Burg bei Magdeburg

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
Name = Burg
image_photo = Sankt nicolaikirche burg.jpg
Wappen = Wappen_Burg_(bei_Magdeburg).pnglat_deg = 52 |lat_min = 16 | lat_sec = 21
lon_deg = 11 |lon_min = 51 | lon_sec = 18
Lageplan = Burg in JL.pngBundesland = Sachsen-Anhalt
Landkreis = Jerichower Land
Höhe = 54
Fläche = 150.72
Einwohner = 24364
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 39288
Vorwahl = 03921
Kfz = JL
Gemeindeschlüssel = 15 0 86 015
LOCODE = DE BUR
DE BGX
NUTS = DEE06
Gliederung = 8
Straße = In der Alten Kaserne 2
Website = [http://www.stadt-burg.de/ www.stadt-burg.de]
Bürgermeister = Bernhard Sterz
Partei = SPD

Burg bei Magdeburg is a town of about 23,000 on the Elbe-Havel-Canal in Germany, northeast of Magdeburg. It is situated around a former weir, the "Sachsenschleusen" ("Saxon Sluices"). It is the capital of the district of Jerichower Land in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The town is famous for its mediaeval churches and towers.

Burg formerly had the first shoe manufacturing factory in Europe and was the first to produce manufactured crispbread in Germany, beginning production in 1931.

The town is notable as the birthplace of General Carl von Clausewitz.

Near Burg there is a large transmission site for long- and mediumwave, which was among other things used for the transmissions of Radio Wolga.

External links

*http://www.stadt-burg.de