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  Magdeburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe river.
973 Emperor Otto I dies and is buried in the cathedral of Magdeburg.
The sister cities of Magdeburg are Brunswick, Nashville, TN and Sarajevo.
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 Cathedral of Magdeburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cathedral of Magdeburg, officially called the Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice (known as Magdeburger Dom in German) was the first Gothic cathedral in Germany and with a height of 104 m, it is the tallest cathedral in the former East Germany.
Magdeburg became a leader in the Protestant reformation, and was outlawed by the emperor.
However, during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Magdeburg was raided, and only a small group of 4000 citizens survived the murdering, raping, and looting (known as the sack of Magdeburg) by seeking refuge in the cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Magdeburg   (2780 words)

  
 MAGDEBURG - LoveToKnow Article on MAGDEBURG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By far the most important building in Magdeburg is the cathedral, dedicated to SS Maurice and Catherine, a handsome and massive structure of the 14th century, exhibiting an interesting blending of Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
On the refusal of the citizens to accept the Interim, issued by the emperor Charles V., Magdeburg was besieged by Maurice of Saxony in 1550, and capitulated on favorable terms in November 1551.
Otto von Guericke (I6o2J686), the inventor of the air-pump, was burgomaster of Magdeburg.
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 AllRefer.com - Magdeburg, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The city of Magdeburg obtained from them (13th cent.) a charter that was the model for hundreds of medieval town charters in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Poland.
Under this Magdeburg Law a town governed itself through an elected council, had its own courts of justice, and was exempt from all duties except the payment of rent to the prince of the land.
Magdeburg prospered and became one of the chief members of the Hanseatic League.
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 Magdeburg rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Magdeburg Rights (or Magdeburg law) were the laws of the Imperial Free City of Magdeburg during many centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, and possibly the most important set of Germanic medieval city laws.
Since the local tribunal of Magdeburg thus also became the superior court for these towns, Magdeburg, together with Lübeck, practically defined the law of northern Germany and Poland for centuries, being the heart of the most important "family" of city laws.
Being a member of the Hanseatic league, Magdeburg thus was one of the most important trade cities also, maintaining commerce with the west (towards Flanders), with the countries of the Baltic Sea, and the interior (for example Braunschweig).
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 Magdeburg
Magdeburg, already in GDR times a renowned center for Neuroscience and re-invigorated after German reunification, is well established on the scientific map and thus is a place most suitable for this congress.
On top the city of Magdeburg is of historical interest, not least because it was home to Otto the Great, first German Kaiser and to the scientist Otto von Guericke who performed his famous vacuum experiments in this town he was Mayor of during the 30-years War.
In 1642, Otto von Guericke became the most important political representative of Magdeburg during the peace negotiations held in Münster and Osnabrück between 1643 and 1649, at the execution day of Nuremberg in 1649 and at the Imperial Diet in Regensburg (1653/54).
neurorepair.fan-neuroscience.com /magdeburg.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Magdeburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The city of Magdeburg was first mentioned in history around 805, when it was called a place of trade.
Magdeburg has suffered many destructions, however the city has always blossomed again and today's appearance paints an exciting picture of its colorful past.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born in Magdeburg and was instrumental in the success of the American Revolution.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Magdeburg
Magdeburg was also a member of the Hanseatic league of towns, and as such was first mentioned in 1295.
He was elected in the autumn of 968, received the pallium at Rome, and at the end of the year was solemnly enthroned in Magdeburg.
The Diocese of Magdeburg itself was small; it comprised the Slavonic districts of Serimunt, Nudizi, Neletici, Nizizi, and half of northern Thuringia, which Halberstadt resigned.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09524b.htm   (1620 words)

