It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Delitzsch, the district-free city Leipzig, Muldentalkreis, Mittweida, the districtAltenburgerLand in Thuringia, and the districts Burgenlandkreis, Weißenfels and Merseburg-Querfurt in Saxony-Anhalt.
The history of the region is influenced by the city of Leipzig.
It is the capital of the AltenburgerLand district.
Altenburg andd Chemnitz as Imperial towns were intended to reduce the importance of Leipzig held by the Margrave of Meißen.
In the second division of the Wettinlands between Ernst and Albrecht at Leipzig in 1485, Altenburg fell to Ernst, together with the Electorate (Kurland), Grimma, the Mutschener Pflege, Leisnig, Thuringia and the Vogtland.
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The district has a friendship with the district AltenburgerLand in Thuringia.
Offenburg already had a city partnership with Altenburg, so after the reunification the district chose this district to help to modernize the administration to west German standard.
France and Germany are negociating the creation of a Eurodistrict straddling the Rhine and combining the Ortenaukreis and the Greater Strasbourg, with an overall population of 860,000.
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AltenburgerLand is a district in (A historical region of southern Germany) Thuringia, (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany.
The region on the Pleiße River was part of a huge forest, which was settled by (A race of people speaking a Slavonic language) Slavic peoples.
The city of Altenburg and the surrounding lands were the tiny duchy of Saxony-Altenburg from 1826 to 1918; afterwards it was a state within the (The German republic founded at Weimar in 1919) Weimar Republic for a short time, before it was dissolved in 1922 in order to join the state of Thuringia.
Altenburg is a place with a rare view of old-world life with a 1,000-year-old town square, a schloss (castle) visited by Johann Sebastian Bach, and St. Nichola Church, where Martin Luther preached in the 16th century.
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These were questions that Sparkasse AltenburgerLand (with a balance sheet of €1 billion in 2004) wasn't forced to answer immediately when it reviewed its strategy five years ago.
With a cost-income ratio of less than 60 percent and personnel costs accounting for less than one percent of the balance sheet, the bank in the far eastern corner of Thüringen stood relatively solid.
At the same time, the board of directors at the savings bank was determined to ensure in the long term that local service would not only cover basic customer demands for cash, account statements and money transfer; special requirements from older customers should also be met.
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In less than two years, Sparkasse AltenburgerLand (AltenburgerLand Savings Bank) managed to increase the self-service quota in its financial services branches to nearly 100 percent.
In 1999, Sparkasse AltenburgerLand calculated that between 20 percent and 30 percent of all employee activities at its branches were directly related to cash transactions.
Sparkasse AltenburgerLand, with a revenue of €927 million, has since invested heavily in self-service equipment at its branches in relation to its size.
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