenstedt-Salzgitter around the Reichswerke Hermann Göring steelworks; about 105,000 residents, 31 districts, third-largest industrial location in Lower Saxony, now converting steelmaking to hydrogen-based SALCOS production.
Saxony
Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen) is an eastern German federal state of about 4 million people with capital Dresden, refounded in 1990; Europe's largest semiconductor location (Silicon Saxony) and a leading ZEW-ranked business location.
Schkortleben
Schkortleben, a Saale village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, part of Weißenfels since 2010 with Kriechau; first recorded about 1300 as Zcurtelebe, manor owned by the Biesenrodt, Breitenbauch, and Scharf families until 1945.
Schwerin
Schwerin is a city in northern Germany and the state capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, founded by Henry the Lion in 1160 and known for its island castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2024.
States of Germany
States of Germany (Länder, singular Land): the 16 constituent states of the Federal Republic, including three city-states (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen). Five eastern Länder were reestablished by the Ländereinführungsgesetz of 22 July 1990 and joined on 3 October 1990.
Süderbrarup
Süderbrarup (Danish: Sønder Brarup), municipality in Angeln, Schleswig-Holstein, seat of the Amt Süderbrarup. Home of the Thorsberger Moor Iron Age war-booty sacrifice, a 1,200-urn marketplace urnfield, the Kummerhy mound, and the Brarup-Markt funfair.
Torgau
Torgau, a town of about 19,000 on the Elbe in northwest Saxony between Wittenberg and Meißen, was the Ernestine electors' Renaissance residence, a Reformation center with Hartenfels Castle, and the site of the 1945 Elbe Day Allied link-up.
Weimar
Weimar, Thuringian city of about 65,500 residents, home of Weimar Classicism (Goethe, Schiller), the Bauhaus founded 1919, and the Weimar Republic; two UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Weissenfels
Weißenfels (Weissenfels), Saxony-Anhalt town on the Saale, founded about 1185 by Otto the Rich of Meissen; residence of the dukes of Saxe-Weissenfels 1656–1746 with the Augustusburg palace and princely crypt.
Wernigerode
Wernigerode, the "Colorful Town by the Harz" (Die bunte Stadt am Harz), is a Saxony-Anhalt town at the northern edge of the Harz mountains, chartered in 1229, with about 31,800 residents, a hilltop castle, half-timbered old town, and the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railways to the Brocken.
West Berlin
West Berlin (West-Berlin): the US, British, and French sectors of divided Berlin, a Western enclave inside East Germany from 1945 to 1990, marked by the 1948–49 Airlift, the 1961 Wall, and Allied special status until reunification.
Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven is a seaport city in Lower Saxony, Germany, founded as a Prussian naval base and now the site of Germany's only deep-water container terminal.
Wittenberg
Wittenberg (Lutherstadt Wittenberg), a town of about 46,800 on the Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; seat of Landkreis Wittenberg. Site of Luther's 1517 95 Theses; four Reformation buildings are UNESCO World Heritage (1996).
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony city founded 1 July 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens for Volkswagen workers, renamed 1945; over 125,000 residents, Germany's highest GDP per working person and wages, lowest rent burden.
Zerbst
Zerbst/Anhalt, a town in Saxony-Anhalt's Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, former residence of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst (1603/06-1793), hometown tagline of Catherine the Great, baroque castle ruined in 1945, about 20,800 residents on 470.90 km².