  
 Magdeburg Cathedral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Magdeburg's Cathedral is one of my favorite parts of the city.
Magdeburg Cathedral, dedicated to St. Maurice and St. Catherine, is the first Gothic cathedral erected on German soil as well as the highest cathedral in East Germany with a height of 341.2 feet (104m).
When Otto the First died in 973, he was buried at the side of his wife Editha in a tomb in the Magdeburg Cathedral.
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 Fakultät für WW
Yeah, sure, Magdeburg lies in Eastern Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt and people are not completely mistaken when they say that this city is kind of the cradle of poverty in Germany.
One thing is obvious: considering teaching offers and the university Magdeburg has a very good position compared to the whole of Germany – that is why the Faculty of Economics and Management – ours and yours – as well as the Faculty for Informatics has experienced a hype in the last four years.
Magdeburg is a city, which presents itself very beautifully to the one who’s willing to observe it very closely.
www-e.uni-magdeburg.de /sturafwu/fakultaet/studieren.htm   (1028 words)

  
 The Thirty Years War: The Battle of Breitenfeld and the Swedish Triumph
All of Magdeburg was destroyed and 20,000 of her inhabitants with her.
News of the Sack of Magdeburg resounded throughout the Empire.
In October, he took the rich Catholic bishopric of Würzberg, in November he was in the Archbishopric of the Elector of Mainz, by December, his troops had entered the Lower Palatinate.
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 Magdeburg
Since Magdeburg pioneered in establishing the rights and responsibilities of its citizens and in establishing municipal self-government, it has come down in history as a harbinger of municipal independence.
At that time it was a regional centre of a huge state, the king of which was Yahailo, a ruler of belligerent heathen Lithuanians; the queen was Yadviha, an ardent Polish Catholic, and the language most widely spoken was Old Ukrainian.
In accordance with the Magdeburger Recht, granted to Kyiv by the king, the city acquired the right to elect its mahystrat, a self-government body, with its head and executives.
www.wumag.kiev.ua /wumag_old/archiv/2_99/magdeburg.htm   (660 words)

  
 DCAGRS '99
The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" is being organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity and the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg.
The aim of the workshop is to present, partly through invited lectures, the state of the art and trends in the field and to provide a forum for the exchange of new results.
Magdeburg, which was founded 1200 years ago, is the capital of the German land Saxony-Anhalt and is situated approx.
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 Magdeburg on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The city is the birthplace of Otto von Guericke (1602-86), the physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg hemispheres (which demonstrate air pressure); the composer G. Telemann (1681-1767); and Baron von Steuben (1730-94), the Prussian general who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Magdeburg opts for AED-SICAD: the public utility of Magdeburg in Germany (SWM Magdeburg) is to introduce a new network information system, ArcFM UT.
Championship on December 3, 2005 at the Boerderlandhalle in Magdeburg, Germany.
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 History Magdeburg. Hotels Magdeburg. Tourism Magdeburg. Accommodation Magdeburg. Travel Magdeburg.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The town was one of the oldest emporia of the German trade for the Wends who dwelt on the right bank of the Elbe.
Magdeburg first played an important part in the history of Germany during the reign of
The city of Magdeburg obtained from the archbishops a charter that was the model for hundreds of medieval town charters in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Poland.
www.lodging-germany.com /info/Magdeburg/history.htm   (509 words)

  
 Semester Abroad in Germany - Magdeburg
For students seeking language education that ranges beyond the bounds of the classroom and home campus, the spring semester in Germany offers the opportunity to experience Europe, Germany and especially Magdeburg the capitol of the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.
Magdeburg's central locations provide an excellent base for personal as well as for the group-sponsored side trips.
Leader: A UWSP German faculty member leads the group throughout the Berlin entry tour and on to Magdeburg.
www.uwsp.edu /studyabroad/factsheets/magde.htm   (486 words)

  
 Magdeburg Hemispheres
The experiment was performed in 1657 at Magdeburg, Germany by Otto von Guericke (1602-1686), the Burgomeister (mayor) of Magdeburg.
Magdeburg hemispheres from the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were rarely marked with the name of the maker.
The handle on the side where the valve is located unscrews, allowing the hemispheres to be threaded onto the opening in the base plate of the vacuum pump.
physics.kenyon.edu /EarlyApparatus/Pneumatics/Magdeburg_Hemispheres/Magdeburg_Hemispheres.html   (509 words)

