Arneburg
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| Arneburg | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Stendal |
| Municipal assoc. | Arneburg-Goldbeck |
| Mayor | Siegfried Rutter |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 26.45 km² (10.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 29 m (95 ft) |
| Population | 1,674 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 63 /km² (164 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | SDL |
| Postal code | 39596 |
| Area code | 039321 |
| Website | www.arneburg-goldbeck.de |
| Location of the town of Arneburg within Stendal district | |
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Arneburg is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. 12 km northeast of Stendal. It is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Arneburg-Goldbeck.
[edit] History
The stronghold was founded by Henry the Fowler on the Elbe as a bulwark against the Wends. In the middle ages Arneburg was a strategic possession of Brandenburg, whose Elector Frederick II (the "Iron Elector") mortgaged it for "100 good Rhenish gilders" to Hans von Blumenthal, who was appointed Vogt of Arneburg, a post which he still held long after 1450, when the Hohenzollerns had repaid the mortgage. Arneburg was an important Hohenzollern possession and indeed the Elector John Cicero died there in 1499. The ruins are now part of a park surrounded by a pretty town.
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