Jüdenberg is a community in

Wittenberg district Wittenberg is a district (german: Kreis) in the east of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the district-free city of Dessau-Roßlau, the districts of Potsdam-Mittelmark, Teltow-Fläming and ...

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

. Since January 2007, it belongs to the municipality of

Gräfenhainichen is a town in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Geography The town was the seat of the offices of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Tor zur Dübener Heide until it was disbanded in January 2011. It lies ...

. Jüdenberg lies about 4 km northwest of Gräfenhainichen on the edge of the

Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe The Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve is a Biosphere Reserve in the German Federal state Saxony-Anhalt. The Middle Elbe reserve is a 430 square kilometre protected reserve, and is the largest protected region in Saxony-Anhal It extends along the El ...

Politics

The municipal council was made up of eight councillors. * CDU 1 seat *Marksmen's Club (citizens' coalition) 5 seats *Fire Brigade (citizens' coalition) 3 seats *Free Voters (citizens' coalition) 2 seats (as of municipal election held on 5 September 2004) The honorary mayor Heinz Powroznik was first elected on 15 December 2002.

Transport

Road

Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 107 between Coswig and

Bad Düben Bad Düben (), until 1948 Düben is a town in the district of Nordsachsen in Saxony in Germany. It is situated at the southern end of the Düben Heath Nature Park ( Düben Heath), between the rivers Elbe and Mulde, which runs through the city cen ...

runs right through the community. The district road K2038 leads to Möhlau. The ''Dessau-Ost'' interchange with Autobahn A9 (

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

) is about 11 km away.

Railway

The nearest

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

is about 4 km away in Gräfenhainichen lying on the

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the ...

line between

Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north of ...

and

Bitterfeld Bitterfeld () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2007 it has been part of the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. It is situated approximately 25 km south of Dessau, and 30 km northeast of Halle ( ...

. Oranienbaum railway station on the Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn line is served only in the summer. Brown coal haulage from the Golpa-Nord

strip mine Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in whic ...

Vockerode Vockerode is a village and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Oranienbaum-Wörlitz. At Vockerode, there was a large coal-fired power plant, the Vockerode Power ...

on the stretch of the mining railway running past the community ceased after the power station was shut down. It is still used for special trips to

Ferropolis Ferropolis, "the city of iron", is an open-air museum of huge mid-20th century industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city between Wittenberg and Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rive ...

(an industrial museum), so the old signal box has been converted into a halt.

References

External links

Administrative community's website
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Gräfenhainichen {{Jewish-hist-stub