Preußlitz

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Location of Preußlitz in Bernburg (Saale )

Preußlitz is a district of the town Bernburg (Saale ) in a salt land district, in Saxony -Anhalt.

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Geography

Preußlitz located southeast of Bernburg (Saale ).

As districts of the former municipality Leau and Plömnitz were reported.

History

In Leau and neighboring Plömnitz two subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was a decision of the Fighter Staff, with the participation of the engineering office Schlempp since 1944 under the code name "Leopard" set up for 1,000 to 2,000 prisoners, in addition to Plömnitz Since February 1945, a women's camp for 150 Hungarian Jewish women who were forced to do hard labor for the Solvay works and the Junkers -Werke, the numerous casualties. Of the people buried in the cemetery to 1945 alone 450 exhumed and have been buried at the Soviet War Memorial Bernburg.

The community Preußlitz belonged with effect from 1 January 2005, the administrative community Nienburg ( Saale). On 1 January 2010, until then independent municipality was incorporated together with the communities Baalberge, Bien village, Gröna, Peißen, Poley and welfare village in the town Bernburg (Saale ).

Culture and sights

Structures

• The memorial on the cemetery Leauer (former sub-camp of Buchenwald Leopard - also codenamed " Leau ").

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

North of the village runs the federal highway 185 ( Bernburg (Saale ) - Köthen (Anhalt) ). The Federal Highway 14, which runs from Halle ( Saale) Magdeburg is located south of Preußlitz.

Personalities

• Emil Riebeck (* 1853 in Leau ), German ethnologist, mineralogist, naturalist and collector