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Definition: Magdeburg from Philip's Encyclopedia

City-port on the River Elbe; capital of Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. In the 13th century, Magdeburg received a charter and prospered as a leading member of the Hanseatic League. During the 16th century, it was one of the centres of the Protestant Reformation. In 1631, during the Thirty Years' War, Magdeburg was sacked and destroyed by fire. The city also suffered heavy bomb damage in World War 2. A major inland port, the Mittelland Canal links it to the Rhine and the Ruhr. Industries: iron and steel, scientific instruments, chemicals. Pop. (1999) 238,000.

Magdeburg

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(mäk'dӘbʊrkh), city (1994 pop. 270,546), capital of Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany, on the Elbe River. It is a large inland port, an industrial center, and a rail and road junction. Manufactures include metal products, textiles, and chemicals. The city is a food processing center, primarily in sugar refining and flour milling. There are lignite and potash mines nearby. Known in 805, Magdeburg became, under Emperor Otto I, an outpost for the colonization of the Wendish territories. In 968 it was made an archiepiscopal see. The archbishops of Magdeburg ruled a large territory as princes of the Holy Roman Empire. 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…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(mäk'dӘbʊrkh), city (1994 pop. 270,546), capital of Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany, on the Elbe River. It is a large inland port, an industrial center, and a rail and road junction. Manufactures include metal products, textiles, and chemicals. The city is a food processing center, primarily in sugar…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial city and capital of Saxony-Anhalt , Germany, on the River Elbe; population (2003 est) 224,100. Products include chemicals, metal products, precision instruments, paper, textiles, and machinery; food-processing is also important, primarily in sugar refining and flour milling. A former…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
The cathedral at Magdeburg, Germany. Credit:W....
City (pop., 2002 est.: 229,755), capital of Saxony-Anhalt state, east-central Germany. Located on the Elbe River , it was a trading settlement as early as the 9th century, and by the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League . It embraced the Reformation in 1524 and was governed…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Mechthild of Magdeburg ( ca 1208 – ca 1282) was a German mystic and poet associated with the Beguines, a lay women’s movement that flourished during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries but waned amid accusations of heresy. Mechthild received her first ‘greeting’ from the Holy Spirit at the age of…
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From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
(b. ca. 1207–d. 1282) German religious writer Mechthild was born around 1207 as the daughter of a noble family of lower rank; she lived near Magdeburg and apparently received a good courtly education. There in 1230, she moved into a house of Beguines (a kind of voluntary convent for women without…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
German mystic. Born in Saxony of noble parents, Mechtild had her first mystical experience at the age of 12, when she felt that she was greeted by the Holy Spirit. Desiring to live wholly for God, she became a Beguine at Magdeburg in 1230, and under Dominican direction lived a life of intense prayer…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
District of former East Germany; 4450 sq. mi. (11,526 sq. km.); now largely in Saxony-Anhalt. City, ✽ of Saxony-Anhalt state, E cen. Germany and formerly of Magdeburg dist., East Germany, on Elbe River 82 mi. (132 km.) WSW of Berlin; pop. (1992e) 275,238; most important inland port of E Germany; …
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