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Nordhausen (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 31 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.5167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 010 48 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 10.8000 decimal degrees |
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Note: City located on the Zorge River and next to the Harz Mountains in the fertile area known as the Goldene Aue. A royal castle was built in Nordhausen near an old Frankish settlement 927 CE. In 1802, it became part of Prussian Saxony until 1945 (except from 1807-1813, when it was part of Westphalia). On the outskirts of Nordhausen, the Nazis established a concentration camp of the same name (also called Dora-Mittelbau, or Dora-Nordhausen). The Nazis evacuated the camp in April 1945, before its liberation by the U.S., and forced the prisoners on a brutal "death march" to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
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| Nordhausen (preferred,C,V)
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| Nordhusa (H,V)
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| Northusen (H,V)
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............ | documented in 10th cen., name of old Frankish settlement near which medieval town developed |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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Franks settled nearby; first documented in 927, modern city annexed neighboring Salza & Krimderode in 1950 |
| city (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| imperial city (H) |
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status granted in 1290 |
| concentration camp site (H) |
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1943-1945 |
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