Querfurt

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Querfurt
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Saalekreis
Mayor	Peter Kunert (FDP)
Basic statistics
Area	155.23 km² (59.9 sq mi)
Elevation	168 m  (551 ft)
Population	12,659  (31/12/2006)
- Density	82 /km² (211 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	SK
Postal code	06268
Area code	034771
Website	www.querfurt.de
Location of the town of Querfurt within Saalekreis district
Coordinates: 51°23′00″N 11°36′00″E / 51.383333, 11.6

Querfurt a town in Saalekreis district (Kreis) in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, situated in a fertile country on the Querne, 18 miles west from Merseburg, on a branch line from Oberroblingen. Pop. 12,935 (2005).

[edit] History

Querfurt was for some time the capital of a principality which had an area of nearly 200 sq. miles and a population of about 20,000. The ruling family having become extinct in 1496, it passed to that of Mansfeld. In 1635, by the peace of Prague, it was ceded to the elector of Saxony, John George I, who handed it over to his son Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels; but in 1746 it was again united with electoral Saxony. It was incorporated with Prussia in 1815. See Schneider, Querfurter Stadt- und Kreischronik.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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