  
 Systems and Control Theory at MPI Magdeburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For lack of better terminology, we label the former class of projects as "theoretical"; they aim at developing methods that can be applied to a multitude of processes.
Reichl) at MPI Magdeburg, we have therefore been working on a method that can be used to discard some of the hypotheses without going through the time consuming second step.
It is based on the notion of model abstraction and uses results from (t1) and (t2).
ifatwww.et.uni-magdeburg.de /systemtheorie/res/res.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Arrivals to Magdeburg
From all those places a direct railway connection to Magdeburg is provided.
Every airport has an own railway station or is connected with a railway station in the city via shuttle bus.
The name of the railway station for a direct connection to Magdeburg is "Berlin - Zoologischer Garten".
wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de /iti_bm/ibss/arrival.html   (141 words)

  
 Hotels in Magdeburg, Germany
The provincial capital Magdeburg provides you a choice of cultural, leisure and sport offers.
Our hotel is far away from the stress of all the big city because our hotel is situated in the southern city boundary of the state capital of Saxonia-Anhalt.
The Sleep and Go Hotel Magdeburg is located near the city centre, in the borough "Alte Neustadt", between the harbour (“Handelshafen”) and Otto von Guericke University.
www.bookings.net /city/de/magdeburg.html?aid=303892;label=hoteltrotter   (224 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Norbert
Deputies form Magdeburg had also come to solicit a successor to their late archbishop, Rudger.
On 2 May, 1627, the saint's body was translated from Magdeburg, then in the hands of Protestants, to the Abbey of Strahov, a suburb of Prague in Bohemia.
The Chancery of Prague preserved the abjurations of six hundred Protestants who, on the day, or during the octave, of the translation, were reconciled to the Catholic Church.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11100b.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Magdeburg
Telemann, Georg Philipp - Telemann, Georg Philipp composer Birthplace: Magdeburg, Germany Born: 1681 Died: 1767 Information...
Our Town: The people of Magdeburg feel their city has been given a bad press.(Brief Article)
Our Town: The people of Magdeburg feel their city has been given a bad press.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0831123.html   (555 words)

  
 Spinogenesis and Synaptic Plasticity Westerburg Symposium 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Department of Neurochemistry / Molecular Biology at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg organized for the first time a symposium with the topic 'Spinogenesis and Synaptic Plasticity' on August 23-26, 2004.
The major focus of this symposium was on most recent developments in the study of molecular and structural underpinnings of synaptogenesis as well as structural re-modeling of the postsynaptic density (PSD).
The number of participants was limited to 100, ensuring to promise a very interesting small conference with intense discussions in a rather uncommon atmosphere.
spinogenesis.synprot.de   (161 words)

  
 Discover: Of Flowers and Murder.(mass grave found in Magdeburg, Germany)(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research
While digging the foundation for a building in the German town of Magdeburg in 1994, workers were startled to discover a mass grave.
Hitler was rumored to have been buried in the area, yet an examination of the grave turned up the remains of neither Hitler nor Eva Braun, as some had suspected it might, but the skeletons of 32 young men.
Researchers had theorized that the grave in Magdeburg was created by one of...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:53631736&refid=holomed_1   (229 words)

  
 Mechthild of Magdeburg : Poems and Biography
Mechthild of Magdeburg was born around the year 1207, probably into a noble family in northern Germany.
Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg, by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
www.poetry-chaikhana.com /M/MechthildofM   (483 words)

  
 Magdeburg Hostels, Germany Hostels, Online Booking, Reservations, Backpackers, Hostels, Accommodation, Magdeburg, ...
European Explorer is proud to offer you a secure online booking environment for a select number of hostels in Magdeburg, Germany.
The Sleep & Go hotel in Magdeburg is situated in the town centre, in the 'Alten Neustadt' area.
Experience Magdeburg with its Elbauenpark, its millennium tower, NEMO — the water world, a city tour and much more.
www.europeanexplorer.com /germany/hostels/magdeburg.htm   (236 words)

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