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Location of Oebisfelde within Börde district
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Börde |
| Town | Oebisfelde-Weferlingen |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 152.64 km2 (58.93 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
| Population | 7,437 (21 February 2012) |
| - Density | 49 /km2 (126 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | BK |
| Postal codes | 39646, 39359 |
| Area code | 039002 |
| Website | www.oebisfelde.info |
Oebisfelde (German pronunciation: [øːbɪsˈfɛldə]) is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oebisfelde-Weferlingen. It is accessed by Bundesstraße (German federal highway) 188.
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Oebisfelde is in the Altmark/Magdeburg Börde area. It is bordered by Lower Saxony at the Aller river. East of Oebisfelde is the Drömling Nature Park.
Between 1945 and 1990 the station of Oebisfelde served as East German inner German border crossing for rail transport. In Oebisfelde's component village of Buchhorst there was a East German border crossing for inland navigation on the Mittellandkanal, only open for freight vessels. The traffic between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany (till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the British zone of occupation (till 1949) and thereafter the West German Federal Republic of Germany was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations, that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement (1972).